Chapter 81 Loyalty comes at a price
Chapter 81 Loyalty comes at a price
The Madrid and Fiorentina teams have already arrived. After they checked into the main hotel, Degan also came to join them. When they met again, the teammates couldn't help feeling a little complicated.
"Do you really want to leave?"
As Degan's best friend in Florence, Pacini was in a very bad mood when he learned that Degan wanted to leave. In the past few days, he has been wanting to ask Degan face to face, but Degan But I avoided contact with my friends, and now I finally met again.
Degan didn't want to lie, let alone change his mind: "Yes! Giampaolo! I'm leaving. This Champions League final is also my last match representing Fiorentina!"
Degan's attitude was very firm, which made Pacini lose all intention of persuading him. He understood Degan's character, and once he made a decision, he would never change it.
The fact that Degan is about to leave has made the players of the Fiorentina team full of frustration. Once Degan leaves, the flag of Fiorentina will disappear, and the soul will be gone. The dynasty that has just been established may collapse in an instant.
What shocked people even more was that just a few days after Degan announced that he was leaving the team, Prandelli also announced that after the end of the season, he would not renew his contract with the team.
Lippi, the head coach of the Italian national team, has announced that he will leave the team after the World Cup. As the favorite to replace Lippi, Prandelli has a high voice to join the national team.
Losing the coach and captain all of a sudden, anyone can feel that the future of Fiorentina next season is bleak. Maybe after the summer transfer market opens, not only Digan and Prandelli will leave, but there will be more Most people choose to leave, and when the time comes, after the main lineup is broken, what awaits Florence may be the fate of being reduced from a European hegemon to an Italian general team.
Degan could feel the disappointment of his teammates. He was also hesitating when to announce the news that he was about to leave the team. He didn't know that releasing the news before the Champions League final would shake the morale of the army, but some actions of the club irritated him. Let him fight back at all costs.
Cutting wages, giving up portrait rights, signing long-term contracts, and taking back transfer rights are things that Degan absolutely cannot tolerate.
Most importantly, the club's attitude made Degan feel that his four-year efforts had been completely betrayed, and he had suffered very unfair treatment, which he absolutely could not tolerate.
"I'm sorry, I will only say this to you!"
In Degan's room, all the players gathered together. Degan apologized, which surprised everyone. When will Degan talk like this.
"Yes! I think I should apologize. In the past two seasons, I forced some of you to stay. As a result, you suffered a lot of losses, but now I am leaving, and I am still fighting Before!"
The teammates didn't blame them, and they could all understand that, after all, too many things happened this season, and they were all clear about it, especially the contract renewal negotiations between Degan and the club, in their opinion, it was not much different from a war.
Pakinwa kept hinting in front of the media that Degan was greedy, which caused a split among the Fiorentina fans. Some continued to support Digan, while some began to think that Degan was really like what Parkinwa said. Money is more important than loyalty to the team.
loyalty! ?
Is there such a thing as loyalty in today's football field?
If AC Milan is just a small team like Brescia and Siena, can Maldini really play for AC Milan for the rest of his life?
If Manchester United is just a team that relegates every year, Ferguson's class of 92 may have fallen apart long after they landed in the Premier League.
The so-called loyalty never applies to players, that quality belongs to the fans, and the loveliness of the fans lies in their loyalty and the spirit of following the team to the death.
Almost everyone in Italy has a team he supports and never regrets for life, such as a Brescia fan, they will also be happy to read news about Degan and Kaka, but for him, only Brescia is the most important of.
In Italy, there are many people who may never have touched football in their lives, but they are also extremely loyal club fans. They will go to these second-level, third-level and even non-professional club games to cheer.
Fans are infinitely loyal to the club, so they also hope that players, like them, can throw away money and material glitz and put loyalty first.
But the moon waxes and wanes, and no one is perfect, so how can nature dress up perfectly? !
Loyalty, of course, can be appreciated by people, but when loyalty meets money, who can guarantee that "loyalty" will not fall into the embrace of "money"?
And the most incisive and vivid interpretation of this fact is in the complex "degenerate" sport of football!
Maldini and his sons in Milan, Adams in Arsenal, Gerrard in the Red Army, Bergomi in Inter Milan, Baresi's red and black complex, maybe people can name more loyal fighters on the football field, but the details Below the number, among the current active players, how many can have their hearts?
These factors are not only the individual players, but also the top management of the club gradually lead to the loss of loyalty!
Raul, who has been loyal to Real Madrid for 16 years, was announced to have entered Real Madrid's purge list before the Champions League final. Maybe this is a fake situation created by the media, but three years ago, his teammate Carlos Leave, but become a fact.
The plot of the eleven-year Real Madrid ended here, but the person who ended this marriage was not himself, but the Real Madrid club.
Today's Bayern Munich striker Elber was accidentally sold by the club in the second year he won the European Champions Cup for Bayern. After the club planned to introduce Klose, Ma Kai became a victim, and a month before this move, manager Hoeness also said, Ma Kai is not for sale, but it is a pity that Lao He's words turned into white lies a month later, and the engine behind this fact is "dirty money".
