yr in love & u go

saliba really was holding the entire country together

i’m sorry oderice genuinely drive me INSANE. if we put the past 2 years aside and just start with this season it’s still crazy. what if you were quite publicly getting lambasted by the majority of your fanbase for being too shit of a player to be captain and your fanbase was propping up your teammate instead and pulling apart videos of your team interactions to use as evidence of why he would make a better captain than you. and you see the social media posts about it, and you know he does too, and it gets so loud your manager has to publicly address these rumours in press conferences. and you get injured and have to sit out for like 2 months and in your absence this guy who has PUBLICLY SAID he would love to captain arsenal if anything ever happens to you THE YEAR HE JOINED and is most definitely licking his chops thinking about it turns in a generational run of performances and pretty much bails your team out of situations. and you come back from injury and HE HAS TO PUT THE CAPTAIN ARMBAND ON YOU when you get subbed on but you can’t quite get into a rhythm and the murmurs don’t settle. and then something clicks for you and you score your first goal in forever and as you celebrate in front of 60 thousand fans he grabs you and keeps gesturing at you to the crowd to signal that he’s behind you as the captain all the way. and you don’t even know how much of it is genuine or performative, planned or impulsive, because it’s such a public gesture but what you do know is that this guy is calculative about his public image and how he’s perceived. and so you don’t quite know what to make of that but in the next match when you’re going to shoot he shouts for the ball and you being you you pass the ball to him instead and end up assisting him for his goal. and he finds you in the celebrations with a genuine joy on his face and you both embrace in a way you haven’t since he first joined two years ago and things were simpler and suddenly for a moment it all looks like it’s going to work out. well this happened to my good friend martin odegaard