🚨 Michael Carrick on JJ Gabriel wiping Manchester United from his Instagram and being left out of the Brighton squad: 🗣️ Reporter: “He wiped the club off Instagram and he’s not in the squad tomorrow. Is this over?” 🗣️ Carrick: “He’s 15. I don’t pick squads from Instagram. He didn’t train. So he’s not in. That’s tomorrow night. The door isn’t closed. We’re not cancelling a child. If he wants this shirt, he puts it back on at Carrington. Not with a caption. With boots.”

🚨 Dominic Calvert-Lewin on Leeds’ 1-1 draw with Manchester United: 🗣️ Dominic Calvert-Lewin: “We were unlucky. We should have beaten them. That is the truth. We created enough chances. We controlled parts of the game. We made them uncomfortable. And we still came away with a point when we deserved three. “It was not difficult for us to adapt. We knew what they would try to do. They have the ball, they try to play through the middle, and they look for the wide players. We pressed them in the right areas. We forced them into mistakes. When we got the ball we were direct and we caused problems. That is why we scored. That is why we had other moments where we could have scored again. “United are a big club. They have good players. But on the day they did not look like a side that was better than us. They looked like a side that was struggling to break us down. We made it hard for them. Their midfield could not find the spaces they wanted. Their forwards were isolated. And every time we got forward we looked more dangerous than they did. “I am disappointed we did not win. The performance was good enough. The chances were there. One more bit of quality in the final third and we take all three points. United will say they got a result away from home. We will say we should have won. Both things can be true. But I know which one I believe. “We go again next week. This league does not wait for anyone. But today we showed we can compete with anyone when we play the way we did. That is the positive. The result should have been better. The performance was not the problem.”

🚨 Roy Keane on Michael Carrick’s position at Manchester United: 🗣️ Roy Keane: “If they do not win the next two games, he should be sacked. It is that simple. I am not interested in the excuses or the process or how difficult the job is. The results are not good enough and they have not been good enough for weeks. “You cannot keep drawing games you should be winning and expect people to stay patient. The players are not performing. The team looks flat. There is no intensity. There is no edge. And the manager is the one who has to fix that. If he cannot, then someone else has to come in and try. “I have seen enough. The next two games are the test. Win them and he buys himself more time. Fail to win them and he has to go. That is the standard. Anything else is just delaying the decision. The club cannot keep drifting like this. If the results do not change immediately, the manager has to change.”

🚨 Paul Scholes on Andrey Santos’ performance against Leeds: 🗣️ Paul Scholes: “I said it when they signed him. Fifty million pounds for a player who was not starting regularly at Chelsea. Now you watch him against Leeds and you see why. He went missing. The game was there to be controlled in midfield and he did not control it. “Leeds are not a bad side. They press, they run, they make it difficult. But that is the Premier League. If you are going to play for Manchester United, or even for Chelsea before that, you have to show something in those games. He did not. He looked like a passenger. He was on the pitch but he was not affecting the match the way a fifty-million-pound midfielder should. “I do not enjoy saying it. He is young. He has talent. But talent is not enough when the price is that high and the expectation is to improve the team straight away. Against Leeds he had the chance to show he belongs. Instead he disappeared. That is the problem with these signings. You pay the money and then you wait. United do not have time to wait. Neither does any club that wants to compete. “He will get more chances. Players develop. But days like that against Leeds are the ones that tell you whether the signing was right or wrong. Right now, it does not look right.”

🚨 Lamine Yamal on the confrontation with Facundo Bernal: 🗣️ Lamine Yamal: “He came in after the goal and there was contact. I pushed him to create space. That is what I did. Then he moved his head towards me more than once while we were close. The referee saw it and sent him off. I got a yellow for the push. “People are saying I went down or that I started everything. I pushed him, yes. I did not headbutt anyone. I stayed on my feet and I stayed on the pitch. He did not. That is the difference the referee saw. “After a goal there is always pushing and players coming together. I tried to get away from it. He reacted in a way that got him sent off. I do not control the cards. I controlled what I did, and what I did was a push. The rest is what he chose to do after. “We finished the game with eleven players. They finished with ten. That is what the incident decided. Everything else is people talking about it afterwards.”

🚨 Pep Guardiola praises Enzo Maresca for his record-breaking start at Manchester City: 🗣️ Pep Guardiola: “What Enzo has done is special. Seven wins from seven games. No manager in the Premier League has ever started their career like that. I have been in this league long enough to know how difficult it is. You face good teams every week. One bad day and the run is over. He has not had that bad day. “I am happy for him. I am happy for the players. When I watched the team, I saw organisation. I saw players who knew exactly what was expected of them. That is not easy to achieve so quickly. He has given them clarity, and they have responded with results. “People will talk about the squad he inherited. They are right to. But the squad still has to be coached. The ideas still have to be implemented. Enzo has done that, and the table shows it. A record-breaking start is not just a number. It is proof that the players trust him and that he knows how to use them. “I wish him well. City are in good hands. If he continues like this, the record will only be the beginning. He deserves the praise. The results speak for themselves.”

