French football star Franck Ribery on Saturday launched a foul-mouthed response after he was criticised for eating a gold-coated steak, telling his critics: “I will spend my money how I like”.
On Thursday, the 35-year-old Bayern Munich player had posted a video on social media of a visit to a steak house owned by celebrity Turkish restauranteur Salt Bae and rubbing his hands before tucking into a huge chop coated in gold.
That ostentatious luxury drew ferocious criticism before Ribery — who earns an estimated eight million euros a year with the German champions — hit back.
“Let’s start with the envious, the angry, surely born because of a broken condom,” read the first of the posts on Ribery’s Twitter account. “F*ck your mothers, your grandmothers and your whole family tree,” wrote Ribery, having taken care to sanitise the French word “n*quez”.
“I owe you nothing, my success is above all thanks to God,” the post continued. “To me, to my relatives and to those who believed in me, for the others, you were only pebbles in my socks.”
“When I donate (because I was taught to give when I earn a lot…) Why does not a major national media broadcast that? No, you prefer to talk…
