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The Sunderland players were totally nervous and overwhelmed. The game was great for them. PS: What a wonderful game by Almiron taking advantage of and forcing all the Mackems' errors

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Today is the 3 Wise Men day in Spain. So, We have the presents today (instead of Christmas). And my present was a Joelinton Jersey. Perfect Timing. Howay The Lads

I had misunderstood. Definitely, for that price we should try to look at other options. Thank you

But Ewerk, I think the 7m loan was in summer, isn't it? I mean, I guess City ask 3'5n now in winter. PS; Surely, the most difficult thing to accept would be that City wants us to pay almost their entire fee, which must be very high.

As I said at the time, I haven't seen much of the player. Although the few times I have seen him, I have liked him (generally they have been U20 tournaments, where he made the difference more). He seems cheap to me for the prices paid today, especially if we take into account that he is considered the 3rd best young forward in Brazil after Endrick and Vitor Roque (for whom €70 and €60M have been paid). I think that if we have the money (although we couldn't register him this winter due to the FFP but we were thinking about next year) and that if the club was convinced of him, for that price we should have signed him.

Teams that loan out a player usually ask for a loan fee, which is what they have to pay per year for that player (amortization). I explain. The amortization is calculated by dividing the transfer price by the number of years that have been signed. Kalvin cost 42M and signed for 6 seasons, so 42/6 is equal to 7M. City must register, per year, to pay for Kalvin, 7M + his annual salary. It is normal for City to ask that price for him. Surely, now in winter, the rate will be half or a little less. Close to 3M.

We talk about Marcos Leonardo in november because in Brazil some reports said that Newcastle was the team with most interest in sign him.

I wouldn't sign a goalkeeper. I have that very clear. And even less, to Ramsdale. I trust Dubravka a lot. We all know how good it is. Now... There would only be one scenario in which I would try to bring in a goalkeeper for the remainder of the season and that is if I could bring in one of the 5-10 best goalkeepers in the world. In short: I think I would only take a chance on De Gea. Offering you a low contract for 6 months.

Lino is being the big surprise of Atleti's season. Last year he played for Valencia as a winger on the left wing, and even as a forward. But he was criticized for having very few goals and even ended up being a substitute behind Justin Kluivert. But this year, at Atleti, he has become Carrasco's best successor. Here he is playing as a winger in a defense of 5, although always very offensive. All Atleti fans are loving their season. I know that Atleti wanted to sell him in the summer, although Simeone wanted him in the team. Honestly, I don't think signing him makes sense since we have Gordon and Barnes. But he is a very very very good player, very young and with still a lot of room for improvement.

Marcos Leonardo's agent (Rafaela Pimienta, the same that Haaland) has said that it is time for the player to leave Santos, now in January. Apparently, Roma made an offer of €18M in the summer and it was rejected. It seems that Santos and the player have reached an agreement to have an exit fee and, although it has not been revealed, it is rumored that it could be around €20M (it seems cheap to me for the crazy things that are being paid) Today Globo, in Brazil, says that Newcastle, Real Madrid and Arsenal are the most interested. I understand that the player will be a little more expensive because a fight and an auction will start and in the end the player who leaves the most commissions to the player and agents will win.

I think it is impossible for Iñaki Williams to leave Athletic because he earns 12M a year and is not a player who deserves to earn that. Only Athletic pays for it so that he doesn't leave. That said, he seems like a pretty disappointing forward to me. It is true that the pace of the Premier League can be good for him, but he is a player who misses a large number of fairly simple goals. In his early days, when he was younger, it seemed like he had a very good future, playing both on the wing and up front, but he has been stuck doing nothing for many years now. I don't see him playing in a team that plays with only one striker (like we do) and he is no better than Isak or Wilson. It is true that Iñaki has something good and that is that he never gets injured. He has the historical record of consecutive games played in Spain. In short, smoke.

