better dead than red
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You're whole argument is based on the emotional feeling of professional footballers. You think they'll be so pissed off that a player who wants to leave the group, desperately, it seems, on his terms will get to sit out a year on a massive wage.
I can assure you now, the rest of the squad won't give a nominal fuck. Professional footballers, fuck it professional sportsmen are incredibly self centred, because they have to be.
The notion they'll down tools or other players won't join is fanciful, at best
It isnt exactly the same situation and I generally agree but it can, and has happened before.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jun/20/france-raymond-domenech-nicolas-anelka