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Chelsea made first move for Haaland then. Bold to try include two mid table English players in the deal though

Still makes me laugh they gave hudson-odoi 150k a week to stop him from going to Bayern despite only Playing about 10 games and have them since barely ever played him.

 

Chelsea have funny accounting practices to make this all add up. Similar to barca.

Abramovich basically lends them money and then the debt magically converts into equity at some point. Chelsea are basically 1.3billion in debt. More than barca but a billion of this is owed to Abramovich and it was all moved into a holding company so the club looks debt free. It is all smoke and mirrors to justify rampant spending and player accumulating.

Imo the only way to resolve this stuff is to put hard limits by age groups on registrations per club, ban multiple.club ownership and force clubs to live off real revenues and not player sales or fake debts like this.

For example if you said maximum 23 players over 21.

Maximum 23 over 18

Etc down below that then clubs would have to behave themselves and not hoard up players

 

Newton's Third Law of Sports Hackery states that for every rumour there is an equal and opposite one.
Apart from giving us something to talk about and an excuse to avoid actual work, almost all of these rumours are completely unsubstantiated kite-flying by some know-nothing journo stealing a living. Or some opinion piece by an equally uninformed ex-player getting down to his last couple of mil.
I'd rather just wait and see what happens than try and guess which of these rumours has any credibility.

 

Journalism. The 8th deadly sin.

 

There is some very important and often dangerous work done by war correspondents and investigative journalists, etc.
Sports hacks, on the other hand, are largely a waste of oxygen and serious journalists don't deserve to be lumped in with the same job description.

 

I think that your statement used to be how I felt. Right now, I don’t trust any type of journalist in the same way that I don’t trust any politician.

 

I can remember a time when a degree in journalism was not utterly meaningless.

I'm sure the english literature snobs would look down their noses at the profession back then as boozehounds but they were respectable.

These days I wonder if a modern day Woodward and Bernstein even make a dent in today's system.

If trump and johnson (or macron and trudeau) can do what they do and get away with it all what kind of story can actually take them down and what clout would be needed to get the scoop.

I genuinely think at this point in yankland there is nothing right up to rape or murder that their system would pull someone in power up on.

 

Grujic to sassuolo for £13m to replace locatelli apparently. About time he moved on a perm deal so he can actually build a career.

 

As long as they pay it up front I couldnt give a stuff where he goes.

Need to get that cash in quick.

 

Locatelli off to Juve?

 

that’s the rumour. £40m to Juve.

Sounds like even if he doesn’t go, they’re still keen on grujic

 

Doesn't really matter, we won't pay a lump sum out in one go anyway

 

Allison is close to signing a new deal.

 

That's just good business. Take in the cash, delay in paying out the cash as long as possible.

 

Ismaila Sarr wants to join Liverpool his club is aware of this

 

I think he has a lot of potential and wouldn't be against this! Raphinha and Malen are my number 1 wide options though (outside of Mbappe and Sancho).

 

It's funny that you pick out Trump there and totally ignore the free pass Biden is getting.

 

Leicester are close in on a deal for Ozan Kabak.

 

Tbf to mito, he was referring to the state of high-level politics in general, and just picked out a few high-profile names as examples.
Trump isn't even circumspect about behaviour that others may find unacceptable - in fact he's bragged about it several times. By his own admission such things are not unsubstantiated accusations but behaviour he seems proud of.

 

He does say "at this point in yankland ..." and to be factually correct, at this point Biden is in control..... although some aren't so sure