How many of your kids are you going to sell next year, James Pearce?
They're surely very valuable to you... what's their ROI?
You have a decent factory there, your output is phenomenal!
Great product!
Academy: We easily accept language like:
“£200m generated by academy products”
“Return on investment” in these kids.
Universities:
“Our graduates earn on average X per year.”
“Our alumni are in top firms.”
But we don’t see:
“We’ve generated £5bn from the sale of our alumni to corporations.”
“Our students are our most profitable products.”
If a university said:
“The Law School has generated £3bn from selling its alumni to top firms, a very productive era in human exports”
... people would likely find that:
- Creepy
- Dehumanising
- Corporate/industrial to a gross degree
Why do we tolerate this kind of language in sports journalism then?
Disgusting.
I know that the Academy is important, and that £200m in contracts resulting from the training of our great players is a significant figure. But could sports journos quit talking about children and young men in industrial terms using neoliberal speak –and frankly, the language of slavery? It's the language of slavery. Disgusting.
Imagine if universities discussed the value, salaries, and proceeds from the work of their alumni in terms of humans-as-product? People would probably complain.
Academy: We easily accept language like:
“£200m generated by academy products”
“Return on investment” in these kids.
Universities:
“Our graduates earn on average X per year.”
“Our alumni are in top firms.”
But we don’t see:
“We’ve generated £5bn from the sale of our alumni to corporations.”
“Our students are our most profitable products.”
If a university said:
“The Law School has generated £3bn from selling its alumni to top firms, a very productive era in human exports”
⚽ Palmeiras vs Flamengo, no one will watch that final except people from Brazil.
Another wonderful tournament defined by teams the rest of the continent couldn't care less about.
PD: Sou torcedor do Palmeiras, just expressing what the average football fan from Latin America feels right now.
Alight the ref overturns his own bad decision, reverts the penalty.
The ref announced it through the stadium loudspeakers, I may have to get used to that... more Tennis-like.
Still Fulham 0 - 1 Arsenal
The ref cam no one asked for is back.
Recommend reliable non-ESPN football streams please.
So, what's the fuss about Ruben Amorim? 🤣
Botched surgery?
Remember he was a leading candidate to manage Liverpool before we even heard of Arne Slot? We really dodged a bullet there!
Either pathetic and incompetent, or completely disingenuous acting in bad faith. Or both things.
This should be helpful to get a better informed idea of what will be the output required to win the league in 2025-2026. If Liverpool manage to deliver on the promise of the current squad, chances of winning the league increase dramatically if you reach a 9% of the league's total goals. You may even get the chance to win the title with just above 8%, but then you will most likely struggle to fend off MCFC or AFC.
This is in line with my earlier healthily optimistic estimate.
- Liverpool burnt their chance this window to bring in a new CB.
- Guéhi was ready to move, had his exit lined up, now stuck and upset.
- Palace kept him short-term but lost £35m and gained an unhappy captain.
- Glasner alone got exactly what he wanted: Guéhi stays, his authority grows, and he’s even being linked in Germany. He may leave a mess behind for others to clean up.
Forcing through Guéhi’s stay, killing Liverpool’s deal, and then entertaining links to Germany — all while leaving Palace with no fee and an unhappy captain — does paint Glasner as someone acting purely in his own interest. Hard not to read that as terrible character.
It looks to me like Glasner only wanted to leave himself, looking for any pretext to resign, then grounded Guehi and wrecked Liverpool's deal instead. Terrible character.
Now he may be off to Leverkusen leaving a mess behind him, which benefits neither Crystal Palace, nor Liverpool. Much less Marc Guehi. Only Glasner.
- Liverpool burnt their chance this window to bring in a new CB.
- Guéhi was ready to move, had his exit lined up, now stuck and upset.
- Palace kept him short-term but lost £35m and gained an unhappy captain.
- Glasner alone got exactly what he wanted: Guéhi stays, his authority grows, and he’s even being linked in Germany. He may leave a mess behind for others to clean up.
It looks to me like Glasner only wanted to leave himself, looking for any pretext to resign, then grounded Guehi and wrecked Liverpool's deal instead. Terrible character.
Now he may be off to Leverkusen leaving a mess behind him, which benefits neither Crystal Palace, nor Liverpool. Much less Marc Guehi. Only Glasner.
Marc Guehi is probably more unhappy than we are about his failed transfer, and rightly so. Imagine a professional player being treated like that and watching videos of Isak wearing Red the next day. He's a top professional, too good for Oliver Glasner.
Which probably means Guehi and Liverpool will only have to wait until January to reunite. He can still give us a boost towards the second half of the season, which is usually when we need that most.
slims :miyagi: 🐟⁂
boosted
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