Lukaku might go for over 110. if Ings stays healthy 25-30 is a steal for Villa.
Liverpool gets like 2m in sell on fee for this Ings deal. It will pay for about 6 weeks of Salah's new contract
Actually it’s a 20% sell on fee - so closer to £6mLiverpool gets like 2m in sell on fee for this Ings deal. It will pay for about 6 weeks of Salah's new contract
the private equity model is to cut costs to squeeze out a return...let's see where the cost reductions will come from
I've been fascinated by the aggressive move by investment firms into pro sports - sovereign wealth funds, investors buying multiple teams across sports (FSG & RedBall, Kroenke), and CVC buying stakes in rugby sevens and now La Liga.
Emery lost his mind about four days ago, so it seems that his hot temper carried over to the team.
I'm in shock. Barcelona will end up losing Messi, in large part, because they signed Griezmann, Dembele, and Coutinho. Yikes.
Well he wanted Barca to sign Romero... who instead is heading to Spurs.
Has anyone had a more disastrous boardroom tenure that Bartomeu? I guess Peter Ridsdale at Leeds was worse. Hard to think of another.
Will be interesting to see the ripple effect. PSG has insisted they aren’t moving Mbappe, but if they get Messi, maybe they sell Mbappe to Real and get a transfer fee instead of letting him walk next year.
I'd love to see Levy's opening salary offer. "You're a bit on the older side, so how about £50k/wk with a £1k bonus for each goal?"
I've been holding back on posting this, but I think the Kane stuff has been overblown a bit. If he comes back to Spurs, continues to be the consummate pro he was his entire career up until a couple of days ago, and he is on good form, almost all will be forgiven by Yiddos--myself included.
Yeah, no Liverpool fans care anymore that Gerrard handed in a transfer request a few weeks after winning the European Cup.
Yeah, "man-without-a-team" seems pretty hyperbolic. He's damaged himself somewhat, but if he stays for this season, he will score a brace against Arsenal and be mostly forgiven.
I assume most of us are Stateside and I think the player movement dynamics in US pro sports has conditioned us to stuff like this, but across the pond it does seem like fans continue to take things more personally (for understandable and legitimate reasons).
His profile doesn't feel that unusual. It would be more unusual if he had really "made it" in the Bundesliga, but given that his only success so far has been in the Serbian league and the Austrian league, MLS should be a moderate step up in standard of play.
Is it? Messi is going to retire long before the ESPN rights expire. Obviously they probably didn’t expect him to leave this year, but it was inevitable.
