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Ranked: Europe’s 10 worst transfers from this summer — and the 5 best
Over the summer, clubs across the world spent $9.76 billion on acquiring about 12,000 new players.
Both numbers were record highs, according to FIFA. Around 1,000 more players changed teams in 2025 than did in 2024, and the near-$10 billion outlay was a more-than-50% increase over the summer spending in the previous year.
Most of the money was spent by UEFA clubs: $8.5 billion, which was a $3 billion increase from just the year before. About 7,350 players joined new teams in UEFA, around 20% of those players required transfer fees to acquire, and the average price of those transfer fees was $4.27 million — a $1.2 million per-deal average increase from 2024.
Unsurprisingly, most of that money was spent by members of the Big Five top leagues in Europe and their associated lower-down-the-ladder clubs. England led the way with $3.19 billion spent on transfers, while Spain, Germany, France, and Italy all spent over $650 million, too. All in all, clubs across these five countries spent $6.5 billion — two-thirds of the entire global transfer spend.
And what did they get? Per Transfermarkt data, there were 203 transfers for at least €10 million across the Big Five leagues over the summer. And through mid-November, those players have combined to play … only 45% of their team’s minutes. It gets a little better when you look at the more expensive deals, but not by much: the players with fees of at least €35 million have played 49% of the minutes.
When you’re investing this much money into simply acquiring a player — and we’re not even accounting for the contracts — two things are true: (1) you expect that player to play more than 45% of the minutes, and (2) you’re thinking much longer term than the first 10 or 12 games of the year.
It’s still too early to write off any move as a failure or start celebrating anything as a massive success — but you also don’t get to extend a player’s contract just because he started slow, and you can’t reclaim lost points just because your new midfield took a couple months to gel. These games have already happened — you’re never getting them back.
So, with nearly a third of the season completed, let’s take a look at the 10 worst-performing transfers — and five of the best — from the first three months.
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What makes a bad transfer?
Almost by definition, the worst deals among these 203 moves for €10 million or more are going to be some of the most expensive ones. And if we look at “value left on the bench” — a player’s transfer fee, multiplied by the percentage of minutes he hasn’t played this far — then it’s going to skew heavily toward the biggest deals.
If a team paid €10 million to sign a player, then €10 million is the max that can be left on the bench. If a team paid €100 million, then, well, yeah, you see where I’m going. By this crude metric, here are the 10 worst deals among the Big Five leagues so far:
1) Alexander Isak, Liverpool: €107.88 million left on the bench
2) Yoane Wissa, Newcastle: €57.7 million
3) Nick Woltemade, Newcastle: €46.95 million
4) Xavi Simons, Tottenham: €43.2 million
5) Jamie Gittens, Chelsea: €41.83 million
6) Noni Madueke, Arsenal: €38.7 million
7) Tyler Dibling, Everton: €37.95 million
8) Omari Hutchinson, Nottingham Forest: €37.8 million
9) Florian Wirtz, Liverpool: €37.5 million
10) Jorrel Hato, Chelsea: €36.71 million
Liverpool broke the Premier League transfer record for a frequently injured player, and they’re already experiencing pretty much all of the downside from that bet: Isak has only played about one-fourth of the Premier League minutes so far.
But even when you play a significant number of minutes, it’s hard not to rate poorly when a team pays nine figures to acquire you. Before Isak, Liverpool broke the Premier League transfer record for Wirtz earlier in the summer, and he has played 70% of the minutes so far, but he still ranks in the bottom 10.
The same applies at a leaguewide level. Premier League teams spent way more than everyone else, so transfers made by Premier League clubs make up the majority of the bottom of the list. In fact, there’s only one non-Premier-League transfer in the bottom 20 by this method: AC Milan acquired midfielder Ardon Jashari from Club Brugge for €36 million, and he’s only played 1.6% of the Serie A minutes because he broke his leg in late August.
However, we’re only grading these moves based on the downsides. Let’s say you sign someone for $80 million and he only plays 50% of the minutes every year … but he also gets you 12 goals and 5 assists every year. Is that a failure? A success? A combination of the two?
