Vesper

Pool's 24 game unbeaten streak is over

1 nil FT

agree Tosin is nowhere near as poor a player as Disasi and Tosin is hardly a great CB

absolute beast CF play by Solanke what an assist

1 nil Bergvall

Borussia Dortmund interested in January loan move for Chelsea’s Carney Chukwuemeka https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6046413/2025/01/08/carney-chukwuemeka-dortmund-Chelsea-transfers/ Borussia Dortmund have an interest in signing Chelsea midfielder Carney Chukwuemeka on a loan deal with an option to buy in the January transfer window. In this week’s Transfer DealSheet, The Athletic reported that the 21-year-old has generated interest from clubs in the Premier League, Germany and Italy, but that Chelsea have made it clear that they would only consider a permanent sale. The only loan that Chelsea would consider for Chukwuemeka would be to Strasbourg but that will require one of Caleb Wiley, Djordje Petrovic or Andrey Santos to end their spells at the Ligue 1 club because they can only take three loans from Chelsea. Both clubs are owned by multi-club ownership group BlueCo. Chukwuemeka joined Chelsea from Aston Villa in the summer of 2022 for a £20million ($25m) fee. He made 15 appearances during his first season but a knee injury that required surgery limited him to only 12 games the following campaign. His contract at Stamford Bridge runs until 2028. He has found game time hard to come by at Chelsea and has been low down on the midfield depth chart. Head coach Enzo Maresca, who joined the club in July, said in September that he advised Chukwuemeka to leave the club in the summer to get more first-team football. Chukwuemeka has only made five appearances this season, with four of those coming in the Conference League and one in the Carabao Cup. His sole start came in Chelsea’s 3-1 league-phase win over Astana in December. He is yet to receive a senior international cap though he has made appearances for England through the under-17 to under-20 level. Dortmund, who are sixth in the Bundesliga standings, return to action on January 10 at home to Bayer Leverkusen. GO DEEPER Chelsea Transfer DealSheet: What to expect in 2025 Freakish injury curtailed Chukwuemeka’s Chelsea career It has been a bleak 18 months for Chukwuemeka, who appeared primed for a breakout Premier League season when he followed up a positive preseason with an excellent goal against West Ham United at London Stadium in August 2023. Chukwuemeka sustained a freakish knee injury in the same game that sidelined him for several months and by the time he was fit to return, Chelsea had found attacking midfield inspiration elsewhere — chiefly in emerging superstar Cole Palmer. Last summer Maresca made it clear that Chukwuemeka would be best served finding another club where he can play regularly. Chelsea’s preference to sell fits with their bigger push to extricate themselves from many of the signings they made in the summer of 2022, a window that the club’s ownership would rather forget. Liam Twomey Chukwuemeka has found game-time hard to come by under Maresca at Chelsea this season (Daniel Kopatsch/Getty Images) Chukwuemeka would fit Dortmund’s missing profile There is no question that Dortmund’s midfield has lost some of its verve, or that the time is right to rebuild it around Felix Nmecha, who promises to grow into an outstanding No 6. Pascal Gross, who arrived from Brighton & Hove Albion last summer, is 33, while Emre Can turns 31 in a week. Other parts of the side are decorated with developing talent. Jamie Gittens (20) has established himself on the left of Nuri Sahin’s attack, while Julien Duranville (18) recently started his first game for the club on the right, against Barcelona in the Champions League. Giovanni Reyna (22) has also re-emerged and is suddenly in favour with Sahin. Chukwuemeka fits the profile of what they need — young, talented, only likely to improve and suited to a box-to-box role — but is just one of several options that the club are considering and at a time when finances are relatively tight. Seb Stafford-Bloor

