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‘I’ve lost my niece, my little sister, my best friend ☹️ Life dealt you the harshest card but you always chose to win, you always fought to come out the other side above it all with a smile on your face.

‘And that is already seeing money roll out into people’s pockets, particularly for young people and for young women. If you’re a woman who’s 25 and under you’ve seen more than $2,000 of tax relief on average.’ 

‘Decided to surprise my family and not tell them I’m coming home just to see their expressions, mom was speechless (touched me all to see if I was real, dad couldn’t stop smiling and my god mother cried her eyes off)

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He said the government focused in 2020 and 2021 on lowering electricity prices by eight per cent, investing $10 billion a year in childcare, and providing $30 billion of tax relief for low and middle income earners. 

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Richards’ wife always suggested he keep some mementos of his time coaching Olise. You know, just in case. One of the pictures he still has is a Hayes Youth team photo taken at the Manor Youth Summer Football Festival in 2008. 

‘Pep Guardiola could have conversations him at a very high level and he will understand everything.
But, at the same time, he’s also a street player, which is what he’s been from the age of seven, playing outside on the estate, at school, wherever possible. That comes through in his technique. He thinks about football in a different way. And you see that when he’s on the pitch.

It was while playing for Hayes that Olise caught the eye of Sean Conlon. Conlon had not long left Chelsea as a coach and was working as a scout for QPR while setting up his own company called We Make Footballers, who specialise in developing young players from the ages of four to 12.
He’d received a tip-off about a young lad named Michael Olise.

He just glided across the pitch. Even at a full sprint. He would get around the pitch quicker than everyone else and always be in the right place at the right time. Even back then, he was a special player.’

Olise’s coach at Hayes Under 7s, Michael Richards, has a few of these stories.
Like the one when he was stood next to a Tottenham scout the day Olise cushioned an opposition goalkeeper’s kick to the halfway line with his right thigh, volleyed it with his left foot, and sent it soaring back over the keeper’s head into the net.

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Bowen admits Olise was often disappointed at remaining in the Under 23s. He had issues with time-keeping. He’d get frustrated at training sessions that did not involve a ball at his feet. Bowen can smile about it now.

‘I think he’s found the balance now, of carrying that ability and that confidence while also understanding that you still have to work hard and be dedicated to your training and your profession. He’s got that balance perfect now, and that’s why we’re seeing the player that we are witnessing now every week for Crystal Palace.’

When a Millwall fan hit him with a bottle thrown from the crowd as he prepared to take a corner during Palace’s FA Cup third-round win — in which Olise scored and then set up the winner — he responded by turning, smiling and beckoning towards them as if to ask: ‘is that all you’ve got?’

Olise left Chelsea’s academy, described as a ‘mutual decision’ by Conlon, aged 14.
Olise’s brother Richard is still at the club. Olise spent a few weeks training with Man City. He also played some showcase games for We Make Footballers. It was still six months without a club before he joined Reading.

Michael Olise’s parents had taken a wrong turn. By the time they arrived at their son’s game, with Michael in the back of the car, it was half-time and Hayes Youth were 2-0 down. When it was finished, Hayes had won and Michael had scored a hat-trick.

‘Someone asked me a while ago “how far can Michael go?” He can go how far he wants.
It’s just whether he has the mental strength — and Palace fans won’t thank me for saying this — to say to himself “I want to play Champions League football, play for an even bigger club’. Because I think he can do it. Is he prepared to push himself on again? I think he is.’

The talent, yes, but what needs to go with it. Mark Bowen arrived at Reading in March 2019 as technical director before going on to take charge of the first-team. He, like all the others, saw Olise’s talent.

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