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I personally find nothing wrong with the idea of supporting specific players regardless where they play at. The problem with it though, is that these supporters will more often than not be extremely biased and thus irritates the hell out of the club's supporters when they disagree.
For example, the Ronaldo case when most of his fans (Not Interisti) think that he was in the right when it was pretty obvious that he backstabbed Inter and twist the knife afterwards. (I'm just using this as an obvious example, please debate the matter in his own thread. ) Or maybe, I don't know, when Figo moved to Real Madrid; maybe some of Figo's fans still find some unfathomable ways to defend the betrayal.
The 'irritation' caused by the biasedness & stubbornness is perhaps best exampled by when a Juventino comes to our forum denying that his club is involved in Calciopoli and blindly preach the fact that we won our 4 Scudetti due to the favors we got post-Calciopoli.
But other than that, if it's done properly, it doesn't matter if you support the player or the club. What matters most is to be rational and to stay loyal with the player.
I agree but there's another side of the coin aswell. To me, it's also a bit embarassing for me at least to resort to being UPSET with a player when I'm not a local (and even if I were, it would be kind of embarrasing). I mean, if you're from Poland, Crotia, Japan, USA or whatever and have picked the team for no other reason than them looking cool on Xbox or something then you really don't have the credentials to be all in flames over a player leaving or someone else being a plastic fan. Most of those guys have themselfes either gone for the "cool shirt", "love em on Xbox", "Matthaus rules" or "Ronaldo is awesome" and are in the ultras eyes as plastic as any other non-local. It's a very thin line of acceptance there that will never be achieved in the eyes of the ultras.
On the other hand there's a history and a pedigree to Inter as a international club with an intellectual fan base. Those people, locals or not, aren't the sort of peeps that'll use that kind of narrow-minded ideas of Inter and see it through a broader contex of the history of the club and what it stands for. So if you're (not you personally, but the general "you") seeking acceptance as an Interista, those guys are your best bet - not the hooligans chanting mantras of hate, cause they effing hate you too, you are not one of them. You are plastic and that's it.
So this is equally irritating to me, fans posing as "real" fans and attacking other fans that aren't as "real". Why even bother going after player fans when Inter is a international club and you yourself are a fake fan? It just seems a bit... self righteous? And it doesn't have to be, since we all like Inter in some ways (some longer than others, but what the hey) and shouldn't travel that path at all. It's not only a bad way to connecting to locals that love Inter, but it's also very un-Inter like when looking at what the club stands for and how it was created for fans like us (citizens of the world) and not specifically "the locals" or the "real" fans.
This topic would require a thread of it's own though, and maybe it's impossible to have a rational discussion about with the people directly affected by the "ultra-bug". I don't even think it's the team that's affecting them so much as it is a desire to be part of some form of community and a willingness to do what they think is required to be so. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that. All that stuff is very difficult to get past in that sort of debate, and you're not debating the club or a player as much as you are debating the need of a persons willingness to belong.
If do you look at the Zlatan issue rationally he's acted like a professional (he's always been a prick) and we got he deal of the century when shipping him out, so the whole idea of anyone passionately arguing over it amongst plastics is just weird. Like... "dude, I played with my Inter on Xbox long before any of you non-Zlatan haters cause we got that shit to the states long before any of you europeans". It's so bizarre in some cases you can't help but to wonder if any of those making these ridiculous claims are Milanistas in disguise fucking with the plastic fans of the Forza Inter-forums just to stir shit up and make the forum look silly and shallow. :joker::thumbsdo: