Dear UCL draw gods, Please be kind to Manchester United Give us the smallest teams possible in every round, just like Messi got that World Cup run. We don’t want Real Madrid We don’t want Bayern We don’t want PSG #UCLDraw #MUFC

#MUFC are still struggling to find a permanent buyer for Zirkzee after the entire summer, while #CFC have just sold three underperforming strikers for more than £120m in less than three days. You don't even need a complicated explanation. We're just terrible at selling. 😭

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Manchester United are one of the biggest clubs in football history — comfortably top 5 in my book by almost any measure. But the uncomfortable truth is that #MUFC have been living off the glory built during Sir Alex Ferguson's era for far too long. Ferguson didn't just build a successful team. He built a formidable dynasty, and the club is still benefiting from that legacy today. But building success is one thing. Sustaining it is where the real work begins. Since Ferguson retired in 2013, #MUFC have often been run more like a business centre than a properly structured football club. Bad decisions. Wrong appointments. Wrong transfers. Wrong direction. Poor planning. A lack of proper structure. One bad decision has constantly created another problem. Replacing someone like Ferguson was never going to be easy, but Barcelona lost Pep Guardiola and still managed to remain successful. Difficult doesn't mean impossible. And that's what makes the decline of #MUFC so frustrating. We had opportunities to sign players like Haaland, Hazard, Álvarez, Bellingham and plenty of other elite talents before they became superstars. Instead, we repeatedly spent huge amounts of money on average players who didn't improve the team enough. The pattern has started to change over the past year, but the damage accumulated over more than a decade doesn't disappear overnight. Look at #AFC. Arsenal recently got one of the toughest Champions League draws, yet their fans aren't even remotely worried. They have genuine belief that Mikel Arteta has built something strong enough to compete regardless of the opposition. Meanwhile, #MUFC can get a relatively favourable draw and our own fans are debating whether we'll even finish inside the top 24, never mind the top 8. That's how far the perception of this club has fallen. Manchester United are still a sleeping giant. The question is whether the people running the club can finally build the structure required to wake it up. Because the Theatre of Dreams deserves more than memories of what Sir Alex Ferguson achieved. It's time to build a new era.

why does Leo type so fast with one hand 😭

Just like Pep's favorite son 💙❤️

I'm seeing fans talk down on the possibility of Mbappé winning the Ballon d'Or as if he shouldn't even be in the conversation. One of the most common traits among football fans is hypocrisy. We all witnessed how easily Messi won the 2022 Ballon d'Or after his World Cup cameo was enough to push him ahead of an Erling Haaland who had a far better club season than Kane just had. Haaland was the best player in the Premier League by a mile. He was the league's top scorer, broke the all-time single-season goalscoring record, scored hat-tricks for fun, finished as the Champions League's top scorer, won the European Golden Shoe, scored against almost everyone he faced, won UEFA's best-player award and Champions League Player of the Season — while also winning the treble with Manchester City. Manchester City had never won the Champions League before Haaland arrived, and suddenly they won it alongside a historic treble. Haaland basically completed club football that season. And he still lost the Ballon d'Or because Messi scored penalties and had a great World Cup. Now look at Kane. He wasn't even the best player in his league. Olise won the Player of the Season award. He wasn't the best player in the Champions League either — Kvaratskhelia was arguably better. He wasn't even the Champions League's top scorer despite reaching the semi-finals. Then came the World Cup, where Kane had a poor tournament for someone receiving best-player-in-the-world and Ballon d'Or shouts. Bellingham outperformed him for England and delivered in moments when England needed someone to step up. You could genuinely name 10 players who had a better World Cup than Kane. Then there's Mbappé. World Cup Golden Boot. Best forward at the World Cup. Most goal contributions at the World Cup. Champions League top scorer. La Liga top scorer. No player had ever finished as the top scorer in the Champions League, the World Cup and his domestic league in the same season. Mbappé just did it. Yet people are choosing Kane over him because Kane scored 70+ goals against Bundesliga teams. I'm not taking anything away from Kane. He had an outstanding season and deserves to be right up there. But Mbappé deserves the Ballon d'Or. Two truths can coexist. Kane can have an incredible season AND Mbappé can have the better individual Ballon d'Or campaign. It's not that difficult.

There's no player in football history who dominated a Champions League campaign quite like Cristiano Ronaldo did in 2013/14. Ronaldo was moving like an earthquake, crushing everything in his path. Big clubs. Small clubs. European giants. Group stages. Knockouts. And even the final against his city rivals in Madrid. 17 goals in a single Champions League campaign. A record that still hasn't been replicated, even with the expanded format providing more matches. Dortmund? He delivered. Bayern Munich and prime Manuel Neuer? He destroyed them. Atlético Madrid in the final? He delivered again. He was inevitable. And this wasn't some one-off campaign where he padded his numbers against weaker opposition. Ronaldo repeatedly showed up when the competition got serious, especially against elite teams in the knockout stages. That's the difference I see between Ronaldo's Champions League dominance and the way people often discuss Messi's numbers. Ronaldo didn't just accumulate goals. He made elite European teams look ordinary. And he didn't do it once. He did it repeatedly, season after season, under the brightest lights, against the best teams in Europe. He became the ultimate Champions League juggernaut. The bigger the stage, the more dangerous Ronaldo became. He didn't just play in the Champions League. He terrorized it. And for years, European football had to watch greatness bow before him. 🐐

Everyone's eating well at Barcelona. From Rodri to Adeyemi, Gordon to Cancelo. Only Julian is being held hostage by Atletico Madrid. 😭

Apparently, Madrid and Arsenal fans are lecturing us about footballing decorum, while both have been involved in similar situations to the Julián Álvarez saga. It's just hypocrisy because it's Barcelona this time. When it happens elsewhere, suddenly everyone goes silent.

