Fabrizio Romano

⚪️ Big win for Spurs… and first defeat of the season for Manchester City, out of the Carabao Cup!

🔴🇳🇱 Ruud van Nistelrooy x Man United fans.

First game = win for van Nistelrooy 🔴🇳🇱

One more win for Liverpool! 🔴✨

🔴⚪️🪄 Two games in Carabao Cup, three goals for Arsenal gem Ethan Nwaneri. 17 year old talent making an impact once again.

🔴🇳🇱 Cody Gakpo’s beautiful goal means he scored his 3rd goal in two games in Carabao Cup for LFC this season. Key player for Arne Slot.

🔴✨ Jamal Musiala with first hat-trick in his career, special night for Bayern star! 11 G/A in 11 games so far… …7 goals, 4 assists in all competitions.

🔴🇦🇷 6 goals, 4 assists for Alejandro Garnacho in 15 games this season for Man United.

🇦🇷 Lautaro Martínez: “To be honest, I was expecting more than 7th position at the Ballon d’Or. Sometimes at these awards they are unfair”. “I’ll be working hard to improve that position”, told DAZN.

🔵⛔️ Jadon Sancho, not even on the bench for Chelsea tonight due to illness.

🚨🇳🇱 Ruud van Nistelrooy arrives for his first game as Man United interim coach vs Leicester in Carabao Cup. He’s staying as interim manager until the formal steps for Rúben Amorim to leave Sporting are completed.

🚨🔵 Negotiations underway between Napoli and Alex Meret over new deal as contract proposed has two options: Deal until June 2027 plus option until 2028; or deal valid until June 2028. 7 clean sheets for Meret in Serie A this season and excellent relationship with Conte.

🔴🇵🇹 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.

🚨🔵 Manchester City keep rejecting approaches for Claudio Echeverri’s loan move, not only from River Plate. Echeverri is considered part of Man City long term project already from 2025.

💔 Thoughts and prayers with the people of Valencia after the terrible storm where more than 50 people have lost their lives. La Liga, considering to postpone Valencia vs Real Madrid game.

🟢⚪️ Ez Abde has signed new deal at Real Betis valid until June 2029, as key part of the project.

🔵👀 Guardiola on Ruben Amorim and Man United: "The experience against Ruben’s Sporting was very good". "I spoke with Matheus Nunes and he spoke highly". "This season he’s unbeaten winning all of the games in the league, and in Champions League has the same points with us".

🔵✋🏻 Pep Guardiola: "We are open to Erik ten Hag visiting us". "Any time! Seriously! Always we are open, but I think it’s not going to happen". "But I know his agent a little bit, so the relation is there, no problem for me, for us...".

🔵⚠️ Pep Guardiola confirms: "Kevin de Bruyne can't play yet. Hopefully, after the international break he can feel good". "He feels better, can train, but the level we need for competition, when he kicks the ball he still has pain".

⚪️ Ange Postecoglou on needing time: "There is a formula there. If you want to look at recent history, there's Liverpool, there's Arsenal". "There are plenty of others who have not stuck to a process, big clubs and small clubs, and haven't got any progress".