2023-10-30 19:14:13
“I didn’t come to lose these types of games”he said, as soon as the game against Real Madrid finished, Ilkay Gundogan. And then he came to say that there were teammates of his for whom it seemed that defeat against their greatest rival was neither coming nor going. “I want to be honest but without going overboard” and “emotions have to come out when you lose” were two other phrases uttered by the German footballer of Turkish descent that will go down in history. Result? Well, except perhaps here, absolutely everyone is praising Gündogan at this time and criticizing the culé locker room very harshly… except for Ter Stegenwho had a funeral face that reached to the ground, Gavi, who they say cried, or Araujo, who did not look particularly happy. What does “I’m going to be honest but not go overboard” mean? I understand that, although a newcomer, Gündogan feels obliged to hit the table because he is 33 years old and is one of the veterans in a team with many young people, but… honest level 5 from 1 to 10? “Honest without going overboard,” he says exactly. I mean, honest without giving names and surnames, right? A kind of honesty that points out to everyone but, however, excludes myself, who is already in charge of making my voice loud in front of a microphone. This is that kind of liberating honesty for the protagonist because, in fact, today people speak favorably of Gündogan, who even scored 1-0, while the rest are literally put to work.
What players is Gündogan talking about? That is another of the great mysteries. Of all? From a handful? Two or three? Today, in the SportPlus of the Chiringuito, Jota Jordi has said that Gündogan was specifically referring to two footballers, but who? Gündogan wants to be honest but without going overboard because he is pointing out things, without discriminating for better or worse, that is, ultimately doing it for the worse. The only thing we know is that he has not come to lose like this and that, therefore, from his words it is deduced that he is very angry. It is, in the end, the most dishonest way possible since, disguised as Mr. Honest, you instantly get journalism to believe that you are upset and others are not and, in the process, you take the opportunity to say that your level is not This one, that you come from a team that has won the Champions League and that they didn’t sign you for this. But, dear Gündogan, why didn’t you say the same thing when Real Madrid eliminated you in the Champions League semi-finals when you were playing for City in a way, if possible, even more surprising?
Gündogan asks for something very surprising and that is that, after a defeat like Saturday’s, emotions emerge, but… only yours or everyone’s? Let’s imagine for a moment that, and for the sake of that emotional cascade that he demands Mister Honest, another footballer tells Gündogan what there are probably many who think right now but do not dare to say in public precisely so as not to make anyone uncomfortable. Because, when he arrived, Gündogan was said to be the best signing in the League, a superstar on the rise, the negotiating ability of the culé sports management was praised for capturing such a pearl of the market and I don’t know how many other things. Come on, Gündogan left Bellingham in tatters. And, four months later, it cannot precisely be said that Gündogan’s contribution is being that of a European champion who earns almost 5 million euros net per season, can it?
Gündogan’s statements are clearly those of a veteran footballer but not in the sense that everyone is saying. Like me and the rest, and I imagine also like many of his teammates, the German knows that he is not performing at the level expected of him and takes advantage of a game in which he scores a goal with great fortune to tell people that He does but the others don’t. They talk about two players, as he said, but it is not Jota Jordi who has to give the number or name of the players but Gündogan himself. You can’t be fifty percent honest, you have to be one hundred percent honest. Either that or you shut up. Or, on the contrary, you do what he did in his day Modric con Livakovic, you take the partner in private and tell him what you think you have to tell him. It is difficult to be totally honest, very difficult. If you are with the other, it can cause problems for you. When I meet someone who tells me “I’ll be honest with you” I run away. There’s no need, really, don’t be so honest with me because you force me to be honest with you too. But I will be honest with you, Gündogan: you scored two goals on Saturday, one on the field for Barça and one off it… for you. Double of those that the referee does not count but of which the fans do. With this you have already justified one million, now you have another four left.
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