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🗣️ Journalist in 2022 “Would you prefer to stay at the club in January or play the AFCON?”
🗣️ Sébastien Haller: "This question shows all the lack of respect you have for Africa. Would you ask this question to a European player before a Euro? Of course, I will go and play in the…
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UEFA are reportedly reviewing the decisions made by referee Anthony Taylor in the Europa League final.
The English official is now at serious risk of missing similar big games on the European stage.
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🗣️Miroslav Klose: "I said stop playing football because I no longer recognized it. Today, young people think about other things. As a child, I only thought about training and becoming someone in this sport that I always loved. At Lazio and in the national team, after each…
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🗣️ José Mourinho: “I remember a game in Siena, with Maicon. They said he always got a fifth yellow to be suspended at Christmas, so he could go on vacation to Brazil.
I went to him and said that if he got a yellow he wouldn't be going on vacation, I'm not an idiot. He asked if…
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🗣️ Guglielmo Vicario on what he said to Ivan Toney at full-time:
“He was talking to me a lot during the match. When it was over, I just told him I hope he didn’t bet on that result.” 😅
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Bayern Munich have told FC Barcelona they don't want any installments in any deal for Robert Lewandowski and that they want all the money upfront in cash because Bayern believes that FC Barcelona won't exist in "one or two years' time".
#fcblive
#fcbayern
[
@honigstein
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🗣️ Marcus Rashford's mother: “I used to say to the kids sometimes that I’d already eaten because they used to say to me: ‘Have you had yours?’ and I’d say: ‘Yeah’ but I didn’t have anything to eat.
I was just doing my best to survive. Now Marcus has provided me a home and I sit…
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🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimovic's final message before retirement: “I was born in Malmö. Grew up in Amsterdam. Turned wiser in Turin. I became a lion in Barcelona. Was raised in Milan and got new perspectives in Paris. Gained stamina in Manchester and had some fun in Los Angeles. And then…
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🗣️Wayne Rooney: “I remember Fergie’s team talk before playing AC Milan. He literally said to Park: 'Your job today is not about touching the ball, it’s not about making passes, your job is Pirlo. That’s all: Pirlo.
At the time Andrea Pirlo was averaging 110 passes per game,…
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🗣️ José Mourinho: “I remember a game in Siena, with Maicon. They said he always got a fifth yellow to be suspended at Christmas, so he could go on vacation to Brazil.
I went to him and said that if he got a yellow he wouldn't be going on vacation, I'm not an idiot. He asked if…
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🗣️ Rooney: “It's crazy, but if you talk to 12-year-olds about Cristiano Ronaldo, they'll immediately say, 'Yes, he was a brilliant Manchester United player'. But if you say 'Ji-Sung Park ", they may not know who he is. Yet all of us who have played with Park know that he was…
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🗣️ Andrea Pirlo on Cristiano Ronaldo: “If Cristiano Ronaldo scores a goal, they will say" why not two? ". If he scores a free kick, they will say that the wall was placed incorrectly. If he scores a penalty, they will say he only scores a penalty. It's the price you pay when…
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Jose Mourinho once went nine years & 150 games without losing a league match at home. The run lasted from March 16, 2002 to April 2, 2011. In that time, he managed Porto, Chelsea, Inter & Real Madrid. He faced 107 different managers and NONE of them beat him at home in the league
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🚨🚨 The Portuguese computer hacker whose release of a huge cache of documents led directly to Manchester City being charged with 115 rule breaches by the Premier League has received a suspended prison sentence by a court in Lisbon.
In 2018, Rui Pinto, a 34-year-old Portuguese…
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🗣️ Gary Neville: "I mean Carragher’s statement that Liverpool vs Man City is the greatest rivalry is offensive."
"From 98 to 2004 Arsenal won three titles, Man United won four. It was blood, thunder, quality. Everything you would want in a rival."
"In the last six years,…
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The pitch before Fenerbahçe vs. Adanademirspor match.
Fenerbahçe is protesting the Turkish Football Federation and their manipulated referees. 🇹🇷
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🗣 Patrice Evra: “One day we were tired after a Manchester United game. So we decided not to sign autographs and get on the bus directly. Then suddenly we saw Ferguson signing autographs to the fans for 45 minutes. He then got on the bus and yelled at us: ‘Who do you think you…
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🗣️Journalist: “You’re 10 points ahead with 10 games to go, how can you lose the league?”
