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- Ederson was identified by Carrick & Wilcox as Casemiro replacement back in April.
- Carrick intent on signing 2 new midfielder, #mufc’s list:
- Tchouaméni: would cost ~ £70m.
- Baleba: #mufc value at £50m.
- Wharton: would cost at least £60m.
- Anderson: at least £100m by Forest & believed to favour a move to City.
Emily Thornberry has today said the government has let down the Palestinian people, and allowed Israel to act with impunity.
The audacity.
Here she is in October 2023 refusing to condemn Israel cutting off power and supplies to Gaza.
Don’t let these people rewrite history.
Comms and analysis on pens is crazy to me at times.
“Don’t like Eze run up”
Same thing Ivan Toney does, one of the best pen takers in the world and the only reason he’s going to the WC- is wasn’t the run up.
Mendes - “it’s a poor pen”
Hakimi- “that’s how I like my pens taken”
They were exactly the same but opposite sides, keeper went the right way against Mendes and make a good save. Neither waited for keeper and neither forced keeper the wrong way.
Rooney's exclusive interview with Carrick, the permanent manager, Rio getting all sorts of media access, Berba launching the new kit, etc. There has been a conscious effort from Utd to bring players from the 2000s into prominence. They must be exasperated with the Sky Sports boys
The Premier League was also guilty of this for a while, when the likes of Moyes, Pardew, Hughes, Allardyce, etc. were just getting job after job... Led to stagnation.
Then people wonder why Italian football is struggling to progress. In Serie A, every decent winger gets turned into a wing-back.
Massimiliano Allegri turned Alexis Saelemaekers into a RWB at Milan, Antonio Conte used Matteo Politano as a wing-back at Napoli, and Cristian Chivu has done the same with Luiz Henrique. At Atalanta, Raoul Bellanova also plays as a wing-back. Almost every team relies on three centre-backs and outdated systems, yet they complain when Italy misses out on World Cup qualification.
The only coaches trying to modernise the league are Vincenzo Italiano and Cesc Fàbregas. Meanwhile, the big clubs keep recycling the same managers. Allegri has managed Juventus and Milan, Conte has coached Juventus, Inter, and Napoli, while Gian Piero Gasperini moved from Atalanta to Roma. That is not progress, it is stagnation.
Serie A will keep declining if clubs continue recycling coaches, relying on outdated tactics, and signing ageing players who should already be in lower leagues.
🚨💣 BREAKING: Anthony Gordon to Barcelona, here we go! Official bid accepted now by Newcastle board and Saudi owners.
€70m fixed fee plus add-ons to bring final package over €80m for #NUFC.
Gordon set to travel this week for medical and contract signing at FCB. 🔵🔴✈️
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
When Gary Neville lied about Bruno Fernandes, he never acknowledged it or apologised.
When Paul Scholes & Nicky Butt disrespected Lisandro Martinez, they didn't apologise & doubled down.
When Roy Keane misquoted Bruno Fernandes, he chose not to apologise & doubled down.
It takes maturity & grace to admit when you've gotten something wrong. Players have called out these ex-players & they couldn't handle it.
All they had to do was say they got it wrong, perhaps even apologise & move on. They would rather it drag on, because that gets them what they truly want.
Disappointing to find out you have to separate the players you loved from the pundits you can't stand.
This doesn’t shock me one bit. One story that stuck with me was from someone whose colleague went to a women’s team media day at United and didn’t even know who Bruno was. She was alone in the car park waiting for a ride home when he came over, spoke to her and made sure she was okay and had a way off getting back safely.
Weeks later she saw him on TV and said, “That’s the guy who helped me.”
I’ve also spoken to people who’ve been to media days at United and they all say the similar things about Bruno, and how he makes time for everyone. Shakes hands with everyone in the room, asks questions and has proper conversations with people while players are in and out when it comes to media duties.
Bruno Fernandes responds to Roy Keane twisting his words:
“What I don't like is when people lie about things, and in this case, what you said about Roy Keane, basically, what he said is a lie.” [@StevenBartlett]