Football Chatters

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

My first moment! This will contain opinion threads released before and during the football season! If you have any spare time then have a look, if you like what you see then like, RT, comment and follow!

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[Road to Nowhere Football @RTNFootball]

🚨S5 E2 is now live🚨

🇪🇸 16 y/o Lamine Yamal - the next big thing?
🇫🇷 Francesco Farioli’s social media managerial bandwagon dissected
🇩🇪 High flying Leverkusen’s Swiss metronome
🇮🇹 Milan derby tactical preview

… and so much more 🇮🇹🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸

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[Road to Nowhere Football @RTNFootball]

🚨S5 E1 is now live🚨

🇪🇸 22 y/o Ramon Terrats - bargain of the summer?
🇩🇪 Frank Schmidt at Heidenheim - greatest 21st century Bundesliga storyline?
🇮🇹 Atalanta’s post-Højlund attack
🇫🇷 Strasbourg x BlueCo contextualised

… and more 🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪🇪🇸

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[TheSecretScout @TheSecretScout_]

Great tournament so far over in Northern Ireland #SuperCupNI

Competitive games are important in youth development @SuperCupNI

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

The game's been sleepwalking into something like this for decades. We perhaps shouldn't be so surprised things are transpiring as they are presently.

Still, there are places to keep falling in love with this sport.

So I think I'll be prioritising that. Have a good night all.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

Perhaps this sounds establishment, but the biggest tragedy of all these outstandingly talented footballers moving to Saudi for a big pay day is just that - they're outstandingly talented footballers.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

Money is becoming a point of no object. It's even overtaking sentiment and what is meant to be so good about playing the sport. That's what's detaching me from the global game and bringing me more in-sync with 'local' football.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Sergej Milinković-Savić to Al Hilal, here we go! Documents in place between Al Hilal and Lazio for €40m deal 🚨🔵🇸🇦

Serbian midfielder to sign three year contract and join Saudi league side with Rúben Neves and Kalidou Koulibaly.

⚠️ Contract signing and medical still pending.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

Been a bit busy of late so apologies for inactivity on this account! Meantime, here's a feature 👇

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[Lewis Bennett @bennettlewis75]

Quare bit of midnight oil burned in the making of this.

It's a long one, but what's gone on at Larne has been a very busy building-up to a first top-flight title in 134 years of history last term. Lots of growth on and off the pitch. Hope you enjoy!

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[Lewis Bennett @bennettlewis75]

Quare bit of midnight oil burned in the making of this.

It's a long one, but what's gone on at Larne has been a very busy building-up to a first top-flight title in 134 years of history last term. Lots of growth on and off the pitch. Hope you enjoy!

https://t.co/BSjLgSHVXJ

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

It'd be hard to see how this Scottish team doesn't make the Euros on current form. They were well-deserving of their victory and were very solid despite the elements threatening to somewhat derail their winning bid early on.

That's a good Georgia team but Scots well worth it.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

No way that pitch passed inspection...

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

The pitch looks absolutely pristine now. The problem now is that there's currently only one team on the pitch.

Georgia are still in the dressing room, it wasn't a long 'inspection' there but the ref would look to be going to get the Georgian players and asking them to come out.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

Spain prevail on penalties. It's Dani Carvajal's clincher that caps off the Spanish victory over Croatia on spot-kicks - Aymeric Laporte hit the ball, Bruno Petković was denied by Unai Simón before Real Madrid's Carvajal finished.

First international honour since the 2012 Euros.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

Very clever from Joselu. Might be one of the best-timed movements behind a defence I've seen all year.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

Both sets of players involved in a bit of a scuffle there before the shoot-out. Croatia have been in this scenario and know how to prevail when it counts from 12 yards, a goalless 120 minutes bringing the situation about.

A game that felt largely controlled without exploding.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

A 75% stake of ownership from a country's Public Investment Fund - estimated to be worth $650billion and pushing for the $1trillion mark in a few years' time - in four football clubs.

That's the context behind these four teams' spending.

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[Public Investment Fund @PIF_en]

#PIF’s ownership in the clubs’ companies represent 75% in each club, while their respective non-profit foundations hold 25% ownership of each club.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

This probably contextualises how the Saudi investments regarding, as of late, N'Golo Kanté - Al-Ittihad are one of the four clubs now effectively with the Saudi Public Investment Fund financing them - and €100m p/a wages.

And somehow suspect this is only just the start of it.

[Public Investment Fund @PIF_en]

As part of today’s announcement of the Sports Clubs Investment and Privatization Project, four Saudi clubs – Al Ittihad, Al Ahli, Al Nassr, and Al Hilal – have been transformed into companies, each of which is owned by #PIF and non-profit foundations for each club.

[Football Chatters @FtblChatters]

N'Golo Kanté (Al Ittihad), Rúben Neves (Al Hilal), Hakim Ziyech (Al Nassr), Kalidou Koulibaly (Al Hilal) and Édouard Mendy (Al Ahli) are all candidates to follow and join Saudi Arabian football. A €55m fee in Neves' case.

Feels like this could only be the tip of the iceberg.