What constiutes "Loyalty"?
How does one define it?
Length of Service to a club?
If we are speaking in terms of Zanetti, then he was here 3 years. Is that enough time to deem someone as Loyal to a club?
Acceptance of a role?
in this case loyalty means staying with juve, when juve got relegated. funnily, he would not even have one club which was at least comparable to juve who would only have given 1 € transfer fee for him nor would he have earned the money he earned when he was with us, even in serie b.
yeah, cristiano is a nice guy, but giving him honour for staying with us is a bit weired considering he has not had any opportunities that did look better than staying with us and earning the money he earned. or did i forgot about the enormous proposals of champions league playing clubs when we got demoted ?
honestly i am a bit disappointed. everytime someone from the club says something there will be a pretty predictable feedback here.
when someone who is generally liked (like zanetti) says something, than he speaks the truth and everybody is on his side. using this to bash the board is an even more welcome opportunity.
when someone who is generally disliked (like secco) then you can set your alarm to it, that the people here will insult him and write how false he is and how he gets everything wrong.
right now we got the "fans reality" (or theory) that zanetti is the good guy and secco is the bad guy.
then someone who is liked (ciro) says something to the topic and people adjust their reality or "theory of truth" again so they can still love zanetti, hate secco and still believe was ciro said.
people do adjust their opinion only on very simple levels without too much thinking, because that would be either to difficult or would not fit in their "black and white"-category thinking.
so i am not really astonished that nobody did read following situation:
zanetti: hey ciro. how much space will i have in the next season.
ciro: you know we bought melo, so it will be difficult but you will get your playing time from time to time
zanetti: ah ok. nice
<<no what should zanetti have said to ciro ? should he say "fuck you ciro. i want my first team place"? so he was acting like he was pleased with this anyways. further he could have thought "ok, when i do not play that much, at least i do earn a shitload of money i would not earn elsewhere. i have at least 3 years left to play so that money will give me a nice rent">>
zanetti: hey secco. what about the time after next season ? everybody else already got his contract extension. what about me ?
secco: hum ... honestly we can not give you the wages you did earn, because we have three midfielders more now that all can take your position and you will find it hard to find space anyways.
now zanetti is thinking "damn, my plan did not work out. what am i gonna do, when i don't play, earn less and will only have one more year here. who is going to give me a decent wage when i earn only a million here and did not have played regular football for a long time, when my contract expires? FUCK you succo ! you are not honouring me enough"
now zanetti has to ensure his future, knowing that fiorentina is the last possible destination where he will get a longer contract and will also be paid decent.
zanetti: listen ciro, please don't count on me for the sevilla game. if i get injured again i will fail my medical with fiorentina and no bum willcare about my broke ass when i am injured again and don't play many games next season.
ciro: alright then.
yeah, that is a really unrealistic theory.... i mean older players do never worry about the future and who they will pay the life after the active football carreer .... no they only think about loyalty and to play first team football .... right !
i think zanetti is loyal because he did actually deny an proposal from a club where he would have earned way more than he does earn here and he said he wants to fight for his place in the team...
oh wait ... no one every made a half decent proposal for zanetti ... that was poulsen ... uuuh
fuck poulsen, he is a moneygrabber ...
hail zanetti for staying with us without having a financial alternative when we got demoted.
yeah the cool zanetti that scored 2 goals in 14 games for us last season (no assist btw) and the faggot poulsen that only got one goal and three assists in 30 games.
lets keep the older and more injury prone zanetti and sell the less injury prone and younger poulsen. now THAT is what i call business sense!
P.S.: remember that i do not say that this is the exact situation that happened, but it is a possibility, just like the theories you make up in your mind to satisfy bashing the board at all costs.