Toss in Felix as makeweight

LiVARpool goal chalked off

1 nil Solanke pending VAR

How do Chelsea solve their Wesley Fofana problem? Acheampong, Chalobah, Guehi and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6043980/2025/01/08/Chelsea-wesley-fofana-injury-analysis-options/ No one knows exactly when Wesley Fofana will be fit to play for Chelsea again. Enzo Maresca fears he could miss the rest of the season with the hamstring injury he sustained against Aston Villa on December 1. Fofana himself is hopeful of a shorter recovery timeframe than that, possibly positioning him for a return to match action in late March or early April, amid Chelsea’s final push to secure a Premier League top-four finish. In the meantime, Maresca has been open about the fact that he is searching for solutions. His preferred plan B, Benoit Badiashile, suffered a thigh injury in training two weeks later. Tosin Adarabioyo was then drafted in to partner Levi Colwill in the heart of Chelsea’s defence against Brentford, Everton, Fulham and Ipswich Town, a run of games which steadily dissipated the positive momentum built at Stamford Bridge in the first half of the season. Not that there has been some spectacular defensive collapse: Chelsea kept just three clean sheets in the 13 Premier League games Fofana started before his injury and have registered one in seven league matches without him. But his absence — and the unavailability of Badiashile — does change the way Maresca can set up his team. “I’ve said many times I am in love with Wes because Wes is that kind of defender who gives you the chance to press and be aggressive and to leave him one-on-one with someone like Ollie Watkins over the whole pitch,” Maresca said of Fofana in a press conference last week. “We did exactly the same when Wes was injured with Benoit, one-v-one with Dominic Solanke on the whole pitch, and they can deal with that. It is very difficult to find that kind of defender. “Unfortunately, both are injured, but we are trying to find different solutions.” The different solution Maresca unveiled against Crystal Palace on Saturday was Josh Acheampong, the 18-year-old Cobham product who signed a new long-term contract at Stamford Bridge in December after protracted negotiations that saw him exiled from first-team and development squad consideration for more than a month. After the match, Chelsea’s head coach hailed Acheampong as his team’s best performer at Selhurst Park, but stopped short of confirming the youngster as the preferred partner for Colwill going forward. He remains one of a range of potential options open to Maresca in the coming days and weeks, detailed below. The upside swing: keep playing Acheampong There is a reason why Chelsea fought so hard to get Acheampong to extend his contract beyond the summer of 2026, even to the point of employing the questionable strategy of freezing him out late last year — and it was on display in his impressive full Premier League debut against Palace. Acheampong is regarded inside and outside Chelsea as a world-class defensive prospect. He combines a strong, mobile frame (he stands a little taller than 6ft, with plenty of room to add muscle as he matures) with a rare level of technical polish on the ball for his position. He had plenty of opportunity to exhibit the latter against Palace: only Colwill and Malo Gusto registered more touches than Acheampong and only Gusto attempted more passes. “One of the things I like to do when I play is be on the ball,” he said in a post-match interview with Chelsea’s in-house media channel. “Especially as I was getting more and more into the game, I got more confidence, so it helped to be on the ball more.” Acheampong played against Palace (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images) His most eye-catching moment came around the hour mark; only a couple of minutes after a rare loose pass presented the ball to Palace on the halfway line, he stepped up from defence again in an almost identical position and whipped the ball confidently through the opposition lines perfectly into the feet of Cole Palmer. Acheampong displayed good defensive intelligence without the ball, adjusting his positioning as Palace attacks developed relative to where Colwill placed himself. The imposing Jean-Philippe Mateta caused him problems at times with his physicality, but the 18-year-old never allowed himself to be bullied and was not at fault for the Frenchman’s equaliser. Maresca was keen to stress that Chelsea must be careful with Acheampong’s development, but this seems a good moment to find out exactly how ready he is for regular Premier League football. There will likely be mistakes along the way, but not necessarily any more than Maresca would endure with the more experienced alternatives who have left him unconvinced — and the long-term benefits of giving him first-team exposure now could be huge. The stick: persist with Tosin or Axel Disasi This is the option many coaches would take. Not only does it help maintain dressing room dynamics, but Tosin and Disasi are experienced, known quantities and neither are bad Premier League players, even if they are not what Maresca would ideally want next to Colwill. Tosin’s performances for Chelsea have been a mixed bag. There have been vital interventions like the brilliant block which denied Iliman Ndiaye a certain goal in the goalless draw with Everton last month, and costly lapses like the failure to spot Curtis Jones’ late run into the box to score Liverpool’s second goal in their 2-1 win over Maresca’s team in October. He and Disasi both help replace the aerial force and overall physicality Chelsea lose without Fofana, as well as some much-needed personality and leadership on the