🗣️Ancelotti: “How can you lose a Champions League final when you’re 3-0 up?”
#RMFC
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🗣️ Harry Redknapp: “I bought Carl for £10,000, went to pick him up from Enfield and while he went in to say goodbye to his manager, he left me with his mate.”
“‘What are you signing him for?’ said this kid. ‘I’m 10 times better than him. I’ve got 26 goals this season, he’s only…
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🗣️"I can't compare José Mourinho to Pep Guardiola, one of them failed to win the Champions League with Bayern Munich while the other won it with Porto."
-Samuel Eto'o
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🗣️"What happened at the Ballon d'Or's ceremony was disappointing. But this gives us more motivation to win this season's UCL and prove to the world what the German football is capable of. And we will prove that starting by our next match against Barcelona."
-Thomas Müller
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🗣️ Carlos Tevez: “If I retired and had to put together a farewell match, my team would be Buffon, Hugo Ibarra, Rio Ferdinand, Gabriel Heinze, Patrice Evra, Scholes, Andrea Pirlo, Paul Pogba, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, and Rooney.
I’d stay on the bench.”
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🗣️ Jose Mourinho on Pep Guardiola: “There are moments in life that you don't forget. When my father died, and he knew how important he was to me, he called me. 🇵🇹🇪🇸
When his mother died, "I answered the same way. These are things that people don't see." ♥️
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🗣️ Harry Redknapp on how he missed out on signing Ian Wright and signed Carl Richards instead:
“I bought Carl for £10,000, went to pick him up from Enfield and while he went in to say goodbye to his manager, he left me with his mate.”
“‘What are you signing him for?’ said this…
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🚨| Fenerbahçe have released a statement after leaving the field after just one minute in the Turkish Super Cup final. 🇹🇷
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🗣️"If I retired and had to put together a farewell match, my team would be Buffon, Hugo Ibarra, Rio Ferdinand, Gabriel Heinze, Patrice Evra, Scholes, Andrea Pirlo, Paul Pogba, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, and Rooney. I’d stay on the bench."
-Carlos Tevez
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🗣️ Pierluigi Collina, when asked about the most moving moment of his career:
"We were in the last two minutes, and I saw the Bayern players on the bench ready to celebrate their title. The fans were hugging each other in the stands waiting for my final whistle.
Then suddenly,…
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🗣️"If I retired and had to put together a farewell match, my team would be Buffon, Hugo Ibarra, Rio Ferdinand, Gabriel Heinze, Patrice Evra, Scholes, Andrea Pirlo, Paul Pogba, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, and Rooney. I’d stay on the bench."
-Carlos Tevez
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🗣 Michael Ballack: “Virgil van Dijk is very lucky to play in an era where there is no Drogba, Lampard, Alan Shearer, Henry, Rooney, Van Persie, Tevez, Adebayor and Diego Costa in the Premier League.
No wonder they think he is the best defender in the League.”
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🗣️ Casemiro: “My mum used to work as a housemaid every day of the week from Sunday to Sunday after my father left us when I was three years old. I neither remember him nor would I like to know him.
What I remember well and proud of is that when I received my first significant…
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🗣️ Sir Alex Ferguson on playing West Ham in 2011:
“It actually happens on a fairly regular basis. I would often twiddle things during a game or at half-time. One example that comes to mind is a game against West Ham in the closing weeks of the season in April 2011.
A few…
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🗣️"I cannot compare José Mourinho to Pep Guardiola, one of them failed to win the Champions League with Bayern Munich while the other won it with Porto."
- Samuel Eto'o
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🚨 Manchester United have rejected offers from Turkish sides for Mason Greenwood as the club’s internal investigation continues.
One source believes this experience has changed Greenwood. “He would run through a brick wall to be back playing for United now.” Some at United even…
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Did you know? Cristiano Ronaldo played for Sporting Lisbon's u16, u18, u19, u21, B team and the first team all in one season. He's the only player in the club’s history to do so.
