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We suspended Nile Ranger for three months just for a fight at a nightclub. It's true that he was already dealing with the gun incident and a few other things, but...

The Thomas Partey case really makes me wonder what's fair. Should we keep the player out of jail while he's being investigated or rely on the presumption of innocence while a trial is underway? The reality is that Thomas Partey was arrested by the police and spent several days in jail in 2023, which meant he couldn't travel with the team for preseason training in Germany. Back then, the press had already leaked a case of rape involving a player from a London team. It was never mentioned publicly, but the Telegraph did say he was an Arsenal player, so everyone knew it was him. While he was in jail to testify, another case involving another woman was added to the mix. Later, I remember that videos of him admitting to one of the women what he had done and threatening her were leaked. (For me, at that point, even if the court says otherwise or one of the women drops the charges because they reach a settlement, it's already clear that Thomas is a bad person, and from that moment on, he has my animosity.) The Telegraph has been reporting more or less regularly on the progress of the case, that in the summer of 2024, Thomas was taken back to the police station because a third woman had reported him, and in January, it was stated that a warrant was already being issued against him and that he would have to testify and face trial in the coming months. So, Arsenal's position strikes me as unacceptable, cowardly, and groveling. "Thomas is no longer a player for this club, and we cannot comment on that." No. Thomas was a player for your club while he committed those acts. Thomas was arrested twice for those acts while he was a player for your club. And you tried to renew Thomas's contract knowing what was going to happen. That he was going to face trial for raping three women. Surely, moreover, the one who has not wanted to renew the contract has been Thomas himself, because if he ends up being found guilty, he will run away from England looking for a country where they cannot touch him (Saudi Arabia) and where he can continue playing football for several years, earning a lot of money and improving his image until what he has done is forgotten and expires.

Welcomeback, Muto.

I thought I liked women.

I think Nottingham Forest has no intention of selling and, on the contrary, will want to sign more players and strengthen their squad to try to finish in the Top 6. Elanga, at least statistically, is their best player or the most decisive. I don't know if they have to comply with Fair Play and get rid of any players to do so, but knowing their owner, they'd certainly go all the way to avoid having to sell, risking future sanctions. Yesterday, during the Club World Cup, they were saying they've signed three Botafogo players for less than 40 million euros.

Fabrizio Romano (he is close friend with Matteo Moretto) write in a Instagram Storie.

It was actually the player himself who "proved" he didn't want to play for rival Barcelona, because when the rumor linking him to Barcelona broke, he posted a photo on social media of himself kissing the RCD Espanyol crest with the message "Don't believe the lies" or something like that. But yes. I'll also tell you that things in the market change very quickly. I've been in contact with people who work in Atleti's sporting department, and I know of many signings that, even though they were already signed, didn't end up happening.

At least I hope they made me look good.

I don't think I've ever mentioned this here. When I was at St. James's Park years ago (Newcastle-Norwich in 2018), I was walking around the stadium before going in to watch the game and ran into a woman handing out newspapers/magazines at the door advertising a betting shop. I don't remember which one. The woman was surprised to see that my cousin and I didn't speak Geordie and that we clearly had a strange accent (well, we spoke Spanish to each other). She asked us various questions, and we ended up telling her that we were two kids who had been Atleti fans as kids and that she didn't quite know how we'd ended up being Newcastle fans from afar. I think the woman, who seemed to have a poor understanding of football-related concepts, understood that my cousin and I were Atleti players who had come as fans to watch a Newcastle game. He even asked us for a photo, and when he said goodbye, he told us it would be published in that magazine/newspaper. I was always curious to know if I'd ever be on the cover of a local newspaper. Hahaha.

I've been writing to some friends to see if we can go on a trip...

The same. Looks like he is going to Barcelona.

Today, Joan is playing vs Barcelona. Good match to see him.

In Spain, a source very reliable from RCD Espanyol says GK Joan Garcia is going to Newcastle for 25M€, I haven't seen much of Joan García, but from what people are saying about him, he should be the next goalkeeper for the Spanish national team, and everyone says there are a lot of big teams after him. It could be very interesting to sign him and leave him on loan for a year at his original club while giving Pope another year.

Arsenal, Brighton, Chelsea, Leicester, City, Man United, Wolves... All teams 've rounded off the badges and even put a circle around them, like our previous shield.

I'm pretty traditional about this. I grew up with the current crest. It's the one I like and it represents me. I wish they wouldn't change it, but I understand how this works. And how changing times work. It's difficult for certain IT places to integrate the current crest because it has too many details. That said, it's funny to see how most teams now have very simple round crests... That look similar to our crest from 1976-1983. P.S.: Atlético de Madrid changed their crest in 2017 (the owners never asked the members)... But people never accepted it. They fought to get it back, and based on the rejection and the drop in sales because no one was buying anything with the new crest, they had to go back to the old one this year.