@fcb1408_@NealGardner_ This is just a misconception, he’s contract runs out next summer, which means he’s free to negotiate with a new club from January on for the next season. In addition to that, free agents typical use their status as a free agent as leverage to negotiate a high signing fee.
🇫🇷📈 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 | Jean-Philippe Mateta (28) has now scored 50 goals for Crystal Palace! ✅
The fans shouting 'BOOM' when he kicks the corner flag will never get old. 🥶💥
No player had recorded 60 G/A since Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo left Europe... except Raphinha.
No player had equalled Cristiano Ronaldo in direct goal contributions in his best UCL season... except Raphinha.
No Brazilian player had ever scored more than 10 goals in the UCL... except Raphinha.
No player had recorded more than 50 G/A at Barcelona since Messi, Suarez and Neymar left... except Raphinha.
No player recorded more G/A than matches played in each tournament last season... except Raphinha.
No player had been both the top scorer and top assister of the Champions League since Leo Messi in 2015... except Raphinha.
No player deserved the 2025 Ballon d'Or more than Raphinha. 🇧🇷😞
In his very first season, Hansi Flick is going to deliver a domestic treble + a CL Semi, where we were seconds away from winning it.
Do NOT take this for granted.
Think back to where we were at the end of last season and the narratives around this club.
A mess, both on the pitch and off it, with a negligible summer market and our only season missing half the season injured.
Meanwhile, Madrid had just won the Champions League AND signed Mbappe. No one gave us a shot, and I want this to be very clear.
What Flick and his men have done progressively over the season transcends results, they’ve changed the entire perception around this club.
From a laughing stock, to one of football’s most feared sides again — that, truly, means more to me than any trophy ever could.
We’re not perfect but we’re the most entertaining Goddamn side in football and NO ONE can contain us, all while having a young core and a homegrown superstar.
This is the essence of FC Barcelona, this is why I fell in love with the club — enjoy it! 🔵🔴
Happy 30th birthday, Giannis Antetokounmpo
AGE 18: 6'9" 190 lbs
Questionable 15th pick
2K Rating: 60
Popularity: Unknown
AGE 30: 6'11" 243 lbs
NBA 75 Team
NBA Champion/Finals MVP
Back-to-back MVP
All-NBA 1st Team last 6 years
Defensive Player Of The Year
2K Rating: 98
Popularity: 1st European player to ever have a Nike signature shoe.
And he might be having his best season:
32.6 PTS (career high)
6.6 AST (career high)
61.6 FG% (career high)
11.6 REB, 1.9 BLK, 1.6 STL
Ángel Di María: "They say that my father was an even better footballer than me, but he broke his knees when he was young, and his dream died.
They say that my grandfather was even better than him, but he lost both of his legs in a train accident, and his dream died.
My dream was close to dying so many times.
But my father kept working under the tin roof … my mother kept pedalling … I kept running into space."
@Thereal_Smahane With all due respect, neen. Mensen met extreme overtuigingen en een simplistische gedachtengang zullen altijd gaan stemmen voor hun ideologie. Mensen die zich niet volledig identificeren met een bepaalde partij zullen niet meer gaan, waardoor het probleem enkel erger wordt.