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Before the match, Kerem went to Fenerbahce's Emirhan and said: "Whoever starts the match should throw the ball out and let whatever happens happen." 🇹🇷
Emirhan said okay. When the match started, Galatasaray scored a goal while the boys were waiting for them to throw the ball out…
🚨| Fenerbahçe have released a statement after leaving the field after just one minute in the Turkish Super Cup final. 🇹🇷
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Cristiano Ronaldo is 18 goals away from breaking the record for most official goals in football history.
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Pep Guardiola becomes the only manager in football history to have won 2 trebles. 🏅
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🗣️Wayne Rooney: “I remember Fergie’s team talk before playing AC Milan. He literally said to Park: 'Your job today is not about touching the ball, it’s not about making passes, your job is Pirlo. That’s all: Pirlo.
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😲🤯Liverpool's aggregate score against Manchester United in their last 10 league home games:
Liverpool 36-2 Manchester United
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"It looked to me, being favorites for Man City was a heavy burden. They were too used to winning the ball back quickly, they couldn't do that tonight... Congratulations to Chelsea, a deserved win. Also, we have seen a man who is above everybody else, N'Golo Kante"
-Arsene Wenger
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Manuel Locatelli wants to play Champions League football, therefore the chances of him joining Arsenal are very low. He wants to join Juventus. [Sky Italia]
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💣🚨| Inter Milan are on the brink of bankruptcy; only the sale of Brozovic and Onana allowed business continuity in 2023-24. [
@ilgiornale
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🇵🇹🗣 José Mourinho: “I want the world to see that Africa is equal with everyone. Africans are not behind in talent. They have the talent to win any tournament, except that most of their best players are scattered around the world playing for other countries instead of their…
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🗣️Kylian Mbappé: “The perfect player?"
"Messi's left foot, Neymar's right foot, Cristiano Ronaldo's mentality, and Buffon's class."
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🗣️ Jose Mourinho: “You win one game and you are 2nd, 3rd, or 4th. You lose two points and you are 7th, 8th, or 9th.
The Premier League is beautiful”
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🗣️ Carlos Tevez, coach of Independiente: “Three of the boys we have in the squad today told me that they did not know how to add or subtract while playing in the first division. That is poverty.
We can bring a boy food, we can help him with a lot of things, but studies...he…
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Nemanja Vidić was voted the best defender in the history of the Premier League after Sky Sports carried out a poll with over 200,000 voters.
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🗣️"No, I didn't play with Messi. In my day, it was Messi who played with me. It's completely different." 🇨🇲🇦🇷
-Samuel Eto'o
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This is not a match day - all the individuals here are Fenerbahçe Congress Members and they gathered at the congress to discuss options, including the club withdrawing from the league in response to the injustices imposed.
The club has 45,000 active congress members - 30,000…
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This Manchester United fan wore the United's treble-winning jersey to Manchester City's treble parade. 😅😆
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🗣️ Luca Toni on Van Gaal: "He has a bad temper and he approaches players the wrong way. He's a dictator, except with his inner circle of Dutchmen.
One day he told the team "You don't have the balls that I have," and he took down his pants. But he had a big belly, so we couldn't…
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Rio Ferdinand on Cristiano barking orders to the team from the touchline: "If I’m the manager, I’ve got to be honest, I’m telling [Cristiano] to sit down."
#MUFC
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🗣 Dimitar Berbatov: “In my time at Manchester United, we had Cristiano Ronaldo, Rooney, Giggs, Scholes, Neville, Vidić, Ferdinand, Evra, Van der Sar and Sir Alex Ferguson.
When we stepped on the pitch, most of our opponents already accepted defeat.” 🥶
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🗣️ Robin van Persie: “At Arsenal, I didn’t feel like we were on the level to compete. One day, The chairman showed me how healthy the club was by showing me their positive numbers.
I told him: ‘I don’t give a sh*t about these numbers, I want to lift the Premier League trophy.”
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Cristiano Ronaldo should leave Italy now and leave me in peace.
-José Mourinho
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𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘? Jose Mourinho went nine years and 150 games without losing a league match at home. He managed Porto, Chelsea, Inter, and Real Madrid during that time. He faced 107 different managers and none of them beat him at home in the league.
