After eight seasons with the Lakers, including leading the franchise to the 2020 NBA championship, James departs and enters free agency set to join a new team.
Lakers president Rob Pelinka and Rich Paul spoke a short time ago about the four-time champion's plans, sources said. James chose to inform the Lakers well before start of free agency tonight out of courtesy and appreciation for their run together, and to allow LA to conduct its offseason business.
BREAKING: LeBron James will continue his NBA career for the 2026-27 season and has informed the Los Angeles Lakers that the franchise can move on without him because he will play elsewhere, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul tells ESPN.
No elite coach in his outright senses will make Vinicius the main man of a football club. I repeat no one. Xabi didn’t even try and was sacked. Arbeloa was tasked to make him that guy and he failed, he couldn’t lead. Vini is a Di Maria, A Rashford, an OZIL or maybe an Alvarez. These are support players not leaders of a project.
These guys mentioned are talented but they simply can’t lead. They aren’t that consistent. Yes, they can have moments but it ends there. You make a player who can always step up your main player. For example if Cristiano or Messi is having a bad game and there’s a penalty you expect them to convert. You can rely on them to convert it, Vini on the other hand can’t be trusted with such responsibilities . It’s not about hate or dislike, he simply isn’t that guy everyone is forcing him to be and he knows it. That’s why in one of his interviews he said I’m here to help Kylian score goals.
Off course he knows he can’t handle that pressure of being depended on for goals each game. And that’s exactly why after going 20+ matches without a goal it was accepted. 10 games without a goal from Kylian wouldn’t be tolerated at all, Like Messi or Ronaldo.
The club didn’t want to accept that because they thought he was the main reason why we won the double in 23/24. That’s not true by a mile. Jude, A midfielder was the top scorer in La liga with 19 goals and 4 in the UCL. Vini on the other hand scored 15 La liga goals and only 6 in the UCL. Rodrygo, Joselu and Brahim had their fair shares of goals in that season.
The face of that project wasn’t Vini and he wasn’t the main player that season as well. With 15 league goals and 6 UCL goals you can’t lead a project and that’s why France football didn’t give him Ballon Do’r award, and since then he’s actually shown that he didn’t deserve it, although he promised to do it 10x more whatever he achieved that season.
So those calling on Vinicius to be the main man just calm down, he’s a support player not a main man. I already gave examples of his caliber of players who are clearly ahead of him when it comes to Talent and Achievements but they accepted the support role to enable the main men to deliver without any jealousy or envy.
Honestly I don’t care how anyone responds to this but that’s just the fact.
Xabi’s project was ruined because he wasn’t getting the accolades he thinks he deserved, but after the Cone came in to make him his main man what happened? Ghosts in 8 games and show up in two. That’s not his fault, that’s his level.
Eyes be given to those who should see 💡
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