Dermot Corrigan
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Speaking to those who know Athletic coach Ernesto Valverde about his love for music and photography (as he prefers not to talk about it...)
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In last 21 years, La Liga teams have played 17 Champions League and Europa League finals against non-Spanish teams. And won all 17.
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Bale leaving Madrid with more goals for the club than Ronaldo Nazario, more assists than Beckham, more games than Figo, more trophies than Zidane and more Champions Leagues than Raul. And nobody sorry to see him go.
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Keylor Navas still never lost a two-legged Champions League tie he played in.
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Suarez in tears on TV "Barca didn't value me and Atletico opened their doors for me. I will always be grateful to this club for trusting in me."
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If Messi keeps playing as he has in last two games, Barca are La Liga title favourites.
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Ramos on Klopp not letting the Salah injury stuff lie “It’s not the first final he's lost, [maybe] he wants to use that as an excuse for losing. Some of us have been operating at a very high level for many years, not sure he can say the same."
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21 year old Fener goalkeeper Altay Bayındır having a pretty good game.
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Simeone scoffs when asked on Spanish TV whether it was penalty by Azpi on Carrasco. "No, we are not looking for excuses. We were beaten by a better team."
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Also pretty nice for Barca that all of Mingueza, Busquets, Alba, Messi, Ilaix, Araujo and Riqui Puig on pitch together by end.
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Madrid make the Champs League semis for 12th time in last 14 seasons. Which is pretty incredible.
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Conte's Chelsea tonight the best Premier League to team to visit Spain in long, long time.
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On that, Barca with three goals scored at Euros so far - Depay 2 & Griezmann.
Zero from all other La Liga teams.
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Athletic to sail with Copa trophy down river Nervion on their Gabarra barge next Thursday - leaving Getxo at 1630 & arriving at Bilbao town hall bridge about two hours later...
(photo from last time...)
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Varane comes out to face Spanish TV cameras - “I want to show my face as this defeat is mine. I take my responsibility. We had prepared well, but mistakes are paid for at this level, very dearly. I cannot explain the mistakes, it can happen in football, a difficult night for me”
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Bielsa - "Just putting in youngsters so you can show you did it is no good. You have to put them in, and make sure they succeed."
Bielsa: la cuestión no es poner jugadores jóvenes sino ponerlos y que no fracasen
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Alongside Suarez on the bench for Atletico today, is Thomas Partey - suggests maybe that Thomas not central to Simeone's plans at moment...
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Simeone: "We tried to go and press them, but they were able to get out of it, and we could not keep up with them."
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Unai Simon on his man of the match award "Honestly? I'd have given it to Yann Sommer..."
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Laporta on lie 6 - about Neymar. "He said we had pardoned Neymar €16.5m - another lie. I would remind Bartomeu of all the damage the Neymar deal did to Barca's image. There were 4 open cases with Neymar, we thought best for Barca's interests to settle and avoid more risks."
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Carvajal on the TV "The season is over. It's been a shit year."
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Simeone again: "They were better tactically, physically, with intensity. You must congratulate a team who played as Chelsea did today.”
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September 2017 - Emery’s PSG beat Bayern 3-0 in Paris. Bayern then go unbeaten in 25 UCL away games, until tonight, when Emery’s Villarreal beat them 1-0 at the Ceramica.
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Ronaldo just now on TV “In coming days there’ll be answer about my future. It has been very nice playing for Real Madrid.” Yikes!
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Barca announce that training tomorrow moved from early morning to 5PM. Which suggests Ronaldinho well placed to be the new coach.
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Messi Instagram goodbye to Suarez "You deserved a send off as one of the most important players in the club's history, not that they push you out as they have. But the truth is that nothing surprises me at this stage."
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Ancelotti is right, Vinicius situation shows that Spanish football does have a racism problem, and neither Madrid nor anyone else is doing much at all to solve it
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Not gonna happen, but Luis Enrique is the coach Barca really need at the moment.
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Xavi's Barca playing more like Luis Enrique's Spain than Koeman's Barca.
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Madrid going a debatable VAR / refereeing call per game since return - Benzema offside v Eibar, Valencia goal ruled out, now Vinicius penalty... All could have gone either way, but all have gone Madrid's way...
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Zidane has just two defeats in his 11 Clasicos as Madrid coach - six wins, three draws. He has positive record against all of Luis Enrique, Valverde, Setien and now Koeman.
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Simeone: "Courtois went to Madrid and won the prize for best keeper in the world. When he was at Atletico, Keylor Navas won it. In this world of football you must know where you are and how things go. When you know that, you can live much better."
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Xavi's views on Coutinho couldn't really be any clearer.
