08/27/2021 19:05
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Updated 08/27/2021 19:05
It is a combination of the TEG, the tactical and strategic game that raises war conflicts, and the
Football Manager or the old PC Fútbol
, which allowed having the whole range of options on the passing market and getting to realize implausible formations in slippers and from home .
Reality is less playful and genuine than fiction.
In this board game,
the chips are footballers
and those who move them are billionaire businessmen, sheiks and corporations.
With its rules, the impossible only takes a little longer to arrive.
Tell Nasser al Khelaïfi, the visible face of that club-state that is Paris Saint Germain.
The man from whom we know his past as a tennis player, that his father was a fisherman and also that he has in his bank account around
20 billion dollars
and behind him an even more powerful figure, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Zani, emir from Qatar, a country in which next year a World Cup will be played that runs according to the traditional rules, it will be played at the end of the year and all its matches in a single city, Doha.
PSG wants to win the Champions and cannot.
He has already tried buying Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he followed his attempts when he took Neymar to Barcelona and now he bet big: he
took the roulette of a passing market
that the specialists envisioned still because the coffers of the clubs creak due to the consequences derived from the coronavirus pandemic.
The captain of Real Madrid, Sergio Ramos, the goalkeeper of the European Championship, Gianluigi Donnarumma, one of the figures of the champion of Series A, Achraf Hakimi and a key piece of Klopp's Liverpool, Georginio Wijnaldum, had already arrived when he broke the board and took Lionel Messi.
Cristiano Ronaldo has already said goodbye to Juventus and is one step away from Manchester United.
Photo: dpa
The impossible only took a little longer to arrive
after the attempts that had begun a year ago, when the Argentine had more desire than now to take a leap. The show that is still waiting for the first game of the crack with the new shirt, opened the door to prove any crazy version of the transfer market: Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappé, they were the new difficult figures.
The Portuguese already moved alone.
He said goodbye to his Juventus teammates on Friday after giving several indications of his wear at the Italian club, which he had gone to to win the Champions League and ended the last season without even a Scudetto.
Thus, Serie A will lose its main star, who joins the departure of Romelu Lukaku
, the figure in the last tournament, from Inter to Chelsea for 115 million euros.
Romelu Lukaku returned to Chelsea.
(AP Photo / Ian Walton)
The Premier League is the destiny of CR7 that in the European afternoon was announced as the brilliant signing of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United.
"Welcome home king,"
the club wrote to convey what many Red Devils fans needed to hear after the versions came close to the city's classic rival. One of them set fire to a shirt with the iconic number 7 with which he won the 2008 Champions League.
Until this Friday morning, all the Portuguese roads led to the City.
Is that if Qatar plays strong and builds a bunker at PSG, the United Arab Emirates will respond with everything to compete from City.
From Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, owner of the English club, we know that he made a fortune with his oil company, which collects impressive cars, which belongs to the royal family of the United Arab Emirates
and that in 2008 he spent 291 million dollars to buy to a
skinny history
club
in England that now sells T-shirts all over the world.
Jack Grealish arrived at the City of Guardiola.
(Reuter)
City wants to win the Champions League and neither can they.
He bought Kun Agüero, Rahemm Sterling, De Bruyne ... He hired Guardiola.
In this transfer market he reinforced himself with
Jack Grealish, for whom they paid 117 million dollars
- the highest amount so far - and tried to keep the services of Harry Kane.
But there was no case.
"The club did everything possible. We did not speak with Tottenham, there was no offer because they did not want to negotiate. And if they do not want to negotiate, there is nothing to talk about,"
Pep acknowledged at the same press conference in which without saying so he lowered him thumb to Ronaldo.
As if that were not enough, an extra seasoning has already appeared to feed the morbid from the start of the season: Paris Saint Germain and Manchester City will collide in the same group of the Champions League.
Is it not going anymore?
The arrival of De Paul at Atlético de Madrid is so far the most important purchase on the market in Spain.
Photo EFE
The transfer market of the main European leagues closes on August 31.
And the threat of cimbronazos continues.
According to the French newspaper L'Equipe,
Real Madrid on Thursday raised its offer for Kylian Mbappé to 180 million euros
(about 212 million dollars).
That amount would equal what PSG paid Monaco in 2017 to buy the young talent.
The sports director of the French club, the Brazilian Leonardo, pointed out that Real Madrid's initial offer was "disrespectful, incorrect and illegal", but clarified that
"if a player wants to leave, he will leave
.
"
The participant Florentino Pérez, an undisputed leading actor in the markets in times when the national states had not yet landed in the clubs, also plays his chips.
There are several voices that syndicate him with a fundamental role to incline the departure of Messi from Barcelona and at the same time he leads the dispute with LaLiga and UEFA for the distribution of money at the continental level and the threat of forming a parallel organization.
Mbappé, near Real Madrid.
(DPA)
If Mbappé wears white it
will be a knockout blow for the
pass
market
of Barcelona, which lost its emblem player and drags a worn out squad.
So far, in Spain, the largest transaction in a very quiet market is the arrival of Rodrigo De Paul to Atlético de Madrid from Udinese for 35 million euros.
At the same time, PSG prepares a final swerve to reverse the possible departure of Mbappé.
And this Friday another brilliant name began to appear, that of Erling Haaland.
According to The Telegraph, the Parisian team would have already contacted Mino Raiola, agent of the Norwegian crack, to try out the signing.
The young wonder: Haaland has a contract at Borussia Dortmund but PSG can charge.
Photo: (AP)
Borussia Dortmund's position seems inflexible: it does not want to know of any negotiation at least until mid-2022, when a rescission clause that ranges between 75 and 90 million euros enters into force.
Meanwhile, the 21-year-old star scored five goals in his first three games.
Nothing can be discarded
What's more, these big moves could lead to other cascading transfers: forwards like Gabriel Jesus could leave City for the arrival of Ronaldo.
And Juve is looking for a replacement in Mauro Icardi (PSG), Moise Kean (Everton) or Luka Jovic (Real Madrid).
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