The Mill is always encouraged to see players planning for their post-playing career. For those not going to the World Cup, the summer can be a time for securing coaching qualifications, trying their hand at media work or, in the case of Lucas Leiva, learning to lasso cows while on horseback. The Liverpool midfielder has published photos of his endeavours on some social media thing, and the Daily Mail has lifted them, added a few more pictures and tagged on nearly 100 words, producing the perfect Daily Mail article, give or take several photos of some woman “flaunting” her legs as she hangs up the washing in her back garden.
The improvement of Joe Allen, then, has convinced Lucas it is time to consider becoming a cowboy, though it remains to be seen whether the player has the resolve to go the whole hog and complete his training by learning to chew tobacco, deliberately spread smallpox and gun down people whose names sound like a list of recent Liverpool cast-offs (Geronimo, Sitting Downing, Crazy Horse and so on).
Mauricio Pochettino wants to make Bayern Munich’s 18-year-old American winger Julian Green his first Tottenham recruit. Real Madrid’s interest in Sergio Agüero and Paul Pogba has cooled..
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