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The US paid 21.7bn dollars for the destruction of Gaza and attacking seven other sovereign nations in the region Israelis benefit from free healthcare and housing paid for by US taxpayers, which is denied US citizens. How US funding has made Israel’s wars possible | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera

He won't learn fuck all or develop sat on the bench

We have 4 in 25

It was yesterday morning actually. And he played just around 20 mins. This time situation is quite good. Even Cucurella got first full game rest in months.

He played match in Japan this morning, the Forest game is Saturday 12:30.. I would not be surprised if he doesn't start. Luckily Caicedo didn't go this time and Enzo returned early, quite shity to play Saturday opening game for the ones who are coming from America/Asia after international break.

Apparently Hamas executing people on the streets. I guess Hamas won't dissarm and this peace plan won't hold.

Returning home? They crossed the line and found out

Joe Biden’s Ignominious Gaza Failure It’s America’s worst foreign policy disaster since the invasion of Iraq. https://prospect.org/world/2025-10-15-gaza-israel-joe-biden-peace-failure/ I’ll admit it: Donald Trump deserves some credit for the ceasefire in Gaza. I didn’t think it would happen—I thought Israel would fully ethnically cleanse the place, and then do the same thing to the West Bank, and Trump would not care. And one should not overstate the achievement here. There were two previous ceasefires negotiated under Joe Biden, under which many more hostages were released. The war may well start up again soon, just like it did after the other ceasefires. Indeed, as I was drafting this article, Israel was already violating the ceasefire terms by shooting several people and cutting the amount of aid let into Gaza in half, supposedly in retaliation for Hamas not producing hostage bodies fast enough. (Hamas claims it is working as fast as it can without digging equipment or electricity.) Still, at the time of writing at least, the ceasefire hasn’t broken, and it appears likely that the rest of the hostages, or their remains, will be released soon. If that happens, a key excuse for Israel’s prolongation of the war will be gone. Though there is no sign of a permanent settlement, much less any prospect of Palestinians getting civil rights, this is the best news we’ve had in the last two years. And it all happened because Trump got mad and leaned on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It proves beyond any doubt that President Joe Biden could have ended this conflict for good more than a year ago. Now, Biden almost certainly would have had a much more difficult time getting Israel, and particularly Netanyahu, to play ball than Trump did. Bibi is a paid-up member of the global network of right-wing authoritarians, and has the staggering corruption scandals to prove it. As we’ve seen with Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, or Trump and Javier Milei, or Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson, or Musk and Vladimir Putin, these people instinctively work together to protect each other and advance their mutual interests. They have a vision of the future, and it’s a boot stamping on a human face—forever. Indeed, Netanyahu is not just a friendly aspiring autocrat—he openly campaigns for Republican policies and politicians. In 2002 he told Congress there was “no question” Saddam Hussein was working on nuclear weapons; in 2012 he campaigned for Mitt Romney, and in 2015 he gave a speech to Congress attempting to derail President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Netanyahu celebrated Trump’s victory in 2016—which indeed led to the nuclear deal being torn up, as well as the American embassy being moved to Jerusalem—and tried to help him in 2020 and 2024. It’s no surprise that Netanyahu would be more willing to listen to Trump than Biden. That said, it appears that Trump did have to apply serious pressure to get this deal through. The New York Times reports that he had more or less let Netanyahu do whatever he wanted, spending weeks on his bewilderingly goofy idea that the U.S. could annex Gaza itself, until the Israeli military hit Qatar with a missile strike. This massive overreach infuriated Trump, who rounded up support from the Gulf states, hauled Netanyahu into the White House, and forced him to get on the phone and read an apology to the Qatari prime minister. (It’s not for nothing that Trump wants to maintain good relations with Qatar, the country that gifted him with a luxury jet to become the new Air Force One.) But that is just to say Israel is a small country in a dangerous neighborhood, while America is the global hegemon providing it with vital money, weapons, and diplomatic cover. When the U.S. president chooses to apply pressure in such a situation, it tends to work. Trump didn’t have to do much, but he also barely touched the levers of diplomatic pressure available to him. And while Biden would have had to push hard, he should have assumed from the start of his presidency that Netanyahu would do all he could to undermine his policy and get him replaced with a Republican, because that’s what Netanyahu does to every Democrat. Biden didn’t do that. He, and the rest of his administration, carried out a criminally stupid “bear hug” strategy of enabling Netanyahu at every turn. When USAID and the State Department’s refugees bureau concluded that Israel was deliberately restricting food and water from entering Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken buried the report and lied to Congress about what he knew, so weapons sales to Israel could continue—and in any case, it wasn’t some great mystery, as it was obvious people were starving. Even when Biden himself set a red line in public, saying Rafah should not be invaded, and the IDF proceeded to do just that, the only consequence was temporarily pausing the delivery of 2,000-pound MK-84 bombs that were totally useless except for maximizing civilian casualties and which Israel had already received in huge numbers in any case. To anyone with a passing familiarity with the history of Israel-Palestine, it was obvious that the Israeli reaction to the October 7 attacks would be murderous collective punishment. Within a week, this was an undeniable fact. Biden would have been entirely justified in applying heavy and intensifying pressure to end the conflict by that point. Likely all that would have been necessary is credibly threatening to cut off supplies of weapons, which, in fact, is required by American law. (That’s why Blinken lied.) It’s impossible to say with any certainty what Biden’s calamitous failure has cost America and the world. At the very least, tens of thousands of Gazans would be alive today. Ukraine might be in significantly better shape, as weapons that ended up blowing Gazan children to bits could have gone to fight Russian aggression instead. It’s not impossible that Kamala Harris would be president today; while there’s little evidence that people directly refusing to vote for her because of Gaza made up Trump’s margin of victory, the genocide did badly split the Democratic coalition, deflect attention from Biden’s very real domestic achievements, and badly demoralize the left. Whatever the case, this is Joe Biden’s legacy. Almost all his highly promising infrastructure and climate programs have gone in the trash. All he’ll be remembered for now is being beaten at humanitarian diplomacy by Donald Trump.

