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Wilshere even before his injuries I thought he was the kind of player that always looks good, but his actual influence on games is a little suspect. But that's the kind of thing you get better at with age and experience, and his injuries kinda wrecked that. A shame.

Also, a lot of transfers have trophy bonuses attached to them too, not just player wages. Barça and Madrid had massive bills this decade with all their CL wins. We had to take a loan to pay all the bonuses during Luís Enrique's treble season. In general for a club winning a trophy is bad for the bottom line, in the short term (growing your stature and commercial appeal outweights it in the long term, of course).

This prevents large football nations to cap-tie prospects just in case they end up becoming superstars playing for somebody else. A 18 year old asked to play for Spain will always say yes, and may lose out on a long international career just because he thought he was good enough (which any 18 year old is wont to do). I think all the limitations make it pretty acceptable.

FIFA to change rules to allow capped footballers to become eligible for another nation if: - They were already eligible for that new nation when they were first capped - Have had no caps since they reached 21 years of age. - It's been 3 years since their last cap - Have not played in a senior international tournament It's a good change, imho, and will help young players that are "cap-tied" by big nations but then forgotten (i.e. Munir)

We truly have not a bucket to pee on

It's not exactly that. If they get kicked out they'll avoid responsiblity for the 2020-2021 season which is forecasted to be quite disastrous given that we won't have any kind of matchday income in the near future. I'm also quite skeptical about La Liga being able to carry out the season, given the likelihood of covid infections in the teams' squads.

The motion of no confidence against Barcelona's board has gathered enough support from the membership and will be put to a vote at some point during October. It will likely pass, unless Covid puts turnout below the required 15% for a valid vote. The whole thing is, to be frank, quite pointless since there's an election already scheduled for March, and the motion of no-confidence at best will bring that forward a couple of months.

Zidane has beef with Reguilón, rumor goes. Allegedly some conflict with one of Zidane's sons when both played for the B team.

I'd love Dest. We'll see if it's true...

We played a friendly today. It was unremarkable besides the fact Messi scored twice and seemed to care, and the fact we wore the worst shirt-shorts combo I have ever seen on a Barça player in 40 years I've been alive.

Reguilón is a great prospect but Spurs got taken to the cleaners by Real Madrid here. That's essentially a 2 year loan. And that's without taking into account that €30m in post-Covid football are probably more valuable than €40m in 2022.

Financial reasons, they received the money upfront from Juventus. Lots of partying too. I'd still have kept him, mind.

Out of the €40m paid by Wolves to Porto for Fabio Silva, agents get a cut of €10m (Mendes company gets €7m). The owner of Wolves is also a shareholder on Mendes' company. Ashley should learn from the masters.

Only about 14 years. Might as well cash in the nonvoluntary gloryhunting.

Morata linked to Juve too. It really looks like Juve is trying to win the 2016 Champions League.

"Haaland growing up" was like yesterday, though.

How long have you been getting shit for being a Liverpool fan, Mike?

I hope the hallways in that mansion are long, since he loves running into blind alleys so much.

James is your prototypical genius lazy #10, but he has doubled down on the "lazy" part on the past years. Hopefully Ancelotti can bring back his early Real Madrid form. He was sacked from Bayern before James could really recover from injury.

Fati was magnificent yesterday. Hope we don't screw him up.

Still can't get used to Mourinho and Ancelotti managing Spurs and Everton.

The environment around the club is poisonous at the moment. If Koeman somehow manages to turn that around (and he isn't precisely known for his man-management skills...) then maybe.

Well, there's a motion of no confidence in the works, but with Covid-19 is going to be hard to get enough backing for it to proceed (needs 15% of membership in order to get put to a vote).

It's hard to sell a player nobody's bidding for. It looks like the whole thing was dependant on him coming on a free. It's a bad situation to be in, mind. Going to be a pretty nasty season.

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