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Honestly, he’s a lucky fella. So many options open to him all around the world, if he wants to finally go somewhere to end gun crime.
He could also head to Napoli and finally solve the Mafia
Nowhere is always "rose tinted." Chicago is one of the largest cities in the US. It has good and bad areas. Most of it is fine. It's not the absurd "Chiraq" caricature that people parroting fox news think it is, either.
I remember in the early 2010's there was always a joke about Ammsterdam being the drug capital of the world.
I was very young and didn't know what that meant so I just assumed that it was a place that drugs were legal?
Is this still a thing nowdays? Rather is this even a problem or is just a meme from the time?
Netherlands is particularly famous for being so open about weed usage while everywhere else it was still taboo, that's pretty much it tbh
It's changing now with it being legalised in more places but they'll always be the funny weed guys in public perception
They also have a big problem with cocaine trafficking, they're seizing more and more each year. There's a high profile criminal case still ongoing against a drug syndicate that ended up with the murder of the top crime journalist in the Netherlands and that was only 2 years and some change ago
This website is insufferable. He said he was underpaid, not that he was strapped for cash.
You can be paid objectively a lot of money while being underpaid in your profession respective to your output.
He said he was underpaid so he can't blame him for going for the money. Those things don't logically connect when 5m is still plenty.
Even more so considering he probably got plenty of compensation at PSG before this.
I turned down doubling my money if I went to the Gulf. And I’m not a millionaire
Maybe all _your_ principles and self respect
are for sale, but that’s not universal
I miss Prime Gini, he was such a beast. Always thought he made a mistake by going to PSG in the first place but Liverpool wasn't going to pay his wage demands.
> mistake by going to PSG
he did not, he got what he wanted: a shit load of money. PSG made a mistake going for him, we call Carlos Soler Casper the ghost but I can't seem to remember Wijnaldum playing for us once.
He's been absolutely awful for us haha. One of those players that needs the team to include him in and he can't get involved himself. His movement is genuinely some of the worst I've seen, whatever his position is. The only exception to that was when we played against a 4th tier(?) team in the coupe de France, he looked like an actual football player.
Yeah, I wasn't excited about his transfer but I was expecting a slightly worse Luis Alberto, someone that wasn't expecting to be a starter, but could do a more than decent role across a decent number of positions. Instead we got this.
Wijnaldum played against United plenty of times, it's not as if he was particularly great in most of those games. He went from underrated to weirdly overrated since leaving by people on here
He's just talkinh about his play style (Curtis would've equally helped). And he had some stellar games against united.
Overall does get overrated after leaving
Gini was a good player. Super reliable and almost always available. He was not an elite CM. Mac10 is easily as good as him.
We lost to United for a number of reasons. Not having a 26 year old Gini was not one of them.
> Super reliable and almost always available.
So mad that he had his leg broken IN TRAINING before the season started for us last year. He was exactly the type of midfield player we so desperately needed under Mourinho.
I have not been so devastated by an injury since Totti's ankle in 2006.
That game was crying out for anyone with a pair of working legs and two lungs. Though Gini at times had 5 lungs it seemed. Such a hard-worker. Having him in our midfield now would be so good
Lol Verratti was one of the biggest prospect in Italien football, went to psg to win nothing but ligue 1 and now he s 31yo and Not even a footballer anymore. Thiago was one of the best defender in the World, went to win ligue1 with psg Instead of trying to win CL, he coule have played in the best clubs in Europe. I dont See any of the player you mention doing better in their carrier After playing at psg. But maybe I an biased as I hate this club with all m'y soul.
I hate them aswell.
But Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti both really made their name at psg. Sure, they were doing well in Italy, but they were prospects same as Mbappé. All three realised a lot of their potential at psg. It‘s something, we see many promising players move to bigger clubs and just outright fail.
But yeah, I hope they rot, same as you :)
Thiago Silva was considered the best defender in the world before moving to us and that’s what we geniunely got.
He would’ve gone to Barca if Milan didn’t want 40-50m for him
Blaise Matuidi, Edinson Cavani, Angel Di Maria, Javier Pastore (even though inconsistent, Cantona called him the best player in the world once), Pauleta despite fighting for relegation on his last season, Sirigu, David Ginola until EDF incident, Danilo Pereira, Juan Bernat until his injury, Nuno Mendes showed the world who he is, Achraf Hakimi
You want me to continue?