When the Argentine super rabbit Saviola was about to leave Barcelona, no one would have thought that the club's top management would abandon him. Although his state has declined, with his strength, there is no need to gain a foothold in Barcelona. What's more, this player who has played for Barcelona for many years has formed a deep relationship with the local fans. What's more, in Barcelona, he has made hard work even if he has no credit, but the club's top management don't think so. In their eyes, Money is "God", the rabbit is gone, there will be more rabbits coming!
And Shevchenko, the former Milan super striker, was in a mess at Chelsea. If he himself could have expected this, he would never leave England, even if he said that he was right choice, but who would believe it?
Even his wife regretted it and begged Milan many times to buy him back. In the summer of 2006, when he betrayed his "home" and went to Chelsea, who would believe that he was doing it for a better life? He left without many championship trophies, wouldn't Milan bring him these honors?
The same fate as Shevchenko is also the German core Ballack. When the last Bundesliga game of the 05/06 season came to an end, the Allianz fans in the audience gave him not farewell applause but full audience Boo, maybe Ballack left Bayern in order to realize his desire to win the Champions League, but his departure in such a way will inevitably be looked down upon by Bayern.
Such stories continue to be written, and such characters continue to appear, but the loyalty of Maldini is decreasing day by day. A conclusion: as long as money does not leave football for a day, then the loyalty on the football field will be reduced. day by day decrease.
In this world full of rebellion, in this world of modern football full of temptations and variables, loyalty has become a luxury, so precious! Indeed, loyalty is worthless, but it represents a heart, a heart that can be remembered by the world.
But loyalty comes at a price!
The so-called loyalty may be a yearning and a very spiritual sustenance in the hearts of fans, but players are different. As players, they want more, not just a good annual salary, but enough respect.
When one of the material and the spiritual cannot be satisfied, loyalty will naturally cease to exist, and all players can do is transfer.
When it comes to transfers, it's nothing more than switching between players. You like my striker, and I need your defender. That's it. However, sometimes it's not that simple.
In layman's terms, it is the relationship between the player and the club. In fact, it is just an employment relationship. However, people are animals with emotions after all. Therefore, when a player stays in one place for a long time, he will naturally be reluctant to leave that place. place, and when the local fans almost regard this player as their belief, when the player leaves again, everyone will feel that it is an extremely painful thing.
In fact, since it is only an employment relationship, there is no so-called loyalty or not. Even if a player has stayed in a certain club for five or six years, he may transfer to other places in the future. To leave, maybe being sold out.
However, more emotional fans will still find it difficult to accept the departure of their club players, whether it is Figo, Beckham, Owen, Shevchenko, Henry, or Digan who is leaving Florence now.
Usually when this happens, the fans will use betrayal, defection, to describe those players, but if you think about it carefully, what is wrong with the players themselves?
Regardless of whether he is a local player of a local club or not, even if he is, if he is really a very good athlete, why is he not qualified to develop in a better place, to win championships, win respect, or to do what he wants? Places to go.
If he is not, then he has no obligation to stay in a place that is not respected. The player's sports career is not long, so why can't he strive for more things for himself in the limited time.
Of course, there is no shortage of loyal and excellent players on the court. For example, Maldini is still in AC Milan. His father once played for Ami. He even said that his son will also play for this club in the future. However, this After all, they are very few. ,
The relationship between players and clubs is very delicate. Both sides take what they need. A good player will attract a rich team. A strong team can let players who want to win the championship join and become stronger. .
Perhaps the so-called loyalty never existed at all, it was just a beautiful fantasy of people!
In the money-filled football world, in the increasingly realistic football world, loyalty has long since become cheaper and cheaper.
For example, in South America, where football superstars are produced, a group of children from poor families, when they were barefoot, danced simple football in the streets and alleys, and even danced with their own youth. They played football entirely because of their poor family conditions. decided.
Therefore, many great things do not necessarily have a great starting point at the beginning. Those who did not play well continued to hone on the South American continent, and if there were signs, they were brought by the agent to the European continent to pan for gold.
Traveling across the ocean, if it is said that they are only running for money, most people will object, then it is considered that they are for dreams, whether it is spiritual or material.
At the beginning, they may settle in a quasi-rich club, such as Ronaldo in PSV, Ronaldinho in Paris Saint-Germain, Rivaldo in Deportivo, Crespo in Parma, Batty is in Fiorentina and Salas is in Lazio.
Then when they shine in Europe, those giants will also stare at them, maybe actively, maybe passively, they transfer, in Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan, anyway, their pockets are gradually bulging At the same time, he is also using his own skills to prove these abilities, and there is a positive relationship between the two.
If you have to say that Ronaldo went to Inter Milan and Real Madrid because he was disloyal to his previous club, this is already a false proposition at the beginning, because he has already left the land where he was cultivated. Barcelona and Inter Milan are only 50 steps away. and a gap of 100 steps. Don't say that Batty betrayed Florence, so what about River Plate?
So, don't easily say that a person has betrayed something. If so, they'd better perform on the South American continent, which is more in line with the definition of loyalty, but they have abandoned the pursuit of higher, faster and stronger sports, and even betrayed The pursuit of the most basic living conditions of human beings.
