Fabrizio Romano

🚨🇳🇱 Virgil van Dijk on his contract: “There is no deadline at all. We will see what the future brings”. “Is there an update? No”.

🚨🔴⚪️ La Liga’s Coach of the Month for December: Diego Pablo Simeone. 🇦🇷

🚨🇪🇸 Real Sociedad director Olabe: “Zubimendi has a release clause, yes… but it’s always the player to decide and he’s been showing how committed he is to our project”. “So far, we’ve seen how he has behaved and I don’t predict any ‘scares’ in January for Zubimendi to leave”.

🚨 Former AS Roma CEO Lina Souloukou has signed in as new Nottingham Forest and Marinakis Multi Club group CEO. The agreement with Evangelos Marinakis’ group will be effective from 5 January 2025.

🟡🔴👀 Raphael Varane was secretly in attendance for Lens-PSG last night! “Love football, the emotions… This is what it is all about”. ❤️✨

🔴❗️ Rúben Amorim: “You can feel not just the players, also the fans, in the first goal-kick from Andre Onana… he’s thinking what to do, trying to push the other guys and everybody’s so anxious”. “I think in this moment in our club, everybody’s tired of this moment”.

🔵🤷🏼‍♂️ Pep Guardiola: “We broke all the records, now we start on other records on the other side. That is the truth...”.

⚪️❗️ Ancelotti: “The club never showed me any concern”. “They have always shown affection, calm and tranquillity. This is what a coach needs in difficult times”.

🔴📈 Son on Liverpool’s form: “There is no question, they are top of the league”. “You can see quality players and discipline. There is a reason they are top of the league…”, told Sky.

🚨🎄 Kyle Walker: “We’re gonna train on Christmas Day this season, we've got Everton at 12:30 on Boxing Day”. “But the last couple of seasons we've had Christmas Day off, which has been very nice...”.

🚨 Rúben Amorim: “I always expected this job to be tough, especially in these busy months”. “We are ready to face the challenge. We will go for it”.

🤍👀 Ancelotti: “I said yesterday that Mbappé's adaptation period is over… and today he has shown that sometimes, I am right”.

🚨 Mo Salah when asked about new deal updates: “No, no”. “Records? It’s great to achieve that at such a big club. Wherever I am going to end my career I am happy about it”, told Sky Sports.

🚨🇪🇬 Mo Salah: “Records? I just keep working hard! We were quite good in front”. “Defensively we have to improve as a team. To concede three goals is quite hard. Virgil will speak better than me about that”.

Liverpool with one more super win! 🔴📈

🔴🇪🇬 18 goals and 14 assists in all competitions this season for Liverpool. Insane by Mo Salah. ✨

🔴✨ Mo Salah is the first player in Premier League history to reach double figures for goals and assists before Christmas. King Mo at it again. 🇪🇬

🔴📈 Dominik Szoboszlai scores after excellent first half… one more assist by Mo Salah, once again. 14th assist this season.

Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Bukayo Saka will face a spell on the sidelines 🤕

Manchester City have lost 9 of their last 12 games in all competitions (W1 D2). The last time other selected clubs had a run of 9 defeats in 12 games: Chelsea - 25/05/2023 Tottenham - 26/12/1997 Arsenal - 23/03/1977 Man Utd - 16/12/1961 Liverpool - 23/01/1954 [Opta]