Brentford’s Antoni Milambo suffers ACL injury, out for remainder of season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6718618/2025/10/15/antoni-milambo-brentford-acl-injury/ Brentford have confirmed midfielder Antoni Milambo will miss the remainder of the season after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury on international duty. Milambo, 20, sustained the injury during the Netherlands Under-21s’ draw with Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday. The midfielder appeared in visible pain and was taken off the pitch on a stretcher. Brentford confirmed on Wednesday Milambo would undergo surgery and remain in rehabilitation for the rest of the campaign. Milambo joined Brentford from Feyenoord in the summer and signed a five-year contract with the option for a further 12 months. He has featured three times in all competitions, starting both of Brentford’s Carabao Cup victories and playing the opening 45 minutes of the defeat to Nottingham Forest in their first Premier League game of the season. The Netherlands youth international has been an unused substitute or missed out on a place in the matchday squad in Brentford’s six subsequent top-flight matches. Milambo joined Brentford off the back of a productive season with Feyenoord, scoring seven goals and providing nine assists across 43 appearances in all competitions. Brentford return to action against West Ham United on Monday. Keith Andrews’ side are 16th in the Premier League after winning two of their opening seven top-flight matches. ‘More bad luck for Brentford’ Analysis by Jay Harris This is a huge blow for Antoni Milambo and it continues Brentford’s rotten luck of new signings having a difficult debut season. Milambo started their opening day defeat to Nottingham Forest and was taken off at half-time. The only other appearances the attacking midfielder has made this season came against Aston Villa and Bournemouth in the Carabao Cup. Keith Andrews has preferred to use Jordan Henderson, Mathias Jensen, Yehor Yarmoliuk or Mikkel Damsgaard in midfield as they are experienced players who can cope with the physicality of the Premier League. The plan was clearly for Milambo to be slowly reintegrated into the starting XI over the course of the season as he adjusted to his new team-mates and gained a better understanding of the coaching staff’s demands. The 20-year-old will now spend a significant amount of time recovering from an ACL injury and is unlikely to feature again in the 2025-26 campaign. Keane Lewis-Potter struggled with a knee injury during his first year with Brentford after a £16million move from Hull City and only made 13 appearances in all competitions. Damsgaard was hampered by knee issues across his first two seasons before becoming one of their key creative outlets under former head coach Thomas Frank. Igor Thiago only played eight times for Brentford last season due to a knee injury and a joint infection. The Brazilian has started every single game this season and scored four goals. Lewis-Potter, Damsgaard and Thiago overcame those injury issues to become important players for Brentford and Milambo needs to take some small comfort from that as he faces an extended spell on the sidelines. The Netherlands Under-21 international is still at the beginning of his career and hopefully this will only be a temporary setback.

