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  • @AstrealixMEnglish
    4•7 months ago

    God Fabrizio Romano really is just a Chelsea mouthpiece now. “I think it’s important to remember that [Mudryk] was never forced to sign anything” ffs his home country is a warzone and Shakhtar Donetsk’s stadium hasn’t been available for 10 years; and it gave literally millions of dollars to the war effort, for a lad that is like, basically my age; it’s about as close as you can get to being coerced without being physically tied to a chair and forced to sign it

    • @sensiblepuffinEnglish
      3•7 months ago

      To be fair, he’s almost definitely getting “consultant” fees from basically every top club in Europe to be their mouthpiece.

    • @hangonasecondEnglish
      3•7 months ago

      Yep - no good reason for mudryk to accept any situation where he stays at Shakhtar. That’s probably the one choice for his career that would have been worse than going to Chelsea, although Chelsea is a pretty shitty option too.

      • @AstrealixMEnglish
        3•7 months ago

        I mean that too, but I’m more referring to the fact that the entire Shakhtar board probably would’ve basically been forcing him out for the money and also again, the fucking war