Looking at Europe again, people classify the rich and the non-rich. At present, the rich are AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Bayern, Real Madrid, and Barcelona. They have both money and comparison. With a brilliant record, there are too many attentions in the world, and there are many players who are looking forward to joining. In contrast, although Fiorentina is currently the hegemony of Europe, but their background is insufficient, it is estimated that no one will recognize their giants status.
So people saw AC Milan's Shevchenko, Barcelona's Figo, Real Madrid's Suker, Juventus' Nedved, Arsenal's Bergkamp, Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy.
The dormancy in the small teams only makes them motivated to play in a wider sky. Eagles want to fly. Only in a wider world can they soar happily and continuously show the charm of football itself. .
For those "non-rich" or "quasi-rich", cultivating superstars may be an important means for them to make profits, so there is the saying of Ajax's arsenal. It's not that they don't want to keep these good youngsters, but when football is no longer It is purely competitive, and it is increasingly commercialized.
"Non-rich families" and "quasi-rich families" can't help retaining "suspected superstars". Selling a Basten can earn funds for training Bergkamp, Overmars, and Kluivert. For the team to survive better, Ajax had to cut the flesh.
As for those stars, just like the American stars who broke into Europe, they don't have more rights to choose independently. Being big is just attracting attention. When a person becomes famous, he will face such a life choice, leave or stay!
These choices may already have nothing to do with loyalty.
There are many people who also desire to wear only two jerseys in their lives like Baresi and Maldini, but they are not with him. Fortunately, Baresi and Maldini were born in AC Milan and have maintained a stable life for a long time. The state has become a banner and a symbol, and the head coach and the club have given them firm support. "No one behind" can partly describe them.
Baggio will have grudges, and Beckham will not be able to die at Manchester United. They also have their own personal reasons, just like everyone has a wound, and they are unwilling to share it with others, so there is no need to just use "loyalty" as it is "dangerous". There are no words to measure the quality on the football field, and many times the behavior cannot be related to "loyalty".
Whether it is related to money, rights, or fame, all these reasons give birth to the regrets and inevitability of having to leave. To leave is just to live better tomorrow.
Some behaviors have nothing to do with "loyalty", some stars have nothing to do with "loyalty", and some choices and "loyalty" are destined to be bitter love.
Degan thought about playing for Fiorentina for the rest of his life, but when he felt that he could no longer get the respect he deserved in Fiorentina, leaving became inevitable.
What kind of evaluation the fans will give Degan is their freedom. After all, in every transfer, they are always the only ones who are injured. The club gets a high transfer fee, and the players can get a contract that makes them more satisfied. , only the fans can get nothing but pain.
"Things can't be changed, guys! I'm sorry, but I will continue to ask you, as long as I still wear the purple and gold jersey, I will be your captain, now listen up! This season, we still have There is only one game left, and then we will go to the World Cup. This is our last game together. Maybe we can continue to fight side by side in other teams in the future, but the once great Fiorentina is now only left For the final curtain call performance, I don't want to leave any regrets, and I think so do you, so we don't have any choice now, win and win this championship!"
The Fiorentina players listened to Degan's words, and their faces gradually became serious. They could foresee the future of Fiorentina, but before this big tree fell, they also wanted to make this Viola trip more Perfect.
Real Madrid are strong, but so what?
All they want is a championship, as Deegan has always said: Championships are addictive!
In the past three years, Fiorentina has won many championships. Many people, like Degan, have gone through this glorious stage, but when the final is approaching and another champion is in front of them, their hearts are still full of hope. longing.
Everyone no longer pays attention to those other things now, and they don't want to interfere with Digan's decision. Since Digan plans to do so, there must be his reasons.
Besides, for a whole year, they have already seen clearly the love-hate soap opera between the Fiorentina Club and Degan.
What they think about now is only the game. No matter how chaotic the outside world is, it is all about the big shots. As players, they are just pawns in the game of those big shots.
Seeing that everyone's momentum gradually recovered, Digan let out a sigh of relief, and then looked at Beckham. The 35-year-old Beckham is still in excellent condition, and this season is still indispensable for Florence. missing main players.
"David! You're going to face your old club again! This time you shouldn't have to face the choice of belief and life again!?"
Beckham laughed when he heard the words. Of course, Real Madrid is not a belief in his heart. At best, it can only be regarded as a past experience. This time, his heart is not complicated at all.
"Of course not, I still hope to win the Champions League again before I retire!"
Digan also smiled: "Guys! The difficulties we will face this time must be unprecedented. Real Madrid is playing at home. In tomorrow's game, apart from more than 10,000 Fiorentina fans, what we will encounter will be Our enemy, the right time, the right place, and the harmony of people, all the advantages are on the side of Real Madrid. Many people expect Real Madrid to win the championship trophy at the Bernabeu. What we want to play is a spoiler. I don't want to The people of Real Madrid are so happy! So, I decided, I want to kill them on the field, there is absolutely no discussion about this, I hope everyone can be prepared!"