Important point on this: this isn’t a choice by “America”, or US host cities. Indeed, many of those cities have spent big to come up with heat plans to help visitors across their cities this summer. It’s FIFA who operate venues and FIFA who made this call.
We are officially in World Cup month. Please leave your xG charts, pressing percentages, and defensive metrics in the club season. International tournament football is strictly decided by pure vibes, individual brilliance, tactical survival, and a random goalkeeper turning into prime Lev Yashin for two weeks. Enjoy the entertainment and put the spreadsheets away.
Konate feels very much in line with the kind of low hanging fruit / lazy signing just because he's a free agent. He's fine, I guess? Good on his day, has a very low floor with errors in his bag. Not the most exciting guy you can sign. Need to go for clear improvements.
I was disappointed in Mbappé going to Italy while his teammates were still playing football.
I am disappointed in Vini going to Brazil when his teammates are playing football and bidding farewell to a legend.
I am disappointed in the club for allowing the two of them to leave.
We, as a society, desperately need to make “tickets cannot be scalped or resold” the norm. Or tickets resold with a strict cap on upsell. It’s gotten absolutely insane.