Fabrizio Romano

🚨⚠️ Official: Wayne Rooney leaves Plymouth Argyle with immediate effect. Club confirms mutual decision after only one win in 14 games since joining the club.

🔵✈️ Aaron Anselmino travels to London on Friday and he will start training with Chelsea at Cobham from next week. He’s gonna be part of the squad, no decision made yet on new loan.

🚨⚠️ Rúben Amorim confirms it won’t be easy to bring in players in January: “We don't have that possibility in January if we don't sell some players”. “You know the situation better than me. I can’t arrive and spend money immediately”.

🚨🔴⚫️ Seko Fofana to Rennes, deal sealed and here we go! Agreement completed for the midfielder to return to Ligue1, it will be official in the next days. First part of medical completed, fee over €20m as Le Parisien reported. Rennes also on it for Brice Samba. 📈

🚨 Ansu Fati’s agent Mendes: “Two years ago, Ansu Fati was at the top of the world. He’s had bad luck with injuries, but I’m certain he’ll overcome all those adversities”. “He’ll return to his level and continue winning the hearts of Barça fans”, told MD.

🔴 Rúben Amorim on relegation zone: “That is really clear and we have to fight. It is a really difficult moment, one of worst moments in the history of Manchester United”. “We have to address it with honesty and to be clear with that, we have to fight next game”.

🔴❗️Rúben Amorim on Zirkzee: “Josh is a really good lad. We will support him and keep going”. “It was really tough for me to do that, but I've spoken to Josh as it was important to express the message. We needed Josh to go out, for the team”.

🚨❗️ Rúben Amorim: “I don't want to arrive here and make excuses… I think people are tired of excuses in this club”. “Manchester United, our club, needs a SHOCK… and we have to understand that”.

🔵📈 Ipswich Town manager McKenna: “You can see Liam Delap is a different beast now to what he was in July”. “When you're seeing that rate of improvement from a 21-year-old that's a really positive sign”.

🔵❗️ Enzo Maresca: “We are far from competing, consistency and being there with the best teams in England”. “We have to be satisfied where we are but… we need to improve, for sure”.

🚨🟣 Fiorentina are set to sign Michael Folorunsho on loan deal with buy clause from Napoli, agreement being sealed. Deal on track as planned.

🚨 Rúben Amorim on making statement by not bringing Marcus Rashford on: “I think about the team, you think a lot about Marcus”. “I think about the team, I'm not making a point”.

🔵👀 Enzo Maresca: “In December, we have played nine games and we started by winning the first five or six winning, but then struggled”. “We arrived at the end of the month a bit tired in general”.

🚨🇳🇱 Rúben Amorim on Zirkzee out: “You have to think about the team, and also sometimes about the player as the player was suffering”. “I felt the team was suffering and needed another midfielder, that’s it”.

🚨 Enzo Maresca: “We expected this kind of moment in the season. It is almost impossible to have a season without this”. “Not anyone in this room expected us to be where we are. It also shows we are far from competing, consistency and being there with the best teams in England”.

🚨📉 Manchester United finish 2024 as 14th in Premier League table, only 22 points. 21 goals scored, 26 (!) conceded. One win, five defeats in the last 6 Premier League games for Manchester United 😲

🔵🤯 Big win for Ipswich Town… and it’s second defeat in a row for Chelsea! 📉 One point in the last three games for the Blues.

🔵🔁 Former Chelsea player Omari Hutchinson… scores against the Blues for Ipswich Town tonight.

🚨📉 20 goals conceded in 11 games for Man United under Rúben Amorim as coach. 0-2 at home against Newcastle, half time.

🚨🔵 Reece James returns into Chelsea matchday squad after injury. Noni Madueke and Renato Veiga, also back as it’s all sorted. João Félix starts. 🇵🇹