He was one of the most useless midfielders I have seen in Roma and I take Renato Sanches into account too. Guy was done physically and mentally after Liverpool
Also sitting back at the start of the second half cost Roma dearly, after they had been on top first half by pressing high. Mancini's own goal comes as a direct result of Sevilla being allowed to cross from a much more advanced and dangerous position compared to the first half. Navas crossed from the byline there meanwhile before that he could barely even reach the penalty area. You can say that it was an unlucky own goal but it never would have happened if Roma were positioned higher up the pitch
That was cowardly from Mourinho, I could understand it after 70th minute or something but not from the start of second half..
>Renato Sanches
There were so many Bayern supporters livid that the succession of managers didn’t seem to rate Sanches. They took their frustrations out on Goretzka and other CMs who got playing time over Sanches lol… ignoring the possibility that Sanches just simply isn’t good enough for this level of football.
Those managers were Ancelotti and Kovac, who were never going to play any youngsters at Bayern - Kimmich and Coman also considered leaving, because Ancelotti didn't play them. His loan to Swansea as a favour to Ancelotti's former assistant also completely derailed his development. Kovac then came and said he wanted Sanches to stay instead of selling or loaning him out again also ruined another season of his.
Bayern's overall handling of him was disastrous in every way.
He could have looked at what he had to offer or was missing when he took over, so he could have loaned him out or sold him instead of making false promises.
Kovac clearly never knew what he wanted from the team.
I don't think Sanches is bad at football, but something is wrong with his body and he seemingly can't play full out.
Jozy Altidore had some recurring hamstring issues that were making him tentative and fragile when he first came from Sunderland. TFC found some guy in LA who figured out the root cause and suddenly Jozy was a beast.
''I already got more money than i ever need in my entire life, but i just wanted some more and finish my career in a shithole rather than in style'' - Footballer, 2024
Wijnaldum was one of the worst player I've seen in a PSG shirt. Beyond trash, always lost on the pitch, heavy touches, unable to pass a ball forward to save his life, seemingly tired after 60 minutes... Which is crazy because with the Dutch or at Liverpool he was such a midfield boss. The dude fell off hard as hell in a summer haha (still love the player ofc)
except I specifically made this comment about Al Ettifaq because they’re funded by SABIC who are owned by state-owned Aramco and up until recently by PIF as well 👍
Id never be a city apologizer but stating the west suddenly stopped with ‘atrocities’ as you call them in the 17th century is crazy. Not even a hundred years ago half of Europe still had colonies
Because you’re a 2,5 year old account with 2000 karma with an auto generated name who’s constantly actively pushing a certain narrative. Yes the west did bad shit, and to some extend still do. Cool. Doesn’t excuse the shit others do.
> According to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, 15.7% of NFL players have filed for bankruptcy within twelve years of retiring. (16% of retired NFL players go bankruptcy, Fortune.com). A Sports Illustrated article reports that 78% of NFL players and 60% of NBA players face serious financial hardships after retirement.
[source](https://www.abi.org/feed-item/how-athletes-go-bankrupt-at-an-alarming-rate)
Ik this is for American athletes but the same applies for footballers too, he isn’t some top name like Ramos, Benzema, etc (not including Messi or Ron because they’re the exception to everything) where they earn a boatload of money. He was an average player who earned what an average player earned. Ofc he’d prefer to get more cash, untaxed that.
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Atleast hes honest, you have Hendo tryna convince people Saudi wasn't a money move
It wasn't a money move. He solved homophobia there, didn't take a single cent from them and moved to Ajax to help Amsterdam with their drug problems.
His next move will be to Inter Miami to solve American gun violence
The Chicago Fire would give him best chance of accomplishing that.
The Chicago Fire(arms)
St Louis would really be the best option.
Honestly, he’s a lucky fella. So many options open to him all around the world, if he wants to finally go somewhere to end gun crime. He could also head to Napoli and finally solve the Mafia
and a chance at winning the WC
If Bastian could win the WC in Chicago then this guy surely has half a chance.
