The family and the storm of the Pogba

In one of the last chapters of

, Tommy Shelby, its protagonist, raises his glass and makes a particular toast: “To the family, shelter in the storm.

And sometimes the storm itself.

It is a toast that could be made by more than half of the world's millionaires, almost all rich by family: their refuge first, when inheritances fell;

his storm later, when they had to be distributed.

Another usual case: famous athletes who have to debate between bizarre ways to spend money, and prevent their relatives from accessing them.

Sometimes no luck.

This Mathias Pogba, for example.

Brother of Paul Pogba, at the time the most expensive transfer in the world (from Juve to United).

Mathias -in my head the Matías are not even Prats: they are all the grandfather of

, and therefore every time I write 'Mathias' I say to myself “Cheeeechu”- he has posted a video on social networks to threaten his brother and his brother's agent with uncovering barbaric things about them that will make their fans rethink their opinion what they have of him.

Whoever has sensitive information about someone and wants to spread it, he does it;

whoever has it and threatens to spread it, wants money.

And that is why his brother and their mother have denounced him: as an extortionist.

To his own family, as if Mathias wanted to give an aristocratic flight to the Pogba lineage.

Even Lapo Elkann, heir to Fiat, needed to loot money from his family because he ran out of funds with which to pay for an endless party with prostitutes and drugs, but he did not threaten to tell anyone's secrets,

He is quite a character, Mathias Pogba.

And a good brother, by the looks of it;

the history of families teaches us that jaws are not lacking, there are plenty of Caines.

For the rest, Mathias Pogba is one of those soccer players whose most resounding success in his career was going out at

, where he probably did better than on the pitch.

There are many examples of people who became footballers, and became professionals, to later be able to have an opportunity at

, which is something similar to what Franco did, of which Torrente Ballester said that to be able to walk around the center of Ferrol dressed as a general, he staged a Civil War.

There are brains that are impregnable rather than inscrutable.

Mathias Pogba, who has put Mbappé in the middle of his threats, I think that to generate traffic, like when you have to put Ayuso or Shakira in the headline even if you talk about this year's harvest, he says something as interesting as it is miserable: that Your information about your brother will change people's perception of him.

Of course.

Either you take out papers that you don't know how you got, or you will know things that nobody knows, and you will tell them without the context of the trust that your brother has with you, editing them yourself in a crazy job that brings together the elements that lead to a diabolical profile .

The (bad) newspapers and the (bad) journalists know a lot about that;

in the same way that you can take anyone's book and reduce it to whatever you want by carefully choosing the paragraphs to show the public (and the film, and the political speech,

and whatever one feels like manipulating), people can also be shown through the gaze that can do us more harm.

That he is a brother and threatens to do it for money puts the moral fiasco on the same level as betrayal.

The oldest in the world, the blood.

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