Transfermarkt also estimates the market value for every player in the world using crowd-sourcing. If we take that and multiply it by the percentage of minutes each player has played, we can come up with another crude number: a version of the value he’s provided to his team thus far. (It’s not perfect — estimated transfer values aren’t 1-to-1 with player performance — but it at least lets us apply the methodology to each player equally.)
Then, we can rank each deal by both of these numbers — value provided, value left on the bench — and then we can combine the two numbers to get a general sense of the performance of each transfer so far.
The 10 worst transfer deals so far
10. Ben Doak, €23.1 million, Liverpool to Bournemouth
Herein lies the upside and downside of spending significant money on signing a 19-year-old. Doak has only played 5% of the minutes for Bournemouth so far this season, but there’s still so much more time left for him to come good. He won’t hit his prime years for another five seasons.
And yet: he won’t be in his prime for another five seasons. That’s a lot of potential time where a player you invested €23.1 million into still might not be good enough to contribute for your first team.
9. Arnaud Kalimuendo, €30 million, Stade Rennais to Nottingham Forest
With all of Forest’s struggles, I pin pretty much all of it on the ridiculous ownership of Evangelos Marinakis and almost none of it on the players or the three coaches they’ve employed this season. Kalimuendo has started zero matches, and he’s a center forward who has so far attempted three total shots. That’s a rate of €10 million per shot.
8. Fábio Silva, €22.5 million, Wolverhampton to Borussia Dortmund
The year is 2035. Fabio Silva has transferred from Atletico Madrid to Marseille. It’s his 10th team in 10 years. He’s never garnered a fee more than the initial €40 million that Wolves paid to acquire him from Porto as a teenager, and yet the cumulative transfer fees over his career make him the most expensive player in the history of the sport. He is a 32-year-old center forward who has never scored more than eight non-penalty goals in a single season.
7. Omari Hutchinson, €40 million, Ipswich Town to Nottingham Forest
Forest paid a combined €152 million to acquire Kalimuendo, Hutchinson, Dilane Bakwa, James McAtee, Jair Cunha, Igor Jesus, and Dan Ndoye this past summer. On average, they’ve played 26% of the available Premier League minutes.
6. Tyler Dibling, €40.5 million, Southampton to Everton
This is the “Doak Problem,” times two. Everton paid a lot of money to sign a teenager with only one discernible skill: his ability to dribble past defenders. As we’re seeing with Jérémy Doku‘s explosion at Manchester City this season, that can be the right long-term bet. But it took Doku until his age-23 season to really become a winning player. Dibling won’t get there for another four years.
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5. Dário Essugo, €22.7 million, Sporting Lisbon to Chelsea
I don’t know what kind of Faustian deal Chelsea’s ownership made with a corporate-connected practitioner of the dark arts, but the record-breaking amounts of money they spent to sign midfielders Moisés Caicedo and Enzo Fernández has mostly worked out. These deals had to hit their 95th-percentile outcomes to be worth it, and Caicedo is a legit superstar, while Fernandez is one of the better passing midfielders in the world. But any time Chelsea have tried to acquire a third midfielder, it has almost immediately fallen apart.
Romeo Lavia — remember him? — has made 12 starts across three seasons, thanks to a succession of injuries. And now Essugo’s Chelsea career has started off similarly: He’s played zero minutes and is out until at least the start of 2026 after undergoing thigh surgery in September.
4. Ardon Jashari, €36 million, Club Brugge to AC Milan
The loss of Jashari hasn’t hurt Milan much because 40-year-old Luka Modric is the latest midfielder to drink from the fountain of youth that is the Serie A tactical environment. He’s completed 99 progressive passes, while no one else in the league has more than 79, but he’s also made 36 tackles and interceptions, which is 12th-most in Italy.
3. Charalampos Kostoulas, €30 million, Olympiacos to Brighton
The 19-year-old Kostoulas has only played 32 Premier League minutes, and he’s attempted two shots. That puts him ahead of Kalimuendo on the millions-per-shot leaderboard. But he’s still way behind Isak’s six shots, at a rate of €24 million per attempt.
2. Giovanni Leoni, €31 million, Parma to Liverpool
This probably isn’t the name you expected to see from Liverpool, but Leoni provided zero Premier League value to Liverpool before tearing his ACL against Southampton in the Carabao Cup in late September. Among the players in our dataset who have played zero minutes this season, Leoni’s move required the second-highest transfer fee.
