FLiam

Messi came on as a second-half sub in Inter Miami’s Leagues Cup game. Of course he scored a 94th minute winner by hitting a beautiful free-kick into the top corner. Sometimes football is magic.

Sadio Mané is the latest player to be in talks with a Saudi club.

He doesn’t care. Another to add to the list of morally bankrupt footballers. Remember when players would take a knee to show they were against discrimination? Now they’re running to be paid by a state that treats homosexuality as an illegal act. Fuck them.

Gareth will still pick him.

His support for the LGBTQ+ community was completely empty. Fuck him.

I know from managing them in FM that their homegrown quota for Europe is almost non-existent.

Aubameyang is close to signing a three-year deal with Marseille. No idea what they’re thinking there.

So much better…!

This is literally one of the worst kits I have ever seen. Nothing about it is nice. Shame. We were spoilt last season with the black away kit and pink third kit, they were some of our best in recent memory. This though, gross.

I do get what you mean though - the reason I’ve fallen off the tennis wagon for the most part is because it’s too time-consuming when you’re an adult with responsibility. However, it does create some real drama like today - which is what I love about tennis.

That was some battle. Astonishing tennis from both really. This is part of the draw of tennis for me - I wholeheartedly disagree.

Ok - this fifth game in the third set is turning into quite the epic.

Cannot wait for the new season.

The Bear season two spoilers:

Apparently Arsenal will finally confirm the Declan Rice transfer tomorrow.

Weird how Saka’s model is the only one that doesn’t really share a likeness at all. Why put him there?

Watched the first five episode of season two The Bear and it really is quite good. Marcus’ episode in particular was so heart-warming and such a nice change of pace for the entire show. I’ve heard episode six is where the season really picks up - looking forward to watching it later.

That session ending came at a bad time for Murray. He looked to really hurt his groin/hip shortly before the umpire called time. You could see he wasn’t moving at 100% but I think he could have played through it, whereas I wonder how much he’ll be hurting by the time they resume play tomorrow.

Massive. In years gone by, most of the players that have recently signed new deals would be heading out to Man City, Chelsea or Man United. Also, Xhaka’s departure to Bayer Leverkusen has been confirmed. His Arsenal career was a wild ride but I feel like he really did complete his redemption arc. Fantastic servant all things considered.

To get three priority signings finalised before our first pre-season game is really quite an achievement.

I genuinely think a midfield of Rice/Havertz/Odegaard is a massive upgrade on what we had.

The exploding barbed wire matches are kind of fun. The physics involved are probably the best things in the entire game. As a whole though, the whole thing kind of feels unfinished. There’s definitely potential but it doesn’t really hit the mark for me - and the roster does feel really thin.

“Here to sports wash” amirite?

Apparently Miles said on Twitter that modding will still be possible on FM25 and “might be even better”. Already rumours about stadiums etc. I really hope the change means regen faces will be much improved.