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[OPE @QuadriOPE18]

Baleba can do everything Tchouaméni does and more.

Tchouaméni has benefited massively from playing for Real Madrid, but now Baleba has the Manchester United platform. Give him time and you’re going to see a star emerge.

The pace, physicality, ball-carrying and aggression he brings could completely change the dynamic of our midfield.

[Brightonian @Brightonian_]

What a good lad.

Still surprised more clubs weren’t in for him. But I appreciate the gratitude and kind words for #BHAFC. He never went on strike, always had a smile on his face and been a great character at the club.

I wish Carlos all the best at #MUFC 🫡

[Instinctive @FPL_Instinctive]

Goodbye, goodbye. You were bigger than the whole sky.

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

This shit has been on my mind since yesterday😭😭

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

Real ones know this was the day the Baleba deal was sealed

[Brighton & Hove Albion @BHAFC]

Thank you, Carlos. 💙🤍

The 21-year-old midfielder has joined Manchester United for an undisclosed fee. 🤝

[Brighton & Hove Albion @BHAFC]

Special memories courtesy of Carlos... 🥹💫

[Brighton & Hove Albion @BHAFC]

Carlos in blue & white. 💙🤍

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Win. Turn. Drive. Repeat.

Coming to the heart of United's midfield: Carlos Baleba...

[Elyon @0xkitng]

I think there is an interesting difference between people who were brought up in wealth and people who became wealthy after growing up with less, particularly in the way they understand generosity and appreciation.

People who grow up around wealth are sometimes taught from an early age that when someone does something for you, the important thing is not necessarily the monetary value of what they did, but the fact that they chose to do it for you. The emphasis is placed on the gesture, the thought, the effort and the consideration behind the act rather than simply calculating what it cost.

Someone can buy you something relatively inexpensive, help you with something that took them time, drive across town because you needed them, remember something important to you, make an introduction for you or simply go out of their way to make your life easier. The response is usually, you didn’t have to do that. That was thoughtful. Most times, the value comes from the fact that someone thought about you and deliberately invested something of themselves into you.

I think people who grew up with scarcity can sometimes develop a different relationship with value.

This is one of the reasons I think some people who become wealthy after experiencing scarcity can remain extremely transactional in the way they relate to people. They may have acquired money, but they haven’t necessarily changed the thought process through which they measure value. They continue to evaluate things through cost, utility, return and equivalence.

Unfortunately ,relationships don’t work entirely on economic accounting. You cannot meaningfully quantify loyalty. You cannot put a price on someone consistently showing up for you. You cannot reduce thoughtfulness to how much was spent. You cannot measure the significance of someone choosing to inconvenience themselves for your benefit simply by calculating the financial cost of what they did.

And I think people raised around abundance sometimes learn the difference fast enough because they are not constantly forced to evaluate every interaction through scarcity.

Of course there are people born into wealth who are incredibly entitled and incapable of appreciating anything, just as there are people who grew up with very little who are exceptionally generous and understand the meaning of small gestures better than anyone.

So I think it is really between transactional valuation and relational valuation, and upbringing can have a major influence on which one becomes dominant.

The healthiest relationship with money is the one where you understand its value without allowing it to become the only way you understand value.

[Football Talent Scout - Jacek Kulig @FTalentScout]

Brighton’s ten most expensive sales:

2023: 🇪🇨 Moisés Caicedo → Chelsea €116m
2026: 🇨🇲 Carlos Baleba → Man United €75.9m
2022: 🇪🇸 Marc Cucurella → Chelsea €65.3m
2025: 🇧🇷 João Pedro → Chelsea €63.7m
2026: 🇳🇱 Jan Paul van Hecke → Tottenham €60m
2021: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ben White → Arsenal €58.5m
2023: 🇦🇷 Alexis Mac Allister → Liverpool €42m
2022: 🇲🇱 Yves Bissouma → Tottenham €29.2m
2024: 🇩🇪 Deniz Undav → Stuttgart €26.7m
2026: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Carl Rushworth → Coventry €25.7m

Pure Moneyball brilliance. 🤑

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Confirmed: Bruno is a Baleba ✔️

[Kvng @Samthrilzz]

Visenya Targaryen literally sliced Aegon the Conqueror's face just to prove a point, and that’s how the Kingsguard was born.

