“Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win,” the former England striker Gary Lineker once observed, in a rueful comment on Teutonic supremacy in the 1990s. An updated version might read: Football is a very complicated game, and at the end the accountants win.
Chelsea FC midfielder Conor Gallagher was the focus of widespread media speculation in the run-up to Thursday’s Premier League transfer-window deadline, with multiple reports suggesting the club was willing to sell. In purely sporting terms, it would have been a perplexing transaction. Gallagher ...
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