It's a genuine travesty that the way to create a big media product in the football industry is getting 3 mugs in front of a camera, sponsored by a gambling company, spewing the worst footballing opinion you've ever heard for bait.
Throughout his decade at BT, Jake thoroughly enjoyed giving out ‘banter’ to his punditry team, which often yielded mixed results.
Maybe in this instance, mocking David Ginola’s outfit live on air was always going to end badly…
Just a genius (but disgusting) strategy to break FFP. Own a big club in another confederation and use it as a money pit for all your aging dead weight. It is well and truly past time that FIFA/UEFA brought in some proper rules around multi-club ownership.
Understand opening bid from Al Hilal to Chelsea for Kalidou Koulibaly is around €25/30m. Negotiations will continue in the next days. 🚨🔵🇸🇦
#CFC
Three year deal offered to the player.
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The problem with this is that rather than actually analysing what happened in the game, Carragher has just cherry-picked an issue he had in his head going into the game and then backed it up with some meaningless stats that show Martinez was targeted, not that he performed poorly
People still don't quite understand that the reason why there are very few managers from outside Europe managing in Europe isn't because there aren't many good managers outside Europe, but because the barriers to entry are insanely high.
Don't even think it's hyperbole now to say that Gvardiol could go on and be a truly generational CB.
Not sure there's anyone else on the planet with the ceiling he has with the full package: carrying, dribbling, passing at an extraordinarily high level and absurd athleticism.
🚨 Understand Tottenham have finally reached verbal agreement with Ange Postecoglou as next manager.
#THFC
Been told it will be a two year-deal with an option included for further season, so potentially valid until June 2026.
Next step to get it done: find a way with Celtic.
Today I submitted my resignation to quit my shitty day job on Jan 31 to follow my passion in ⚽.
If you know anyone anywhere that requires an Australian starting from early March, I'm willing to live wherever and do whatever.
Working on 🇮🇹 EU passport.
Heroes. ✌️
Just when you think Barcelona are dusted for a while, they pop Fort (06), Cubarsi (07), and Yamal (07) out of the academy, and you remember that this club is inevitable.
While all the Arsenal talk is about big transfer fees, the club have quietly gone about nearly halving their first team wage bill in two years.
And all this while improving the on field product. It's quite an impressive achievement from where they were.
Transplant the last two years of Pogba at Juve into the current day and he is probably the best midfielder in the world. Don't think there was a single weakness in his game until his body started breaking down.
Arsenal are spending a bunch of money in an important window as they look to push for CL, and there's a few squad building lessons for other clubs as to how they are able to do it.
Obviously PIFs relationship with Chelsea isn't as simple as them 'owning' but an investment stake in Clearlake + the relationship they clearly seem to have w/ Boehly is the next best thing.
It's been one game and hot takes Twitter is already out in full force re: 48 team World Cup.
Give me a 64 team World Cup. If you want the best football, don't watch this tournament, watch the CL.
The World Cup is about more than football. It's culture, history, storylines.
That was a truly unreal experience. 90/10 crowd split, must-win game. We didn't play well after we scored, inshallahed our way to three points, and Harry Souttar is the best player on the planet.
He seems gettable and I don't understand it for Inter... only two years left on his deal though. One of the very best at his age level, as we all saw at the U19 Euros and during the UYL.
Chelsea are trying to buy Cesare Casadei on a permanent move from Inter. Born in 2003, he has scored 16 goals last year playing as a centre-midfielder. 🔵
#CFC
Details here 👇
@DiMarzio
I mentioned on here a few weeks ago about players having their accounts run by social media companies. Lads run your own accounts! Your independent thought and authenticity is at stake . It’s your voice , not anyone else’s. Morning by the way . Go and attack the hell out of it ❤️
A closer look at Ange's CV pre-Celtic reveals some extraordinary accomplishments that are worthy of managing strong teams in Europe, yet J Leagie titles and Asian Cup wins are brushed over as unimportant in Eurocentric circles. Bizarre.
1. Ultimately Juventus had to make some sort of move to balance the books.
2. No one wanted Higuaín as a standalone deal.
3. Packaging Caldara and Higuaín for Bonucci a much better outcome than selling either Dybala or Pjanic.
There's issues with the recognition of coaching badges from other confederations, sometimes language barriers, and then the big hurdle being overall perception barriers and how clubs still see them as a massive risk vs European options.
Sad to see Ryan Fredericks leaving Fulham for West Ham in what can only be described as a sideways move at best. Obviously a greater wage, but he's leaving a well-run club with an upward trajectory for a shambolically run club.
If VAR can't overturn that, not sure what the point of it is. Mæhle doesn't touch Sterling, and by the time he's making body contact with him, he's already on his way down.
