There isn't really much of a reason for them to charge less when he goes abroad to a club like Bayern Munich or Real Madrid. Both clubs don't care about minor differences in price and are able to stem a transfer of that magnitude. But with everything that has happened in the transfer market over the years, I still think that 100 million for Harry Kane is too much. Though if they can solve the issues all at once when they get him, it would be worth the money, but is Kane this kind of player who can play in any team and be successful? Or could he maybe have trouble to get a long with a new environment and different conditions like Mané?

Chelsea has not really lost any players, but instead they are trying to get rid most of them. When a team plays a season like Chelsea did, what is the point of keeping most of the team for the next season as well?

Changes have been due here and Boehly is going for another shopping tour, but whether he will make the right decisions this time or whether he will mix more superstars together and hopes that he will find the right recipe will first need to be answered in a few weeks when the new season begins.

I am not worried at all that clubs will find ways to circumvent salary caps. I don't know how precisely authorities would enforce salary cap rules, but couldn't clubs design payment plans similar to pension plans and stock up the base salary that way by delaying part of the payments into the future? If a real salary cap will be introduced, I would like to see in the subsequent years how those rules are enforced. Until there is no evidence of those rules to be enforced uncompromisingly, I don't trust those bold statements made by UEFA executives.

Right the loan is over and Inter Milan would have to make an offer that Chelsea accepts. But Lukaku could get into a complicated situation when Chelsea received an offer from Saudi Arabia that is above that from Inter Milan, Chelsea would want to sell him to Saudi Arabia but he doesn't want to go there. But if he stays in Chelsea and Pochettino already made clear that Lukaku isn't part of his plans, he could end up sitting on the grandstand and not even be nominated for the games in the Premier League. That would be the worst case scenario for him but also an asshole move by Chelsea.

There is again something in the making around Kane and this time it has been officially confirmed by Bayern that they sent an offer to Tottenham trying to transfer Kane for €70 million. But so far it seems that Tottenham refused the offer although Bayern and Kane have agreed upon the terms for a contract. That is what the news say but it is worthless as long as Tottenham doesn't agree to sell him for €70 million. Bayern knows that they don't have that many options to fix that problem now but I can see how Bayern is struggling to pay more for Kane. He isn't young anymore and the closer they get to the 100 million for this transfer, the higher the risk if course. If he gets injured, it would be a horrible situation for them as they would be in the same situation again.

But what is the chance that Mbappe saying he loves Paris and he wants to stay at PSG is meant seriously? i never thought when I watched him play for PSG that he is a happy player, someone who enjoys being where he is right now and who is giving his best in every single game he is playing for that club. He had that dream when PSG told him that they are going to buy all those that they could bring the Champions League title to Paris, but now with all those players parting ways this dream is gone and while everybody makes decisions for their career, he will be the next one to leave PSG. It would leave me speechless if he touches the grass as a PSG player in a few weeks from now.

If Lukaku can continue with his performance then he is an important player as he had 16 scorer points in total in roughly 20 games I think. That is remarkable considering that he came from Chelsea and had lost all his confidence. He should not start any new experiments in his career and either stay with Inter Milan now and try to negotiate a contract that lasts for a few years or he should do something completely different, but not go to a club in Eruope like he tried with Chelsea. At his age it could mean a bad ending for him if he can't continue with his performance and ends up on the bench again.

Are you referring to Rashford mostly in regards to Manchester United? They have Rashford, but Bayern also has a couple of players who are good offensively and could play a false nine, but they don't have this one deadly striker who scores goals similar to Lewandowski. He left a gap that could almost never be filled except for a few times when they scored a lot of goals in a single game. But whenever it became difficult to find a way through the narrow defense lines of the opponent, it was the same problem again. They didn't have a striker who took responsibility and went for the opener.

If they choose to play without a central 9, offensive players with impressive striking qualities are even more indispensable and when these offensive players have good days and bad days, the whole team is stuck on the bad days and it needs Kimmich or even other more defensive players to score.

It depends... From a business point of view, yes it is 100% correct regarding the legitimacy of his requirements. But is it the right choice or course of action for his future career? This is where it becomes interesting because in reality we know that he doesn't want to stay, but he wants to leave and kick off his way to become a Real Madrid legend. Both clubs know that as well. If PSG does not move an inch from their position, will Mbappe really stick to the contract, take the money and let two more years of his career go up in dust? I am even skeptical now that I thought this through whether this would make sense from a business point of view over the whole course of his career plus the time after the career. If Michael Jordan stayed with some meaningless basketball club only because of money, he wouldn't be a multi-billionaire today. Mbappe should take into account more than just the money he can make within the next two years. An Mbappe in Real Madrid could become a world soccer player multiple times and that could increase his income manyfold for a long time.

Have a look at this . This is maximum greed at its best. I can't blame him for anything and I don't even want to because he is the best player in the world or one of them and he can dictate the conditions for a transfer, but now he wants the €150 m from PSG that he would have earned next season when he leaves club now. I am confused because I have no idea whether I comprehend what's going on, but the trick he wants to play here is that PSG would be slightly better off giving him the money and selling him this year than letting him go for free and paying him the €150 m.

There is some natural limit to the infrastructure requirements for a country of the size of Qatar. But if a small country like that hosts a World Cup and wants to impress the worldwide audience, there is no need to say that they are spending a lot of money that they would not spend on infrastructure otherwise. They are not hosting a World Cup every few years and would need additional infrastructure permanently. KTChampions correctly said that there was no shortage of anything that was publicly talked about and yet they spent hundreds of billions toward infrastructure upgrades and improvements. Workers began dismantling stadiums in December 2022 already and while there is no need to dismantle any additional streets, it doesn't mean that new streets or hotels still have been built for the only purpose to serve guests during the World Cup. 

