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The two thousand twenty six World Cup is already delivering sticker shock before a single boot hits the turf. Fans eyeing a last-minute ticket to USA versus Australia in Seattle are facing resale prices starting at one thousand nine hundred thirty two dollars, and there is no sign of relief heading into Friday's Group D clash. If you want to be there, you are paying for it.
Shifting to the transfer window, and Andy Robertson's eight-year run at Anfield is officially over. Liverpool chose not to renew the Scotland captain's one hundred sixty thousand pound per week contract, and Tottenham are emerging as the clear frontrunners to land the thirty-two year old. Robertson won everything at Liverpool, but a new chapter is opening in north London.
And in the world of punditry, Graeme Souness has done something rare — he's changed his mind. After famously calling Bruno Fernandes no leader following Manchester United's seven-nil humiliation to Liverpool back in March twenty twenty three, Souness has reversed course, crediting the Portuguese captain's historic campaign as proof he had the man wrong. Credit where it's due, even if it took a while.
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