🚨🎙️| 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.” [@mundodeportivo@forcabarca_ar] #fcblive
🗣️ Kylian Mbappé: “Performances I’d rate as 100/100 with Real Madrid?
Manchester City hattrick at the Bernabéu.
Olympiacos? Yes that too, 4 goals.
Athletic Club? Yea, 2 goals, 1 assist. San Mámes is tough.
Monaco? That’s a 99. I have to show gratitude (laughs).” @Sorare
I don't disagree that there are questions about scaling Iraola to a side with more possession, but I don't think that *creating* against low blocks is actually one of them. Here are some of the underlyings in the games with +55% possession:
🚨Omar Berrada on Ruben Amorim:
“I actually think that Ruben [Amorim] deserves a lot of credit for many things. He went through a very difficult season last year. He was put under difficult circumstances, but he did help raise the standards in the dressing room.
So, I think he deserves a lot of credit for that, and I do think that he's going to be a successful coach, and I wish him all the best. But, we did feel that we needed to make a change, and in the end, it's worked out with Michael [Carrick]”
#MUFC
🚨 Tottenham Hotspur submit bid to sign Jan Paul van Hecke from Brighton & Hove Albion. #THFC offer for 25yo centre-back below #BHAFC valuation so rejected, but talks continue in bid to strike agreement. Dutch int’l close to Roberto De Zerbi @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/kiZ9NDIURF
🚨 While it's very initial and player led at this stage, Man United are just starting to look at the market in the older and more experienced category of strikers - with one or two exceptions like Igor Thiago - in case Joshua Zirkzee leaves. [@JacobsBen, @UnitedStandMUFC] #mufc
@attacking_LWB Yeah 100% but can’t see Thiago being much cheaper if at all. Think Chels would be open to a loan too depending on how he fits back in there
Another strong argument for Iraola isn't the impressive league finish, but the transfer market.
When elite clubs repeatedly identify value in the same squad, one explanation is recruitment and another is that the coach is systematically elevating player output beyond underlying
🚨 The mid-range midfield shortlist - around £40 million - features names such as... [@ChrisWheelerDM, @NathSalt1]
🇧🇷 Ederson (Atalanta)
🏴 Alex Scott (Bournemouth)
🇵🇹 Mateus Fernandes (West Ham)
🇺🇸 Tyler Adams (Bournemouth)
Another award for Jordan Pickford. 👊🏆
The Everton and England No.1 has won the @premierleague Goalkeeper Performance of the Season award. His standout display against Brighton — which included that crucial penalty save to deny Danny Welbeck — helped secure a big win in our first-ever home league game at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
shame Zendaya had so much beef with Sam during Euphoria because she deadass gives her best acting performances in this show. nothing else except Challengers scratches this itch for me