This methodology that I landed on also assumes that both Wirtz and Isak have performed to their requisite standard whenever they’ve played this season, so they avoided the top 10. But Wirtz is averaging 0.32 non-penalty expected goals and assists per 90 minutes, and while Isak’s rate is better (0.54), that’s without any of the build-up play responsibilities or pressing output that Wirtz has. More simply, they’ve combined for zero goals and one assist in the Premier League so far.
I’ve suffered my own whiplash in how to accurately assess Liverpool’s disappointing season, but the simplest explanation is also probably the best: They broke the British transfer record to sign two different attackers this past summer (when you include add-ons), and their combined goal+assist output is less than that of James Milner, who turns 40 in two months.
1. Yoane Wissa, €57.7 million, Brentford to Newcastle
While there are all kinds of caveats with these rankings, no such conditionals apply here. Purely based on the first three months of the season, this is easily the worst transfer of the summer. Wissa hasn’t played a single minute for Newcastle yet, but it’s worse than that. Everyone else in this top 10 is 23 or younger. In fact, everyone else in the top 25 is 24 or younger. These are all players with plenty of time to improve and come good, to make up for lost time.
Wissa, though, is already 29 years old.
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5. Martín Zubimendi, €70 million, Real Sociedad to Arsenal
He is the defensive midfielder for the best defensive team of the decade, and he’s immediately slotted into the starting XI and played nearly every minute of every match. On top of that, per Gradient Sports, he’s completed 62 line-breaking passes — 24 more than any of his teammates and more than all but six other players in the league.
For a big-money deal for an already-in-his-prime player to work out, you need the player to contribute immediately, and Zubimendi has played at a league-winning level right from the start.
4. The young, midtable goalkeepers: Djordje Petrovic and Caoimhín Kelleher
The minutes-based methodology either rewards or punishes keepers in an outsize fashion since most teams don’t rotate keepers across the season and no teams will consistently sub out their starting goalkeeper. But 26-year-old Petrovic (€28.9 million from Chelsea) and 25-year-old Kelleher (€14.8 million from Liverpool) have both played every minute of every Premier League match for Bournemouth and Brentford, respectively.
It’s still too early to say too much about their shot-stopping performance but both clubs could have found their starting goalkeepers for at least the next half-decade.
3. Álvaro Carreras, €50 million, Benfica to Real Madrid
Just as we all expected, Madrid have solidified one-half of their fullback pair with one of the better passers at his position in the world. It’s just that it’s Carreras on the left, and not Trent Alexander-Arnold on the right. While TAA has barely played meaningful competitive minutes for Madrid yet, the 22-year-old Carreras has played 99.3% of all of the LaLiga minutes so far. And they’re not empty minutes, either. He’s completed 108 progressive passes, while no one else on the team has more than 72.
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Why Bryan Mbeumo is a ‘great signing’ for Manchester United
Mark Ogden reacts to Manchester United completing the signing of Bryan Mbeumo.
2. Bryan Mbeumo, €75 million, Brentford to Manchester United
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the most successful short-term moves skew much older than the least successful ones. The average age of the 20 worst-rated deals is 21.1, while the average age of the top 20 deals is 24.7.
As I wrote about over the summer, I didn’t think the 26-year-old Mbeumo made sense for United, given how old he’d be when United might next realistically challenge for a league title. But if you wanted to make your team better immediately, there were few surer bets than Mbeumo, who had already been a very good Premier League player for multiple seasons and had done so while occupying just about every possible attacking role over his six years with Brentford.
Despite being an attacker, he’s played about 97% of the minutes for United so far this season, and he’s providing just north of 0.5 non-penalty goals+assists per 90 minutes. There’s nothing to suggest that performance is unsustainable, so if he keeps it up and remains healthy, he’ll end the season with around 17 non-penalty goals and three assists.
1. Lucas Chevalier, €40 million, Lille to PSG
We’ll see if Chevalier ends up being the long-term No. 1 answer in Paris, but he’s one of only six players in our dataset who have played every minute of every game: five goalkeepers, along with Sunderland‘s Granit Xhaka. And he’s the only one doing it for the defending European champions.
