Daniel Negru

24 years young / BJJ Brown Belt 🥋/ training and coaching out of SBG Ireland / Owner of EMERALD GW

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

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[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

This is insane! DARE I SAY the most STAR-STUDDED Ad there’s ever been?

So many that I had to watch it a couple of times to catch them all haha quality 🎥

[Nike @Nike]

It was all going to plan until instincts took over…

Rip The Script

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

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[Daniel Hussey @DanielHussey2]

World Cup Fixtures & Irish Kick-Off Times:

Thursday 11th June:

20:00 - Mexico vs South Africa

Friday 12th June:

03:00 - South Korea vs Czechia
20:00 - Canada vs Bosnia & Herzegovina

Saturday 13th June:

02:00 - USA vs Paraguay
20:00 - Qatar vs Switzerland
23:00 - Brazil vs Morocco

Sunday 14th June:

02:00 - Haiti vs Scotland
05:00 - Australia vs Turkey
18:00 - Germany vs Curaçao
21:00 - Netherlands vs Japan

Monday 15th June:

00:00 - Ivory Coast vs Ecuador
03:00 - Sweden vs Tunisia
17:00 - Spain vs Cape Verde
20:00 - Belgium vs Egypt
23:00 - Saudi Arabia vs Uruguay

Tuesday 16th June:

02:00 - Iran vs New Zealand
20:00 - France vs Senegal
23:00 - Iraq vs Norway

Wednesday 17th June:

02:00 - Argentina vs Algeria
05:00 - Austria vs Jordan
18:00 - Portugal vs DR Congo
21:00 - England vs Croatia

Thursday 18th June:

00:00 - Ghana vs Panama
03:00 - Uzbekistan vs Colombia
17:00 - Czechia vs South Africa
20:00 - Switzerland vs Bosnia & Herzegovina
23:00 - Canada vs Qatar

Friday 19th June:

02:00 - Mexico vs South Korea
20:00 - USA vs Australia
23:00 - Scotland vs Morocco

Saturday 20th June:

01:30 - Brazil vs Haiti
04:00 - Turkey vs Paraguay
18:00 - Netherlands vs Sweden
21:00 - Germany vs Ivory Coast

Sunday 21st June:

01:00 - Ecuador vs Curaçao
05:00 - Tunisia vs Japan
17:00 - Spain vs Saudi Arabia
20:00 - Belgium vs Iran
23:00 - Uruguay vs Cape Verde

Monday 22nd June:

02:00 - New Zealand vs Egypt
18:00 - Argentina vs Austria
22:00 - France vs Iraq

Tuesday 23rd June:

01:00 - Norway vs Senegal
04:00 - Jordan vs Algeria
18:00 - Portugal vs Uzbekistan
21:00 - England vs Ghana

Wednesday 24th June:

00:00 - Panama vs Croatia
03:00 - Colombia vs DR Congo
20:00 - Bosnia & Herzegovina vs Qatar
20:00 - Switzerland vs Canada
23:00 - Morocco vs Haiti
23:00 - Scotland vs Brazil

Thursday 25th June:

02:00 - Czechia vs Mexico
02:00 - South Africa vs South Korea
21:00 - Curaçao vs Ivory Coast
21:00 - Ecuador vs Germany

Friday 26th June:

00:00 - Japan vs Sweden
00:00 - Tunisia vs Netherlands
03:00 - Paraguay vs Australia
03:00 - Turkey vs USA
20:00 - Norway vs France
20:00 - Senegal vs Iraq

Saturday 27th June:

01:00 - Cape Verde vs Saudi Arabia
01:00 - Uruguay vs Spain
04:00 - Egypt vs Iran
04:00 - New Zealand vs Belgium
22:00 - Croatia vs Ghana
22:00 - Panama vs England

Sunday 28th June:

00:30 - Colombia vs Portugal
00:30 - DR Congo vs Uzbekistan
03:00 - Algeria vs Austria
03:00 - Jordan vs Argentina
20:00 - Round of 32

Monday 29th June:

18:00 - Round of 32
21:30 - Round of 32

Tuesday 30th June:

02:00 - Round of 32
18:00 - Round of 32
22:00 - Round of 32

Wednesday 1st July:

02:00 - Round of 32
17:00 - Round of 32
21:00 - Round of 32

Thursday 2nd July:

01:00 - Round of 32
20:00 - Round of 32

Friday 3rd July:

00:00 - Round of 32
04:00 - Round of 32
19:00 - Round of 32
23:00 - Round of 32

Saturday 4th July:

