🚨🇧🇷 Raphinha: “I don't want to get injured again. I want to be available not only for the national team, but also for Barcelona”.
“Unfortunately, when we are not physically well we cannot play either here or in the club”.
🚨 Reports claiming that a private jet was waiting in Paris to fly Kylian Mbappé back to Madrid are false. ❌🇫🇷
There is also no truth to rumours of tension between Mbappé and Zinedine Zidane, or Mbappé and Dembélé.
(Source: @AbdellahBoulma)
Le trio MSN n’a pas seulement remporté des titres, il a fait rêver toute une génération. Messi, Suárez et Neymar : un trio inoubliable qui a marqué l’histoire du football.
🚨 Micheal Carrick on IG 💔:
It really saddens me that I wasn’t given time to prove myself here, I feel they are making a huge mistake by sacking me and not getting to the root of all this.
They sacked José Mourinho
They sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjær
They sacked Ralf Rangnick
They sacked Erik ten Hag
They sacked Ruud van Nistelrooy
They sacked Ruben Amorim
Now I have been sacked too
Manchester United board are just too blind to see the cancer of a player in their squad. Don’t matter if Pochettino or Pep Guardiola is here. He’ll still be sacked as long as that guy is in the squad.
🚨 Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk wants to join Barcelona and has instructed his agents to arrange talks with the club.
The Dutch defender is considering spending his final one or two seasons under Hansi Flick, with Rodri's presence a key factor.
Van Dijk wants to move when his contract expires, while Liverpool hold a €55M option to sign Ronald Araujo permanently.
(Source: @elnacionalcat)
🚨 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗: How Barcelona agreed to sell a young Carles Puyol to Málaga for under €1M.
The Spanish club wanted to cash in on the 20-year-old in 1998, but the defender refused to leave. 🇪🇸
Puyol was behind Frank de Boer and Michael Reiziger in the pecking order, but after watching his close friend Xavi make his first-team debut, he was determined to follow in his footsteps.
Louis van Gaal was impressed by his commitment and handed him his La Liga debut in 1999.
Puyol went on to spend his entire professional career at Barcelona, making 593 league appearances and captaining the club for a decade.
A true one-club legend. ❤️💙
🚨 JUST IN: Lionel Scaloni says they haven't decided who will become the new number 10 and neither they plan to decided until it becomes obligatory
"No, we haven't decided yet...We don't think about that right now."
World Cup qualifiers are expected to start in September 2027, that's when it becomes obligatory.
🚨 Lionel Scaloni on Leandro Paredes:
“If he’s at his best, he’s the best central midfielder the Argentina national team could have.
"If he’s in good form, he earns his place in the squad automatically. And being in good form doesn’t mean he has to play every game for Boca. He knows what I think.
"When Paredes was here, I told him that he needs to keep competing at a high level. He’s a player who makes the difference, without a doubt.
"I care about him a lot, and he knows what I need from him. Under no circumstances is the door closed to him. He’s a player who makes the difference when he’s performing at his highest level.”
"We hope the sanctions can be reduced."