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USMNT’s Sargent joins Toronto after ‘unfortunate’ Norwich exit
Toronto FC has completed the transfer of United States international striker Josh Sargent from English Championship side Norwich City, the club announced on Friday.
ESPN had previously reported that Toronto will pay Norwich a fee of $22 million, which could rise to $27 million if certain incentives are met. The fee currently ranks in the top five that an MLS side has ever paid for an incoming transfer.
The highest-ever fee is believed to be the $26 million that LAFC paid for Son Heung-Min last summer, which the Sargent move will eclipse if all the incentives are reached.
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Sargent has signed a five-and-half-year contract that will keep him in Toronto through June of 2031.
In an interview with ESPN, Sargent said that with the arrival of his third child last December, he and his wife Kirsten were eager to get back to North America to be closer to extended family.
The team that Toronto is putting together, one that includes international teammates Djordje Mihailovic and Walker Zimmerman, also held appeal for Sargent.
“Over the last year or so, with all of my kids and everything in my family expanding, it’s kind of become more and more appealing, the thought of moving a bit closer to home.” Sargent said about joining TFC.
“Toronto reached out, I had very good talks with them. They seem to have a very good project that they have planned here. The ownership is all about it and they’re all in with it. So there were just a lot of things that sounded very attractive to me and very clear of their vision. So yeah, it was exciting.”
The move completes a bitter transfer saga that began last December when Toronto first made its approach with an offer of $18 million. When talks appeared to break down in January, Sargent sat out an FA Cup match against Walsall on Jan. 11, and following a meeting with sporting director Ben Knapper and manager Philippe Clement, Sargent was sent to train with the Canaries’ U21 side.
Sources tell ESPN that during that meeting, Knapper made comments about Sargent’s family. Sargent was seen to be visibly upset by these remarks, and he never played for Norwich again.
Sargent didn’t go into much detail about his final days with the Canaries.
“It was unfortunate how things worked out there, I think,” he said about Norwich. “But I’m happy to finally be here, happy to get started with a new chapter in my life and I’m just fully focused on trying to put that behind me and hit the ground running here.”
When asked if he had gotten the chance to say a proper goodbye, Sargent added, “I think the only thing I’m going to say is there’s two sides to every story. I think I got to say goodbye to all the people that I was close to, and understood the situation and yeah, that’s probably all I want to say about it to be honest.”
The move is the latest in a lengthy rebuild for Toronto that finally appears to be coming to fruition. Toronto claimed a domestic treble of MLS Cup, Supporters’ Shield and Canadian Championship in 2017, but the last time the Reds qualified for the postseason was in the Covid-impacted season of 2020.
In addition to Mihailovic and Zimmerman, Toronto recently acquired midfielder Dániel Sallói. TFC has an experienced manager in Robin Fraser.
“I know there’s a lot of video [Fraser] is wanting to do on that side of things for sure,” Sargent said.
Sargent finishes his Norwich career with 55 goals and 15 assists in all competitions. He scored seven goals in 23 league matches this season.
His international prospects have dwindled this campaign, with his last callup to the U.S. men’s national team occurring back in September. He hasn’t scored for the U.S. since 2019.
When asked how he thinks the move will impact his international prospects, Sargent said he’s fully focused on Toronto, and didn’t discuss the potential move with U.S. head coach Mauricio Pochettino.
“I’m fully focused on trying to start well here,” he said. “That’s truly what I care about, and if you do well at the club level, it puts you in a good position to get with [the] national team. So that’s where my full focus is at the moment. And off the back of that, if I can get back with the team, have another chance, I’d be very happy, of course.”
Additionally, Toronto FC acquired St. Louis City SC’s right of first refusal (ROFR) for Sargent in exchange for $500,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM) — $250,000 in 2026 GAM and $250,000 in 2027 GAM — and up to an additional $225,000 in conditional GAM if certain performance-based metrics are met.
He will be added to TFC’s roster, pending a medical and receipt of his work permit and International Transfer Certificate (ITC).
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Haaland, Rice, Semenyo: Who is your Premier League Player of the Year?
