Fabrizio Romano

⚪️🇧🇷 Rodrygo: “I love Madrid very much, I love living here. It's been very important to me”. “I've always had this dream of playing for Real Madrid and living here. I'm more than fulfilled”.

🔴🔵🇭🇷 Bologna have agreed deal to sign 16 year old talent Ivor Pjevic from Hajduk Split. Agreement in place and documents set to be signed with Croatian player.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: “There’s no money left in the club. And that is after my 300 million”. "But in three years time or five years time, Manchester United will be the most PROFITABLE club in the world".

🚨💣 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "For Sancho, who now plays for Chelsea and we pay half his wages, we're paying £17m to BUY him in the summer". "We're going to pay £89m this summer for players we haven't signed. Even if we don't sign anyone this summer, we'll have to write a cheque for £89m".

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "It takes time for us to move away from the past into a new place in the future. Some players are not good enough and some probably are overpaid... ...but for us to mold the squad that we are fully responsible for, and accountable for, will take time".

🚨🔙 Paul Pogba can officially play pro football again from today, still available as free agent. His ban is definitely over.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "Mainoo or Garnacho for sale to make profit? No, no. We won't be selling players because of the state we are in financially". "The club had got bloated so we reduced that and will finish it with a lean and efficient organisation. That's how we will address the costs", told BBC.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "Norman Foster, who also is a Mancunian, and is the world's greatest architect in my view, really has created the most ICONIC stadium for Manchester United". "That's going to be fantastic".

🚨🏆 Sir Jim Ratcliffe on the mission to win Premier League by 2028: "I do NOT think it's mission impossible. I think it's good to have goals", told Sky.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "We'll have a great training centre, we would have the world's greatest stadium". "It won't be a small stadium, and it will be a very profitable club".

🚨👀 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "There WILL be a budget for Amorim this summer. I'm not going to disclose it". "Of course, that budget changes depending on who he might decide to sell because that would supplement the budget", told Sky Sports.

🔴🇵🇹 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "There are some great players in the squad as we know, the captain is a fabulous footballer". "We definitely need Bruno, he's a fantastic footballer", told BBC.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe on job cuts at Man United: "My mother would say: You look after the pennies, the pounds look after themselves", told Sky. "Money we are spending at United not as my money but as the fans' money". "Should I be spending the fans' money on a free lunch, or should I be spending fans' money on a new player who might win some silverware? That's how I look at it".

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "You are beginning to see a glimpse of what Ruben Amorim can produce. I think you saw a glimpse of it against Arsenal. How many players against Arsenal on the bench did you recognise?". "Ruben is doing a SUPER job".

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe on Sir Alex Ferguson's ambassador contract being cut: "I sat down with Alex and said to him that the club is spending more than it's making, that we're going to be in trouble and we can't afford to keep paying him £2m a year". "I gave him time to think about it and he came back three days later, after speaking to his son, and said: fine, I'm going to stand down. That's my decision". "I think that's a very good reflection on Alex, because he put the club before himself", told The Telegraph.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "Keeping Erik Ten Hag and Dan Ashworth? These were both mistakes". "It’s a journey and there’s a lot of decisions that we have to make over the course of the journey and we’re not going to get them all right", told Sky.

🚨❗️ Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "Job cuts? We found out we even had a body language consultant on £175,000 a year!", told The Times.

🚨👋🏻 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "I'm pleased for Marcus Rashford, he's moved out of Manchester... it's probably a good thing for him", told BBC.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "Manchester United would have run OUT OF CASH by the end of this year... ...by the end of 2025 - after having me put $300m in and if we buy no new players in the summer", told BBC.

🚨 Sir Jim Ratcliffe: "I decided to start this Man United chapter as I really like Manchester United, my boyhood club. I believe that we can sort it out". "If I didn't believe it, I wouldn't do it, would I? I'd sell it to the Qataris or something..." .