Mehran Sami

Manchester United, Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks ❤️

[Mehran Sami @mehrans9]

@PeterDellaPenna @TexasSuperKings @MINYCricket It’s just such a missed opportunity to fill these rosters with players not from Asian countries and tap into the market here.

[CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ @CBSSportsGolazo]

Bangladesh with a historic win over San Marino, gaining their first-ever victory on European soil! 👏🇧🇩

[Saad Yousuf @SaadYousuf126]

there are so many athletes who built a brand of activism, when it’s really activism by convenience. go where the checkbook leads you.

Kyrie Irving is one of the few real ones. To speak up on this cause, considering team ownership he plays on, is pretty badass

[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

‼️A few extremely important notes to this:

🔺 It is — total wages — payed to all employees.

Man City has a very slim organization since they buy different services from City Football Group (which is a general cost, not a wage). Man Utd on the other hand still have a behemoth of an organization with many expensive employees to handle NYSE listing requirements etc.

So while City’s wage bill is “just” £140m more expensive than United’s (ie equal to 14 players earning 200k a week) the real difference in player wage bill is closer to £180m.

🔺It is often said that these high wage bills are just bonuses. But this is the wage bill City has when finishing 3rd in the PL and losing in the R16 of the CL.

Liverpool played in the Europa League in 23/24, and their wage bill was still £402m. £80m more than United’s last season when United went to the finals of the EL.

So this enormous difference between the wage bills of City/Liverpool and United has nothing to do with bonuses. With the exact same results — the gap is £100-150m in player wages.

🔺I have posted about these things for years, because it was getting no coverage. People still thought Utd had high wages due to Capology which is just random guesses.

But I still don’t think people realize just how big the difference is. Like last season, the difference between United and City’s player wage bill was literally at least equal to the cost of 15.5 players earning 200k a week. And if you take into account wages for non players, and it’s over 18 players on 200k a week.

200k a week is 10.4m a year. 180m is 18 players on 200k a week.

Again — this is when City is finishing 3rd and losing in the “play in” in the CL.

I’ll repeat it — their player wage bill exceeded United’s with a cost equal to 15.5-18 players on 200k a week.

How many pundits following United/the PL do you guys think have grasped this? I called @AndyMitten out for not pressuring Berrada about this in the interview before the season. How can anyone seriously think United can compete being this far behind financially? They claim that they believe it’s realistic to win a title in two years.

🔺Then people think we have a realistic chance of winning a transfer race for an Antoine Semenyo. Elliot Anderson? I heard Ben Jacobs say that money won’t matter for Anderson, it’s all about the project. Facts are that both these players will earn about 37.5-50m more over 5 years signing with Liverpool or City. That is generational wealth for all your family and relatives… it takes a lot leave that on the table.

🔺Pep sat at a presser like a month ago talking about “net spend”. City Football Group invests many many hundred of millions a year to produce young talent each year that can be sold for 75-100m to bring down Pep’s net spend. Last summer Bobb, McAtee, Couto and Perrone went for 100m.

Facts are that it’s simply absurd and purely dishonest by Pep to claim that City doesn’t have 1.5x the resources of anyone else in the PL besides Liverpool.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

In his second administration, President Trump’s family, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest.

@ElizLanders reports.

[Andy Mitten @AndyMitten]

Manchester United's players have been warned they'll be banned for up to 18 games if they breath air during the remaining fixtures. It's a new rule introduced this week. It will apply to United, but not opponents.

[Nick Angstadt @NickVanExit]

26-56 Mavs: Cooper Flagg
44-38 Hornets: Kon Knueppel

22-60 Spurs: Victor Wembanyama -- ROY
57-25 Thunder: Chet Holmgren

18-64 Bobcats: Emeka Okafor -- ROY
47-35 Bulls: Ben Gordon

35-47 Cavs: Lebron James -- ROY
43-39 Nuggets: Carmelo Anthony

[Mehran Sami @mehrans9]

@_Zeets Is it worth it? The answer will always be yes to the decision makers. Corporations will never care to make the right call so society can just be happy.

[☈ッ @TheFergusonWay]

Red Card. Play On.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

The schools that had the most prevalent protests - including Columbia where I work - either suspended or expelled most of the students protesting Israel's genocide of Gaza. One of my former students has a 3 year (!!!) suspension.

Then, the schools enacted rules making protest nearly impossible. And the very people who pressured the schools to do this are now saying "Where are all the protests?".

Idiots.

[Nick Angstadt @NickVanExit]

BUT THE ADVANCED STATS LOVE KON

Win Shares:
FLAGG — 3.8
KON — 8.1

Box/Plus Minus
FLAGG — 1.5
KON — 3.1

VORP:
FLAGG — 1.9
KON — 3.1

Cool, hey did you know...

Neemias Queta (8.5), Donovan Clingan (7.9), and Moussa Diabate (7.2) have more WIN SHARES than Jaylen Brown (6.9) or Anthony Edwards (6.6), and LaMelo (5.9)?

Paul Reed (4.7), Robert Williams (4.7), and Luke Kornet (3.6) have higher BOX PLUS MINUS' than Jalen Brunson (2.9), DeAaron Fox (2.2), and Devin Booker (2.0)?

Collin Gillespie (2.6), Reed Sheppard (2.4), and Sandro Mamukelashvili (2.0) have a higher VORP than Stephon Castle (1.9), Lauri Markkanen (1.6), Dillon Brooks (-0.1)?

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

let’s see how much coverage this synagogue attack gets in western press. since israel did it, doubtful it’ll get any at all.

[Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) @bafufe]

CHAMPIONS of South Asia! 🏆🇧🇩

Bangladesh U-20 lift the SAFF U20 Championship 2026 trophy — a proud moment for the nation!

#BFF #BangladeshFootball #SAFFU20 #Champions #BSRM

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

No, America is just living in the 1980s still

We could have all of this but unfortunately a large portion of our population are unequivocally stupid bigots

[Mehran Sami @mehrans9]

@AnnemarieDray ETH with Amad and Amorim with Kobbie. Both scripted their departure by how they underutilized these gems.

[alex medina @mrmedina]

american culture and identity is war and violence. it’s not joy. it’s not community. it’s not music. it’s perceived power. team usa’s celly is a military salute. it’s so weird. nothing has been clearer this entire tournament when compared to other countries.

[ala'a al shehabi @alaashehabi]

This is the reason why the Omani FM had to - unusually - go on the record. Journalists like this and MSM have start publishing deliberate misinformation as cassis belli for war completely ignoring facts reported from the mediator himself

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Like clockwork, every republican president eventually brings economic ruin and war.

[CBS Sports Golazo ⚽️ @CBSSportsGolazo]

Kate Scott's powerful statement on racism in football ❤️

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: We will also work to welcome more family- and home-based childcare providers into our programs.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.