"I was really scared about posting that. And I said: 'No, I just need to show myself'," Thierno Barry told the BBC, after revealing he had sat on a video of himself breaking down in training for three weeks before deciding to release it. Everton reposted the clip with the caption "emotional resilience", and Barry said the people around him have helped him stay more positive.
Barry's own battle with pressure
The striker was plain about why the video mattered to him. "Sometimes it feels good to just lose it," he said, while also admitting, "I'm always harder with myself, and I just need to be sometimes more calm."
That is the part that makes the interview more than a tidy social-media moment. Barry is not talking about some distant, abstract pressure either. He said he had been "hard with myself" and needed to be "more calm", which fits with a player trying to handle the demands of a new club and a new environment.
Everton's role and the form behind it
Barry also linked that support to his form on the pitch. "The people around me helped a lot because, like I said, I'm really hard with myself and the people with me try to help me to be more positive," he said, adding that this season feels "more easy to switch because I know I have time on the pitch."
The numbers back up a more settled start. Barry has three Premier League goals in six appearances this season, after going three months without scoring last season. He also made 41 appearances and scored eight goals in the 2025-26 campaign, and he has already played 505 league minutes this time around.
Everton sit fifth with 10 points from six league matches, which gives Barry a calmer setting than a side in crisis. The next question is whether the comfort he is describing keeps showing up in his finishing when the chances come at speed, because he still described the gap between chances as real pressure.
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