If things remain as they are, it will be very hard for a team like that to win the UCL, because richer clubs will poach their best players. For a club like Benfica or Ajax to win the UCL, they will need several potentially world class players to have a breakthrough season simultaneously, and even then it’s going to be very tough.

I think Haaland is a better fit for Real Madrid than Mbappe right now. While Mbappe can play as a striker, his skillset is better used on the wing, and unless Real Madrid intend to sell Rodrygo, I doubt they will play him there.

I vaguely remember someone commenting that, if thought of as a percentage of Liverpool’s revenue that season, Carroll would have cost 120 million today.