Buying a player for £100million and then loaning him back to the club you bought him from for €8million is the most brainless business you’re ever likely to see.
Scoring a 100th minute penalty, after the final whistle has already gone, to win a game they deserved to lose, is the most Man Utd thing ever to happen in the history of Man Utd.
World class analysis from Rio Ferdinand to say Newcastle have been handed a boost by Marco Verratti missing tonight’s game.
Marco Verratti signed for Al-Arabi in summer. I don’t think he’s going to be available for PSG games any time soon, Rio.
FUCK YOU to every single Man Utd fan who spent the whole summer sending me vile, awful abuse every time I said Frenkie De Jong was staying at Barcelona rather than joining your shit, tinpot club, when all I was doing was reporting the truth.
Enjoy mid-table mediocrity you cunts.
So Saudi Arabia invest billions into Clearlake Capital, the majority owner of Chelsea.
Then Chelsea spend £650million on transfers, putting them in the red with FFP.
Then Chelsea sell all of their deadwood to Saudi Arabia at extortionate prices to avoid FFP.
And this is fine?
Rodri just said Manchester City’s fans have been waiting “20, 30, 40 years” for a Champions League title.
Brother, Manchester City were in League Two 20 years ago.
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We haven’t been dominated like that in several months. The last one I can recall is probably the 0-2 against Man City early in the year.
Arsenal are the real deal this season and William Saliba is comfortably one of the top centre backs in the league. The guy is a monster.
Look, I have nothing against Manchester City, but BT Sport’s coverage of this treble is nothing short of embarrassing.
Describing it as a “fairytale” and such is complete nonsense. They have spent billions. They have broken rules. They have refused to comply with investigations.
If PSG actually sign Messi, Ramos, Donnarumma and Wijnaldum for a grand total of £0 in transfer fees, it has to go down as the greatest transfer window of all time, and will probably never be topped.
Spurs tried to replace Gareth Bale by spending a combined £213million on Eriksen, Chadli, Soldado, Lamela, N’Jie, Janssen, Lucas, Llorente, Lo Celso and Bergwijn, and ultimately replaced him by signing Gareth Bale on loan.
So Chelsea played by far their best game of the season, Arsenal played by far their worst game of the season, Chelsea got a dodgy penalty…
…and Chelsea still couldn’t win? Interesting.
Chelsea claim it costs £60k for travel/accommodation to Middlesbrough, which is above their £20k government allowance for travel.
40 first class train tickets and 40 rooms in the most expensive local hotel I can find totals up at £16k. Stop whining and get the fuck on with it.
“I love tackles, man. I want to come out with the most tackles from each game; that's my aim. I'm not really happy when I come out of a game without many tackles.”
- Wan-Bissaka
Jadon Sancho to Manchester United. Done deal pending official documentation and a successful medical.
He will cost €120million in total and sign a five-year deal worth £300,000 per week. He will wear the number 7 shirt.
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Giving a 19-year-old that kind of responsibility is shocking management. Bukayo Saka isn’t to blame. The blame is with whoever selected an inexperienced player to take the crucial penalty in the final of a major international tournament.
Klopp was once the most likeable manager in the league, but his crybabying this season is getting tiresome.
Whining about fixture congestion (that every top club deals with) was one thing, but his comment on Atléti’s players “not playing proper football” is plain disrespectful.
Even without their scumbag oligarch Chelsea continue to break football.
As other clubs consider lower bids for Enzo Fernandez, Chelsea offer to pay a fee higher than his €120million release clause. The market has been broken for 20 years and they are directly responsible.
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Murderers, rapists and child molesters get a comparative slap on the wrist but yeah good to see the police tackling the real problems like streaming Brentford v Leeds on a Saturday afternoon.
Cristiano Ronaldo will leave Juventus if they don’t qualify for the Champions League. His advisors suggest he could lose up to 25% of his income from various brand deals and sponsorships if he isn’t in the Champions League.
He has expressed his desire to return to Man Utd.
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Yaya Toure getting dropped from a charity match after offering to hire 19 prostitutes for his teammates in a WhatsApp group chat is probably the best football story of all time. Absolutely unparalleled.
Andy Robertson’s challenge could cause a dead leg. Harry Kane’s challenge in the first half could cause a broken leg. Robertson gets a straight red, Kane gets a yellow. Baffling.
Beating Liverpool and Man City, then losing to Aston Villa without getting a single shot on target. Arsenal have really out-Arsenaled themselves this week.
