In news it is safe to say The Mill didn’t see coming this morning, Fabinho’s £40m move from Liverpool to Al-Ittihad has apparently been thrown into jeopardy by rules in Saudi Arabia banning “dangerous and aggressive dogs” from the nation. The Brazilian has two French bulldogs and, although they look about as threatening as a couple of sticks of candy floss, they may be categorised as “dangerous” owing to poor branding when names were being handed out to fashionable pets.
The Mill would have liked Fabinho – and other footballers – to have been put off moving to Saudi Arabia because of other hardline rules there but in the Brazilian’s case it seems the line could be drawn at discriminating against cute dogs. The developments are being watched keenly in Bavaria where, it says here, Bayern Munich are ready to give the midfielder – and his fluffy friends – a new home.
