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But why would they even bother? The P2025 authors are getting everything they want. Trump is fully on board with the implementation - doesn't matter whether he's a true believer or just doesn't give a shit either way; the result is the same. Plus, the utter chaos of Trump sucks all the oxygen out of the room which provides a great distraction while the P2025 architects go about their business.

Yeah, just saw that. It's good news. Osimhen is only 26 and a quality player and shouldn't be wasting his prime in the Saudi league. He's going to get a fat contract wherever he signs in Europe too.

They are still not getting rid of him. Reagan was practically a vegetable and Republicans didn't 25th him. Trump is the ultimate Teflon Don and not only does he get away with acts that would end any other political career but the worse he acts the more his cult galvanises around him. No current Republican is anywhere close to being as electable or immune from scandal as Trump and the Republican voter base don't give a shit about any cognitive decline. The GOP dances to Trump's tune but certain people on the left seem to think it's the other way around and Trump is just a useful idiot. It's also where the (unironic) President Musk nonsense came from when the truth was that Elon Musk was Trump’s dancing monkey.

How Palace are fighting to keep European dream alive.

Thing is when Osimhen and De Laurentiis had their falling out and before going on loan to Gala, an agreement was reached to reduce his release clause from €130m to €75m in order to facilitate a permanent move in the future. So from Napoli's POV, they are already giving a big discount. Napoli are also not without some leverage because there were reports by Turkish media that Gala were ready to pay his release clause but it looks like Osimhen has decided to accept the much more lucrative offer - Gala were reportedly prepared to offer him a contract worth €12m/year net vs Al-Hilal's €40m/year net.

Trump owns the Republican party. They aren't removing him.

Di Marzio reporting that Osimhen has accepted Al-Hilal's contract offer. No agreement with Napoli yet on the fee - Al-Hilal have upped their offer to €70m but Napoli are firm in their demand that the release clause of €75m be paid.

Ornstein reporting that Thomas Frank is Spurs' first choice to replace Ange.

Al-Hilal were only prepared to offer €65m for Osimhen. Seems unlikely that they'd pay €70m let alone £70m for Nunez.

France rallied back well but too little too late. Great game though. Cherki changed the game when he came on.

There has been reports previously that Palace are in a bit of a sticky situation wrt them participating in the europa league. Textor is Palace's largest shareholder as well as the majority shareholder at Lyon who have also qualified for the europa league. To complicate matters, David Blitzer is a major shareholder in Palace as well as owner of Bronby so Palace dropping into the conference league would also cause a conflict. And worst of all, it's now being reported that Textor's proposal to place his shares in a blind trust (as United and City did previously) has been rejected by UEFA because Palace missed UEFA's deadline for registering the trust. Textor and Parish have been negotiating with UEFA officials since Tuesday but no agreement has been reached as yet. ETA. Spain are absolutely destroying France.

Reports that Inter's manager search has moved on to Parma's Cristian Chivu. Apparently a deal is close to being agreed and Chivu is expected to sign a two-year contract.

And Ait-Nouri. Reportedly finalising a deal worth €40m (including addons).

Club World Cup tickets 16% of original price as Lionel Messi lure fails.

La Repubblica's reporting on the press conference seems to indicate that Fabregas is staying at Como. https://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/serie-a/como/2025/06/04/news/fabregas_no_inter_resta_allenatore_como-424647749/amp/

Looks like City are about to complete two transfers - Reijnders from AC Milan for €70m and Cherki (personal terms agreed and negotiations with Lyon are underway).

Modric has agreed to join Milan.

Di Marzio reporting that Inter are in contact with De Zerbi and Fabregas. Apparently De Zerbi has a release clause which would make a move for him easier however he's reportedly asked for guarantees regarding squad investment. Fabregas recently turned down Leverkusen to stay at Como so prizing him away won't be easy.

Chelsea are going to pay United the £5m penalty rather than take up the option to buy Sancho for £25m. Not surprising. Sancho has the technical ability but not the drive, a shit attitude and well documented history of half-arsing it in training and only bothers pressing and tracking back on the rare occasions when he feels like it.

Reports that Bruno has rejected Al-Hilal's proposal and will stay at United.

Brentford have agreed a deal with Liverpool to sign Kelleher for £12.5m + £5.5m in addons. Flekken will be heading to Leverkusen for a fee of €10m. That's some excellent business by Brentford.

Inzaghi takes some of the blame as every manager does but all the blame can't be laid at his door. At the end of the day, this Inter squad is old as far as top end football goes. Their squad has too many players who just don't have the legs to go the distance any more. Inter started the season well enough but were flagging at the business end of the season. They really need to refresh the squad with younger players. Inzaghi did well to get them past Bayern and Barca both of whom have younger and better squads - the bigger disappointments were being thumped by a shit Milan in the semi-final of the Coppa Italia and losing the Scudetto to a weaker (and just as old) Napoli side although not having any European football this season as well as getting knocked out of the cup early were big advantages for Napoli. I doubt that squad would've finished top 4 had they to contend with a more congested fixture list.

Seeing reports that PSG fans went apeshit in Paris last night - 2 dead, 192 injured, 692 fires started and 559 arrested.

Spurs might be a bit better by the time the Super Cup comes around. Ange may or may not still be the manager either - reports are that his job is not completely safe despite the EL win and Spurs' hierarchy are still deciding whether to continue with him.

This was a shellacking. PSG were good but that was also an embarrassing display by Inter.