This week feels a bit like groundhog day. Players asking for transfers, heads not being right and players getting their own way.
I know football is big business now but do any of these players feel any loyalty to the clubs they represent? This summers transfer speculation has become boring because of so many whining players.
Wicked
At times these players seem to treat their clubs like a girl they have had their wicked way with and then just want to discard without due cause.
Surely they feel some sort of emotion tie to the clubs that they have called home for years?
Loyalty
A lot of people may say that football is just a business now and footballers are just trying to earn the best living they can for themselves and families. They are just people and the majority of us fans are out to get the best for ourselves.
However if I compare these unfaithful footballers to ‘normal’ people they just look greedy. In my former-life as an educator I absolutely hated my job at times but I still felt a sense of loyalty to my colleagues and pupils.
Most football players don’t seem to have the same emotions about the football clubs they represent. Surely they must feel loyalty to those fans that they appear in front of every weekend?
Money
Of course most of us fans don’t earn the crazy amounts of money that footballers do. I look at footballers situations sometimes and think there’s only so much money you can spend. There are only so many houses, Porsches and villa’s you can own.
Surely these footballers realise how lucky they are? They should be grateful for the opportunity they have been given and stop acting like toddlers who haven’t had their nap if they don’t get their own way.
Tedious
Some of these long running transfer sagas can get really tedious e.g., Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona. These situations just serve to irritate the fans of the selling club, usually. Even some of the fans of the buying clubs can get frustrated by these long drawn out deals.
Talk
Not only do footballers decide they want to move at the sniff of a tad more money they sometimes decide to declare in the press that they wish to leave their current club. There is nothing more annoying as a football fan than one of your heroes coming out and saying he wants to leave your club.
It feels like a betrayal of the worst kind. Footballers must realise how the fans feel they were once young supporters at a stadium somewhere. It just seems like they now live in a completely different world to the rest of us.
Purist
I am a football purist and believe that footballers should have some sort of passion for the game. I know there is a lot of pressure on players playing at the highest level but surely they should enjoy playing the game?
A lot of players in the Premier League seem to think it’s a burden playing the game which has given them such a good lifestyle. There are however millions of fans around the world who would gladly take their place playing the game they love.
Is there any loyalty left in Football?
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