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Sergio Ramos? Raul? Tamudo? Guti? Salva Ballesta? Heinze?
Sergio Ramos? Raul? Tamudo? Guti? Salva Ballesta? Heinze?
That list without Van Bommel is borderline hilarious.1. Bowyer
2. Guti
3. CR
4. Cashley
5. Salva
6. EBJT
7. Carvalho
8. Ballack
9. Mascherano
10. Drogba
That list without Van Bommel is borderline hilarious.
Also, Gerrard HAS to be in there, he's a cunt, regardless of your bias. Paul Scholes could easily be in instead of someone like Carvalho.
So a French club would have paid Bayern what Ribéry was worth in terms of market value? Of course not, it's just part of the fugly one being a merc bastard and doing his best to burn his bridges at Bayern so that next summer he gets a move to somewhere more glamorous and with a bigger pay packet.
of course he's a merc...but so are players like dani alves, henry, ibra and like 90% of all players. you got them, real got. that's part of todays "modern football". it's a buisness for both clubs and players. nothing more than a job, with the exception that your employer can fire you, while the employee can't quit and look for anyother job or firm.
players like xavi, puyol, iniesta & messi are a dying bread in todays football. the standard player is the merc player
I was replying to your rather strange point about Bayern mistreating Ribéry, his wife preferring France etc. I'm fully aware of all of the above I was just somewhat confused as to how exactly you were defending Ribéry and making Bayern out to be the bad guys.
well first, i'm not trying to defend ribéry by making bayern out to be the bad guys. IMO there is no "the" bad guy in this case. both parties played their respectiv part and their actions leaded to the following reaction. and that's basically all i was trying to point out. like i said in the beginning to gneg, putting the blame on just ribéry and ribéry only is way to one-sided.
second, i admit that the 2 examples (wife & playmaker role) are very weak to help my point if you just look at the issue itself. sadly, i can't recall more than those two. the basic factor however, is way things happened between bayern and ribéry. they let ribéry get slaughtered by the press for things he didn't do or say. teammates therefore turned against him etc...bayern did nothing to cool things down, why should they??? increases the preasure on the player to stay and if he doesn't he's the bastard as served to the people by the press on a silver tablett. they did nothing to deescalate the situation or offer any sort of clearyfying statement until everything was definitly over. only then, there were official statements as to his injury not being fake, that you have to be fair and understand that a player like ribéry would be tempted by an offer from real madrid etc...suddenly ribéry wasn't that bad anymore. sure, bayern had already forced their will on the player.