Welcome to the world of pressure.
I watched Nicholas Anelka’s documentary recently, and I’ve also watched Gareth Bale’s interview on STF, one thing is common and both players suffered from it.
They weren’t used to the pressure. In Barcelona or Madrid, one newspaper is dedicated to reporting about Barcelona, Gary Lineker explained this in details, the media will eat you up, they’re in your houses, they’re in restaurants if you go out to eat, they’re everywhere and you have zero privacy.
Gareth Bale said he didn’t want the frenzy, he just wanted to play football and go home, and that made him an enemy to the media, he did not know how to handle the media attention, he dared not have a bad game, they’ll kill him in the papers, it started to affect him.
Anelka said at some point, he decided to be friends with the media because they were killing him everyday and he was not scoring at Madrid. He said he visited Marca’s office and they did some advert for a video game. The next day, there was a picture of Anelka on the front papers with him playing a game, they captioned it “Anelka can’t score in real life but score in video games”😂😂😂😂 (something around this).
Rashford has put up about 30 G/A and he’s been “heavily” criticised. This is because of the standards at this club. Imagine Mbappe being top scorer and his fans are whistling/booing him for different reasons, and this is because of how the media has portrayed the whole issue. Vini won 2 UCLs for Madrid and they booed him so much this season, he started crying.
Again, welcome to the world of pressure. The best things are bare minimums over here. Lamine is the star, and you must follow 😂
🚨💣 BREAKING: Anthony Gordon to Barcelona, here we go! Official bid accepted now by Newcastle board and Saudi owners.
€70m fixed fee plus add-ons to bring final package over €80m for
#NUFC.
Gordon set to travel this week for medical and contract signing at FCB. 🔵🔴✈️