🚨🟡🔴 Galatasaray are closing in on Rafa Leão deal after getting initial green light from the player to proceed with the move.
Aston Villa in contact over last 12 hours again but Gala are set to move forward and close the agreement with Leão.
€45m plus add-ons to AC Milan.
🚨🔵🔴 Rodri has spoken to Deco and Hansi Flick and gave his green light to Barcelona in order to proceed in talks.
Official contract proposal already in Rodri’s agent hands and Barça also made contact with Manchester City.
Operation Rodri: full speed for FCB. 💥
🇦🇷 The hate against Messi came out of nowhere, and it has nothing to do with football.
Here's what's actually going on...
Messi lifted the World Cup in December 2022 and the entire planet lost its mind celebrating.
Three and a half years later, a chunk of the internet suddenly decided he's a villain.
Nothing on the pitch changed. Same guy, same career, twenty years of footage anyone can check in under a minute.
What changed is the feed. Villain edits started outperforming legend edits and the algorithm noticed.
A 2018 MIT study tracked 126,000 claims across 3 million X users. False stories spread six times faster than true ones and got retweeted 70% more often. Outrage simply beats accuracy at getting attention.
None of this needs a single big lie either. Illusory truth effect: see a claim enough times and it starts feeling true even when you know it's false, and the effect survives fact checks.
Football is basically the most documented thing on earth. Every match, every angle, every ref decision, all archived. The narrative still won anyway.
If the algorithm can flip public opinion on the most watched athlete alive, it can flip it on anyone with no footage to fall back on.
Source: @LeoMessiFanZone, @therosieum / Writer: Sol
Please tell me we've got a Piers Morgan live-cam reaction to that second half of alien behaviour from Lionel Messi.
Can he do it on a windy night in f**king Stoke?!
How about against the English national team at 1-0 down in the World Cup semi-final at 39?!
Laughable!!!
@Petrit_7 England var elendige hele kampen, og scorer på den eneste chance de har - men ja, det kostede dyrt at bare ligge sig ned efter målet.
Man skal aldrig afskrive det her Argentina hold, de ved hvordan man grinder resultater 😅
🏴 Joe Cole: "Messi’s first time playing against England? Well, we’re going to put him to sleep. We’re going to put him to sleep. Yeah, 100%
🏴 Troy Deeney: "I think we’ll BATTER Argentina. We’ll win at least 2–0, comfortably.
🏴 John Terry: “Argentina DOESN'T worry me. I don’t look at Argentina and think they’re better than us. Player for player, we’re BETTER than Argentina."
🏴 Ian Wright: "I think we will BEAT Argentina. The way they play and how narrow they are. I think we are going to block them and break them”
🏴 Gary Neville: "With the centre backs they have, I can't see us not scoring at least 2 goals. We're faster, quicker, we've got a BETTER squad."
🏴 Joe Cole: "Messi’s first time playing against England? Well, we’re going to put him to sleep. We’re going to put him to sleep. Yeah, 100%
🏴 Troy Deeney: "I think we’ll BATTER Argentina. We’ll win at least 2–0, comfortably.
🏴 John Terry: “Argentina DOESN'T worry me. I don’t look at Argentina and think they’re better than us. Player for player, we’re BETTER than Argentina."
🏴 Ian Wright: "I think we will BEAT Argentina. The way they play and how narrow they are. I think we are going to block them and break them”
🏴 Gary Neville: "With the centre backs they have, I can't see us not scoring at least 2 goals. We're faster, quicker, we've got a BETTER squad."