🚨🔵🔴 BREAKING: Barcelona submit official bid to Borussia Dortmund for Karim Adeyemi.
Negotiations ongoing with BVB as @gerardromero reported.
Adeyemi wants Barcelona as ONLY club to join this summer. 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Barça made their bid and want Adeyemi now, waiting on BVB decision.
Toni Kroos on the claims that Argentina robbed Egypt at the World Cup:
🗣️ "I don't understand why people always look for excuses after a result like this. Football is decided over 90 minutes, not by one moment. Egypt played an excellent first half, but after going 2–0 up they lost control of the game, and Argentina took advantage. That's what top teams do.
"People keep talking about the referee and VAR, but if you watch the match objectively, Argentina's comeback was built on their intensity, quality, and mentality. They believed until the final whistle, while Egypt couldn't maintain the same level they showed early on.
"You can't throw away a two-goal lead against one of the best teams in the world and then reduce everything to one decision. Football is much more complex than that.
"There will always be debates about refereeing, and that's normal. But saying the match was 'stolen' or that the tournament is being handed to Argentina is unfair to every player on the pitch. The players decide games with their performances, not conspiracy theories.
"The difficult thing after defeat is accepting that the opponent was better in the decisive moments. Argentina deserved credit for the way they responded under pressure, and Egypt should be proud of their performance while also learning from the mistakes that cost them. That's football."
🚨🗣️🇪🇸 Luis de la Fuente on Mikel Merino.
"Around the 50th minute, I wanted to bring Mikel on. He looked at me, smiled, and said, 'Coach, not yet. I'm still studying their defenders. They'll switch off late.'
By the 85th minute, time was running out and we needed a goal. He nodded and said, 'Coach... it's time.' 5 minutes later... the stadium erupted."
I don't know what prompted Messi to make the decision to go to the Right wing after Egypt made it 2-0
It's almost as if he told himself he's going back 11 years.
Once he went to the right wing he started dribbling like he was 27 again. He almost willed himself to become younger
José Mourinho on Hossam Hassan's claim that Argentina were favoured because of World Cup marketing:
🗣️ “When you lose a match after leading 2–0, the first analysis should be about your own team, not about conspiracies. As a coach, you must look at what you could have done better before pointing the finger elsewhere.
“I don't like these kinds of excuses. Saying the tournament is designed to favour one team or one player takes attention away from the football. If you believe you were treated unfairly, present the facts. If not, accept the result and move on.
“Football is decided by what happens on the pitch. If your team cannot protect a two-goal lead, that is where the discussion should begin. Managers must take responsibility, especially after painful defeats. That is part of the job.”
🚨Lisandro Martínez on Lionel Messi’s influence during Argentina’s comeback:
🗣️ “The moment we went two goals behind, nobody panicked.
Nobody shouted.
We just looked at Leo.
He didn’t say much.
He simply started asking for the ball every single time.
That’s when we all understood the game wasn’t finished.
A few minutes later he created one goal.
Then he scored another.
Nobody had to stand in the dressing room and talk about belief.
When Messi decides the match isn’t over…
The rest of us stop thinking about the score and start thinking about winning.”