Keerat

Goa State of Mind. Student of the Beautiful Game. FCBarcelona. LiverpoolFC. Toronto Raptors. JFT97.

Beauty comes first. Victory is second. What matters is joy.

[Keerat @Bossquxts]

https://t.co/HjLkFxAJxj

You know you've gone crazy when you're in the promo.

Yours truly, at 2:50 in the green & red, just chillin.

[Lewis Bower @LewisBower2021]

Liverpool U21 goalkeeper Armin Pecsi made his senior international debut this evening for Hungary after coming from the bench in the 61st minute. He kept a clean-sheet.

He is one of 4 Liverpool players aged 21 and under to make their senior national debut this week.

[Caitlin Cooper @C2_Cooper]

O.G. Anunoby's eFG% in the last five seconds of the shot-clock is currently 55.8% - the top mark among the 14 players in the playoffs who have attempted at least 30 shots with that amount of time remaining.

The league's top grenadier.

[• @Not_Eternal2]

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Until further confirmation, been told that SL Benfica are aware of Lecce's Tiago Gabriel situation, whose contract expires in 2027.

The youngster has also played for the youth clubs of Sporting CP.

4 more clubs have expressed interest in him, including Juventus.

[SG @04gully]

S. Africa, Brazil and Qatar were all painted a certain way and had their own issues but at no point were they actively stopping players, teams, referee and fans from participating in the biggest sporting event, 3 days before it starts. America gotta be the worst hosts ever

[David Ki 🇰🇷 @gianluca1014234]

FC Barcelona target - a giant American defender 🔵🔴🎯

Name: Neil Pierre (18) 🇺🇸

🛡 Centre-back

↕️ Height: 1.98m or 2.01m

💪 Weight: 81kg

👣 Foot: Right

🧬 Similar players: Ibrahima Konate (very intelligent) 🇫🇷 & Virgil van Dijk 🇳🇱

💎 Potential Rating: 9.3/10

[FC Wonderkid @FcWonderkid]

🇪🇸⭐️ 𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗞𝗔 𝗧𝗨𝗡𝗞𝗔𝗥𝗔 (𝟭𝟲) simply 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗬𝗘𝗗 the U17 EURO…

✅ MOST ASSISTS (3)
✅ MOST CHANCES CREATED (20)
✅ MOST DEEP COMPLETIONS (14)
✅ MOST xA (2.58)

𝗟𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 🏭💎

[⚽️²𝐍𝐓 𝐅ᴏᴏᴛʙᴀʟʟ ʜᴜʙ™ @NTFootballHub]

English academy gems on the move?
✈️
Vincent Joseph Liverpool➡️Bayern/Dortmund/#ManUtd
Heaven Kilwa Villa➡️ManCity
Jeremy Monga Leicester➡️Arsenal
Xavier Parker #ManCity➡️Liverpool
Zion Pullan Celtic➡️A.Bilbao
Silva Mexes Man Utd➡️Leeds
Aurelien Guernier Birmingham➡️PL
#Transfers

[Annie Eaves @AnnieEaves]

Absolutely Machiavellian from big Florentino. Wants a late election boost, speaks to his Atletico counterpart, works it all out. Offers €150m for Alvarez, always knowing it would be rejected, and in the process screws Barcelona efforts to get him for less. 10/10. No notes.

[𝗣𝗘𝗗 @PED7]

Mad that he didn't have any visa problems

[Matthew Chayes @chayesmatthew]

Morocco, in 1777, was the first county in the world to recognize the United States as a sovereign nation.

[Empire of the Kop @empireofthekop]

Liverpool have confirmed that academy players Kareem Ahmed, Emmanuel Airoboma, James Balagizi, DJ Bernard, Josh Davidson, Terence Miles, Jacob Poytress and Oakley Cannonier will all leave the club upon the expiry of their contracts this month

[@LFC]

[⚽️²𝐍𝐓 𝐅ᴏᴏᴛʙᴀʟʟ ʜᴜʙ™ @NTFootballHub]

🚨Barça are closely monitoring US-born center-back Neil Pierre (18)!
🇩🇰Currently at Lyngby (on loan from Philadelphia Union)
🇺🇸 #USMNT U19 regular
📈Dynamic 2m CB with impressive size, speed, & power
🇭🇹 His older brother, Nelson, plays for Haiti's U20s
#Transfers #FCBarcelona

[LB @LBLFC_]

When you see some of the prices on the market, how the fuck are Liverpool willing to accept 35 million for Curtis Jones? West Ham are quoting 85 million for players while in the championship.

[Keerat @Bossquxts]

Martín Cáceres.

