Celestine Babayaro

He moved for a transfer fee of £2.25 million, a club record paid for a teenager at the time. Read Less

With this move, the Nigerian re-joined Galaxy coach Ruud Gullit who previously brought him to Chelsea in 1997 and spent a season coaching him there. This time again, it was precisely recently-hired Gullit who wanted Babayaro at his new club. However, it did not take long for the move to turn sour as the Nigerian who had spent the majority of his career with top English outifts was more than shocked when faced with realities of life in the Major League Soccer. Thinking that he had arrived at sort of an American superclub that only a year earlier gave David Beckham what was widely reported to be the $250 million contract, Babayaro was agitated by what he considered to be shabby accommodations - from having to fly in the economy class to sharing a hotel room on the road. His commitment in training and preseason games reflected those feelings and he soon got on Gullit's and club president and general manager Alexi Lalas's bad side. Read Less