Has 'player power' gone too far in football? #shorts

With Aleksander Isak and Yoanne Wissa doing anything to push for big money transfers, have we finally seen player power go too far?

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00:00It's about time we had a serious conversation about player power in football.

00:03The deleting of Instagram posts, the changing your bios, the blacking out your screens,

00:08the crazy statements that follow, the media that gets invested into it,

00:12the unsettled narratives that like to come in.

00:15Ari Walken!

00:18Alexander Issa!

00:21Right, let's just all just breathe for a second.

00:24Because we've seen it every single year and it always happens to the clubs that are smaller.

00:28And of course we want to see players be able to play at the top level and to better themselves

00:32and to be the best version of themselves that they truly can.

00:36It's become very normalised in media.

00:38It's a really poor reflection on the players and the agents who have advised them to go down this path.

00:42And you always hear the same old line of,

00:44well the club have to sell him now because he doesn't want to be there.

00:46But why should they have to sell him?

00:48Why should they have to sell him?

00:49Because let's get real for a second.

00:51We're talking about players at the top level that have paid incredible money to be where they are right now.

00:55With contracts that they've willingly signed.

00:57The player isn't held to ransom.

00:59He isn't a prisoner.

01:00They're playing potentially in a Champions League competition this season.

01:03And I guarantee you in three months time if that sale doesn't go through

01:06they'll be wanting to play again for that said club

01:09and it feels like the player power is who holds the cards.

01:12But actually it's the clubs.

01:14Because ultimately if they don't pay the fee that player can't move.

01:17That player is worth what they're worth to that club for a reason.

01:20And that's because they're a very good player for that very good club

01:23that just simply can't afford to lose him yet.

01:26Is player power finally going too far?