🔵⚪️ Como president Mirwan Suwarso and club directors are giving up their Champions League seats for the UCL debut game against Leipzig.
Suwarso announced they prefer the seats to go to Como supporters born in 1950 or earlier, those who have followed the club through every era to celebrate this historical UCL debut.
🚨🔵⚪️ BREAKING: Ayyoub Bouaddi to Manchester City, here we go! Deal agreed club to club.
Fee to reach €100m package with add-ons, as @FabriceHawkins reports. Green light from Lille to the sale.
Bouaddi agreed terms with City in July and now set to join #MCFC project.
🚨🔴⚪️ Arsenal made contact with Atlético Madrid to discuss Julián Álvarez deal conditions.
Direct meeting took place in London with Atléti director Mateu Alemany.
Price currently too high + Julián never opened doors to England so far as wanted to join Barça… but #AFC tried.
🎥➕ https://t.co/5zVWgWXqEV
Lionel Messi's beautiful and emotional letter to his late father Jorge.❤️
"Dad, I still can't believe that you’ve gone. It hasn't sunk in, or better said, I won't let it sink in.
"It's so hard to imagine that now I'm not going to see you anymore, that we're not going to talk anymore. I know you were suffering and that this is for the best, but you went so soon. We still had so much left to enjoy together.
"You kept asking me to play in this last World Cup but just days before it started, your condition took a turn for the worse. It was the first time you wouldn't be at a tournament, but Mum told me that you were going to get better and you'd be able to travel.
"Each time I finished a game, I'd wait for and miss your message. That's when I realised the situation was truly dire. Even so, I kept thinking about going as far as possible to buy time so you could watch a game. We made it to the final, but you couldn't be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring it to you and show you a new trophy. I couldn't do it; my legs just gave out. This time I tried to push past my physical limits, but I couldn't. I just never felt right.
"When I got to you, you thought we had lost the final on penalties. We couldn't talk about any of what had happened. You weren't able to enjoy anything. We didn't become champions, but you didn't know how much we enjoyed each game. Once again you were right - I had to be there and play.
"I'm telling you this because it was the one thing we couldn't talk about; you already know everything else. We spoke every day and saw each other whenever my commitments allowed.
"I don't know what I'm going to do without you, I don't know how to carry on. All I've ever done is play football and now I have so many doubts over whether I'm going to keep doing it for much longer. You were by my side from the start, and we were so close to the end. Why couldn't you hold on just a little longer so we could finish it together?
"I know your happiness was in seeing your family doing well, your wife, your kids, and above all, without letting the others know, watching me play.
"Since I was a young boy it was always this way. You took me to every training session, right after getting home from work. Mum took me to many of them because you were working.
"Obviously you never missed a single match. How you suffered while watching me, and how you enjoyed it - even though you never lavished me with praise.
"You were my dad, my friend and my representative. You were always exactly who you needed to be in any given moment, and you never got it wrong. Beyond the odd argument or disagreement, you were always right; in the end, things always turned out just as you said they would.
"I'm going to miss you so much, but you will always be present, and above all in how I raise my kids, because I'll raise them and teach them the way you did with me."Rest in peace and look after us from above just as you did down here. Thank you for everything.
"I love you, Dad.♥️"
🚨🔴⚪️ BREAKING: Atlético Madrid CEO Miguel Angel Gil says Julián Álvarez will NOT leave this summer.
“My position is clear, the club’s position is clear. We’ve made it known to the player, his representatives, and the president of Barcelona”.
“I have absolutely no doubt that Atlético is the right place in the world for Julián, and that Julián is the perfect centre-forward for Atlético Madrid. We want to keep him”.
“I recently heard the president say that the offer he made to Atlético Madrid wasn’t unlimited. My only response is that our answer is unlimited”.
“We do NOT want to transfer him”.
“We didn’t accept an offer of €100 million, and we won’t accept one of €150 million or even €200 million”.
🩵🤍🥺 Giuliano Simeone: “We know Messi is 39 years old, he has everything a footballer could dream… and then he is still fighting like as the best”.
“So for us, there’s only one thing left, give EVERYTHING we have, run for him and for Argentina”.