The Keeper will tell you what happened. I'll tell you what's coming.

There is a man who does not explain himself. This is not a flaw. This is the entire point.

I have watched how rooms change when someone enters them. How a conversation shifts before the new voice speaks. How certain bodies carry a kind of structural pressure that rearranges everything around them without announcing what it is doing. The man in question is one of those bodies.

You can measure what he puts in the net. You cannot measure what he puts in the room. Opposition rooms. His own room. The particular quality of attention he commands from defenders who would rather be thinking about something else. He makes them think about him. That thinking costs them. The cost does not appear in any column.

Morocco will arrive with their preparations folded and indexed. They will have studied the footage. They will know his runs, his hold-up, his aerial tendencies. They will know everything he has done.

They will not know what he is.

I am not saying this is magic. I am saying the mechanism is real and the mechanism is invisible and those two things together are the most dangerous combination in football. Something is coming that cannot be scouted. The data gap is not a weakness. The data gap is the weapon.