Like Zlatan, Cannavaro, Thuram, Camoranesi and Trezeguet?
I hate it when people make players out to be saints. They're all employees like you and me, would you not go to another company if yours was going to give you a paycut or wasn't matching your ambitions or if you had a better offer somewhere else. If you're going to preach about loyalty, then it should be a 2 way relationship. But wouldn't Juventus or any other football club for that matter get rid of their players as soon as they get old\lose their form?
This is a day late, but I thought I should at least clarify my point. By the way, I was a bit of an ass Burke, so I apologize for being harsh. Anyways, to Fred's point.
I wasn't trying to make all of our players out to be saints; clearly they're not. I also wasn't trying to say that players should not be allowed to choose where the play. Furthermore, it's obvious that clubs get rid of players when they are no longer useful. It's a business, we all know that.
Our best players went down to purgatory with us and brought us back. Those best players for me were ADP, Buffon, and Nedved - sentimental favorites, also. I love Camo and Trez, they're our Champions as well. I know they needed some relatively forceful convincing, but lets get real.
Relegation to Serie B is a FAR CRY from remaining with the current European Champions. It's a pretty damn rare and extreme situation these Juventus players encountered, wouldn't you say?
Beyond that, Thuram was getting older, same with Canna, so even if I didn't appreciate their departure, I understood it. Furthermore, Juventus had to sell some players to balance the books, given the financial losses.
As for Zlatan, I hate him even more than CR7, for reasons that should be fairly apparent. I don't want to waste any more time on that fuckwad here.
Sir Alex really helped groom CR7, and mold him into the player he has become. Ronaldo basically spit in his face with the way he behaved last summer. All of the success went straight to his head (which I can somewhat understand), and he forgot about those who put him in a position to be successful.
The way Ronaldo tried to manipulate the club through the media, and the disrespect he showed to the club, it's fans and his teammates by being so public about his interest in Real Madrid's courtship was pathetic. At least that's what I thought. The guy was just thriving on seeing his name everywhere. He's entitled to play wherever he wants to, but you could probably find 20 legitimate CR7 quotes floating around that were pretty disrespectful to the ManUre faithful.
He basically tried to cut the legs out from under ManU's bargaining position with Madrid. I understand that is sometimes unavoidable in negotiations, but when a club has treated you as well as ManUre has treated CR7, that respect should be reciprocated. In this case, that means not talking to reporters about internal matters, and handling the situation behind closed doors, instead of trying to work the media for every possible advantage.