This one's outside GoalPoles' football beat, but here's a quick take:
The Los Angeles Lakers' stunning $12.5bn (£9.3bn) sale — a record for a North American sports franchise — was reportedly wrapped up in the space of a single weekend, according to BBC News, catching much of the NBA world off guard.
While GoalPoles focuses on football coverage, it's worth noting the scale of this deal underlines just how rapidly major sports franchise valuations continue to climb globally, with basketball's biggest name changing hands in a deal that stunned fans and insiders alike, per the BBC report. Full financial details of the agreement have not been extensively broken down in the source, but the speed of the transaction — reportedly finalised over a matter of days rather than the usual protracted negotiations seen in franchise sales — is being treated as the standout element of the story.