Many big stars came out of football for reaching a ripe age. It's normal, it's the natural course of things.
But I can't understand why the two of these chose to go to sub par teams just for marketing and money purposes. They could have retired and live a happy life gracefully already as multi millionaires. The era's end was kind of spoiled by that for me.
And it feels too much of a sellout now. I think this will also make it harder for future generations to appreciate what we had because it's all marketing, no heart now.
Someone said the introduction of gambling has made everyone focus on making money rather than having passion for the game. Also everyone is focus on marketing and promoting games, which has also made the players want to have this own percentage from it too.