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🤍🌟 Jose Mourinho: "Álvaro Arbeloa is my son. ONE OF THE BEST MEN I EVER COACHED.”

“Not only as a player, but as a person. I wish him the VERY BEST with Real Madrid." ✨

🗣️ Jamie Carragher on Isak: “Honestly, I never really understood this deal. Liverpool have always been the club that signs ‘the next Isak’.

And the next Isak for them was Ekitike. So I don’t understand why you would then go and sign Isak himself. He was unfortunate with his serious injury. But he had already been an injury-prone player at his previous club, Newcastle.

He looked like a top player, but I don’t see how you could play a £125m striker and another £69m striker in the same team at the same time. Especially when you also sign Wirtz as a number 10.”

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: The rumors of a possible departure of Trent are false. ⚪️❌

He is excited about his future at Real Madrid. He wants to show his level to the club and the fans. ✨

🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: The Real Madrid hierarchy did NOT UNDERSTAND Xabi Alonso’s decision to give Endrick so few opportunities at the club, reports The Athletic. ⚪️‼️

Thoughts and prayers with Super Eagles midfielder and captain Wilfred Ndidi on the loss of his father.

Jamie Carragher on Slot’s future if they don’t make UCL:

“It’s difficult if you go from champions to not making the Champions League. You’ve got to believe that your manager is taking you somewhere. What you never want to do - and Manchester United have made this mistake a couple of times - is when you’re thinking, ‘I think we should change it, but I’m not 100 per cent’, and then get to October and you think, ‘We should have done it’.

“I hate even talking about it, because I adore the manager. He won us the league, the football was amazing, but there is a lot of criticism out there from Liverpool supporters. If he gets into the Champions League and we see signs of progression, has a good run in the FA Cup or Champions League, I’d say, ‘No, this is a collective thing.

The players aren’t playing how they were, the manager hasn’t had his best season, the people above him have got to take a lot of responsibility’. But if you finish sixth, that’s a major drop-off. It would be difficult to make an argument for (that).”

[AdamCrafton_]

Rosenior on Palmer: "There's no reason for an assurance. It's so unrealistic. It's come from nowhere. There is no need to have the conversation. Cole is happy. You can't stop speculation but some speculation is so far from the truth, there is no point having a conversation about it." [BobbyVincentFL]