Aurier: PSG 'did not respect true worth'

[dk-yid]

There's a good chance that he's an ass. And if he is, I don't want him to drag our clubs name through the dirt. I also get those that took offense for his homophobic comments and generally his actions. Buy honestly haven't we trawled through this enough? I don't think there is a consensus to be found because his personal actions split opinions so heavily. As @Gassin's finest says I'll wait for his football to do the talking.

 

[Tiberius Gracchus]

so he'll need the club to protect him from journalists trying to trick him in to saying something stupid

something stupid like...I looooooove youuu

 

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I don't see Aurier getting shit from the press – he walked into a journo trap. It's not a particularly critical article on him, it just lays out what he said with the obvious juicy bit as the headline.

He's 'getting shit' on a football forum, and it's just what fans do - discuss this stuff. I wouldn't say it's 'shit', it's acknowledging his past as context for his present comments. Everything is context.

I want the guy to do well, he looks a monster on the pitch, but I'm not going to have people preaching to me about how he's been misunderstood and we should all forget his past. He needs to do that first and realise he fucked up at PSG, he wasn't wronged. The lack of responsibility there is baffling.

Cut him some slack? Sure. But it will be revealing if he's going to keep scratching that itch in interviews as any sensible person would steer well clear of the PSG stuff, as he was very much in the wrong.

The police stuff, actually, is far less cut and dried. And I'd argue his history of slagging off his manager and team mates is more pertinent than a run in with a French copper which sounds like 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.

I don't get the equivalence with Alonso at all, seems an entirely different situation. I've never seen Alonso mouth off to the press about the incident – indeed, I can find very few interviews with him at all online, happy to be enlightened – presumably because he's absolutely devastated. The girl who died was a passenger, not some random he knocked over (not that that would make it better, but it IS different).

And for those who say 'get over it' for Aurier, Alonso had his day in court, and it was six years ago, not last season, and he doesn't even play for us so is of no concern (although I happen to agree he got off very lightly indeed).

The comparison with Alonso is that he's getting some stick in press (unless I imagined it) for doing some silly things in the past including an altercation with the police which has resulted in punishment (but who knows the context of what happened exactly in the incident to provoke a reaction)? On the other hand Alonso has done something which ended the life of a young girl, and got a fine yet I didn't see any bad press being widely released on him. Anyone who has irresponsibly killed someone by drink driving disgusts me a hell of a lot more than a testosterone pumped young lad lashing out. Aaaanyway, I wish him the best for us and hopefully we only talk about his excellent football in the future.

 

[guiltyparty]

The comparison with Alonso is that he's getting some stick in press (unless I imagined it) for doing some silly things in the past including an altercation with the police which has resulted in punishment (but who knows the context of what happened exactly in the incident to provoke a reaction)? On the other hand Alonso has done something which ended the life of a young girl, and got a fine yet I didn't see any bad press being widely released on him. Anyone who has irresponsibly killed someone by drink driving disgusts me a hell of a lot more than a testosterone pumped young lad lashing out. Aaaanyway, I wish him the best for us and hopefully we only talk about his excellent football in the future.

Going on reports from the time, he was asked to take a breathalyser in his car and refused. An altercation took place and both Serge and the copper say the other struck the other. So not that hard to find out what happened.

Alonso isn't our player so he's behaviour is of no consequence. And if there was some mystical league table of bad stuff footballers have done, why would one persons unrelated behaviour mean another's was ok? You don't excuse someone for stealing because another guy robbed a bank. I don't get what the point is. Of course killing someone is worse, but because he hasn't killed someone, does that make everything short of that fair game?

There was lots written about Alonso at the time, as I say - six years ago. Go check the Mail and Star stories from the time, and there's a still open Reddit thread just for him.

Aurier is being covered a lot now as he was convicted less than a year ago, paperwork had to be sorted just last month to make sure he could enter the country and he's just moved to a British club. Sorry he's a topical news story and we would have known that.

Worth adding that after the Blanc faggot incident, and his apology, he then recorded himself slagging off a referee during a game he wasn't playing in and ended up with a UEFA suspension.

Poor old Serge. PSG, UEFA and the French police all got it in for him for absolutely no reason at all. Poch's eye will be firmly on him I have no doubt

 

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Going on reports from the time, he was asked to take a breathalyser in his car and refused. An altercation took place and both Serge and the copper say the other struck the other. So not that hard to find out what happened.

Alonso isn't our player so he's behaviour is of no consequence. And if there was some mystical league table of bad stuff footballers have done, why would one persons unrelated behaviour mean another's was ok? You don't excuse someone for stealing because another guy robbed a bank. I don't get what the point is. Of course killing someone is worse, but because he hasn't killed someone, does that make everything short of that fair game?

There was lots written about Alonso at the time, as I say - six years ago. Go check the Mail and Star stories from the time, and there's a still open Reddit thread just for him.

Aurier is being covered a lot now as he was convicted less than a year ago, paperwork had to be sorted just last month to make sure he could enter the country and he's just moved to a British club. Sorry he's a topical news story and we would have known that.

Worth adding that after the Blanc faggot incident, and his apology, he then recorded himself slagging off a referee during a game he wasn't playing in and ended up with a UEFA suspension.

Poor old Serge. PSG, UEFA and the French police all got it in for him for absolutely no reason at all. Poch's eye will be firmly on him I have no doubt

Sorry didn't know the rule police had decided we can only use Spurs footballers in comparison and so anything outside of our club is of no consequence. I think killing someone is so far away from other things such as a story where a police officer and a footballer have conflicting stories on a minor assault that it's a bit mental to just say everything else is fair game as you have.
I wasn't even defending him in my first post so the 'poor old serge' comment must be for someone else.
You don't get the point as you say but I'm sure others do even if I've not made it perfectly enough.
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