The sport is changing

He said yesterday Carlo Ancelotti when they asked him about Jon Rahm: The sport is changing, he commented after joking. “For 500 million I will walk in Arabia,” he said with a particular sense of humor that the Italian coach always displays. Rahm He is completely within his rights to choose where he wants to play. That is undeniable. The problem is that a year and a half ago he said loudly that he would not go to the Saudi golf circuit, LIV Golf, and that he would not change it for the PGA Tour, where he added that he wanted to leave. a legacy far removed from decisions made just for money. Today, after receiving an offer of 500 million dollars (300 fixed and another 200 in variables), he signed for the Arab Golf Super League sponsored by a powerful Saudi investment fund. Changing minds seems to be a trend, with statements made in the past being easily erased and not implying any moral binding. It’s not just sport, it’s the world that’s changing.

Barça and Madrid are always buying clubs in the international market. Sometimes someone appears Abramovich who tried to change the established rules, but they were exceptions. Now the two big clubs have been overtaken by many in the transfer rankings. City and PSG have long-time portfolio owners in their sheikhs, North American billionaires have the ability to acquire historic Premier clubs and Arabia has acquired European footballers with a checkbook that has still experience in the major leagues. Funds consider investments in clubs profitable because they have a return. New artists changed the world of sports. You cannot criticize those who joined the new model, but they are slaves to their words, although that does not make an impact today in the new world of short memory and vast propaganda.

Ancelotti I will walk, but most go to the private plane in a football and a sport of empty words and full pockets.