I was in Valencia in November, some two weeks after the floods, and it was still beautiful, and unexpectedly hot. Happy to hear that you overcame so many challenges and made it to the final. I guess you lost the final since you didn't comment anything on the result. I hope you are well now and I wish you win 035 World Cup.
Now share your inside info. I know you have it. Who are we buying?
Nah results wise, nothing much to write home about, it was all about getting my first taste of international tournament experience.
I still maintain that we won't sign a top striker till we resolve the Vlahovic issue which I said would drag on for quite some time, even then I don't think Osimhen will come.
Zhegrova is the back up idea to Chico/Sancho, there was some rumour of Yilmaz on the shortlist too.
We will sign a pure defensive/physical midfielder of some kind to allow Thuram to flourish, I suspect this will be a somewhat cheap signing rather than going big on Florentino Luis of Benfica, especially as we still need to shift Luiz and Mckennie is on the market now.
Defence is a tough one, we need a left footed CB - Balerdi, not happening, Laporte fits the bill to a degree, Hancko again not going to happen unless we sell someone, problem is nobody is remotely serious about taking Kelly off our hands and he seemingly doesn't want to leave either.
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Also the stark difference is football is the national sport of Saudi Arabia. Chinese is table tennis followed by basketball.
I mean all things considered with population, football is still quite a big sport in China, they were serious about making the NT an Asian force again, but along with covid which effectively ended governement funding and companies which owned these Chinese clubs like Suning and Evergrande had to cut cost and first thing they did was effectively fold the club, and now these teams have been renamed completely the whole thing failed.