🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: Real Madrid is now the club with the MOST UEFA Champions League Young Player of the Season Award winners in history:
🇹🇷 Arda Güler (2026)
🏴 Jude Bellingham (2024)
🇧🇷 Vini Jr. (2022)
🚨 Manuel Pellegrini (Betis manager):
"Sacking Xabi Alonso does not seem right to me. He is 4 points behind in La Liga and still in the UCL and Copa del Rey."
"As a coach, you only depend on the maturity of the board."
Good on Alonso for having enough self respect to walk away. Make no mistake, Xabi is a PHENOMENAL coach. It doesn‘t help when all your players are manchildren and refuse to follow your instructions because they think they‘re bigger than the coach. Tacticians should never go there
THIS IS MONUMENTAL FOR THE NEGREIRA CASE
Essentially the most expensive reports in history were NEVER used or offered to the coaching staff
A. Why spend so much money? And B. Where was the benefit? And C. Why was never offered?
🚨 Prosecutor in Negreira case: "Barcelona says they paid Negreira for "refereeing reports" to help the team prepare for games. Have you ever heard of these reports, throughout your 6 years as the club's manager?"
Luis Enrique: "No."
Prosecutor: "Did anyone at the club inform you that these reports were available if you want them?"
Luis Enrique: "No."
Prosecutor: "Were these reports offered to anyone of your staff members?"
Luis Enrique: "No. In the 6 years I was coach, nobody offered me reports, or showed me reports, not to me, and not to any of my staff members. I can assure you that."
🚨 Real Madrid lawyer: "Mr Laporta, in the Negreira invoices you paid, it says in this invoice you paid €60k worth of "Aloe Vera gift packs"? Can you explain that?
Joan Laporta: "It was 20 years ago. I don't know. I don't remember that invoice."
Real Madrid lawyer: "What about this one, here, it says you made a €139k payment for "digitalization of plays from the 2010 World Cup", but this invoice is from before the World Cup was even played? How does that make sense?
Joan Laporta: "It was, umm, for scouting. Ask the person who made that invoice. I don't know about that."
Passing through Delhi en route to Ranchi this evening, and as always, it’s hard to digest the low levels of air quality here. Am grateful to be living in a small fishing village in South Goa ##AQI#whats2Bdone
🚨🚨🎙️| Marco Van Basten: “Club Brugge were ROBBED tonight, their 4th goal should actually stand!"
“He doesn’t make a foul on Szczęsny. He didn't even touch him. It’s Szczęsny himself who made it look like a foul, but it wasn’t a foul."
🚨 Joan Laporta, yesterday: "I don't care what Real Madrid say. They can say whatever they want. The game against Villarreal will be played in Miami, and that's it."
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📸 - Replay shows that the first foul was 100% made by Barcelona as there are TWO HANDS wrapped around HEZZE'S entire body, but it's HEZZE who got the red card! 🤯
🚨🗣️ Joan Laporta, TODAY: “Real Madrid are free to say whatever they want, I’m the president of Barcelona and we will play in Miami on December 20.”
Hours later, the match is canceled and will be played in Villarreal’s stadium.