let's stop arguing from vibes and put the records side by side.
JOHN TERRY 🆚 RIO FERDINAND
Premier League:
• Appearances:
Terry 492
Rio 504
• Goals:
Terry— 41
Rio — 11
• Assists:
Terry— 12
Rio — 8
• Clean sheets:
Terry 214
Rio — 188
• Titles:
Terry 5
Rio— 6
• Matches won:
Terry 311
Rio 291
• Clean-sheet %:
Terry 45.2%
Rio 38.4%
• Win %:
Terry 63.2%
Rio 57.7%
• Points/game:
Terry 2.11
Rio 1.95
• Goals conceded/90:
Terry 0.81
Rio 0.98
Individual recognition:
• PFA Players' Player of the Year:
TERRY 1 🆚 Rio 0
• PFA Team of the Year:
Terry 4 🆚 RIO 6
• FIFPRO World XI:
TERRY 5 🆚 Rio 1
• UEFA Club Defender of the Year: TERRY 3 🆚 Rio 0
• UEFA Team of the Year:
TERRY 4 🆚 Rio —0
• World Cup All-Star Team:
TERRY 1 🆚 Rio —0
• PFA Team of the Century:
TERRY 1 🆚 Rio —0
Major trophies:
• Premier League: Terry 5 🆚 RIO 6
• Champions League: 1 🆚 1
• FA Cup: TERRY 5 🆚 Rio 0
• League Cup: 3 🆚 3
• Europa League: TERRY 1 🆚 Rio 0
Combined PL + UCL + FA Cup + League Cup:
TERRY — 14
RIO — 10
clean sheets by a defender:
Terry 214.
Rio 189.
Terry has more clean sheets, more goals, more assists, more PL wins, a better clean-sheet percentage, better win percentage, more points per game, three UEFA Defender of the Year awards, five FIFPRO World XIs and a PFA Players' Player of the Year.
Rio, this is not even close. He's miles ahead. You're one of the best no doubt but Terry is the greatest.
THE BOOK OF ENOCH - The Entire Story
The Book of Enoch is one of the most controversial texts ever left out of the Bible. Written more than two thousand years ago, and said to have been composed by the ancient scribe Enoch, the only man in the Book of Genesis who never died, it tells of a world before the flood, when two hundred rebellious angels abandoned heaven to take human wives, when their monstrous offspring, the giants known as the Nephilim, ravaged the earth, and when a single man was carried to the ends of creation and shown things no other prophet had ever seen.
Rejected by the early Christian church in the fifth century and lost to the western world for over a thousand years, the Book of Enoch was recovered by chance in the eighteenth century in the mountains of Ethiopia, where it had been preserved by the Ethiopian church since the fourth century. Its authenticity was finally confirmed in 1947 with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, where eleven separate manuscripts of the book were found among the ruins, the oldest of them written two centuries before the birth of Christ. In this video, we tell the entire story of the Book of Enoch from beginning to end.
The fall of the Watchers. The rise of the Nephilim. The great flood that was sent to wipe them from the earth. The journeys of Enoch to the ends of the world, to the mountain of the dead, and to the throne of God himself. And the extraordinary history of how a book left out of the Bible was lost, rediscovered, and finally returned to the world.
Nearer, My God to Thee
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
yet in my dreams I'd be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;
all that thou sendest me, in mercy given;
angels to beckon me
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise,
out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
so by my woes to be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Sarah Flower Adams (1841)
Nah God go punish you for giving us the hope that you cannot maintain
I didn’t Stan you but I see you as one of the player that will represent this team for so long🥹
If I said I wasn’t disappointed in you nah lie.. but it’s what it’s
That’s how you choose to live your life🖕
🔜 John Terry: “I’ve never seen a group of individuals follow one person, like we did we him.”
Eden Hazard: “You have him as manager you know you’re going to win”
Mourinho. Coming soon on @Netflix …
This will be Special.
Everyone is focusing on the £117m transfer fee.
But the real story is the contract.
Chelsea paying him £135k/week, with bonuses that could take him up to £200k/week is exactly why this recruitment model works.
While other clubs mostly pay players based on what they might become, Chelsea pay players for what they currently are and reward them for what they can become.
As a finance guy, we call this an "asymmetric risk-reward structure". which means there's little to lose and a lot to gain.
Rogers gets long term security, while Chelsea protect their wage structure.
Most importantly, they're giving him the platform to bet on himself.
The better he performs, the more he earns.
Simple and Sustainable imo.
Here's how some of the Premier League's biggest transfers were paid upon arrival:
• Grealish (Man City)- £100m - £300k/week.
• Anderson (Man City) - £116m - £250k/week.
• Declan Rice (Arsenal)- £105m -.£240k/week.
• Wirtz (Liverpool) - £116m - £200k/week.
• Antony (Man Utd) - €100m - £200k/week.
• Enzo (Chelsea)- £107m- £180k/week.
• Caicedo (Chelsea) -.£115m - £180k/week.
• Mudryk (Chelsea)- £89m - 100k/week.
• Morgan Rogers (Chelsea)- £117m - £135k/week.
Notice the pattern?
Yes, Chelsea are willing to pay £100m+ transfer fees.
What they aren't willing to do is pay £250k-300k/week contracts before a player has proven he's worth it.
That's why Enzo is currently negotiating a new deal today.
Just prove yourself and earn.
🗣️ Ferdinand: How do you reflect on your time at Real Madrid?
Kaka: I came from Milan from to be the best player in the world to play for Real Madrid and if you Google today the worst acquisition of Madrid, I will be the first you will see on the list 💔