Man City's implosion at the moment are starting to fully sum up what is seriously wrong in football!
They already put the final nail in the coffin with all the ridiculous spending but their implosion really sums things up, the metaphors of world class players cannot perform world class acts when they are not provided with the sufficient help from their teammates to do so. They cannot also perform world class acts when sat on a bench.
At the beginning of the season they were showing how much far ahead they were of everyone. At the end they are showing the world why you need to have a team instead of group of individuals. Balotelli was terrible today, however someone raised a brilliant point which I noticed also, at the end of the first half, he injured his ribs and was receiving treatment, I was laughing a bit of the novelty, Balotelli had sustained some bruising to his ribs and by chance he was lying on the floor while the rest of the players were going down the tunnel, he's always doing something different Balotelli, but anyone notice how none of his teammates went over to him to check how he was? Yes, they may had been angry with his behaviour but that says it all really, it shows how the city players deep down really don't care much about each over, they are just their to earn their money and do their job, hopefully winning something at the end of the season, if not, well i'm still rich anyway.
That attitude is why many would be world class players fail for world class players to emerge they need quality around them to help them perform, if players don't want to help each over out, if they don’t care, if there is a lack of desire to perform and players just look at football as a job, how will the game advance in quality over time? it will only get worse! Beniot Asso Ekotto is the only player honest enough to tell it like it is:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010 ... am-hotspurBalotelli has some very evident demons in his head, instead of people trying to understand them, they either try using force to ignore them, DON'T DO THAT, without understanding why he's doing it in the first place.
Carlos Tevez is supposed to be a world class player, but he is nowhere near his best because of in house fighting and narcissistic stubbornness. This is a metaphor for many players however.
His teammate Nasri, funnily enough was playing like a house on fire last season, until contract extension talks opened, it was reported we offered him 90k a week, we belieeved he wanted more, again funnily enough his performance dropped off after that, once the season ended he left for Man City and a whopping pay rise and the ambition to win trophies, yes, really Nasri! Let's look at it another way, why did he step up his performance so much, was it simply to earn a bigger contract?
When it was all going well for city during 2011, despite the fact the players were all apart from Joe Hart and Richards, mercenaries, the feel good factor and form meant even if the players cared little for eachother they all got along diplomatically to maintain their happiness and again to achieve the goal set, "
"I'm being paid a lot of money to play here so we will have to win something, we are all playing really well and i enjoy people saying nice things about me to supply to my ego".
Once this all falls apart, the true feelings manifest and players look at it from the opposite angle.
"Well, we aren’t going to win anything, who cares, I get paid anyway, it's all so and so's fault".
It just so happen that so and so is usually blaming someone else for his problems instead of taking responsibility.
Lionel Messi is one of the few players who isn't a mercenary, lives for football and actually cares about his teammates his performance, despite in the context of players during the 80's and 90's where he would had been seen as a very good player or maybe just about world class, in this generation where many players really don't give a monkeys and play only for the money, he's literally seen as a good, I think this is the key to his modesty, he himself doesn’t understand why he's so good, it's simple, not many players actually care much about trophies and leaving a legacy, their new Bugatti veron is far more important to them.
Even his very distant rival Crisitano, he don't care about football, he only cares about his ego, he expects his teammates to give him his crazy stats which can be used when he markets himself! He doesn’t care about his shameless diving, he just loves his materialistic lifestyle and being the worlds second best isn't good enough for his image. He still don't understand to become the best, it's not about the stats, it's about how you play, how you act when you play and how people perceive you, all the 'haters’ he disregards are the people who actually give you your title.
Again, football is about your competition, now look at city, when Barca’s competition around Europe at best are these big plastic mercenary teams in which the players ego’s run the teams in Man City, Chelsea and soon PSG and Malaga, when many of the world’s best are stacked up in their squads, many sitting on the bench, how is this good for improving the overall quality of football, when you have honest teams struggling just to survive also.
You can only be judged on what you beat, when what you beat is of poor quality, we need to question where is the quality?
That should explain which Messi has with ease notched up 60 goals already this season, which is just a joke! A joke how substandard the quality of football as a whole is.