pitch. Neither, however, is anywhere near as fast across the ground, and their athletic limitations might force Maresca to further drop his defensive line or risk giving opponents too much space to exploit in behind. That would have potential implications for the effectiveness of Chelsea’s press, as well as the amount of ground that Moises Caicedo is required to cover at the base of midfield. Distribution is another issue. Tosin is a fine passer out of defence but no more than that, while rumblings about Disasi’s poor fit for Maresca’s possession build-up began in the earliest days of pre-season. He has only been trusted at right-back rather than centre-back in the Premier League, where he has had huge difficulties defending in space against more agile wingers. Maresca persisting with either in the current circumstances would be defensible, but his decision to elevate Acheampong above both against Palace makes it seem an unlikely path. The return: recall Trevoh Chalobah It is something that Chelsea are considering — a remarkable development given the lengths to which the club went to encourage Chalobah to find a new permanent home last summer. Chalobah has done well on loan at Crystal Palace after an injury-disrupted start, forming a productive defensive chemistry with Marc Guehi and Maxence Lacroix at the rear of Oliver Glasner’s improving side. He has even chipped in with three goals in his 12 Premier League appearances, including one against Brighton that endeared him to the Selhurst Park faithful. In short, he has added to the significant body of evidence that he is a fine Premier League player, capable of being a squad contributor at Chelsea or a starter for a team lower down the table. Chalobah is on loan at Crystal Palace (Bryn Lennon/Getty Images) Chalobah cannot provide exactly what Fofana does alongside Colwill. But he is flexible enough to provide a solid option at centre-back or right-back, where Gusto continues to soak up the bulk of the Premier League minutes due to Reece James’ unavailability. But recalling him would raise immediate questions about why Tosin was signed on a free transfer last summer, and about the level of faith in Acheampong — who was taken on Chelsea’s pre-season tour of the United States at Chalobah’s expense. It would also undermine the point of the Palace loan, which is to rebuild Chalobah’s transfer value to the point where a credible buyer emerges for him. The wild card: take a look at Aaron Anselmino This would constitute a rapid elevation for Anselmino, who only became a first-team regular in the Boca Juniors defence after signing for Chelsea in August 2024 and returning on loan. Now he has been recalled to Cobham, and Maresca has already made it clear the 19-year-old will be given an opportunity to impress him in first-team training sessions. “He’s another talent, another good player,” Chelsea’s head coach said in a press conference last week. “Now the most important thing is that he arrives here, adapts himself, finds a house, and settles in the right way. Then we need to give him time because when you come from another part of the world, you need to adapt. You need to see a new world, a new culture. For sure we are going to try to help him to adapt as soon as possible.” Anselmino projects as an option at centre-back or right-back in Maresca’s system, and Chelsea are excited about his long-term potential. He has more professional seasoning than Acheampong, but that only extends to 20 senior appearances for Boca in a significantly lower calibre of league with a very different style of football. Loaning him out until the summer or keeping him around to acclimatise to Chelsea and England both have developmental merit. Maresca’s public caution indicates that if he is integrated into the first-team squad immediately, it will be at most to earn minutes in the early rounds of the FA Cup or the Europa Conference League. No firm decisions have been made. The twist: buy a new centre-back This is the course of action that many in football have come to expect from Chelsea under Clearlake Capital, though the club never intended to be particularly active buyers in this window. They do have a list of possible defensive targets for 2025 and Guehi, the Cobham graduate with 18 months left to run on his Palace contract, is on it. In terms of age and skill set, he fits the profile of player Chelsea have prized for the last two years. Given his status within the Premier League and the England squad he is likely to be regarded by Maresca as an upgrade on what he currently has available. Guehi is fast, strong, respectable in the air and classy on the ground, both in terms of how he reads situations defensively and how he passes around and through pressure. He is a leader despite his relative youth and has a very good fitness record — no small consideration for a club like Chelsea, who are already managing several persistent injury doubts in their squad. Guehi’s deal expires in summer 2026 (Julian Finney/Getty Images) He also has a natural preference for operating as the left-sided centre-back, despite being primarily right-footed. That does not necessarily rule him out as a suitable partner for Colwill, but it does mean there may be cleaner fits elsewhere on the market. But are any likely to be available in January? The winter window is not typically the moment for making premium upgrades, not least because selling clubs tend to have different priorities during the season. Palace have plenty of reason to keep Guehi and ensure they maintain their Premier League status before addressing his situation in the summer. The transfer market is always tantalising by nature, but Chelsea cannot expect it to solve their Fofana problem right now.

