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Review: Why are these deals taking too long to be sealed.

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2 years ago

July 8, 2023

This summer transfer window has been associated with big names moving from one club to another either due to end of contract, loan deals or transfer by purchase. When looking at the following deals, they have been the major transfer deals which have stalled leaving fans wondering what is happening behind the scenes making the transfer to take long before they are agreed and even prompting clubs to hold too many meetings as they try to come with an agreement is reached.

One of the deals that have been hitting media headlines is the Moises Caicedo deal that has lasted from this year’s January transfer window until this summer window where the heavily linked move to Chelsea is being slowed by high asking price from Brighton and Chelsea are reluctant to pay at once since they want to balance their FFP books as they spent heavily in January although Chelsea are in control of the deal and the player has accepted the move to London the clubs are yet to agree on payment terms.

The Onana deal to Manchester United is another deal that has been in talks over the past two weeks. The deal is yet to be agreed as Manchester United have not yet reached Inter Milan asking price which is ranged at €60M but current meetings between the two clubs showed the deal will be agreed soon as United improved their bid to £45M which is closer.

Kylian Mbappé and Romelu Lukaku deals have also caused a saga as they have lasted for a whole season as players themselves are forcing the moves out of their clubs and their clubs are reluctant to let them either go for free or on loan respectively. Chelsea said no more loans for Lukaku as they want the player to leave permanently and Inter are unwilling to pay more than €30M making the transfer to be in a stand still. PSG on the other hand don’t want to lose Mbappé for free to Real Madrid despite the player admitting that it’s his next destination and have even threatened to sell him to the highest bidder next month if he doesn’t extend his stay.

Despite the saga in these deals there is a high chance for them to be completed this summer or they will never happen in future.

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UEFA Champions league last 16 draw.

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2 years ago

December 18, 2023

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Europe’s top elite football club competition, the UEFA Champions league has entered its second stage of knockouts after the group stage which comprised of 32 teams and after group stage only 16 teams which emerged as the first and second placed teams progressed. The 16 teams were later grouped into 8 teams producing two pots A and B where now the draw will take on henceforth whereby every team now will know its opponents all the way to the final.

This UEFA edition should also be put in mind that its the last one where teams participated ni group stage matches as from 2024/2025 edition there will be a mini league comprising of 8 teams after addition of four more teams to make it 36 teams and the teams will only face each other once before entering the knockouts stages.

Here is the full draw of the last 16 teams. Winners Manchester city will be in action against Danish side Copenhagen as they defend their title.

?? Porto ? Arsenal ???????
?? Napoli ? Barcelona ??
?? PSG ? Real Sociedad ??
?? Inter ? Atletico Madrid ??
?? PSV ? Dortmund ??
?? Lazio ? Bayern ??
?? Copenhagen ? Manchester City ???????
?? RB Leipzig ? Real Madrid ??

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Fabrizio Romano: Players text me and I text them too asking for transfer info.

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2 years ago

September 2, 2023

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When it comes to football transfers, the Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano has been credited as the most entrusted football journalist in Europe. The 30 year old journalist works for Sky Sports Italy and also works for the Guardian and CBS sports. The journalist started writing news about football back in 2009. He is based in Milan.

The Italian journalist rose to fame back in 2011 while still taking his studies when he received an inside information about the transfer of Barcelona B player Mauro Icardi from an Italian agent. This transfer news was his breakthrough to his rise as the news were received in an unique way.The journalist after this news he created what came to be the famous transfer tagline “Here we go” after he lacked words to describe a completed transfer deal and only wrote here we go. The next year he joined Sports Italy. Since then he has created and built contacts with clubs, agents and intermediaries all over Europe.

Many people asks about where the transfer journalist gets his football news from. In recent interview after the closing of this year summer transfer window the journalist when asked this he answered by stating that a lot of players directly text him or her texts them and ask for the information. And sometimes the players tell him to write something about them because they want to leave the club.

The journalist won the 2022 Globe Soccer Digital Award for the best football journalist.