🚨🔵 Official, confirmed. Maxence Lacroix joins Chelsea on £52m deal from Crystal Palace.
The defender has signed his long term deal on Wednesday.
Here Lacroix with agents Will Salthouse and Kevin Sy from Unique Sports Group.
🚨💣 BREAKING: YAN DIOMANDE TO REAL MADRID, HERE WE GO! ⚪️✨
Agreement closed tonight with RB Leipzig for fee over €100m for the Ivorian winger.
Diomande will fly to Madrid this week for medical tests and contract signing until June 2031.
DONE. 🇨🇮
Keep asking the board to sign a different player every other week.
I’ll just keep counting down the next five years until I finally get to see this kid play for the first team.
Hugo Galdeano has been one of Barcelona’s biggest discoveries from the U12 World Cup. He’s been trending for months, and almost every day I come across a new clip or highlight that makes me wonder how someone who’s only 12 years old can be this good.
The only way I can describe him is this: he plays as if he and the ball are in love. Fearless, intelligent, skillful, creative, and incredibly entertaining to watch.
The best description I’ve read about him was:
“He hunts opponents like Gavi, glides past them like Pedri, and treats the ball like Iniesta.”
La Masia used to produce one star every season. Now it’s producing stars for the distant future as well. La Masia truly is a gold mine.
Erling Haaland earns £75,000 a day and eats cow heart and liver on purpose. The viral clip of him buying steak, honey and milk from an old woman's farm is the most optimized purchase in football.
Haaland runs a 6,000 calorie ancestral diet his father designed with a nutritionist. Raw milk he calls his magic potion. Raw honey instead of sugar. Steaks up to 770 grams. Organ meats for the iron and B vitamins. His rule, laid out in his 2022 documentary, was quality food as local as possible. People say meat is bad, he said, then asked which one they mean. The McDonald's kind, "or the local cow that eats grass right there?"
So when he knocks on a farmhouse door for milk, honey and steak, he is executing the sourcing strategy he described four years ago. Norway reportedly shipped 580 kilograms of food to recent qualifiers so his kitchen never left his control.
The rest of the system is just as extreme. 9 to 10 hours of sleep, mouth taped shut to force nasal breathing, blue light glasses for hours before bed, a cryotherapy chamber at home.
City signed him through 2034, the longest contract in Premier League history at a reported £525,000 a week, and deleted his release clause. The entire bet rests on one body staying elite into his mid 30s.
The milk costs a few pounds. The machine it fuels is worth £27 million a year. He remembers exactly what he is. That is why he shops there.
BREAKING: A Nigerian-American engineer and Harvard graduate, Yinka Ogunbiyi, has developed HaloBraid, described as the world’s first braid-assist robot designed to ease the physical strain on hairstylists and save time for salons.
The innovation had raised $7m and attracted more than 7,000 salons to its waitlist.
🚨 Aston Villa are ready to make Nicolas Jackson the most expensive signing in the club's history.
Unai Emery has identified the Chelsea striker as his top attacking target this summer.
Villa are prepared to break their transfer record, surpassing the £51.2M paid for Johan Manzambi.
(Source: @TEAMtalk)
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: John Stones is showing clear willingness to join Chelsea from Manchester City.
According to a source close to the situation, Stones’ camp are in serious contact with both Chelsea and Manchester City regarding a possible switch this summer.
The England centre-back has struggled for consistent starts at City and is desperately pushing for the move after a strong World Cup with England. He wants to capitalise on that form and secure regular first-team football.
Xabi Alonso is eager to add experienced quality at centre-back, making this a situation well worth keeping a close eye on.
#CFC
🚨🇮🇹 BREAKING: Andrea Pirlo accepts the verbal proposal and he’s set to become new Italy head coach, here we go!
Pirlo said yes to long term project presented by Paolo Maldini and Leonardo.
He’s set to sign in the upcoming days, waiting for formal steps.
🚨🔵 Maxence Lacroix to Chelsea, here we go! Agreement in place with official bid accepted by Crystal Palace.
Broad terms in place last night and medical ongoing in London for the CB.
£52m transfer fee. Axel Disasi not included in the deal.
Lacroix signs until June 2032.