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⚽️ Cristiano Ronaldo vs Toni Kross & Luka Modric 😳

🇵🇹 Cristiano Ronaldo for Real Madrid:
🏟️ 438 games
⚽️ 450 goals
🎯 131 assists

🇩🇪 Toni Kross for Real Madrid:
🏟️ 465 games
⚽️ 28 goals
🎯 99 assists

🇭🇷 Luka Modric for Real Madrid:
🏟️ 549 games
⚽️ 39 goals
🎯 89 assists

🚨 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋: The nominees for the Premier League 'Manager Of The Month' award for October.

🇵🇹 Nuno Espirito Santo
🇪🇸 Pep Guardiola
🇩🇪 Fabian Hürzeler
🇳🇱 Arne Slot

Who should win? 🤔

📊⚽️ Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz stats so far this season:

🇩🇪 Musiala:
🏟️ 11 games
⚽️ 7 goals
🎯 4 assists

🇩🇪 Wirtz:
🏟️ 14 games
⚽️ 7 goals
🎯 1 assist

Star boys ✨

🗣️ Vincent Duluc : "Kylian Mbappe will turn 26 in December. At that age, Lionel Messi won 4 Ballon d'Ors. Mbappe will soon have to ask himself if he will ever win a Ballon d'Or one day.

Nobody saw his career like that: He was supposed to win a few Ballon d’Ors on his path, like a storm."

Chelsea under Todd Boehly:

3 seasons
6 managers
£1 billion spent
0 trophies

Knocked out of the EFL Cup.

Enzo Maresca on Chelsea’s 2-0 defeat against Newcastle United [A] in the Carabao Cup fourth round:

🤝 “I think it [making 11 changes] worked if we analyse the performance. If we analyse the result, then it didn’t work.

“But I think for 23 minutes, until their goal, we were in control of the game and didn’t concede anything. Then after the goal, we lost control for ten minutes, when we conceded the second goal, and then for the last ten minutes of the first half, we created two or three clear-cut chances when we unfortunately didn’t score and in the second half we were in control of the game.

“So I know the most important thing is the result but with the performance, we lost the game because of ten minutes and for the rest we were quite good.”

🧠 𝐎𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝟐-𝟏 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞:

“I didn’t see a big difference [in how Newcastle played tonight]. I think in the last game they were more or less in the same way as tonight, trying to be aggressive. Today I think we did quite well.

“The first goal is one we can avoid because we know playing through the middle, we know they are quite aggressive so the solution was to go outside but it can happen.

“I didn’t see a big difference between tonight and Sunday. For sure, they needed to win this game to build momentum because of their last results.”

📈 “We need to get better at many things but we didn’t concede any chances from their pressing three days ago because we contacted not with the first line. We always tried to contact with the second line because we know they are very aggressive.

“Two days ago, we did very well and I think we did very well tonight apart from the goal we conceded. But for sure we have many things we can do better.”

🤔 𝐎𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡:

“It was simply because Joao [Felix] and Christo [Nkunku] were doing very well and it was just in case we needed Cole but because they were both doing well, there was no need to change.”

[ChelseaFC]

🚨⚽️ | NEW: 2024/25 Carabao Cup Quarter-Final Draw:

Tottenham vs. Manchester United
Arsenal vs. Crystal Palace
Newcastle United vs. Brentford
Southampton vs. Liverpool

➡️ Quarter-final ties will take place the week commencing December 17, 2024

The nominees for the Premier League Player of the Month for October are in! 🔥

Who gets your vote? 🤔

@sky_sports_football

🚨 BREAKING:

Manchester United have agreed to pay €12m (£10.05m) compensation to Sporting for Ruben Amorim, although that will only be confirmed when the announcement is made. If it goes through, this would be €2m (£1.7m) above the €10m release clause in Amorim’s contract.

The extra money, which sources in Portugal insist will be paid, is believed to cover the release of Amorim’s backroom staff to work alongside him at United. The extra €2m would also cover allowing Amorim to leave without giving the required 30-day notice period.

Sporting are expected to announce TODAY that they have reached a full agreement to allow Ruben Amorim to leave and become Manchester United’s new head coach!

It is also expected to be announced as part of the agreement that Amorim will remain in charge of Sporting for their next three games and join United during the November international break.

Several Sporting players have been left annoyed because Ruben Amorim asked for commitment and loyalty from them during the last transfer window and is now leaving with his staff. However, others accept the Manchester United offer is too good to refuse.

Ruben Amorim’s first game as Manchester United manager is expected to be against Ipswich Town away on November 24th

Ruben Amorim is set to sign a two-and-a-half-year contract worth £6.5m-a-year with the option of a 12-month extension at Manchester United.

Ruben Amorim is expected to bring his own back-room team to Manchester United, which includes assistants Carlos Fernandes, Adelio Candido and Emanuel Ferro as well as goalkeeper coach Jorge Vital and sports scientist Paulo Barreira.

[Telegraph]

🚨 BREAKING: It's VERY likely that the Valencia-Real Madrid game on Saturday will be POSTPONED.

The government has declared 3 days of mourning (tomorrow, Friday, Saturday). #relevo

@Realmadrid_world

🔴🇵🇹 Manchester United and Sporting are again in direct contact today about 30 day notice period for Rúben Amorim.

Man Utd see it as normal formal steps, working to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

No doubts on #MUFC side: Amorim will be the new manager.[Fabrizio Romano]

LALIGA president Javier Tebas said @Real_Madrid should've went to the Ballon d'Or ceremony and that their "victimhood is unnecessary and exaggerated" 😮

He's the starboy for a reason 🌟

Arsenal🔴

🚨Mikel Arteta confirms Martin Ødegaard has been back training on the grass for a few weeks and the Arsenal captain is expected to return within the next ten days.

Arsenal🔴

🚨 Manchester United are offering Rúben Amorim a three-year contract, worth around £19.5M.

(Source: Jamie Jackson)

🚨 Antonio Rüdiger has no interest in leaving Real Madrid, despite the club's intentions to bring in three new defenders next summer.

(Source: TEAMtalk)

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Al-Taawoun’s Muteb Al-Mufarrij celebrated in Cristiano Ronaldo’s face after he missed a 96th-minute penalty for Al-Nassr in their round of 16 match in the 2024/25 King Cup.

➡️ Al-Nassr went on to lose 1-0 and are now out of the competition

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Patrice Evra has compared Arsenal’s recent title-chasing form to waiting for the next season of a TV show.

“Watching Arsenal is watching Netflix, you know. You always wait for the next season. And trust me every season is going to be like that.”

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Mikel Arteta has indicated that Gabriel Magalhães has avoided serious injury after he went down during the second half of Arsenal’s 2-2 draw with Liverpool on Sunday.

“We are still assessing him. It doesn’t look bad at all.”

➡️ Mikel Arteta added that Jurrien Timber, who also appeared to suffer an injury in the second half and had to be withdrawn, is fine and could not continue the game but there is no new injury

🚨⚽️ | NEW: In his final Manchester United pre-match press conference before he was sacked, Erik ten Hag announced that Luke Shaw has suffered another setback in his recovery from a calf injury.

“The process is not going as we expected. That’s the truth. The setback, if you want to call it like this, we want also to do it very careful. When he is now dropping again, we want to be very careful.”

➡️ Luke Shaw has not played for Manchester United in 254 days, yet managed to appear for England three times during UEFA EURO 2024, starting in the semi-final and final