We always, always, always fall short. I have thought about it on many occasions, when someone (I have never talked about money, among other things because I have never had a contract in my hands or been allowed to see it) publishes that this or that player wins 35 million clean euros per yearI have always thought that I earned more.
Why? Because if a media outlet says that I earn 35 million clean euros a year and it is not true, that is, I earn much less, I file a complaint that causes panic. Therefore, when we publish that so-and-so earns 35 million clean euros per year, it is because, in effect, he earns 35 million clean euros per year or because he earns much more. I insist, otherwise, they would take us to court.
We always, always fall short. And the proof has been the reaction of Miguel Angel Sanchez ‘Michel’coach of Gironato the alleged information that indicated that the portero croata Dominik Livakovic had not played as a starter in the disastrous match Copa for a technical decision. Once again we fell short. He didn't play because he refused to play.
I hope Michel one day dares to tell the truth about what is happening to Girona this year, with the same forcefulness that he has told about the 'Livakovic case'.
And the magnificent and very complete response that Michel outlined before the journalists to explain what had happened demonstrates, in effect, that we are millions of kilometers away from everything that happens in the catacombs of a football team and, of course, we do not know even 2% of what happens, why it happens, how it happens and how much (or little) the coaches, the weakest part of this whole shebang, have to put up with.
That's why the best thing we can do is not believe them. Not because they lie, that too, but because they will never tell us the truth. This time, we have found out the truth, the real truth, which is a real scandal (nothing new for us: footballers, all of them, are tremendously selfish), because the coach was interested in explaining it to show that it had not been a technical decision. I wish Michel would explain, with such tremendous sincerity and forcefulness, everything that is happening to Girona this year.
MÃchel, coach of Girona. / THE NEWSPAPER
And not just Michel, no. It is possible that that is “lie”, “garbage”with which Hansi Flick resolved the dispute whether Lamine Yamal whether or not he was late for activation training on the day of PSGhave, in a few years (or months), a very different reading and let us know the true truth of that episode.
And Xabi Alonso?
Or someday Arne Slot I ended up telling how egipcio Mohamed Salahin his time, in his day, not so long ago, the star, the myth, of no less mythical Liverpoolbecame the bad guy of the movie and he, Slot, ended up removing him from the team. I insist, always, always, we fall short and we only know 2%, at most, of the film.
or how Luis Enriquefirm in his convictions, whether we like it more or less, he is the 'fucking master' of PSG, he has won the Champions League without Kylian Mbappé and he didn't start crying when the tremendous French scorer, who never won the European Cup with the rich Parisians, he decided, after seven years, to go to Real Madrid.
I hope one day Xabi Alonso finishes up the balls of Florentino, 'Vini', Valverde, Bellingham and tells how and why the white locker room is making his bed. It would be very healthy for football.
And I won't even tell you the day that Xabi Alonsosomething that will never happen!, ends up to the balls of the Florentino Perez, Vinicius Junior, Valverde, Bellinghamall the stars in the Real Madrid locker room and explain, really, how the footballers who, according to him, are on his side and support him one hundred percent, made his bed. Yes, yes, fixed. What's more, it shows a lot, a lot: two victories in the last eight games.
It would be great if coaches, as long as, as is the case with Michel, Slot o Luis Enrique have the full support of your sports director, president o ownertell us the truth about everything that happens inside your locker room.
As long as that does not happen, which does not happen (almost) never, we will continue chasing deep throats that put us on the path of what is happening. And, of course, we don't always get it right. And, of course, they don't always dare to deny you as forcefully as Michel just did. By necessity, of course. I was fed up with this Livakovic guy. “A good kid, yes, a very good kid,” added the 'mister' from Madrid. And so much.
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