🚨💣 BREAKING: Carlos Baleba to Manchester United, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between clubs.
Improved bid sent today after £65m package rejected and player set to join the only club he wanted.
Baleba, new #MUFC player soon. 🇨🇲
Soccer would not exist without immigrants. Immigrants play and coach the game, work in the stadiums, fill the stands, and make celebrations like the World Cup possible. Six of the players on the US Men's National Team are immigrants.
We will not allow ICE or anyone else to sow fear in our communities — especially at this moment. As the world comes to our city, we will stand proudly with our immigrant neighbors and reject these attacks for what they are: an attempt to divide us.
Next season Michael Carrick, Xabi Alonso, Mikel Arteta, and Frank Lampard will all be managing in the Premier League. Three of them at Big 6 clubs too. We’ve almost watched a complete cycle in real time.
These were the midfielders we grew up watching dictate games, control tempo, captain sides, win titles, play in Champions League finals and now they’re the ones standing on the touchline building the next era. Football really moves fast. One minute they’re competing against each other on the pitch, now they’re competing philosophically as coaches.
Despite coming from similar footballing generations. Carrick leans towards calm positional football and control, Alonso feels like a blend of Spanish structure with modern flexibility, Arteta is almost obsessive with automatisms and spacing, while Lampard has always been more direct and emotionally driven in his approach.
It’s the natural evolution of football. The generation that learned under managers like Sir Alex Ferguson, Carlo Ancelotti, José Mourinho, Pep Guardiola and Arsène Wenger are now becoming the managers themselves. And now a whole new generation of players will grow up seeing them as coaches first, not even remembering how good they were as players.