Berlin (DPA)
Manchester City coach Josep Guardiola confirmed that Portuguese player Bernardo Silva will remain at the end of the summer transfer period, noting that his club has not received any official offer yet to sign the distinguished midfielder.
Silva had been strongly linked with a move to Barcelona, following he confirmed earlier this month that his current club knew his desire well.
Silva starred last season, scoring 13 goals and making seven goals for his teammates in the 50 games he participated in. Guardiola did not make much effort to reduce the possibility of his departure, saying that the midfielder “loves Barcelona very much.”
Speaking at the press conference held today, Friday, before facing Crystal Palace tomorrow, Saturday, in the league, Guardiola made his clear statement regarding Silva’s future, saying: “He will definitely stay here.”
He added, “We have not received any offer from any club asking for Bernardo Silva, that is the reason for him staying with us.”
When asked regarding the difficult situation that Manchester City will fall into if Silva moves at the end of the transfer market, which puts the team in a difficult position to find a replacement, the Spanish coach replied: “Yes, but I tell you that he will stay.”
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A big mockery campaign against Halland because of the “diving” in the Barcelona match (
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
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Thursday 25 August 2022
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Norwegian striker Erling Haaland, Manchester City striker, was criticized and ridiculed by followers on social media, following he received a controversial penalty kick during his team’s friendly match once morest Barcelona.
Manchester City drew 3-3 with Barcelona in a charity friendly match held at the “Spotify Camp Nou” stadium on Wednesday evening.
While the result indicated that Barcelona had advanced once morest Manchester City 3-2 until the seventh minute of stoppage time in the second half, the referee awarded a controversial penalty kick to the English team, from which Riyad Mahrez scored the fatal equalizer.
Penalty or not?????#TeamALS #ManCity #barcamancitypic.twitter.com/hTYV8d6rvN
— FootTheBall FC (@FootTheBallFC) August 24, 2022
And according to the British newspaper “Daily Mail”, the fans accused Halland, on social media, of deliberately falling into the penalty area, before Andreas Christensen, the new Barcelona defender, touched him.
One follower wrote on Twitter, “Haaland should have gotten a gold medal following the diving shot.”
Another follower said, “Haaland’s diving shot was ridiculous,” while another wrote, “Haaland’s diving shot is the most shameful shot I’ve ever seen.”
Another fan said, “Haaland deserved to get a red card,” while another fan wrote, “Sometimes I hate football because of shots like Haaland diving in.”
Istanbul (AFP)
The draw for the group stage of the European Champions League in football resulted in Bayern Munich, once morest Barcelona, of Spain, and the draw took place in Istanbul, which will be the stage of the final match on June 10, 2023.
By virtue of the presence of Bayern Munich in the first level and Barcelona in the second, the draw resulted in their falling into the same group, which is the third that will be fiery with the presence of the Italian Inter as well.
And the coincidence decided to put the Polish striker Robert Lewandowski, who moved to Barcelona this summer, in the face of his former team Bayern, who left him following defending his colors since 2014, and he was crowned top scorer in the German League six times in the past seven seasons.
The date between the two teams is renewed following they were in the same group last season, when Bayern won back and forth with a single score 3-0.
The confrontation will also be a replay of the 2019-2020 quarter-final, which was held in a one-match gathering system in Portugal due to the Corona virus, and at that time the Bavarian club achieved a historic result 8-2 on its way to the sixth title in its history at the expense of the French Paris Saint-Germain, which the lottery placed in Group H Next to the Italian Juventus, he faces his former winger Angel Di Maria, who recently joined the Turin giants.
As for Real Madrid, which won its fourteenth title in the competition last season at the expense of Liverpool, it appears on paper that it faces an easy task, following it came in Group F alongside Leipzig of Germany, Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine and Celtic of Scotland.
As for his runner-up, Liverpool, the champion of the competition 6 times, the last of which was in 2019, he came in the first group with Ajax Amsterdam, Napoli of Italy and Rangers of Scotland, while Manchester City, the English Premier League champion, fell in Group G along with Seville, Spain, Borussia Dortmund, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
With the World Cup in Qatar being held in the winter, the group stage program will be compressed, with the six stages taking place over two months, as the World Cup from November 20 to December 18 forced the European Union to hold all matches within nine weeks, starting from September 6.
On the other hand, Real Madrid’s French striker Karim Benzema was crowned the best footballer in Europe in the European Union referendum, and Italian Carlo Ancelotti, coach of Real Madrid, won the best coach award.
“The Premier League” breaks the “spending record” in the “Summer Mercato”
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
London (AFP)
The English Premier League clubs broke their record of spending on contracts during the summer transfer market, according to Deloitte, the financial auditing company, Football Money League.
According to the study conducted by Deloitte, the total spending by 20 teams in the “Premier League” amounted to 1.5 billion pounds “1.7 billion dollars”, to strengthen its ranks with new players until today “Thursday”, compared to 1.43 billion pounds in 2017, which was a figure a previous record of spending.
The current figure, which has been spent since June 10, the official opening date of the summer transfer market, exceeded what was spent during Mercato, both summer and winter last season, which amounted to 1.44 billion pounds.
With only a week to go until the summer transfer window closes on September 1, it is only during this period that English clubs might break the absolute record for spending in an entire season, £1.86 billion, set in the 2017-18 season.
“The record levels of spending that we’ve seen in this summer transfer window so far provide a sign that the business models of Premier League clubs are recovering following Covid,” said Chris Wood, Associate Director of Deloitte Sports Business Group.
He continued, “While this is encouraging, the importance of clubs to establish responsible and sustainable spending policies cannot be overstated,” stressing that “clubs must balance their desire to be competitive on the field, with the need to protect financial viability and a long process. term.”
And the “Premier League” clubs signed 135 players this summer, breaking previous records in the summer transfer market in 2019 and 2020, while contracting with 148 players in the summer of 2021.
Clubs paid transfer fees in two-thirds of these signings, including 14 separate players who moved for a reported fee of more than £30m.
Top of that list was the transfer of Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunez from Benfica to Liverpool, which amounted to 85.5 million pounds.
Chelsea spent 60 million to sign Spaniard Marc Kokorea, 47.5 million to bring in Raheem Sterling from Manchester City, and 34 million for Senegalese Kalidou Coulibaly.
For his part, Manchester United allocated 60 million to buy the Brazilian Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro, while Manchester City paid 50 million to the Norwegian Erling Halland, the former German striker Borussia Dortmund. In turn, Arsenal spent 77 million to obtain the services of Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus and Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Zinchenko from Manchester City.
Tottenham spent 60 million to buy Brazilian striker Richarlison from Everton, while West Ham, Nottingham Forest and Wolverhampton clubs were also active in the transfer market by making large contracts.