There is not a single club that is here to give lessons to another. The most ruthless capitalism has been guiding elite football for too long and opacity is taken for granted as if it were part of the rules of the game. All clubs fit into that bag, ours and others’, although the sense of belonging makes us believe that our own reaches levels of exemplary behavior superior to others’. The phenomenon is called forofismo and it is even healthy when well defended as an indispensable ingredient to discuss amicably in the bar, at work, or at a Christmas dinner.
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For some time now, the so-called community managers , responsible for spreading the official voice of the clubs throughout the online world (and/or underworld), have gotten used to making that fanaticism their own by disguising it as a sense of humor, and it must be said that sometimes they are funny, but other times, not. Not all of us were born with the gift of comedy, and it is good to be aware of it: few things are more annoying than an amateur monologist lacking charm and unaware of it.
If Julián Álvarez sits down to listen to other clubs it is because his own does not satisfy him
It is assumed that the battery of tweets perpetrated by Atlético de Madrid on Friday against Barcelona, with the indispensable aerial coverage of their superiors, was loudly laughed at while being cooked, and, once spread through the swamp of social networks, applauded and cheered by the faithful of the red-and-white cause. But it must be warned that those laughs exude an onanistic essence. They are own-goal massages; comedians who celebrate their own jokes: few things are worse and more pandemic.
With a bit of sense of reality, those responsible at Atlético would recognize that the main reason why Barcelona (and PSG, and Arsenal) want Julián Álvarez is because the Argentine would prefer to play somewhere else next season, something similar to what happened to the same individual two summers ago when he left Manchester City for Atlético, and not by divine science but because there were previously conversations and negotiations initiated by the now complainers. Hence, then and now, the movements of his agent.
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This is what happens in every summer market for decades in the world of football, and sometimes it has also affected the blaugrana club, which lost Neymar despite the desire to keep him. It is the law of the market and the freedom that assists the footballer to choose his destination, even when he has a valid contract.
Who knows. Maybe Julián Álvarez prefers to experience a different kind of football than what Simeone proposes; or he is not convinced by the conformism his club transmits (proud of a blank year despite not having won titles – although coming very close – and having finished 25 points behind the leader in the League)… There can be so many reasons that the temptations to publish tweets pile up.
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The adult (antonym of childish), and respectful thing, is not to do it.