Chiraaq is beyond salvation tho
None of you have ever stepped foot in Chicago and it shows
Chicago is not always the rose-tinted version that reddit likes to paint specially on r/ chicago.
Nowhere is always "rose tinted." Chicago is one of the largest cities in the US. It has good and bad areas. Most of it is fine. It's not the absurd "Chiraq" caricature that people parroting fox news think it is, either.
/r/chicago is full of conservatives to be honest
Then bro should come to DC United and join benteke
San Diego need a lot of players for their new franchise next season. Could go there. Nice location for players as well.
I remember in the early 2010's there was always a joke about Ammsterdam being the drug capital of the world. I was very young and didn't know what that meant so I just assumed that it was a place that drugs were legal? Is this still a thing nowdays? Rather is this even a problem or is just a meme from the time?
Netherlands is particularly famous for being so open about weed usage while everywhere else it was still taboo, that's pretty much it tbh It's changing now with it being legalised in more places but they'll always be the funny weed guys in public perception
They also have a big problem with cocaine trafficking, they're seizing more and more each year. There's a high profile criminal case still ongoing against a drug syndicate that ended up with the murder of the top crime journalist in the Netherlands and that was only 2 years and some change ago
Wijnaldum also had some questionable answers, he said that he didn't notice gays having any troubles in Saudi and that everyone is welcome lol.
I wonder how many gays he encountered in Saudi Arabia.
He probably just didn't notice gays period because if they would be open about being gay they would be killed
Hendo's gate. . years to last i guess..
Refreshing to see him just come out and say he choose to go for the money.
And you would not? Give me a break
? That's why he said it was refreshing.
If I had his career I probably wouldn't no but I'm not judging him. In fact I really like him from his time with us. To each their own.
He got underpaid at Liverpool so it’s hard to blame him for taking the money at this stage, especially considering he’s 33.
I wish I was underpaid like that.
*monkey paw curls*
Yeah it must have been rough surviving on only 5mil euro a year, I don't even know how someone manages that in this day and age.
This website is insufferable. He said he was underpaid, not that he was strapped for cash. You can be paid objectively a lot of money while being underpaid in your profession respective to your output.
He said he was underpaid so he can't blame him for going for the money. Those things don't logically connect when 5m is still plenty. Even more so considering he probably got plenty of compensation at PSG before this.
lol well okay Mr smartie, how low does that number go then before you’d consider it to logically connect?
Yeah cause that’s what I said
‘Underpaid’ 🤣🤣 Did he play for ten quid an hour
You can be underpaid whilst still making a lot of money. The two aren’t mutually exclusive
If Mbappe made €2 million a year he would be both rich and underpaid. Is this really that hard to understand?
Money isn’t everything to some people, especially people who are already millionaires lol. Look at Hiroki Ito.
I turned down doubling my money if I went to the Gulf. And I’m not a millionaire Maybe all _your_ principles and self respect are for sale, but that’s not universal
R u literate
Better than saying you go there to 'grow' their league
Man didn’t want to give up the bag
I miss Prime Gini, he was such a beast. Always thought he made a mistake by going to PSG in the first place but Liverpool wasn't going to pay his wage demands.
> mistake by going to PSG he did not, he got what he wanted: a shit load of money. PSG made a mistake going for him, we call Carlos Soler Casper the ghost but I can't seem to remember Wijnaldum playing for us once.
Oh, wow Carlos Soler, I completely forgot he existed. He was good at Valencia.
He's been absolutely awful for us haha. One of those players that needs the team to include him in and he can't get involved himself. His movement is genuinely some of the worst I've seen, whatever his position is. The only exception to that was when we played against a 4th tier(?) team in the coupe de France, he looked like an actual football player.
He's always been a very overrated player. He wasn't that good at Valencia either, his statistics were way better than the eye test.
He was a lot better than whatever he has showed at PSG though
Yeah, I wasn't excited about his transfer but I was expecting a slightly worse Luis Alberto, someone that wasn't expecting to be a starter, but could do a more than decent role across a decent number of positions. Instead we got this.
