REAL DEMANDED TO CANCEL THE MATCH WITH PSG ?! PEREZ IN FURIOUS over Champions League re-draw!
REAL MADRID PROTEST AGAINST UCL REDRAW
The scandals surrounding the Champions League playoff draw continue to pop up! According to Marca, Real Madrid have complained to UEFA about the redraw.
The management of the Royal Club claims that their team got to know Benfica as their opponent even before UEFA made mistakes in the next pairs. Madrid believes that the rescheduling of the Round of 16 games should have been held without the participation of Real and Benfica, since their pair was chosen correctly and according to all rules, meaning that UEFA had no right to interfere and change the game.
We recall Benfica facing Real Madrid in the first version of the draw, and already in the second one, they were swapped with PSG.
The Madrid chief of institutional relations, Emilio Butragueño, commented on the matter:
«It’s surprising, shameful and very difficult to understand what’s gone on today, given that millions of fans and the world of sport were following the draw».
«That said, we approach this tie with real excitement, whilst being aware of what this competition means to the club and our fans. We’re also aware of just what tough opponents we face and the quality of players they have, but we’re confident that the team will put in two great performances, ” concluded Butragueño.
BOOM! BARCELONA WILL SIGN TWO TOP STRIKERS IN JANUARY! Xavi’s first signings to Barça!
Aguero wrote farewell letter
Barcelona striker Sergio Aguero has posted a farewell letter due to him ending his playing career because of heart problems.
We’ve highlighted some words from the Argentinian’s Twitter publication:
“I’ve always known that I’d give it all to have a chance to play again. However, after the last exams, I was advised by my doctors to cease practicing professional football. Their words were sufficient to make a choice. Retiring under these circumstances is difficult, but life comes first. »
“It’s surely painful – but it’s no tragedy. A tragedy would have been
another thing altogether. My thoughts are not on the time I could have played on, they are on the wonderful 18 years I did get to play. »
“Life goes on, and there’s plenty of it ahead. It will be a new
stage, a different one indeed, but I’ll keep on just like I’ve done
so far: always positive, with enthusiasm and joy, ”wrote Aguero.
Messi posted tribute to Aguero
And here is how PSG striker Lionel Messi reacted to Aguero’s publication:
“Practically a whole career together, Kun. We lived very beautiful moments and others that were not so, all of them made us unite more and more and be more friends. And we are going to continue living them together outside the field.
‘With the great joy of lifting the Copa America so little ago, with all the achievements you achieved in England… And the truth is that now it hurts a lot to see how you have to stop doing what you like the most because of what happened to you.
‘Surely you will continue to be happy because you are a person who transmits happiness and those of us who love you will be with you. Now a new stage of your life is starting and I am convinced that you are going to live it with a smile and with all the illusion that you put into everything.
‘All the best in this new stage!!! I love you very much friend, I am going to miss a lot being with you on the field and when we get together with the National Team !!!’, ” reads Messi’s post.
Barcelona can shelter Aubameyang and bring Sanchez back
Sport.es
Barcelona is thinking about buying Arsenal forward Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, according to the Catalan newspaper Sport.
The day before, the Gabonese was deprived of the captain’s armband in the London team and was removed from the line-up at the match versus West Ham due to disciplinary violations. Aubameyang’s relationship with Mikel Arteta’s coaching staff has rapidly deteriorated and the player can now be sold to Barça.
Despite the transfer of Pierre-Emerick, Alexis Sánchez’s comeback to Camp Nou may also take place!
The source states that the blaugranas have reached an agreement with Inter to loan the Chilean before the end of the season. Striker Luuk De Jong will follow the opposite direction in case the deal gets approved by Sevilla, the club the Dutchman actually belongs to.
