🚨1️⃣6️⃣ Rodri has asked to wear number 16 at Barcelona during his conversations with Fermín López over recent days.
Fermín, set to switch to number 7 so Rodri will mantain his iconic 16. 🔵🔴
@_01Legion We brought out your Glory now you feel like you have arrived 👹 let's see how it's goes when you join Madrid squad and pattern of playing and I hope you don't end up like Eden hazard 😔 no one and no position is bigger than injury 👹
A Barcelona fan told me Odegaard can’t be considered an elite playmaker because playmakers should be judged by G/A.
So I asked, does that apply to Andres Iniesta too?
Iniesta had multiple seasons with just 1 goal, and several with 0 assists. Yet nobody questions his greatness.
Meanwhile Odegaard Arsenal numbers include:
18G/A
11G/A
7G/A
If G/A is your only metric, Odegaard comfortably clears most of Iniesta’s league seasons.
The truth is simple, football fans don’t use one standard. They use one standard for players they like and another for players they don’t.
Either judge every playmaker by G/A or admit G/A isn’t the only way to measure one.
Riccardo Calafiori has opened up on the pain of Italy missing the 2026 World Cup, admitting he could barely bring himself to watch the tournament. 🇮🇹
Italy failed to qualify after Norway topped their group before Bosnia eliminated them in the play offs, leaving the four time world champions out of a third successive World Cup.
Calafiori missed parts of the qualifying campaign through injury and admitted watching the tournament without Italy was difficult even with several of his Arsenal teammates involved.
🗣️ “I haven’t watched a lot.
Obviously I have so much pain in my tummy not to qualify. It hurt, how big it was.
Even if you don’t want to watch the World Cup, it’s that big that everywhere you go you still see it on TV, every match.
For a country with Italy’s history, missing three consecutive World Cups tells its own story. For Calafiori, the disappointment clearly still hurts.