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[The Swedish Rumble 🔰 @SwedishRumble]

Heard Pep was looking for a new wife.

[TopCee @UtdTopCee]

Zidane working with Leny Yoro on those diagonal passes under pressure. Top, top coaching. 🤌

This is what development looks like. 👏

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 José Mourinho on Manchester City verdict: “I’d rather have a bit of a laugh about it…”.

“Being in my 60s, I’ll have to be lucky enough still to be here when the final verdict arrives”.

“Now a ruling will come, then an appeal… I’ll be 80!”, Mourinho told @CorSport.

[:( @TheBionicDam]

They took this genre of players away from me 💔 🕊️

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

Manchester City will argue the so-called 'tagged' sponsorship payments (totalling £830m) came from the Abu Dhabi Government not their owner (ADUG). This applies to State-controlled entities such as Etihad and Etisalat. Yet Etihad has previously refuted AD Government funding as "false".

City can point to an internal report written for the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi in 2010 which concluded the Abu Dhabi Government did indeed cover the sponsorship of Manchester City. The report was not intended for external publication.

In their UEFA case, City denied the Etihad (or any other) sponsorship funds came from any other source other than a direct payment. Sheikh Mansour provided a letter which read: "I have not authorised ADUG to make any payments to Etihad, Etisalat or any of their affiliates in relation to their sponsorship of MCFC."

In 2015, the 'Partnership for Open and Fair Skies' wrote to the US departments of Commerce, Transportation and State arguing Etihad gained a competitive advantage due to receiving huge sums from the Abu Dhabi Government. They allude to the internal report referenced above, which appears to confirm this.

Yet Etihad's response was: "The assertion that the Abu Dhabi Government paid for Etihad’s sponsorship of English Premier League football club Manchester City is equally false.

"In 2011 Etihad and Manchester City entered into a 10-year sponsorship agreement, which included naming rights for Manchester City’s stadium. Etihad funded this sponsorship from its own liquidity. It is not uncommon for airlines to have sponsorships with sports teams and their venues."

Etihad's denial the Abu Dhabi Government helped pay for their sponsorship goes against City's core argument, according to the verdict, that "AD Sponsors had from time to time applied for financial assistance from the AD Government towards their liability to pay the Recorded Sponsorship Fees."

Due to redacted names, multiple sponsors, and the phrase 'from time to time', City could make a case for other sponsors, but Etihad's on-record denial doesn't help the club's position, according to multiple legal sources spoken to.

Worth also reiterating, the panel, having reviewed the evidence already provided, already concluded any notion the Abu Dhabi Government not ADUG paid the tagged sums was "concocted well after the event".

[Rui Pinto @RuiPinto_FL]

O comunicado de imprensa dos meus advogados, Francisco Teixeira da Mota, Luísa Teixeira da Mota, William Bourdon e Vincent Brengarth, relativamente às acções vergonhosas tomadas contra mim pelo Estado português na quarta-feira:

COMUNICADO DE IMPRENSA

Lisboa e Paris, 2 de outubro de 2026

Fim da proteção de Rui Pinto: os seus advogados apelam às autoridades portuguesas para que reconsiderem uma decisão com consequências gravíssimas

Rui Pinto, o denunciante que esteve na origem do Football Leaks, foi notificado, na passada quarta-feira, de que o programa especial de segurança de que beneficia desde agosto de 2020 terminará no próximo dia 10 de outubro. Dentro de poucos dias, sem ter sido previamente ouvido, como a lei exige, perderá a residência protegida e confidencial que lhe foi atribuída e será obrigado a encontrar, com urgência, uma nova habitação, sem qualquer garantia de que a proteção policial se mantenha.

A sua situação é agora crítica. As ameaças de que é alvo não são meramente teóricas: em abril passado, foi agredido em Lisboa. As suas revelações envolveram figuras poderosas e dotadas de vastos recursos, e muitos dos processos judiciais delas decorrentes continuam ainda em curso, como demonstra a decisão proferida há apenas alguns dias pela comissão independente da Premier League relativamente ao Manchester City. Privado abruptamente da sua residência protegida e colocado numa situação de extrema precariedade, Rui Pinto ficará agora mais vulnerável do que em qualquer outro momento desde 2020.

