So recently as everyone knows fabian delph showed what was the worse kind of disloyalty in football, the old i love the club one minute and then leaving the next. Every club has had to deal with it, with players leaving and showing what is seen to be a lack of loyalty and the old line of 'The only people in football who are loyal are the fans'.
This however isn't true, when a player is performing poorly we as fans show no loyalty to that player no matter who he is. When gerrard was playing poorly liverpool fans where demanding he be dropped and where saying how he was holding the club back now, same with lampard and chelsea and now it's happening with gabby at villa. All 3 of these players could have left for bigger and better things at certain points in there career but stayed and as soon as there form drops the fans are demanding for them to be dropped.
No loyalty in football, not even the fans.
posted on 23/8/15
Oh the loyalty stuff is a bunch of nonsense. You are not good enough I want you out of my club because if the shoe was on the other foot and you deemed the club not good enough for you, you wouldn't hesitate leaving. Also feck that kissing the badge b/s.
posted on 23/8/15
what i'm saying is that we as fans can't have it both ways, we aren't happy when a player leaves and shows dis loyalty (delph, sterling and countless more) but have no problem when a player who we don't need is shown the door even if that player has shown loyalty before to the club.
posted on 23/8/15
Well delph could of left on a free, had he not signed a new contract to make sure you got a fee. Not many would of done that. His mistake was rejecting and then the comments that came with it.
posted on 23/8/15
Well Delph said what he did, saw Benteke being sold and then changed his mind.
Poster is correct he could have gone on a free. Money he helped bring in got that new full back.
posted on 23/8/15
Players are just contractors, they go where the money is same as any worker.
Fans pay for entertainment, if they feel they are not getting it they have every right to boo.
posted on 23/8/15
Fans also have the right to punch themselves in the face doesn't mean it's useful or a good idea.
posted on 23/8/15
If you're Chronic it does...
posted on 23/8/15
To compare Flabby Agbonlahor to Gerrard and Lampard is absolute folly
posted on 23/8/15
A fair number of fans were on Lambert's back. A fair few others looked at the circumstances under which he was operating and supported him. But the bottom line is that at the end of the day the manager has to produce, and there came a time when the second lot of fans saw that Lambert couldn't do what was needed, and there was no argument at all when he left.
I think we've reached the same position with Gabby. Last season he was pretty unproductive, but at least the few goals he did score were class. This season he's been in similar positions and it's as though his shooting has gone. Maybe he doesn't practice shooting. Whatever, in no match, either pre-season or now, has he been effective. Time to drop him. The alternatives may still be finding their feet, but they couldn't be worse. And I think the fans have every right to say that.
Don't get me wrong. Fans do have a lot to answer for. A group will take against a certain player, Westwood for example, and nothing he does will ever be right. The way the fans treated Houllier when he was appointed, because he was "French, Liverpool, and old", was totally stupid. They put him and the team under a pressure that it was no wonder his health collapsed, or that Lerner finally got cheesed off with the whole idea of running Villa. Fans sometimes get what they deserve, like the last four years. I hope now they'll have the sense to back Tim and the team, because the future looks brighter than for some time. But that doesn't extend to letting Gabby off the hook.
posted on 24/8/15
Football loyalty is to the team, not a player. If a player is not good enough you don't keep playing him out of a sense of loyalty. And in Gabby's case he has been given many chances (too many) to show his worth to the team and failed.
In terms of player loyalty, I don't blame a player wanting to move on when he is sought after. They don't know when there next chance of a move will come. It is their career after all, and most people would accept a better job if it was offered to them. Delph's case is different because he stated on several occasions that he was staying. He should expect a bit of stick for that. Compare that with Benteke who made it pretty clear that he was after a move. Don't blame him at all, though if I was him I would have held out for a Champion's League club.