N’Golo Kante unwanted, France plot to snatch more joy from England, and the devil might be Brazilian
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Football is a cruel and perverse sport that will rip your beating heart from between your very ribs, chew on it a little until it is an unrecognisable, saliva-sodden wad of turmoil, then spit it into the muck and sludge of the gutter to be trampled by insensitive passers-by and picked at by dead-eyed seagulls. No, I am not over Saturday night, and no, I do not want to talk about. Anyways, seeing as football is such an iniquitous viper’s pit of misery and deceit, here’s a trudge through today’s spiteful, avarice-ridden transfer news.
Over in Spain, Sport claim that Barcelona are finalising a deal to sign the most selfless soul in football, N’Golo Kante. Despite everything he has given Chelsea - all of the joy and all of the toil - the Blues are not willing to renew his contract, presumably because the world is a terrible place and the concept of loyalty can’t be resold for an exorbitant profit. The Catalan giants will only make their move, however, if Kante recovers from a persistent hamstring complaint. Heartless swines.
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Elsewhere, Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has insisted that he has no say as to whether or not Marcus Rashford will remain at Old Trafford beyond the end of his current contract. Addressing the situation, the Dutch manager said: “He has to make a decision.
“The only thing we can do is show him this is the best club to be in, which has to do with the culture of the club and also in the way we are working, in the way we play and the way we train and if we are offering the right environment to progress. It’s a financial issue as well. Then it is up to him to make the decision. But for one-and-a-half years, he will be here.”
Paris Saint-Germain are understood to be interested, and seeing as the French have taken everything else from us, they might as well have him too. Again though, don’t want to talk about it.
And finally, Brazil want Pep Guardiola. And if they get him, even after he just put pen to paper on a new contract with Manchester City, we will know that the devil is real, and that he is a Samba Boy.
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