🚨🚨 BREAKING: The Ballon d'Or top 3 points. Harry Kane won the award by beating Kylian Mbappé by just 28 points:
• Harry Kane: 1055 points
• Kylian Mbappé: 1027 points
• Lamine Yamal: 881 points
🚨🗣️ Mikel Arteta: "We expect a big game on Sunday against Liverpool. We’re looking forward to it, for sure. It’s been 14 years since we last won there. It’s time to do it."
🚨 With Eder Militão returning from injury, Real Madrid feel very relaxed about the CB position, they believe they have FOUR WORLD CLASS players to cover the position - and many CB duo combinations based on the nature of the game.
The club fully counts on Raul Asencio too, who is still on his recovery process. @diarioas
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: At Real Madrid, there are people who think that the China situation for Kylian Mbappé CAN'T BE FIXED.
3 Chinese brands have canceled the collaboration they had and others have erased all traces of Kylian from billboards and social media..
THE BIG QUESTION IS CAN IT BE FIXED FOR MY IDOLO?
{🛑SOURCE @OndaCero_es }
Harry Kane edged out Kylian Mbappé for the 2026 Men's Ballon d'Or by just 28 points, making it one of the closest votes in the award's history.
Kane garnered 40 first-place votes for a total of 1,055 points, compared to 23 first-place votes for runner-up Mbappé and a total of 1,027 points. That made it the fourth-closest vote in the award's 70-year history, according to L'Equipe, and the closest since Lionel Messi beat Virgil van Dijk by seven points in 2019.
❤️💙🇲🇦 Achraf Hakimi scores an hat-trick (plus two assists) for Paris Saint Germain… and it’s the first hat-trick in his career.
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🚨🗣️ Jose Mourinho on Cristiano Ronaldo's Hattrick:
"That's one thing I love with Cristiano Ronaldo, He won the award a day before the match and showed the world why He was voted as the best Ballon D'or winner of a time the next day"
"The fact that he is doing this at 41 is the craziest part of it all, ten years back I never thought I will see him playing football at this age to be honest but, He is the greatest and nothing surprises me anymore"
🚨 NEW: Yan Diomande’s emergence at LW has increased competition and put MORE PRESSURE on Vinicius Jr.’s place in the starting XI.
Vini Jr. and his entourage are SELF-CRITICAL about his performances this season.
They understand the current situation and hope his hard work will help him return to form. @MarioCortegana
🚨💣 𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Kylian Mbappé responds to the China controversy, insisting that being banned from entering the country would not affect him because it doesn’t reduce his salary at Real Madrid.
🎙️ Kylian Mbappé:
People are making this situation bigger than it needs to be. If China doesn’t want me there, what exactly am I supposed to do? I play my football in Spain, I have a contract with Real Madrid, and I will continue doing my job.
Will this reduce my salary? No. Will I stop playing football? No. Will I wake up tomorrow and suddenly become a different player? Absolutely not.
I respect the people who are upset, and I’ve already apologised for my words. But my career cannot depend on whether every country agrees with everything I say.
Football is my job, and I will keep doing my job.