Now that the congratulations have whistled down a little, let me give some context. (Read to the end.)
A regular Master’s can cost anywhere from €1,000 to €20,000+ a year, depending on the country and school. An MBA is a completely different beast.
My IESE MBA costs €114,000 in tuition alone. About ₦185 million.
That’s why many scholarships that fully fund regular Master’s programmes (tuition, living expenses, travel, etc.) either cap their MBA funding or exclude MBAs altogether.
Chevening, for example, provides funding for Master’s programmes, but caps its MBA tuition contribution at £22,000.
Erasmus Mundus specifically funds Joint Master’s programmes, not MBAs. (don’t wreck them 😅)
So when you see someone willing to put over €100,000 into your education, it is a BIG deal.
And when I said I received a 100% scholarship to IESE, I meant exactly that. My scholarship covers 100% of my €114,000 tuition fee.
What it doesn’t cover, however, is my living expenses. So I’m sorting out rent, food and everything else myself.
Which brings us back to my “Blessing Private Placement” exercise from months ago. You remember? 😅
Yes, people actually subscribed.
That was largely to help me fund the living-expense side of this journey. A number of people here have known about my MBA since then because I privately sent them my proposal.
I haven’t completely figured out the living-expense part yet, but I’m positive I will.
The hardest part has been solved. I got here, and my tuition is fully covered. Now I’m just figuring out how to live here.
And since it’s public now, I feel comfortable attaching the original fundraising exercise for anyone who wants to see it, laugh at the audacity of it all 😅, or feels compelled to add their quota.
Link➡️:
https://t.co/mbDtT9zVUW
I fi(na)lly understand leg day now. I be(lie)ve I’ve reached a new level of discipline.
This is growth. I fi(na)lly get it, I have now embo(die)d true strength. (I) will (de)finitel(y) keep pushing
I want my first job at a professional football club to be one where I can help them identify talents across the world. Identify players to be signed at a low price, then after few years, they sell high.
Like what Brighton, Benfica, Dortmund, and the likes do.
Elliot Anderson was 20 years old when I made this tweet, and he was playing as a winger sometimes, in fact, I thought he would succeed as a winger. See me saying Saint Maximin won’t be missed.
He wasn’t even a starter, but every time I watched him, I just knew he was a baller. There was something about him. Without even playing much games, Nottingham Forest coughed out £35m for him.
People wondered why Forest would pay that high for an unknown player or someone who’s not proven anything. Same Elliot Anderson was sold for £116m to Manchester barely 3 years after.
The person that signed Anderson from Newcastle is called Ross Wilson, he was Forest’s chief football officer (he’s at Newcastle now), same man that signed Van Dijk from Celtic to Southampton for £13m when he was Director of Football Operations there and sold for £75m. He’s known for identifying hidden “value”. Signed Elanga for £15m from Man U, Elanga went for £55m to Newcastle.
Ross Wilson also signed Bassey from Leicester for less than £250k, sold him for over £20m. It was a free transfer, but they had to pay training compensation, I’ve written about that before, you can search my tweets.
These are the kinds of people I want to work under, I’ll offer so much value because I watch so many games, I travel too, and I can tell a good player easily, especially players that probably don’t have those G/A stats that everyone is looking at. I look at what everyone are not paying attention too.
I can help such clubs Identify very good players that low value, and in future, they can sell them high.
Time and chance. I’ll get my moment.
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