I am ready to give him a chance even though I didn't want him here in the first place (there may lay my hypothetical prejudice) because I thought he was not the player our team needs. I still think so, and frankly I can't see any way that he could rise to Ibra's level of usefulness for us.
Let me ask you this. Say you're Moratti for one second, and you have to make a choice:
You can either sell Ibrahimovic, get 50 milion, Eto'o, spend this money on players like Sneijder, Milito, Motta, Lucio, but at the same time you have to offer Eto'o maybe more money than you would like to, or you can leave Ibrahimovic here who is not particularly happy to stay as if he was to go, and because you don't have the money from Ibrahimovic sale, you can't buy a trequartista Jose wants.
What you do?
I know it's very IF question, and it's just hypothetical, but can't this be the truth, or close to truth, or one of the possible scenarios ? It isn't that hard to believe that that could be the case.
I don't know, Hal doesn't know, but this is a difference between people like us, and people who comment on these things very easily. We know we don't know have enough information to comment strongly about those things, while other people act as if they do.
What I do constantly, is try to show people, that sometimes they just look at things from a very shallow perspective, and they do not try to look at the whole picture. They don't try to think "outside the box", they just look at the easiest explanation that comes to mind.
I got one example for you. Say you are standing behind the door, you hear people screaming and shouting, you walk in the door and see a girl that is hurt, and you see a guy. In most of the cases you will assume that the guy did something wrong. That's kinda our "fans" situation, when we look at the transfers, at contract negotiations etc. We don't know what's going on behind the door, although we know some part of the story.
BUT if you are IN this room, if you hear exactly what they are shouting about, you could change your opinion. Maybe the guy was just deffending himself ? Maybe he is not the cuplrit of this situation ?
The information that you have, or you don't have, can change your opinion dramaticly. That's my point when I always speak about those things.
We as fans do not know many (especialy financial) aspects of our club, so how can we judge objectively on these aspects of our club ?
Luka I love your "we are only fans, who don't know what's really going on with the club" message you preach.
Is it so hard to understand my point of view ?
If you see a smoke, behind a mountain, you only see one fraction of what is really going on, you don't see the whole picture. Do you? Most of people would say, it is fire, and sure in most cases they would be correct, but it doesn't mean that it is also true in this particular case.
We as fans see players on the field, and that to me is one of the things we have close to whole picture, and we can objectivly comment about.
If someone doesn't see our players in training however, how they can be mad for example for not giving a chance to some particular player? How do they know if the player deserves this chance, if the player is working as hard as the others ? And yet, you see many people like that all over the world, on all message boards.
I'm just trying to be reasonable, nothing else. Have you seen me telling someone commenting on the players performances, or the games to just "shut up, because only the coach can comment on that" ? No. We see the players performing, and although it's not the whole picture, as the ones that watch the game live because we see only what the cameras show us, it is probably like 90% of the picture we need (especialy for offensive players). So it is perfectly fair to comment on that.
10 years of FIF