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🎙️ Carlos Tevez: "I received my first big salary when I went to Corinthians. I bought 10 houses and took all my uncles and aunts out to the neighborhood. We had a BBQ at home and I gave them each their key, without them knowing anything.
I surprised them all."
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The fans of Beşiktaş threw toys and stuffed animals onto the pitch to be sent to children who were affected by the earthquakes.
Great Gesture 👏👏
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🗣️"I'm above individual awards. I won 2 Golden Boots in Leo & Cristiano's era & I'm proud of it because I won it with numbers, not votes. I scored 3 against Madrid without Leo, did something similar in Liverpool without Gerrard, & was Ajax's captain at 21."
-Suárez
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🗣️ Rio Ferdinand: “I see Jamie Carragher tweeted something about Van Dijk being better than Vidic. I think Torres scored three goals in 15 games against Vidic. It's a myth.”
Nemanja Vidić in the Premier League:
🎖️ The first defender to be named Player of the Season
🎖️ The only…
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🗣️“I never miss a football game on TV. If I had to spend money on a ticket, it would be for a UCL Final. I enjoy watching Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, the perfect Final would be against Liverpool."
-Lorenzo Insigne
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❌ Chelsea hadn't won the Premier League for 50 years
🏆 José Mourinho won it with Chelsea
❌ Inter Milan had not won the Champions League for 45 years
🏆 José Mourinho won it with Inter
❌ Real Madrid hadn't won the Copa del Rey for 22 years
🏆 José Mourinho won it with Real…
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Louis van Gaal after shaking hands with Quinten Timber: "I'm vaccinated. Are you?" "Yeah, me too," says Timber. Van Gaal: "Thank god. You're not an idiot."
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🗣️“All the great players must go to Real Madrid, but for now, I want him at PSG”
-Sergio Ramos on Mbappe
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🚨💣| Manchester United have moved a step closer to bringing back Mason Greenwood after seeking final approval from their women's team, club sponsors, and fans' groups.
This is the clearest indication yet that the club plan to bring back Greenwood. An announcement was said to be…
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Marcus Rashford finished third in the Champions League top scorers list despite Manchester United being knocked out in the group stages.
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🗣️ Diego Forlan: "Everyone in life has problems and football turns out to be the cheapest therapy." 🩷
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💣🚨 Sevilla is 90 million in debt and declares the entire squad transferable. [MARCA]
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◉ 02' - Newcastle 1-0 Spurs
◉ 06' - Newcastle 2-0 Spurs
◉ 09' - Newcastle 3-0 Spurs
◉ 19' - Newcastle 4-0 Spurs
◉ 21' - Newcastle 5-0 Spurs
Tottenham are getting embarrassed here 😬
#NEWTOT
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“He always eats the same thing: broccoli, chicken and rice."
-Juventus u23 Daouda Peters on Cristiano Ronaldo
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🇧🇷 Antony to Manchester United for €95 million is one of the worst transfers in recent Premier League history.
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Fenerbahçe have broken the record for most goals scored within a single season in Turkish football history with 128 goals in 45 games. 🇹🇷
⚽️ 128 Goals
1⃣ Fenerbahçe, 2023/24
⚽️ 126 Goals
2⃣ Galatasaray, 1999/00
⚽️ 126 Goals
3⃣ Fenerbahçe, 2022/23
⚽️ 121 Goals
4⃣ Fenerbahçe,…
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🗣️“They talked a lot about Manchester City, but Cristiano called me and said: 'Mom, don't mind what they say because I'm going to Manchester United…'. Now seeing the full stadium sing his name was a very strong emotion. I am very happy.”
-Dolores Aveiro
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🗣️Zlatan Ibrahimović on Kylian Mbappé's situation at PSG: “Did he make the right choice to extend his contract at PSG? “For who, for himself? No. For PSG? Yes. He made the right choice for PSG, not for himself, because he put himself in a position where he is bigger than the…
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🗣️Carlos Tevez: “If I retired and had to put together a farewell match, my team would be Buffon, Hugo Ibarra, Rio Ferdinand, Gabriel Heinze, Patrice Evra, Scholes, Andrea Pirlo, Paul Pogba, Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi, and Rooney. I’d stay on the bench.”
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Julián Álvarez becomes the first player in football history to win the Treble and the World Cup in the same season. 🏅
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🗣️Johan Cruyff: “Jose Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football.”
