🚨🗣️ Thibaut Courtois on Vinícius Jr. being frustrated after being substituted:
“I spoke to him later and simply told him to chill out. We lost another game, not the race. Everyone is frustrated, but we cannot allow one defeat to turn into something bigger. The season is still long.”
“I told him we cannot let this become another Xabi Alonso situation, because if the manager loses control of the dressing room, then we have a much bigger problem. At this moment, I don’t see a better manager out there to come and magically fix everything.”
🗣️ “Jose is a very smart coach and he could turn a mess around, but that’s exactly why we need to be careful. When players start showing frustration publicly, other players can lose respect for the manager, and suddenly the dressing room becomes divided.”
“All I told Vini was simple: stay calm and don’t start the same mess we put ourselves in last season. We’ve already learned how quickly things can fall apart. We cannot be the ones creating the next problem ourselves.”
🚨 Mbappé some days ago: "I could play DUMB and tell you that I score more goals than Raphinha and Dembélé..."
- Mbappé: 8 goals this season.
- Raphinha: 14 goals this season.
MBAPPÉ TALKS TOO MUCH. 😶
🚨🗣️ Jose Mourinho: “I spoke to Xabi before he joined Chelsea. Three at the back plan wouldn’t really work in the premier league with young inexperienced players.”
🚨🔵 Thierry Henry on Emi Martínez’s form at Chelsea:
🗣️ “Watch closely and you’ll see he’s still the same Martínez. A bad defense will always make a good goalkeeper look really bad, and I think that’s what is happening here.”
“We’ve seen him perform at the highest level before, so I wouldn’t suddenly forget the goalkeeper he is just because the team in front of him is struggling.”
🗣️ “He was once considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world, but football can be cruel.
🗣️ “If Chelsea don’t fix the defense around him, he could finish his career with a much worse reputation than his actual ability deserves. That would be a shame.”
🗣️ Lamine Yamal: “I grew up watching football where we watched the entire match and I didn’t look at how many goals or assists each player had.
You could watch a midfielder who didn’t score 20 goals, but he was an absolute DELIGHT to watch, like Mesut Özil, who I really liked.”
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Lamine Yamal reveals the moment Sergio Busquets gave him a serious lesson when he was still a youngster at Barcelona:
“Once, I was suspended from the national team for three weeks because we did some stupid things as kids.”
“One day, when I went to train with the first team, Busi [Busquets] grabbed me and asked: ‘What did you do with the national team?’”
“He was VERY serious. I was just a kid and I was actually scared. I told him what happened and he said: ‘You’re at Barcelona now. Everyone knows who you are, and no matter how good you are as a player, you have to know how to BEHAVE!"
“From that moment, I changed everything in my life and dedicated myself completely to football.”
“I stopped going out. I trained, played, rested, went to see my mother and then continued.”
“From that moment I fully dedicated my life to: FOOTBALL, FOOTBALL AND FOOTBALL.”