Social Zone: PSG's expensive omissions, robot referees and Liverpool's genius transfer strategy
- Sean Fisher
- 3 February 2022
PSG will be paying over half a million pounds a week for players not registered in their squad, robot referees are set to debut in the Club World Cup and Spurs gifted Liverpool the Luis Diaz signing.
Any chance of bringing in Micah Richards as an assistant manager?
Roy Keane will reportedly be interviewed for the Sunderland manager's job 😯
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) February 2, 2022
Keane managed the Black Cats between 2006 and 2008 and helped them earn promotion to the Premier League.
Make this happen (and then make Sunderland Til I Die, Season 3 happen) 🙏 pic.twitter.com/rpxWpestjf
PSG's Champions League knock-out phase squad is set to omit some big players because their senior squad is too large:
— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) February 2, 2022
❌ Gini Wijnaldum
❌ Ander Herrera
❌ Juan Bernat
❌ Julian Draxler
✍️ Le Parisien pic.twitter.com/A74BUEatKl
Yes you're reading that right. Robot referees are set to be introduced for the Club World Cup this month.
Do we think players will still surround it and shout at it if they disagree with a decision? Probably...
Robot referees will be used during the 2021 FIFA Club World Cup tournament in UAE 🇦🇪 this month.
— #AFCON2021 ✪ (@MickyJnr__) February 1, 2022
They have special camera & will help to cut VAR waiting time & also make automatic offside decisions within half a second.
Refs will receive alert when a decision is made.#ClubWC pic.twitter.com/xVYdLp9HeF
This sounds a lot less like Gerard Pique is trying to give Erling Haaland advice, and a lot more like he's trying to stop both Kylian Mbappe and Haaland from ending up at Real Madrid.
Gerard Pique has some advice for Erling Haaland 👀 pic.twitter.com/gHLIZ0yvN2
— GOAL (@goal) February 2, 2022
Ah Spurs, you've done it again. I would've loved to see Daniel Levy's face after he was informed about Liverpool's matched bid being accepted.
Liverpool were grateful to Spurs for lowering the price down for Luis Diaz.
— Anfield Edition (@AnfieldEdition) February 2, 2022
Porto were initially demanding €80m, which the Reds were not prepared to pay but Spurs put in months of hard work to lower the fee, which Liverpool capitalised on and matched the offer. [@TheAthleticUK] pic.twitter.com/fFjrDFnqCD
