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Liverpool lose to Pulisic.

 

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Karius is just shite isn't he pic.twitter.com/pyAPjo3Hb2

— Matt (@MGH) July 22, 2018

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Not hard to see that Pulisic will be one the main beneficiary of Favre coming in at Dortmund. Need to keep a close eye on him, IMO. He's primed for a big season.

 

Joao Moutinho is the latest Portuguese player to sign for Wolves.

www.bbc.com/sport/football/44922630

They're looking well equipped ahead of this coming season. "Merely surviving" is clearly not the goal for them.

 

This season I will be mostly watching Wolves. And Brighton, since that’s where I live.

 

Hoeness isnt wrong regarding Ozil, but that entire group of Bayern top brass need to shut the ******** up and worry about themselves. Hoeness and KHR always have a snarky comment about how other clubs are doing things.

 

The German FA rejects Ozil's racism claims.

www.bbc.com/sport/football/44921158

Easy to guess that this is the last thing the DFB needs right now, especially on the back of Germany's poor showing at the WC.

 

Iranian winger Reza Jahanbakhsh to sign for Brighton in the next day or two. Very cautious about this signing. Could be a hit, could be a wash like many other Eredivsie players in the past.

 

Roma keep making moves: it looks like they've secured Malcolm (at a €32mil fee, plus another 4 in add ons). Di Marzio has confirmed he's coming in to finalize the deal. Good next step for him coming from Ligue Un and we'll find how good he really is.
Roma are building themselves a nice stable of promising wide players, between Tosun, Kluivert and now Malcolm.

 

Did you mean Ünder or are they in for Everton's Tosun too?

They're building quite a team of young, promising players. Between Kluivert, Malcolm, Schick, Ünder, and Coric it will be interesting to see which ones pan out.

 

Yes Cengiz Under: got him mixed up with Tosun. My fault.

Roma accumulating promising young talent is definitely a result of the Monchi effect. Would have been very nice to get him at the club as our DoF, when we were linked to him...

 

How the Ozil affair has divided Germany.

www.bbc.com/sport/football/44929663

 

Yeah, Muller has been lights fcking out for club and country..

 

Sane believes Chelsea will be City's main challengers for the title

www.bbc.com/sport/football/44933222

Interesting considering we don't even know what kind of team they'll have to start the season.

 

More historic Italian clubs go bust ... while Juventus sign Cristiano Ronaldo

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...t-bari?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

 

Ozil's agent hits back on Hoeness.

www.skysports.com/football/news/12023/11446922/mesut-ozils-agent-responds-to-bayern-president-uli-hoeness-criticism

 

Great, let us know if Hoeness comes back with anything.

It’s ok to read something and not tell us btw.

 

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Shortly after Di Marzio has all but confirmed Malcolm's move to Roma, rumors of Barcelona jumping in and hijack the deal have surfaced.
And now Di Marzio has jumped on board, claiming that Barca are indeed close to sealing the move for the Bordeaux player (beating Roma's bid with a €41mil offer of their own). And I'm confused frankly: I get that Barca have been rebuffed 3x over Willian. And I understand why they were interested: would have been a solid veteran presence that would have been a great compliment to Dembele. Bringing another young hope for the future, who will directly challenge him, is strange in that context.
And they surely don't plan on selling him, so it will be interesting to see what they have in store for him, if this deal for Malcolm goes thru as expected.

 

That's harsh for Roma. They even announced the agreement with Bordeaux on Twitter. Apparently Barca are tired of upping the bid for Willian and have pivoted. Shame for Malcolm because he would have had a good opportunity to grow at Roma. He's going to ride the pine at Barca unless they are ready to cut ties with Dembele who I see as the much better talent.

 

The nominees for The Best FIFA Men’s Coach 2018:

Massimiliano Allegri
Stanislav Cherchesov
Zlatko Dalić
Didier Deschamps
Pep Guardiola
Jurgen Klopp
Roberto Martínez
Diego Simeone
Gareth Southgate
Ernesto Valverde
Zinedine Zidane pic.twitter.com/Gvbz0UAD6A

— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) July 24, 2018

 

📝 DEAL DONE: Barcelona have signed Malcom from Bordeaux for €41m. (Source: @FCBarcelona) pic.twitter.com/6dfIEVrJtx

— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) July 24, 2018

 

******** me. This is actually pretty clean.