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I dont think people really understand what he is going through and the amount of pressure he would be under. Having everyone in your ear about what to say, who to be seen with, who to endorse, whos hand to shake, who not to be seen with. Not the mention how volatile the muslim world can be and he is under so much pressure to get it all right, all the time. When all he really wants to do is play football.That video on the other page says otherwise re cheating, and he regularly whinges to the refs. I mean, he's hardly alone in that regard, but come on, he clearly does. The selfish thing is more a perception admittedly that I've got from him and I've seen other people talk about on the socials. Take the penalty thing with Milner in the Cardiff game for example.
As for the dictator thing, I don't really want to go over old ground because it was covered to death in the World Cup, but, at absolute best it was a taciut endorsement and a terrible look to be photographed with Kadyrov.
Agreed, it's complicated. And there would be a lot of pressure on him as one of the biggest poster boys of the Muslim world. I accept that. That doesn't necessarily excuse him, as I think you acknowledge in this post, but it is a grey area, absolutely.
The guy is certainly not a campaigner. Always happy and smiling, I mean he even has built a project in his home town to help the people of his home town completely at his own cost. The project includes an Al-Azhar institute and an ambulance unit, both at about LE18 million or so.
I just think he's a superstar footballer, humble, super nice, under a bazillion microscopes and under untold pressure from the Muslim world and yeah he goes down easy. I feel for the bloke.