The Saudis!!!!

oh, ffs! NO

If they merged this could be their crest

how the fuck did spuds not score there

West Ham agree deal to appoint Graham Potter as new head coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5968828/2025/01/08/graham-potter-west-ham-next-manager/ West Ham United have agreed a deal to appoint Graham Potter as their new head coach on a two-and-a-half-year contract. The Athletic reported on Wednesday that West Ham were progressing in their talks with Potter, with the club later confirming the departure of Julen Lopetegui after six months in charge. Potter is set to take charge of West Ham for the first time on Friday as his side travel to Aston Villa in the FA Cup third round. The 49-year-old has been out of work since being sacked by Chelsea in April 2023 and will return to Premier League management after a 21-month break. Lopetegui won just seven of his 21 games at the helm since being appointed in the summer with Saturday’s 4-1 defeat at Manchester City their 10th of the campaign. Potter was not the only candidate who had been under consideration but was the club’s preferred option in the event of a change of management taking place. West Ham are 14th in the Premier League after winning just six of their opening 20 league matches. The Athletic reported in December that West Ham’s board were discussing Lopetegui’s future, with the 58-year-old fighting to save his job as the club considered all options. That came following a 5-2 home defeat against Arsenal and a 3-1 away loss against newly-promoted Leicester City. Since then, West Ham have beaten Wolverhampton Wanderers and Southampton, drawn against Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion and suffered a 5-0 home loss against Liverpool and 4-1 loss at Manchester City on Saturday. Lopetegui was appointed to replace David Moyes in May and signed a two-year deal with the option of a further 12 months. A busy summer followed at West Ham, with Max Kilman, Crysencio Summerville and Niclas Fullkrug among nine signings made under technical director Tim Steidten. GO DEEPER West Ham end 2024 with their calling card - conceding a heap of goals Potter has been linked to several jobs over the last year and declined the chance to take over at Dutch side Ajax last May, after previously turning down a similar approach from French club Lyon. He was also under consideration for the Leicester City vacancy in June and was a candidate for the England men’s job after Gareth Southgate stepped down a month later. Potter appeared on Amazon Prime’s coverage of West Ham’s defeat at Leicester City in December and said he was “open to everything” when asked about his future. Potter was appointed at Chelsea in September 2022, leaving his position as Brighton & Hove Albion head coach to replace Thomas Tuchel. Despite signing a five-year contract at Stamford Bridge, Potter was sacked after fewer than seven months in charge after winning just 12 of his 31 matches at the helm. Potter spent seven and a half seasons in charge of Ostersund — whom he guided from the Swedish fourth division to the knockout stages of the Europa League in 2018 — before taking over Swansea City for the 2018-19 Championship season. He then spent three seasons at Brighton before his tenure at Chelsea, guiding them to 15th-, 16th- and ninth-place finishes while garnering praise for an expansive and entertaining brand of football. GO DEEPER What now, Graham Potter?