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Madrid statement: 'Today Real Madrid wishes to express its thanks to a player who has shown himself to be the best in the world, and has marked one of the most brilliant eras in the history of our club, and world football."
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Messi identifying Gvardiol as strongest link in Croatia's defence, then personally destroying the best young centre-back in the world, while not 100% fit, was pretty special
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PSG summer pretty crazy - Wijnaldum and Ramos on big salaries, Achraf for €70m, and Donnarumma apparently coming too. Contrast with Barca - and La Liga in general - pretty huge.
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Nine dribbles from Messi tonight. No other player completed more than two.
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Cadiz players set to follow Leeds last night by wearing tee-shirts with slogan against Super League before their La Liga game against Madrid tomorrow (says
@marca
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The 10 players PSG are looking to offload now can join the dozen Barca have on the market, eight or so Madrid would like to sell, similar number Man City want to move on, etc.
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Just seeing full super angry Messi interview on TV "All season we have been a very weak team, beaten for intensity, for motivation, people can score against us very easy, we lost many points where we shouldnt lose them. This game has just summed up how our season has been."
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UEFA stats say Vardy completed zero passes during his 77 mins on pitch at Calderon. Two attempted, neither came off. Gotta be a record.
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Pep's unwillingness to use Eric Garcia at City was not just because he was heading back to Barca, seems pretty clear.
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Ancelotti out - making clear he's super happy to be back, steering artfully away from any controversy, but suggesting Madrid won't spend much money this summer.
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Zidane has now left Madrid three times - each time with at least a year left on his contract, and without negotiating a pay-off. It's cost him €42m in foregone salary calculates
@oscargarciadiaz
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Ex-La Masia left-backs gonna play this year in Champions League (Grimaldo), Europa League (Miranda) and Premier League (Cucurella). Meanwhile, Barca still don't have a Jordi Alba back-up / long term replacement.
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Tchouameni now played 5 at CB for Madrid this season. 5 clean sheets. 5 Madrid wins.
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Luis Enrique: “Busquets game was a guide of how to play as a pivot, in defence and attack. He is a player who many people do not understand, after so many years of being used to watching him, but he is a unique player, and a guarantee.”
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With 27 weeks gone in La Liga, Messi now has more goals, assists, shots at goal, completed dribbles and created chances than any other player. Via
@FutbolAvanzado
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Tchouameni very quickly becoming a Bernabeu favourite
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Ansu Fati now youngest player ever to score for Barca in La Liga, youngest player ever to score for Spain, and youngest player ever to score in Champions League.
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Anyone who picks Enzo Perez over Banega - in a team which needs to find a way to get the ball to Messi in the right areas - understands football in a very different way.
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Barca have lost all their toughest / key games so far this season - against Madrid and Atletico in La Liga, Sevilla in Copa del Rey, Athletic Bilbao in Supercopa. Final UCL group game 0-3 at home to Juve, now 1-4 v PSG.
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Messi up to 15 goals and 7 assists in 12 games since 2021 started.
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Looks very like the first Spain Euros or World Cup finals squad in history with ZERO Real Madrid players.
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Madrid now lost to all four sides wearing 'blaugrana' so far this season - CSKA, Levante, Barca and Eibar.
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Since leaving Valencia - Marcelino wins Supercopa, Ferran Torres wins Premier League, Kondogbia is La Liga champ and now Parejo and Coquelin win Europa League.
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Pique on TV 2 "Nobody is untouchable, last of all me. Fresh blood needed to change this. We have hit bottom now. We all need to look and reflect and see what is the best for Barca, which is the most important.¨
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Inside Barca dressingroom there's...
😢 Sadness at Messi exit
😡 Anger at leaks which blame them
☹️ Unwillingness to accept pay-cuts
🤷 Uncertainty over Depay registration
😨 Fear clubs will come for Pedri, De Jong etc
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Barca wouldnt be scrambling for Neymar replacement if they had paid the €3.5m to sign Asensio in summer 2014. Used money for Douglas instead
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Luis Enrique: "There is no better national coach than me, in the history of world football. That’s what I believe, obviously it’s not true, but I can’t doubt that. I can’t have doubts, if I have to convince my players of the idea of how we will play."
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Simeone on his celebration: “It was what I was feeling. To put in Costa and Koke after so long out you must have balls. And I showed that.”
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Nice from Messi: "I don't like to get involved in politics. People get very fanatical. It is like football now, if you are with one side, you have to battle to the death against the other. I don't think like that - politics should be about people living better, not suffering."
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Klopp at presser: "If you want to play like this, and the stadium are happy with how you play, just for the result, they are not here to see sensational football, but they got the result and they are now happy..."
