ostrov » 01 окт 2017, 22:50
Перед матчем МС с чавски, Кайл Уока дал очень интересное интервью Оливеру Кэю для The Sunday Times
( Для чтения нужна регистрация, поэтому скопирую весь текст здесь)
Он говорит, что ему было больно расставаться с Тоттенхэмом, но предложение МС было трудно отвергнуть. Он вспоминает времена, когда деньги в его семье были настолько редким явлением, что их даже упоминать неудобно. Вспоминает весь свой путь, от нелегких времен жизни на Лэндсдаун Эстейт в Шеффилде до своего вновьобретенного статуса одного из самых дорогих защитников в мире. Он никогда не рассказывал эту историю прежде. ( Должен сказать, что Кайл остался человеком и ушел из ТХ очень достойно. Его уход устроил всех и Тоттенхэм навсегда будет в его сердце. Он был честным солдатом Сперс 8 лет своей жизни)
Для тех, кто плохо знает Кайла Уоку, он открывается не как миллионер, а как простой нормальный парень, способный пойти в магазин в трениках и футболке, не задумываясь о том, что кто-то может сфотографировать его в таком виде. Его жене приходится ему напоминать об этом. А он едет с сыном в машине , тот слушает свой любимый бит Шеффилд Юнайтед во время дерби Города Стали. Мальчишка одет во всю форму ШЮ, он знает обо всем. Счет становится 2-2, но потом Юнайтед выходят вперед 3-2 и Кайл начинает орать в машине и давить на гудок как сумашедший, они оба орут от радости. Вот такое нормальное поведение футбольного фана.
Он очень интересно рассказывает о разнице в тренировках Почеттино и Гвардиолы.
KYLE WALKER INTERVIEW
‘It must be horrible to play us. It’s a joy to be a part of’
Kyle Walker tells Oliver Kay that it hurt him to leave Tottenham, but that City were too exciting to resist
Kyle Walker remembers the days when money was too tight to mention. He is reflecting on his journey, from straitened times on the Lansdowne Estate in Sheffield to his newfound status as the most expensive defender in world football, when he plucks something from his memory bank — a story that he feels will make that journey easier to understand.
“I don’t think I’ve ever told this story before,” the £54 million man says, sitting down at Manchester City’s training ground in advance of tonight’s meeting with Chelsea. “When I used to play out on the estate, we used to have these things called verandas — balconies — and when the ice cream man, Chris, came round, all the kids would whistle up and ask their parents for a pound.
“I remember whistling up. All the other kids were having money chucked down and my mum said, ‘I’m sorry, Kyle. We haven’t got a pound.’ She told me we had ice cream in the freezer and I could have one from there instead, but we didn’t have a pound. That was life growing up on an estate. I was never in danger, because my mum and dad always looked after me, but we didn’t have much. They would save money for what was important.”
Walker looks emotional as he says it. He does not do many interviews. He has certainly not spoken at length before about his controversial summer move from Tottenham Hotspur to City. He says he found it hard to take the “negative press” that came after he began to establish himself in the England squad. He is referring, most obviously, to the adverse publicity that arrived four years ago, when photographs of him in a nightclub inhaling nitrous oxide — better known as laughing gas — emerged on the eve of a World Cup qualifier in Kiev.
“That was a difficult one,” he says. “I was sat in Ukraine in my hotel room, playing Football Manager, and I got a phone call saying that was going to come out. The frustrating part for me was that it wasn’t the week prior. It was months earlier, but all of a sudden the pictures had been sold to the paper and that was it. I learnt from it.
“My missus would be the first person to say this about me, but . . . I still sometimes think I’m a normal person. I want to do stupid things. No, not stupid things in that sense, but normal things. I’ll want to walk the dogs at 11 o’clock at night or go down to the shop in my tracksuit bottoms and T-shirt and not have to think about it. My missus will say, ‘Kyle, what if someone takes a picture of you when you’re like that?’ ‘Oh, yeah.’ But I’m just a normal kid from Sheffield that plays football for a living. I want to be normal. I am normal.”
He is — appealingly so. He laughs as he recalls a bit of normal behaviour last Sunday, going berserk in the car with his son while listening to his beloved Sheffield United beat Sheffield Wednesday in a long-awaited Steel City derby. “He’s got a Sheffield United kit and everything; he knows,” Walker says. “Anyway, they scored to make it 2-2, then it went back to 3-2 and I just started going beeping the horn and going mental, the two of us screaming in the car. It was a great day to be a Sheffield United fan.”
Walker has said previously that he would love to return to Bramall Lane to finish his career, but that is just the “normal kid from Sheffield” talking. At 27 he has years at City ahead of him. What is not normal — or did not appear normal at the time — was the fee that City paid for him this summer. “You’re always going to be compared to the fee that someone has bought you for,” he says. “My mum said to me, ‘Are you going to feel pressure?’ I said no, because the fee wasn’t up to me. That was between the two clubs and they decided on the transfer fee. I just came up here to play football. It’s the game I love and that’s all I want to do.”
People will talk about it, though; Gary Lineker described the fee as “mental” before disparaging Walker’s crossing ability. “It’s football in general,” Walker says with a shrug. “With the amount of TV money the Premier League gets, everything goes up. It’s the way of life anyway. Bus fares go up constantly. I’m not comparing myself to a bus fare. I’m just saying that prices go up. It’s just the world. Next season I will probably go up even more and my transfer fee might not get looked at as much. Listen, I know it’s a lot of money, especially for a full back — I’m not daft — but hopefully I can repay the manager and the club for investing in me so heavily.”
