🇦🇷🇵🇹 Tevez on Cristiano Ronaldo at Man United: "I remember that we needed to train at 9am, I arrived at 8am and he was already there!"
"So I tried to arrive at 7:30am and he was already there. One time I did everything to get there before him."
"I arrived at the pitch at 6:30am, but he was already there. He was half asleep but there he was!" 😅
🚨 Samuel Eto'o on José Mourinho before the Champions League semi-final against FC Barcelona:
"What surprised me most was that Mourinho barely spoke about tactics in the final meeting. Everyone expected discussions about Messi, Xavi, and Iniesta. Instead, he spoke about courage."
"He told us: 'Tomorrow, millions of people expect Barcelona to win. That is their pressure, not ours. The world has already written the story. Our job is to change the ending.' "
"The atmosphere in the room changed instantly. We stopped feeling like a team trying to survive against Barcelona and started feeling like a team with an opportunity to make history."
"Mourinho understood something many coaches don't: before a player can beat a great opponent, he must first beat the idea that the opponent is unbeatable. By kickoff, that battle was already won." 🏆🔥
Our story is written like no other ✍️
From being on the brink of extinction, to playing in Europe. Always advancing, never retreating.
This club is so special ❤️
Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year ✅
United Players' Player of the Year ✅
FWA Footballer of the Year ✅
Premier League Player of the Season ✅
That's our Bruno 🐐
🚨 Nemanja Vidić on Arsenal winning the Premier League after 22 years:
“Congratulations to Arsenal. We’re not in a position to say if they deserved it or not. But one thing people must understand is patience.
It took Mikel Arteta seven years to bring the title back to Arsenal. Jürgen Klopp also needed four years before winning Liverpool’s first league title in 30 years.
Big projects take time, trust and support from the club and the fans. So the real question now is: can Manchester United stay patient with Michael Carrick the same way Arsenal stood by Arteta? Can they endure the difficult moments to finally see nights like this again?”
🚨🚨🎙️| Casemiro: “The new generation, they are about statistics.
“You finish the game, and he has 97% pass [accuracy]. What passes? Just passing back and back. Negative passes.
“You need to play forward, it doesn’t matter if you lose the ball.”
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🚨 Sir Alex Ferguson on modern football debates:
🗣️ Ferguson: “People talk a lot about tactics today, and of course the game has evolved in that sense. Managers are more detailed, teams are more structured, and everything is analysed more than ever before. But at the end of the day, football will always come down to players and mentality.
At Manchester United, we focused on building winners. That wasn’t just about ability, it was about character, how players handled pressure, and how they responded when things weren’t going their way. You can have the best system in the world, but if the players don’t have the belief or the personality, it won’t last.
There were many games where tactics didn’t win it for us. It was the attitude, the refusal to lose, the willingness to take responsibility in big moments. That’s something you can’t always teach, but you can build it into the culture of a club.
That’s why, no matter how much football changes, the most important things will always stay the same. Players win matches, mentality wins trophies. That’s what lasts.”
Uli Hoeneß speaking to @BILD after winning the title
• What impressed you the most about this title?
Hoeneß: "That the team has never been so united in the history of FC Bayern as it is now. There are absolutely no 'cliques' in this team. This includes not only the players, but also the entire coaching staff, the physios, and also Max Eberl and Christoph Freund.
When we signed Vincent, everyone thought: How is someone who comes from a relegated team in England supposed to lead Bayern? Many didn't think he could do it. We met at Käfer's with Vincent, his father, Herbert Hainer, Max Eberl, and Christoph Freund for lunch. After half an hour, I grabbed Max by the knee under the table and gave him a thumbs-up. That's when I knew and felt that it would be good and that Vincent was the right man for us.
Vincent placed the word 'work' at the heart of his analysis. I really liked that, and it could be a good example and role model for our country. Some people believe that everything can be done with less work – but that's completely wrong. Vincent is here every morning at 7:30 and is one of the last to leave in the evening. You can see that he simply enjoys himself, and he never started complaining when a player was injured. He's made every single player here better - even Harry Kane, and that's the real art"
➟ He endured the Sarajevo war as a child.
➟ He refused to play for the Czech Republic.
➟ He chose to represent Bosnia.
➟ He won the only Bundesliga title in Wolfsburg's history.
➟ He won the first Premier League title in Manchester City's history.
➟ He qualified for the 2014 World Cup.
➟ He became a champion in Italy with Inter Milan.
➟ He was runner-up in Europe.
➟ He qualified for the 2026 World Cup.
➟ He has scored over 400 goals in his career.
➟ He led Bosnia to their first two World Cups in its entire history.
➟ He is very close to promoting Schalke back to the Bundesliga.
➟ He will play his second World Cup at 40 years old.
STAND UP FOR THE LEGENDARY EDIN DŽEKO! 👏🇧🇦
💰 Billionaire professional gambler turned football club owner Tony Bloom is defying the odds once again
👏 Known for taking Brighton to the Premier League, Bloom has also helped Belgian club Union Saint-Gilloise go from the second division to the Champions League
🔮 But, what he's doing with Hearts may be his greatest achievement yet - and he even predicted it at the start of the season
💻 Having invested in the Scottish Premiership club, Bloom has instituted a data-led approach to manager appointments and player recruitment
🌍 Hearts have signed key men from all over the world, buying players from Slovakia's top flight and Norway's second tier
🫢 At the beginning of 2025/26, Bloom boldly stated that he believed Hearts could compete with Rangers and Celtic
🚫 No club outside of the Old Firm has won the Scottish Premiership since Aberdeen in 1985. Rarely do any other teams come close
🏁 So, for Hearts to be top of the pile heading into the final straight, it's a fascinating story and directly linked to Bloom's influence
🔜 During a season in which Rangers and Celtic have each had their own issues to deal with, Hearts have capitalised and are genuine title contenders with only two months of the season remaining
📚 READ THE FULL STORY HERE: https://t.co/ubF4BKy2fb
📸 - Harry Maguire is taken off and Old Trafford is giving him a standing ovation.
This is the man who kept standing up after receiving so much hate, this is the man who kept defending the colors of his club no matter what.
This is the man who kept going, the ultimate example.