We’re fast approaching the business end of the 2025-26 Premier League season, and heading into March, everything is still very much to play for. The title race has coalesced into a two-team battle between leaders Arsenal and chasers Manchester City, while the push for Champions League soccer next season is neatly poised between several clubs — defending champions Liverpool are on the outside looking in, needing to close the gap to Aston Villa, Manchester United and Chelsea.
At the bottom end of the table, Wolves‘ fate appears certain (they are 17 points adrift from safety with just 10 games left) and, to a lesser extent, Burnley‘s too (eight points back with 11 to play), but the third and final relegation spot could go to any one of Nottingham Forest, Tottenham or Leeds United from here.
Equally hard to call is the race for the Premier League’s Player of the Year, with no clear-cut, stand-out candidate yet and plenty of stars making a clear case for the prize. So, with 10 matchdays left, we asked our regular Premier League reporters to make their picks for the top award, and why they are worthy.
Tom Hamilton: Sometimes it makes sense to go for the obvious option. If Manchester City win the league, then you could argue their standout player was one of Bernardo Silva (for his guile), Nico O’Reilly (for his adaptability and temperament) or new arrivals Gianluigi Donnarumma and Antoine Semenyo. But if you want the clear and obvious choice, then it’s Haaland, the man at the top of the scoring charts.
The Norway forward is in the middle of a relatively quiet spell for his club, but his 22 league goals have helped City to where they are. The big change for Haaland this year? He’s becoming more of an all-around contributor and his work rate is through the roof, to the extent that he has also notched seven assists, second only to Bruno Fernandes and one behind his best total of eight back in the 2022-23 campaign. That’s 29 goal contributions. Not bad.
Take City’s recent 2-1 win over Newcastle: Haaland had more touches of the ball than ever before (43), he made the third-most clearances for the team (after Rodri and Marc Guéhi) and won 12 duels, the most he has managed in a top-flight game. “He’s an incredible, generous player, so today is a performance, and I’ll never forget what Erling has done for us,” manager Pep Guardiola said afterward.
So be afraid, Premier League: Haaland is evolving into a more all-around player, and his goals and assists should see him deservedly crowned player of the season.
James Olley: With everything in the league still to play for, from title to top four to relegation, it’s too early to be conclusive about this, but Arsenal are top of the table at present, and Declan Rice has been the heartbeat of a team competing impressively on four fronts.
Only Martín Zubimendi (2,360) has played more outfield Premier League minutes for the Gunners than Rice’s 2,329, and Rice ranks second in the division for chances created (defined by Opta as key passes and assists) behind Bruno Fernandes. But he is about much more than stats. Rice drives the Arsenal team forward as he has developed into a complete midfielder, affecting the game in his box-to-box role while also proving an extremely efficient set piece taker.
If Arsenal are to keep the pace, it will largely be a result of Rice maintaining the level of form and influence he has shown so far.
Sam Tighe: When there’s no “obvious” pick like during this season, it can trick you into thinking there haven’t been any outstanding candidates. But as the group outlines, we’re hardly short of incredible individual campaigns, are we?
I’ll throw my support in for James’ pick of Rice. In a Premier League landscape where physicality, mobility and tenacity reign supreme, the 27-year-old is the division’s leading light. To put it into context, among Arsenal players, only Zubimendi (293.57 km) has covered more ground than Rice (285.48 km) this term, while among all Premier League central midfielders, only Sandro Tonali (33.37 km/h) has clocked a higher max speed than Rice (33.17 km/h).
Rice is fast and relentless; if the Gunners win the title, his frenzied, all-action style will symbolize their approach to doing so. Yet he also backs up those athletic traits with finesse where required. There are very few better corner takers in the sport right now, and there’s no doubt he’s steadily getting better at picking a pass through the lines.
Beth Lindop: It might seem preposterous to nominate a Liverpool player considering how abject they have been at times this season, but in terms of pure individual excellence, Szoboszlai would be my pick.
In the summer, there was a suggestion in some quarters that the Hungary international could lose his place in the team following the arrival of the £116 million playmaker, Florian Wirtz, from Bayer Leverkusen. However, Szoboszlai has this season established himself as the first name on Arne Slot’s team sheet, with his relentless running, tactical flexibility and, of course, his eye for a spectacular strike having kept the Reds’ campaign from descending into total disaster.
