🚨 José Mourinho: “There’s something that smells STRANGE to me”.
“Usually the referee's name is known 24 hours before the game in La Liga. So, why, for us, we always hear the name 3 weeks before?”.
🚨 José Mourinho on Villarreal game and the referee: “No comment. I will say something only to stop your questions”.
“Please, watch only the FIRST PART of the match vs Villarreal. Even one minute”. 👀
🚨🟡⚫️ Joey Veerman to Borussia Dortmund, here we go! Deal agreed for €21.5m from PSV Eindhoven.
Five year contract and medical booked for the midfielder who’s set to leave PSV.
Veerman will undergo his medical tomorrow, as @RikElfrink reports.
🚨𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: UEFA wants FIFA President Infantino to step down immediately.
If he does not resign, UEFA will initiate a vote of confidence against Infantino to have him removed from office. ⌛️
The match has been halted for about 10 minutes following the goal scored by Talisca due to smoke from flares; the entire pitch is blanketed in smoke. 🇵🇱🚭
🗣️Luis De La Fuente:"We’re on a par with France"
"Belgium are a tough side too, but as you saw, it was actually a match we could have won more comfortably. Mikel Merino and the others… We’ve got some brilliant players."
🚨Jadon Sancho came in from Dortmund for £73 million, hyped as the next big thing, an elite winger ready to light up Old Trafford. Instead, what we got was a case study in how not to run a football club.
Whose genius idea was it in the recruitment team to throw £250k a week at a 21-year-old? Honestly, that decision alone deserves its own documentary under the title 'How to Burn Money at Manchester United.'
Now, is it all Sancho’s fault? YES. Ten Hag literally gave him three months off to go rebuild himself, not just physically but mentally, sending him away to train on his own and come back stronger. That’s basically a manager saying: “Take a gap year, son, we’ll still pay you.” And yet, after all that special treatment, what did United get in return? A handful of half-decent performances and then a public fallout with the manager.
He goes back to Dortmund on loan, shows flashes and suddenly people act like he’s reborn. Spoiler, he wasn’t.
Chelsea then loan him, realise after a season they’d rather pay £5 million just to send him back than keep him. Think about that, they literally paid money to not have Jadon Sancho. He then this past season went on loan to Aston Villa, where he managed just 1,672 minutes across 39 games. In all competitions: 1 goal and 3 assists.
So is he the worst signing in United’s history? The debate’s open, but when you add together the transfer fee, the ridiculous wages, the zero resale value, and the circus that’s followed him, it’s hard to think of another deal that sums up United’s clown recruitment better over the past few years.
Glad we’re finally free from him. I wish him all the best, but he’ll always be remembered at Manchester United as a failure in his career and nothing else.
#MUFC
🚨⚪️⚫️ Lucas Verissimo has now signed a three year deal plus one year option to become new Santos player.
$4m move confirmed, with Al Wakrah and Al Duhail signing contract termination.
Palmeiras, Internacional, Corinthians and Atletico MG tried but Santos won the race.
🚨🔵 Pep Guardiola on Xabi Alonso’s job: “Barcelona and Real Madrid are the toughest clubs to be a manager, the most difficult ones for pressure and environment”.
“I have sympathy, because we were together two years - an incredible experience being with him”.
🚨🇧🇷 Neymar on his future with contract at Santos due to expire in few weeks after he saved the club from relegation…
“I do not know, really. I don’t know”.
“I need some days now, I need to rest, disconnect then decide my future”.
“For sure my PRIORITY always goes to Santos”.
🔴⚪️ Arteta when asked about Arsenal being PL favorites: “The only thing that I embrace is when I see team, energy, temperature, commitment, quality that they can deliver…
…that gives me that conviction that we can go all the way but that's it, that's just a feeling”.
🚨⚪️ EXCL: Tottenham make contact to explore Randal Kolo Muani deal conditions after interest revealed overnight.
Spurs are informed of Kolo available + serious interest but depends on fee and numbers as PSG want obligation to buy guaranteed.
🚨🔴⚪️ Lutsharel Geertruida to Sunderland, here we go! Medical completed right now for the centre back joining from Leipzig.
€2.5m loan fee, €23m buy option clause and deal sealed with #SAFC.