He looks a real talent. Having watched him a number of times as I watch bayern regularly because of kane, he floats in and out if games but he has moments of pure quality. I don't think he'll reach Yamal's level but he's got all the tools to be a star
The Football Association will pass on England supporters' concerns about high 2026 World Cup ticket prices to FIFA - The Guardian. More than half of the 20 Premier League clubs are involved in an almighty scramble to find new shirt sponsors for next season as they will no longer be allowed to have gambling companies - The Times. Sir Jim Ratcliffe is in talks to outsource Manchester United'scatering - sparking fears prawn sandwiches could be taken off the menu - The Sun.
Furious letter hits out at Pep Guardiola over Man City coach's 'shameful' remarks on Gaza conflict after synagogue attack: 'He simply doesn't care that British Jews were murdered a few miles from the Etihad' https://t.co/P51sAz8BoT— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) December 13, 2025 Suspect this will put the bed any rumours he gets the England job as I suspect the FA will not want someone who wants to comment frequently on one of most polarising issues in the world.
I was surprised it took this long for any of the British media to pick up what he has been saying to the Spanish Press and make a story out of it.
Never realised that Carragher and Ferdinand had beef with each other. This just from their playing days and never got on or was there more shenanigans? And rightly so, he was fantastic when he came on.Thoughts on the price of the World Cup tickets @rioferdy5 A man of the people would surely call @FIFAcom & Infantino out 🤷🏻♂️Or was your pay packet for the draw (acting 🤯😭) to buy your silence 🤫 https://t.co/TMcV0QhYZ6— Jamie Carragher (@Carra23) December 13, 2025
As soon as a team that isn't ready to challenge gets mentioned in the title race the pressure comes on and they start dropping stinkers straight after. Villa dropping points would be the most predictable thing ever.
Scottish football continues to be all over the place this season. St Mirren have beaten Celtic to win the League Cup. Meanwhile Hearts are 6 points clear in the league.
This has to be the worst season for scheduling in pl history. I can accept that the expansion of European places for pl teams means fewer Saturday games, fair enough. But there has been loads of occasions already, like today, where the natural “headliner” fixture has been stuck at a crap time whilst an underwhelming game has been on at 4.30. Then there’s the no games on Boxing Day. Then there’s the endless games at 8pm on a Saturday, of which I haven’t seen any domestic fan say they actually enjoy etc. It’s a shambles.
There's one match - at 8pm. I've seen people say it's due to Boxing Day falling on a Friday, but last time it did (2014) they had a full round of fixtures on the 26th, 28th and 1st. This year it's 27th, 30th/1st and 3rd/4th. They could quite easily have done Boxing day instead of the 27th, with pretty much zero impact.
St Mirren's entire wage budget, for players and staff, is around £4.5m. Celtic spend that much just on the wages of two defenders (Tierney & Carter-Vickers).
International rights. Boxing Day is not a public holiday in America or India. Having most of the matches on a Saturday gets another international round out of it. Also because they promised every match not 15.00 on a Satduay will be aired I’d Bxoing Day was the designated day it couldn’t be classed as a weekend round for domestic rights. (Also it helps the PL to make the EFL happy by having most of the day to itself).
A lot of blame comes from Northumbria police and Jurgen Klopp. Firstly for making the Wear/Tyne Derby 14.00 instead of 16.30 and a lot of the 20.00 matches come from when he pretty much demanded a new rule banning 12.30 kickoffs for teams playing away in Europe in on the Wednesday night. And because the contract’s mean only in certain circumstances are Sky and TNT allowed to swap slots (Whuch they doing for the Manchester Derby in a few weeks due to Police requests) it means 20.00 is needed.
🚨 EXCL: Tottenham Hotspur in advanced talks to name Manchester City executive Rafi Moersen as head of football operations. Deal set to be done for highly-rated CFG director of football transactions to join #THFC from #MCFC in prominent role @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/JNY5IIGSVW— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) December 16, 2025
Euro 2028 and onwards could be behind the new BBC paywall. https://deadline.com/2025/12/bbc-netflix-model-ads-licence-fee-1236649777/
French court orders Paris Saint-Germain to pay former player Kylian Mbappe €60m in unpaid salary and bonuses https://t.co/FxF6O2frYY— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 16, 2025
Absolutely none of these recruits from The City Group have worked including Directors, Academy staff or Academy players who are considerably below our existing local players. 🫤 https://t.co/SiHjAItGpx— Lilywhite Rose (@Lilywhite_Rose) December 16, 2025 It's quite crazy the degree to which ex-Man City employees are populating the entirety of English football. I'm pretty sure the head of Man United's academy is an ex-City guy now too. I don't think major parts of Man City's success that you can put down to anything outside of a) having loads of money and b) having Pep Guardiola. The above point is true for the majority of clubs that recruit former City people, not just Spurs. Money doesn't guarantee success of course and there are obviously good processes taking place at the club, but it's hard to pinpoint anything groundbreaking.
what a rise for Moersen. ten years he's gone from inside sales to a "prominent" role at a major English club. hope for us all yet.
New @TheAthleticFC New travel bans by Trump administration threaten to exclude fans of Senegal and Ivory Coast from World Cup next summer, with each team having two games in the U.S. Up to four qualified nations impacted now along with Haiti & Iran.https://t.co/QqbU9OSZ9C— Adam Crafton (@AdamCrafton_) December 16, 2025 And unlike Haiti and Iran they don’t have big diasporas in the USA already.
Russia may return to international football after a four-year blanket ban from competitions. FIFA's new under-15 tournament, starting next year, will be "open to all" 211 of its member associations, in which the RFU remains. Story @TheAthleticFC: https://t.co/vTTa4MGuE3— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) December 17, 2025
We ( Europe ) have such a good relationship with Russia at the moment that I don’t know what could possibly go wrong with letting Russia back and their Clubs. From what I was reading yesterday from M16, head of armed forces, feels like war with Russia is just round the corner with their scaremongering approach.
New York City mayor now joins Prime Minister Starmer in calling on fifa to do more on prices. This isn’t going away… https://t.co/kyyydtKQ0V— Adam Crafton (@AdamCrafton_) December 17, 2025