🚨 EXCL: Manchester United reach agreement with Chelsea to sign Andrey Santos. Deal for 22yo #CFC midfielder worth £48m + £2m easily achievable add-ons & 10% sell-on clause. Permission given to undergo #MUFC medical; personal terms in place @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/TY4qfwhHT4
🚨 EXCL: Bruno Guimaraes informs Newcastle United of wish to leave & join Arsenal. #AFC stepping up pursuit - ready to offer deal worth up to £60m at present but no club-to-club contact yet + #NUFC stance still not entertaining bids for 28yo @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/6W3cpcqKKh
Speed sabe quando é piada e sempre leva na zoeira, hoje ele viu que foi sério e ficou completamente abatido. Nunca vi ele assim.
Agora o mundo descobriu o quão racista os argentinos são. E se você é brasileiro e torce pra eles: me dê unfollow, eu não quero você aqui.
The wait is over.
We have 2 golds: Chimdiebube Onwubiko and Don Anele Munachimso.
We are the best in the world!
Egejurum Onyedikachi’s name was omitted. He should have a gold.
I always take Pele out of the equation though because his case was too peculiar
Aside from winning three FIFA World Cups, he was the first football 'global superstar' if I am not wrong
During Pele's era, most players stay put in their countries, not that there were no movement of players abroad, but it's not as rampant as we see now
Pele played for two clubs in his career, Santos of Brazil and New York Cosmos of USA
After his breakout year in 1958 where he won the World Cup as a 17 year, a lot of the big European teams, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Manchester United, came for him but he couldn't be transferred
In fact, Inter Milan offered 'one million dollar' to sign Pele, everything agreed already but the news of Pelé leaving broke out
Santos fans revolted against the management and promised to injure them if they ever sell Pele
It was more than football, it's a case of sell Pele and you will regret it
And South American ultras are crazy people, they will do what they say. Life was at stake
Santos told everyone, Pele isn't for sale and Inter Milan tore the contract paper
In 1961, the Brazilian government declared Pele as an 'official national treasure' which made him non transferable out of the country
As Pele grew, Santos deviced a plan and were doing world tour with the Santos team for friendly games
Stadiums were always filled up. Everybody wanted to see Pele
He retired at Santos but came out of retirement to sign for New York Cosmos of USA
He earned $2.7m per year for three years. He was the highest paid athlete in the world as at 1975
His first public appearance in USA, he got injured because of the crowd, he had to be carried out in the process
I believe Pele is out of the norm if he can command all these in the 50s
It's a crazy feat combined with his huge success in the game
A generational talent. How?
You can’t mention any player like him in the last 30+ years. There’s probably never been one like him in the game’s history.
⚡️ Haaland is the purest specialist football has ever produced.
He deleted everything from his game.
The dribbling, the buildup, the flourish.
All of it liquidated and reinvested into a single function: ending attacks.
A goal per game at Salzburg. At Dortmund. At City. For Norway. Four systems, three countries, zero adaptation lag. Fastest to 50 Champions League goals in history. Now a goal in 14 straight competitive internationals.
The secret is that his finishing happens before the shot exists. The run is timed to the defender’s blind side. The body is open before the ball arrives. The first touch is the shot. Defenders mark where he is. He was never there.
Everyone else plays the moment.
Haaland plays a half second in the future, and in that half second he is completely alone.
The day Brazil lost its roots in 1982 and started on a trajectory of playing more European football was the day Brazilian football died.
And it culminated in hiring a European manager only to suffer one of its biggest embarrassments in history.
Brazil deserves this.
The Brazilian people that bow down to European football deserve this.
The people that supported Ancelotti deserve this.
Brazil will only be Brazil again when it reverts to its roots and discovers itself and what makes it unique again.
🇵🇹🇪🇸 Cristiano Ronaldo: “Lamine Yamal has a bright future”.
“He’s doing very well and his future will be great. But I always look at Spain as a team and they play very well”.