🗣️ José Mourinho's response: “Thank you, it’s true I’m a title trainer. I love getting lessons from Cruyff, but he still has to teach me how to lose a Champions League final 4-0.”
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🗣️ George Best's story about Ferenc Puskás in Australia:
“I was with (Bobby) Charlton, (Denis) Law, and Puskás, we were coaching in a football academy in Australia. The youngsters we were coaching did not respect him including making fun of his weight and age.
We decided to let…
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Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan has donated his Champions League bonus to his childhood club in Germany to help them fund a new artificial pitch.👏
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🗣️ UEFA president Ceferin: “Saudi transfer strategy is a mistake for Saudi football. They should invest that money in academies, bring coaches and develop their own players... Buying players at the end of their careers is not a system that develops football... Similar mistake in…
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Mason Greenwood and his partner announced the arrival of their child on Instagram. 👪
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Pep Guardiola's team's league finishes throughout his managerial career.
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Robert Lewandowski is now only 1 goal behind Cristiano Ronaldo's highest ever goal tally in a calendar year. Lewandowski has 1 more match to play in 2021 so that he can equal or surpass Cristiano's tally.
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🗣️ Patrice Evra on Sir Alex Ferguson's team talk before the Champions League final in 2008:
"Ferguson said: 'I've already won. We don't even need to play this game.' We were like: What is he talking about? The game hasn't even started.
Then Ferguson turned to me, 'Look at…
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Did you know? Zlatan and Cristiano Ronaldo are the only two players to have scored in every minute of a match.
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🗣️"When you have Kylian Mbappé on your side it is very difficult not to win. He is one of those players who win games and scares the opponents. Mbappé goes to great lengths to try to show everyone that, after Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, he is the next best"
-José Mourinho
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🚨💣 Virgil van Dijk could face a four-match ban after red-card dissent.
The Football Association (FA) will review the report of referee John Brooks to see if Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk should face further punishment for showing dissent after being sent off against…
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🗣️“N'Golo, he does not have the numbers of an attacker. He can score a few goals but because of what he does, everyone must have watched his last games, especially the final of
#UCL
, N'Golo is also a driving force. The Ballon d'Or? He deserves to win it."
-Didier Deschamps
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🗣️ “France have a PlayStation team but it will remain a PlayStation team if we don't win a trophy”
-Paul Pogba
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Manchester United have called Zinedine Zidane on the recommendation of Cristiano Ronaldo. [
@elchiringuitotv
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#MUFC
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🗣️ Zlatan Ibrahimovic: “I was in the USA for a season I scored more goals than the matches I played. I knew that was not my level. My level is much higher than that.
When I returned to Europe whereby I joined a forgotten AC Milan and won the league. I would love FIFA to…
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi scored their last El Clasico goal on the same day as each other.
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Inter Milan have won the European Cup/Champions League 3 times, and on all three occasions, they've ended another team's treble bid.
❌1964: Real Madrid
❌1965: Benfica
❌2010: Bayern Munich
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🗣️ Zinchenko: “I want to look my daughter in the eye and say I did everything to help Ukraine.”
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🗣️ Micah Richards: “Has Messi ever been in your DM's?”
🗣️Jamie Carragher: Yes, (pulls out his phone) Is it Spanish that they speak, Argentinians? I'm just going to say the word he called me, I don't understand: "A 'burro' What does that mean?"
🗣️ Kate Abdo: It means a "Donkey".…
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💰 Top 10 most valuable players:
1⃣ 🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé: €𝟮𝟬𝟭𝗠
2⃣🇳🇴 Erling Haaland: €𝟭𝟴𝟮𝗠
3⃣🏴 Jude Bellingham: €𝟭𝟱𝟮𝗠
4⃣ 🇧🇷 Vinícius Júnior: €𝟭𝟰𝟭𝗠
5⃣🏴 Phil Foden: €𝟭𝟯𝟵𝗠
6⃣ 🇩🇪 Jamal Musiala: €𝟭𝟯𝟲𝗠
7⃣🇪🇸 Gavi: €𝟭𝟯𝟱𝗠
8⃣🇪🇸 Pedri: €𝟭𝟯𝟬𝗠
9⃣🇺🇾…
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