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In an interview with "The Players Tribune", Liverpool and world champion Argentina midfielder Alexis McAllister has retraced his difficult period at Brighton:
" I have to give a big hug to my mum. Without her, none of this would have happened. I wouldn't be Premier League champion. I certainly wouldn't be world champion. You probably wouldn't even know my name.
In December 2020, I called her and I was crying. I was in my flat in Brighton, she was at home in Buenos Aires. I had lost my mind. I said: 'Mum, I can't take it anymore. I'm going home. I have to get out of here . '
" At that time I played very little for Brighton. It was embarrassing, because I was wearing the number 10 of a Premier League club, the dream of many children in Argentina, but I was nobody. My name didn't matter. I thought I was cursed ."
More about that period: " We footballers always say that we become men very quickly. But, in some other aspects, you are still a child. I would call my mother every day, to ask her how to turn on the stove and how to use the washing machine. And I was alone, I wasn't playing, a depressing situation .
" Many don't know, but for Christmas, with no fans in the stadium, I had packed my bags. I had received several offers, one from Russia and one from Spain, and I had made my decision. My mother had returned to Buenos Aires and one day I called her, crying non-stop, and said: 'I'm leaving. I can't do it anymore .'"
" However, moms always know what to say. It took me back to the time when I played in the yard every day with my brothers. At the beginning of the summer, the grass was very smooth and by the end of the summer it turned into a mud puddle because of our slips ."
Then came the turning point: “ After Christmas, at Brighton we had a lot of injuries and they had no choice but to activate me. I think many games have watched Match of the Day and asked themselves: 'Who is this McAllister? Is he Scottish? Is he Argentine? What?! The guy with the red beard?!'. When I scored that goal against Everton in January 2022, I felt that everything had gone the right way .
Everything changed with De Zerbin: " When he came in as coach the following season, a few months before the World Cup, everything changed for me. The main thing that helped me improve was the ability to analyze the pitch ."
" Let's take Odegaard as an example. For me, he's one of the best in the world at this type of analysis. His head never stops moving. De Zerbi gave me this gift and it improved my game a lot ."
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