Fabrizio Romano

FT | Bournemouth 0-0 Palace Nothing to separate Bournemouth and Crystal Palace 🤝

FT | Man City 1-1 Everton ⚽️ Bernardo Silva ⚽️ Iliman Ndiaye Points shared at the Etihad Stadium as Everton move to four matches unbeaten 💪 Goal videos uploaded in the comments section 👇

🔵🫂 Enzo Fernández: “Cole Palmer is very very good. I see him training every day. He’s a very humble guy who works really hard. He has an incredible quality”. “He and Mo Salah, with Haaland are among the best players in the Premier League”.

🚨🦇 Official, confirmed. Carlos Corberan has been appointed as new Valencia head coach from WBA. Compensation fee over €3m.

🚨⚪️🔴 São Paulo confirm deal done for former Chelsea player Oscar joining the club on Christmas Eve. Done, sealed. ✨🇧🇷

🔵⚠️ Enzo Maresca: “I keep saying that we can't rely only on Cole Palmer”. “He's having to adapt because he's been man marked in almost every game”.

🔵🏃🏻‍♂️ Reece James, in training today and all smiles with Enzo Maresca — as he’s preparing his comeback.

🚨 Amorim on if the Rashford situation is big distraction: “No, I don't think so. Not for me, not the other players” “Everybody in Carrington knows what I'm talking about and what I want from Marcus and everybody else, so he's not a distraction for us”.

🚨 Rúben Amorim: “I'm not rotating to see the future, I just want to win games and don't have injuries”. “If you have injuries it’s a big problem. I know the responsibility that I have here, but I'm trying to manage this team to not have injuries”.

🚨🟡🔴 EXCL: RC Lens are closing in on deal to sign 17 year old talent Andrija Bulatovic from Podgorica for fee around €2m package. Dinamo Zagreb were also in talks for Bulatovic but RC Lens convinced the 2006 born midfielder. Deal now at final stages. 🇲🇪

🔵🇦🇷 Maresca on Enzo Fernández: “We are very happy, the development is clear and he is helping us a lot”. “Leadership he is growing, you all can see that”.

🚨 Rúben Amorim: “Leaving Rashford out is my decision. He wants to play, he’s trying. It’s my decision, only my decision”. "I’m doing things my way, and it’s the only way I know. If I don’t do that, I will lose myself. I know what I’m doing”.

🚨🎄 Rúben Amorim: “I just want to win, I don’t care about Christmas”. “I’m really frustrated like the fans, but I know what to do. But then we have to solve some problems step by step, finding answers for everything”. “We will fight for that”.

🚨 Rúben Amorim: “I speak to Rashford every day... not about the interview he did [saying he’s ready for new challenge], but about the performance”.

🚨🇺🇦 Maresca on Mudryk going to Usyk vs Fury boxing fight: “In this moment it's good that he can disconnect from the situation a little bit”. “I spoke with Misha, we try to support him. Now we are just waiting”.

🔵❌ Enzo Maresca: “We are not in a title race and it’s not about the pressure for the players, club or me. For me it's the reality”. “We ahead of our expectations in terms of the way we are playing and points. I hope one day soon we’ll have the title race pressure!”.

🚨⚠️ Roméo Lavia will miss Chelsea game vs Fulham, confirms Enzo Maresca. “Lavia is still recovering. He's much, much better. He's already working on the pitch but unfortunately he's not ready for Fulham”.

🚨🔵 Pep Guardiola backs Erling Haaland: “For sure Erling is so important for us, he will be so important for us”. “We'll try to do things better to use him better. It’s one of our missions now”.

🔵⚠️ Pep Guardiola confirms John Stones will be out against Everton. “Still I didn't talk with the doctors, but apparently if he could not continue in the second-half in Villa Park, it's because he will not be ready”.

🚨⚠️ Ferran Torres suffered small injury to his soleus, tests made today by Barça staff have confirmed. “Ferran he will be unavailable until the injury has healed”, the club reports.