Badge Kissing and Club Loving

Today I will talk about one of my favorite people in the world, footballers!

Let me start from the beginning. Do you know how much these people are making from ads? They make a lot! Sometimes, and I mean most of the times they make more from ads than what they make from their salaries. And a salary for an average player will be around £100,000 per week! If you have any doubts just ask yourself; how could Becks donate ALL of his PSG salary?

See how endorsement deals are important? Now we come to their images and followers. You don't get these endorsements unless you have an image to sell and followers who will listen and buy if you tell them to. Image is easy, all it takes is some commitment in the gym with those weights, good behavior in public and a good PR team. 

Do you believe Cristiano is the cocky, selfish SOB the media say he is? Spend some time on blogs and websites that are loyal to him and you will change your mind. Is Messi really the innocent, humble, kind footballer of them all? Don't search any further, same loyal Cris' fans will give you the dirty on Messi that will leave you confused!

Now about followers, and I am not talking Twitter followers here! These are the fans that will support a player regardless of what team they are playing for. And these are the people that dictate what deals you are getting and how big they are.

Followers are Arsenal fans who stay up past mid night watching Barcelona just for a promise of seeing Fabregas play. Followers are the fans who now knows even the bench warmers at Real Madrid because since Ronaldo signed for them, they haven't missed a match. 

I am also a follower in this case, no shame in admitting that. And some of the players I follow haven't even played for Manchester United! I follow Torres (yes, Nando), Chicha, De Gea, Ramos, Rafael da Silva, Ibrahimovic, Evra, Berbatov, Oscar (Chelsea and Brazil), Fabregas, David Luiz (who is on probation for the Rafael's incident). My list is way too long.

These followers translate to £ £ £ £ to our dear footballers. With them moving clubs for bigger salaries, threaten to move if clubs don't up their pay, is there anything they wouldn't do for followers?

And that has made the badge kissing and club loving generation! 

A footballer kisses a badge on Saturday, requests transfer on Sunday, sold at midnight on Sunday and on Monday he is holding a press conference declaring that his new club has been his dream club since he was six days old!

Badge kissing and club loving is all business today. We were lucky to have the likes of Carragher, Lampard, Raul, Casillas, Steven Gerrard, Puyol, Xavi, Gary Neville, Scholes, Giggs etc. Let us cherish these men who are still playing, hold on to the memories of those who retired and not force these role models on our current players.

A special shout out to the Baby faced Assassin Ole Gunnar Solskjaer who happily embraced his Super Sub status in his early 20s. Manchester United accepted Tottenham Hotspurs bid in 1998 which will guarantee him more play time and more zeros on his pay cheque but the player refused and chose to stay with MUFC. Now that's some true loving. Ole can spend his whole career not kissing a badge or saying he loves the club and we'll all know that he loves MUFC.

So, Wayne Rooney can sign for Chelsea and I wouldn't loose a tiny bit of my sleep over that. Fabregas can sign for Manchester United and I wouldn't question his loyalty. Suarez can stay at Liverpool and blame shetani mbaya alimpitia  and I wouldn't mind if I was a Liverpool fan. 

They can kiss the badge all they want but they are not fooling me. They can declare their love for club all they want but I am not believing isht. You love the club, do something that will make a statement, don't just kiss the badge or say you love the club. I would kiss Liverpool's badge for the right price, with a smile!

So, that's me with the badge kissing and club loving ballers.

Cheers.....

Sernando: Can't Stay Away

So, as I am writing the football bromances posts I have come accross lots and lots of materials that I can not put in one post.

Whenever I find something I like I will share. Like this Sernando (Sergio Ramos and Fernando Torres) moment.

Iniesta: That feels really good Nando

Oh No, he didn't!

 You mean you'll go up there right now?

Sergio:  Move over man.

 Iniesta: Sergio is crazy you know!

Cesc: You think? Pull that stupid move on Pique and you'll see crazy!

Sergio: What was that?

Torres: Nothing, why?

Sergio: Never mind.