And Spurs have the added context of seeing Ange taking a completely destroyed Celtic squad and reshaping it entirely in about 3 months to turn them into back-to-back league winners with great signings and great football.
Nah I'm actually so happy, this guy came to the A-Liga in Jan w/ this in mind, balled and took over the league, got a Socceroos call-up, scored on debut, and now he's going to the World Cup and should be a big chance to start vs France.
In a normal world, contracts like Koulibaly's are the classic example of the NBA-style Albatross contract. There might be other club in Europe would pay Chelsea a fee to take on such a massive, long-term contract for a player who turns 32 tomorrow. Alas, here we are.
I am now politely asking for Juventus FC to offer McKennie, De Sciglio, Arthur, Zakaria, Vlahovic, Bonucci, Szczesny, Alex Sandro and Rugani for the small sum of €1b.
Today made it clear just how many footballers could come in and improve Man Utd as a team, which makes it even more embarrassing to target Marko Arnautovic. It's like throwing darts at a dartboard the size of the entire wall and somehow hitting the window
This is just the most bizarre thing I've heard in a while.
English pundits can say whatever they want about Ange, but trying to argue that he's not genuine is beyond absurd.
@nonewthing
don't discount the fact they are signing a bunch of the best young players at really young ages, it's as much a recruitment thing as it is coaching
Zakaria is one of the few good value buys we've made in the last 3-5 years and we are gonna take the gains and then go buy another big wage 29-year-old hahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha this fucking club man I swear
🚨 Once Zakaria has been sold to Roma, Juventus will complete and announce the purchase of Paredes from PSG, the operation is practically completed. [
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#Roma
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Can't think of a better game of football I've watched in the last 12 months than that Italy vs Portugal U21 game. Contrasting styles, quality players everywhere, goals, drama, etc. etc.
My take on the terrible scenes at Jubilee Stadium on Sunday night:
Football fans have long been treated with contempt, and there is no sign of that changing
Nelly Yoa says he’s contacted CQV and advised them of his criminal record. On the Minister
@DannyPearsonMP
he says “For him to throw me under the bridge, it’s absolutely disgraceful he should apologise to myself”
@7NewsMelbourne
It's been spoken about since he arrived, but does Lisandro Martinez's height cause problems for Manchester United?
@Carra23
thinks it could be an issue. 🫤
@SkyFootball
Socios presents itself as a fan engagement company, but it's really just an advertising company trying to take advantage of the loyalty of fans to their clubs by luring them into high-risk crypto markets by telling them they will have a say on how their club is run.
UEFA are asleep at the wheel here. Multi-club ownership is way more of an existential threat to UEFA than the Super League, because it will grow slowly, and then hit them with a ton of bricks when all of a sudden 12 Premier League clubs own half of Europe.
Exclusive: Uefa is holding a two-day meeting this week to discuss potentially seismic rulings on multi-club ownership in football.
Looking at:
Brighton/Union SG
Aston Villa/Vitória de Guimarães
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Real Madrid's squad construction is beautiful. It's one guy that can pass and can't run, and then a billion monster duel winners and transition runners everywhere.
This is where Chelsea are now. They've spent themselves into a position where they need to sell an academy graduate or two every season to keep the books balanced, while the players they've bought on long contracts don't depreciate quick enough to sell for 'profit'.
🚨Some Chelsea figures are understood to be arguing that it makes financial sense to sell Gallagher due to the club’s struggles complying with Premier League spending rules and deficiencies elsewhere in the squad. [mail]
#cfc
He can play in a three, he can play in a two. He can cover space in behind and is a brute playing body-to-body, so he can suit different styles of defensive play seamlessly.
Just a ridiculously gifted player.
This is what capitalism does. It monopolises. In football's instance, they can't buy-out or takeover other clubs, so instead they simply shut them out of the system.
Adding to this is that now we have a group of club owners/presidents utterly bereft of morals and ethics.
In the midst of all this hoopla over football writing today, I am open for pitches at stephen
@scoutedftbl
.com. We pay (not much), there's no tight deadlines and we are fairly open to different content ideas on anything relevant to U-23 footballers.
The other thing that pisses me off so much about this is that there are many amazing young football writers who could have written something awesome on the game that are battling to get paid gigs, and this is bullshit the Oz decides to commission instead.
I long for the day I am given space to write 1000 truly condescending words about an important AFL, NRL or rugby union match I haven't seen. Why is this OK?
If you get Rabiot+Arthur out and Paredes/Frattesi in, all of a sudden Juve's midfield is pretty strong:
Pogba
Miretti
Fagioli
Rovella
Locatelli
Frattesi/Paredes
Zakaria
McKennie
Lots of bodies for three spots.
Ah shit, I've only been watching Ange teams for over a decade but Justin Hardy from Robertsbridge, East Sussex told me he's shite so it's time to look elsewhere
@SpursOfficial