Non of the last players who left, left because of "the League"
not Pirlo
not Vidal
not Pogba
not Tevez
but that's just me.
Only possibly Pogba, and that was for the profile of the EPL to help his lame-ass "brand". The other three didn't leave because of a supposed weak Serie A.
Yeah, fair call I guess. It's pretty hard to know exactly why players leave unless they explicitly state their reasoning but I'm more than willing to speculate
Pirlo left because he wasn't any longer a first choice player for a big club. He knew it was time to call it quits and do the whole MLS retirement thing.
Pogba is a mystery because he didn't leave for a better club, at least not in footaballing terms. It was all ego for Pogba, the money and the notoriety you get playing for Man U got his dick hard. But I'm sure that he really did believe Man U would contend for the league this season and right now the Premiership is the most attractive league to compete in.
Vidal clearly thought Juve were limited. The way we had lost the CL final, that Barca had "outclassed" the underdogs, must have shaken Vidal's belief in the club's potential. He believed that Juve had reached their ceiling and that they couldn't possibly build a squad worthy of shaking off it's underdog status. It's a widely held belief which persists to this day and it stems from a perception about the constraining effects a struggling league can have on a clubs wage growth, its appeal to top players and its aspirations to become more than merely outsiders and underdogs.
Bonucci confirmed my suspicions when he flirted with a transfer to Shitty. He allegedly stayed because Juve made big statements on the market and quashed his own beliefs about Juve's limited potential. But why Man City of all clubs? Their chances at CL success are no better than Juve's. Players want to be tested and winning Serie A no longer presents a challenge to Bonucci. If the challenge to win the CL is seemingly insurmountable then there's little left to aspire to at Juventus. For Bonucci, a project in a more competitive league (such as Guardiola's at City) is more exciting by comparison.
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