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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Apples and oranges. I am not in a fan service business.
Why would you think athletes don't care about what fans think? What would the reaction be if Rasmus said "I don't care what fans think of me?"
People want some sort of licence to say whatever they want about players, coaches, etc without any negative implication. Sorry, but players are people and if they read that their own fans hate them, it's going to impact at least some of them.
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Once you’re engaged on social media, you’re talking about tens of thousands of fans. Of course some will be critical. If you’re in the public eye at all - an entertainer, actor, athlete - you’re going to hear negative stuff about you. It’s inseparable from why you get paid truckloads of money; if loads of people care about what you do, some will be critical. If you want anonymity, working in the loading dock at Best Buy is a safe bet.
Where it crosses the line is when people make threats and vicious personal attacks. There’s no evidence Andersson has been subject to that. He’s just peeved that some fans think he isn’t as good as he thinks he is and he should be traded. That’s 100 per cent unavoidable as a professional athlete, and getting wound up about it is pointless. It’s like members of Maroon 5 getting bent out of shape on learning some fans don’t like their latest album.
But as others have said, I doubt he’s genuinely upset anyway. He’s just doing the same thing players who don’t get invited to Olympic rosters do, which is use a negative appraisal to motivate themselves.