People talk about loyalty of players to clubs. But in the everyday world, you don't see people being loyal to their company when they're getting offered considerably better deals elsewhere.
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It's unfortunate that you don't see the loyalty from management to players and players to management like we used to see in the old days.
And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.
The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.
If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I'm going to go hunting for that. I have no loyalty.
The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.
Football spectators appreciate a bit of loyalty, and we're seeing that less and less. There are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent.
I think sometimes managers like to buy players because they're more experienced from abroad or when they've got players under their nose that will give everything to the club they've been brought up with.