How difficult was it to leave Tottenham? “Incredibly,” he says. “They were the ones that gave me my Premier League opportunity. They believed in me. I’m not going to sit here and lie and say it wasn’t tough. It was very tough. Having spent eight years there, that club is in my heart. I’m not going to deny that. Tottenham is in my heart. Those last few months were difficult, though.”
News of City’s interest emerged towards the end of last season and, as it became clear that his head had been turned, things became strained at White Hart Lane. He was left out of the starting line-up for big matches, which as good as made his mind up. “Not starting against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final or the last North London derby at White Hart Lane or the last game there, against Manchester United, having been there for eight years, that hurt,” he says. “Sometimes I feel like crying when I think about it — that I spent eight years there and I’ll never see that place again. It hurts. But I’m a man. I’m a professional. I was encouraging Tripps [Kieran Trippier], wanting him to do well, wanting the team to do well. The gaffer [Mauricio Pochettino] picked the team he thought was best and I had to deal with it. The important thing was winning those games.
“Once I knew I was allowed to leave Tottenham and that I wasn’t as much in the manager’s plans as I thought I was going to be, there were a number of clubs I could have gone to. But when this opportunity came up, to work with the manager here [Pep Guardiola], I couldn’t turn it down. It was football reasons first and foremost. If this was a team that booted it long, I wouldn’t have come because it wouldn’t have helped my game. But after speaking to the gaffer here, knowing the players he was going to bring, I thought this team was going to be a force.”
Walker had expected to be competing for a place with Dani Alves, who was in talks over a free transfer from Juventus. That did not happen, with Alves choosing Paris Saint-Germain instead, but Walker is adamant it could have worked. “It was a . . . good concern, if that makes sense,” he says. “The amount of time I’ve spent watching clips of him on YouTube, how he played at Barcelona and at Juve, to train alongside him day in, day out, watching how he goes about his business, would only have pushed me to achieve better things in my career. It didn’t happen, but Danilo is a fantastic player as well, and a great professional. I’m learning from him and hopefully he’s learning from me too.”
Alves has been one of Walker’s inspirations. Another was Philipp Lahm, who played under Guardiola at Bayern Munich. “They are completely different players,” he says. “I try to take good qualities from both of them. With Lahm it’s the defensive side and the runs that he makes; the timing of his runs was incredible. Alves is more of a winger-slash-full-back, overlapping down the right. Hopefully the gaffer can pass on the information he has learned and I can take bits from them and take it into my game.”
What is Guardiola like? “So detailed,” Walker says. “Everything is detailed. Everything is covered. ‘In this situation, we need to do this.’ His experience and his knowledge speaks for itself.”
And his training sessions? “A different type of training,” he says. “If you had asked me this at Tottenham, there was a lot of gym, running — a lot of volume work, as they call it there. Here a lot of the work is technical. You lose the ball in training here and you’re not seeing it for five minutes. It’s frustrating. I’m losing my head, hunting the ball down, trying to rattle people, but he teaches you just to look after the ball. If we have the ball, the other team are running. After ten minutes it’s frustrating, I can tell you that. It must be horrible to play against this team. It’s a joy to be part of it.”
One of the things Walker expected to miss about Tottenham was the camaraderie between the players. He feels — hopes — to have tapped into something similar at City, where he has developed a very public rapport on Twitter with Benjamin Mendy, the new signing from Monaco. “Benji is a good laugh,” he says. “He doesn’t speak too much English, but he is one of those characters who have really got the team together. His banter on our group chat is brilliant. We all love him. His injury [a knee ligament injury that will keep him out until April] is such a shame.”
The injury to Sergio Agüero, who suffered a rib fracture in a car crash in Amsterdam on Thursday night, was more of a shock. “It wasn’t nice to hear that,” Walker says. “As long as Sergio is OK, that’s the main concern. Football sometimes has to take a backward thought. It’s a lot more about him and his family and sending our best wishes. It’s a blow, with the standard of players we’re talking about, but we’re very blessed to have the squad we have, where someone else can come in.”
Without Mendy and Agüero, plus the influential Vincent Kompany, City will be severely tested at Stamford Bridge, where Walker will have to curb some of his attacking instincts in order to try to keep Eden Hazard quiet. “When you come up against that type of player, you have to be A1 defensively,” he says. “That’s my main job, as a defender. If I can get forward, that’s a bonus in these games. If I can try to stop him, then hopefully we’ve got the attacking power to go on and get a result.
“If we can go and get the win, especially at Stamford Bridge, it would send out a good message, but even if we do, it’s still early. There’s still a lot of football to be played. I was looking at this time last year and City were flying — and then all of a sudden it didn’t go to plan. Hopefully it’s different this year.”
After challenging with Tottenham over the previous two seasons, Walker is desperate to win the Premier League. “Not just the league,” he says. “I want to win the FA Cup. I want to win the League Cup. I want to win the Champions League. I don’t want to look back on my career and think, ‘I’ve got a nice house, I’ve got this, that and the other, but no trophies in my cabinet.’ At the moment, every trophy I’ve got in my cabinet is one that I’ve won myself.”
That includes the Young Player of the Year award in 2012, which he is happy to say should have gone to Agüero. “It’s good to win a personal award, but it’s a team game,” he says. “I’m not playing tennis or snooker. I want to win medals as a team. I’ve been in finals and not really got over the line.
“If I think of where I grew up, what I’ve had to come through to get where I am, I think I’ve achieved quite a lot, yeah, but it’s a team game. You need to win trophies as a team. That’s what I’m here to do.”
"We are always confident because we trust our players, and we never give up,"--- said boss Mauricio Pochettino.
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