Jonathan Slack

In 2024 Chelsea received a €5m add on bonus from Real Madrid as a result of Real reaching the Champions League final for the sale of Eden Hazard. Hazard had retired from football in 2023 and Chelsea earned €150m from the deal overall. According to the Premier League negotiated settlement with the club Chelsea received no on field advantage from signing Hazard from Lille for €35m in 2012 and therefore a £10m fine was appropriate rather than a points deduction.

Possibly the funniest thing to do in this situation

Interesting top DCL !!

Quel match de patron d’Archie Gray, sorti ovationné par le club des Spurs, et félicité par son adversaire, Marcos Llorente 👏🏻

Atletico's Marcos Llorente runs over to Archie Gray to shake his hand before Gray walks off to be substituted. He's been outstanding tonight. #THFC

Happy St Patrick’s day folks! Why not celebrate by catching our friends @TheSquareBall on tour in Galway, Dublin or Belfast next week?! They’ve some cracking guests … and that’s not even including this social media elf who’ll be at the Galway show 😉 💙💛🤍 #lufc

Sneer on professional sports all you want but it's pretty much humans last true meritocracy. In virtually any other profession you can lie, cheat, bullshit or brownnose your way to the top. In sports you can either perform or you can't.

What a waste of time

@nightmaresonwax Go on then - what time you on stage tonight my man? 😎

@Slackaldo Okinawa 😉 I appreciate your support 🙏🏽

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⚡️This is the clearest image ever taken of Saturn’s North Pole. A perfect hexagonal storm is raging for decades now and it is over 30,000km across. First spotted by Voyager 1 back in 1980s. 📷 NASA

Labour could bring back our water into public hands but they care more about investors than they do about you.

I find it confusing that VAR ops can spot and correct a marginal offside or a brush of a ball with a hand but not hands around the neck of an opponent in the penalty area. What’s the criteria for intervention here? Which is the worst of these as an ‘action’? #VAR

Ball boy raging. 🤣

Nobody had an issue with the Muslim players getting some sustenance. The issue is the whole team going over to Pep for another mid match tactical chat. He made his keeper go down to do it at the Etihad and Leeds fans have had enough of city getting away with cheating. #lufc

This would be why Farke was angry at the ref… both These decisions would be analysed and given elsewhere.

Paramount just bought a $111 billion media empire with a $12 billion market cap. Read that again. Paramount’s market cap is roughly $12 billion. Warner Bros. Discovery’s enterprise value in this deal is $111 billion. David Ellison is buying a company nearly 10x his own company’s size. How? Larry Ellison’s net worth: $201 billion. He’s personally guaranteeing the equity commitment. Bank of America, Citi, and Apollo are providing $57.5 billion in debt financing. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Abu Dhabi’s L’imad Holdings, and the Qatar Investment Authority are providing equity. The combined entity will carry over $90 billion in debt. This tells you everything about what actually happened. Netflix offered $83 billion for the studios and streaming (the good parts). Paramount offered $111 billion for everything (including the dying cable networks nobody else wanted). Netflix looked at the math to match Paramount and said “at this price, the deal is no longer financially attractive.” That’s Netflix-speak for “we’re not overpaying for linear TV in 2026.” Netflix stock jumped 10% on the news it lost. Paramount rose 5%. The market is telling you which company made the better decision. What makes this really interesting: Paramount promised $6 billion in cost synergies. That’s code for mass layoffs across two studios, two streaming platforms, and overlapping cable networks. CNN and CBS News under one roof. HBO Max and Paramount+ merged. They’ll need those savings because the debt service on $90 billion will be brutal. David Ellison attended Trump’s State of the Union as Lindsey Graham’s guest on Tuesday. Ted Sarandos was at the White House Thursday afternoon. Both were lobbying. Ellison won. And his father’s close ties to Trump will matter when DOJ reviews a deal that puts CBS, CNN, HBO, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, and TNT under one owner. The real story: a 42-year-old with a rocky box office track record just assembled the largest media conglomerate in history, financed by his father’s fortune, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth, and $57.5 billion in bank debt. Netflix walked away richer. The question is whether Paramount can service the debt load while linear TV revenue keeps declining or whether this becomes the most expensive content library acquisition ever assembled on borrowed time.

So do newspaper articles.

The biggest story in 2026 Sport keeps on twisting and turning! We’re going to get a genuine fight in Olympic Curling at this rate. We need the people behind NBA Jam to make a curling game with all kinds of crazy shit in there.

¿Se acuerdan del famoso traductor de Bielsa? Bueno, ayer estuvo en Stamford Bridge alentando al Leeds. Que tipazo Andrés 🥹

Aaronson leaving the pitch last night. 😀🤍💛💙 #LeedsThat #Leeds