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In three months at Chelsea, Thomas Tuchel has now beaten Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Diego Simeone (X2), José Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti! And without conceding a single goal either in those six matches!
**Update** In four months at Chelsea, Thomas Tuchel has now beaten Zinedine Zidane, Pep Guardiola, Jurgen Klopp, Diego Simeone (X2), José Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti! And without conceding a single goal either in those seven matches!
And let’s not forget that Ngolo Kanté is fasting for Ramadan. And still puts another incredible performance tonight! What a player. “The gift”, like Thomas Tuchel calls him.
Grealish to City. Messi to PSG. Lukaku to Chelsea. Kane to City. My head is going to explode! And we thought it was going to be a quiet transfer window…
Red card for Christensen. The Liverpool players in the stands clap and sort of celebrate. Klopp turns round from the touch line and shouts: “Are you crazy? We never ever do that, ok?”
Marco Verratti: “The referee told me “F*ck you” twice. If I do that, I get a 10 match ban.” Andre Herrera: “The referee told Paredes to f*ck off. It’s incredible.”
Two minutes before the goal, Edinson Cavani told Mason Greenwood to play the ball to him quicker in the box. On his next ball, Greenwood’s one-touch cross to Cavani is perfect.
This is the wildest transfer window ever!
Messi to PSG
Mbappé to Real Madrid
Ronaldo to Manchester City
Lukaku to Chelsea
Ramos to PSG
Grealish to Manchester City
Varane to Manchester United
😳🤯
Looking at the Arsenal - Manchester United stats in details: Arsenal had 63 touches in the United box!! 63!! That’s the highest total in any Premier League game this season. United only had 12 in Arsenal’s box. Arsenal’s 3.2xG (off 25 shots) is their highest this season.
Thomas Tuchel while VAR was checking Chelsea’s first goal! “Let’s go home” he says!! 🤣🤣 Imagine if they had ruled it out!!! He would have really gone home!! 🤣🤣
Let’s be clear here: Kalidou Koulibaly is a fantastic signing for Chelsea. Even at 31, he is better than Rudiger and Christensen put together! World class player, leader, great personality.
Marco Verratti had not played for PSG since August and had trained only twice before the City game. Then he drops an absolute masterclass, he gets a declaration of love from Pep Guardiola and he finishes the night in the Medellin nightclub with Neymar and Mbappé. What a legend!
PSG don’t want to sell Kylian Mbappé this summer. They have rejected Real Madrid’s 160m euros offer for him today. Will Real come back with a higher offer? PSG say they would reject it too. But would they really?
This time, he is on his way for sure! I still can’t believe it! This is incredible. The greatest player of all time, in my city, in my club. Welcome to Paris Lionel Messi! ❤️💙🔴🔵
It’s now confirmed by different sources: Karim Benzema WILL be in France’s squad for the Euros this summer. More than five years after his last cap, Deschamps will call him back. Wow!!!!!
Kylian Mbappé has decided to leave PSG to join Real Madrid!! Information first revealed by
@le_Parisien
earlier today and now confirmed. Story here:
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Confirmation of the contacts between PSG and Marcus Rashford, as reported first by L’Equipe. PSG need a player who can play wide or as a 9. Rashford is keen on a new challenge, one year before the end of his contract. No discussions yet with Manchester United.
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Chelsea, you have got a good one in Axel Disasi!! Great personality and leadership, strong in the duels, quick, versatile (back 4, back 3, RB), international and European experience. And, maybe the most important, he is Paris born and bred!! 😉🇫🇷
Confirmation of Arsenal’s first offer to Lyon for Houssem Aouar. 35m Euros. It won’t be enough but they will come back. Aouar wants to come to Arsenal.
97th minute winner at Luton
89th minute winner at Brentford
84th minute equaliser at Chelsea
86th minute winner vs City
96th & 101th minutes winners vs United
Incredible from Arsenal so far this season!
The clashes in the stands last night during the Switzerland game, between Veronique Rabiot (Adrien’s mum) and the Pogba and Mbappé families is something else! Her telling Mbappé’s dad to tell off his son because he is too arrogant has to be right up there in terms of clashes!!
Paul Pogba was sensational tonight, again! Great interview too (after he had a drink and ate some dates). He is in the best form of his life, happy, relaxed and full of confidence.
@paulpogba
What a job Nicolas Jover is doing at Arsenal this season! He has transformed the team on set pieces offensively and defensively. Of course, victories are always a collective effort. But Jover is a big key of Arsenal’s success as we saw today. 👏👏
Gabriel was excellent today, once again. So humble and nice in his post match interview too. If Arsenal are the best defence in the league, it’s thanks to him. Partey was excellent too but Elneny was immense.
Watching Bernardo Silva play like this, as a false 9, a false 8, a false 10 and a false 6 all in the same game, is an education! Incredible football intelligence.
Phil Foden played 90 minutes against Brazil tonight as a right winger and then as a 10 and he didn’t have a single touch in the Brazilian box! How is that possible?!? He is one of your best players and he was never put in a situation where he could have influenced the game.
