With Chelsea's owners BlueCo having now stretched their financial muscle across the Channel and acquired Strasbourg FC, could it be that the new regime's involvement actually marks quite the ending to a good few years of fiscal struggle for Le Racing?
Every summer the talk and focus of the domestic football world shifts from what's happening on the pitch, to which player is moving where off of it. In 2023, some of the biggest, most attention-stealing deals have involved Englishman, with Jude Bellingham arriving at Real Madrid, Harry Kane getting to his point of no return with Spurs and Declan Rice moving across London to Arsenal. However, there's no avoiding the fact that the past few months have seen an interloper, an elephant in the room, yes I mean the Saudi Pro League (SPL).
Given the massive investment and the resulting, considerable, rise in media coverage of the Saudi Pro League, there's one side of the debate that has had little to no attention given its due. The potential effect on the Saudi Arabian national side…
Now that he's finally completed his move from Spurs, might Harry Kane be forgiven, at least in private, for wondering whether he's actually swapped being the figurehead of possibly England's most fractious club (in terms of behind the scenes chaos) for their German equivalents? Given what's gone on at Bayern Munich immediately prior to his much- heralded arrival.
September 29th brings with it the previously unthinkable- at least if you grew up playing FIFA on the console of your choice. While the basic gameplay, by all accounts, won't have changed much from the last few seasons, the often lucrative FIFA branding itself will be absent- EA FC 24 the first fruits of EA Sports breaking away from world football's governing body after an initial extension to cover the release of FIFA 23 last season.