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The biggest story in world football today — Liverpool have parted ways with Arne Slot, and the timing is brutal. The Dutchman won the Premier League in his very first season at Anfield, stepping into Jurgen Klopp's enormous shadow and delivering silverware immediately. But year two fell apart completely. Liverpool finished fifth, spent four hundred fifty million pounds on players, and got almost nothing back. Andoni Iraola is reportedly the frontrunner to take over, and the rebuild starts now.
Shifting to the NFL, Shedeur Sanders may have slipped to pick one hundred forty-four in the fifth round of the two thousand twenty-five draft, but his bank account didn't get the memo. The Cleveland Browns quarterback pulled in a record-shattering seventeen point seven million dollars through NFLPA group licensing income, dwarfing his slotted salary of just over one million per year. Son of Deion, built his own brand, and the money followed.
And a lighter moment out of New York — Bobby Valentine, on the eve of his Mets Hall of Fame induction, threw out the first pitch at Citi Field wearing the exact same fake mustache and sunglasses disguise that made him infamous back in two thousand two. Some things you just don't retire.
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