Luis Leañez

[CentreGoalHQ @centreGoalHQ]

🚨🎙️ DECO RESPONDS TO MBAPPÉ — AND THIS ONE WILL NOT GO DOWN WELL IN MADRID.

🎙️ Reporter: “Kylian Mbappé has basically said that he can score more goals than Raphinha and Dembélé. What do you make of that?”

🗣️ Deco: “Scoring goals is important, nobody is taking that away from Kylian. But football is not a competition where you count goals and declare yourself the best player.

If that is the argument, then fine — Mbappé can score goals. But what does he bring to a team when the goals aren’t coming?

Raphinha gives you intensity. Dembélé gives you creativity, pressing, unpredictability and work for the team. Lamine Yamal can control a game, create chances, beat players and make the players around him better.

Mbappé is an incredible goalscorer. But being a complete footballer is something completely different.

And if we’re being honest, Lamine Yamal is already miles ahead of Mbappé in terms of influence on the way his team plays. He doesn’t need to score two goals every match to dominate a game.

Mbappé said he can score more than Raphinha and Dembélé. Congratulations. But football isn’t athletics. You don’t win trophies simply because one player has more goals.

Look at what happened after he left Paris.

He spent years trying to win the Champions League with PSG. He leaves for Real Madrid because he wants to win it there — and then PSG go on to win the Champions League after his departure, while Madrid finished the 2025–26 season without a trophy.

So when Mbappé asks what he brings to a team, that’s exactly the question people should be asking him too.

He can score. Absolutely.

But can he control a match? Can he make everyone around him better? Can he dictate the rhythm? Can he consistently defend and press? Can he make his team function when he isn’t scoring?

Those are the questions that separate a great goalscorer from a complete footballer.

For me, Mbappé is nowhere near the complete player people have tried to make him out to be.

And if he thinks scoring more goals automatically makes him better than Dembélé, Raphinha or Yamal, then he has completely misunderstood what football is about.

[Som I Serem FCB @Somhiseremfcb]

Los entrenadores con más victorias con el Barça después de los primeros 80 partidos en la liga:

1- Flick (63)
2- Enrique (62)
3- Guardiola (61)

🥶Sin tener a Messi.

[𝑳𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐🦋 @lacolo_oficial]

Farmeando soltería premium hasta que aparezca el indicado

[TNT Sports Argentina @TNTSportsAR]

TODO SALIÓ PERFECTO, LEO 🫶 🇦🇷

[Soy Camarero @soycamarero]

El cliente NO siempre tiene la razón, tiene la razón quién tiene la razón y punto, dejen de normalizar la malcriadez y la mala educación simplemente porque están pagando por algo.

[Pranav Kannan @PranavKannan01]

Atletico selling Julian Alvarez to Barcelona is entirely their choice.

Sell him. Don't sell him. Ask for €200m if you want. He's your player and you're perfectly entitled to do what you think is best for your club.

But please, spare me the holier-than-thou act about "ethics", "professionalism" and Barcelona negotiating in bad faith.

Where was all this concern for good faith when Atletico had an agreement with Barca that would require them to pay €40m for Griezmann if he played 45+ minutes in 50% of the games he was available for?

Their solution?

Keep one of their best players on the bench and repeatedly bring him on around the 60th minute so those games wouldn't count towards the clause.

Everyone knew what was happening. Griezmann knew. Simeone knew. Barca knew. The entire football world knew.

And eventually Barca, who desperately needed the money at the time, settled for roughly half the original €40m fee.

Was it within Atletico's contractual rights? Sure.

Was it this wonderful display of "good faith" and sporting ethics that they suddenly seem so passionate about in 2026?

Come on.

Football clubs look after their own interests. Atletico did it then. Barcelona are doing it now. That's the game.

So keep Julian. Sell Julian. Send him to Arsenal. Do whatever you want.

Just drop the saint act while doing it.

You cannot spend years playing the transfer market with every trick available to you and then suddenly discover the moral high ground when the sword falls on the other foot.

#FCBarcelona #Barca #Atleti #JulianAlvarez #AtleticoMadrid

[Diego Basadre @debejota]

Cuando Dembelé forzó para salir, la AFE con David Aganzo al frente, se posicionó claramente de parte del jugador diciendo que "iban a intentar tomar cartas en el asunto". Ahora el caso de Julián Álvarez les parece "un caso complicado, tiene contrato y una cláusula de rescisión".

[tbr @soytbr]

Están dejando claro que los jugadores están muy por encima de su escudo.

Si a eso le sumas que a estas alturas piden respeto, te queda una escena de lo más pintoresca.

Señoras y señores, Atlético de Madrid.

[RepubliCaraquista ®© @RepubCaraquista]

Enrique Rojas soltando factos y diciendo verdades incómodas:

El venezolano es el fanático más ferviente del béisbol en “todo el continente”

¿Estás de acuerdo que somos más intensos que cualquier fanaticada en República Dominicana, Puerto Rico, México, EEUU u otro?

[Luis Leañez @Luiscocina]

@LegacySiu Troure

[Som I Serem FCB @Somhiseremfcb]

Casi.

[Isaiah @fcbfootballblog]

39 year old Messi to lift his second consecutive Cup in 2026 you heard it here first https://t.co/4e8fF0Q1wl

[Luis Leañez @Luiscocina]

@Elifbenad 154

[Luis Leañez @Luiscocina]

@miladreaamy 120

[Luis Leañez @Luiscocina]

@linadreaamy 6

[Luis Leañez @Luiscocina]

@shairnn 18

[Felipe Toro @felipetsanz]

Cinco días han pasado desde el terremoto, en el que han fallecido miles de venezolanos, y aún no se ha decretado duelo nacional.

Tras los bombardeos del 3 de enero, el decreto fue inmediato.

Solo hay duelo cuando el dolor es útil para el relato político.

[Cesar Moya @zuricht94]

Confirmen.

[Miguel García @miguel_garcia31]

Mi Papá como sobreviviente del terremoto de México en 1985, e ingeniero civil que trabajó en el metro de CDMX, siempre me decía esto: “no hay nada que destape mas la corrupción de un país, que un terremoto”.

Exactamente eso estamos viendo en Venezuela

[Nai @NaiSarcastica]

El progreso nos trajo la inmediatez de la nada: ahora podemos enviar un desprecio a mil kilómetros por hora, pero tardamos años en pedir perdón a la cara.