Rui Pinto cooperou com a justiça portuguesa, e foi precisamente essa cooperação que justificou a sua integração num programa de proteção. As suas revelações, utilizadas por numerosas autoridades judiciais, fiscais e desportivas em toda a Europa, a começar por França, contribuíram para reforçar a transparência e a integridade no futebol. Os Estados que beneficiaram da sua atuação não podem simplesmente virar as costas à pessoa que assumiu os riscos necessários para trazer estes factos à luz do dia.

Nos termos da lei, será interposto recurso administrativo desta decisão, com efeito suspensivo. Os advogados de Rui Pinto, confiando em que as autoridades portuguesas dariam a devida consideração à sua situação, solicitaram, na passada quarta-feira, ao Ministério da Justiça que reconsiderasse esta decisão, que divulgasse os elementos da reavaliação do risco em que a mesma se baseou, que o seu constituinte fosse ouvido e que garantisse, em qualquer caso, a continuidade da sua proteção. Até ao momento, não foi recebida qualquer resposta.

Esta decisão e a forma como foi tomada, não respeita, lamentavelmente, o Estado de Direito e constitui um ato de terrorismo de Estado. Não podemos aceitá-lo.

Francisco Teixeira da Mota
Luisa Teixeira da Mota
William Bourdon
Vincent Brengarth

[Bob Varney @woburnista]

Since Abramovich arrived in 2003 and Abu Dhabi in 2008, Chelsea and Man Cty have won 13 of the 23 league titles. Their previous combined total was 3. Chelsea in 1955 Man Cty in 1937 & 1968. They had no history of league success in any era. English football was sold 23 years ago.

[Rui Pinto @RuiPinto_FL]

On Wednesday, just hours after the verdict officially confirming Manchester City’s guilt, the Commission responsible for Portugal's witness protection programme informed me of its decision to terminate my participation in the programme and withdraw my police protection, thereby knowingly placing me in a life-threatening situation.

Given these circumstances, I have no alternative but to relocate, within the next few days, to an undisclosed location for an indefinite period of time, due to the multiple death threats I have received and the serious risk of an assassination attempt against me.

For this reason, I have just set up a GoFundMe campaign and I am asking for everyone's support to help me survive this serious situation created by the Portuguese State, which, as I have already stated, has knowingly decided to place my life at risk.

I would like to take this opportunity to extend a special thanks to everyone who continues to support Football Leaks, and I can give everyone one guarantee: the fight will most certainly continue!

https://t.co/drJqVeqo2V

[REDaction Gooners @REDactionAFC]

@liamgallagher Jesus came to Arsenal to win a medal he could keep

[Polymarket FC @PolymarketFC]

🚨BREAKING: FIFA’s Gianni Infantino allegedly met with Manchester City and PSG bosses for SECRET TALKS on several occasions during his time at UEFA

He also allegedly supplied them with confidential materials.

[@RuiPinto_FL]

[Rui Pinto @RuiPinto_FL]

I will make a very important announcement tomorrow at 18:00 UTC.

[Rui Pinto @RuiPinto_FL]

"The decisive ally to both of the clubs was the man whose job should have committed him to complete neutrality: UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino. The Football Leaks documents show just how unconscionably the top functionary sided with the newly wealthy clubs, both of which didn't just violate the Financial Fair Play rules. They held them in contempt.

During the FFP proceedings, Infantino met with club bosses from Paris and Manchester on several occasions for secret talks, even supplying them with confidential materials. He proposed compromises that he was unauthorized to propose. In short: He betrayed his own organization."

https://t.co/sZhme3uOfp

[Rui Pinto @RuiPinto_FL]

Back in 2014, there was a man who was already aware of the irregularities involving Manchester City. That man now runs FIFA. The infamous Gianni Infantino, then UEFA General Secretary, abused his authority, shared confidential documents and, in short, outmanoeuvred the Investigatory Chamber, doing everything in his power to ensure that both Manchester City and PSG would merely receive a fine, avoiding a deeper investigation that could have led to a Champions League ban. All of these details were also revealed through Football Leaks.
Given his actions as UEFA General Secretary and, more recently, as FIFA President, I can only say, in my humble opinion, that Gianni Infantino has become a cancer on football and should have no place in the future of the game.

