It's genuinely quite remarkable, I think it would be hard to come across worse if he'd tried. A shallow, spineless narccisist, completely divorced from reality. I bet he's absolutely seething sat there watching the fans herald Szoboszlai every week. This is less about his desire to speak directly to those he acknowledges he's hurt, and more a desperate attempt to stay relevant whilst the club has moved on, and to whitewash his image once more.
It's hard to know which part of the interview is the most galling:
- The repeated insistence that someone with his "values" (lol) going to Saudi Arabia can "only be a positive thing". Even though he acknowledges he can't change anything, and that he has no intention to publicly support LGBT causes for "cultural reasons". Show your workings Jordan.
- The idea that he has gone "above and beyond" to support the LGBT community because he wore some rainbow laces and an armband - disgusting lack of self awareness really.
- The old "I have gay friends" argument, especially shoehorning in that those friends are accepting of his decision because they "know him". We could all learn a lesson here, no doubt.
- The old "I'm sorry you feel that way" defence
- The insistence that this isn't about money, but about an exciting opportunity to build the sport in another country - must think we're all as thick as he is.
Everything this man does is deeply calculated, he's a textbook narcissist really. Deeply insecure. Let him have this little 5 minutes in the spotlight, where everyone comes to the consensus that he's a fake, and then consign him to the annals of past players who weren't really fit to wear the shirt.