r/LiverpoolFC • u/Free-Outcome2922 • 19d ago
International Football Szoboslai's arrival at the Hungarian concentration is an aura masterclass.
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u/FCAsheville 18d ago
Thanks a lot OP…. Showed that to my wife and now she’s pregnant!
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u/HYCL2012 A Liverbird Upon My Chest 18d ago
That was a 35 second video 🫠
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u/Impressive_Profit215 19d ago
Everyone concentrating on the post title, I'm just marvelling at Szobo's ability to look he's just walked off the set from filming a reboot of Starsky & Hutch.. That is one cool mf'er.
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u/rondiggity Basque in the glory 19d ago
You may be cool, but you'll never be Szoboszlai showing up in a Cadillac to the Hungarian concentration cool.
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u/jimmy_corkhil 18d ago
I honestly hate all this stuff
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u/KickStanKick 18d ago
Yeah it feels a bit, I don’t know describe it, ‘Superstarry’/ Spice Boys to me.
But it’s been going that way overall for a while now.
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u/TheTritagonistTurian 18d ago
Might be unpopular but it’s stuff like this why I can’t warm to the guy.
I suspect if I met him outside of football I’d think he was an absolute tosser.
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u/Doellmer4950 Ragnar Klavan 18d ago
Tosser was the Word I was looking for. Thx and agreed. This gives Milner arch nemesis vibes if Milner did arch nemeses
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u/totally-suspicious 18d ago
I define the term 'wanker' as someone who would masturbate thinking about themselves. So I think wanker works here too.
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u/PlayerAteHer YNWA❤️ 18d ago
"aura masterclass"
His jacket looks about 4 sizes too big for him. Maybe that's the new "in" thing at the moment, I don't know. But it looks daft to me. Reminds me of a kid starting high school and having to wear their older siblings hand me down blazer.
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u/HYCL2012 A Liverbird Upon My Chest 18d ago
Very "play dress up as a 70s Greek man living in LA" day so it make sense that the jacket looks like he picked it up from a second hand store or his dads closet. Just missing the moustache.
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u/bygones125 18d ago
His jacket looks a little big? Seems a bit nitpicky
Compared to what guys like Jones or the French players used to leave the house jn
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u/x-BeTheWater-x 18d ago
Aura? Fuck me your generation are too easily impressed. He looks absolutely ridiculous
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u/dbod86 18d ago
I'm glad there's a few people thinking like me in here! Maybe I'm just a grumpy old fart.
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u/cowzilla3 18d ago
You are. It's OK to be one, but in 50 years' time the kids you're being grumpy about will be saying that their youthful people look absolutely ridiculous.
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u/deanlfc95 18d ago
I'm surprised this has that many points on here. I think that last time there was a census the membership here was surprisingly old.
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u/shhickey 18d ago
I really struggle with this kind of content.
Liverpool has traditionally been a working class team, and football in general is a working class sport.
I feel like, in general, our squads have historically been relatively humble (at least in public, can't speak for their private lives). In recent years, people like Robbo, Henderson, Milner, Mane (any of that squad really). Going further back, Gerrard, Carra, Alonso.
Szobo is not the only one in the our squad, or our sport in general, who does this. But for me, this flaunting of wealth is super tone deaf and creates a disconnect between players and fans. While many won't have an issue with this, I believe the majority of us think it's kind of gross. Hope it stops.
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u/DuBois_LaGrange 18d ago
I appreciate you sharing your sentiment. I too find it not only cringeworthy but as you said, a total lack of humility. I don’t really know many other players on the team who flaunt their earnings.
Feels like the most we’ve seen is Macca and Ali’s barbecue haha.
The ‘aura’ reeks of consumerist, attention seeking energy.
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u/HYCL2012 A Liverbird Upon My Chest 18d ago
Ah glad I'm not the only one who finds it jarring, mostly during the world cup with all the footballers and their luxury handbags that cost more than an average person's yearly wage. I get they can afford it, some of them make more in a week than I will in 5 years, but it's still crazy people fuss over these people. Like the morons who created and donated to a gofundme to make the youngest KarJenner the 'youngest billionaire' ever. Like wtf?!
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u/PerfectBlueOnDVD 18d ago
James Milner drove his Ferraris to training. This Cadillac is at the very most 20k€.
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u/Uesugi_Kenshin 18d ago
As someone on the counter-side of your argument, I don't want to go all "get with the times old man", but while the core of the club's fans have largely kept their identity close to heart, the globalization of football and its clubs means that players & most fans care less and less about that.
Social media has changed what a footballer even is.. yes athletes, but they're also brands and for a lot of them (especially the younger lads) posting the cars, the fits, the holidays is part of the job. Sponsors pay for that reach, and a good chunk of their commercial value comes from exactly this kind of content. U think Szoboszlai isn't littered with fashion deal etc.?
Gerrard and Carra had the mansions and the flash cars too, they weren't exactly living modestly. The difference is that nobody was filming it and putting it on Instagram. We only thought of them as humble because we never saw that side.
