Rather than anecdotal personal stories that I think are kind of funny maybe I should just stick to plain (boring?) facts.
The World Cup in Russia starts on June 14th. The opening match is between Russia and Saudi Arabia. I am looking forward to it.
Today was transfer deadline day for clubs in Europe. It is only really in England where much attention is paid to it. Arsenal spent a lot of money on a player who won't be at the World Cup, Gabon's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who transferred from Borussia Dortmund. Chelsea loaned Michy Batshuay to Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea bought Olivier Giroud from Arsenal. A happy merry go round.
Leicester's Riyad Mahrez thought he was going to Manchester City for a lot of money but Manchester City thought it was too much money. So now he's staying at Leicester and probably sulking for a few weeks. Then he'll realize that he should probably start playing good football again so another team will want to spend a lot of money on him in the summer. He also tried that last summer and nobody paid a lot of money to take him away from Leicester. Third time a charm? Or destined to remain a reluctant Leicester hero forever?
And on July 15th the World Cup will end and a lot of players who many of us have never heard of will of a sudden be valued at over £50m by agents all over Europe.
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