🚨Thierry Henry on Portugal’s elimination from the FIFA World Cup:
🗣️ “I’m going to say something that a lot of Portuguese supporters probably don’t want to hear.
This Portugal team has massively underperformed.
Not because they lacked talent, but because too many of their biggest players never reached the level everyone expected.
Bruno Fernandes has been dreadful by his own standards throughout this World Cup. The creativity, the leadership, the decisive moments we’ve seen for years simply weren’t there. Then you look at Vitinha and João Neves—fresh from winning the Champions League with PSG. Two midfielders who dominated Europe. Yet in this tournament, they’ve been almost invisible. Missing in action when Portugal needed control, composure and personality.
And then there is Cristiano Ronaldo.
People will blame him because that’s the easy thing to do.
I won’t.
Because if you decide to start Cristiano, then you have to build situations that suit him. Instead, Portugal kept circulating possession without purpose. They had one of the greatest penalty-box finishers football has ever seen, yet they hardly gave him the service he lives on. That’s not on Ronaldo. That’s on the team around him.
Spain deserve enormous credit.
They played with a clear identity from the first minute until the last. Every player knew his role. Every movement had purpose. Portugal, on the other hand, looked like eleven talented footballers trying to solve the game individually rather than collectively.
That’s why Spain are still in this World Cup.
And that’s why Portugal are going home.
Not because they had worse players…
But because they never played like a better team.”
🚨🎙️Toni Kroos on Portugal's national team:
"First of all, congratulations to Portugal. If the objective was to move on from Cristiano Ronaldo, then you've achieved it."
"For years, people kept saying Cristiano was the reason Portugal struggled. Others claimed the team would be better without him and that there was no difference between Portugal with or without Cristiano. Fine—now the pressure is on them to prove it."
"From this moment, people will judge this team by what they achieve after Cristiano. If they truly believed he was holding them back, then they must go on to win the next European Championship and compete seriously for the next World Cups. That's how football works—you have to back up your words with results."
"We all know Portugal's history before Cristiano Ronaldo, and we all know what he helped the national team achieve during his era. He played a huge role in changing the mentality of Portuguese football and helped deliver the biggest trophies in the country's history."
"What disappointed me wasn't the result—it was the attitude. Throughout the tournament, it often looked like the unity and fight that made this team successful in the past just wasn't there. Everyone watching could see that."
"Now there's no more debate about Cristiano. The spotlight is fully on this generation of players. They'll be judged by what they win from here on, not by what they say. Football always remembers trophies, not excuses."
Protesters briefly disrupted MACC Chief Commissioner Azam Baki during his speech at an event at PWTC, Kuala Lumpur, this afternoon.
Security personnel quickly removed the protesters from the venue, as Azam continued his keynote address on integrity.
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Gary Neville after Man Utd lost to City in 2025:
"Amorim hasn't got the right players that fit this system. A manager has to adapt"
GN in 2026:
"Yoro, Martinez, Maguire, Shaw. They weren't suited to a back 4. They're suited actually to play in a back 3"
Neville is one of Manchester United’s problems!
🗣️ Bruno Fernandes: "I will never forget where I was when I was given the opportunity to come here four years ago. I was standing in the closet in our bedroom in Lisbon. My agent had rang me up around 10 o’clock at night, and my daughter was only three years old at the time, so that was bedtime for us. I went into the little closet to be quiet. I always told my agent, during my whole career, “I never want to hear about any transfer until it’s 100% real. I don’t want to be distracted unless there is an offer.”
So I knew if he was calling me at that hour, something was going on.
I shut the door and I said, “Miguel? Yeah?”
He said, “Are you ready to hear the news?”
I said, “About what?”
“About going.”
“Going where? Spurs?”
“United.”
“Are you joking?”
“No, no. I’m serious. United. It’s done. It’s just on you now. What do you want to do?”
I didn’t even reply. I started fighting back tears. But you know the feeling when you are trying to hold it in, so the other person doesn’t realise you’re crying, and you can’t even speak?
He said, “Bruno? Bruno? Hello?”
At that moment, my wife, Ana, comes looking for me in the bedroom.
“Bruno??? Bruno???”
She opens the door.
“What’s going on? Why are you in the closet?”
I said, “It’s Miguel. He just called. He’s saying United want me.”
She said, “Wait ...... Are you crying?”
I told her, “I don’t know! I think it’s happiness!”
man united is the worst run club in football right now. good job @gnev2, this is what you wanted. dysfunction is the dna. fans should boycott until the dinosaurs are gone.