And if he is absent-minded? So what?
Einstein was also extremely absent-minded, many great humans are.
Even if someone is proven to be unreliable in his PRIVATE sphere, it doesn't mean ANYTHING related on a football pitch.
It is just a broad generalization.
I played with footballers, also trained footballers who were quite much unreliable in private but on a football pitch, they were the most meticulous, precise and reliable players in a team.
I can even state that the more easy going players are the better ones.
What you are trying to suggest is not true, it is not general and it is unethical.
If any European, no matter how underprivileged their background, in this day and age struggles with learning English, they are failures at life. No joke.
In Croatia they expect from 1st graders kids to already know the basis of english. At the same time they don't expect them to know to write.
how the fuck would that possibly work
.... but mastering it is not because it has LOTS of exceptions, irregular forms and idioms and a TON more different words than the average language has because of its mixed heritage (Latin, Norse, French etc.).
Don't be so full of yourself (example for an idiom). Picking up basic English is easy enough but mastering it is not because it has LOTS of exceptions, irregular forms and idioms and a TON more different words than the average language has because of its mixed heritage (Latin, Norse, French etc.). Sure it's no Japanese or something but in this day and age (another one!) it seems people (esp. the youth) seem more likely to forget how to use their own language properly than to master another language!
I don't get living somewhere and not learning the local language at all. People like Bale and Dembele come across as really ignorant, if not dumb. At least Dembele should be WILLING to try and learn Spanish, after all, he didn't want to go back to France either so what the fuck!
Another point: I never had a single A in English in my entire school career! I only really properly learned English AFTER my school days by watching movies, reading books and of course also playing video games. But Dembele clearly can afford whoever he wants to privately teach him Spanish, so that's not comparable to having bad teachers in school (trust me, I had loads of horrible teachers...) and thus losing any motivation.
We paid 130m for him so when people complain about his unprofessionalism, IQ, inability to speak Spanish I can see why. Of course he's not obliged to do these things, but if he cost 20m and was a squad player fans wouldn't be as frustrated with him.
All we've had so far from Dembele is a handful of world class performances, some shocking performances, some good dribbles, shocking passing, lack of positional awareness, unprofessionalism and injuries. That's unacceptable for a 130m player.
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Why does Vidal hate Dembele?
He needs to stop pushing conspiracy theories.
This agenda against Dembele is getting out of hand. Valverde is holding him back and he isn't getting any real chances.
We know nothing about his behaviour of the pitch and it clearly isn't influencing him at all on the pitch. Fake news by SPORT and MD.
Probably racism to be honest.
Just wait for an injury free season and he will win the Ballon D'or!
How do people have it in them to be so fecking negative and toxic all the time?
Aye.
140m down the drain, zero return on investment and problems with professionalism.
But excuse me for not being optimistic. Guess I am just too entitled. I should just be grateful for when the player comes to training on time during the weeks he is not injured. I am so sorry.
Mercilessly taking the piss out of Rakitic, a player we bought from Sevilla for 20m who went on to be a very good to serviceable player for the club for a half decade is totally the same thing! He has declined with age and is on his way out soon, but he still deserves to be treated like dirt!
Also claiming to be supporter of a club while actively cheering for losses to get rid of the manager also clearly pales in comparison to the atrocities I am committing.
I apologize for my toxicity. I would like nothing more than to see Dembele somehow turn his career around here and become a world class player, but surely that is too negative. Maybe I should openly start stating a new desire for him to further fail miserably despite it being terrible for the club because wishing for failure is just what real fans do!