🚨🎙️Micky Van de Ven on next season under Roberto De Zerbi rather than Thomas Frank:
"It's going to be different compared to the manager we had last season.
It's going to be more with the ball, I think, more about playing football. I think it's also going to be more enjoyable for people to watch because we'll be playing offensive football.
You can see he [De Zerbi] has brought a lot of passion into our group, a lot in terms of mentality and passion on the pitch.
It is something we needed because everybody was a little bit down. He brings a lot of good energy and, from pre-season, we have really had the time to bring his football into the team. That's really enjoyable." @BBCSport
@David_Ornstein@TheAthleticFC Doesn’t sound like a full agreement 😉 That’s the story. Negotiations are ongoing. The expectation remains that the clubs will reach an agreement in the next days, but RB Leipzig continue to insist on a transfer fee of at least €120 million.
This is NOT a political issue & shouldn't be made into one. It's physics & human anatomy. Sophie Cunningham is correct.
A thread/example ��:
The fastest woman in history is Florence Griffith-Joyner, fabulously known as Flo-Jo 🏃🏾♀️ 💅
Her world record in the 100 meter dash is an astonishing 10.49 seconds. This record has stood completely untouched for decades & still stands today 🥇
When compared to professional men, Flo-Jo's all-time historic speed is heavily outmatched by the biological & physiological realities of male sprinting mechanics.
At the professional Men's Level, Flo Jo would be UNRANKED. According to World Athletics data, over 1,900 men have run faster than Flo-Jo’s 10.49 second women's world record. Her time would fail to qualify for any standard professional or NCAA men’s track meet.
Her 10.49-second mark aligns perfectly with the elite U.S. high school boys' level.
76 high school boys ran faster than Flo-Jo's record in 2019 alone.
It's nowhere near fair to amazing women athletes that work hard their whole lives to compete against biological men.
'Enzo Fernández became only the sixth player to be sent off in a World Cup final (and the third Argentine) and truly, nobody deserved it more.
'This is the man who, in 2024, was mired in a racism controversy when he broadcast a video on Instagram Live showing himself and Argentina team-mates singing a discriminatory chant about France’s players, mocking their African heritage and throwing in a few homophobic slurs.
'The Chelsea co-captain further endeared himself to his adopted land before the final, insisting that he had respect for the English “because everybody who cleans and cooks in our house is English”.'
But in a profoundly chastening final for Argentina, where they were not so much outplayed as emasculated, @oliverbrown_tel says he received his comeuppance at last 👇
https://t.co/eoJIH6jjIw
Today marks ONE YEAR since Thomas Frank’s infamous first press conference as #THFC boss.
“One thing is 100% sure, we will lose football matches” ����♂️
It’s fair to say he definitely stuck to that promise. The worst manager in the clubs history…🇩🇰❌