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Why We Love Cesc Fabregas

By: @Zamaradi_M

 5. He is strong

 

 4. He is flexible

 

 

3. He doesn't party like a rock star, he parties like Cesc the Fab 

with a lollipop and juice at 1AM!

2. He is so cool that he can autograph even Ozil's shirt, with a smile!

 

1. The only healthy person we know that takes a nap after 11hrs of sleep!

 

 

Cesc for Arsenal

 By: @Zamaradi_M

 I strongly believe, in my heart of hearts that Cesc was better off with Arsenal. And before you go screaming and get all 'Cataluna' on me please know that I am NOT an Arsenal fan and never will be. I am just an unbiased observer with so much love for good and exciting football. And a big Francesc 'Cesc' Fabregas Soler fan.

So, here are my reasons why Cesc was better off with Arsenal. 

NOTE:  I am trying so hard not to use 'should have stayed' or 'should move back'.

Arsenal Victims

Or they sometimes refer to themselves as Arsenal fans. We will get to why they are Arsenal victims in another post. Arsenal victims adored Cesc, they still do. They worship the guy. The amount of love and respect he was getting at Arsenal, he will never get that anywhere else, ever! Even now, two good years after his departure Arsenal fans still follow him, defend him when Barca fans say he is sh*t! They have no obligation to do that, but they will, even ten years from now. Because of the support of these extremely loyal millions of millions of victims all over the world, he was better off at Arsenal.

Arsene Wenger

Cesc can have all the coaches in the world, but Wenger was his coach. You know us stupid people believe that there is that one person who was brought into this world just for us? Like they are meant for us and us alone? Then, Wenger was a coach brought into this world for Cesc and Cesc was meant to be with Wenger. I am still rooting for this 'love' story. No Homo!

El Capitán

Before I go into this point, a shout out to all Arsenal victims who learned the meaning and spelling of this Spanish word just so they could make their Captain feel at home.

El Capitán, if you don't know is a Spanish word which means The Captain. Emirates was decorated with this word when Cesc was playing there. Cesc was made a captain at Arsenal when he was only 21. Yes, he was a captain for Spain U17 but being a captain at a big club like Arsenal at the age of 21, that's something else aisee! One of the top four clubs in England don't make you the captain at 21 and you leave at 23. You just DON’T!!

Emirates vs. Camp Nou

One of the biggest believed reasons for Cesc’s departure was that Camp Nou is home to him. He was raised there so it’s only understandable that he has to go back HOME. I strongly disagree! Cesc started at Cam Nou at age 10 and he was training with La Masia only once per week. He joined on a permanent basis at age 12 and left for Arsenal when he was 16.

From day one at Arsenal Cesc was training with the first team and made his senior team debut at 16. He then played as a regular for the first team for half of his debut season. Cesc played for Arsenal for 8 years before going back to Camp Nou.

So, why would home be where one spent two part time years and four full time years instead of where he spent eight FULL time years?

 Bench vs. Mr. Arsenal

Not to be too dramatic, but Cesc was The Arsenal. You know, like Giggs is for Manchester United, Gerrard for Liverpool, and Casillas for Real Madrid. It’s like the flag of the club. That was Cesc at Arsenal. He was better off being Mr. Arsenal than warming the Barca’s bench! Besides, Cesc hates not playing. Well, at least he used to say that before joining Barca but now he is all for ‘What’s important is that the team wins.’

And a very personal opinion, Cesc is too talented and too young to be a benchwarmer. He is a first 11 material.

Cesc’s undying love for Arsenal

Okay. This is an easy one. Do you ever remember Cesc pouring his heart out in public for Barca when he was playing for Arsenal? Well, I didn’t even know that he played for La Masia until a few years ago, when the transfer rumors started. Now, since Cesc left Arsenal, two good years ago, have we ever been through at least a month without having an Arsenal related quote from Cesc? No wonder journalists can not help but always refer to Cesc as the former Arsenal captain!!

Even his BFF Gerard Pique was quoted saying; “Cesc loves to talk about Arsenal.” And no, that was not from last year, it was on February 13^th, 2013.

Those are MY arguments. You can drop your thoughts on the comments and we will talk.

Till next time.

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