Pretty much the entire championship is now owned by idiotic owners who are spending completely unsustainable amounts of money as far as FFP will let them to reach the premier league

Same way it happens in any other industry. When did United, Liverpool or Arsenal need to receive a giant cash injection from an oil state to get to the top?

Tallying up transfer fees is not a reliable way of measuring expenditure and income

To be fair to him when you work for a 24 hour sports news channel that devotes 80% of its runtime to one sport, and are actually committed to giving reliable information then your job will inevitably consist of saying a lot of nothing.

£60 million and a 4-year 500k/week contract

Whatever line you could possibly set for a player publicly disrespecting a club, manager, and breaching confidentiality, Ronaldo crossed and then some. If Ten Hag was so wrong, every top club in Europe would have made Ronaldo an offer instantly

‘Can have any girl he wants’ is such a disgusting, misogynistic defence, and is the rational that actually leads celebrities to commit sexual assault, thinking that they ‘really want it’.