Best players of the last semester: eight areas Thanks to the collaboration with Impect, the CIES Football Observatory has developed performance indices on a 100 basis in eight areas of play. This Weekly Post presents the 50 outfield footballers with the highest values in each domain for the last six-month domestic league games, with each player appearing only in the ranking for the area in which they scored highest. The following players head the tables in the different areas : Virgil van Dijk (air defence), Moisés Caicedo (ground defence), Rúben Dias (defensive build-up), Pedri González (orchestration), Michael Olise (take on), Lamine Yamal (chance creation), Kylian Mbappé (finishing) and Erling Haaland (air attack). The youngest players in the top 50 of each category are as follows : Eivind Helland (air defence), Agustín Medina (ground defence), Pau Cubarsí (defensive build-up), Warren Zaïre-Emery (orchestration), Estêvão Willian (take on), Lamine Yamal (chance creation), Franco Mastantuono (finishing) and Thierno Barry (air attack). >>> Top 50s for the eight domains >>> More about Impect >>> More about the indices

Then you will be the first one critizie him when he gets outsmuscle and make a mistake in a defense which he alsmot did against Liverpool. No thanks better for him to take it slow like Maresca is doing.

Needs to be started against Forest this kid

Brilliant, England beat Lithuania wahhheeeyyyyy Qualified for the WC with ease, played a load of shite teams including a Wales side who should never had played us before the crucial Belgium game and now the full England hype train is in full force, that's until they reach the last 16 of the WC and we face a team that can actually kick a ball properly and string more than two passes together. Load of absolute shite

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Struggling Sweden sack manager Tomasson https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/clyl5906qnzo Sweden have sacked manager Jon Dahl Tomasson following a poor start to their 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign. They are bottom of Group B with one point from four games following a 1-0 defeat against Kosovo on Monday. Sweden - who have an all-star forward line of Liverpool's Alexander Isak and Viktor Gyokeres of Arsenal - drew with Slovenia and lost against Kosovo and Switzerland in their opening three group games. The former Blackburn Rovers manager, who played for Newcastle United during a distinguished career, became Sweden's first foreign coach, external when the ex-Denmark striker took over in February 2024. "The decision is based on the fact the men's national team has not delivered the results we hoped for," said Swedish Football Association's chairman Simon Astrom in a statement. "There is still a chance of a play-off in March and our responsibility is to ensure we have as optimal conditions as possible to be able to reach a World Cup play-off. "In this, we assess that a new leadership is required in the form of a new coach." Sweden will travel to play Switzerland then host Slovenia in their final two matches as they try to draw level with second-placed Kosovo, who have seven points in Group B. However, they could still reach the play-offs even without finishing in the top two of Group B as a result of their success in the 2024-25 Nations League, where they topped their group. The winners of the World Cup qualifying groups will fill 12 of the 16 spots available for European nations at next summer's tournament, with the runners-up in each group progressing to the play-offs. They will be joined by the four best Nations League group winners who failed to finish in the top two of their groups in qualifying. Wales, Romania, Sweden and Northern Ireland are the four sides currently in the play-off spots as a result of their Nations League performances. 'He forgot what Sweden stands for' - analysis Daniel Kristoffersson, football reporter for Swedish newspaper Sportbladet Everything has gone wrong. He has implemented a system and tactics that we do not have the players for. We have lost to Kosovo twice having not scored a goal - even though we have world-class players like Viktor Gyokeres and Alexander Isak. He has made players like Lucas Bergvall, Gyokeres and Isak look like Sunday League footballers. We could have expected a lot more from the Swedish national team. He hasn't got anywhere near what the players are capable of. He was a dead man walking after the Kosovo game. Before the qualification we were comparing this team to the one that was close to beating the Netherlands in the 2004 Euros quarter-final. Then, we had Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Larsson, Freddie Ljungberg, Olof Melberg - a fantastic team. If you look at the clubs the players play for and how they have performed, this is one of Sweden's best teams. But the results are some of the worst. That's 90% up to the coach. He came in with high promises to play attacking and high possession football, but he has been very naive with the defence. Over the years Sweden have had one of the best defences as a team. But Jon Dahl Tomasson promised attacking football and he completely forgot what Sweden stands for - being solid defensively.

