French connection?
Following the news that Kylian Mbappe intends to leave Paris Saint-Germain when his contract expires this summer, Football Daily immediately speculated that the talk at today’s top flight managers’ press conference will turn to the French superstar forward potential destination. “Are you eating a sandwich? I,A super league Director?” we imagine Chris Wilder angrily asking as a local reporter smeared what looked like Greggs chicken baguette sauce from around his lips and then asked Mbappe where Possibility of free pitching at Bramall Lane.
While all roads to the World Cup title seem to lead to Real Madrid, which we’d have to describe as “eager to leave”, it’s worth noting that we’ve been here before. Rumors of Mbappe’s move to Madrid have long been a rumor mill for broadsheets, tabloids, transfer gossip sites and clickbait social media charlatans whose sister’s best friend once dated a milkman who was a tire fitter in Paris. He and the Paris Saint-Germain striker were childhood friends many years ago in the suburb of Bondi. Alas, Mbappe’s move to Madrid didn’t appear to be a foregone conclusion a year or two ago, as the Spanish club have reportedly made him a ridiculous offer that he’s found easy to refuse.
Mbappe may find himself with a problem if Real Madrid’s chief lawyer Florentino Perez decides after years of swagger that signing him would actually cause greater financial trouble than the player is worth. It’s hard to imagine where else he could go without accepting a significant reduction in wages and subsisting on chicken feed that still constitutes a fortune beyond the wildest dreams of most mortals. Mbappe is good enough to play for any team on the planet, but is too expensive to wear the jersey of most teams. It is doubtful that Mbappe will always find a home in Saudi Arabia, which he has previously refused to go to. place.
Having failed to make an offer for Ivan Toney in January on the grounds that he was out of their price range and that they would rather invest their resources elsewhere, Arsenal seemed unlikely to be Mbappe’s club, although that has not stopped Mikel Arteta was asked by a reporter about the possibility of the 25-year-old signing a contract and posing with a big green dinosaur in a few months’ time. “When you have a player of that quality, we always have to be involved,” cheered Arteta. It is suspected that any conversations with the striker’s “person” are likely to be rather short-lived due to Arsenal’s strict wage structure.
Given the London club’s woes, a move to Chelsea to reunite with Mauricio Pochettino seems unlikely, as Mbappe has managed Pochettino before and the Argentinian hasn’t really been in charge of PSG St. Germain. . Who’s to say Unai Emery can’t do the same again after convincing young Kylian to join PSG seven years ago after delivering an emotional speech to the then teenager and his family What about things? If the player is ready to team up with Ollie Watkins, who’s to say he won’t enjoy a season or two of plaudits from the denizens of Villa Park’s Holt Stadium?
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Quote of the day
“I was asked to shout two things on the street. The first was ‘And it was live!’ “, I do that, and the second one was an Aguero moment, which I don’t do because you need to go to a special place to get something truly extraordinary” – Martin Taylor in conversation with Donald McRae A life behind the microphone, making requests, he’s keen to meet Lionel Messi, as well as coach in non-league.
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Photos of Jurgen Klinsmann’s Zoom call (yesterday’s daily quote) show that South Korea played a 3-2-5-5-1-8 formation in the Asia Cup. Maybe I now understand their tactical difficulties in the Championship” – Mike Wilner.
Can I give Everton goalkeeper Richard Wright an honorable mention on the self-inflicted list (Football Daily letter “passim”)? Three years after he injured his shoulder in a fall from the loft, in February 2006 he broke his ankle in a warm-up match at Goodison Park and, if I remember correctly, it said “Don’t warm up here” . ” —Alan Renswick.
How about a shaggy dog story about weird tricks? ” – Ryan Carmine.
The shirtless man next to Steve Coppell must be Stan Turnt (yesterday in Memory Lane) who was the manager at Bury when we were promoted from Division Three to Division One in successive seasons. And help Burnley get promoted. The football at Gigg Lane wasn’t pretty, but it was effective and he was the most successful manager at Bury in my life” – Mick Norris.
Write to the.boss@theguardian.com. Today’s winner of our no-prize letter is… Mike Wilner.
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