Career Free-Kick Goals:
✅ Lionel Messi: 71
✅ Cristiano Ronaldo: 66
✅ Neymar Jr: 26
✅ Kevin De Bruyne: 12
✅ Bruno Fernandes: 11
❌ Declan Rice: 2 🤣🤣🤣
This myth that Declan Rice is a free-kick specialist needs to end today.
Even when adjusting for inflation, Pep Guardiola still outspends Sir Alex Ferguson by £40m per season on players.
During his historic tenure from 1992 to 2013, Sir Alex actually ranked as only the 4th highest spender in the Premier League, trailing behind Chelsea, Manchester City, and Liverpool. Despite this, he comfortably outperformed his rivals. This financial efficiency was even more pronounced in the EPL in the 1990s "his most dominant era" where he captured 14 trophies while Manchester United ranked a mere 10th in league spending.
By contrast, Pep's Manchester City ranks as the 2nd highest spender in the league during his tenure, situated just behind Chelsea, do we think Pep Guardiola could have won his 20 trophies if he had only spent the same as Wolves or Everton in the last decade?
🚨 Maguire on his altercation with Gabriel:
“I’m not a bully. But if you have that reputation for being physical, you have to be ready when it comes back at you. That’s football.”
Do you know that English teams have played 11 Champions League finals where they scored first, and they went on to win 9 of them? The only two times they lost were Arsenal in 2006 and 2026. 😂😭🏆❌
Tonight’s commentary tried to convince us Declan Rice’s 5-yard sideways passes were elite, Arsenal were thrilling & the losers deserved the trophy, but eyes don’t lie - it was the polar opposite. Shameless from McCoist & co.
lets give a massive shoutout to the referee tonight
-didnt let saka take the corner after he was wasting time
-gave mosquera yellow card for time wasting
-didnt give madueke pen for a dive
-gave rice and arteta yellow card for CRYING
MASTERCLASS PERFORMANCE
How has Declan Rice yet again come away with so much credit despite playing central midfield in a team that couldn't string any passes together for two full hours of football?
🚨 Jamie Carragher Slams Arsenal After Final Defeat to PSG
🗣️: "That might be the worst performance I've ever seen in a Champions League final. Honestly, Arsenal played like Getafe for 120 minutes. Ninety minutes of sitting deep, thirty more minutes of sitting even deeper.
I kept waiting for them to show some ambition, some courage, but the plan seemed obvious: survive, survive, survive and hope David Raya wins the penalty shootout.
This is the Champions League final, not a relegation battle. You can't spend two hours defending your own box and expect people to praise it as tactical genius.
Mikel Arteta got it completely wrong. PSG looked like they wanted to win the trophy; Arsenal looked like they were trying not to lose it. If your entire game plan is to get to penalties because you've got a good goalkeeper, you've already handed control of the final to the opposition.
For me, that's one of the poorest final performances this competition has ever seen."
🗣️ “They scored a lucky action (goal)... after that it was pressure for them!”
PSG manager Luis Enrique spittin nothing but facts about Arsenal tonight…