$8.4M settles it between the clubs for Nejc Mevlja
NK Domzale have accepted the money. What Ferencvaros do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Ferencvaros have paid $6.0M for Filippo Romagna, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
The offer from Vicenza for Philippe Rommens was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Filippo Romagna from Sassuolo for $6.0M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Sassuolo have gone to Cruz Azul with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The shape has not worked since the summer and the reason was never a mystery. Nikola Štulić comes in from Lecce to be the missing piece, which is a flattering description and a heavy one.
The offer from KTP for Sonosi Daldum was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sassuolo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Nikola Štulić from Lecce for $15.6M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ferencvaros can pretend not to have heard.
The offer from Vasas for Mariano Gómez was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The offer went to NK Domzale this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
$6.0M on the table at Sassuolo. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The offer went to Inter this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Petar Mićin has just signed for Ferencvaros, and for once the answer mattered.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris FC have kept their man, and Sassuolo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The deal with Lecce is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Trento paid $1.4M and Sassuolo took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Ignace Van Der Brempt and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.