{"id":2359,"date":"2023-06-05T11:52:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T11:53:26","slug":"why-do-people-get-so-angry-about-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/why-do-people-get-so-angry-about-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do People Get So Angry About Transfers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The season is over and done with and we can all take a collective breath in order to gather our thoughts about what\u2019s to come. I\u2019ve <a href=https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/am-i-falling-out-of-love-with-football\/>written in the past<\/a> about the fact that I am falling out of love with the sport, largely thanks to Manchester City\u2019s financial doping without recourse alongside the arrival of Saudi Arabian ownership at Newcastle United and the likelihood of Qatari owners taking over Manchester United. Last season was the culmination of all that, with City almost certain to win the Champions League and complete a treble proving that money can buy you anything and cheats do, in fact, prosper. For the rest of us, the depressing thing is that football\u2019s tribalism is too rampant to mean that anything will be done about, such is the extent to which supporters are happy to laugh at the demise of their opponent\u2019s club rather than stop to think about what it all means for the future of the sport. Add into that the mocking of tragedies for \u2018banter\u2019 and it\u2019s all too much.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A sportswashing project just won the FA cup, and may be on their way to a treble, after facing 115 charges of financial malpractice.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Banks (@KobiiBanks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KobiiBanks\/status\/1665027332216860673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It would be really nice to be able to just focus on football when the season re-starts, but I think we all know that that\u2019s not going to happen. City will be just as powerful a force next time around, with what\u2019s happening at Old Trafford and St. James\u2019 Park simply adding to the idea that it is not a fair playing field any more. There are definitely some Liverpool fans, perhaps even people reading this piece, who are totally fine with the idea of a murderous regime owning the Reds. The manner in which people twist themselves in knots to suggest that John Henry and the rest of the FSG crew are \u2018just as bad\u2019 as a nation state, all to justify being ok with the club being bought by human rights abusing owners is immensely depressing to me. The moment that Liverpool becomes a sports-washing club is the moment that I am completely done with football as a sport. To too many people, it isn\u2019t about what happens on the pitch that matters as much as the transfers taking place off it, which is incredibly messed up.<\/p>\n<h2>People Care More About Players Than Trophies<\/h2>\n<p>Those that have followed the careers of players like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will have known for years that there are some extremely odd people out there. There are many, many supporters who don\u2019t follow a club but instead look out for the players themselves, shifting allegiances as the players transfer from place to place. For Liverpool fans, the first real time that we\u2019ve experienced that came with the arrival of Naby Ke\u00efta, at which point a wealth of new supporters began following the Reds simply because of the player himself. Unfortunately, many of them were quite toxic in nature and didn\u2019t really understand even the basics of following Liverpool, often referring to supporters that wanted more from Ke\u00efta as \u2018bin dippers\u2019 and other offensive terms, simply because they\u2019ve seen others use them and knew it was derogatory without really knowing the context. For them, it didn\u2019t matter whether Liverpool won anything, just whether Ke\u00efta player in the matches.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Streets wont forget how naby keita used to take bernardo silva for a walk everytime they met<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \uea00 #NK8 (@HendersonHater) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HendersonHater\/status\/1665070102658658309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of a similar vein are those that are far more interested in Liverpool signing players and spending money than they are in the club actually winning things. Ask them about the summer of 2019 and they won\u2019t tell you about how they celebrated the club\u2019s Champions League win, rather just how little transfer action there was. They will tell you all about Liverpool\u2019s disappointing net spend under Fenway Sports Group, not the fact that we\u2019ve won every single trophy that there is to win bar the Europa League and Europa Conference League. To them, it doesn\u2019t matter that we\u2019ve been successful on the pitch, but that we haven\u2019t spent hundreds of millions of pounds without bringing any money back in off it. It is a mentality that I will never be able to understand, given that the only thing that I\u2019m interested in is Liverpool winning trophies. Of course I wish we\u2019d invested a little more in recent years, but I wouldn\u2019t swap any of our trophy wins for a new signing and I never would.<\/p>\n<h2>What Will Be Will Be<\/h2>\n<p>When it comes to transfers, very few people are willing to just wait and see what happens. Instead, every tweet about transfers from a \u2018journalist\u2019, no matter how reliable, gets a reaction. People in the media know this, of course, which is why Liverpool\u2019s transfer business is such major news every day. Within an hour of <a href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/_pauljoyce\/status\/1665655959081943041>Paul Joyce tweeting<\/a> that the Reds were going to confirm the signing of Alexis Mac Allister in the coming days, it had garnered nearly 400 comments, 1,000 retweets and 7,000 likes. Compare to a tweet about Everton\u2019s transfers and you can see why far less reliable people than Joyce have made tweeting about Liverpool and transfers their stock in trade. When it is announced that the club are withdrawing interest in Jude Bellingham, toys are thrown out of prams left, right and centre before anything\u2019s actually happened. Get linked with a player such as Manu Kone and there are pieces written about him within hours and some fans will be furious if we don\u2019t sign him, even if the link was never real.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Liverpool optimistic of completing a transfer for Alexis Mac Allister this week, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_pauljoyce?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@_pauljoyce<\/a>. Sources refer to a key meting today to try and wrap up deal. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LFC<\/a> have always been confident. Fee will be officially undisclosed, but told it could be just UNDER \u00a345m.&#x1f1e6;&#x1f1f7; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EKDtZp0ZOC\">pic.twitter.com\/EKDtZp0ZOC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacobsBen\/status\/1665682754237865985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I would like Liverpool to sign a number of players this summer. I think we need a new centre-back, a right-back that can cover Trent when he\u2019s injured and at least three midfielders. I wouldn\u2019t be averse to us signing a new forward and, if Caoimhin Kelleher is sold, a new back-up goalkeeper will be a must. I will care about the players that we sign when we sign them. If we end up not signing them then I won\u2019t care a jot. All I\u2019m interested in is the success of Liverpool Football Club, not whether a specific player signs for us at any given moment. If the club decides that Bellingham is too expensive and laying out that much money on one player isn\u2019t a clever thing to do then so be it. If they change their minds and sign the Borussia Dortmund midfielder then I\u2019ll be happy with that, too. Ultimately, I\u2019ll never understand why people get so upset about who arrives at the club and who leaves when the only thing that matters is how it pans out on the football pitch. For now, I won\u2019t be thinking about a whole lot this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season is over and done with and we can all take a collective breath in order to gather our thoughts about what\u2019s to come. I\u2019ve written in the past about the fact that I am falling out of love with the sport, largely thanks to Manchester City\u2019s financial doping without recourse alongside the arrival of Saudi Arabian ownership at Newcastle United and the likelihood of Qatari owners taking over Manchester United. Last season was the culmination of all that, with City almost certain to win the Champions League and complete a treble proving that money can buy you anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andcouldheplay.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}