Thankfully, Rio with his Captain's Presence skill was able to read the atmosphere and began to move everyone along before things escalated in the tunnel.
It was only when the Southampton players had left, cursing about the loss, that Rio spoke up to the vulnerable kid in front of him. This was someone that reminded him of himself in his previous life, a naive talent who just wanted to play football without the politics.
Even now he still held vestiges of his former self, however, he had matured. After learning the hard way about agents and bench-warming, he had been given another chance to rewrite his story, one where he could be a leader, a legend.
Most of all, he would use this chance to achieve his dream of lifting the Champions League and live without regrets. If he could also pull up others like Archie with him, then there's no way he would just sit idly by and allow them to burn out.
