See Ziyech move to Saudi is off. Medical turned up issues in one of his knees. Shows how far his star has fallen since he was lighting it up for Ajax in the CL that his price tag was only 8m which surprised me considering how they are firing money around.
Pulisic off to Ac Milan for €14m, still only 24, that's some deal in fairness.Chelsea paid €64m for him. In another time we would've been interested in Pulisic, Havertz and Sancho who are all available this summer considerably less than what they were signed for.
Zaha off to Galatasaray on a free Raul Jiminez to Fulham for 5.5m - how that mans star has fallen since the horrific injury
This Mbappe stuff is absolutely bonkers! Whole thing is in a mess with this Saudi league, they'll have to find a way to protect the European leagues somehow but no idea how when the clubs involved might be secretly delighted that they can pocket huge transfer sums for surplus players.
It’s a cliched phrase but this Summer I can say with 100% honesty The game’s gone. Falling more and more out of love with the game these past couple of years. Agents, Clubs and footballers who from a a very young age have known nothing but the priority of Money have put it this way and now the billionaires get to exclusively play with their toys. Sad state of affairs. None more so than the 2 bonafide legendary captains of our club taken the absolute piss.
Mbappe gets 700 million PSG's FFP issues get solved in one go And Real Madrid can afford him next summer because there will be no transfer fee,and Mbape will be worth around a billion euros and will probably settle for a paltry 4 or 500 grand a week.
Why haven't they bothered to find a way to protect the South American or African leagues? It's actually worse what happens to them that all their young talent gets snatched from their leagues and brought to Europe at young ages. At least now with the Saudi's they are taking older players. A total boycott of the Saudi funded sports is the only way it stops. But that'll never happen. We're just getting closer and closer to a Super League being a thing. We're not the audience for the future of football. They want the social media zombies to imitate their TikTok idols and wear both jerseys to a match so they can also be supporting the winning team etc.
Agreed, will probably change in a few weeks however at the moment not one but not arsed about the new season. Indifferent to Gerrard and Henderson going as I can see why they would, just the whole situation is bizarre. Watched fck all golf this year as it’s turned in a shitshow. Wait till they come after the GAA
I was proper giddy about transfer dealings this close season. Daily checks on transfer rumours which can be tough with no social media account but since the Fab and Hendo news I'm genuinely not arsed. They could bring in 200 mill+ worth of talent but who leads them, bed's them in and sets the manager's standards now post Milly and Hendo? Weeks away from new season and not a hope was this foreseen however the club play it. They'll do well to keep Thiago too. We've proven we're not great at reacting after the unexpected so fuck knows what level of panic is going on behind the scenes. Can't help but feel negative about it all unfortunately. Maybe that'll change come kick off v Chelsea but I doubt it. The soul of the game really has been bought and This Mbappe charade has me looking forward to the year whenever that may be where it all just blows up.
Was reading earlier that Saudi Arabia looked into investing in GAA, but got scared off when they realised they couldn't compete with the funding Dublin get.
I'm only joking. Obviously they can match the funding,but because Dublin hurlers aren't winning, they've decided money doesn't make a difference in GAA.
More money funnelled through Monaghan GAA than the Duba could dream on. All those dollars sent back! Your fooling no one Gary ,