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一 |     FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried believed in utilitarianism and thought rules against lying or stealing inhibited his ability to maximize the greatest benefit for the most people, his former girlfriend and co-worker testified Wednesday at his federal fraud trial."He didn't think rules like 'don't lie' or 'don't steal' fit into that framework," Caroline Ellison, Bankman-Fried's on-again, off-again girlfriend, said.She said Bankman-Fried's belief caused her to accept behavior she recognized as wrong."I think it made me more willing to do things like lie or steal over time. When I started working at Alameda, I don't think I would have believed if you told me I would be sending false balance sheets or taking customer money," Ellison, who served as CEO of Alameda Research, said. "Over time it became something I was more comfortable with."Bankman-Fried faces seven counts of fraud, conspiracy and money laundering centered on his alleged use of customer deposits on the crypto trading platform FTX to cover losses at his hedge fund, Alameda Research, and to buy lavish real estate, among other personal expenses.On the witness stand for a second day Wednesday, Ellison walked the jury through Alameda balance sheets which, by October 2022, showed Bankman-Fried's private hedge fund owed FTX customers nearly $14 billion."We had a lot of risk on and we owed a lot of money to FTX customers," Ellison said. "We had no way to repay it."She said Bankman-Fried thought about trying to raise money from Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, or by selling shares in FTX, which would collapse in bankruptcy the following month, in November 2022."I was in a state of dread. I was thinking, worrying, imagining every day what would happen if people tried to withdraw too much money at one time," she said. "I was imagining all the FTX customers who we worked with who would get hurt by this."To shore up Alameda's precarious financial position Bankman-Fried told Ellison to repay Alameda's loans with money it borrowed surreptitiously from FTX customers, she testified Wednesday."He directed me to continue repaying Alameda's loans," Ellison said."How?" prosecutor Danielle Sassoon asked."By taking money from FTX customer funds," she replied.When Sassoon asked her if she knew it was wrong, Ellison replied, "Yeah I thought it was wrong," but continued to do it because "Sam told me to."By that point, Alameda had taken about $10 billion from FTX and Ellison said she worried its lender, Genesis, would find out."We had been borrowing increasing amounts of money from FTX customers and I didn't want Genesis to know that," Ellison said. "I didn't want Genesis or others to know that Alameda was borrowing a lot of money from FTX."Ellison said Bankman-Fried cautioned her against putting anything in writing, once telling her, "Anything we put on Slack should be something we're comfortable seeing in The New York Times."Ellison also described a "large bribe to Chinese government officials to get some of our trading accounts unlocked." Alameda had two trading accounts worth about a billion dollars on exchanges based in China, which were both frozen in 2021 as part of a Chinese government investigation into money laundering.It was a substantial amount of Alameda's trading capital at the time and Ellison accused Bankman-Fried of saying "that we should send the cryptocurrency transfers" equaling about $100 million.。    8月26日讯 距离夏窗关闭仅剩不到一周的时间，然而曼城和利物浦今夏引援迟缓，在这方面落后卫冕冠军阿森纳，The Athletic记者Jordan Campbell发文对这一情况进行了解读。

二 | 在亚马逊最新推出的瓜迪奥拉纪录片《美丽的执念》中，曼城主席穆巴拉克坦言，让老将多留一个赛季的决定让他们付出了代价。CEO索里亚诺则表示，球队的“综合质量指数”——该数据与夺冠概率息息相关——已下滑至156，落后利物浦和阿森纳。利物浦夏窗迄今为止仅签下雅凯和穆尼奥斯两名新援，但后腰和边后卫位置的短板显而易见，红军依然没有找到萨拉赫的接班人，也尚未对此进行任何实质性补强。在新帅马雷斯卡和伊劳拉麾下，球队经历“成长的烦恼”本在情理之中。但新赛季首轮的较量彻底暴露了两队在人员配置上的明显隐患，伊劳拉更是直言自己的阵容“太过单薄”。由于在关键引援上拖延至此，两名主帅只能在赛季进行中磨合，新援们只能以赛代练、边踢边学，无法花上几周时间去慢慢消化复杂的战术理念。这种做法即便算不上失职，也绝对是低效的。TA指出，自2002-03赛季英超设立夏窗以来，“BIG6”有20%的转会支出集中在窗口最后一周。

三 | 如果曼城和利物浦最终真的敲定重磅引援，那么今年夏天他们都将创下队史“最晚消费”纪录。此前这两家俱乐部在转会市场上向来都是早早敲定引援，通常7月初便“点击下单”完成“提货”，没有拉锯摩擦，极少压力焦虑。在“新战车”正式上路前，他们会留有数周时间来打磨这些“闪亮的拼图”。去年夏天，利物浦在6月便签下了弗林蓬、凯尔凯兹和维尔茨，7月又拿下埃基蒂克，唯一的例外是伊萨克。

