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16/05/2023

“I would say Messi, [Eden] Hazard, [Kevin] De Bruyne and [Marco] Verratti. I’m missing one, right? More technical than me… Thiago.”

The Brazilian superstar was asked to select five players who are more technically gifted than himself and he reluctantly did.

There's no place for Cristiano Ronaldo or Kylian Mbappe, but he did choose TWO current Premier League stars... 👀

Read more below 👇

16/05/2023

22/23 short story.

15/05/2023

News around the world

📈📈Boring Barca win La Liga playing the Mourinho way

📈📈Barca clinch LaLiga title in front of enraged Espanyol fans: Weekend Review

📈📈Juventus win as tearful Pogba exits with injury

📈📈Riot cops shield Barca squad from pitch invaders

📈📈Odegaard admits Arsenal have 'no hope' for title

📈📈World-record crowd watches Chelsea win FA Cup

📈📈Ligue 1 & 2 LGBTQ+ gesture meets resistance

📈📈Gundogan stunners help City ease past Everton

📈📈Feyenoord win Dutch title for first time since '17

📈📈Dutch game off as smoke bombs thrown on pitch

📈📈Champions to Championship? The fall of Leicester City

📈📈The day Arsenal's title dreams died

📈📈Lewy doubles up as Barca run riot to seal Liga title

📈📈Most painful title collapses in Premier League history

📈📈Chelsea's FA Cup win was all about Pernille Harder

📈📈Sorry Barca - Gundogan's too good for City to let go

📈📈Kerr is inevitable! Chelsea win Women's FA Cup final

📈📈Allegri 'sad' after Pogba 'risk' results in fresh injury

📈📈Pochettino to sign Chelsea contract this week

📈📈Xavi on Espanyol invasion: We should have celebrated inside

📈📈Laporta promises Barca ‘will do everything’ to get Messi back

📈📈WATCH: Barca fans chant Messi’s name during title celebrations

📈📈Transfers LIVE: Man Utd push to sign Rabiot again

📈📈Arsenal Transfers LIVE: Barca eye swap deal with Gunners

📈📈Real Madrid Transfers LIVE: PSG star eyes Madrid move

📈📈Chelsea Transfers LIVE: Inter striker for €80m

📈📈Man Utd Transfers LIVE: United target available for £50m

📈📈Man City Transfers LIVE: City to sign highly-rated defender?

📈📈Neymar demands PSG exit after fans protest at his home

📈📈WATCH: Barca flee Espanyol ultras as celebrations cut short

📈📈Transfers LIVE: Man Utd push to sign Rabiot again

15/05/2023

The Inter Milan starting line-up in the Champions League Semi-Final against AC Milan costed them €116,8M.

An absolute bargain team. 👏

Inter this season:

▶ 3rd in Serie A
▶ One match away from UCL Final
▶ Italian Super Cup winners

The man behind their success? Their Sporting Director, Giuseppe Marotta.

❌ Sold Romelu Lukaku for €120M
✅ Brought Edin Džeko for FREE
✅ Brought Romelu back on loan for €8M

❌ Sold Achraf Hakimi for €65M
✅ Bought Denzel Dumfries for €14M

❌ Lost Eriksen because of league rules
✅ Brought Hakan Çalhanoğlu for FREE

✅ Replaced team’s captain Handanovic with André Onana for FREE.

✅ Brought Henrikh Mkhitaryan for FREE to bring experience in the midfield.

✅ Bought Federico Dimarco from Sion for €5M, key player in the left flank.

✅ Bought Matteo Darmian for €4M, one of the most versatile players in the team.

Beppe Marotta makes miracles with and without a budget, he brings stability, discipline and a true winning mentallity to the teams he takes over. One of the best sporting directors in the history of football. 🇮🇹

11/05/2023

Tottenham and France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, 36, has an offer to play in Saudi Arabia next season and triple his current salary at Spurs. (Times - subscription required)

Newcastle have revived their interest in Leicester's 26-year-old England midfielder James Maddison. (Telegraph - subscription required)

Liverpool are interested in signing Real Madrid and France midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni, 23, even if it initially means a loan deal. (90min)

Tottenham want to secure a replacement for former managing director Fabio Paratici before finalising plans to bring in a new manager. (Mirror)

Manchester City have turned their attention to Chelsea's 29-year-old Croatia midfielder Mateo Kovacic as an alternative to England midfielder Jude Bellingham, 19, who is set to join Real Madrid from Borussia Dortmund. (Football Insider)

Liverpool are poised to sign Hannover 96's 34-year-old former Germany international Ron-Robert Zieler as a backup goalkeeper. (Bild - in German)

Napoli have increased their asking price for Victor Osimhen to €160m (£139m) in anticipation of a bidding war for the 24-year-old Nigeria striker. (Il Matino - in Italian)

AC Milan's 23-year-old Portugal forward Rafael Leao, who has been linked with Liverpool and Chelsea, has signed a new five-year contract with the Italian club. (Athletic - subscription required)

Liverpool are ready to meet the 60m euro (£52m) release clause for Sporting Lisbon's 22-year-old Uruguay midfielder Manuel Ugarte. (Record - in Portuguese)

Manchester United are monitoring Inter Milan's 25-year-old Argentina striker Lautaro Martinez. (Football Insider)

England goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale, 24, is close to agreeing a new long-term contract at Arsenal. (ESPN)

Sunderland are planning to offer Jack Clarke a new contract to fend off interest from Crystal Palace and Brentford in the 22-year-old English forward. (Teamtalk)

Barcelona's 26-year-old Brazilian forward Raphinha, who has been linked with Newcastle, has rubbishe

07/05/2023

6 league wins from 7. ✅
13 goals scored. ⚽️
4 goals conceded. 🚫
1 Semi-Final at Wembley. 🏟️
1 Promotion to the . 🦁

April was an incredible month for Paul Heckingbottom’s Sheffield United. 🔥🏆

30/04/2023

Another clean sheet for Erik ten Hag's Manchester United.

