What do you mean? Del Piero, Buffon, Trez etc had feelings for the club cuz they spent years and years with us. Aguero has no feelings towards Juventus. Also, the guys that followed us down had big contracts so they didn't lose any money anyway.
Be real, we weren't winning, we're not the in the Champions League and we're not the version of Juventus that is a top performing club out in Europe. We're not attractive to foreigners right now, still attractive to Italians though.
Its stupid to even suggest that Aguero should turn down around 4 million euro's a year to join us.
Lets put it this way, if Liverpool offered you 6-7 million euro a year to play with them while City offered you around 11 million to play for them, which destination would you choose? The big team that isn't performing or the new team that can offer you almost double the money and one of the best squads out there?
Aguero has no obligation towards Juventus, nothing, zero.
We're never going to convince each other because there's an apparent generational gap between us. You belong to the new school where it's all about "me, me, and me" and I don't.
You're wrong about the players being at Juve for years and years. Buffon, Trez, and Nedved joined in '01 that's only 5 years...a little over the amount of time a player signs a contract for anyway.
Also it's not about him turning down Juve that bothers me...if it was between City and let's say...Liverpool, I'd still fault him for joining City.
To answer your question, I would turn down City. I won't put on that mickey mouse jersey ever. That club has no soul and come the FFP rules I hope they crash and burn (barring they don't find loopholes).
On paper they do have a good squad but so did the New York Cosmos and Real Madrid during the Galactico era but where are they now? These teams don't stand the test of time and they're doomed to fail.
End of story.
That's how things start Tahir. You're educated about football enough to know that in 1987 or so, Berlusconi was paying x5 what everybody else offered for Van Basten, Gullit and some others. Despite the two CLs they won in the 60's, Milan were almost a nobody in the 80's and Berlu made the team with his money. Those guys like Van Basten and Gullit were rightfully seen as mercenaries in those days, but soon they grew into legends and started the cycle that brought Milan 5 CLs in18 years thus making Milan one of the biggest clubs in the world.
The money was there to attract these players sure but there was also a history and a tradition. Didn't this Joorabchian and his MSI try to pump money into Corinthians in hopes to make them the 'City' of Brazil? How did that go? Also, why do you think these rich Sheikhs and these Russian moguls don't buy up their local clubs and fill them with these talents? Because no one wants to fucking support FC Dubai or SS Minsk.
Look, City is that douchebag at your school who's daddy bough him a new Mercedes SLR, while you're still riding your bike. He goes to college where his daddy went and whom he still writes checks for. Right out of college his daddy gets him a top level job at his own company. Life is good, there's money, tcars, and bitches. Then one day your daddy's company goes under b/c he can't manage for shit and falls into depression and commits suicide. Suddenly the money, the cars, and the bitches are gone and he finds his ass on the streets.