You can order something expensive lowkey wanting to surprise your folks(maybe a nice modern car)… Let’s say it takes 2 months to arrive
In a typical African home, if you happen to lose a family member before that car arrives. . .
Isolenu 101.
Just coming online and everywhere don scatter😮💨
“Ehen.. So guys.. The girl in question reached out to me in 2021.. Even before she met Blaqbonez & Odumodu”
Let’s not conclude yet till we hear VDM’s side of the story 🙏🏻
There was a December 2024 article on @TheAthleticFC that laid out Pep Guardiola’s obsession with football.
The article started this way:
“Pep Guardiola’s list of symptoms is long and unsettling. He has trouble sleeping. He can only take light meals in the evening. On some days, he does not eat at all. He finds it difficult to read because his mind keeps wandering. He feels, at times, intensely lonely. Things can get so bad that they begin to take on a physical form: bouts of back pain, breakouts on his skin.
“They are not isolated to moments like the one in which the Manchester City manager finds himself trapped, when his team are locked in a tailspin he has spent the better part of two months trying and failing to halt. By his own admission, he is always like that. Guardiola cannot sleep, or eat, or relax even when things are going well at work.
“Manel Estiarte, perhaps Guardiola’s most trusted confidant, used to call it the “Law of 32 minutes”. Estiarte had spent enough time with Guardiola to calculate precisely how long his friend might last talking about another subject — literally any other subject — before his mind wandered back to football.”
He told his friend, Luca Toni that he no longer digests food properly and revealed how lonely he becomes after games.
Coaching is strenuous. It’s extremely stressful. You have long shifts. Guardiola said he resumes 8a.m everyday. I once read that Emery did 7a.m-7p.m when he wanted results to improve at Villa.
The main issue is that Guardiola and others like him who’re obsessed with anything aren’t able to stay away from it for too long.
Something must give. He’s made a hell lot of money. He’s famous, and is generation-defining, but all that never come for free.
Broken body, broken heart, broken home. I call it the torture of triumph.
You’re victorious yet you’re deeply vacuous — shorn of yourself in pursuit of essence.
That’s the life.
What Rooney hasn’t admitted in his obviously humble submission is how difficult many professional footballers find basic decisions.
Rooney simplifies every thing. He’s never complicated. Passes when he should. Runs when he must. Shoots when he has to.
I’ve seen a few complete footballers and he’s one of them. I admired him a little too much. He’s top, top tier.
What made him special was how good he was at doing simple things, and the consistency he showed while doing them.
Rooney could do it all. If he had a pompadoured hair or a flowing hair, he’d be sung of a lot more.
Eshin buruku.
Competition will break you, at whatever level you do it.
At elite levels, something has to give. Guardiola was drained. He gave everything including himself.
I want a documentary of those consecutive seconds of Mikel Arteta too, and how he eventually succeeded.
The cycle of elite humans, their highs and lows are eye-opening.
And it’s not just football.
Watching Drive to Survive opened my eyes to how high those stakes get at that level. You are on autopilot. You’re forced to adapt.
Anything otherwise gets you out of the system.
You guys don’t understand the financial gap between the premier league and other leagues.
The gap is so wide.
A newly-promoted team can spend £200m, a newly promoted team I repeat.
This is the interview I referenced.
Listen to Ollie Watkins describe Konsa.
He said he judges an attacker if they can dribble past Ezri Konsa😅, that is to tell you he’s very difficult to play against.
By the way, Konsa is also good on the ball. He’s not a gbau gbau defender.
This is actually very good recruitment.
I love players who learn from their mistakes even in the game. Real time learning.
Abdel Kerim had similar chance earlier, but he played it low and the goalkeeper saved it. This time, he raised it.