🚨🎙️ Aurélien Tchouaméni on reports linking him with Manchester United:
“I’m fully focused on winning the World Cup with France, then helping Real Madrid get back on our feet and achieve what we want next season. I love it there, but if I were ever to make a move, Manchester United would be the only club I’d consider leaving for. Unfortunately, they won’t come for me until I’m 30 anyway.“
🚨 Tchouameni on reports linking him with Manchester United:
“Real Madrid is Real Madrid. I respect the club. But if one day they decide I have to leave, I would want a club where the pressure still means something.
Case showed all of us that Manchester United supporters don’t ask where you came from. They ask what you’re willing to give.
At Manchester United, if you fix the midfield, they don’t just remember you. They make you one of their own.”
🚨💣 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄: Talks between Manchester United and Real Madrid over Aurélien Tchouaméni are progressing. Michael Carrick views him as the missing piece in midfield to elevate his new-look side.
Tchouaméni is open to joining Manchester United and playing under Carrick.
🚨 Zinedine Zidane on Roberto Martínez substituting Cristiano Ronaldo against Croatia:
🗣️ Reporter:
“Do you think Roberto Martínez made the right decision by substituting Cristiano Ronaldo?”
🗣️ Zidane:
“I think we’re being disrespectful to the coach by constantly analysing that decision. Roberto Martínez is the manager. He’s the one who sees the players every day, understands the game from the touchline, and carries the responsibility for every result. We can debate football, but we cannot question his authority to make decisions. He’s the leader of that team, and every substitution he makes is for what he believes gives Portugal the best chance to win.”
🚨New: Sergio Aguero questions FIFA’s integrity, alleging Ronaldo and Portugal are receiving preferential treatment after Croatia’s controversial late disallowed goal:
🗣️ “I have seen everything in football but what FIFA and Mr. Infantino are doing this World Cup is not football. It is a scripted movie to make sure Cristiano Ronaldo gets his happy ending. They are trying to rig the tournament for Portugal, and everyone can see it. The decisions are too convenient, too one-sided. This is a disgrace for the game.
Look at the pattern. It is not one game. It is every game.
Against Colombia, a stoppage-time header from Davinson Sánchez was ruled out after VAR review. The call was that his toe was fractionally ahead, by a millimeter, a toenail, whatever you want to call it. These are the tightest of margins, yet the technology ruled it out.
Against DR Congo, Bernardo Silva with a studs-up challenge somehow stays yellow instead of a Red Card. We’ve seen tackles like that become red cards before. Yet somehow this one stays yellow. Again, Portugal walk away smiling.
Against Uzbekistan, another goal erased after VAR searched through the build-up for a foul. Then against Croatia, football reached its breaking point.
A soft penalty at one end, a last-minute equalizer erased at the other because a microscopic touch triggers an offside. If you wrote this script for a movie, people would call it unrealistic.
First, the penalty for Portugal after a Rafael Leão cross or corner. That was a soft penalty and should not have been given, Coach Zlatko Dalić and the players say it was soft, selective, ‘If roles reversed, maybe no penalty.’ Modrić criticized it. Croatian media called the refereeing ‘deplorable’ and ‘very bad.
Then the killer blow — the one that shows everything. Portugal leads 2-1 from Gonçalo Ramos’ header in the 90+4th minute. In the 13th minute of stoppage time, Croatia equalizes. Joško Gvardiol taps it in. Celebrations everywhere. Then VAR and the sensors come in. Connected Ball Technology, those IMU sensors in the Adidas Trionda ball, detects a tiny touch, maybe just hair, maybe head, by Igor Matanović on Perišić’s cross before it reaches Mario Pašalić, who was offside, and then Gvardiol. Renato Veiga’s touch? Not deliberate. They reset the phase, disallow the goal. Portugal wins 2-1 and advances. Croatia is out. Game rigged
The Croatia decision was the breaking point. Imagine fighting for 90 minutes, thinking you’ve earned extra time, only for a sensor and a frame-by-frame replay to tell millions of people that what they celebrated never happened. Technically correct? Maybe. But football isn’t just about millimeters, it’s about consistency. Fans want the same standard applied to everyone.
If FIFA wants people to trust the competition, then transparency has to be louder than the controversy”