Does Loyalty Still Exist in Football?

The game of football used to be about a players love for a city/boyhood clubs, the love for the game itself, they still exist but much less, now it’s all about the currencies, after a year or two in a club a supposedly bigger club swoops in with big bucks and the player doesn’t hesitate even though it jeopardises his future as a professional footballer with so much less playing time, with so many cases happening over the last two years. Do we still have one club players anymore?? From the top of my head, Francesco Totti, an Italian Legend, John Terry, Mr Chelsea himself but with his contract running out we don’t know what’s next. It’s now a sad case players claim to be loyal and the next are kissing badges of other team saying no regrets on leaving, won’t mention names! ☺

A few examples, Emmanuel Adebayor, Frank Lampard, and recently Marcos Rojo.. I watched Soccer Africa on DSTV some years back (Benoit Assou Ekotto also featured on the show), when Adebayor was in his first year at Spurs, he made a statement, he said for Africans “Football is a profession/a job, which is true, he doesn’t care about people’s feelings, he is paid to go on the pitch and get results, no loyalty for him, if a bigger better offer comes along he will switch sides” “You can never see me kissing the badge of a team”, anyways kissing badges has never been my thing, you see them kissing a badge today, and the next they are romancing the next, common! I can never forget his words that day, It made me think, Wenger brought him in from Monaco, nurtured and trained him and he had that to say, Assou Ekotto even had this to say, “I rarely speak English because I’m not paid to learn how to speak the language but get results on the pitch which is correct, feeding his family is priority no1 which is also correct but breaking long established bonds over currency is something I will never agree to.

Frank Lampard just left Chelsea after 11 long successful years, and he said on leaving that he doesn’t see himself wearing another English sides kit ever again, then two weeks later signs for Manchester City on loan from New York City and funny enough he got the vital equalizer for his new side against his old side on Sunday.

Now we see players skipping training or having bust ups with coaches or team mates all because they don’t want to remain at the club, we saw that with Marcos Rojo trying to force a move to Manchester United earlier in the transfer window and Dani Osvaldo forcing a move out of the club and we have seen a lot of them handing in transfer requests for bigger moves. We can go on and on about the players being disloyal but the coaches and the clubs themselves have their bad days, Chairmen losing patience with a player or a coach picking players over each other due to different reasons whether right or wrong, in all it makes the game of football a lot more fun, like I say, without the bust ups, controversies and the likes, FOOTBALL WONT BE FUN!

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