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RadioFriendlyUnitShifter said:
Sometimes it's apt, but too many people forget that this is a profession to these people, not necessarily a passion, as it is to many fans.
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Assou-Ekotto won a lot of points for me by basically saying "I don't really like football, I don't watch it, I don't enjoy playing it, I don't think of my team mates as anything but people I have to spend time with, I don't even know who we're playing until the manager tells me most days. It's just a job to me and one I try to do well in purely for professional pride." I can respect that.

I think it's the combination of the lack of honesty, you know the way players always pretend they actually love the club and often blatantly lie about their future intentions, and the huge huge sums of money that annoys people. I mean Ashley Cole saying that 50 grand a week is insulting or whatever.

Mind you, Charlie Mitten got basically hounded out of the game just for daring to try and earn a living back in the 40s so I'll take the mercenary culture over that.
 
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Artetafan said:
Assou-Ekotto won a lot of points for me by basically saying "I don't really like football, I don't watch it, I don't enjoy playing it, I don't think of my team mates as anything but people I have to spend time with, I don't even know who we're playing until the manager tells me most days. It's just a job to me and one I try to do well in purely for professional pride." I can respect that.

I think it's the combination of the lack of honesty, you know the way players always pretend they actually love the club and often blatantly lie about their future intentions, and the huge huge sums of money that annoys people. I mean Ashley Cole saying that 50 grand a week is insulting or whatever.

Mind you, Charlie Mitten got basically hounded out of the game just for daring to try and earn a living back in the 40s so I'll take the mercenary culture over that.
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I read that Assou-Ekotto thing too. After lol'ing a bit I did kind of appreciate his candour. You're definitely right about the whole faux-loyalty thing.
 
Artetafan said:
Arshavin, Chamakh and Squilaci, all had big reputations, decent records, and decent sized price tags; they just didn't really live up to them.

I think you're prbably right, about them not going out and buying huge Henry like stars or even just the two or three very good players they need, it's just odd that Wenger over the last five years has been so reluctant to do the things that worked so well in his first ten years in charge.
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Chamhkah signed for free, no?
 

ford_uk said:
According to the twit he hasn't travelled and is in Manchester.
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Yep, BBC have quickly changed their tune since lunch time! No doubt, City have some squad

The amount of players wages being spent on people who won't be getting a game any time sooner there must be astronomical. They're spending a million a week just on strikers.
 

Alio said:
Yep, BBC have quickly changed their tune since lunch time! No doubt, City have some squad

The amount of players wages being spent on people who won't be getting a game any time sooner there must be astronomical. They're spending a million a week just on strikers.
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Crazy
 
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