Football

Mbappe destined to be one of the greatest players who never played for a serious side in a serious league.

It's a one year deal apparently and then he's off to Real Madrid, who are a serious side in a serious league.

His reported salary would be nearly three times Manchester Uniteds entire wage bill.

€1,320 per minute.

talk of £1bn for a years worth of football
do the saudis recoup anything when he moves to madrid next summer ?

Alternative question.

Do they need to?

Meanwhile Fabinho is worrying about taking his dogs.

the human side of football in an age of greed
just finished watching our 2nd pre season friendly
would be happy to keep fabs and his two french bulldogs. bulldogs playing either side of him in a midfield 3 would be better than our 2nd half team's midfield

RIP Trevor Francis

That is shit

Real Madrid, who are a serious side in a serious league.

Well, fair enough. Six years too late, but better late than never.

https://youtu.be/RR1ZQpEK2-I

Chris Bart-Williams gone too :(

During our many years of being shit he was easily my favourite and our best player player, just such a classy player who could play anywhere. Platt even played him as a sweeper...

Ah shit, that is really sad. Not even 50. RIP CBW

Very sad. So young. Did he play for Charlton for a bit, too?

He did. Started at Leyton Orient.

awww no RIP CBW.

Joe Lewis charged with Orchestrating a 'Brazen' Insider Trading Scheme. Looks like Spurs will have to loin Man utd in having an asterisk (*) put next to their recent trophies.

Fucking lol coming from a city fan

Peak irony.

recent trophies. Nice work dude

so that's how they afforded the big new shiny stadium and the mbappe bid

After watching us beat Benfica on a Portuguese stream last night I am fully ready for the new season to start (ignoring that it will be a fairly anticlimactic start with City first match and then no match the second week with Luton's stadium not being ready).

You never know, you might catch us in a state of early season ennui, not quite at the races.
Couldn't the Luton fixtures be swapped around H&A?

Conceding fewer than 5 would be a decent result for us.

Not sure why they weren't switched. Maybe because it would have meant us having 4 home games in a row at the start of the season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66316912

Tottenham have accepted a £12.9m bid for Davinson Sanchez from Spartak Moscow, but the defender is reluctant to join the Russian side.

imagine being forced to go and play in russia, hopefully this is just to try and get some other bids to come out of the woodwork

Dont get used to it lads