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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔴🔵 Paris Saint-Germain count on three exits almost guaranteed for this summer. 👋🏼

🇵🇹 Gonçalo Ramos to AC Milan for €74m fix plus add-ons.
🇰🇷 Kang-in Lee, in advanced talks with Atlético.
🇫🇷 Randal Kolo Muani agreed personal terms with Juventus.

🎥➕ https://t.co/bpTBDx79tD

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Bukayo is one of us.

We’re delighted to announce that Bukayo Saka has signed a new contract with The Arsenal 🙌

[NRM84 @Mappy6984]

I wanna hang with him🤣🤣

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

🚨 Arsenal have had a bid worth more than €10m for Christian Norgaard REJECTED by Brentford, however, discussions continue between both clubs. Norgaard wants to join Arsenal. [@Santi_J_FM]

[Tanvi Ratna @tanvi_ratna]

Trump’s new tariffs aren’t a trade tweak—they’re the first move in a full-spectrum reset.

$9.2T in debt matures in 2025. Inflation lingers. Alliances are shifting.

One announcement just set a dozen wheels in motion.
Here’s what’s really happening—and why it matters 🧵

[Hlovo @hlovo_]

Druski dragged him out the closet 😭😭😭

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

🚨 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎁

Ahead of #Euro2024, I have teamed up with @SignedMoments to give away a SIGNED William Saliba Arsenal 2024/25 home shirt. ✍️

To enter, simply:
1️⃣ REPOST this tweet
2️⃣ Must be following @afcstuff & @SignedMoments

‼️ The winner will be randomly chosen next Friday & will ONLY be contacted by one of the accounts mentioned above.

Best of luck to everyone! 🤞

[AI @nonewthing]

Difference between Musiala and Bellingham is that one is a pure 10 and the other is an 8 who could be anything you want.

Musiala dribbles and carries and shoots. Bellingham does all that + organize play, defend deep and crash the box. KDB vs Pogba.

https://t.co/uxuY8VaXef

[ty @tylersan__]

This is HEELARIOUS… he dropped down so quick 😭😭

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

“I sentence you to eat a meal without youtube”

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Mikel Arteta on being the seventh longest-serving manager in the Football League: “I’m getting old I think, eh?” 🤣

🎥 @HaytersTV

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

A place where Martin beløngs ❤️

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The football star Kylian Mbappé was offered $1 billion to join the Saudi Arabian team Al-Hilal.

But that wouldn't have made him even nearly the richest athlete in history.

Because there was a Roman chariot racer called Gaius Appuleius Diocles who earned more than $15 billion...

Chelsea FC in England have spent over one billion dollars on new players in the last year alone, and Cristiano Ronaldo is currently earning $200 million per year at the Saudi club Al-Nassr. Has football gone mad? Is it right for athletes to earn such exorbitant wages?

Let's leave the politics of that question to one side and simply observe that, as with so much else, there are historical precedents — and one in particular: Gaius Appuleius Diocles.

Chariot racing was the most popular sport in Ancient Rome, with races held all over the empire — there are ruins of huge stadiums around Europe. The crowds flocked to watch their favourite teams or racers, and the money came pouring in.

Gaius Appuleius Diocles was born in the province of Lusitania, modern-day Portugal, in 104 AD. That's where many charioteers came from — not just those who raced in Rome itself, but right across the empire — because it was where the fastest racehorses on the continent were bred.

And such was the career that Gaius pursued; he made his racing debut in Rome, which then had a population of well over one million and was the richest and largest city on earth, at the age of just 18.

There were four "factiones", sort of like teams, in Ancient Roman chariot racing: Green, Red, White, and Blue. Each had their own stables, managers, breeders, agents, patrons, sponsors, and racers. These were large, professional organisations with hordes of fans and fierce rivalries. Even the Emperor himself usually had a favourite faction.

Gaius joined the Whites and won his first race after two years. He stayed with them for another four years. Then he moved to the Greens, where he had a torrid run of poor performances and a serious injury, followed three years later by a move to the Reds. There he remained for fifteen years, winning over one thousand races, before retiring at the age of 42 to a lovely little town called Praeneste.

Where did Gaius race? At the Circus Maximus in Rome, now a ruin but once a racing stadium which could hold more than 150,000 spectators. It's hard to imagine the atmosphere, with the thundering of the horses drowned out by the roaring of the crowds and the sound of splintering chariots...

We know much of this because of two monuments made in Gaius' honour after his retirement. They also include the rather impressive statistics of his racing career — 4,257 starts and 1,463 victories — and the prize money he won: a grand total of 35,863,120 sesterces.

These earnings are estimated to have been, in modern terms, about $15 billion, which would make him by far the richest athlete in history. His fortune was equivalent to about 1.5% of the Roman annual state expenditure, which would be like an American sportsperson being worth over $100 billion.

But this is not merely an interesting factoid. What does it tell us about Ancient Roman society during the Empire that regular people had enough time, and that there was enough money in the system, to support such a wealthy sporting scene?

Alas, if you don't much like sports and wonder why some people get so worked up about athletes running round a field and kicking a ball... there's also a Roman precedent for that. Here's what the lawyer Pliny the Younger wrote to a friend in the year 98 AD:

"The Races were on, a type of spectacle which has never had the slightest attraction for me. I can find nothing new or different in them: once seen is enough, so it surprises me all the more that so many thousands of adult men should have such a childish passion for it."

Whether sports stars should earn the money they do is a complicated question. But, in any case, Kylian Mbappé has a long way to go before he's on the level of Gaius Appuleius Diocles...

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. A THREAD

In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in
@Variety

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[Aviation @xAviation]

Toy Story themed A330! 🔥

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[Dwayne Johnson @TheRock]

We’ve never met but I had to fly to Miami to look this man @TheAnswerMMA in the eyes, hug him and shake his hand. I’ve been moved & motivated by his story ❤️

He recently won his first fight in the @ufc.

He had $7 bucks in his bank account when he won.

He sleeps on a couch in the gym.

After the fight, he sold his fight gear (trunks & gloves) on line and made $7,000. Instead of using the money to find a place to live, he built a bush pump so his village back in Zimbabwe can have clean water.

He never asked me for anything, but I just wanted to help the guy out. $7 Bucks ya know.

And I felt the MANA & emotion in every hug 😊💪🏾

Very good and very special day.

#thembagorimbo 🇿🇼

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🟢 Chadi Riad to Real Betis:

◉ Permanent deal as buy option is mandatory [so Betis can pay next summer].
◉ Barcelona will receive €2.5m fixed fee in June 2024.
◉ 50% sell on clause for Barcelona.

🔵🔴 Barça will have buy back clause to bring Riad back in future.

[𝕋𝔼𝔾𝔸™ 🌍 @Tegadeyforyou]

Jackie Chan and his daughter crying while watching some of his old movie scenes is the most wholesome thing you’ll watch today.

Thanks for our childhood legend ❤️