Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
Real Madrid hasn't won a major trophy in two years. It just became the highest-earning sports team in history anyway, beating the Dallas Cowboys. The man behind it isn't a coach or a player. He builds skyscrapers for a living, and he doesn't even own the club.
His name is Florentino Pérez, and he runs the biggest construction company in Spain, one of the largest anywhere. Real Madrid belongs to its fans, about 90,000 of them, who vote every few years on who runs the place. This Sunday they picked him again. It was the first time in twenty years that anyone even ran against him, and he'll be in charge until 2030.
His smartest move had nothing to do with football. When he took over in 2000, the club was buried under close to 300 million euros of debt. So he talked the city into letting developers build office towers on Real Madrid's old training ground. The land sold, four skyscrapers went up that still stand on the Madrid skyline, and the debt was gone almost overnight, with plenty left to start buying the best players alive. (Years later the EU looked into whether the city had overpaid on purpose to bail the club out. Nothing came of it.)
Then came the players fans still argue about, one global superstar nearly every summer: Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Beckham. Pérez never pretended it was only about football. When his marketing chief heard Manchester United would sell Beckham for about 35 million euros, he called Pérez yelling that it was a steal. United had priced a footballer. Madrid was buying a worldwide brand it figured was worth ten times more in shirts and sponsorship deals. Within a year of signing him, Madrid had passed United as the most profitable club on earth. Pérez wanted his club to run like Ferrari, a name so strong the money keeps coming whether you win on Saturday or not.
The new stadium is the same idea in concrete. He spent 1.3 billion euros rebuilding it over one thing that bugged him: a football ground hosts maybe 25 games a year and sits dark the other 340 days. His version barely sleeps. It hosts concerts and tours now, and last November it held an American football game. The pitch even slides underground so the place can be rented out without wrecking the grass. Running flat out, it's built to bring in close to a million euros a day.
He has still won plenty on the field, seven Champions League titles across his two spells, from Zidane's famous volley in 2002 to the trophies in 2022 and 2024. But the number that explains him best is simpler. Last year, with nothing big to show for it on the pitch, the club's value still climbed 41 percent. So this week 90,000 fans gave him four more years, and he still doesn't own a single share of the club he turned into the highest-earning team in world sport.
Unlike Barcelona, Real Madrid are actually looking for trophies, that’s all they’ve ever cared about. If they win or lose to Barca, doesn’t matter to them as long as they win a trophy.
They are strengthening the defence because that’s where’s caused serious issues, especially with Injuries.
Unlike Barca that’s obsessed with Real Madrid just like you currently are, Real Madrid wants to win trophies.
You’ve talked about Real Madrid more than you’ve talked about your league win.
Sir @JDMahama, I would be deeply honored to cook with you someday. Over a meal, I’d love for us to explore the future of Ghanaian food, culture and how we can showcase our cuisine to the world . Thank you 🇬🇭
I’ll tell you something for free.
At the highest level of football, there are certain things you cannot fluke.
Glasner won the Europa League with Frankfurt, this was a time big teams use to drop from UCL into Europa, so he had to face teams like Barcelona on the way. Still, he won the Europa.
He came to Palace, with a small budget compared to the other English teams, he won the FA Cup, the first trophy in Palace’s history, he beat Man City to win it. You can’t fluke that, he’s a winner.
He qualified them to Europa by winning the FA Cup , but they dropped to Conference league because of the multi-club ownership saga with Textor. Despite the setback, he has just won an European trophy for a South London club.
In 2 years, he has changed a club’s history and won 3 trophies for them if we add the community shield. He did this while losing big players, lost his captain January, lost his best player to Arsenal in summer, lost Olise.
This guy is a winner.
Pep Guardiola is not leaving Man City, he’ll no longer be their manager but he will take up a role as a Global Ambassador for the City Football Group giving technical advice to the clubs in the group.
Can this wicked man just leave us alone 🤬
If you didn’t show your self as an @Arsenal fan or a sympathizer when they were been mocked and called names like bottler’s and a Netflix show you shouldn’t be posting their glory as if you took the heat with them.
Jamie Carragher after PSV loss.
"Liverpool isn't a sacking club. The manager [Arne Slot] is the king. You stick with the manager. I'm angry with the players. I don't like criticizing them. Van Dijk is a normal CB like I was. Mo Salah's legs are gone."
The stuff some Madrid fans are saying about Xabi Alonso is insane. It shows why a system manager will always struggle here, our fans just don’t have the patience to sit through the early months.
Look at PSG and Bayern, two of the best teams right now. PSG were almost out of the UCL group stage last season, and people were calling Kompany a fraud for not winning big games but look at both the teams now.
And then they say Xabi doesn’t win big games, as if he didn’t just beat Juve and Barça a few days ago. A fanbase that conceded a dozen goals to Barça last season can’t even handle a 1-0 loss without calling Xabi a fraud who finally gave us a clasico win.
How can y’all not trust the managerial capabilities of a guy that went UNBEATEN in Germany with Leverkusen ffs?