🚨🇫🇷 Didier Deschamps: “I'm not worried about Olise replicating what he does with Bayern or what he does with the French national team at other clubs”.
“But if I say that, it doesn't benefit Bayern!”, told Marca.
⚪️📈 Kylian Mbappé: “I’m very proud to play for Real Madrid and I have a strong desire to make my mark on Real Madrid’s history”.
“If you make your mark on the history of the greatest club in the world, you have a special place in the history of football”, told Sorare.
🚨 Pep Guardiola: “What is Barça missing to win the Champions League? The Champions League is a competition that DESTROYS projects, and I hope that’s not the case at Barça”.
“We must not think that just because you don’t win it, everything that has been built is no good. The league is the competition that gives you consistency and continuity. In the Champions League, you need to reach the decisive stages in good condition, without injuries, and refereeing also has a huge impact”.
“What matters is that the daily work is excellent, that the team keeps growing and improving, and that they don’t believe the season is a failure just because they don’t reach the Champions League final or win it. The league is what sets the foundation for judging whether a season has been good or not”.
Cesc Fabregas on the state of Como when he took over:
🗣 “They gave me a group of lads. I couldn’t sign anyone. We had three defenders, seven midfielders and 11 strikers or something like this. I had to invent. I was playing with two No 10s as full-backs.
The team played 5-4-1, a lot of counter-attacks and defended very deep. I couldn’t change everything straight away in the middle of the season.
So I preferred to change the defensive phase more than the offensive side. We went to a back four instead of a back five, zonal, not so much man-to-man and a little bit higher.”
~ @TheAthleticFC