There is a misunderstanding that all footballers have the obligation to play well in the thirties.
The language used tends to make the most of their talent and to wipe the last drop of a short career.
But what about those who are not made like this? What about those whose bodies are different and, more importantly today, whose minds are different? What about them?
Have they failed if they have not yet passed a new land to 32 and 33 years old? They failed in a way WeObservers who expect in a way that they live our greatest fantasies for us until they can no longer run?
Think about this while you read something Jack Grenish told me when I told him about Manchester City closed a triple two years ago.
“I’m going to be honest with you and say that sometimes I don’t like things to be different for me now,” said Grenalish. “I just want to be my normal self. I would like to do whatever I did when I was younger and it’s sometimes boring because I can’t.
Jack Grenise’s goal against Leicester Wednesday evening was his first in the Premier League since December 2023
Grealish found the requirements and rigors of Pep Guardiola’s life a little too demanding during the last and a half season … He is not the first
As I watched him pay an emotional tribute to his late brother on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death, it was possible to see directly in the heart and soul of Grenalish
“Everyone is different. Erling Haaland is the best professional I have ever seen. He comes home and has a point to take away. Sometimes it’s also my choice.
“But sometimes I like to go out and drop my hair. I’m not going to lie and say that I don’t go out. What is the point?
Now we can choose the way we react to that. We can be snowed on this subject and suggest that Grenalish gets its correct priorities.
Or we can recognize the presence of a real human being in the room and all the defects and the beautiful imperfections that come with this. I know which one I choose.
This afternoon spent with Grealish in the spring of 2023 was enlightening. The interview had been postponed at the last minute a week earlier. Then, during the day, it was a little late before whisking in the room in a blur of blue, yellow, green and red which constituted the colors of a fairly extraordinary Gucci tracksuit.
It was a vital force that day. Coming on the wave of good shape and all the confidence and the infectious joy that accompanies him, he presented as he does so often. True, funny, warm and, yes, rather imperfect and perhaps a little vulnerable at the same time.
He was a 27-year-old footballer who knew exactly who and what he was, standing at the top of a mountain that he may suspect would not be to him forever. And that’s exactly what it turned out to be.
Grealish found the requests and rigors of Pep Guardiola’s life a little too demanding during the last and a half season. He is not the first. Its shape has disappeared and therefore, overall, has its place in the Guardiola team.
Grenalish was a vital force, that day … on the wave of good shape and all the confidence and the contagious joy that accompanies him
Grenalish is authentic, funny, warm and, yes, rather imperfect and perhaps a little vulnerable at the same time
This summer, it is likely that it will be sold as part of a clear city of an unprecedented scale
His goal against Leicester Wednesday evening at Etihad was his first in the Premier League since December 2023.
This summer, it is likely that it will be sold as part of a clear city of an unprecedented scale. I said to myself reliably that up to a dozen swimming pools from the first Guardiola team are available for sale, including more than half of this winning team.
Ederson, John Stones, Nathan Ake, Kyle Walker, Grenish, Bernardo Silva, Kevin de Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan. They will not all be sold. Maybe five or six in total. But with the city which planned to add two or three signatures to the four made in January, they will be unrecognizable in part at the start of next season.
Few can say that Grenish guarantees retention. He looks like an intimate footballer in an urgent need for an injection of happiness. You have to hope that he is offered that somewhere, somewhere that his football can again become instinctive and a little less Guardiola-Rigid.
England manager Thomas Tuchel will watch. He said last month that “ i love jack ”, but alluded to the concerns of the 29 -year -old lifestyle and reported a conversation that the two had in which Grenalish admitted a desperate need to play football XI of departure.
Grealish could still come back elsewhere, but if he never reaches the levels he found two years ago and when he is part of the England EURO 2020 team under Gareth Southgate, he can look back a decade which saw him captain of his Aston Villa childhood club, play regularly for England and win everything he could have dreamed of one of the most watched football teams.
When he reported in England Duty to Malta after this successful success two years ago, it seemed that Grenalish was about to become the face of our game in the world. Southgate was not willing to add to this story and, in the end, this burden turned out to be too heavy. Maybe we should not be surprised.
Grealish won everything there is to win in City, in a passage which included the famous triumph of the treble of the club in 2023
He admits that he likes a drink and an evening-is there something really bad with that?
It may be the end of the winning side of the treble, but the Grealish career was not a failure
But as I watched him pay an emotional tribute to his late brother on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of his death on Wednesday, it was possible to see Grealish’s heart and soul directly. And in a sports world where a large part of what we offer is false and beats, it was impossible not to be moved by him and grateful.
Whatever happens now, some will choose to say that he has sub-performed simply because he did not maintain the previous levels.
But given what we know about him and given what he said about himself, is it not quite possible to look back the career of his Grealaish and to say quite the opposite?
Two wrongs, no rights
Two injustices were made at the Merseyside derby.
Match officials and Var did not correctly apply the rules for the reckless challenge of James Tarkowski on Alexis Mac Allister
And the rules of illogical offside allowed the Liverpool striker the Diogo Jota striker to stand
One, concerning the fault of James Tarkowski, was because the officials of the match and the Var did not apply the rules and the other, for the winning goal, because the rules around the offside are illogical.
What hope do we have?
Do you know where you are working, Mauricio?
Angel Postcoglou says that it is not disturbed that Mauricio Pochettino spoke of a return to Tottenham but he has the right to be.
Pochettino talks a lot about Tottenham, but someone else has this work now while the director of the United States national team, he has one.
It’s time for all of us to stay in our ways until something changes.
Mauricio Pochettino should focus on his current job in the American national team rather than talking about Angel Postcoglou
Pep Guardiola should send Phil Foden to the beach this summer and try his luck in America without him
Let phise rest, pep
Manchester City will earn 90 million pounds sterling if they win the club World Cup, but to do this, they will probably have to use Phil Foden.
To what extent would a form adjusted and based on the form of fode would they be worth for the city at the start of the next Premier League season?
90 million pounds sterling are a just price to pay for this? Exactly. Pep Guardiola should send him to the beach and try his luck in America without him.
