🍽️ Mbappé: “My dream dinner? Cristiano Ronaldo, my idol who now I consider as a friend”.
“Michael Jordan, he’s an inspiration, I’d love to talk to him again about his career”.
Since 2016, every Premier League “Big 6” club has reached a Champions League final… except Manchester United 😭
Since that same 2016, Barcelona haven’t played a Champions league final 😭
That’s an entire generation of footballers😭😭😭
🚨 Jurgen Klopp on whether he misses his rivalry with Pep Guardiola after taking charge of Germany:
“I had my first proper sessions with Germany and afterwards I was sitting there thinking, ‘Okay… this is different.’
Then somebody asked me if there was anything I missed about club football.
Unfortunately, I thought of Pep. [laughs]
I spent years trying to get away from this man. You win 10 games, you look at the table and City have won 11. You get 97 points and somehow you’re 2nd. Before playing them you spend 3 days thinking about what Pep might change, then the game starts and he’s put a midfielder at left back for some reason.
It was exhausting.
But I miss it.
Because we believed in football differently. Pep wanted control. I wanted the game to become something nobody could control. He wanted 25 passes before hurting you. Sometimes I wanted three.
Neither of us changed for the other one. We just kept trying to prove our football could beat the other’s.
And I think that’s why those Liverpool-City games felt different. It wasn’t only two great teams. It was two completely different answers to the same question.
Now I’m with Germany and maybe one day Pep takes a national team.
🗣️ Reporter: “You actually want that?”
🗣️ Klopp: “Of course.
Give him Spain. Give him Brazil. Give him whoever he wants.
Then maybe we meet in a World Cup semi-final and spend another week pretending we’re enjoying ourselves. [laughs]
I think football deserves one more.
Pep once said he’d sleep better when I left Liverpool.
He’s had enough sleep now.”
🚨 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪: In 2015, New Balance tried to steal Cristiano Ronaldo from Nike by offering him a share in their entire football brand.
Nike reacted by dropping a $1 BILLION lifetime deal on the table in November 2016 to make sure he never left. 💵
🚨 OFFICIAL: Real Madrid statement.
“In light of the statements made by LaLiga President Javier Tebas Medrano, Real Madrid C.F. wishes to state the following:
Our club considers it intolerable for the LaLiga President to use his institutional position to repeatedly disparage and attack Real Madrid in the manner he does in every one of his public statements. It is deeply concerning that the person responsible for representing and protecting the interests of all LaLiga clubs remains obsessively fixated on Real Madrid, making our club a constant target of his public attacks.
His latest intervention is particularly serious and incomprehensible—unbecoming of a responsible administrator—as it involves commenting on an article by an independent journalist in a digital media outlet. Yet, he reacts against our club by taking the liberty of critiquing our sporting strategy—an utterly absurd and irresponsible move.
It is astonishing that the LaLiga President devotes his time and personal channels to publicly discrediting Real Madrid, rather than using his position to foster trust in the institutions charged with guaranteeing the competition's impartiality. In doing so, he continues to damage the image of our competition and of Spanish football worldwide.
Given this persistent and inappropriate behavior, we believe that professional football in Spain urgently needs a leader capable of managing the competition and unlocking its full potential while upholding the fundamental duty of neutrality. It needs someone who understands the nature of the role; the LaLiga President is not the owner of the competition, but an administrator serving the clubs that comprise it and have entrusted him with its leadership. We, the clubs, need someone who will honestly serve this mission.”