This wasn’t even the dumbest decision of his life. He literally signed a nine year contract with Chelsea.
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I’ve never really understood why football players have families so young. It seems a bit odd to have kids when you are focussing on an all-consuming elite football career, travelling round the world etc. why wouldn’t you wait until your career is winding down in your thirties.
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Probably has something to do with you becoming a star, and all the super hot girls become very interested. Also, being young and dumb.
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I mean, she could be an absolute nightmare and be ruining his life at home. Seems harsh to just assume he’s a cunt here based on him deciding to want to end his relationship with his ex (unless I’ve missed something - I haven’t googled it!)
He is a cunt though based on everything else we’ve seen.
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Probably a couple of factors, but the fact that many footballers are from working class backgrounds and that economic group tends to have children younger. Also, it’s probably not the players that are making the decision to start a family.
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You think it might be the manager?
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Nah, I bet it is their SM manager. They gotta get those kid pics out onto the internet.
Most of these guys are essentially children who cannot take care of themselves, in large part because they have been trained from an early age to offload that responsibility to professionals. But there is a gap once they get home if they are not married or at least shacked up. It’s a weird dichotomy for the wives in that there is a certain aesthetic expectation they have to meet to get their foot in the door, but then once they are in they basically become the guy’s (hot) mother.
Considering the cited reason is that he wanted to enjoy single life, make your own conclusions from there…
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Cited by whom? His disgruntled partner…?
My conclusion is to not just jump on the bandwagon based on an ex posting shit on her well followed social media account, esp when she has children, who should be priority no.1, and therefore shielded from this shit…in my humble opinion.
Also, if I was in a toxic relationship and unhappy - I’d be looking forward to a single life too…
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End his relationship and walk away from his children so that he can live alone and “live a single life”.
There is not a strong enough word for people who abandon their kids.
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Who said hes abandoned his children? 
The original source of the story about his reasons was not his wife, it was an Argentinian footy journalist.
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I’d call that abandoning them. I don’t care that they grow up wealthy because of him, I’ve worked at one of the most expensive summer camps in America and I can tell you first hand how emotionally damaged a lot of those kids are because their parents are not in their lives very often.
The plus side is that they maybe have a chance to not grow up around a person who thinks black people belong in Africa.
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Bless him. He had his kids really early, and now he wants to go off and do all the shagging he missed out on.
That’s not very comforting…prob worst…
Yeah that’s not abandonment by my book. You can’t seriously read a report from some unknown reporter and take it as read. I checked her out - she’s a radio presenter for Fox Sports that’s reporting on a marital breakup of a footballer. What was the full article?
Further, shes tweeted a supportive tweet that reads
Enzo is a great father and is available to Valentina and the kids. Making the decision to separate to be alone does not take away from what a great person and father he is. She chose to come to Buenos Aires to enjoy her family in San Martin.
So he’s abandoned them, but he’s also a great father and available? Surely can’t be both?
She’s also tweeting an awful lot about Icardi and his personal life. She strikes me as a serious journo…not.
I’m all for pointing and laughing at footballers fuck ups and slating them when they do stupid things…but this one just seems a very cheap and easy shot from all jumping on it with no further information.
Even his now ex has been tweeting saying the following;
“With Enzo today we say distance from each other. But we will always be family and support each other through everything. Because there are two kids in the middle that need a lot of our love for them.
“I know the person and excellent father Enzo is, and the heart he has. And that’s enough for me. They don’t want to create wars where there aren’t any.”
Also, a lot of footballers also come from countries with traditional, family-oriented, collectivist cultures. Everyone is expected to grow up, save up, get married/have kids asap. When you get rich virtually overnight, you can skip the first two steps.
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I’m not pointing and laughing, I don’t think it’s funny. I’m going off the information reported by a journalist and his now separated partner - who you were quick to say “disgruntled” and was “…posting shit on her well followed social media account, esp when she has children, who should be priority no.1, and therefore shielded from this shit…in my humble opinion.” which seems to imply that you think she is using her kids to attack him.
Let’s see the “shit” his disgruntled ex has posted about their “toxic relationship”…
Doesn’t really seem like she is trying to start anything or attacking him at all.
Anyway, Dad of the Year candidate Enzo is moving out of his house leaving his wife and kids, for the reported reason of “the need to experience the stage he skipped by choosing family early on”. That’s the story people are responding to. It’s a very familiar story for many people in the world, deadbeat Dads who give up their responsibility for any one of a multitude of reasons and think that because they give the mother some money and take the kids to Burger King every other week then they are off-the-hook. I’ve got no patience for it.
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Chelsea and United do have a propensity of keeping absolute shitbags in their books. I hope we’ve kept the no dickheads rule despite Klopp leaving.
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