02:30 - Round of 32
18:00 - Round of 16
22:00 - Round of 16

Sunday 5th July:

21:00 - Round of 16

Monday 6th July:

01:00 - Round of 16
20:00 - Round of 16

Tuesday 7th July:

01:00 - Round of 16
17:00 - Round of 16
21:00 - Round of 16

Thursday 9th July:

21:00 - Quarter Final

Friday 10th July:

20:00 - Quarter Final

Saturday 11th July:

22:00 - Quarter Final

Sunday 12th July:

02:00 - Quarter Final

Tuesday 14th July:

20:00 - Semi Final

Wednesday 15th July:

20:00 - Semi Final

Saturday 18th July:

22:00 - Third Place Play Off

Sunday 19th July:

20:00 - Final

All games live on RTÉ.

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[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru What’s the benefits of a Revolut business account?

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru Fantastic!

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

Incredible watch!

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

Before this conversation, I thought I understood Bruno Fernandes.

I knew the numbers. The goals, the assists, the leadership, the criticism he’s faced over the years at Manchester United.

But I didn’t understand the mentality behind it.

Bruno has arguably become United’s greatest player of the post-Ferguson era, carrying their creativity season after season.

He’s won more club player of the year awards than Ronaldo, and only five players have scored more than his 70 league goals.

So I went to Manchester United Training Ground to ask him questions the footballing world wants to know.

Bruno spoke about growing up in Porto, watching his father sacrifice his own football career to provide for the family. He told me his dad never praised him for scoring goals. Instead, he’d point out the small things he still needed to improve.

And somehow that mindset shaped one of the most resilient athletes in world football.

We spoke about:

- Why he believes character matters more than talent in elite teams.
- How dressing room culture determines whether talent succeeds or fails.
- Why taking risks is essential if you want to create anything extraordinary!
- His honest opinion on pressure and why he thinks it’s a privilege.
- His thoughts on having Michael Carrick as a manager.
- Addressing Roy Keane’s criticism.

When you listen to Bruno speak, you understand that what makes him exceptional isn’t just technical ability. It’s his standards.

The standards he holds himself to.
The standards he expects from teammates.
The standards he believes define culture.

I really respect how Bruno chose to join United during instability because he believed in rebuilding something meaningful rather than joining an “easy” project.

I saw a much softer and more thoughtful side of Bruno that I don’t think people will expect. So, thank you Bruno for taking the time to sit down with me and for being so vulnerable.

Even if you don’t care about football, there’s a huge amount to learn from this conversation about leadership, resilience and high performance.

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

Facts! People don’t like to mention him because of lack of ‘trophies’

Bruno is a legend of a baller and will go down as one of the best the league as ever seen. No doubt

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Premier League history will remember Bruno Fernandes as a legend of the game.

He'll be one of the few to sweep FWA Footballer of the Year, PL Player of the Season & PFA Players' Player of the Year - only Henry, Ronaldo, Rooney, Bale, Suarez, Hazard, Kante, Salah, Haaland & Foden have done it.

For seven years (& counting) he's been one of the best players in England & Europe, he's now also undeniably the best player in the Premier League. By tomorrow, he might hold the assist record all to himself.

Add that to five Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year awards, 106 goals & 107 assists for Manchester United & you're looking at one of the best players in recent football history. And he's not done yet either.

👑

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

Super fascinating stuff. A sub 2 hour Marathon 🤯🤯

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas.

Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours.

Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count.

Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024.

Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds.

Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it.

The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record.

Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas.

Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours.

Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count.

Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024.

Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds.

Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it.

The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record.

Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru @ZeMariaMacedo 💪🏼💪🏼

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru Looking good bro 😆

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@_onlyscott Vitinha

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru Cool. Any idea to know if it’s Diesel or Petrol lol

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

1000% have been eating big dirty combo bowls for lunch and dinner the last 6 months and have never felt better!

[Rob Lipsett @RobLipsett]

Gains are made with slop bowls 🥣

[Rob Lipsett @RobLipsett]

Gains are made with slop bowls 🥣

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru Quick 5 min shower and your on your way! Fresh and clean

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

What a fascinating idea! Is there any airport în the world that has a gym? Surely somewhere? Middle East?

[Gary Brecka @thegarybrecka]

Would you workout in a gym in the airport if they existed??

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru Awh cmonnn, imagine flight gets delayed 2 hours… hmm cheeky gym sesh to release those feel good endorphins

[Daniel Negru @daniel00negru]

@TimurNegru Hope so! 🤧