🚨 Jose Mourinho on Bruno Fernandes being named among the 30 Ballon d’Or nominees:
🗣️ Reporter: “Surprisingly, Bruno Fernandes has been included among the 30 nominees for the Ballon d’Or….”
🗣️ Mourinho: “Sorry. Surprisingly?”
🗣️ Reporter: “Well, considering Manchester United didn’t win…”
🗣️ Mourinho: “No, no. You said surprisingly. When somebody tells you water is wet, are you surprised?”
Bruno broke the Premier League assist record. He was Premier League Player of the Season, PFA Players Player of the Year, Football Writers Player of the Year. How many times must football tell you the same player was very good before you believe football?
If you tell me Bruno should not win the Ballon d’Or because another player won the Champions League, okay. Then we are discussing team success.
But this is a list of 30 footballers.
If the Ballon d’Or was judged only on individual performance, Bruno wouldn’t be hoping to enter the top 30. The other 29 would be hoping to finish above him.
So my friend, your English is better than mine. Explain ‘surprisingly’ to me, because now you have made me surprised.”
The real story here is that (a large number of) Sub-Saharan Africans are perfectly capable to complete Western degrees, yet are locked down the social hierarchy for no other reason than the immigration control