🚨🤣 Sabah FC have the most dangerous job in Europe right now. First Barcelona. Then Arsenal. Then Manchester United. At this point, Sabah players aren't checking the fixture list anymore. WHO DID SABAH OFFEND?😭😭 They came to experience the Champions League and UEFA gave them the Avengers

🚨 Reports suggest Julián Álvarez has become increasingly open to the idea of joining Arsenal. 🇦🇷🔴⚪️ People close to the situation have reportedly highlighted Mikel Arteta’s plans to use Álvarez in a role that could bring out the very best in his game. 👀💭 source (@MiguelDelaney)

If it’s Lagos Island, then a canoe 😭😭

We're back 😜 Algorithm be nice oo😏

I just realised SofaScore rated Lamine Yamal 8.08 ahead of Mbappé 8.05, Harry Kane 7.93, Kvaratskhelia 7.71 and Olise 7.61 in the Champions League. This has got to be one of the worst PR schemes I've ever seen. And this is exactly the advantage Lionel Messi enjoyed for much of his career — the media and public perception constantly pushing a particular narrative around him. Now it feels like that mantle has been passed to Yamal. Even Yamal and Barcelona fans can admit he wasn't a top 3 player in the Champions League last season, yet somehow he finished with the highest rating. And then people use these narratives to push him for the Ballon d'Or. The same guy who supposedly deserves the award because of a World Cup where, in my opinion, he barely made the kind of impact people are now pretending he did. For me, the Ballon d'Or ranking should be: 1. Kylian Mbappé 2. Harry Kane 3. Rodri 4. Michael Olise 5. Lamine Yamal The PR machine is working overtime.

Matchday 2 of the Premier League kicks off tonight, and I'll be dropping a separate analysis of each game later. For now, here are my full-time predictions for all 10 matches: #CPFC vs #MCFC — 1-2 #LFC vs #NFFC — 2-0 #AFCB vs #EFC — 1-1 #CCFC vs #HCAFC — 2-1 #THFC vs #NUFC — 2-2 #CFC vs #BHAFC — 2-1 #LUFC vs #BrentfordFC — 2-2 #SAFC vs #FFC — 1-2 #MUFC vs #ITFC — 3-1 #AVFC vs #AFC — 0-2 I'll be dropping separate analyses for some of these matches, so tune in and don't miss out. 👀 I'm expecting #MUFC to bounce back with a comfortable victory over Ipswich, while #AFC should comfortably beat #AVFC. #MCFC could have a tough time away against #CPFC, but I still expect them to edge a difficult win. #CFC haven't beaten #BHAFC in a while, so I'm expecting another entertaining game, with Chelsea having the slight advantage at Stamford Bridge. #LFC face a #NFFC side that has beaten them a couple of times in recent memory, but I expect Liverpool to edge the game at Anfield — and perhaps even more comfortably than we imagine. #THFC vs #NUFC is a fixture that usually produces goals, with Newcastle often getting the better of Tottenham. But with Spurs playing at home, I'm expecting a high-scoring draw, although Newcastle could still edge it. 2-2 feels like the most realistic prediction. 🍿⚽ Let's see how many I get right. 👀

“Ronaldo isn't even a better goalscorer than Messi because he's played more games and Messi has a higher goals-to-games ratio.” This is the logic you hear from Messi fans when that particular narrative favours them. But watch what happens when the same logic is applied to Messi's playmaking. The same fans will tell you Messi is a better creator than Kevin De Bruyne and the greatest creator football has ever seen. Yet Messi doesn't even have the highest assist-to-game ratio among elite creators. Players like Di María, Özil, Kevin De Bruyne and Neymar have all recorded higher assist-per-game ratios. So which one is it? If goals-per-game is the ultimate way to determine who is the better goalscorer, then shouldn't assist-per-game be equally decisive when determining who is the better creator? You can't selectively pick whichever metric makes your favourite player look better and then ignore it when the same standard works against him. The GOAT debate can't be built around a different set of rules every time the numbers don't favour your narrative.

Thank you Cules for the wonderful match, now i can sleep peacefully

Messi tried to speak Japanese after winning his fourth Ballon d'Or 😭 🇯🇵

Interviewer tried to touch Leo Messi’s leg 😂 Leo Messi: “Get your hands off my legs.” 😭 ( He is effortlessly funny when he decides to actually speak. 😆 )