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Tom Heaton has signed a 12-month extension to stay as back-up to Onana, but a move to Luton cannot be ruled out after Utd spoke to Urawa Reds about £5m-rated keeper Zion Suzuki

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

So on the same day that Tuchel says we can't discuss Kane, the Bayern president decides to openly talk about...Kane.

Don't think this will help Bayern much tbh.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Normally I'm quite harsh on these things but there are extenuating circumstances here. UEFA were making changed to FFP during the middle of covid with no knowledge of exactly what the next few years would hold. Expecting clubs to keep up with unexpected changes when they might have front weighted their allowed FFP losses etc. is a challenge.

UEFA aren't perfect with FFP rule breaches but its not like they haven't attempted to ban many large clubs from Europe before.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/football@lemmy.world

Opening proposal already submitted — rejected by Man United, transfer fee was below expectations

Fred will leave United this summer as Saudi clubs, Fulham and more PL clubs are already working on it.

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And then there were two...

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Not only Leonardo Bonucci. Juventus also told Weston McKennie that he’s NOT part of the plans.

McKennie will not work together with the first team and won’t travel for the USA pre season tour.

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1679567749343739905

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/football@lemmy.world

Bonucci will be made available on the market with immediate effect.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I think its just mainly the price. There's not many clubs who pay £80m+ and even less who have an opening in central midfield.

Arsenal tried in January but the price was too high, Real were focussed on Bellingham, PSG went with the Sporting guy and Man City dont need him, so its pretty much only Chelsea and Man Utd left who'd pay silly money (other than Saudi clubs).

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/football@lemmy.world

And another potentially away to Saudi Arabia.

What a crazy transfer window.

Liverpool's midfield is vanishing into thin air. Milner, Kieta, Ox all away with the potential of Henderson and Fabinho too.

They have obviously signed two but losing five in one window is challenging.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/football@lemmy.world

...Deal will 100% also include add-ons.

Negotiations continue to find a solution as soon as possible.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Vid bot guy back again...

It might be best to switch it off for a week or so. It's difficult to troubleshoot any bot issues when it seems like lemmy.world and the API are having their own issues every day. I'll try to leave it running in a test community for longer and if it runs fine and then bring it back here.

@skipseagull@lemmy.world if its easier for you to make @Football_Vid_Bot@lemmy.world a mod then I should (hopefully) be able to make it sticky/unsticky itself automatically every day for each new highlights post.

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The USL is set for a milestone vote on the adoption of a promotion and relegation system in its lower-division men’s soccer structure, sources briefed on the plans tell The Athletic. The sources, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the vote before it takes place, are optimistic the vote will be passed, but it is not considered a certainty.

Owners will vote on whether to proceed toward the new competitive structure at the USL’s board of governors meetings, set to take place Aug. 9-10 in Colorado Springs, Colo. If enacted, the USL would be the first open professional league system in modern U.S. soccer history.

The vote will not be on a specific and finalized framework for promotion and relegation, the sources said. Rather, the topic up for a vote will confirm whether ownership at the leagues’ clubs has enough collective interest to merit further work toward implementing an open system among the USL’s professional competitions.

A USL spokesperson declined to comment when reached by The Athletic.

The upcoming vote culminates work that publicly began in earnest at the USL’s 2021 mid-year meetings, when the organization formally proposed working toward incorporating promotion and relegation between its second-division Championship and third-division League One.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It might take a few days to get the goal bot working again btw.

Tried last night but it wasn't posting the links as comments. Unsure if lemmy.world going down had any effect on another issues that came up too.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't be surprised if they delay the kit reveal a week or so if they are close to finding a sponsor.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree that it should be changed somehow before August comes around. Opinions seemed mixed when the bot started so I didn't want to unilaterally change anything.

Potential options:

  1. We keep it as it is now.
  2. We ask @skipseagull@lemmy.world to permanently pin a post and all goals are comments.
  3. Same as 2 but allow a select group of goals involving ~30 "big" teams to also be posted as individual posts.
  4. A pinned post for goals between a certain time i.e. European goals as new posts, everything else into a pinned post as comments.
[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

He wants to leave and I don't think Arsenal are going to stop him.

Juve and a Saudi Arabian club are the rumoured interested parties.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, forgot about that. Will try and add that in the body of the post.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It seems like they're going to be changing a decent amount if their starters in one window. With Xhaka and Partey potentially leaving presumably they need to sign another midfielder in addition to Rice?

Timber, Rice, Havertz minimum as new starters.

[-] FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I think this is a good solution. It's then up to the user to decide if they want to combine or not.

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