@Footballtweet Family comes first. Nothing wrong with leaving the World Cup temporarily to attend the birth of your own child. The World Cup is not a "once in a lifetime" gig. Jeremy is 24. He still has time
🚨🗣️NEW: Zlatan Ibrahimović on FIFA’s new mouth-covering red card rule: as Almiron was given a red card for covering his mouth in the game between Paraguay and Turkey
“I have seen football at its highest level, the real football. Not this watered-down version they are serving us now. What happened with Almirón? A straight red card for covering his mouth? This is not football anymore. This is a circus run by bureaucrats in suits who have never felt the fire of the pitch.”
“Covering your mouth is now a red card? What is this, Big Brother on the field? FIFA wants to read lips, punish thoughts before they even become words. Next they will put muzzles on players like dogs. Players cannot even talk, cannot even breathe passion without some VAR robot or referee deciding your emotions are illegal. This is dystopian. Football is dying.”
“This rule was born because some players cry every week. One incident in the Champions League and suddenly the whole world must change. But elbow a man, break his leg, or spit — sometimes you get a yellow and a pat on the back. Two-tier football. Protect the protected, punish the rest. I have played in every league and I have seen it.”
On the softness of the modern game:
“Maradona would be sent off in the tunnel. Roy Keane? He would laugh at the referee and walk off with a smile while the stands burn. Pepe would have collected five reds before half-time. Today? Players are becoming actors, not warriors. They fall, they cry, they hide behind rules. Where is the masculinity? Where is the character? Football is not ballet. It is war. And they are turning it into a polite conversation with red cards as punctuation.”
“I, Zlatan, have scored goals that made stadiums shake and said things that made opponents tremble — without hiding. This generation is being raised soft. If you cannot handle words on the pitch, how will you handle life? FIFA is not protecting football. They are burying it. And one day, the real fans will rise and say: enough. Bring back the game.”
@Kay_du_Bronks@BraceLoading@FabrizioRomano Yes, he's not pulled a Nunez. He's been injured. Nunez never got injured in his first season. Ekitike doesn't miss as many big chances as Nunez. So he hasn't pulled a Nunez. Pulling a Nunez is missing clear cut chances on goal. Ekitike isn't one of those.
@Kay_du_Bronks@BraceLoading@FabrizioRomano It's official, your comment doesn't stand. Ekitike has scored 15 games in far fewer appearances than any of Darwin Nunez seasons at LFC. We have a genuine goal scorer in Ekitike
He hasn't "pulled a Nunez" on us like you falsely and proudly claimed
@khaynadian @BraceLoading@FabrizioRomano Like I said, we are not buying him to score 20-30 goals a season. We are buying him because he is a good ball carrier, he's a link up player, good dribbling, has a high top speed, good passer of the ball. He's going to be like a Firmino type player
@AnfieldWatch Don't bring back. Moreso because he's not that good a defender. But I acknowledge that we are missing his mid-to-long range passes - which also set us on the front foot and allowed us to hurt low blocks with his accurate crosses