It was in May 2024 that the first links between Chelsea and Estevao Willian started to be reported. A deal to sign him the following summer was soon concluded, and since then Blues fans have waited patiently to see him unleashed. They cannot wait much longer. Supporters have been tracking the youngster ever since those first rumours, and the excitement has continued to build. Some really special moments - a first Brazil goal, scoring against Chelsea in the Club World Cup, some ridiculous displays in the Brazilian league - kept raising expectations further, but it felt like the last minute winner against Liverpool in the final game before the international break was the 18-year-old's real coming-out party. After the game, TV pundits around the world showered him with praise and he took his first major step from highly-rated talent to household name, at least in footballing circles. As talents go, you almost could not design one more suited to get supporters excited. A pure one-on-one dribbler who is not afraid to shoot and has the natural movement and instincts of a goalscorer, Estevao looks utterly fearless despite his age. The much repeated lines about needing to be patient with him and his development are made to look faintly ridiculous by just how confident and capable he is already. Manager Enzo Maresca is doing his best to protect the prodigy, but there is only so much he can do when Estevao continues to make such important impressions from the bench. For now, fans will be content to see him arrive as a game-breaking roll of the dice in the second halves of games. But if he keeps looking so much more dangerous than his rivals for minutes on the wing, it will only be a matter of time before the coach has little choice but to give him regular starts. CFC news

Set to be rewarded with a new contract to ward off interest from Real Madrid. (AP)

@Vesper 🤭

Also, they won't be as constrained by FFP or PSR rules because of their massive revenue. Tbh, spending money was never really an issue for them until Ratcliffe came on board and they began to dial back massively on spending.

Kanes 44th goal this year edit' 45th *two tonight

Israel to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-hostages-ceasefire-10-14-2025-665a1cbe249f08c8513ceceaa04db201 TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was tested Tuesday as the slower-than-hoped return of deceased hostages from Gaza prompted an Israeli military agency to declare a “violation” of the truce agreement that it would respond to by halving the number of trucks allowed to bring humanitarian aid into the devastated territory. The United Nations’ humanitarian office in Gaza received word of the cuts from the Israeli military agency in charge of transferring aid to the territory, according to spokesperson Olga Cherevko. U.S. officials and international aid groups were also notified, according to three AP sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter. The Israeli government did not immediately comment. A day earlier, Israelis celebrated the return of the last 20 living hostages in Gaza and Palestinians rejoiced at Israel’s release of some 2,000 prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire’s first phase. But now attention in Israel has turned to when Hamas will return all the bodies of hostages who died in captivity. While Israeli officials had understood there could be some delay in the recovery effort, the families of hostages and their supporters expressed dismay that only four of the 28 bodies were returned on Monday.

Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/10/14/live-trump-signs-gaza-ceasefire-deal-with-leaders-of-qatar-egypt-turkiye Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis in the first major violation since the US-brokered ceasefire began. US President Donald Trump has promised lasting peace in the Middle East after signing a Gaza ceasefire deal with the leaders of Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye. Palestinians released from Israeli detention say they were beaten and humiliated with one former detainee describing Israel’s Ofer Prison as a “slaughterhouse”. Israel released nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees as part of a captives and prisoner exchange. Some 154 prisoners were exiled to Egypt. Hamas also released all 20 surviving Israeli captives held in Gaza and handed over the bodies of four others. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 67,913 people and wounded 170,134 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and about 200 taken captive.