That might be true but that clip is absolute cringe and captures the essence of Vinicius: someone who is simply delusional and has zero awareness of himself. Out
Only player in the world defenses have to commit 3 players against, it’s one of the not so subtle signs the guy is head and shoulders above the rest of his “peers”. Teams are willing to let Mbappe score if they believe sticking to the game plan is the way to get results, but make no mistake the game plan is stopping Vinicius. Scandalous that Mbappe doesn’t have better goal stats given the giant black hole Vini single-handedly creates in defense by sucking them out to the wing and worse than that is the dropped points and inconsistent with outright bad team performances when they are effectively playing 10 v 8. Really wasted slot if time going down dead end streets with the whole Xabi fiasco, handling of the Carlo situation and of course the mother of all meltdowns Flo being denied Mbappe transfer from PSG then doubling down and gambling away the whole house on him when he wasn’t needed any longer and the team only needed defenders fit a sustained run as the most dominant team in the world instead becoming a one trick pony of a team that has made intentionally itself completely and totally dependent on a tap in and penalty merchant for goals and the result us Pichichi’s instead of la Ligas.
Vinicius saying the team will win against City if the fans support the team. That's the accountability you demand. When the team doesn't do well, sorry, you just didn't clap hard enough. Also said he's at the peak of his career, which is something I very much agree with. This is who he is. You can disagree on what that means, but this is not some "dip", it's the standard.
For someone who had to work so hard to “belong” at RM and play with Benz, he sure has lost his way. Very out of touch.
The club president made statements like "if you don't think he's the greatest player in the world, you don't understand the sport", so he's been perfectly in line with what the club has represented for the past few years. Ronaldo and Messi started this "if anybody else wins I'm not going" nonsense and we've reached a point where every guy we'll forget 5 days after he retires feels like that's the right thing to do.
You're angry at him for trying to motivate the fans to get behind the team? Now all of a sudden the fans aren't creating atmosphere? Now they don't will teams to victory? Now they have no impact? Man you guys hate everything and are against everything even common sense when it comes to certain people. What should he have said? "We are missing 3 of our 3 best players who are attackers and we have no organization in midfield and we are ravaged by injury at CB so guys if you're coming.. you're going to watch an absolute drubbing but calmate because in the end you can ignore all of these details and just blame everything on me!" I just look and laugh.
He could motivate the team by inspiring them with his performance. That's how that usually works. Along with not being a huge girls blouse, but that's not changing overnight.
Difference is Ronaldo and Messi made the difference every week and were the best players be far. The problem with Vini is he’s not them but has their attitude.
Tommorow is to be or not to be for Vini.Either he puts a great performance against City and earns a new contract or Perez will sell him
Unfortunately Vinny could have a complete howler and he will still get an extension. I’ve come to stage of grief, that acceptance of his new contract is certain at this point.
Given our financial situation (which is not disastrous), Perez needs to renew Junior regardless of his performances just so he doesn't leave for free. Bind him to a 2-3 year contract then sell him, that's the likely scenario. My favored scenario is that we get a good offer for him after the WC and ship him out (with his cultists). Win-win for all parties.
🚨🗣️ Eden Hazard: “Vini Jr? I think Vini is someone who loves football, who wants to play football, and just enjoy, just like I was on the pitch.When we talk about Vini, we talk more about what he goes through than what he does on the pitch, because people tend to forget what… pic.twitter.com/XHKTIX1Ia1— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) March 11, 2026
Poor guy, playing a game, earning millions. What a horrible fate. Currently, with everything that's going on around the world and what people have to do to survive daily, you have to be a complete idiot to even believe that this is some kind of heavy burden.
This makes me angry. Do I think people all over the world have it much worse? Absolutely. I would rather be Vini than a kid in South Sudan, Palestine, Tehran, or Ukraine? Of course. But because someone somewhere has it worse or a person makes a lot of money, we should conclude that you'd have to be a complete idiot to think it's a burden to be consistently racially abused at work? Be called a monkey? Face that constant implication that people like him are lower on the evolutionary tree? Have effigies of yourself hanging from a noose from bridges in your city? Then pick up a paper or turn on the TV to hear accusations that you provoked it. That's ridiculous. No one should have to go through that and it's the type of thing that money can't totally insulate you from. Can some people just shake it off? Probably. But I don't think it's right to judge someone being sensitive to it either. Especially when the constant lip service responses and commentary reinforces the message that people of Vini's origins are second class citizens no matter how much money they make and if they don't want to be called subhuman, they need to only dance to the tune that white Spain tells them to. Considering leaving a job due to a hostile work environment is relatable to lots of people, not just those living in the absolute most marginal parts of society and the world. Hazard isn't saying that we should consider Vini worse off than war refugees; he's just saying that the abuse weighs on him and it would make sense for him to retire and not have to deal with it anymore.
He is privileged. Part of the 1%. I don't care what Hazard says, regular people have to deal with a million more issues than a star football player. An immigrant with a regular job struggles to find an apartment, a rich football player buys a house with his own movie theater and indoor basketball court. If you can buy 99% of your problems away, I don't have any time for it. People suffering in hallways of public hospitals to get a tumor removed, meanwhile a football player is rushed to the finest doctor on the planet because he had an ouchy. Hazard himself is delusional, so it really doesn't surprise me. What Vinicius experiences on the field is the tip of the iceberg, the ability to find employment, purpose and your place in a society that tries it's best to push you out is far far bigger than anything a football player will ever face on the field. Let's start being adults at some point.
Just another and the latest example if the genius that Vinicius is, which I think is a thing (how smart he is) too often overlooked when talking about him - but what a standard he has set. This is a guy that’s not all flash and puts his energy into bringing substance. Very smart, well thought out and contrived out of modest appreciation of the importance the public is to the club as an institution and demonstrating their mutual interests with the players. Some will argue it’s not true, but in a time when fascism has become fashionable again he is standing up to and taking on institutionalized racism almost all by himself and carries that burden quiet gracefully while continuing to show with rebuke that when he’s on form no body anywhere in the world comes anywhere close to being such a decisive player. Anyway he's carrying the load for half a billion worth of elite attcking talent with even the fourth wheel of the trio out injured so hopefully he can come up with another one of those epic performances where having Vinicius is like having extra player (or 2) advantage.
Can you not see that "My life has no financial worries" and "I am mentally affected by getting racially abused at work" aren't mutually exclusive? They are two separate things. Money buys a whole lot, but it doesn't ensure mental health, and if that's not there, a basketball court and movie theater isn't going to solve the problem. I've known a lot of very rich people, and depression and scars of bad social interactions are common for them too even if you think that they don't have "real" problems. I totally agree with money solving a lot of stress - medical ones in particular as I live in the US. But Vini's job is to play football, not serve as a punching bag for Spain's latent racism. You can't just be like "Well, he gets paid well to tolerate it. He should do so happily." It just doesn't work like that with mental health, especially surrounding things like racist abuse. Hazard isn't suggesting that Vini's treatment should be the UN's top priority. He's just saying that Vini is hurt deeply by people constantly calling him subhuman, and so he wouldn't be surprised if he decides to retire to avoid it. Unless he has invested unwisely, he's got enough money to live comfortably for life already.
Modern racism is a side effect of capitalism. Anyone who is mad about racism but loves capitalism is either an idiot or a hypocrite.