[Ogunwale Olaoluwakitan @boyuchennaa]

🇺🇾 Excluding Luis Suárez and Ronald Araújo, can you name another Uruguayan who played for FC Barcelona and won a domestic treble with the club? 👀

⚠️ Level: Very Difficult

[Lewis Bower @LewisBower2021]

It seems we might expect some rotation in personnel between the three big north-west clubs. Manchester United could add a Liverpool academy player to their scholarship group, potentially two while Liverpool, may, might, could, exacerbate Manchester City’s misery of missing out on Josh Abe by adding a gem. Still a long way to go though and more will follow in the coming weeks.

[LFC Transfer Room @LFCTransferRoom]

🚨ℹ️ 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢 - @FabrizioRomano: Liverpool are pushing hard to sign Yan Diomande and are prepared to offer significant financial terms to get the deal done.

PSG also remain interested, but their pursuit depends on potential departures meanwhile, the Reds have already created room in their squad following Salah’s exit, with more departures possible.

[Kristian Sturt @FootieWriter]

Chelsea selling Cucurella for £50m would be one of those deals that sounds clever in a spreadsheet and looks worse the second you remember this is supposed to be a football club.

Especially when the owners are potentially judging future investment based on “profit”.

Because there’s a big difference between PSR profit and an actual transfer win.

Take Cucurella.

If Chelsea sell him for £50m (and these remain rumours), Twitter accounts will tell you it’s a book profit or an amortization profit. Sounds good, but is it?

He cost between £55m and £62m and signed a six-year deal in 2022.

Roughly, at worse, with 2 years left on his initial contract, his remaining book value would be around £18m.

Sell him for £50m and Chelsea could register around £30m in accounting profit.

So yes, from a PSR point of view, it “works”.

But that is not the same as the transfer being a success, or proof that the wider model is working.

And to be clear, this isn’t me defending BlueCo. I don’t care whether their spreadsheet gets a little gold star at the end of the financial year. I’m looking at it from a Chelsea point of view.

If this long-term, youth-based investment “plan” is supposed to work, then regular first-team players cannot be leaving for less than Chelsea paid for them. That’s the line for me.

Take the Enzo rumour.

Chelsea paid £106.8m. If #RMCF or Manchester City want him and the club are saying £120m minimum, which is what reports are suggesting, that at least makes sense.

I may not want him sold, but financially you can see the logic. That would be a book profit and an actual profit.

If you sign, strengthen the team, play a leading role and leave for profit then at the very least you’re a net positive. Agree with it or not, that is what the model is supposed to look like.

Cucurella at £50m though? He may not be untouchable, and he didn’t have the strongest end to the season, but he is still a regular first-team player.

If Chelsea played a big game tomorrow, he is very much who we’re starting at left back.

So if he leaves for £50m, that might help PSR, but #CFC would still be selling an important squad player for less than his bought value. That’s the difference. Accounting profit is not the same as a footballing win.

If these players flop, fine, you try to escape with minimal damage, and, as they’re young, you’ll probably be able to get your money back on them.

But if they become useful players, starters, and players big clubs want, then Chelsea should be making real profit on them, not just amortisation profit.

Otherwise the “buy young, protect value, sell high” plan becomes:

“Buy expensive, use them for a few years, then celebrate losing slightly less money than it looks like on paper.”

That is not something Chelsea fans need to be clapping.

And the bit that worries me is this:

If #MCFC , #MUFC , Atlético Madrid and Barcelona are all showing interest, he has two years left on his deal, and £50m is still the ceiling, what does that say? Because if four major clubs can want one of your regular starters and you still can’t get back what you paid, then I worry about what that says for the future.

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🚨🇲🇽 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 | Raul Jimenez (35) has agreed to re-join Wolves! It will be a free transfer, reports @JacobsBen/@alex_crook. 🐺✅

[Bayern & Germany @iMiaSanMia]

Eintracht Frankfurt are in advanced talks with Noël Aséko, offering him a contract until 2030 with an option for an additional year. Bayern have yet to make a decision over the player's future. In case of a sale, Bayern expect a double digit million fee. Any potential deal is separate from the negotiations for Nathaniel Brown. Frankfurt are not interested in doing swap deals [@BILD_Eintracht]

[Florian Plettenberg @Plettigoal]

🚨❌ EXCL | Rejection in the last hours: Despite Liverpool’s intensive efforts, Hertha BSC gem Kennet Eichhorn will not join the Reds.#LFC

Eichhorn wants to stay in Germany. Leverkusen are pushing hard for a permanent deal as revealed last night. Leipzig remain hopeful.

The 16 y/o has decided against a move to England, even though Liverpool’s offer was the most attractive at first glance - both financially and in terms of the club’s stature. The offer from Liverpool was higher than those of all German clubs competing for Eichhorn. @SkySportDE 🇩🇪