🚨 Luis Enrique on resting eight key players for Strasbourg despite PSG sitting 6th in Ligue 1: 🗣️ Luis Enrique: “I know what people are saying. We have won only three of our six league games. We are sixth. And still I have left Doué, Dembélé, Vitinha, Ruiz, Mendes, Hakimi, Pacho and Marquinhos out of the starting team for Strasbourg. They look at the table and they say I am not taking the league seriously. “I am taking it seriously. That is why I am protecting these players. We have Barcelona in the Champions League in midweek. That is a match that can define our season. If I play the same eleven every weekend, I will arrive in Europe with tired players and a higher risk of injury. I would rather drop points now and have the right players available for the bigger games than chase every league point and then lose the ones that matter most. “The media will criticise the rotation. They always do. When we rest players and lose in Europe, they say we were not serious enough in the league. When we rest players and win in Europe, they say the league is too weak. I cannot control that conversation. I can control which players are ready on the night we play Barcelona. “Sixth place is not where we want to be. But the season is long. We have depth in the squad for a reason. Today Strasbourg will face a different PSG. On Wednesday, Barcelona will face the one we believe gives us the best chance. That is the decision I have made, and I will live with the criticism that comes with it.”

🚨 Didier Drogba on how important Moisés Caicedo has been for Xabi Alonso and Chelsea since returning from injury: 🗣️ Didier Drogba: “Since he came back, you can see the difference in how this team plays. Xabi needs control in midfield. He needs someone who can receive the ball under pressure, break up attacks, and then start the next move immediately. Caicedo has given him that. “Today was a clear example. Reece James was not available, and normally that creates problems. You lose a player who can carry the ball, defend one-on-one, and give you an outlet on the right. But Caicedo made sure the team did not feel that absence. He covered the spaces, he won his duels, and he kept the ball moving so the rest of the side could stay organised. “That is what a top midfielder does. He does not just play his own position. He makes the players around him better. When he is fit and playing with this intensity, Chelsea look balanced. The defence has protection. The forwards get the ball in better areas. Xabi can trust the structure behind him. “Injuries are part of the season. You cannot always have your best players available. But when Caicedo is on the pitch, he reduces the impact of those absences. He has been excellent since he returned, and today he showed exactly why he is so important to what this team is trying to do.”

🚨 Gary Neville criticises Everton fans for booing injured Emi Martínez: “That was embarrassing. A goalkeeper is lying on the floor, not moving, and there are still people in that stand booing him. I don’t care what the rivalry is. I don’t care how much you dislike the player. When someone is seriously injured, you shut up and let the medical staff do their job. “I’ve been in enough stadiums to know how quickly a crowd can turn. But there is a difference between getting on a player’s back and booing someone who is clearly in distress. He wasn’t rolling around. He wasn’t wasting time. He was down and he wasn’t getting up. And some of those fans still thought it was the moment to make noise at him. “Football supporters love to talk about passion and atmosphere. This was neither. This was a section of a crowd forgetting there is a human being on the other end of that noise. Rivalry stops when the player cannot move. Anyone who kept going after that should be ashamed of themselves. “I’ve criticised Martínez plenty of times. Plenty of people have. But none of that matters when he is on the floor and the doctors are around him. Everton fans who did that looked small. And the ones who stayed quiet looked like the only ones who understood what was actually happening.”

🚨 UEFA Financial Control Board on the 271 charges filed against PSG: 🗣️ A senior UEFA official: “We have received the full dossier. Two hundred and seventy-one charges. This is not a minor compliance issue. This is an allegation of systematic, multi-year financial misconduct involving state-linked channels, false accounting, and the active involvement of league officials who were supposed to oversee the competition. “The documents suggest that domestic matches were postponed not only for sporting reasons, but as part of a broader pattern that protected the club’s ability to compete in Europe while masking the true cost of its operations. Rival clubs have already contacted us demanding that titles and Champions League places from the last decade be reviewed. They believe they were competing against a club that was not operating under the same rules. “What makes this particularly serious is the claim that internal compliance files and communications were deliberately suppressed for years. The fact that these materials were ultimately handed over by a former player’s legal team shows how difficult it was to get to the truth through normal channels. “Our independent disciplinary panel will begin its review next week. We are not in a position to comment on the outcome, but the scale of the charge sheet means this cannot be treated as a routine case. If the allegations are substantiated, the sanctions available to us go far beyond fines. Points deductions, transfer bans, and exclusion from European competition are all on the table. “European football has rules for a reason. When one club is accused of operating outside those rules for this long, with the alleged cooperation of its own league, it raises questions about the integrity of every competition that club has taken part in. We will follow the evidence. That is all we can say for now.”

