Loyalty? Why it has been lost from the Beautiful Game

Okay so following the news that today, Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy have been mentioned to be extremely close to moving to the incomparable might of moneybags Manchester City, once again the question has to be asked, where has loyalty to your club gone in the game?

You do not have to look far as to why loyalty has become transparent in the game that over 3 billion people have come construct a love at first sight relationship with. The simple answer everyone gives is 'Money' but I wonder to myself, is that really the case? It is often extremely easy to just say oh this player is going for the money and in some cases indeed it is, such as the majority of the whole Manchester City squad who were probably dribbling at the prospect of seeing 6 figure sums casually walking down the yellow brick road into their bank account. 


But I think loyalty has become deceased not because of just money, but because of reasons far deeper than those of sport, loyalty has become less practised in everyday life now. You often see marriages lasting little over a year and then the two parties ask where was the loyalty? It may seem far fetched but the principle of loyalty has been extinguished from all traces of life. When I began as a youngster trying to reach the dream of almost every boy in the world of becoming a footballer. My family taught me to stay loyal and remember where you came from and how you got to where you are.

Manchester City's owner Sheik Mansour has over £500billion
in wealth.

From grass roots football, the fabrics of the game are taught from learning to kick with your laces to how to beat the offside trap. But loyalty to your morals, your manager and your club have all deserted the youngsters of today. Even young supporters now tend to be 'Glory Hunters' and often only support Manchester United, Chelski, Arsenal or Liverpool, because they are the most successful clubs with the most expensive and best players in the world. Not because of the history or tradition of the clubs. I think inevitably the players have now embraced this repulsive viewpoint on their careers. Players now want to earn even more money than they have braincells and couldnt care less about the fans who pay money out of their back pockets to come and watch. 

Steven Gerrard Twice flirted with the prospect of moving to Chelsea under Mourinho
But opted to stay with Liverpool

Players want to make the most of their careers, and rightly so its only human nature, but for a player such as Samir Nasri who has had one good season at Arsenal, who play the most elegant football ever seen in British football, to want to go to a club like Manchester City who are steeped in more money than trophies would of been unheard of even 10 years ago.

To Top it off, the generation of those who ooze loyalty, the likes of Class of 92', Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard will not be around for much longer and when they go, will anybody remember them? or remember the players like Yaya Toure who earn 280,000 a week.