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bleedorange0037 said:
Saudis making it rain isn’t exactly helping things. Almost £70M for Crysensio Summerville is insane.
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Just caught up on that saga this morning. AS Roma thought they convinced him to go there instead and sent a private jet to pick him up but he never showed up. 24 years old and about to go spend the prime of his playing career in Saudi Arabia. Weird. And then yeah, 70M? No thanks.
 
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Cristian Romero transfer news: Inter Milan interested in signing Tottenham captain during summer window

Inter Milan interested in signing Tottenham defender Cristian Romero; any deal for the Argentina defender would be financially complex; Spurs are expected to sell if the right offer arrives; Djed Spence also remains on Inters shortlist; Roberto De Zerbi wants two new forwards
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Interesting there isn’t much of a market for him right now. No one wants to pay for an elite defender (when he wants to be) prone to erratic play, injuries, and red cards? Looks like taking 40 from Inter might be our best value.

The links to Arsenal are comic too. You would think journalists would know that Tottenham and Arsenal don’t do business with each other. Period. The respective fan bases would riot.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
Will be all the more difficult because this is a post-WC transfer window where some players values are especially inflated. Not sure if you guys were linked with anyone who had an especially good WC, but if, expect to pay a massive premium. Everton were rumored to be in for Djed Spence this window, but we’re now almost certainly priced out because he had two and a half great games and one incredible tackle.
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To your point transfer window after World Cup is always madness and that’s where part of my frustration stems from. They’ve known for a while it was this summer.

Seems like this post WC window is much crazier than ones in past. I wish LFC could’ve gotten Diomande but $100M+ for a guy with 43 senior appearances is insane.
 
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Chelsea interested in signing Danny Welbeck as a backup striker. Old man Welbeck still has some life in those legs but the real value in a small deal like this is the MFer can’t score on us anymore if he’s on our bench 🤣

 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
Quick "cool story bro." My son went up against Yan Diomande (#11 for Ivory Coast) 3 years ago when Yan played for DME Academy in Daytona. He locked him up (my son is #2) so they moved Yan to the other side of the field. Yan then had 2 goals and an assist in the last 30 minutes. Crazy to think a few years later that he is one of the top young players in the sport and most big clubs trying to sign him. To this day my son smiles when he tells people he pocketed Yan for 60 minutes. And when I say pocketed, I mean it. 0 shots, one cross, and Yan was frustrated. His coach pulled him aside during water break to calm him down before moving him out to the left for the balance of the game.

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@Outofmyvolcanmind looks like your son can now say he pocketed a Real Madrid Galáctico. Pretty effing cool!

 
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The pitch at Yankee stadium for Liverpool Wrexham looks comical. I’ve been there for an NYCFC match and didn’t think it looked 30 yards wide.
 
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This **** is turning into an even bigger deal now. I wonder where other Federations fall in this conversation. Do more threaten a boycott or follow FIFA? Judging by what FIFA is proposing and the fact that the Kushner family is involved in the financials/proposal, I bet the US Soccer Federation remains on FIFAs side but maybe they will surprise me. What a **** show. FIFA so ****ing corrupt. We already knew this, but they just keep pushing the limits.

 
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Nash_Vol97 said:
This **** is turning into an even bigger deal now. I wonder where other Federations fall in this conversation. Do more threaten a boycott or follow FIFA? Judging by what FIFA is proposing and the fact that the Kushner family is involved in the financials/proposal, I bet the US Soccer Federation remains on FIFAs side but maybe they will surprise me. What a **** show. FIFA so ****ing corrupt. We already knew this, but they just keep pushing the limits.

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They’ll come for college football shortly thereafter.
 
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CONCACAF loves them some corruption as well, but looks like they somewhat followed UEFA. I haven’t seen explicitly that they will boycott, but they “strongly reject” the proposal.

This feels kind of like the Super League. News comes out, fan and league/federation condemns it, teams then backed out. I bet similar will happen here and FIFA will tuck their tail and walk it back. Never underestimate the incompetence of Infantino and FIFA though.

 
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bleedorange0037 said:
No surprise here. Idea was always dead in the water once the European nations were in complete solidarity about having no part of it.
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Infantino should be sacked for ever even floating the idea. In a world that had already seen the very best of Sepp Blatter for ages, Infantino still managed to go beyond to a point where anyone sane would say wait, what?
 
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ArmchairQB said:
Infantino should be sacked for ever even floating the idea. In a world that had already seen the very best of Sepp Blatter for ages, Infantino still managed to go beyond to a point where anyone sane would say wait, what?
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He may not get outright sacked for it, but I won’t be surprised if this ultimately ends up costing him his position. He’s up for reelection early next year.
 
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Really ****** past few years for this guy. Been banned for almost 2 years now but if he were tested again today with the new standards in place he wouldn't have been banned because that level he had isn’t illegal anymore.

 
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ArmchairQB said:
Infantino should be sacked for ever even floating the idea. In a world that had already seen the very best of Sepp Blatter for ages, Infantino still managed to go beyond to a point where anyone sane would say wait, what?
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It’s rarely the head man’s idea. Typically the board/council. But he’s taking the abuse for sure.
 
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Outofmyvolcanmind said:
It’s rarely the head man’s idea. Typically the board/council. But he’s taking the abuse for sure.
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It’s kind of a strange one. I’m not really even sure who the FIFA president technically “works for”.

For example, the NFL commissioner is really just a figurehead who represents the collective interests of the owners, and as such, you would NEVER see him proposing something so out of step with what they wanted.

I assume the FIFA president is somewhat different in that his only task is to bring in as much money as possible to FIFA itself. A private equity deal certainly does that, right up to the point that you have countries, or this case, entire confederations simply saying they won’t participate and the value of the WC craters. Seems like a dumb (or probably just arrogant) move to not try to stick a finger in the wind in a less public way and see which way the winds were blowing with the major federations.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
It’s kind of a strange one. I’m not really even sure who the FIFA president technically “works for”.

For example, the NFL commissioner is really just a figurehead who represents the collective interests of the owners, and as such, you would NEVER see him proposing something so out of step with what they wanted.

I assume the FIFA president is somewhat different in that his only task is to bring in as much money as possible to FIFA itself. A private equity deal certainly does that, right up to the point that you have countries, or this case, entire confederations simply saying they won’t participate and the value of the WC craters. Seems like a dumb (or probably just arrogant) move to not try to stick a finger in the wind in a less public way and see which way the winds were blowing with the major federations.
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If not the council, he reports to the Fifa congress which makes more sense actually. In the congress there are more hands in the cookie jar. They select the sites (highly corrupt), the president (this is how they get their guy and someone that will do what they want), decide who to punish (highly corrupt and same as the NCAA or UEFA).

I can almost guarantee you that this wasn't one man's idea or effort. It was birthed behind curtains and Infantino is "the float."
 
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chuckiepoo said:
They’ll come for college football shortly thereafter.
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They already have, sort of. Otro Capital owns part of the for-profit entity for athletics that Utah created. They don't have any decision-making authority around hiring/firing coaches, recruiting, etc. (and I don't think that will ever happen in college sports), but they own a chunk of the entity that handles operations, ticketing, sponsorships, etc.

The Big Ten got close to having a vote on a deal to sell part of their media rights to an outside investor (technically wasn't a private equity deal) but got some pushback so it appears to be off...for now.
 
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