Ronan Mullen

And he was brilliant in that spell.

Yeah, that's why he played until he was almost 40.

It's like...

For some, football is a vehicle for a lavish life and it facilitates these post-football careers where people can just hang out with your Tom Cruises or in the UK scene, just be a celebrity for celebrity's sake.

Whereas he was on the grind, like he kept playing.

And yeah, I think when he stopped playing, he lost a little bit of that relevance and he was never going to go into coaching.

Like you can't imagine Beckham ever being a manager.

So that's where that was all parked.

And yeah.

Maybe not.

The LA Galaxy thing was a moment in time for him, I'd say, where he thought, okay, I'm ready.

I've done the football thing.

I've won everything.

I'm fine now.

I'll just go right off into the sunset.

And he just had this immediate existential crisis.

Yeah.

Worked his absolute socks off, got back at that Real Madrid team.

So much so that there was like a, is it too late to roll this back?

And the MLS were like, no, you've signed like 11 different contracts.