[grandson @Grandsoncr7]

“I’ve been a Manchester city fan since 1982” 😭😭

[💀 Brent Di Cassare 💀 @NoobGoneBadX]

THE PEP FILES. PART 3: The Shadow Over Camp Nou

In June 2008, when Pep Guardiola took the helm at FC Barcelona, a silent blueprint was set in motion. The world watched in awe as Barcelona produced football of breathtaking technical beauty. But in the corridors of power and behind sealed medical room doors, a parallel architecture was being constructed, one that operated in the grey space between athletic science, judicial loopholes, and financial leverage.

Chapter 1: The Return of the Contamination Doctor
When Pep took charge of the first team, his very first appointment was not a world-class tactical analyst or a renowned European physiotherapist. He immediately hired Dr. Ramón Segura as the head of FC Barcelona’s medical staff.
To anyone familiar with Pep's past, the name carried an eerie chill.
Segura was the exact biochemist whose special "multivitamin mixtures" had triggered Pep's positive drug tests for Nandrolone in Italy in 2001, a scandal that had nearly destroyed Guardiola's playing career and brought threats of prison time. Logic dictated keeping Segura as far away as possible. Instead, Guardiola placed the entire squad's physical regime directly into his hands.
Under Segura, the medical room became a black box of unprecedented transformation:

The Miracle of Lionel Messi: Prior to 2008, a young Lionel Messi was notoriously fragile, suffering six major muscular injuries across two seasons under Frank Rijkaard. Under Segura and Pep’s hyper-strict mandatory supplementation programs, Messi’s injuries vanished overnight. For four years, he played 60+ full-intensity matches a season without a single muscular absence.

The Growth Hormone: Messi’s childhood human growth hormone (HGH) protocols were well documented, but under Segura, hyper-specialized intravenous recovery regimens and blood plasma treatments (PRP) became standard protocol across the entire squad.

The 2010 Anti-Doping Breach: In 2010, UEFA anti-doping inspectors executed an unannounced visit to Barcelona’s training ground to conduct out-of-competition testing. The squad was nowhere to be found, the club had altered training schedules without updating WADA’s required "whereabouts" logbooks. UEFA issued a formal fine, but the incident was quickly swept aside as an administrative oversight.

Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger began voicing public frustration, openly questioning why UEFA refused to conduct deep blood testing during Champions League campaigns as his side repeatedly bowed out to Barcelona's supernatural, non-stop pressing machinery.

Chapter 2: The Network Beyond Fuentes
To understand Barcelona in 2008, one must look at the Spanish medical web that stretched far beyond Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes.
During the late 1990s and early 2000s, elite Spanish sport relied on a small, interconnected inner circle of doctors who rotated seamlessly between Olympic track-and-field programs, elite cycling teams, and La Liga powerhouses.
Figures like Dr. Ramón Cugat and Dr. Ramón Segura operated within an ecosystem where high-altitude training camps, customized vitamin cocktails, and rapid tissue-regeneration therapies were passed freely across disciplines. While Fuentes operated in the extreme shadows, the institutional medical network operated under the prestigious cover of elite sports science—shielded by Spanish courts and protected by strict regional privacy laws that kept medical records away from international anti-doping agencies.

[Santi @PeakSxnti]

Micah Richards said Man City offered him 100K a week to sit on the bench just to fulfill the English players quota in 2014.. For more context below is Arsenal's Top 6 earners in 2014 according to Capology 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[MatchdayHQ @TheMatchdayHQ]

🚨🚨 | 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Rui Pinto, the hacker who exposed information about Manchester City, claims he has MORE unreleased material on the club. 😳

He says the information is “explosive” and that he has lived under heavy police protection for years after receiving death threats. 😬

[@Telegraph]

[James Pearce @JamesPearceLFC]

The damning verdict on Man City provides vindication for Liverpool owners FSG, who for so long argued that the rules weren’t being properly respected or enforced.
But this is no victory. How can it be when you were robbed of so much by a rival cheating?

https://t.co/q4AKnt9P5l

[Rk @RkFutbol]

Never forget that Fabrizio Romano used to be paid by Barcelona to promote their La Masia players and raise their market value.

Barcelona’s corruption goes hand in hand with Fabrizio Romano’s work.

[nanev1996 @juvenalgaralvar]

Igual no sabéis quién es el CEO del Manchester City.
Igual no sabéis que Ferran Soriano era el VP económico de Laporta (2003-2008).
Igual no sabéis que fue quien aumentó los pagos a Negreira.

Igual de esas cosas no se habla porque Mbappé es un problema y Florentino un mafioso.