Chelsea Football Club is delighted to announce the appointment of Xabi Alonso as Manager of the Men’s Team.
The Spaniard will begin his role on July 1, 2026, having agreed a four-year contract at Stamford Bridge.
Welcome to Chelsea, Xabi!
🚨 Wesley Sneijder fires shots at FC Barcelona fans after they mocked Cristiano Ronaldo with Lamine Yamal’s 3 league titles.
🗣️ “Barcelona fans comparing a 18 year old to Cristiano Ronaldo because of league titles tells you everything about how far standards have dropped at that club.
This is a club that hasn’t won the UEFA Champions League in almost 10 years, gets embarrassed in Europe every other season, then celebrates league titles like they’ve conquered football again.
Cristiano Ronaldo dominated England, Spain, Italy and Europe for nearly 20 years. Barcelona fans should worry more about surviving knockout rounds before trying to troll one of the greatest players ever.” 😳🔥
🚨🎙️ Gareth Bale on Luis Enrique subbing off Dembélé in the 66th minute against Bayern Munich
“When I saw that moment of Luis Enrique subbing off Ousmane Dembélé in the 66th minute of a massive Champions League night, I was shocked but the lad’s reaction shocked me further….he simply urges his teammates to keep up the pressure, walks straight over, shakes his manager’s hand, no words, no face, no drama, and sits down like it’s the most normal thing in the world.
That’s why he’s absolutely flying under Enrique right now. He’s bought into the system completely — tracks back, presses, puts the team first, perfect display of humility, no ego. No wonder he’s Ballon d’Or standard and thriving.
At Real Madrid it was exactly the same: no player was ever bigger than the club, no matter how many goals you’d scored, how many titles you’d won, or what the fans chanted. You accepted the gaffer’s decision because the badge came first.
These days too many lads have this entitlement mentality , I am pretty sure I can make a list naming names of these players — sub them off and they sulk, they storm off, they make it about themselves. Football’s changed, but the ones who still get it, like Dembélé under Enrique, are the ones who end up winning everything.”
🚨Toni Kroos ha subido hace 20 minutos esta historia a Instagram.
Es su último partido y se ve abrazado a Vinícius, Bellingham, Valverde, Mendy y Camavinga, además de Modric y Ancelotti.
Creo que lo ha dicho todo sin decir nada.
🚨 Luis Enrique: “I've never seen such an intensity and physical level. We have to congratulate everyone”.
“We deserved to win, we deserved to draw and we deserved to lose today. It was a fantastic game”.
Le han caído más partidos de sanción a un futbolista por decir una verdad como un templo que a uno que agredió a un compañero de profesión por la espalda golpeándole en la nuca sin que pudiese defenderse. La Liga
Vincent Kompany sobre lo sucedido en el Benfica-Madrid:
"La reacción de Vini no puede ser falseada. Fue una reacción emocional"
"También en el estadio se puede ver que había gente haciendo el gesto del mono, está en el video"
"Para mí, lo que sucedió después del partido es aún peor. Mourinho básicamente atacó el carácter de Vini, al usar su celebración para desacreditar lo que estaba haciendo"
"Además, mencionó a Eusébio. Dijo que el Benfica no puede ser racista porque su mejor jugador fue Eusébio. ¿Sabe lo que tuvieron que pasar los jugadores negros en los años 60? ¿Estuvo allí para acompañar a Eusébio en cada partido fuera de casa y ver lo que pasó?"
"Nunca he oído a nadie decir nada malo de José. Entiendo cómo es, entiendo que lucha por su club. Sé que en el fondo es una buena persona. No necesito juzgarlo por eso. Pero también sé lo que he oído. Y cometió un error. Ojalá no vuelva a ocurrir y podamos seguir adelante juntos"
🚨 Thierry Henry’s POWERFUL WORDS:
“I can relate to what Vini Jr. is going through. It happened so many times to me, I talked about it so many times after the games.
I’ve been accused of looking for excuses after games when it happened to me.
So at times you feel lonely because it’s your word against his word. And because we don’t know what Prestianni said, as he was very ‘courageous’, he put his shirt over his mouth to make sure we don’t see what he said, so clearly you already look suspicious, because you didn’t want people to see or read what you said.
Then, the reaction of Vini Jr. is telling me that something not right happened.
Vini can tell his side of the story and Prestianni I’m sure will NOT tell us what he actually said because I saw Mbappé confronting him and he told Kylian ‘I didn’t say anything’, well, you must’ve said something at the very least.
Sometimes you feel lonely, you don’t know what to do anymore, cause I’ve been in this situation, Vini has been in this situation, and so many players too.
We’re in 2026 and still after a game like that where we’re supposed to talk about his brilliant goal.
You shouldn’t be having to deal with the ref telling you to not go to the corner flag cause that will incite the crowd… it’s a CORNER, I cannot take my corner? I can’t go there to take a corner just because people are thinking whatever they’re thinking. What do you mean he can’t take a corner?
I can relate, and I assure you when that happens, you don’t know what to do anymore. He tried to walk out one time, then another time he tried kick someone because he had enough, now he went to see the referee to tell him what happened.
I’ve been there, the referee also told me I can’t do anything about it, and as you can see they couldn’t do anything about it.
Let’s see how big of a man Prestianni is, tell us what you said, you must’ve said something because you can’t go and tell Mbappé after ‘I didn’t say anything’, what do you mean you didn’t say anything? So you cover your nose for what you have a cold?” @CBSSports
@cule773405@realemadrid5@postunited Época tú lo has dicho, que aún así está manchada por corrupción y aún así sigues diciendo que somos segundones, nosotros durante toda la historia hemos sido un equipo ganador, no por épocas.. ahí se demuestra cuál es el club más grande de toda la historia.
En el mundo alucinan.
Ayer, un comentarista angloparlante no se podía creer que solo pusieran un ángulo desde la sala VAR. Encima, el peor de todos, como si quisieran mostrarle algo que no pasó.
Somos un meme de competición.
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Carvajal le da la mano a Lamine y se va. El que SIGUE hablando es Lamine. Es ahí, que Carvajal le dice lo de hablar demasiado.
Si no es por la gente que estuvo en el estadio, esto no lo ve nadie.
Viva el “periodismo” español.
🖥️💥 Ataque de locura del VAR en el Real Madrid - Barcelona.
👉🏻 Lamine Yamal mete el pie, sin llegar al balón en ningún momento, por delante del remate de Vinicius.
❌ 𝗘𝗦 𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗜.
▪️ Incomprensible intervención del VAR y falta de personalidad de Soto Grado.
🚨 THIBAUT COURTOIS (Vinícius): "A veces se es injusto con Vinícius. No es fácil, cuando llegó con 18 años, incluso muchos de vosotros (periodistas) os habéis burlado de él. Es normal que alguna vez tenga alguna pequeña respuesta (...) Le han buscado desde el principio y al final ha desquiciado al rival. Su entrada al campo nos ha ayudado a generar más peligro. Que ellos le busquen a él nos ha ayudado a marcar ese gol. Es un buen chico".