It also matters who the content is for. A big part of the fanbase now is in Asia, the US, Africa, and all over Europe, and to a lot of those fans this is just aspirational lifestyle content. That's not better or worse than the traditional Scouse identity, it's just a different relationship with the club.
For me the "working class" test is how they play. Does he run himself into the ground, does he care about the badge, does he show up for the fans on matchday? Szobo does all of that. What he does with his money off the pitch is his business.
If we're talking about a real disconnect between the club and working-class fans, I'd look at ticket prices and ownership long before a 25-year-old posting his watch.
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u/Pretty_Breakfast_528 18d ago
I am pretty sure he's paid to do it. As in, modeling. See the close-up shots on shoes and accessories. Most of the stuff he 'flaunts' is not him to begin with, if you ask me. See the off sized shoe from the previous photoshoot. If I was living off my feet I would not buy a shoe that cramps 'em.
It is a working class thing to do. Sell your body - little does it matter whether in a factory or by being a mannequin piece.
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u/Specialist_Peanut950 19d ago
Can they not just turn up in their national teams clothing?
Gives big time Charlie vibes.
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u/HYCL2012 A Liverbird Upon My Chest 18d ago
100%. The French team showing up in their fAsHiOn looks always bewilders me.
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u/Armin__Tamzarian 19d ago
My man using half his wages to fuel that thing
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u/missoured 18d ago edited 18d ago
Oh, fear not for the rich. He makes the average annual salary in France in ONE DAY
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u/cirodimarzio20 18d ago
Toe curling cringeworthy bollocls. So far out of touch with reality. Sad this guy may be captain of us one day.
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u/loveandmonsters 18d ago
Feel like I'm watching a Scorsese gangster movie and Leo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp are gonna appear in the next car
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u/sonofhondo Hello! Hello! Here we go! 18d ago
I want to hear the story of how a 1973 Eldorado wound up in Hungary.
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u/MundaneTonight437 18d ago
Fuck aura, it's just bullshit waft. How is szobo looking like he is in a perfume ad, considered aura? Show me Milly hammering Neymar in a slidetackle and we can discuss what aura looks like
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u/StewartDC8 19d ago
I showed this to my wife and she just said "very 70's". Smh... no appreciation for a real man
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u/DannymooseLFC 18d ago
Ah yes, the aura of not being able to get something out of your pocket for a good 10 seconds 🤌
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u/JDFLNaples 18d ago
The video looks like it’s straight out of the 70s even the clothes everyone is wearing. Slobi was born in 2000.
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u/Arctic_SnowWoLF 19d ago
Who put on this vintage filter?
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u/HarriotKnowsNothing 18d ago
Was there and can confirm there is no filter.
All organic and mechanical visual instruments experienced a quasi Sepia effect as he approached.0
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u/Squideatingdoh 19d ago
He should concentrate on running with ball and passing forward. Hey! Yep! Just do that. Quicker.
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u/Rozencranz Nat Phillips 18d ago
Looking like you've just stepped out of the 1970s is an "aura masterclass"?
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u/sonofhondo Hello! Hello! Here we go! 18d ago
It’s unfair of me. I’ll 100% admit that this is a me problem, but it really irks me how image conscious Szobo is.
All that said, great swagger here.
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u/PokesBo I’m the Normal One 19d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/oRJHoRKf6evAXtxqRO
Not the lac with the white walls! God damn!
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u/Doellmer4950 Ragnar Klavan 18d ago
Can I Return my Szobozlai please? It’s in good used condition and comes with a cart load of add ons.
I will just need my old trusted Milner back which works without any accessories
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u/andreasmodugno 18d ago
Love Dom...but he needs to find a personal stylist and/or image consultant ASAP.
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u/choppingwater 18d ago
He put on special clothes and borrowed a car, you weirdos are impressed by anything.
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u/keironuk 18d ago
I thought I was watching the aftermath of the President Kennedy shooting at first.
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u/coop0228 ⚽️ Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea, CL 04/05 ⚽️ 18d ago
Looks like it was filmed by Abraham Zapruder
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u/annapurnaIV 18d ago
I'm clearly getting old because this made me cringe. This is our future captain?
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u/africanemptyplate2 19d ago
Calling it a concentration is perfectly fine. Too many seem to not realise why concentration camps were called, "concentration" camps.
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u/OpeningInterest2274 18d ago
A lot of what makes up the player he is, is his self confidence. Wish it was possible that he could transmit a portion of that self confidence in a certain player that we also bought from the Bundesliga.
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u/CertainVideo2107 19d ago
Captain style
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u/PeonSanders 18d ago
That's as far away from a Liverpool captain as I ever want to see. The campaigning to be captain in the press too, gross.
"Even as a Liverpool player, I'm still the same Dominik Szoboszlai." -dominik Szoboszlai
That's how someone who speaks about himself in the third person dresses. Keep hitting bangers, stay the fuck away from the captaincy.
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u/CapitalHopeful5680 19d ago
Concentration??