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Marta, not Pele, lolol

Ligue 1 star in London for Chelsea medical ahead of completing Stamford Bridge switch https://astamfordbridgetoofar.com/2023/01/benoit-badiashile-is-in-london-to-undergo-his-medical-ahead-of-the-Chelsea-game-latest-news/ Benoit Badiashile is in London to undergo his medical ahead of Chelsea move According to Football.London, AS Monaco defender Benoit Badiashile, is currently in London to undergo his medical ahead of the completion of his move to Chelsea during this transfer window. A few days ago, The Athletic reported that the Blues have agreed on transfer terms to sign the French defender for a fee of around £32.8m-£33.7m. The latest on it is that the player will sign a six-and-a-half-year deal with Chelsea. Badiashile was part of the Blues alternative plan to sign a left-sided centre-back when it became apparent that getting Josko Gvardiol is becoming tougher by the day. They agreed on personal terms with the Croatia international in the summer, but the price became too steep. Since then, the RB Leipzig man was linked with Chelsea, but now the price tag has gone beyond €90m. Completing the deal to sign Badiashile may mean that the club does not go back in direction of trying to sign Gvardiol. The Monaco defender is only 21 but experienced in the French game. He has made over 100 senior appearances for the Ligue 1 side and has not looked out of place. The Frenchman is a multi-faceted defender who is very fast in recovery runs, reads the game well, is good on the ball and is a physical giant in both boxes from set-piece situations.

NUFC

🤣 Jurgen Klopp fumes at officials during Brentford's 3-1 victory over struggling Liverpool

Record Finally, we come to the last of the big 3 newspaper which is Record. Record is the third-best selling Portuguese newspaper for good reason. This newspaper will print stories that will literally make you say "wtf". It will do anything to get more sales against Ojogo and Abola. They will print stories like "Di Maria to Benfica" or "Falcao to Fatima" that can puzzle people. Unfortunately as a kid, I love reading this newspaper and would buy a copy each morning to read in my grandfather cafe. Why? It was practically similar to a Children's book with made up stories and you can use your imagination to believe Messi will be playing at Porto. I'm not really sure who they're bias to but it can be said between Benfica and Sporting. Be wary of stories from these guys.

all good, except I am not a dude

Vincent Kompany hails Ian Maatsen after Burnley’s win over Swansea https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/23224260.burnley-boss-vincent-kompany-swansea-city-victory/ Vincent Kompany paid tribute to his young Dutch loan star Ian Maatsen after he fired in the two goals that earned a sixth successive win in the Championship for his Burnley side with a 2-1 triumph at Swansea. The 20-year-old Chelsea player, who is on a season-long loan at Turf Moor, scored twice in the opening 23 minutes with magnificent left-footed strikes that gave home keeper Steven Benda no chance. “That second goal just travelled and kept going. Ian has given so much defensively and then he was able to add that to his game – not many players can give you that,” said the Burnley boss. “The set-up for the free-kick is never a coincidence, but then how he hits it he has to take the credit for that.” Maatsen struck first from a free-kick outside the Swansea box in the 12th minute and then added his second with a thunderbolt from the left edge of the box. Swansea replied with an Ollie Cooper goal in the 27th minute. “We started the first half extremely well and recovered a lot of balls and created moment, and changes in transition and out of our possession,” added Kompany. “Then for about 20-25 minutes they were better than us and on top of us. That’s because they changed it, as Swansea do. If you get a press on them and get a hold on them they change it around and move positions. “We weren’t able to get the same pressure on them. If Swansea have time on the ball then they are going to hurt you. We went a little bit more compact, but that didn’t work massively for us. In the second half it was an even game. “We got a press on for the full 45 minutes in the second half and that made us a better team. We also had the better chances in the second half, although the result is the most important thing. “We burned up a lot of energy and I could see a lot of tired legs at half-time. Then in the second half they just went again. That’s the strength of this team – they just keep going when you think they are about to bend or break.”

KK and that press ☹️ the stuff of nightmares

'Emeka from Arochukwu' roflmaooooooooooo

great free kick

I will end this Enzo is a googolplex to the googolplex power times the player Rice will ever be. A googolplex is the number 10googol, or equivalently, 1010100 or 1010,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 . Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10100 zeroes; that is, a 1 followed by a googol of zeroes. A typical book can be printed with 106 zeros (around 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line). Therefore, it requires 1094 such books to print all the zeros of a googolplex (that is, printing a googol zeros). If each book had a mass of 100 grams, all of them would have a total mass of 1093 kilograms. In comparison, Earth's mass is 5.972 × 1024 kilograms, the mass of the Milky Way galaxy is estimated at 2.5 × 1042 kilograms, and the total mass of all the stars in the observable universe is estimated at 2 × 1052 kg. To put this in perspective, the mass of all such books required to write out a googolplex would be vastly greater than the masses of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies combined (by a factor of roughly 2.0 × 1050), and greater than the mass of the observable universe by a factor of roughly 7 × 1039.

youth RB target Iván Fresneda

not sure, but he is known as Sports Illustrated (the largest sports mag in North America) and Simon Phillips are quoting him

KK at £295K PW is INSANE!!!!! wtf

never easier? all of these teams (you could even add in a couple more) plus us are all legit top 4 contenders this season

From where?

2 nil and 2 were chalked off Pool look a shambolic mess

bottoms up!

he cannot handle the pace of the EPL Rudiger, despite his far from WC start, never really had that issue Thiago is hardly a speed merchant at 38yo, but makes up for it with the best positional CB play on the planet KK lacks both

1 nil Brentford btw

Brentford v Pool https://www.sportfacts.net/sports/2023/premier-league-brentford-vs-liverpool-s1/