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It certainly picked up after the defeat to Fulham. Erik ten Hag is increasingly been seen like Claudio Ranieri at Chelsea. It is only in-keeping with the general atmosphere at the club, however, which is that everyone has to sharpen up. INEOS have made it clear standards will be improved. They have had their people analyse every single department. Their willing to move anyone on, including the manager. The word is similarly that Ten Hag hasn’t filled them with huge confidence so far. While results did considerably pick up after the January break, there’s still a feeling performances have been inconsistent. It is unsalvageable but there needs to be considerable improvement. Should the worst come to the worst, though, Ten Hag may have an obvious destination. 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Given how much debate there has been about the club’s model, it has been stressed Liverpool show a more beneficial way to bring through young talent. They have to be nurtured in a system that works. That is how they can realise potential, rather than just being thrown together all at once. The great question is now whether it will lead to a change of direction in the summer. Recruitment guru has some interesting negotiation terms Michael Edwards was very prominent at the Financial Times business of football summit, more of which in the despatches. While he has gone to the event a lot, it was all the more interesting given the constant talk now that he would only return to club football if he was offered an ownership stake. Some in football believe there is a clear logic to the idea, since clubs potentially stand to make huge profits out of good recruitment work. Others speaking privately at the same summit believe it’s a non-starter. It has been reported here before that Manchester United were willing to make Edwards a huge offer, but it didn’t go anywhere. Mbappe circus reaches new levels You couldn’t have a more instructive indication of where football is than Kylian Mbappe meeting the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the Emir of Qatar all as the French star decides his future. Well, it’s not really present tense. The widespread belief in the game is that Mbappe has made his decision, and that is of course Real Madrid. He hasn’t, however, directly communicated this to Paris Saint-Germain yet. It has fostered this degree of uncertainty, but the sense is that the Mbappe entourage enjoy the noise. It creates buzz around the player, not unlike LeBron James’ decision. A cynical view is that this gets him more international attention than goals against Clermont Foot or Metz. All of the major English clubs have looked at Mbappe but can’t make it work with cost control rules, which leaves Madrid. 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The majority of it is American “institutional money”, given firms like Goldman Sachs and all big private equity companies are there. As with Mbappe’s meeting with heads of state above, it is another indication of where the game is. There are times when you’re listening to some of the talks on stage about cash flows and investment opportunities and it’s hard not to despair of what’s becoming of the game. The fundamental interest here is profit out of it. But that doesn’t necessarily serve the sport. It makes enough money on its own. If anything, we have mountains of empirical evidence this sort of influence has been a negative for the sport since it has fostered a situation where so few clubs can actually win the major trophies. There’s an irony to that as this great push for competition as regards the economy of the sport, has actually killed competition within it. 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