With 10 goals to his name already this season, Szoboszlai is well on course to surpass his career-best goal tally. He has also deputized admirably at right back amid Liverpool’s ongoing injury crisis, while his noticeable willingness to speak more frequently to the media is reflective of a player keen to assume more responsibility within the team and position himself as a future club captain.
Liverpool’s disappointing collective form means Szoboszlai will most likely miss out on individual accolades, but he should definitely be in the conversation.
Antoine Semenyo, FW, Manchester City (formerly at Bournemouth)
Mark Ogden: This is a tough one because there really hasn’t been an outstanding candidate so far this season, but my pick right now would be Semenyo. He was outstanding for Bournemouth during the first half of the season — his 10 Premier League goals kept Andoni Iraola on the tails of the top six for a while — but his performances meant it was inevitable he would move on in January, and he had a queue of heavyweight clubs wanting to sign him before he chose Manchester City.
Even though a deal was done and his release clause was triggered, Semenyo agreed to stay at Bournemouth for two extra games in January before making his move. No fuss, no drama: just a professional attitude and the perfect sign-off with a stoppage time winner against Spurs in his final game.
His form at City has been just as impressive, and he kept them in the title race during their midseason wobble with three goals in his first five games. So for performing at his top level for two clubs and showing professionalism throughout, I’m going for Semenyo.
Rob Dawson: There were genuine concerns about whether Brentford would be able to avoid relegation this season after losing manager Thomas Frank — as well as key players Bryan Mbeumo, Yoane Wissa, Christian Nørgaard and Mark Flekken — in one summer. Goals were expected to be a particular problem after both Mbeumo and Wissa — who combined for 39 in the Premier League last season — moved on.
Frank’s replacement, Keith Andrews, deserves a lot of credit for turning this season into a push for Europe instead of a battle against the drop. But so too does Igor Thiago. His 17 league goals have cushioned the blow of losing Mbeumo and Wissa. It’s a fantastic return for a 24-year-old striker in his first full campaign in England after last season was ruined by injury.
Scoring goals in the toughest league in the world is a big ask, and Thiago has done it regularly. Unfortunately for Brentford, he has done so well that the inevitable question will be: How long can they keep him before he follows Mbeumo and Wissa out of the door?
Gab Marcotti: To me, it’s pretty simple. Aston Villa might be on the slide, but they’re still third, well ahead of Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea. And this is after a summer when they didn’t really add anybody of note and lost their sporting director, Monchi, as well. A lot of that is down to Rogers: He has started every game and has usually been a difference-maker each time.
Rogers doesn’t have the greatest supporting cast — certainly not compared to the other suggestions who are sure to crop up — and I think it’s fair to say that, without him, Villa would be midtable at best. Only four players have more open play goal involvements (non-penalty goals and assists) than he does this season, and all of them play for bigger and better-resourced sides: Haaland, Fernandes, Semenyo and João Pedro.
Throw in the fact that he invented Cole Palmer‘s goal celebration — they were teammates at City, and Palmer “borrowed” it from him — and to me he’s the obvious choice.
Martín Zubimendi, MF, Arsenal
Julien Laurens: When Arsenal spent €60 million last summer to activate his release clause and recruit him from Real Sociedad, there were a lot of skeptics about his adaptation to the Premier League, his potential and even his talent, but there was also concern about his ability to take the Gunners to the next level. And yet, I think he has already proved all the doubters wrong.
It has not always been perfect, obviously — remember his mistake against Manchester United — but overall, he has been impressive. His ability to dictate the tempo of a game, his intelligence and his reading of the play have been outstanding. He has also scored five Premier League goals already, which is more than Szoboszlai, more than Rice and only three less than Rogers, who is a more advanced player, by the way. Some of his goals have also been key, such as the openers against Forest, Leeds and Sunderland, in keeping Arsenal on course for a potential first league title in over 20 years.
Zubimendi makes Rice and Jurriën Timber better, and there is still so much room for improvement from him as well. He has had such a great impact on the team that it’s worth celebrating.
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