A new contract mean the player is happier with his wages, and we get an appropriate fee when he inevitably gets poached by a CL Club.
What is the point of taking risks on developing young homegrown talent if they walk out the door for free before they hit their prime?
The only person that seriously thinks Politics should be out of Sport is Infantino, so he can justify pocketing millions by Sport-washing pariah states with terrible human rights records by giving them FIFA competitions.
Or is he fine doing that @Joey66 ?
Yup, but it’s deliberately engineered outrage to stifle opposition.
Do you seriously think the ex-Spurs striker Lineker hates Jews?
Or do you think he is against genocide, the deliberate starvation and targeting of civilians, and the bombing of Aid trucks?
He could at least try to be subtle about it though.
He could happily talk about “the Israeli Right wing taking up positions in the Gaza’s area and bombarding the target with clean strikes” and nobody could complain.
The actual problem is the State of Israel has been allowed to define and enforce what it thinks Antisemitism is, and they have included any criticism of the Israeli State in with that.
It’s like you are somehow Anti-American and “Illegal” for being opposed Trump’s dismantling of Civil Rights...