四 | 相比之下，曼城的操作更是将“早”字体现得淋漓尽致。2017年是瓜迪奥拉对阵容进行全面大换血的一年，城市集团的智囊们精准剖析了那些常年多线夺冠球队的年龄结构，并迅速付诸行动：7月1日从本菲卡引进埃德森，同日从摩纳哥签下B席，7月17日从热刺引进凯尔·沃克，7月23日从皇马签下达尼洛，7月24日再从摩纳哥拿下本杰明·门迪，新阵容提前三周便全部就位。2018年，马赫雷斯在7月7日便加盟曼城。2019年，罗德里和坎塞洛分别在7月4日和8月7日前入队。2021年，曼城在7月1日前敲定哈兰德。去年夏天，艾特-努里、赖因德斯和谢尔基均在6月初完成签约。

五 | 纵观队史，曼城此前仅有两次在赛季开打后还在进行重磅夏窗引援：一次是2020年9月的鲁本·迪亚斯，另一次则是去年9月签下多纳鲁马。

六 | 时过境迁，曼城今年在世界杯期间1.16亿英镑签下埃利奥特·安德森，但后续的引援工作却进展缓慢。

七 | 事实上，他们直到最近才与里尔中场布阿迪达成协议，而这笔交易已经拖了整整一个夏天。切尔西甚至人为设定最后期限，逼迫曼城为恩佐支付1.2亿英镑。与此同时，曼城对水晶宫中场亚当·沃顿和伯恩茅斯中场斯科特的试探均遭拒绝，因此罗马中场科内也进入了他们的视野。

八 | 随着萨维尼奥和马尔穆什双双转投热刺，曼城还急需寻找替代者，帕尔梅拉斯边锋阿兰·埃利亚斯的转会已接近完成。这是体育总监维亚纳改变策略导致转会操作延迟吗？一位匿名接受采访的体育总监表示，外界并不完全理解“账上有钱”“能够花钱”以及“遵守史上最严苛的财务规定”这三者之间的巨大差异。如今，即便是豪门也必须“先卖后买”，而阿森纳则是个例外。自2022-23赛季跻身争冠行列以来，阿森纳尚未出售过任何一名一线队主力。然而，如果马丁内利最终被高价出售，那他们此前买入措利斯的操作就仅仅是为了提前填补马丁内利离队后的空缺罢了。而曼城在球员出售方面做得极其出色，回笼了近4亿镑资金。但等待球员出售完成后再进行引援的问题在于全世界都知道你有钱，这通常会导致被卖方狠宰一笔“豪门税”。曼城最新的纪录片为今夏的足坛格局提供了深刻的洞察，在这个夏窗，阿森纳成为了自上赛季初以来，英超前六球队中唯一没有更换主帅的俱乐部。曼城CEO索里亚诺坦言：“我们签下的球员都非常年轻，正处于一个全新周期的起点。而阿森纳引进的球员年龄偏大，平均年龄达到27岁。阿森纳追求的是即战力，而我们选择投资年轻球员。这是我们的选择，也是我们甘愿承担的风险。”阿森纳显然不愿冒这样的风险，他们敏锐地察觉到竞争对手们正处于动荡的过渡期，需要时间重建，而这正是枪手早已规划好的发力时刻。

九 | 2019年底阿尔特塔接手球队时，正值曼城与利物浦双雄争霸的鼎盛时期。于是阿森纳制定了一个五年计划，预测双雄统治期自然衰退的节点，2023年至2027年就被枪手高层锁定为球队冲击巅峰的黄金窗口。

十 | 阿森纳如今已具备冠军底蕴，正是乘势而上的大好机会。从纽卡签下吉马良斯，从维拉签下孔萨，这两笔转会充分彰显了球队“赢在当下”的决心。阵容更替规划、投资潜力球员、降低平均年龄……这些理念几乎成了现代足球战略的“圣经”。然而，对于顶级豪门而言，维持巅峰地位的压力始终存在，这就需要那些“来之能战”的成熟型球员。短短几年间，阿森纳从英超最年轻的球队变成了平均年龄最大的球队之一，但他们换来了宝贵的稳定性，这是千金难求的。阿森纳或许会重蹈曼城去年的覆辙，面临核心阵容保持时间过长的问题，衰退期也许会在明后年悄然降临。但如果签下正处于当打之年且证明过自己的冠军拼图能够带来一座座沉甸甸的奖杯，那绝对比盲目押注潜力而错失霸权要明智得多。

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