🚨 Dortmund sporting director on the record about the 2022 Haaland sale:
“Manchester City never wanted the real number out. That was the first condition they put on the table. Not the release clause everyone printed. The full package.
Officially it was reported as £51 million because that was the figure written into the clause and that was the figure they asked us to stand by.
Internally it was a completely different conversation. When you add the guaranteed payments, the structured extras and what was agreed around the player’s camp, we were looking at something close to €250 million all-in.
That is more than PSG paid for Neymar in 2017. City knew that. We knew that. They did not want Europe talking about it.
They were very clear: if Dortmund confirmed anything above the clause, the deal would become politically messy for them. So there was a private understanding.
We stay silent on the real total. They stay silent. A few people in the media were steered toward the £51m line and that became the official story
I am not going to sit here four years later and pretend we sold the best young striker in Europe for pocket money. We did not. City paid what they had to pay to get him. They just did not want the world to see the receipt.”
If China had been militarily weak, the US would have attacked it by now just to stop its development
And their excuse for attacking China would be to liberate their people from dictatorship, as if they give a damn
Diesel prices have hit a record high in the UK at 199.18p per litre.
Filling an average family car now costs almost £110 - £31 more than it did when the Middle East conflict began in February.
That is a weekly hit to working households, tradespeople, haulage companies, taxi drivers, farmers and anyone whose living depends on a van or lorry.
The pain does not stop at the pump. Almost everything on supermarket shelves arrives on a diesel truck. Delivery vans, construction plants, agricultural machinery and the supply chains that keep the country moving all run on the same fuel. When the price of that fuel jumps nearly 40% in seven months, it lands on the price of food, building materials, parcels, and services. Small businesses absorb it until they cannot and eventually shut the doors. Rural drivers already covering longer distances feel it first and hardest.
This is the second time in four years that a distant war has sent UK diesel into uncharted territory. The previous record was set after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Now another conflict thousands of miles away is doing it again.
The UK remains massively exposed because of government neglect and punishment taxation, limited domestic refining facilities, high dependence on imported products and a fuel duty and VAT structure that takes an even larger slice even as prices surge.
Households are already stretched. Energy bills have not eased. Now the cost of simply getting to work or delivering a product has jumped again. Many forecourts are already over £2 a litre; motorway services are higher still.
It’s time for the government to act and slash fuel duty at the petrol and diesel pump.
🚨🗣️ Samir Nasri does NOT like the comparisons between France and Spain:
“Spain have a clear football PHILOSOPHY. They all know how to play, even if you change the manager.”
“France have NO playing identity. It’s the same with England.”
A European investigation documented HUNDREDS of Gaza CHILDREN, each DELIBERATELY SHOT with a SINGLE BULLET to the HEAD or CHEST by the IDF.
@grok Yes/No
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Muxqp4beK9
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian:
Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, but the inspectors are requested to come to Iran.
Israel has murdered savagely over 70,000 innocents in Gaza, but Iran, while behind the table of negotiation, was bombed.
Israel has the bombs, has weapons of mass destruction, is not a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, during her shameful life has not allowed a single inspection, but they are rewarded by all the means necessary for them to be able to bomb any capital in the region at will.