INTERNATIONAL SOCCER
January 2023 transfer market, the top 10 most expensive purchases
The Premier League dominates far and wide in the transfer market rankings: nine of the ten most expensive deals were done in the Premier, Chelsea is unstoppable with five multimillion-dollar hits.
Kamaldeen Sulemana (Southampton):
Lower-ranked teams are also doing double-digit deals in England: thus, Southampton secured the 21-year-old Ghanaian national team's central defender, bought from Rennes for 25 million
Georginio Rutter (Leeds):
Not only McKennie, who arrived on loan from Juventus. The Whites' most important investment to stabilize at the mid-to-high levels of the Premier concerns the 2002-born French striker, bought from Hoffenheim for 28 million
Malo Gusto (Chelsea):
Are quality defensive outfielders in short supply? Chelsea decides to get ahead of competition from half of Europe by locking up French-Portuguese Malo Gusto, born in 2003, from Lyon: contract until 2030 and 30 million at OL, where the player will remain on loan until the end of the season
Vitinha (Olympique Marseille):
While waiting to see if Portuguese soccer has really found a new and relentless bomber, Marseille has broken PSG's hegemony in the French market by securing the talented 2000-year-old Braga revelation, to whom 32 million
Noni Madueke (Chelsea):
Brought up between Crystal Palace and Tottenham, the talented English midfielder, born in 2001, is returning to his homeland after "escaping" in 2018, heading to PSV: snatching him away from stiff competition was Chelsea, who paid him 35 million
Benoit Badiashile (Chelsea):
Long pursued by several top European clubs, including Juventus, the future of France's defense has left Monaco to land in the Premier League: Chelsea secured him for 38 million and has already made him a permanent starter in Potter's schemes
Cody Gakpo (Liverpool):
Holland's star at Qatar 2022, long courted by Manchester United last summer, is the hope of revival to which Liverpool is clinging: 42 million ended up in PSV's coffers
Anthony Gordon (Newcastle):
Everton's talented, pliant 2001-class striker, a product of the Toffees' nursery, has been bought by ambitious Newcastle in exchange for 45.5 million euros with the clear goal of making an assault on the Champions League zone
Mychajlo Mudryk (Chelsea):
The Ukrainian national, a 2001-born outside forward, landed at Chelsea in exchange for 70 million to Shakhtar, plus 30 million in bonuses. Twenty-three million, however, was donated by the Ukrainian club to the families of soldiers at the front
Enzo Fernandez (Chelsea):
From being named the best youngster of the World Cup, which he won with Argentina, to the title of the most expensive purchase in the history of English soccer. Such is the unstoppable growth of the Musico, who landed at Chelsea after a long courtship: the Blues paid Benfica the full amount of the 120-million rescission clause
OTHER SPORTS.
21/04/2024
There are so many sports disciplines in which people jump. In addition to athletics, in which jumps are divided into four categories (long, high, triple, and pole vaulting), many sportsmen and women excel in real flights, for example, with skis and snowboards, but also with cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and....parachutes.
Man has always dreamed, after all, of flying, and this is one of the most direct ways to experience that feeling of freedom that humans have been chasing for centuries.
The magazine Forbes has grouped together 10 of the longest leaps made by athletes in history. Some of them are truly impressive.
OTHER SPORTS.
19/04/2024
What is the most exhausting sport in the world?
According to a research promoted by ESPN, a US television station entirely dedicated to sport, the discipline that implies a greater overall effort of our body, thus being the most tiring ever (as well as one of those that involves the greatest risk of serious injuries), is boxing.
The study took into account, for each discipline analyzed, multiple parameters including strength, endurance, speed, agility and coordination required in the race, to be related to the average expenditure of energy, both physical and mental.