The Swedish striker Alexander Isak was rebellious, publicly criticizing Newcastle, and affirmed that the breakup was the best for all. In the past, many football stars also made aggression with the host team just because they wanted to leave.
The relationship between the Portuguese star, Cristiano Ronaldo and coach Erik Ten HAG of MU became tense, after CR7 did not obey the command to enter the pitch instead of MU's 2-0 victory over Tottenham in October 2022. This led to Ronaldo's then eliminated from the lineup with Chelsea. Ronaldo's rebellion before leaving MU moved to Al-Nassr culminating, with the words attacking the Red Devils shocked the public in an exclusive interview with journalist Piers Morgan.
In 2021, striker Harry Kane deliberately ignored his request to return to the Tottenham headquarters, after the summer vacation with his family in Caribbean. The relationship of Kane and Tottenham was very stressful. Despite “agreeing” to let Kane leave in the summer of 2021, Tottenham swallowed his words when he continuously shouted at Man City. Finally, because Man City retreated and the price was too high, Kane pityed to stay in Tottenham. It was not until the summer of 2023 that he agreed to leave Tottenham to Bayern.
Dimitar Berbatov also had a rebellious curtain causing loudness during his time still wearing Tottenham. At that time, Sir Alex Ferguson made Tottenham President, Daniel Levy uncomfortable with public comments about Berbatov. The coach emphasized that MU has reached an agreement and Berbatov will sign a contract with the Red Devils. But at the beginning of that season, there was no progress in the negotiation and the deadlock made Berbatov depressed, leading to rebellion when he refused to play in the matches against Sunderland and Chelsea. After that, Berbatov finally achieved his wish when he joined MU on September 1, 2008.
One of the former teammates of Berbatov in MU, Tevez also controversial through the rebellion. It is reported that the Argentine striker was asked by coach Roberto Mancini to “Back to Argentina” during the time in Man City. Strangely, Tevez did so, just a few days after he refused to enter the bench in the match against Bayern Munich. The consequence is that Tevez is then suspended. It took two months for the striker to return to Manchester, and helped Man City to improve the Premier League championship, despite previous controversies.
Raheem Sterling has rejected many contracts to extend the contract from Liverpool, when starting to be pursued by Man City. When the Anfield's home team said “no” in releasing himself to Man City, this winger even had instant reactions. Specifically, Sterling is determined not to attend Liverpool's tour, to force The Kop to let him go. The British player later arrived in Man City, won 4 Premier League titles, before joining Chelsea last summer.
Dimitri Payet brought excitement to West Ham fans, when scoring from a series of melancholy free kicks. But in 2017, the French midfielder was determined to return to Marseille and refused to play for the London team. This makes coach Slaven Bilic stunned. And the Croatian teacher has no other way for Payet to return to Marseille as expected.
The Algerian winger, Riyad Mahrez helped Leicester make a miracle with the 2015/16 Premier League championship. But in January 2017, Mahrez turned himself from the hero position into a rebellious man, because he wanted to leave before the sought after Man City. Mahrez was crazy when Leicester rejected the Green Man's offer. He refused to practice and was later fined 2 weeks before returning. It was not until the summer of 2018 that Mahrez left the “fox” to move to Man City.
MU has been controlled with many contracts with Marcos Rojo from Sporting Lisbon. The reason is because the Argentine defender refused to practice to force the Portuguese team to let him join the Old Trafford team. Many Sporting Lisbon fans have bitterly saying that Rojo is so rebellious because it is somewhat due to MU, excited!?
Defender William Gallas had a walk that made Chelsea suffer with a rebellion in 2006. The French player said that the Blues did not pay for him, so he decided to leave. But the request from Gallas was rejected by Chelsea. The defender then strikes and shocked with the announcement of his own goal if he stayed at Stamford Bridge. Finally, Gallas moved to Arsenal in an agreement to exchange for Ashley Cole.
After the legendary Petr Cech, Chelsea expect Thibaut Courtois to become “blocking” in the goal for at least 10 years. Everything went quite smoothly until Real Madrid appeared in the summer of 2018. The Belgian goalkeeper arbitrarily quit the Chelsea's training session to ask the Stamford Bridge team to agree to let him move to the Bernabeu in early August 2018. Not only that, Courtois also made Chelsea “bloody” with the bad talk of the London team after wearing Real Madrid.