Arsenal are not signing Coutinho. They are not in for him and never were. They are looking actively for a centre back before Thursday’s transfer deadline.
Karim Benzema has scored 13 goals in the Champions League this season from an xG of 3.54! 😳 How?!?!?!? This is incredible. That’s why he is Kariiiiim the Dream!
Jorginho is such an Arteta player. He is great in a team that plays on his strength. He has a manager's brains and will be perfect for Arteta because his football IQ is so high. That's why Pep wanted him at City when he was at Napoli and why Arteta already wanted him last summer.
Argument Duncan Ferguson - Jurgen Klopp on the touch line after the Liverpool penalty shout. « Why are you laughing? » Klopp shouted at Ferguson who had a big grin on his face! « We are allowed to talk or is it just you Jurgen? » intervened Seamus Coleman!
The Ballon d’Or, Real Madrid, El Clasico, Mbappé, France, his evolution, his longevity, his legacy, R9, his future: great
@Benzema
interview coming up soon on
@ESPNFC
@espn
and all the other ESPN around the world! ⚔️🔥🇫🇷🇪🇸
#KB9
#nueve
William Saliba, first ever game in the Premier League, at 21, away at Crystal Palace and he bossed it.
His stats are remarkable:
0 foul committed
67% duels won
6 clearances
7 recoveries
94% accurate passes
Man of the match. So impressive.
Incredible ending to the Valencia - Real Madrid game!!!! The referee blew full time just as Real Madrid were attacking and seconds before they scored the winning goal in their last attack!
More good news for Arsenal fans after the new contracts for Saka and Martinelli: talks are positive and moving forward with Aubameyang. He wants a 3 year deal and £250k a week. He wants to stay. The club wants him to stay. Negotiations continue.
One of the linesmen at the Arsenal - Brighton game (I don’t want to name him but I should) flagged Trossard offside after a throw in!! A throw in!!!! I mean come on!! He put his flag down when the fans reacted! The level of referring in the PL this season has been so bad…
The biggest problem for Portugal is Fernando Santos. No one else, nothing else. He should have left after 2016. How can he still be in charge with all the talented Portuguese coaches around?!?!?
Bellingham who wins the Clasico again, like he did in Barcelona earlier in the season. First season in Spain, three goals in two Clasicos, two winning goals too. Incredible!
I think Messi will end up staying and I’m forcing myself not to dream too much of a Neymar - Mbappé - Messi front 3! However, PSG believe they can do it. Talks ongoing with the Messi clan already but so much can still happen, including the Barça-Messi-la Liga issue being resolved
Five years ago, Tanguy Ndombélé was released from Guingamp academy. He had no club and felt that football was over for him. Four years ago, he was playing in France’s 5th division with Amiens then in the 2nd division a year later. Today he has signed for Tottenham. Never give up.
Paul Pogba is playing a big part in convincing Ousmane Dembélé to join Manchester United. No agreement yet between Barcelona and Manchester United but negotiations are progressing positively.
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Please, let’s use what happened in the last two days to actually make football a better place, let’s learn from it. There are still plenty of issues (racism, inequalities, money...) for UEFA, FIFA and all the clubs, small and big, to work on & sort out. All together we can do it!
Reports in France and Italy that Lyon have an agreement for Paqueta is good news for Arsenal and Aouar. Paqueta would be Aouar’s replacement. Talks continue today between Lyon and Arsenal, no agreement yet.
It’s almost 2023 and some players are still racially abused because of the colour of their skin! It’s disgraceful and it has to stop. We are all French and we all fight for the same country, the same colours and the same goal. There is no room for racism anywhere!
@FrenchTeam
Full agreement between Chelsea and Lyon for the transfer of Malo Gusto! The right back will finish the season on loan in France, like Lyon wanted. Personal terms agreed a long time ago.
If Sir Jim Ratcliffe brings Jean-Claude Blanc and Paul Mitchell with him at Manchester United, it would be one of the best moves the club has done for a long time! By far!
Bruno Guimaraes’ move to Newcastle is agreed. I can’t stress enough what a fantastic player he is and what a great coup this is for Newcastle. He will increase the team so much!
Gini Wijnaldum touched the ball 28 times tonight!!! In midfield. For PSG. With 60% of the ball. In case your wonder about the other midfielders: Verratti 138 touches, Danilo 66! 😳🤷♂️
Being told that Tottenham have now also entered the race for Houssem Aouar. Arsenal are still keen on the Lyon playmaker but Spurs are in the conversation too now.
Arsenal have not made a second offer for Houssem Aouar yet. They are preparing one, significantly higher than the €35m offered on Friday. Lyon still say they want €60m.
Now let’s see for Presnel Kimpembe. Chelsea and PSG talking. PSG are happy to let him go, Chelsea want him and he wants a new challenge. So I can’t see why this deal would not happen.
Karim Benzema has decided to leave Real Madrid after 14 years and 25 trophies including 5 Champions Leagues. His legacy is immense. An incredible person and an incredible player. One of the greatest ever.
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