Ha if it was that easy they would do it, but what you mention here is something that they have been quarreling with for quite a while now. They are still hoping for some younger talents from their own youth to finally tackle the challenge and make it into the first team of Bayern Munich. That would save them a lot of money and there wouldn't be the urgency all the time to do something about their offensive problems. But there is no Thomas Muller right now in their youth teams. Muller was the discovery of the year back then when Louis van Gaal gave him a chance. But the business has become too fast and you can't be patiently waiting for a talent to emerge from your own youth teams, you have to solve them problem immediately with cash. The chances for young talents from the own youth teams are also vanishing as they don't have time to prove they could be worth a try. 

Never change a running system!

This is difficult for him because of his age and now everyone could see that it hasn't been going well for him although he was one of the star transfers for Bayern Munich as it was labeled back when he went from Liverpool to them. But he could never justify the star label. Bayern paid money for him that they would try to mitigate as much as possible concerning the damage a sale would cause now. But which club would be willing to buy him? It would not be one of the top four or top six clubs in the EPL. It could be a club further from the bottom of the table. It was said that he is only 31 years old, but I think that age is only negligible when you are playing almost perfect seasons like Lewandowski or Benzema did. But when you are 31 and you played a bad season, it is a negative attribute to factor in in transfer decisions.

It's also a waiting game between the big clubs because when Mbappe goes to Real Madrid, Bayern knows that they could try and get Kane for less money than Tottenham would ask for otherwise. But I would like to see Bayern to pick a younger top striker or their search will have to be repeated in two or three years from now. But it is not know if Kane wants to Bayern or whether he would only be ready to leave the Premier League for Real Madrid. If he wants titles, he has to leave Tottenham but maybe he isnÄt so obsessed of winning titles, but rather play very well and then see what's possible.

@Juggy777 whether you and I like it or not, but Ronaldo has one thing for him going and that is that he still scores goals. And he doesn't score only any trivial goals like the 4-0 in the 80th minute, but the winning goal or the only goal of the game in the last minutes. As long as he can do that, it will be hard to remove him from the national team and again, if he scores those goals there is also not really a reason to remove him. I agree that he doesn't contribute to the team as a whole besides those goals and that works for as long as there is a crisis and he doesn't score this one goal that the needed. I am sure that then the moment will come when the whole team is against him either in the form of being silent and letting him fight the public on his own or by really saying those words against him.

Investors with the aim of making profit are the people who made the capitalistic world work and develop. I am not giving my opinion here on whether or not I like capitalism, but without capital most of the applications and tools and services we use today would have never been possible in the first place. Pouring money into research and development is the key to progress. ChatGPT was co-founded by Elon Musk. Google is funneling massive capital into AI. Almost all of these startups had a head start with venture capital. That is how it works.

I coincidentally saw your post here and read that you believe higher interest rates increase inflation, but do you understand why the FED increased interest rates significantly for a while now? Because higher interest rates incentivize people to hoard their money instead of spending it, thereby removing it from circulation. Higher interest rates are supposed to decrease inflation and that does not only count for daily purchases in the super market, but also to the real estate market. A hike in interest rates make it harder for people to borrow money, buy a house and repay the mortgage. Less mortgage-financed houses means less demand for houses, means house prices go down as less demand meets more or less stable supply. I say more or less stable because I assume that the supply side is less elastic to interest changes than the demand side. I actually didn't check that, it is my assumption. But to summarize, increased interest rates are supposed to decrease inflation, not to increase it.   

85% could even be optimistic, but it also depends on whether you mean fail or disappear. Some of them could also disappear because they most likely get bought out by the Internet giants if they have something unique to offer in the field of AI. Musk is often talking about what is coming and also mentioned Google and Larry Page and what they have already developed behind closed doors.

Google will be one of those giants leading the field, but even Meta or Tesla won't hesitate to buy out smaller AI businesses in case they see potential. It is a good bet these days to build a business around AI if there is a unique approach to a problem or a demand that people are themselves not yet aware of. Either you serve a demand or you evoke a demand, for instance like midjourney.com

That's what I think about the future industry of AI. I could see how a few big soak up many of the smaller companies and it is not like there is thousands of Ai businesses around the corner. A lot of that stuff will also work in a backend format and we only use it without actually understanding or even knowing what we are using. It will become an integral part of our lives seamlessly. 

He has again made one of these statements that make him no more popular among his team mates. He is doing it knowing that this doesn't increase the team's aspiration to act and feel like a united group of players. it was again about his ego and how many records he is holding and that he isn't hunting the records, but the records are hunting him. It's ok if thinks that but why should he rub all those words straight into his team mates' faces in public? It helps as long as he makes the goals and wins the games, but it doesn't help when they get into a crisis. They wouldn't be willing to help each other then. But he is who he is and that is never going to chance

It is not so much about their business and their choice, but about they money they have available. Borussia Dortmund is a publicly listed company and they owe justification to their shareholders. It is not always an advantage for a club to be publicly listed as we can see here because their goal was to raise money and invest it into the team back when they went public. Now it is hard to go full rogue and make a decision and say something like "we don't sell player X for 120m" because if it goes wrong their share price will suffer and shareholders want an explanation. They have now to find a good spot for their decision making processes and for now they can't compete with Bayern and, consequently, not with rich clubs from abroad.