Call it hate all you want, but the supposed money spent on this car makes zero logical sense. Cutting up an already base model chiron thereby further devaluing it and then spending more that PUR SPORT money on it is just wild, for a frankly underwhelming kit.
This is what the Balogun decision boils down to. Europeans are outraged but, as an audience, we're going nowhere. FIFA's own mandate for this tournament is to capture the US audience completely and inflate their TV deals from 2030 onwards. On that front, the tournament is going extremely well and they will do nothing to risk a delicate relationship with swing voters. Europeans are furious because this is unprecedented. Americans are pleased because it aligns with their sporting culture and they don't see any precedent.
🚨🇧🇷 Éderson now set for second medical in UK with Manchester United.
Crucial step ahead of proceeding with €45m package deal agreed 40 days ago with Atalanta but not signed yet.
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The moment you start seeing Ødegaard as a Vitinha or Bernardo Silva type of player—someone who keeps the team ticking, connects the attack, relieves pressure, links the wide and central triangles, and controls the tempo, instead of expecting him to be KDB, I’ll start taking your football takes seriously.
But if you expect him to be the guy who forces play and single-handedly creates goals out of nothing, then you simply don’t understand football.
Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?
Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump