Why Neymar is the Kanye West of Football.
2 Artists, probably the best in their generation, also one of the greatest if we consider all time. The similarities between them are uncanny. (1/7)
Here it is.
That Night In Manchester by Aditya_reds
What a game, What a night, What a club.
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PS: This wont be available on YouTube as UEFA has already flagged it for copyright so enjoy it while it lasts on X.
@Jimbobjeffe @ceejay_okay @Mo_utdred Yes, Pidgin English be language o! E get im own grammar and words, no just "broken English." Linguists say e dey valid, especially for places like West Africa where e help plenty people from different tribes talk—like Nigerian Pidgin wey be lingua franca. Some dey argue say e be dialect, but e get structure and even fit turn creole, like Krio. Na proper communication tool wey dey evolve, no doubt!
When you fail to fully develop and ultimately end up losing an asset like Rashford, yes - it’s the club’s failure.
Not necessarily the club’s fault, or not exclusively the club’s fault, but definitely the club’s failure.
A lot of people seem to struggle with this notion, preferring a more simplistic idea of the player receiving huge wages & failing to produce, with the club a passive bystander to this.
It’s what the rage-baiting YouTubers have been telling them, in their never-ending bid to manufacture toxicity, which in turns brings engagement & revenue.
Beautiful irony, isn’t is, that the folks making a living out of producing toxicity, are the ones accusing players of being toxic while making a living.
Why do I mantain that the club must own this as its failure?
1. As a general rule, whether you are a company, a club or any other entity, your try to maximize the assets you have.
If you fail to do so, the failure is yours, regardless of the whats and hows and whys. From the club’s perspective, that’s irrelevant - the end result is what matters.
And if the end result is failing to develop & ultimately losing the asset, then the club suffers the negatives.
It’s not like Rashford is the only asset we messed up with.
2. United obviously didn’t do enough to develop Rashford. His initial promise was greater than the product we ended up with, with only occassional hints of his brilliance.
This is mostly due to constant changes in managers, game models, tactics, roles and duties, but also a good amount of misprofiling and a lack of compatibility with immediate teammates.
When Rashford had a CF and LB he could play with, he usually thrived. When he was used as an attacking outlet, he usually thrived.
3. Rashford - and others players - had to go through countless managers, game models, corporate upheavals, club restarts and other emotional rollecoasters.
It’s been sheer chaos, a maelstorm of constant change, insecurity, fan anger & ferocious anxiety. It’s taken a toll for sure.
4. After his best season at United - ETH’s first one im charge - Rashford’s role was dramatically changed yet again, and his naturally output collapsed.
But all you could read about was his alleged lack of effort and lack of goals, with a complete disregard for changes in the tactical context.
How was he supposed to stay super-motivated? He had just had a dream season and saw his role changed, yet again, in a way that highlighted his flaws and failed to use his strengths.
5. If there had been off-field issues, and there seem to have been quite a few, can you really claim it had nothing to do with the total professional chaos the boy was brought up in?
It’s not like Rashford is completely innocent, but the club did all it could to provide him with a terrible environment to develop, grow and succeed. Over and over again.
Roberto garnacho has slyly removed the account handle from his bio now.
But I checked out TheUTDHQ myself & almost every EXCLUSIVE Matchday squad leak they have dropped, has been on the days when Garnacho starts.
Alejandro Garnacho and his brother are on thin ice at United
a horrifying video
imagine feeling instinctively pulled to do a task. something that goes beyond your personal ambitions, your environment, or your job. something that comes from genetic instructions, placed down there over millions of years of evolution, screaming at you from generations past
now imagine that task being impossible to do in any satisfactory way. the beaver cannot feel the water, cannot find the wood. there are genetic signals to gather items for the dam, but all the beaver can accomplish in the end is a stage three simulacra. what it will create in this artificial environment will forever be lacking in the eyes of their evolutionary instincts
the beaver KNOWS there are unfinished things to do, but it cannot even conceive of what that could be. where is the water? where is the wood? what are these items meant to do? what is the purpose of it all? the beaver does not know. its brothers in the forest do, but that knowledge is forever beyond this domesticated one, who has never even been outside of an air conditioned room
but it continues its toil, because the beaver cannot understand that its evolutionary ordained tasks are useless here. the rules of its environment have changed, but it lacks the faculties to recognize that; i simultaneously pity the creature and see myself in it
This is perhaps overly simplistic but I've always thought it's interesting that coaches love Mason Mount and fans generally... don't. And I think it's almost completely explained by the fact that coaches care about out-of-possession stuff and fans generally don't.
Has me blocked so I can’t quote. But amazing coincidence that the person who apparently impersonated him on what’s app also followed her on IG. Your story isn’t adding up Raj, YOU are a sexual predator.
Marcus Rashford visits my nephews school in Wythenshawe once or twice a fortnight.
He's funded all their books and helps out with money for school trips etc etc.
Never uploads for PR like some slate him for, genuinely a top guy who cares for those less fortunate.