5 hilarious stories involving footballers and FIFA

2. Wojciech Szczesny

Szczesny sold himself to Manchester United for £18.5 million

Wojciech Szczesny’s story involving FIFA had managed to grab quite a few headlines at the time. During a tour of his house, Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny picked up his controller and started playing FIFA 15. He revealed to a Polish TV crew that in an attempt make funds to buy Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he had to sell himself to Manchester United for £18.5 million.

Szczesny has seen himself out of favour at Arsenal and moved to AS Roma in 2015 where he has played a starring role so far as the Giallorossi challenge regularly for the Serie A title.