The Craziest Comeback In The Premier League 🥹
Wolverhampton 3️⃣ -2️⃣ Manchester City ⚽️
What a performance from wolves. Five Goals. Huge drama And a massive Victory against the Champions. 😱
With this stunning turnaround, Wolves completed a historic Premier League double over Manchester City for the 2019/20 season, having already beaten them 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium earlier that October. The result left Manchester City 14 points behind league leaders Liverpool, effectively ending their realistic hopes of retaining the title that season.
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.
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Harry Kane has more goals than games in each of these competitions this season:
⚽️ Bundesliga - 31 games, 36 goals
⚽️ Champions League - 13 games, 14 goals
⚽️ DFB Pokal - 6 games, 10 goals
Unbelievable numbers 😱
We have our own worst offender in Wolves for cartoonishly high prices for a pint. Step forward the Two Greens and a pint of Level Head which at that price will not make your head level
The worst Pints to Wages ratios are not in London, not even close.
The centres of the other cities have basically followed London's trajectory without the punters having anywhere near London incomes
This has a clinical name. Revenge bedtime procrastination. And the ADHD version runs on a completely different mechanism than the neurotypical one.
A neurotypical person stays up late because they want more leisure time. The ADHD brain stays up because it spent every drop of dopamine it had on executive function during the day. Sitting in meetings, managing transitions, filtering impulses, remembering the thing you were supposed to remember. That burns through dopamine the way sprinting burns through glycogen. By 10pm the tank is empty.
But here's where it gets counterintuitive. The exhaustion is physical. The dopamine deficit is neurological. Those are two separate systems. Your muscles want sleep. Your prefrontal cortex is starving for the stimulation it was denied all day because it spent 14 hours on task-switching and impulse control instead of anything that actually felt rewarding.
The phone at midnight is the brain trying to collect what it's owed. Low-effort, high-stimulation content. Scrolling, short videos, rabbit holes. The exact profile of activity that delivers dopamine without requiring the executive function you already depleted.
The sleep researchers call this a "self-regulation failure." It's closer to a debt collection. You borrowed against your own reward system to function all day. The bill comes due at midnight. And the brain will not let you sleep until it gets paid.
🚨BREAKING: Andre has signed a new four-year deal with Wolves, until 2030. It includes the option of a further year.
A huge statement of intent from the club ahead of a Championship season. #wwfc
🚨EXCL: Wolves have opened talks with Kieran Trippier over a potential deal this summer, with him becoming a free agent. They also face competition from other clubs. #wwfc https://t.co/kYR3SLww5X
@TC_Cortina@BulletRobinson Big emotional pull from Wolves vs the money & weather from MLS….
Can leave as a hero properly this time if he fires us to promotion
I would actually be surprised now if this Raul move does *not* happen.
• Raul and family want it
• The fans want it
• Another tap in for Nathan Shi to look the good guy
Fan expectations would need to realistic for a long Championship season, but it would be a great PR move
No puedes culpar a Raul Jimenez de querer ir a la Championship con los Wolves a regresarlos a primera
Mira el recibimiento que le hacen entrando de cambio con el Fulham
Aquí en América si no mete gol cada jornada lo van a estar puteando