GIBBI, Today

Jun 14, 2025

Stories:

Franco Mastantuono is officially a Real Madrid player. The club has announced the signing of the 17-year-old Argentine pearl, from River Plate. He signs for six years, until 2031
The total amount of the operation, according to River, is $72.6 million, making it the largest transfer in Argentine soccer history
The Argentine winger, born in 2007, is considered one of the brightest talents of his generation. He recently became the youngest footballer to make his debut for Argentina after playing his first minutes with the senior team against Chile.
GIBBI View: Franco Mastantuono became “famous” when two months ago scored a “golazo” from a free-kick outside the box in the Argentina Classic between his team River Plate vs Boca Juniors; this has been a very busy summer for Real Madrid, where the club signed Xabi Alonso as new head coach and this is its third new player that has signed this summer (Dean Huijsen, Alexander-Arnold)

The WNBA and E.W. Scripps announced on Friday a new multiyear media rights agreement to carry Friday night WNBA matchups on Ion
The value of the deal was not disclosed, but media reports peg the original deal that expires at the end of the 2025 season at an average of $13 million annually
The network said WNBA Friday Night Spotlight viewership grew 133% year over year and more than 23 million unique viewers tuned into the coverage
GIBBI View: This is the Caitlin Clark’s effect where more people are deciding to watch NBA Games (especially Clark’s games) and this is going to benefit Clark and WNBA’s players, coaches and owners; but let’s see if WNBA can continue with this popularity or it could start to decrease in the near future

Group A:
1. México
2. Costa Rica
Group B:
1. Canadá
2. Honduras
Group C:
1. Panamá
2. Jamaica
Group D:
1. U.S.
2. Trinidad & Tobago
GIBBI View: The Gold Cup 2025 will start today and will last 3 weeks and will finish in July 06th, 2025, where the favorite to win this tournament are the reigning champion team México (it has won 12 titles, the most) and U.S. (it’s having problems with Pochettino’s system and coaching); this time I only talked about groups stage, so when the group stage finishes I’m going to record a video where I’m going to talk about the knockout round

Premier League champions Liverpool have agreed a £116m deal to sign Germany attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz from Bayer Leverkusen
The fee for the 22-year-old includes a guaranteed £100m and a further £16m in add-ons. Those bonus payments would only become payable if the Reds achieve a sustained level of success - which would then make it a British record
Liverpool, having won the 2024-25 Premier League title in manager Arne Slot's first season, have sought to bolster their squad - and the level of their outlay is believed to have been helped by limiting their spending in previous transfer windows
GIBBI View: Liverpool understood that if they want to keep winning Premier League and have more possibilities to win UEFA Champions League, they need to sign the best players in each position to achieve both goals; remember that Bayern wanted to sign Wirtz and I thought that he was going to decide to signfor Bayern, but it looks that he saw a better sporting project in Liverpool

Group A:
1. Porto
2. Palmeiras
Group B:
1. PSG
2. Atletico Madrid
Group C:
1. Bayern München
2. Benfica
Group D:
1. Chelsea
2. Flamengo
Group E:
1. Inter
2. River Plate
Group F:
1. Dortmund
2. Fluminense
Group G:
1. Man City
2. Juventus
Group H:
1. Real Madrid
2. Salzburg
GIBBI View: FIFA changed the format of the tournament where now the Club World Cup will be played every 4 years (1 year before World Cup), and will be played in the place that will be played the World Cup next year; this time will participate 32 clubs from around the world, where the favorite are the UEFA’s teams (the best teams) and my favorite teams to win are Real Madrid, PSG and Man City; in this video I only talked about the group stage, so when the group stage finishes I’m going to record a video where I’m going to talk about the knockout round

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