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Don't compare Goat with anyone

The title was just bait , he's a good player.

But in bw all this Rodri talk people seem to be forgetting that madrid have churned out almost 140mil for this guy.

So to all the madrid fans , How many g/a would you expect from him not to be called a flop ?. Because you dont sign someone for that fee for just some potential. Its gotta be like instant impact like belligol's first season in white. For me , anything under 40 - 45 g/a isn't acceptable.

Anyways thats just me. I just really wanted know want True madridistas think.

Your's truly, just another culer.

Rodri is officially a Barça player through 2030. The easy part is saying he starts. The harder part is fitting Pedri, Gavi, De Jong, Olmo and the rest around him without killing someone’s role. If everyone’s healthy, who gets squeezed first?

The reaction to Rodri choosing Barça has been hilarious. One day he’s the perfect final piece, next day the debate becomes which club is a “higher level” and whether he’ll regret the move forever. This is probably my favourite part of transfer season: everyone rewrites the meaning of a player the second he picks someone else. Rodri can be an elite midfielder and still choose the project he prefers. Both things can be true.

The latest report says United were willing to meet a reported £35m price, but Gavi has no interest in leaving Barça. Forget the fee for a second what’s the pitch? Bigger role? Premier League? More money? Because if the player isn't looking for an exit, this feels dead before negotiations even matter.

This is such a weird legacy. De Jong is now the Dutch player with the most appearances for Barça, which should sound enormous. And yet if someone asked me for the one match, one season or one role that defines his time there, I’d have to think way too long. That isnt the same as saying he’s been bad. He’s had injuries, different coaches, different midfield partners, different jobs, and plenty of very good stretches. Maybe that’s exactly the point though. Some players leave a highlight. Some leave a position. De Jong might leave a pile of good football without one clear identity attached to it.

The Premier League is back on Friday, only 33 days after the World Cup final.

That already makes this opening weekend feel a little different. Players have barely had time to recover, clubs are still settling after the summer, and fans are about to spend another nine months arguing about everything that happens on the pitch.

But there is one argument we never really settle: what actually ruins watching football at home?

For some people it is motion blur. The camera pans across midfield, somebody switches the ball 50 yards, and for a second everything feels softer than it should.

For others it is glare. A Saturday lunchtime kickoff sounds great until sunlight hits the screen and half the pitch turns into a reflection of your living room.

Then there is the broadcast itself. You can have a great TV and a fast connection, but if the stream is heavily compressed, the grass starts looking messy and distant players lose detail. A better screen cannot magically restore information that was never there in the first place.

Screen size matters too, but maybe not in the way people think. A bigger TV can make a match feel much more social when four or five people are watching together, but it also makes a weak feed easier to notice. Sit too far away and you lose detail. Sit too close and every flaw becomes obvious.

And then there is sound. Football is one of the few things where the background noise is part of the event. A goal with the crowd turned down never feels quite right.

This is why sports-focused TV design has moved beyond simply saying "4K". The current Hisense U7, for example, puts a lot of attention on fast-motion handling, reducing reflections in bright rooms and multi-channel sound. Those things make sense for football on paper.

But a spec sheet still cannot tell you which problem will annoy you most over 90 minutes.

Maybe that is the useful question to ask before a new season. Not "what is the best TV for football?" but "what is the weakest part of my own setup?"

Because the answer might not even be the TV.

It might be the stream. The room. The viewing distance. The speakers. Or the person who keeps standing in front of the screen every time there is a corner.

So before Arsenal and Coventry kick off the new Premier League season on Friday, we want to know:

If you could fix ONE thing about your current football-watching setup, what would it be?

Motion blur? Glare? Streaming quality? Screen size? Sound? Something else entirely?

And if you have already upgraded something that genuinely made football better to watch, what made the biggest difference?

The Premier League starts on Friday.
That sentence feels a little strange when the World Cup final was only on July 19.
The league actually pushed the start of this season back by a week to create more recovery time after the World Cup. Even then, there are only 33 days between the final and the opening weekend.
Thirty-three days sounds reasonable until you remember that not every player got thirty-three days off.
Some went deep into the World Cup. Some had injuries to deal with afterwards. Some returned later than teammates who were eliminated earlier. Then there are medical tests, preseason travel, new coaches, new signings and the basic problem of trying to make eleven people play like they have been together for months.
Liverpool might be the clearest example right now.
Virgil van Dijk said this week that the club's new-look defence simply needs time. Ibrahima Konate and Andy Robertson have gone, Joe Gomez picked up a muscle injury, while Ronald Araujo and Jeremy Jacquet are still learning how to play alongside their new teammates.
The problem is Liverpool do not get a month to figure it out. They open away at Newcastle on Sunday.
Manchester City are dealing with a different version of the same problem. Pep Guardiola is gone, Enzo Maresca is taking over a team that finished second last season, major pieces of the old group have moved on, and the squad is still being reshaped while the season is about to begin.
Manchester United have their own unfinished business. Marcus Rashford is back after 18 months away on loan, but even days before the opening weekend his long-term future is still not completely clear.
None of this necessarily means these clubs have had bad summers.
Maybe this is just what August looks like now.
We still talk about preseason as if clubs disappear in May, spend three quiet months building a finished team and then arrive on opening weekend ready to reveal it.
That version of football does not really exist after a 48-team World Cup.
Players returned at different times. Squads are still changing. Some players have barely had enough training sessions to learn where their new teammates want the ball.
And yet the expectations have not changed at all.
The calendar increasingly forces teams to use competitive matches as part of the rebuilding process, but football culture still expects the finished product on Matchday 1.
Maybe fans need to get used to August teams that actually look like August teams: a little less organised, a few combinations that are not quite there yet, and players being managed rather than immediately playing 90 minutes every week.
The alternative is rushing everybody back because the league table does not care how many days you had off.
So what would you rather see from your club this month?
Start slightly undercooked and build into the season - or put the strongest possible XI out immediately, even if some players clearly have not had enough recovery time?

After a surprising champions league semi final with Monaco Mbappe and Bernardo Silva are a decade later again in the same team.

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A journalist has claimed Maresca told a few friends about the City offer before Guardiola had announced he was leaving, and that the news then spread.

No major outlet has independently confirmed that chain of events, so the “if true” part matters a lot here.

But if it did happen, thats such a strange way to enter one of the biggest jobs in football. Succession plans are basically the one thing you keep quiet until the outgoing manager and club are ready.

I wouldnt blame City’s later results on one leak. The professionalism part would bother me way more.

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City are reportedly close to Ayyoub Bouaddi for a deal that could reach around £85m. That is an absurd amount for an 18-year-old, no way around it.

But I dont think they’re buying him to be “the new Rodri” next month. Anderson already covers some of the physical work, Bouaddi gives them a calmer deep passer, and reports still have City looking at another senior midfielder.

The scary part is timing. Everyone knows City need a midfield after Rodri, so every seller has leverage.

If Bouaddi becomes a starter for eight years the fee will look normal eventually. If City need him to fix the team immediately, it could get ugly fast.