Havertz should have been sent off in the first half. Newcastle should have had a clear penalty which was turned down. Havertz scores a last minute winner. What a robbery.
Man Utd are on the cusp of agreeing a deal to sign Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund.
The clubs have been working on a payment structure to suit both parties. Dortmund initially wanted £91m up front. Now likely to be £54m up front in a deal totalling €120m. Almost done.
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If Man Utd sign Sancho, Varane and Camavinga, whilst shedding dead wood to cover the costs, that’s got to be one of the best transfer windows any club has ever had.
Bruno Fernandes is a Manchester United player. Medical completed and photoshoots underway. He will be registered in time to face Wolves this weekend.
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Aubameyang scoring a world class overhead to seemingly clinch the tie and then missing a sitter from four yards out to lose the tie has got to be the most Arsenal thing I’ve ever seen.
Hey Chelsea fans, look on the bright side… At least you haven’t locked this distinctly average group of players into seven and eight year contracts on ridiculous wages.
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Anyone who was talking shit about Nicolas Pepe has just been well and truly silenced.
Two free kicks. Two completely different angles. Two completely different techniques required. Two absolutely world class goals.
Everton would currently be above Chelsea if not for their 10 point deduction for breaches of financial rules.
Worth remembering Chelsea have spent £1.1billion on transfers since Todd Boehly took over in 2022. Everton’s net spend in the past 5 seasons is -£27million.
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I’m reliably informed that Gabriel Magalhaes, Thomas Partey and Dani Ceballos are “almost certainly” joining Willian at Arsenal before the end of the transfer window. Potentially one more incoming too.
You’d have to say that’s an excellent window if they can pull it off.
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Leicester signing Soumare and Edouard for a combined £35mil is showing other PL clubs exactly how transfer business should be done.
Everything handled quickly, decisively and they’ve got incredible value for money. Plenty of clubs will drop more than that on one average player.
Danny Rose has played for Spurs since he was 17 years old and only found out he’d been stripped of his squad number because his mate saw it on TV and told him. I know the Amazon documentary didn’t paint him in the greatest light, but that is fucking appalling from Spurs/Mourinho.
Gabriel and Thomas Partey look like two of the best signings Arsenal have made in decades. Gabriel could quadruple his transfer value by the end of the season at this rate.
Alcohol isn’t everything, but to international fans at a football tournament it’s a major part of the experience.
Qatar banning alcohol 2 days before kick off, after previously assuring it would be available, once people have already paid for travel/tickets, is a total disgrace.
Yves Bissouma has played his last game for Brighton. Confirmed.
Five Premier League clubs interested as reported previously. Arsenal were thought to be leading the race until Man City showed their hand. Now it’s anyone’s game. He isn’t motivated by money - he wants to play.
Significant Chelsea and Arsenal news expected in the coming days.
Chelsea will make another move once Mendy signs. Arsenal are ready to do a madness.
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Have to say Odion Ighalo has been absolutely brilliant for Man Utd so far. It’s easy to turn your nose up at a 10 minute cameo appearance, but he was a presence where they needed one and held the ball up brilliantly. They should make his move permanent without a second thought.
The level of officiating this weekend has been the worst in my memory. Forget the countless ridiculous offside decisions yesterday - Arsenal have just been robbed of 3 points in a massive game. Jorginho should’ve been sent off just minutes before equalising. Now Chelsea lead 2-1.
No elite footballer wants to spend the peak years of their career in Ligue 1.
Kylian Mbappe is a mercenary who will always go to the highest bidder. What a waste of a supreme talent.
Today I’ve received several tweets from Chelsea fans telling me I should kill myself, they hope I get cancer and that my family don’t love me. And all I have to say in response is hahaha 4-1 you silly cunts get fucked.
Frank Lampard sold the Chelsea move to Timo Werner on a call earlier today. He spoke about their young squad and goals for coming seasons. Werner was initially adamant on joining Liverpool, but Lampard convinced him that Chelsea was an equally appealing project.
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Danny Ings to Aston Villa wasn’t reported by a single journalist, news outlet or publisher. No news, no leaks, no rumours, no nothing.
I love transfers like this. A throwback to how business used to get done, before the transfer window/deadline day was marketed as an event.
Imagine if the PL follows Serie A and puts a halt to all sporting events. Or even just plays matches behind closed doors.
Liverpool could win the league in an empty stadium. No trophy presentation. No open top bus. A thirty year wait for a league title that nobody actually sees.
Arsenal have been robbed blind. After seeing it again, Matteo Kovacic undoubtedly has to go for the foul on Rice after already receiving a yellow card.