The woman was an absolute menace from day one.
When Dornish cutthroats ambushed them in King’s Landing, Aegon survived purely because Visenya whipped out Dark Sister and butchered the attackers herself.

When Aegon stubbornly insisted his regular castle guards were enough, Visenya didn’t argue. She drew her blade, cut his cheek before his guards could even blink, and said: "Your guards are slow and lazy."

Right there in 10 AC, she created the Kingsguard, seven elite killers sworn for life, modeling their vows on the Night's Watch.

Visenya carried the entire conquest on her back. She rode Vhagar, wore ringmail to court, conquered the entire Vale without spilling a drop of blood by casually taking little Ronnel Arryn on a dragon ride, and dabbled in dark sorcery.

When Aegon died, she ignored the line of succession, personally crowned her psycho son Maegor the Cruel, and kept the dynasty alive through pure terror.

The original warrior queen who didn't play politics, she just enforced them. #HOTD #HouseOfTheDragon

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

The funniest part of this with no sell on clause to Frankfurt means Tottenham genuinely paid £75m+£10m for Sávio just because they wanted to. It didn't even reduce the Omar Marmoush fee.

£382m on Tonali (~£300k), Fernandes (£250k), Sávio, Marmoush (£267k at City) & van Hecke, £240k on a new deal for van de Ven.. just an incredible amount of risk on money that looks poorly invested on paper.

Apparently that passes for ambition though.

[SFX @UtdSFX]

Always the same clubs involved.

Chelsea, City, Forest and Villa. All buying each other's players at inflated fees. Nothing to see here.

[Sizwe banzi @Sizwebanzisdead]

I would summarize Nigerian political corruption across three regimes. Two of them fall within the democratic era that started in 1999, up to the current regime.

The Obasanjo, PDP and Goodluck Jonathan era had a particular style of corruption: steal whatever you can, but share. So, if you steal ₦200 million, keep ₦50 million for yourself and share the remaining ₦150 million. Return whatever you can, in whatever form or through whatever means. That was the system. Show love.

That is also why many of the people who entered positions of power during those years, from the police and military to the civil service, who are still there today. Many of them are people who understand and operate within that bribery system. Bribe someone, steal what you want, give a percentage, bribe someone else, and everyone is fine.

Then came the APC and Buhari era. They were the procurement boys.

They could wake up one morning and decide that the government needed to buy firefighting trucks, like in cases involving people such as Harri sharry Potter Sidika, and billions could disappear without the trucks even being properly bought. One pen could somehow cost billions.

Everything became procurement. If you wanted something fixed, there had to be procurement money attached to it before anyone was interested. Even when people were dying, the conversation was about what needed to be purchased.

Insecurity? We need to buy new guns.

Bad roads? We need to buy new tractors.

Fire outbreaks? We need new firefighting trucks.

Electricity? Another procurement process.

That was how the money was stolen. Procurement became the system.

This current regime operates differently. They are the Omonile boys. They want their hands in every single pie.

It does not matter whether it is what a local trader is selling in a market for ten naira or a major deal worth $100 billion. They want a piece of it. Legitimate or illegitimate. Good or bad. Big or small. Just put them in it.

That is how they operate.

This is how corruption works in Nigeria, and it helps explain why things remain largely the same. Every new regime comes with its own style of corruption.

[. @utdcynical]

How many United players do you reckon have seen this video of Ugartes head being hit by a candy cane 😭

[faz @faznited]

Carlos Baleba Vs Manchester United - Over The Years

[FergiesRightRef @FergiesRightRef]

Rooney just exposed a major flaw in our team and who is responsible for it.

Watch after he explains how a press is linked from centre back to front line, that ours(the link) is non-existent.

@markgoldbridge asks whose fault is that.

Wayne just cooks after that.

[✌️🫩🥀#WeDeadarseLostToHull @twos6xes]

he said he crashed it on caicedo and clocked he was better than him 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