Newcastle United striker Shola Ameobi, could become Prime Minister after he retires from football because he is so clever, claims his manager, Alan Pardew.
Ameobi has become the club’s elder statesman after 14 years there and has helped to pull together a divided dressing room that last season almost cost the club its Premier League status.
Pardew is so impressed with him that he says the 32-year-old should consider quitting football altogether when he stops playing and challenge himself in other areas.
The striker is considered him a cut above the average Premier League footballer by his manager.
Newcastle are in no rush to lose their longest-serving player, but they have not opened talks about extending his contract, which expires at the end of the season.
“Most times footballers are put into this category where they’re not particularly bright,” said Pardew. “They’ve not really got a personality you would aspire too, well Shola is the complete opposite.
"You could put him in any environment, any school, any political field and he could hold his own. It is that intelligence that he brings to the dressing room.
“I don’t know what will happen with Shola in the future, he could become Prime Minister one day with his personality.”
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