🦐 You what?! Striker changes club for 75 kilos of prawns | OneFootball

If Liverpool had paid Florian Wirtz in shrimp, they would probably have had to ship several tons of container loads to Leverkusen. Paying players with seafood is hard to imagine today, but 23 years ago it really happened:

We're writing the year 2002, connoisseurs of Norwegian football know about the great season of Kenneth Kristensen at third division club Vindbjart: The striker scored 14 goals for his club back then.

This naturally also attracted the interest of some other Norwegian clubs, for example that of the then league competitor Flekkeroy IL.

However, Kristensen was not only known in 2002 for his love of scoring goals, but also for his great weakness for seafood, or rather, shrimp. He also had a special taste for it that summer after the end of the season, much to the dismay of the then Vindbjart president.

"Kenneth was in top form when he left us in the winter, but he had a relaxed summer and ate a lot of seafood on Flekkeroy" the president is quoted by the Guardian. That was probably a few pounds too many and so Kristensen was promptly sold to Flekkeroy IL.

Transfer fee: Not money, but something that Flekkeroy had more than enough of - shrimp. They wanted one kilogram of seafood per kilogram of body weight of Kenneth Kristensen in exchange for the striker back then. That made a total of 75 kilograms of shrimp that Vindbjart received for Kristensen.

"I had no idea if it was a joke or meant seriously," Flekkeroy chairman Rolf Guttormsen was quoted at the time. The unusual transfer then went ahead and in Flekkeroy they were able to look forward to winning the vice championship in the coming season, also thanks to new signing Kristensen. A win-win situation, then.

By the way, you can see Kristensen bathing in his favorite food in the article picture above - and that would probably be all that needs to be said about this transfer, or?

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