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Germany and France warn Trump against use of force over Greenland Olaf Scholz says borders are inviolable after president-elect talks of using US military or tariffs to take control of island https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/france-warns-trump-against-threatening-eu-sovereign-borders-greenland Germany and France have warned Donald Trump against any attempt to “move borders by force” after the incoming US president said he was prepared to use economic tariffs or military might to seize control of Danish-administered Greenland. In a hastily called televised statement, Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said Trump’s remarks had triggered “incomprehension” among European leaders. “The principle of the inviolability of borders applies to every country – regardless of whether it is east of us or to the west – and every state must respect that, regardless of whether it is a small country or a very powerful state.” Earlier, the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said that Europe would stand up in defence of international law. “There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders.” Barrot added on France Inter radio, that, while he did not believe the US “would invade” Greenland, “we have entered an era that is seeing the return of the law of the strongest”. Denmark has said it is open to dialogue with Trump about working together to address his legitimate security concerns when it comes to Greenland, while rejecting any threat of force or coercion. Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the experienced Danish foreign minister, said it was in everyone’s interests to lower the temperature in the discussions. “I have my own experiences with Donald Trump and I also know that you shouldn’t say everything you think out loud,” he said. He also played down the possibility that Greenland would ever become part of the US, adding: “We fully recognise that Greenland has its own ambitions. If they materialise, Greenland will become independent, though hardly with an ambition to become a federal state in the United States.” Denmark is caught in a double bind, confronted by the increasingly serious threats from Trump to take over the island for US geostrategic reasons, but also growing demands from Greenland’s political class for full independence from Denmark. Greenland’s prime minister, Múte B Egede, held talks with the Danish king in Copenhagen on Wednesday, a day after Trump’s remarks thrust the fate of the mineral-rich and strategically important island into the spotlight. In his new year remarks Egede had said that Greenland was now ready to take the next big step in the effort to break the “shackles of colonialism”. A self-government act has already been passed that opens the way to a referendum on independence. Local elections are due to be held in April that could turn into a test of opinion on Greenland’s constitutional future. The president-elect’s son Donald Trump Jr flew briefly to Greenland on Tuesday in a trip coinciding with his father’s call for the US to run the island, and returned trying to stoke a mood for it to be sold to Washington. He said: “These are people who feel they’ve been exploited. They haven’t been treated fairly by Denmark. They’re being held back from exploiting their natural resources, whether it’s coal, uranium, rare earths, gold or diamonds. It’s really a great place.” The Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said on Tuesday that she could not imagine Trump’s ambitions leading to US military intervention in Greenland. In 2019 she had called Trump’s demand that Greenland be put up for sale “absurd”. Since then there has been a collective decision by the Danish government to try to soothe emotions. Greenland was a Danish colony until 1953 but is now a self-governing territory of Denmark and in 2009 achieved the right to claim independence through a vote. Danish politicians are hoping a confrontation can be avoided by a meeting between senior officials from Denmark and the US to discuss any update required to the many post-second world war security agreements signed by the two countries. The US has a military base in Greenland, Pituffik space base (formerly Thule base), first established in 1941. It provides critical early-warning systems necessary to monitor Russian activity. Other bases were abandoned in the 1970s. But with the melting of the ice around Greenland, the possibility of new trade routes opening has transformed the Arctic’s importance. In Berlin, Scholz said that Russia’s “brutal war of aggression” against Ukraine had prompted Germany as the EU’s top economy to strongly increase defence spending to 2% of GDP, amounting to it more than doubling in the last seven years. He noted that his country had worked closely with the US to protect Ukraine’s national “sovereignty and integrity”. “Borders must not be moved by force,” he said. In an hour-long press conference on Tuesday, Trump refused to rule out using military force to take the Panama canal and Greenland, and also suggested he intended to use “economic force” to make Canada part of the US. Egede, a member of the pro-independence Community of the People (IA) party, said last week Greenland “is not for sale and will never be for sale”. Arriving at Copenhagen airport late on Tuesday night, Egede responded to Trump’s refusal to rule out military or economic pressure in order to gain control of Greenland, saying they were “serious statements”. His original meeting with the king, scheduled for earlier in the day, was cancelled at the last minute, with Egede’s office citing “diary gymnastics”. Donald Trump Jr’s visit to Greenland on Tuesday led to the cancellation being viewed by some as a snub and embarrassment to the king, who recently changed the royal coat of arms to more prominently include symbols of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which are both autonomous territories of Denmark. Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, the Greenlandic MP who represents the Siumut party in the Danish parliament, told the Guardian she took Trump’s comments about coercion as “directed more toward Panama than Greenland”. But, she said, his comments “underscore the growing geopolitical importance of Greenland”. She added: “It also highlights a critical need for constructive dialogue. While I do not interpret his remarks as a threat of military force against Greenland or Denmark, they do suggest the United States may feel compelled to act if the kingdom of Denmark is unable to address security concerns effectively.”

Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/08/facebook-end-factchecking-nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa The Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta’s decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means “extremely dangerous times” lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users. The American-Filipino journalist said Mark Zuckerberg’s move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a “world without facts” and that was “a world that’s right for a dictator”. “Mark Zuckerberg says it’s a free speech issue – that’s completely wrong,” Ressa told the AFP news service. “Only if you’re profit-driven can you claim that; only if you want power and money can you claim that. This is about safety.” Ressa, a co-founder of the Rappler news site, won the Nobel peace prize in 2021 in recognition of her “courageous fight for freedom of expression”. She faced multiple criminal charges and investigations after publishing stories critical of the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte. Ressa rejected Zuckerberg’s claim that factcheckers had been “too politically biased” and had “destroyed more trust than they’ve created”. “Journalists have a set of standards and ethics,” Ressa said. “What Facebook is going to do is get rid of that and then allow lies, anger, fear and hate to infect every single person on the platform.” The decision meant “extremely dangerous times ahead” for journalism, democracy and social media users, she said. Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said on Tuesday he would remove factcheckers in the US and replace them with a crowd-sourced moderating service similar to the “community notes” feature on the rival social media platform X. He added that Meta would also “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse” and “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”. Meta has said it has “no immediate plans” to remove factcheckers outside the US, although the rest of the changes will be implemented worldwide. Ressa said she would do everything she could to “ensure information integrity”. “This is a pivotal year for journalism survival,” she said. “We’ll do all we can to make sure that happens.” In October, the human rights group Amnesty International claimed that authorities in the Philippines were using Facebook to “red-tag” young activists, a term referring to the labelling of campaigners and others as alleged “communist rebels” and “terrorists”. In 2021 a Meta whistleblower, Frances Haugen, claimed there was a lack of safety controls in non-English language markets, such as Africa and the Middle East, and that Facebook was being used by human traffickers and armed groups in Ethiopia. “I did what I thought was necessary to save the lives of people, especially in the global south, who I think are being endangered by Facebook’s prioritisation of profits over people,” she told the Observer. At the time, Meta, then operating under the corporate brand of Facebook, said the premise that it prioritised profit over safety was “false” and that it had invested $13bn (£11bn) in protecting users. In 2018, after the massacre of Rohingya Muslims by the military in Myanmar, Facebook admitted that the platform had been used to “foment division and incite offline violence”. Three years later, the human rights group Global Witness claimed that Facebook was promoting content that incited violence against political protesters in Myanmar. Facebook said it had proactively detected 99% of the hate speech removed from the platform in the country.

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The new Ultra-Chron Carbon: Longines breathes life into a watch from the ’60s A model that merges two worlds, the Longines Ultra-Chron Carbon https://www.themanual.com/fashion/longines-ultra-chron-carbon/?lctg=530931 Longines has joined the list of brands with elegant carbon watches, thanks to the new Ultra-Chron Carbon chronograph. It’s built on a model that goes way back to the ‘60s, almost 50 years ago. Think of this new watch as a bridge between the past and the present world, backed by a rich story that adds some character. In 1966, the brand unveiled one of the most accurate watches of that time, which was powered by a high-frequency movement, capable of offering 36,000 vibrations an hour—an impressive functionality that put Longines ahead of the game. Two years later, in 1968, the organization developed a diver’s watch, with the same functionalities as the 1966 watch model, popularly known as the Ultra-Chron Diver. It spread like world fire—everyone wanted a piece. While the timepiece was quite popular, Longines did not work on the watch for decades. In 2022, the brand relaunched the modern version of the Ultra-Chron Diver with more advanced features. A new caliber powers it, the L.836.6—a tested and certified movement. The brand has now revamped the watch and launched the carbon variant. Unlike other watches, this new Ultra-Chron timepiece comes with a special type of carbon used in aerospace due to its high-performing traits. It’s worth noting that this material boosts the durability of the watch and makes it much stronger than models from previous generations. Apart from that, the watch is also characterized by an interesting carbon-like allure, highlighted by black grooves and grey lines. The new watch is priced at $4,900. https://www.longines.com/en-se/p/watch-ultra-chron-carbon-l2-839-4-52-2

If true, Real Madrid is insane if they do not go for him. Mendy is garbage, despite Carlo's gaslighting (he called Ferland the best LB in the world, lolol).