If you're a competitive athlete. Do you not fancy yourself as a good player?
I think it's an odd mentality from our fans that players don't want to come to us because theres competition.
Are we not allowed to have a strong squad?
It's not about fan's mentality but the mentality from a player's perspective. Not every player thinks like Coutinho, who believes he can walk into Barca.
From my limited knowledge, players get paid bonuses when starting games. So it's more beneficial to be playing week in week out.
Granted fans want players to take the challenge. Join us if you think you can displace Robbo. Join us if you want to win the league or CL. Join us for the Anfield experience. But players first think about their careers. And very often this is a different wavelength from fans.
I mean if he thinks he wants to take up the challenge good. Otherwise nothing wrong. It's valid that he believes he's not going to play if he joins us. It's just the player's view. The odd mentality you mentioned is also valid because that's from a player's point of view. In a football career, they've to be playing games to be competitive. Being competitive is exactly why they want to start games.
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