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The COVID19 pandemic will give rise to a whole new loads of clauses in players contracts, and the deals between clubs.
Yesterday the transfer of Henrik Mkhitaryan to Roma was finally announced by Arsenal.
It was back at the end of June that the deal was apparently agreed, so it unusual that it took nearly 2 months for the “ink to dry†on a fairy easy to complete deal.
Also yesterday, Serie A announces that their season will officially start on September 19th.
The two bits of news breaking on the same day got me thinking.
Was part of the agreement between Arsenal and Roma that the “deal would only be confirmed once a Serie A have announced a start date for the 2020/21 season.â€
This clause would protect Roma from signing a player before the confirmation of the forthcoming season. They would have been worried that had the deal gone through, and for whatever reason the 2020/21 Serie A season is further delayed, they would be paying a salary for a new player without games to play.
On the same train of thought, Arsenal’s deal for Gabriel is still her to be conformed. Could this be due to a COVID19 clause?
With people having the quarantine for 14 days coming in from France, Arsenal might have inserted a clause in the deal with Lille that the “transfer of Gabriel will only be confirmed following a 14 day cooling off period and negative Coronavirus testâ€.
COVID19 is a virus that attacks the lungs.
Imagine the scenario where Arsenal (or any other club) signs a player from France, and then 10 days after signing is admitted to hospital with COVID19.
The player is then on a ventilator, with the virus attacking his lungs.
With many people who contacted COVID19 months ago still reporting suffering with breathing problems, Arsenal could end up with a player who might never play for he club due to lung issues.
To protect themselves, Arsenal might be insisting that the Gabriel transfer has a “14 day cooling off period†between when it was agreed and when it is announced just to ensure he did not arrive with COVID19.
Remember, a COVID19 test does not confirm you have the virus, just that the virus is active within your body. The virus can take up to 14 days to activate and show symptoms (hence the 14 day quarantine).
Whilst Gabriel might not actually be quarantining (he has had his medical, etc), they might have decided on that 14 day cooling off period to protect their finances.
Note: David Ornstein has now confirmed that the delay on Gabriel’s transfer is due to him going under quarantine
Growing up, our parents always insisted that we brush our teeths every morning before we have our breakfast. This is how most of us grew up, and that process has become a normal thing for us. But, ideally, we're going about the whole thing wrong. Yes, brushing your teeth before eating breakfast is actually to the best way to maintain achieve and maintain a clean and healthy teeth. This i found out today too from one of the most popular doctors on the social media in Nigeria.
His name is Doctor Harvey Olufunmilayo, a Nigerian Doctor who works and base in the United Kingdom. He is well known on the social media platform TwitterNG as "OurFavOnlineDoc" and has more one hundred and sixty thousand followers on twitter.
The doctor took to his twitter account to share a very helpful health advise as regards brushing of our teeth. The doctor claimed, brushing our teeth before breakfast isn't good compared to brushing after eating breakfast. He went further to explain how this works in a thread which I'll be showing you. See the full thread below.
Wow, I was surprised when I saw this because it actually makes sense. I have decided to try it out for at least three months.
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Five Footballers Who Appeared In Movie
Considering this, footballers have developed from being simply proficient athletes, with some wandering into different fields like Motion pictures business and demonstrating after retirement.
Below are the Top 5 football stars who have feartured in Motion pictures.
1. Zinedine Zidane featured in (Asterix at the Olympic Games)
Zinedine Zidane is a three-time FIFA World Player of the Year who played for probably the best clubs on the planet including Real Madrid and Juventus, winning nearly everything winnable at club level.
Upon retirement, he discovered accomplishment on the seat and is presently driving Real Madrid for a subsequent residency having made history with the side during his first spell of the board. Zizou has additionally featured in a few motion pictures like Asterix at the Olympic Games.
​2. David Beckham Featured in (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword)
David Beckham's innocent acceptable looks, just as big name status directly from his playing days, made it almost certain that he would wander into Hollywood upon retirement.
His exchange from Real Madrid to the home of Hollywood during his stretch with LA Galaxy loaned further confidence to this case, however the previous Manchester United and Real Madrid man has not become the A-lister in films that many anticipated.
3. Neymar Jr feartured in (XXX: Return of Xander Cage)
Neymar is at present the most costly player ever and perhaps the best player of his age, having participated to clubs like Santos, Barcelona, and PSG with a few trophies won en route.
The 28-year-old is additionally very attractive and was projected in the exceptionally exposed film, XXX; Return of Xander Cage, likewise featuring Samuel L. Jackson and Vin Diesel.
4. Ashley Cole featured in (Dead Man Running, Arsene's 11)
Ashley Cole presented a defense to be considered as the best English left-back ever in a profession which saw him participate to the absolute greatest clubs in the land with unique excellence.
In 2007, he created and featured in a narrative about Arsene Wenger's invincibles named
5. Olivier Giroud Featured in (Spiderman)
Olivier Giroud is a World Cup victor with the French national group and has additionally played for clubs like HSC Montpellier, Arsenal, and Chelsea, winning a few significant trophies en route.
In November 2018, he uncovered that he loaned his voice as the Green Goblin in the French variation of the Spiderman movement arrangement called: 'Spiderman: New Generation'
It also said even at that, the union is still on its industrial action which it commenced since March nationwide and would only call it off when demands are addressed by the government.
The Lagos Zone coordinator of the union, who is a lecturer at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, (FUNAAB), Prof Olusiji Sowande, gave this position in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday evening.
According to him, there is nothing different on the ground from what it used to be before COVID-19 in the nation’s public universities nor any noticeable concrete steps taking to address the terrible conditions that most of the universities are.
He said student’s hostels are not only still inadequate, there is just no significant facilities on ground to carry out the physical distancing guidelines in large and crowded lecture rooms.
Besides that, he said, water and electricity supply, among other needs, are also still unreliable and that is why reopening of tertiary institutions for now without taking concrete steps to address these issues would be suicidal.
He said it was even unheard of that government could make arrangements for special bailout funds for airline operators and other private entities without considering the same for public universities.
While also decrying that some of the union members, particularly those at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) have their salaries withheld for five months and members’ check-off deductions generally had not been remitted since February 2020 to date by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF), as well as members having one complaint or the another over salaries payment due to what he termed their forceful enrollment into Integrated and Personnel Payroll System (IPPIS), he said the government would need to address all these issues.
According to him, the payment of salary is incomplete when third party deductions are not remitted to the parties concerned.
Prof Sowande explained that “Check-offs and other third-party deductions by law should not be held beyond seven days before being remitted to the concerned parties.
“So, deducting and failure to remit our check-off since February 2020 to date by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF) is not only illegal but criminal,†he stressed.
He said the withholding action raises a number of questions such as who is keeping the deductions and on whose directive, as well as would the interest be paid on the funds, among others.
He called on OAGF to provide answers to the inquiries, noting that the union was not only ready with the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) is developed as an alternative to IPPIS but already demonstrated the workability of the system to the minister of education with other top government officials in the ministry and its agencies in attendance.
He said the government would need to call for a physical meeting with ASUU leadership so as to resume their discussion on contentious issues for possible resolutions.