Anyone else not believe it when every transferred player effuses love for his new club, it seeming to be his childhood dream bablabla...... There are a few genuine ones I think Fezza genuinely loved WFC, I think Deeney does, I think Gomes does and Guediora does but Vydra peeves me off with his insincerity as do 90% of players, just be honest you're there for the money and self interest...
Robbie Keane said he supported every club he moved to! Of course most just try and sound good for PR reasons - unless they are like Ronaldo who probably did really support and want to play for Madrid.
I am sure all footballers and anyone else in a new job will say good things about the new company. I think that the celebrating of something average and the using high words to describe all things takes some value. "I always wanted to come to this great club with a long history of glittery success" Skít þú gerðir!
Next season will be my 50th I hate to think of the no of players that have put on the shirt and some kissed the badge . At there time I love every one of them . A few have shown disrespect after they have left for there own reasons A few like MR dyer has shown it at the time of wearing the shirt that I can never for give . I will always love dolly and troy GT EJ the current family and to many to mention but we move on as they all do as well .
Doyley must love the club. That is why I like to see youth coming through too, probably most likely local lads who care for the town/club. Doubt we´ll see that too much now though....
It's not possible to love a club in the sense many players use the word. It is possible to feel a strong bond for other players, for the way they are coached and managed, for the fans' response to them, for the quality of the facilities and perhaps for the town or city in which it's based. These are surely things they cannot know until they've been at the club for some time. On first signing what must players are relying on is promises, first impressions and instincts...not always reliable guides when it comes to love
Generally speaking you're right Theo - there are exceptions such as players who get to play for the clubs they grew up supporting. Steve Gerrard being the obvious example of that, and Kenny Jackett was also a Watford fan as a lad. Charlie George also went from standing on the North Bank to playing for Arsenal - but these are exceptions. Mostly they are like Sebastian Schweinsteiger who is now making all the right noises about how Man. Utd are such a bigger club than Bayern.
The last job I had in Hertfordshire suited me down to the ground. I enjoyed everything about it, the atmosphere, the people who worked there, the learning, even the pay was not too bad. Think I loved it as Monday to Friday I was eager to get into the office. Things however changed and the company moved to Essex. It suited me in some ways because I was able to get a house just I was getting married, but the job started to change with new people coming in who had ideas about modernizing the way we worked. I fairly soon came to the conclusion that the company was no longer the one that I had been happy at, and along with a number of others found something new and different, this time in Oxfordshire. It was a case in this job of forging new friendships, finding out how the bosses wanted things, and slotting into a different set of working conditions. In my case it was my own decision to move on, but had I been a footballer I might well have been sold because the club needed the money. I cannot think that had I been sold to another company I would have immediately been talking in public about how much I was in love with it and the job, but then I was not ever going to be trying to get thousands of fans on my side.
Listen to Danny Murphy for an honest opinion of how most footballers think. If unconvinced, read the secret footballer. Then finally, ask yourself what you think abou your next job and what you would say when asked about it by a client/supplier/fellow employee/potential new client etc etc. Football is a job. Simples !
Having an agent that negotiated a very large financial sweetener might have encouraged a bit more hype?
