Uncle Mike
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First, you decide whether Company B is worth working for. They may be a bunch of bastards. If they are, what shall it profit you to gain the extra money but to lose your soul?jerome2158 said:certain people seem to be applying their own fan viewpoint onto players.
Players are not like fans in any way.
When they say they love a team, they mean it in an entirely different way than a fan does. Most fans love the team unconditionally due to a variety of reasons. We don't gain anything from it other than the emotions involved, and despite how much time we spend talking/reading about the club, our direct involvement is usually 90 minutes a week.
A club for a player is job. Apply it to any other job, and the fan mentality makes no sense. Say you work at company A and absolutely love it. Then company B comes along and offers you more money for the same work, so you take it. You've got no ill-will towards company A, but you've moved on for your own sake.
If you love Company A, but Company B offers more money and is worth working for, the honorable thing to do is to give Company A the chance to match the offer. If they do, you stay.
If they don't, well, you're not a soccer player already making insane amounts of money. You need the money. The soccer player who moves on doesn't need it.
Which has less to do with Fabregas than with the other traitors. As the great journalist George Seldes would have put it, many a man has betrayed a person or a country for a cause he held dear, but it's another thing to merely add to your money.
Fabregas left for love. He loves Barca. He just used Arsenal to further his career. Legends do not do that.
Essentially, he slept his way to the top -- and now that he's in the big harem, he can't get into bed with the sultan.