Quote from: rachael9385 on February 20, 2025, 04:01:27 PM

Quote from: MrEazyLife on January 29, 2025, 09:35:56 AM

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You have a point, contemporary football is quite different from old times but I must say that there are still players that are focused on building their legacy like messi and Ronaldo but not on the same pace. In the history of football no one has beaten their record maybe due the reason is due to what you mentioned, a lack of passion and more interest in money. But do you think this is the case? Footballers don't really need to be obsessed or all about the money because however their career might be they are still going to get paid. Well, this is just my tought on this, they can be passionate about their career and still make money.

Some young players in Europe can still rebuild the image of football that is not only concerned with money, indeed they have been paid large amount but if we talk about salary then Ronaldo or Messi are also expensive players, for example Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City are still team that have quite lot of young players who are starting to show their names as football stars.
Moreover, if the reason is about leaving like playing in Saudi Arabia, it is also done by most players who are no longer young, they do all that to be able to get more money and be more secure when they retire later.