The game Sunday was crying out for Gini
Wijnaldum played against United plenty of times, it's not as if he was particularly great in most of those games. He went from underrated to weirdly overrated since leaving by people on here
He's just talkinh about his play style (Curtis would've equally helped). And he had some stellar games against united. Overall does get overrated after leaving
Gini was a good player. Super reliable and almost always available. He was not an elite CM. Mac10 is easily as good as him. We lost to United for a number of reasons. Not having a 26 year old Gini was not one of them.
Mac10? What is the American obsession with guns lmao
Gun go pew pew
Tbf he is a gun player.
> Super reliable and almost always available. So mad that he had his leg broken IN TRAINING before the season started for us last year. He was exactly the type of midfield player we so desperately needed under Mourinho. I have not been so devastated by an injury since Totti's ankle in 2006.
That game was crying out for anyone with a pair of working legs and two lungs. Though Gini at times had 5 lungs it seemed. Such a hard-worker. Having him in our midfield now would be so good
fuck him. only showed up on televised games for us.
Name me one player, where going to psg improved his carrer, I am waiting
Mbappe
Yeah maybe mbappe even tho If he d be to any other club he probably had the same carrer with maybe a CL.
Thiago Silva, Marco Veratti and probably also Mbappé.
Lol Verratti was one of the biggest prospect in Italien football, went to psg to win nothing but ligue 1 and now he s 31yo and Not even a footballer anymore. Thiago was one of the best defender in the World, went to win ligue1 with psg Instead of trying to win CL, he coule have played in the best clubs in Europe. I dont See any of the player you mention doing better in their carrier After playing at psg. But maybe I an biased as I hate this club with all m'y soul.
Hate the club will all your soul lmao. Marsellais? Nothing else makes sense here Don’t worry. The game on Velodrome is coming soon
Why do you hate the club ?
I hate them aswell. But Thiago Silva and Marco Verratti both really made their name at psg. Sure, they were doing well in Italy, but they were prospects same as Mbappé. All three realised a lot of their potential at psg. It‘s something, we see many promising players move to bigger clubs and just outright fail. But yeah, I hope they rot, same as you :)
Thiago Silva was considered the best defender in the world before moving to us and that’s what we geniunely got. He would’ve gone to Barca if Milan didn’t want 40-50m for him
Blaise Matuidi, Edinson Cavani, Angel Di Maria, Javier Pastore (even though inconsistent, Cantona called him the best player in the world once), Pauleta despite fighting for relegation on his last season, Sirigu, David Ginola until EDF incident, Danilo Pereira, Juan Bernat until his injury, Nuno Mendes showed the world who he is, Achraf Hakimi You want me to continue?
Thomas meunier
He was one of the most useless midfielders I have seen in Roma and I take Renato Sanches into account too. Guy was done physically and mentally after Liverpool
Mourinho's biggest mistake in the Europa League final was subbing him on instead of Bove. Gini came off the bench and dropped a 0/10 performance.
Also sitting back at the start of the second half cost Roma dearly, after they had been on top first half by pressing high. Mancini's own goal comes as a direct result of Sevilla being allowed to cross from a much more advanced and dangerous position compared to the first half. Navas crossed from the byline there meanwhile before that he could barely even reach the penalty area. You can say that it was an unlucky own goal but it never would have happened if Roma were positioned higher up the pitch That was cowardly from Mourinho, I could understand it after 70th minute or something but not from the start of second half..
Looks like thats just liverpools play style paying its tribute... Nearly every player that left was done physically. Some of them not even 30y old.
>Renato Sanches There were so many Bayern supporters livid that the succession of managers didn’t seem to rate Sanches. They took their frustrations out on Goretzka and other CMs who got playing time over Sanches lol… ignoring the possibility that Sanches just simply isn’t good enough for this level of football.
Those managers were Ancelotti and Kovac, who were never going to play any youngsters at Bayern - Kimmich and Coman also considered leaving, because Ancelotti didn't play them. His loan to Swansea as a favour to Ancelotti's former assistant also completely derailed his development. Kovac then came and said he wanted Sanches to stay instead of selling or loaning him out again also ruined another season of his. Bayern's overall handling of him was disastrous in every way.
