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If they were being honest, the whole
situation was a little absurd. One of them, John W. Henry, had just
signed off on his English soccer team paying more than $50 million to an
Italian soccer team belonging to the other, James Pallotta, for a
midfielder from Egypt. At 25, that midfielder was younger than either of
their careers in finance.
But ever since Henry and Pallotta moved
from the hedge-fund world to American sports to the wild scene of
European soccer ownership, their tolerance for the absurd had steadily
increased. So here they were, the owners of Liverpool and AS Roma,
debriefing on the eye-wateringly expensive transfer of Mohamed Salah.
