![]() “Obviously you want to win it but we are there or thereabouts and we will try to do the same every year.” Even being in the top eight, top four for a lot of times in the Champions League is a very big achievement. “I know people get a stick out and say ‘you've not won the Champions League’, but we've been there, we've been fighting all the time. Winning that many trophies shows the consistency we have and I think that's also very important. “What we have achieved in the last seven years at City has been unbelievable. “This is my 14th or 15th year in professional football so I've been playing a long time,” he says. He provided seven assists and scored 15 Premier League goals, a career high, including four in a 5-1 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers.ĭe Bruyne has not set a personal target for the upcoming season (“I just want to win”) and does not feel pressure to hit the ground running in what will be a demanding campaign. Last season, he won his fourth Premier League title with Manchester City and was voted the competition's Player of the Year for the second time. If I feel that I'm more invested in it myself, it's going to be better for me in the end.”Įntering his 30s – traditionally considered an age at which midfield players have passed their peak – has done nothing to dim De Bruyne's dazzling talents. Because I want to feel connected with what I do. If I'm not interested, even if it makes sense money-wise, I don't really want to do it. “I like to invest in stuff that I'm interested in. In 2008, he altered a power tool to create the first Theragun, a handheld "percussive therapy" device. The tech wellness business, based in Los Angeles, was founded in 2016 by chiropractor Dr Jason Wersland. One of the companies De Bruyne has invested in is Therabody. “I just had a ‘click’ where I said ‘I think I need to start doing something.’” and you think, 'what's going to happen when I'm done and I don't make the money anymore but the bills keep going?' You need to find a way to make money in another way. But now I've got a family, I've got people to take care of, I've got multiple houses. My business is playing football and that's still the main business. “When you start playing football you don't think about what's going to happen later. But except for that I didn't do too much. I bought a house in Manchester, an apartment in Belgium. “You only start to learn it at 27, 28 but (by then) I'd been making money for 10 years. “I think probably 99% of football players, or athletes, they start so young they don't understand how the money works, how it flows, how quickly it goes and when it's gone, it's gone.
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