Home form has been resounding and the last 26 games have yielded 22 wins at Old Trafford.

Marching on.

30/04/2023

Championship fight for playoffs spots is heating up:

Sunderland need Middleborough to beat Coventry and if they win their game vs Preston then they sneak in.

25/04/2023

Mikel Arteta on still believing Arsenal can win the title: “One hundred per cent. But we knew from the beginning that City was the team to beat, probably with Liverpool, because of what those teams have done in the last six or seven years, they’ve fully deserved that credit and to be at the top.

“We were the ones that wanted to be closing that gap as much as we possibly could, and we are toe-to-toe with them. We knew we had to go to the Etihad, we know that after that they are going to have another five very difficult games.

“That game is going to be really important - if it’s going to define the season, the answer is no.”

Mikel Arteta on drowning out the noise of the title being in Man City’s hands: “We’ve been doing that for the last nine or ten months. Focus on what we can do, don’t get dragged out whether it is extremely positive or extremely negative, and be stable in our thoughts and in our process and be our best every single day to try and do that.

“We don’t know the outcome, so what was written eight months ago probably is not relevant now because they said something that didn’t happen for eight months. It doesn’t matter.”

Mikel Arteta on relying on the experience of Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko to get over the line:

“For sure. I think experience is key when you’ve been in those moments, to handle those moments and to understand the importance of certain things when you are competing in a football match.

“The capacity to transmit as those two players have done for the rest of the team - a lot of things that are very, very important. Some of the rest of them are young but they’ve played a lot of games already.”

Mikel Arteta on whether the game against Man City is winner takes all: “No, I don’t think so. If we win tomorrow night we haven’t won the league, for sure.”

[ARSENAL]

25/04/2023

Mikel Arteta on Manchester City’s threat: “We know what they want to do, what they’re going to try to do & they can do various things. They can play with a box inside, they can play with a diamond, they can build the game with three, they can be asymmetric on one side, they can pull one out on the right & play a diamond, they can put Walker higher. They can do so many things that you have to be able to adapt to, so you have to focus on certain principles to try & play the game how you want.”

16/04/2023

Unai Emery took charge of an Aston Villa side that had 12 points from 13 games after a 4-0 loss at Newcastle.

Five months later, he possesses the highest win ratio of any manager in the club's history, picking up 35 points from 17 league matches.

A side transformed from relegation candidates to European contenders.

And scored in every match ⚽️

So of course a right coach can do magic!

16/04/2023

Yesterday's Results :

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Man City 3-1 Leicester
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Aston Villa 3-0 Newcastle
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Chelsea 1-2 Brighton
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Everton 1-3 Fulham
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Southampton 0-2 Crystal Plc
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham 2-3 Bournemouth
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Wolves 2-0 Brentford
🇪🇸 Villarreal 1-2 R Valladolid
🇪🇸 Athlc Bilbao 2-0 R Sociedad
🇪🇸 R Betis 3-1 Espaynol
🇪🇸 Cadiz 0-2 Real Madrid
🇮🇹 Bologna 1-1 Ac Milan
🇮🇹 Napoli 0-0 Verona
🇮🇹 Inter Milan 0-1 Monza
🇩🇪 Bayern Munich 1-1 Hoffenheim
🇩🇪 Fc Cologne 1-1 Mainz
🇩🇪 RB Leipzig 3-2 Augsburg
🇩🇪 Stuttgart 3-3 Dortmund
🇩🇪 Frankfurt 1-1 Mo'ngladbach
🇨🇵 Rennes 3-0 Reims
🇨🇵 PSG 3-1 Lens
🇵🇹 Estoril 0-1 Portimonense
🇵🇹 Maritimo 3-1 Pacos Ferreira
🇵🇹 Chaves 1-0 Benfica
🇵🇹 Porto - Santa Clara

11/04/2023

night and the fixtures are tasty indeed.

Manchester City welcomes Bayern Munich. A team now under the guidance of Tuchel after his exit at Chelsea and going up against Pep Guardiola who has a good record vs Tuchel but fumbled in the most important game of his City career when he lost the UCL final.

I expect Man City to win this home encounter.

01/04/2023

Ajax Amsterdam are a class act 👏

01/04/2023

Salah with a very lovely opening goal at the 17th minute in this vs contest.

Lot's at stake here. Everyone was expecting an offside flag after Jota ran on to an over the top ball from Alexander-Arnold then it was left to Jota who kept Akanji at arms length before laying the ball right into Salah's path who slammed a first touch finish past a hapless Ederson.

01/04/2023

Most Clean Sheets in the so far:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Aaron Ramsdale (12)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Nick Pope (12)
🇪🇸 David De Gea (11)
🇧🇷 Alisson (10)
🇧🇷 Ederson (10)
🇪🇸 David Raya (9)
🇪🇸 Kepa (8)

01/04/2023

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