@BarcaUniversal A talent like Yamal, so precocious and decisive, sparks envy in any rival fan. Valverde knows the feeling: a player with that kind of quality would be a treasure for any club, even one outside Barcelona.
🤣So, Liverpool once rejected a £40m bid from Arsenal for Luis Suarez and asked them to improve it.
Suarez had already agreed to personal terms with Arsenal. So Arsène Wenger instructed the board to add just £1. So, the second bid was £40,000,001 🤣🤣.
Liverpool owner John Henry received the bid and posted on Twitter: “What do you think they’re smoking over there at Emirates?”
🤣🤣 Arsenal fans have really suffered, man. Let them enjoy now, stop wishing them bad 🥹.
🚨Well respected journalist Guillem Balague speaking on Arsenal… you’re going to want to read this!
“Let me tell you what everyone is saying about Arsenal across Europe.
“Arsenal are not seen here as a team that has stalled. They are seen as a reference point. As the team many look at when trying to understand where elite football is heading.
“The game has shifted, it is no longer enough to dominate the ball or to attack well. The top sides now compete in, and often decide matches through, the four phases that make teams excellent: organised attack, attacking transition, defensive transition and structured defence. At the highest level, those phases matter more than possession percentages or aesthetic debates.
“This is where Arsenal stand out.
“Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal control space, time and another very important element, rhythm. They are aggressive without being chaotic, but can create chaos to find gaps, they are compact without being passive. Their pressing is prepared in detail, lose the ball and the reaction is immediate. The opponent is denied oxygen.
“Across Europe, this is understood as modern dominance.
“The key battleground today is transition. Not what you do with the ball, but what happens the instant you lose it. Defensive rhythm has overtaken offensive rhythm. Space is smaller and time is shorter. The teams that survive are the ones that arrive first, win duels, plus reset order before danger appears.
“Arsenal do this as well as anyone.
“In Europe, Arsenal are seen as a team that has absorbed Guardiola’s ideas and pushed them forward, they have strengthened them for a football world that now plays faster, presses harder, and it totally punishes hesitation.
“At the very moment Arsenal are being questioned at home, they are being analysed as a model.
“Progress is often uncomfortable and it rarely moves in straight lines. Arsenal don’t look lost. In my eyes they look early!”
When you realise Arsenal are about to win the league… and now you’ll have to hear their fanbase compare Saka to Messi, Gabriel to Maldini, Martinelli to Ronaldinho, Madueke to George Weah and Arteta to Pep.
🚨 Atlético Madrid are ready to take advantage of apparent discord between Cristian Romero and the hierarchy at Tottenham, following the Argentine's latest social media post appearing to criticise the club.
The La Liga giants were keen to sign the World Cup winner last summer, but could not fund a move but they will target a centre-back once again this year.
The Argentine is currently on £200,000-a-week.
(Source: Sun Sport)
🚨 Sandro Tonali offered to Arsenal by agent so #AFC explored but no contact with Newcastle United; nothing will happen this window. 25yo’s camp put idea to Andrea Berta so looked into as per any player of interest. #NUFC exit now impossible @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/Dj1rlbgFbH
🚨🇮🇹 Sandro Tonali’s agent Giuseppe Riso on valuation for the midfielder: “It’s not even being discussed now”.
“We will see around March about Sandro’s valuation but only if Newcastle decide to open doors”.
“He’s completely focused on #NUFC season now, it’s nonsense topic”.
🚨🚫 Sandro Tonali’s agent Giuseppe Riso: “We never had any conversation with Arsenal”.
“Newcastle were never gonna let Tonali leave in January. There’s absolutely nothing into it”.
“We didn’t even talk about it”, told Sky.
🔴 Donald Trump was a judge at a teen modeling contest in 1991. The contest featured girls as young as 14. Recently, The Guardian newspaper discovered that the contest was a front for millionaires to have sex with the girls.
🚨❤️💙 Official, confirmed. Paris Saint-Germain sign Dro from Barcelona on deal valid until June 2030.
Barça receive €8.2m fee, higher than €6m release clause.
This due to good club to club relationship between Barça and PSG, especially Nasser Al Khelaifi and Joan Laporta.