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I think that the point of ownership and the point of the players and fans are going to be in contradiction here. And the coach will be in the middle. Believe me. I have experienced this with Atlético 10 years ago. And I still do it today. Property has one thought: money. Not titles. The titles are secondary. Because? Because they need stability. They think in the long term. And to have that, you need to return to the Champions League next year. And the other. And the other. If they weigh being FA Cup champions, but finishing 6th in the Premier, or finishing 4th in the Premier, but not winning any title, rest assured that they will always prefer to return to UCL. It's more. They are the ones who will be able to ask HOwe that somehow the team does not give everything in the domestic Cups if that can be a distraction from finishing in the Big Four. Winning the FA or the Carabao doesn't give you money. It gives you more money to win a simple group stage match in UCL than the cups.

Difficult moment of the season. Fortunately, the national team break arrives. We have 6/7 starting players out of the team. Botman, Tonali, Wilson, Isak, Almirón, Burn... Schar has been playing with discomfort for a long time. In addition, important players like Barnes, Anderson and Murphy are also injured... Until very recently Joelinton and Willock have been down The other day Bruno was not there either, with a sanction. It is very difficult to compete like this, because we have players like Longstaff, Schar, Bruno or Gordon who are really tired. Hopefully we can start to recover players in these two weeks and I hope that in the winter market we can sign a center back and a player for Tonali.

It would be wonderful if someone knows how to read this interview without having to pay the subscription. https://theathletic.com/5039678/2023/11/09/nile-ranger-interview-haaland/?source=emp_shared_article

Many thanks to the club for the gesture of publishing in Spanish. I appreciate it.

It's always good to see Arteta cry.

When we signed him it seemed to me that we could have tried something better for that price. Then his first games here were disappointing. How glad I was wrong. It seems like a real super class to me. His ball handling is different. Release something. Things are going to happen when he has the ball. Yesterday he shows his intelligence without the ball in the goals from Willock and Almiron making the perfect unmarking to clean up the play. He already needs to be called by Southgate... And next summer it will cost 100 million if someone wants to take him.

I can't really say much about this guy. Only I saw him at the U20 World Cup this year and I loved him. He had a lot of goals. (In fact, I think he scored in every game of the tournament). In theory, he was not going to be a starter. In fact, he wasn't even going to be called up. But since Brazil's two forwards (Endrick and Vitor Roque) were not released by their clubs... They called him up. Seeing that Real Madrid and Barcelona have paid 70 and 60 million for Endrick and Vitor Roque, and that this boy is a couple of years older, but with figures similar to them, it doesn't seem like a bad attempt at signing to me. With these signings there is always risk. It can happen like with the last pearl that came out of Santos (Gabriel Barbosa). I was sure that he was going to succeed in Europe and he didn't. But the reality is that our present and future starting forward is already on the team. It's Isak. So a signing of this style ensures that, if Leonardo breaks out into a world star, great, he is ours. And if not, you can always sell it and recover 10-12M without hurting your sports project.

The coach of that Atleti (and 2 players, including the full-back who defended Jimmy Johnstone) was the same coach who had coached Racing Club in those Intercontinental Cups against Celtic. The Scottish press tried to heat up the atmosphere as revenge. That's why it was known that the match between Atletico and Celtic was going to be a massacre. In Glasgow, the Atleti players were very tough. Too much perhaps even for the time. Three of them were sent off and another 7 received yellow. From Celtic, only one player saw the yellow card. But the police had to enter the grass in the first half because several fans went down to the stands to try to attack an Atleti defender and at the end of the game, a fight between players ended with the police attacking the Atleti players in the dressing room. When they arrived at the airport to return to Madrid, even the passport control staff attacked the Atleti players (and some fans). On the return trip, some red and white fans threatened to shoot Johnstone and Celtic were escorted by police throughout the trip. PS The Atleti players were sanctioned with 3 games (even though they were sent off for a double yellow card) and could not play in the second leg of those European Cup semi-finals, nor the final, nor the replay of the final (in In the final we tied against Bayern and since there was no extra time, another game was played 2 days later).

Celtic-Atlético today, 50 yearl later. My father told me about this match several times.