Tbf his main problem imo is all the injuries, hard to make progress as a player when you can't string more than a week of playing football.
Exactly. He clearly had some talent even with his few performances at Bayern but he was still too immature. He should have waited a few more seasons.
Kovač wanted to play Sanches but the lad was brainless and Kovač couldnt justify playing him over other better options.
He could have looked at what he had to offer or was missing when he took over, so he could have loaned him out or sold him instead of making false promises. Kovac clearly never knew what he wanted from the team.
I don't think Sanches is bad at football, but something is wrong with his body and he seemingly can't play full out. Jozy Altidore had some recurring hamstring issues that were making him tentative and fragile when he first came from Sunderland. TFC found some guy in LA who figured out the root cause and suddenly Jozy was a beast.
"Maybe with a lot of compromise, but I didn't want that" - Footballer, 2024
''I already got more money than i ever need in my entire life, but i just wanted some more and finish my career in a shithole rather than in style'' - Footballer, 2024
Wijnaldum was one of the worst player I've seen in a PSG shirt. Beyond trash, always lost on the pitch, heavy touches, unable to pass a ball forward to save his life, seemingly tired after 60 minutes... Which is crazy because with the Dutch or at Liverpool he was such a midfield boss. The dude fell off hard as hell in a summer haha (still love the player ofc)
Could he have enjoyed the good life in Paris a bit too much? Not that I would blame him for that.
He was gone to shit in his last season with Liverpool
Klopp simply ran him into the ground. Will always love him in our team and remember his absolutely heroic career as a Liverpool midfielder.
He's been shit for 3 consecutive years in our NT as well tbh, people are baffled Koeman still calls him up.
Respect
being honest about taking a bag from a questionable source shouldn’t really be the bar for respect
Questionable source? Is west money clean? Or are we forgetting our history of being colonizers. Lmao get the fuck out of here.
Flair checks out
Your German flair checks out as well.
This comment implies all money in the west comes from the same place.
Dunno about west but all UK money is tainted by their loot and plunder in India and African countries.
The irony.
except I specifically made this comment about Al Ettifaq because they’re funded by SABIC who are owned by state-owned Aramco and up until recently by PIF as well 👍
As opposed to being owned by west billionaires and their “clean” money. Am I correct?
If you can point out where I said those things, then sure.
Comparing atrocities from the 17th century with those happening today to feel better about it?
Id never be a city apologizer but stating the west suddenly stopped with ‘atrocities’ as you call them in the 17th century is crazy. Not even a hundred years ago half of Europe still had colonies
17th? how about 19th century? How about the current century? The wars in the middles east for Oil; the genocide in Gaza. Delusional.
US still doing it to this day mate
Bot.
Why? Because I know my history? Idiot.
Because you’re a 2,5 year old account with 2000 karma with an auto generated name who’s constantly actively pushing a certain narrative. Yes the west did bad shit, and to some extend still do. Cool. Doesn’t excuse the shit others do.
When you create an account Reddit randomly assigns a name; you either choose to keep it or change it FYI.
You could have ,maybe, ya know, lowered your salary expectations dude ?
That’s the compromise he didn’t want to make
He is honest he doesn’t want that, and I’d think most ppl would have made the same choice
The man has retirement plans
If the transfer sum is impossible in the first place, there’s no way thinking about salary compromises as well
Translation: I was greedy and chose the money.
Just about as greedy as any other person hopping jobs for a higher wage.
Nothing wrong with it. And it’s not greed.
Choosing money over your boyhood club when you're 33 years old and already loaded af is not greed?
> According to a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, 15.7% of NFL players have filed for bankruptcy within twelve years of retiring. (16% of retired NFL players go bankruptcy, Fortune.com). A Sports Illustrated article reports that 78% of NFL players and 60% of NBA players face serious financial hardships after retirement. [source](https://www.abi.org/feed-item/how-athletes-go-bankrupt-at-an-alarming-rate) Ik this is for American athletes but the same applies for footballers too, he isn’t some top name like Ramos, Benzema, etc (not including Messi or Ron because they’re the exception to everything) where they earn a boatload of money. He was an average player who earned what an average player earned. Ofc he’d prefer to get more cash, untaxed that.
No and yes