It's money, nothing else but money. Saints do not pay big salaries so footballers being mercenaries in the main will sniff out the golden apple.
Ok, if Lambert is only on 40k at Livertool he is the exception, but most of them will spout boll*cks about wanting Champions league football, or I supported them as a kid, or it's my spiritual home, or I want to develop my career, or I want to enhance my chances of playing for my country, it is all utter guff.
Why dont they just fekin come out with it, their 50% tax deduction only leaves them with 100k per month, the wife wants another sprog and we need at least a 1mil house, the sponsors are only giving me a basic Range Rover Sport and I want the top model so I will have to pay for it and the wife can have the basic one, a footballers career is very short and I need at least 5mil to live on once I retire because I am too thick to do anything else.
Love saints hate football.