90% of Footballers Are Just Surviving: Sunderland’s Luke O’Nien Gets Brutally Honest (E431)

I think ninety percent of players are in this survival state. You take a touch. and it goes wrong. You start to hear the groans, you know, I can I can feel it in my body now. You don't just move yourself, everything you have to like pick everything up. It's heavy. I got a phone call. from my agent. Sounded interesting. And I was like, I was starting the midfield, got hooked at half time, one nil down. The manager said it was for tactical reasons, which is a polite way of saying you were crap. I remember I used to get in before anyone would get there. I'd get in the pool, do the gym.

And then as people would arrive, got on my phone in the toilets just trying to avoid that social. side of it, trying to protect myself, knowing that I've just had that Bad experience. How long were you wounded for, do you think? I think everybody needs therapy. Yeah, yeah, like

It's just So Well I always think you're on Croiff years ago saying every player should have their own individual coach. He was saying this like twenty years ago, like every player should have an individual coach there.

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