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Sevilla maybe happiest of all teams that Messi left Barca - he played them 43 times, 38 goals and 20 assists. Only loss in La Liga at Sanchez Pizjuan was in 06-07.
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21 year old Fener goalkeeper Altay Bayındır seems to have a lot of fans already - one to watch for future for sure.
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Ronaldo open letter to Madrid fans on website: "I just have enormous thanks for this club these fans, and this city. But I believe the time has come to open a new stage in my life, so I have asked the club to accept to let me go"
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Barca winning - Koeman puts on more defenders. Barca losing - Koeman puts on more attackers.
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"You don't know him" - how the accidental president broke Barca's boardroom and dressingroom, and why he now needs Messi to leave...
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OMG!!! Bartomeu: "I can announce some extraordinary news. Yesterday we accepted a proposal to participate in a future European superleague, which would guarantee the future financial sustainability of the club. And we have accepted the future Club World Cup format."
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Comparisons between Solskjaer and Koeman understandable to an extent, but also pretty unfair - losing Messi a more difficult problem to solve than being given Ronaldo.
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Zidane: “For me, I repeat, the most important is La Liga, the most difficult. In CL you have 12 games, in La Liga 38 weeks.”
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Origi had pretty amazing season - almost loaned to Huddersfield, doesnt play at all until scores winner v Everton as late sub. Another late winner v Newcastle to keep title race alive. And three goals from three shots all vital to LFC winning UCL title.
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Hazard "For me Benzema is the best striker in the world right now. Playing with him, training with him, will make me better. I hope we connect well, so he scores goals, and I score goals.”
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Pep spending most of presser fending off Spanish journalists who accuse him of demeaning Simeone / Atletico, or British journalists who want him to condemn Simeone / Atletico.
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Koke: “We are Atletico, if we do not suffer, we are not ourselves.”
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Simeone if this the worst Barca he’s faced: “This is the first time we played against Barca without Messi. They had the same possession as ever, but the thing is that Messi is unique.”
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Just the 31 of 31 passes completed by Pedri in the first half. More than Veratti and Jorginho completed combined.
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Joao Felix is best player in La Liga these last few months.
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Florentino “It cannot be that in England, the six lose money, and 14 make money. In Spain the top three lose money, and the others make money. It cannot continue - at the moment the rich are those who are losing money.”
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Some good news for Barca this morning, Coutinho is back training with the group.
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Simeone: "I just keep laughing. I don't know why, but I just keep laughing."
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Worst Champions League final first half since Chelsea v United? Milan v Juve? Could be common theme there...
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Tchouameni up to five fouls already, but no yellow yet (Casemiro must have left him his cloak)
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Only mistake Militao made in the last few months was the visit to the barber.
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Barca well within rights not to offer Ilaix better terms, just as he can decide whether to sign or not.
But club not picking him for any team, explicitly to make an example, then deliberately turning fans against him, is the problem.
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Auba had 5 touches in 35 mins on pitch, zero shots.
Luuk had 3 touches in 8 mins on pitch, three shots, inc the equaliser.
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Portugal's Joao Felix, Spain's Alvaro Morata, and France's Antoine Griezmann look a lot better than Atletico's Joao, Morata or Griezmann have recently.
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Benzema done more this season on his own than Mbappe, Neymar and Messi together.
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Griezmann has 6 goals and 6 assists in his last 9 games.
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Gavi's understanding of the play - on and off the ball - is just phenomenal.
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Ronaldo quite poetic on Spanish TV at full-time "Those who always criticise Cristiano are going to have put their guitar back in its case.”
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Barca's last three games now late winner v Elche, battling draw at Sevilla and patched up team digging deep to win at Mallorca. Xavi's first big success has been instilling new spirit and grit in the squad.
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Marcos Llorente had scored three senior goals in entire club career until tonight. Over 6,000 minutes of football. Now two more inside 10 mins.
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Xavi not got Barca playing much better yet, but definitely got them fighting harder already
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Simeone: "We are up against two superpowers, like Madrid and Barcelona. Teams like PSG and Juve have seen how difficult it is to face them. What we have done in this decade is tremendous, Atletico fans should be proud of how their team is competing."
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Simeone on TV: "The opponent was the better team, they were the more comfortable team in all moments, and deserved to win."
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Could La Liga's best five players so far this season be Benzema, Vinicius, Courtois, Kroos and Militao? Ancelotti has so many key individuals playing at such a high level.
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Modric: "Of course we miss Cristiano. The club wanted other players to step up, if not to score 50 goals, then 15 or 20. I will not name names but we need 20 goals from two or three players."
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