Yards of Silk

Two wrongs don’t make a right. One wrong is already enough.

[Yards of Silk @_Yardsilk]

Counting down to the very day everything, finally, gets to make sense. I mean, after all the long suffering and consistent effort, that day just has to come!

[Zadok Yohanna fan 🇳🇬 @ZadokYohann]

I AM A MOVING MAN

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

This woman reports that her little niece was kidnapped last night. She has been appealing to the public to help her share this video incase someone may have seen the little girl.

Please help share this video.
Let’s help find this innocent little baby.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Kidney failure is on the rise and it’s alarming. It used to be a disease mostly seen in people in their 40s, 50s and above. Now, people as young as 20 are having their kidneys pack up.

I cannot emphasize this enough: please check your blood pressure religiously.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Brighton bought a teenager for about £4m and sold him to Chelsea for £115m. The man running the club is a professional gambler. This week he did it again, paying £21.5m for an 18-year-old from the Swedish league.

The gambler is Tony Bloom. Before football, he made his money at the poker table and in sports betting, where the whole skill is spotting something priced too low and betting big on it. He bought Brighton and ran it the same way.

Caicedo is the one everyone remembers. Brighton signed Moisés Caicedo from a club in Ecuador for about £4m and sold him to Chelsea two seasons later for £115m, the most a British club had ever paid for a player at the time. Marc Cucurella cost £15m and left for Chelsea at £62m. Liverpool paid £35m for Alexis Mac Allister, a £7m buy from Argentina. João Pedro went the same way last summer, £30m in and up to £60m out, also to Chelsea. Same move every time. Buy a kid cheap, give him a season or two to get good, then sell him to a giant at the peak of his price.

The trick is that Brighton barely guesses. Bloom owns a sports-betting company, and the club runs a private piece of software that scans players across the planet and flags the ones going for less than they are worth, usually teenagers in leagues the big clubs cannot be bothered to watch, in places like Ecuador, Argentina, Japan and now Sweden. They look for the position they need anywhere on earth, plan a year or two ahead, and have a cheap replacement ready before the star is even sold. In late 2024 they let go of most of their human scouts and leaned on the computer instead.

And it works. Brighton made the biggest profit any club has ever posted in the Premier League, around £123m in a single year, and the Caicedo money had not even come in yet. They pulled it off with the 13th-biggest wage bill in the league and one of the cheapest squads in it.

Chelsea alone have now handed Brighton about £237m for Caicedo, Cucurella and João Pedro. They are paying for the very machine that keeps beating them. And two of the four clubs Brighton held off to sign that Swedish kid this week were Chelsea and Newcastle.

So an 18-year-old from Stockholm, bought for £21.5m, is just the next chip on the gambler's table. If the pattern holds, some giant pays over £100m for him in a few years, and Brighton starts the whole thing again with the winnings.

[Rema Boy @fw_rema]

We shouldn’t let this turn into old news, the children are still not home. please repost God abeg 🙏

[Brighton & Hove Albion @OfficialBHAFC]

🥶📸

[Brighton & Hove Albion @OfficialBHAFC]

Welcome to Brighton, Zadok! 🤩👋

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

A moving boy has met his luck 🍀

[Siuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu𓃵 @Olascofaithful]

@OfficialBHAFC From KD to EPL
Congratulations man.🎉
Go make your family proud 🙏🙏

[Brighton & Hove Albion @OfficialBHAFC]

Brighton & Hove Albion have agreed the signing of winger Zadok Yohanna from AIK Stockholm on a five-year contract until June 2031 for undisclosed terms. ✍️

[Abbah Dantito @Abberh_suicide]

@FabrizioRomano Seems like his dad doesn’t understand the weight of the signing yet

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 Official: Zadok Yohanna joins Brighton from AIK Stockholm on a contract until June 2031, winning the race against 4 clubs. 🇳🇬

£21.5m fee invested on talented winger by #BHAFC. 🔵⚪️

[Yards of Silk @_Yardsilk]

Big cheers.

[Florian Plettenberg @Plettigoal]

🚨💥 BREAKING | Zadok Yohanna to Brighton - DONE DEAL ✔️

Full agreement reached. €28m fixed fee plus €2m in add-ons. Contract until 2031. All done and sealed. Verbal agreement was already reached as excl. revealed.

The 18 y/o talented winger has chosen Brighton despite interest from several other top clubs.

Announcement expected soon. @SkySportDE 🇳🇬

[Richard Oluwamayowa @Olaogun_]

Congratulations Yohanna 👏👏

I’m next in line

[Florian Plettenberg @Plettigoal]

🚨💥 BREAKING | Zadok Yohanna to Brighton - DONE DEAL ✔️

Full agreement reached. €28m fixed fee plus €2m in add-ons. Contract until 2031. All done and sealed. Verbal agreement was already reached as excl. revealed.

The 18 y/o talented winger has chosen Brighton despite interest from several other top clubs.

Announcement expected soon. @SkySportDE 🇳🇬

[Deadly Law @DeadlyLaw]

The obsession with Supreme Court practice makes people underestimate how much real law is shaped in trial courts.

[Deadly Law @DeadlyLaw]

Networking without competence is just delayed embarrassment.

[Yards of Silk @_Yardsilk]

Reputation in the legal profession is very important. It goes without saying.

[Ogundipe, Esq. @The_Ogundipe]

A few months ago, a colleague approached me in court to plead with me to allow him to call his matter out of turn. "My case is not going on," he said. I had no objection to his proposal. Such a request and concession isn't unusual at the bar.

He went around to a few other colleagues, too. I did not hear what he told each, but I suspect that he told them what he told me, too. Probably, he spoke to some, even before me.

When the court sat, he stood up to mention that he had a peculiar situation that required him to call his case out of turn and that he had already sought the permission of colleagues and seniors. None of us said anything to the contrary. His lordship asked him to proceed. When he opened his mouth, he said:
"My lord, we have our witness in court and subject to your lordship's convenience, we are ready to proceed".

Immediately, almost all the lawyers he spoke to started exchanging gazes of disbelief. We were in this state when the other counsel confirmed his readiness, too, and the witness marched into the box.

Interestingly, none of us said anything to the court. The gentleman lawyer concluded his business for the day and left the court.

I have heard about lawyers who agree with adverse counsel on a point prior to trial and then canvass the opposite or deny such agreement before the court. He was my first direct encounter.

I hold my reason for choosing not to challenge him before the court. What I still find curious to date was that none of the 4 other colleagues he approached also said anything.

I'd be very shocked if what informed my silence informed the silence of any of them, too.

[Yards of Silk @_Yardsilk]

Survival Skill 111: When crossing a busy road, fear the driver making eye contact with you. He has already delegated responsibility to God.

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Survival skill 101: When crossing a busy road, focus more on the vehicle behind the one closest to you.

Add yours

[Yards of Silk @_Yardsilk]

@Mrbankstips Survival skill 101: If a group picture is being taken, locate the photographer. That's who controls your destiny.