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The former Tottenham striker is back in London for Champions League tie but his powers on are the wane
• February 2014 - Berbatov’s big challengePerhaps no player has ever looked quite so much as though he ought to be playing for Monaco as Dimitar Berbatov. Forget the reality of an under-supported club sustained by Russian money and tax breaks, playing on top of a car-park; if Monaco really were a club representing the playboys of the Côte d’Azur, all yachts and deck-shoes and meaningful glances over the champagne cocktails, Berbatov would fit right in. Throughout his career, his demeanour has been of a mysterious loner in a white dinner jacket leaving a casino in the early hours, his bow-tie long since undone.
And yet, fitting as it seems that he should end up at Monaco, this is not a culmination. Indeed, it may not even be the gentle drift into obsolescence players are entitled to in their mid-thirties. You wonder how fulfilled Berbatov actually feels at 34 as he contemplates the autumn of his career. Better, perhaps, to be trotting around in front of six or seven thousand in the French league and playing, still, in the last 16 of the Champions League than scrapping against relegation in the Premier League, but there has always been an air of sadness about Berbatov.
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• February 2014 - Berbatov’s big challengePerhaps no player has ever looked quite so much as though he ought to be playing for Monaco as Dimitar Berbatov. Forget the reality of an under-supported club sustained by Russian money and tax breaks, playing on top of a car-park; if Monaco really were a club representing the playboys of the Côte d’Azur, all yachts and deck-shoes and meaningful glances over the champagne cocktails, Berbatov would fit right in. Throughout his career, his demeanour has been of a mysterious loner in a white dinner jacket leaving a casino in the early hours, his bow-tie long since undone.
And yet, fitting as it seems that he should end up at Monaco, this is not a culmination. Indeed, it may not even be the gentle drift into obsolescence players are entitled to in their mid-thirties. You wonder how fulfilled Berbatov actually feels at 34 as he contemplates the autumn of his career. Better, perhaps, to be trotting around in front of six or seven thousand in the French league and playing, still, in the last 16 of the Champions League than scrapping against relegation in the Premier League, but there has always been an air of sadness about Berbatov.
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