As football becomes more of a business, moving jobs for money is no longer a sin

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We may have reached an historic moment with modern, highly paid footballers. They may finally be ready to tell the truth when they move club. The truth is that what motivates them is not the glory of the club they are going to, nor its wonderful supporters, nor even the honours they might win, but how much money the new club will put in their bank account.

I have long believed that the refrain of modern footballers, talking of a club's ambition during transfers, has been misinterpreted by the supporters and media. It does not mean that the player is keen to know what honours the club seeks to win and how it plans to go about achieving its objectives. When a player talks of a "club's ambition" he means the club chairman's ambition to add noughts to his contract, even at the risk of putting the club in financial trouble as so many have done in recent years.