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🚨🗣️| Nicky Butt reacts to JJ Gabriel potentially signing for Real Madrid “Look, I’ve been around the game long enough to know when a young lad’s getting carried away with himself, and this JJ Gabriel business is a classic case of it.” “Sixteen years of age, still wet behind the ears, and he’s already decided Manchester United ain’t good enough for him. They had him training with the first team, they were ready to throw him on in the Carabao Cup, they treated him like the golden boy because everyone could see the talent, and what does he do? He downs tools, stops training, and tells them he wants out because the pathway isn’t clear enough. Pathway? At sixteen? Come on, be serious.” “Now he’s off to Real Madrid, and I don’t care what anyone says about Castilla and development plans — that place is already stacked with wingers. Vinicius, Mbappé, Rodrygo, that young Diomande lad who’s already getting minutes, Endrick, Brahim… the list goes on.” “He’s not walking into that dressing room and demanding a place. He’s walking into a queue that stretches all the way back to the academy. They’ll park him in the B team, tell him he’s the future, and then when the next big signing arrives he’ll be further down the pecking order than he ever was at Old Trafford.” “And the worst part is, United have got kids of their own coming through who actually want to be there. This sends the wrong message to every single one of them. You don’t get special treatment and then spit it back in the club’s face because someone in Spain’s whispering in your ear.” “I’ve seen too many of these ‘next Messis’ chase the bright lights and end up nowhere. The lad’s got talent, no one’s denying that, but talent without a bit of patience and a bit of humility doesn’t get you very far in this game. in a couple of years he might be wondering why he didn’t just keep his head down at Manchester United.”