Also yes I find it a bit problematic that after a comment made by ONE player a government is able to just make an entire league unavailable to its citizens
🚨 Javier Tebas APOLOGIZES to China over Mbappé controversy:
“We deeply regret the statements made by Kylian Mbappé that have caused discomfort and offense in China.
We understand the harm caused and, on behalf of La Liga, I wish to convey our sincere apologies to the Chinese people.
For many years, we have built a relationship of respect, trust, and cooperation with China, its authorities, its sporting institutions, its broadcasters, and millions of Spanish football fans.
We cannot allow an individual’s actions to tarnish that relationship or harm the more than 20 clubs in our professional competitions and millions of Chinese fans.
We are taking all measures within our power and working directly with our partners and representatives in China to overcome this situation.
Our commitment to China, its people, and its institutions remains firm.
A relationship built over so many years cannot be damaged by a single incident.”
Bill Belichick says he once spent $5,000 on milk because it was the right thing to do to protect the relationship between two star players in Tom Brady and Antonio Brown
“Well, one of the funny stories in that book really is the Antonio Brown story. You know, he was only with the Patriots for 11 days. Tom’s very nutrition-oriented, and Antonio wanted to do something for Tom. Tom had Antonio come and stay at his house, wanted to embrace him, bring him onto the team and so forth.”
“We went down there and actually beat Miami in Miami, which was good. But Antonio ordered milk. He ordered this special milk for Brady. Cost $5,000. Five thousand dollars...”
“To make a long story short, it kind of got mixed up and ended up in the mailroom for too long. By the time we got it, the milk went bad. So here we are sitting here with milk that cost $5,000. Oh my God.”
“So we go out and get $5,000 worth of this special milk and give it to Brady from Antonio. And now we turn in an expense report for $5,000 worth of milk.”
“But you know what? Sometimes you just gotta do the right thing. I didn’t want to ruin the relationship between Brown and Brady over this spoiled milk. So we spent $5,000 to replace the milk.”