Sam Tighe

traditionally people in england like uh ballon d'or you know who cares and like i tell you i don't care about the ballon d'or jules cares about the ballon d'or law however it obviously as jules points out all the time it matters a lot to the players and real madrid and real madrid and in this case real madrid made it seem even more important than the stupid ass award is

How?

By saying, oh, no, no, you've won it.

You've definitely won it.

And then when they find out, no, he hasn't won it.

Then everybody around Madrid, men's team, women's team, Ancelotti's dog, who were also nominated and might have won awards.

No, no, we all stay home.

We get off the private play.

All of a sudden you have made this guy, Vinicius, feel as if he's Messi, Ronaldo, Maradona and Jesus Christ all rolled into one.

Even if you believe that, that is such an unhealthy, illogical way of managing your talent, especially when, and they knew this at the time, they knew Mbappe was coming.

And that to me is kind of like the initial cardinal sin, even before you turn to Chablonzo.

And I agree with you.

Vinicius, or Mbappe for that matter, Mbappe again has improved in that regard, neither of these people are exactly whirling dervishes off the ball, and so it's harder to press, and it's harder for a system coach and whatever else.

But you've already empowered Vini in this situation.

And I also think he's maybe, and I just want to throw this to you, but anecdotally, I know far too many Real Madrid fans

I would say most of them don't particularly like Vini.

And from the start, they said, if the choice is Vini or Mbappe, I choose Mbappe.

Is the Saudi Arabia interest real?

This is the other thing.

Sorry.