The times have changed everywhere and in football too. It has become a great, wealthy business and is loosing touch with the common people rapidly. The relationship between the players have changed too. The locker rooms are places where the team chemistry is being made or destroyed, depending on the situation and money is now a big factor among players too. A young, perspective player in a big club is now rich already, and can afford an expensive car , but back at the beginning of the 21st century, things were still not like that. And a bizarre story by Samuel Eto‘o confirms this.Forget Messi, there are other strange contract demands out thereFormer Barca striker from 2004 to 2009 won multiple La Liga and Champions League titles and was teammate with such legends as Ronaldinho, Deco, Thierry Henry, Carlos Pujol, Xavi, Liliam Thuram, young Lionel Messi and others. And back in the day, as a young player you had to be humble, or else.”It was different. When I take the example of the kid who comes with his Ferrari 360 Modena and we wreck his car, with 20km on the clock… We had a different mentality. You’re Ronaldinho, you’re Eto’o. Today, it’s something else. The guy is 19, he’s playing his second game and he shows up to training with a Ferrari. But it was also an opportunity for the kid. When you arrive at a club like Barcelona or Inter Milan, there’s a hierarchy. You can’t arrive and talk to Zanetti as if you were talking to your friend. All the youngsters who arrive, they have to know ‘I’m going to go up slowly” he said in a conversation with Aurélien Tchouaméni in a ‘The Bridge‘ episode on Youtube.Xavi said to Henry: ‘When you win, you can talk’The Cameroonian ace didn‘t mention which player lost his Ferrari 360 Modena just because his teammates thought he was not humble enough, but the praised Lionel Messi, who was also a young player back than, but had the ‘proper‘ attitude. “Leo Messi, the best player in the world for us, he was always a guy. He arrived at a club where it was a family and there were elders. We moved up the ranks. So when the guy arrives and he has his Ferrari, we tell him ‘Welcome, but you’re not leaving with your car.’ We ruined it” he explained. ##NAJAVA_MECA_8312564##