Decisions like that one in games of this magnitude decide title races.
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“Arsenal wasted the window on Vlahovic” is an incorrect and lazy narrative. They were led to believe a deal was feasible, so understandably pursued it for as long as they could. If they didn’t try, the narrative would be “Arsenal don’t even try for top players.” They can’t win.
Arsenal are deep in talks to sell Lucas Torreira to Atletico Madrid, with Thomas Partey moving in the opposite direction. Sale of Emi Martinez making up the difference.
Arsenal will then sell Sokratis, Sead Kolasinac and Callum Chambers, and go “all out” for Houssem Aouar.
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Seeing genuine working class fans paying up to £6,500 for tickets to the Euro 2020 final whilst celebrities, influencers and MPs are being handed them for free is a fucking disgrace. It goes against everything football stands for. They should all give them to someone deserving.
Only realised Arsenal v Leicester is a PPV game. The entire point of the PPV model was to show games that’d be “otherwise left untelevised.”
Arsenal v Leicester would have been televised, 100%. Same goes for Aston Villa v Leeds, and Man Utd v Newcastle last week.
Complete scam.
5 Ballon d’Or 2021 nominees in his starting lineup and £300million worth of players on the bench, but I really feel for Thomas Tuchel and his lack of squad depth. What a fucking baby.
At full time of this game, Arsenal need to lock Aubameyang in a room and give him a new contract, the keys to the Emirates and a blowjob if he wants one. What a player.
Man Utd are completely broken at the top.
Personal terms agreed with Bruno Fernandes and Sporting have told them the price (£58m). Utd still only offering £50m. All they have to do is pay the £8m - or maybe somewhere in the middle - and it’s done. Ed Woodward, ladies and gents.
Have to praise Arsenal for actually having backbone for once. City didn’t want Arteta to leave, so they did it behind their backs.
After they unsettled/bought Toure, Clichy, Adebayor, Nasri and (tried it with) Alexis, Arsenal’s standpoint was “Fuck them, we’ll take him anyway.”
Rasmus Hojlund becomes the first player in history to sit top of the Champions League goalscorer chart after 3+ games, having lost every game he’s scored in.
Some record.
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Declan Rice has just successfully completed his Arsenal medical. Busy day for club staff today, as Jurrien Timber also successfully passed his medical earlier as reported previously, but everything is now over the line.
Done deals. Announcements in the coming days.
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Hi everyone. Just a quick message to say £107million Enzo Fernandez has won only 13% of the games he has started for Chelsea.
Money well spent if you ask me.
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Gutsy move from Arteta. He had a great role at Man City and had been promised their managerial position beyond Guardiola (a few years down the line). He gave it all up to go back to Arsenal - a club with lesser players, fewer resources and far more issues. He’s got some bollocks.
Gabriel Jesus to
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is a done deal pending medical/formalities. Final details ironed out today. Set to be fed to media tomorrow and announced next week.
Second bid for Raphinha to be lodged in coming days. Expectation is it will be enough to land him. Arsenal heavy favourites.
Sean Dyche will walk into the next Premier League job that becomes available. My bet would be Everton.
Just £21million net spend over a five year period, with two top half finishes and a Europa League run. Incredible.
“Mourinho to Arsenal” is trending because The Sun said he wants the job. Two very important things to remember here are;
1) Arsenal have no intention of sacking Unai Emery.
2) The Sun is a vile, disgusting, lying, bag of shite and every trace of its existence should be ignored.
It must be a crazy week to be an Arsenal fan. While most clubs still haven’t done anything
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have;
✅ Signed Kai Havertz (announced within 24hrs)
✅ Secured Declan Rice (£105million bid will be accepted after tweaks)
✅ Working on Jurrien Timber (final stage negotiations)
Arsenal have held preliminary talks with Pierre Emerick Aubameyang. He’s made it clear he is happy at the club under Arteta. He will sign a new deal providing they get into Europe via the FA Cup.
Without Europe, he wants assurances of their ambition but is still open to staying.
Man Utd are the clear frontrunners to sign both Jack Grealish and Jadon Sancho in summer.
Champions League qualification could be key to landing Sancho ahead of PL rivals, but the player is very keen. Grealish wants a move to a top club to boost his claim to start for England.
Arsenal believe they have won the race to sign Declan Rice. Club has received final confirmation from Rice’s side that a move is on.
Clubs close to agreement on fee/bonuses, then official bid will be lodged.
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doing relevant legwork beforehand to ensure first bid is accepted.