the whole "rigged for Argentina" online discourse is a great case study on how the general population is frighteningly easy to manipulate with simple propaganda. and how it's especially effective on the less educated, or "casuals"/"larpers"
This was Enzo after winning the Club World Cup. I don't believe that this relationship is unfixable. Am I going to listen to YouTubers with an agenda or the work I see from him on a weekly basis? Make him feel appreciated, be ambitious. Fix the squad. Convince him to stay.
Bellingham is the Tiktok reel player, never runs effectively nor controls the midfield, he just makes some useless runs for the highlights and scores some rebounds
Jude Bellingham has mastered the art of looking busy on a football pitch. The casuals love it, the analytics guys love it, I see through it. He is not elite in any sense of the word, closer to a Leon Goretzka than a Pedri or a Musiala. A 3/10 on his best day. Overrated.
Japan are the most “I had you niggas shook tho” team in World Cup history. They’ll set the tempo, take the lead and then somehow end up losing anyway.
Belgium 2018. Croatia 2022. Brazil 2026. Every four years it’s the same script