🚨 Arsène Wenger on the advantages PSG hold over other teams in the Champions League: 🗣️ Arsène Wenger: “There is a structural problem here that people do not want to discuss properly. PSG can postpone Ligue 1 matches when it suits them. They can move a domestic fixture to protect their players for the Champions League, arrive fully fit, fully prepared, and then play a team that has just come through a full Premier League weekend with no such option. “That is not squad management. That is a competitive advantage the other clubs do not have. In England, in Spain, in Germany, the league schedule is fixed. You play when you are told. You cannot ring the league and ask them to move the game because you have a Champions League match four days later. PSG can. And they use it. “Add to that the level of the domestic competition. When the gap between first and the rest is so large, you can rest half your team, protect key players from fatigue and injury, and still win the league comfortably. The others cannot do the same. They have to play their best players every week just to stay in the race. Then they meet PSG in Europe and the French side have fresher legs, fewer minutes in their legs, and a better recovery window. “I managed in the Premier League for many years. I know what it costs to compete on both fronts with no flexibility in the calendar. The physical and mental load is different. When one club can choose when it plays its league games and the others cannot, the Champions League is no longer being contested on equal terms. “People will say every big club rotates. That is true. But rotation is one thing. The ability to postpone a league match so your entire squad is fresh for Europe is another. That is an advantage the rules of the competition allow, and it is an advantage that makes the path easier for one team than for the others. If we want a fair Champions League, these differences have to be addressed. Otherwise we are simply watching some teams play under different conditions than the rest.”

🚨 Carlo Ancelotti on the criticism that Ligue 1 gives PSG an unfair advantage through rotation: 🗣️ Carlo Ancelotti: “I understand why people talk about it. After a result like the one against Manchester City, it is natural to look for explanations. Some say the level of Ligue 1 allows PSG to rest players and arrive fresher for the Champions League. There is some truth in the observation, but it is not the full story. “Every top club manages the calendar. In England, in Spain, in Germany, in Italy, the strongest teams rotate. The difference is that when PSG do it and then perform in Europe, people present it as an unfair advantage. When other clubs do the same, it is called squad management. The principle is the same. “Luis Enrique is right when he says the narrative changes. For years the argument was that Ligue 1 was too weak for a team to be ready for the Champions League. Now the argument is that the same league is so easy that it becomes an advantage. Both cannot be true at the same time. The reality is simpler: PSG have quality, depth, and a clear idea of how to use the squad across a long season. “Rotation is not a cheat. It is preparation. Fresh legs, fewer injuries, players who are mentally ready for the biggest nights. City, Real Madrid, Bayern, every serious contender does a version of this. The teams that complain the loudest are often the ones who feel the difference when they face a side that has managed its energy better. “The level of the domestic league matters, of course. But the quality of the players, the organisation, and the ability to peak for the right matches matter more. PSG are showing they can do that. That is not an excuse. That is the job.”

🚨 Ander Herrera on why he left Manchester United after winning Player of the Year: 🗣️ Ander Herrera: “After my third season, I had the Player of the Year award. When I won that, I expected the club to come to me. I told my agent, ‘Whatever they offer is going to be okay. I’m going to sign because I want to stay at United. I’m so happy.’ “So every week while I was on holiday, I was asking, ‘Did they call you?’ ‘No, Ander, they didn’t call me.’ Next week, same thing. The season started. I started playing. They still didn’t come. “What killed me was when they sent that letter saying they were going to renew automatically for my fifth season. They didn’t even call me to say, ‘Ander, we want you to stay.’ I was there so happy, always trying to bring the team together, everyone together, giving everything for the club. But my heart was broken. “I said to Ed Woodward, ‘Do you think I deserve to be sent a letter? Couldn’t you have come to me to talk?’ He said, ‘Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry.’ And I told him, ‘Now the situation has changed.’ “I wanted to stay. I was ready to sign whatever they put in front of me. But they treated it like a formality. After everything I had given, they sent a letter instead of a conversation. That was the moment I knew I had to go.”

🚨 Enzo Maresca on the reports that Pep Guardiola was at the Etihad but he “didn’t see him”: 🗣️ Enzo Maresca: “People keep asking me if I saw Pep. They show me the pictures and they say, ‘He was there. How could you not see him?’ I understand why it looks strange. He was in the directors’ box. Everyone else seemed to notice. “I was focused on the game. From the moment we walked out until the final whistle, my eyes were on the pitch. I was talking to the players, watching the shape, checking the transitions. I didn’t spend the match looking up at the stands to see who was watching. That is not how I work. “After the game, people told me he was there. They said he was sitting in the same place he used to sit. I heard it and I nodded. I didn’t go looking for him afterwards either. He was at the stadium as a guest. I was there as the manager of the team. Those are two different roles now. “Some people think I am avoiding him. Some people think I am pretending. The truth is simpler. I was watching the game. When you are trying to organise a team that has just gone three goals down, you are not scanning the directors’ box to see if the previous manager is there. You are trying to get a response from the players in front of you. “Pep has his own path. I have mine. If we speak, it will be because both of us choose to. It will not be because people are counting how many times I looked up during a match. I respect what he built here. I also know that my job is to look forward, not sideways, while the game is happening. That is what I did. The rest is noise.”

🚨 Luis Enrique on the criticism that PSG rest players in Ligue 1 and then dominate the Champions League: 🗣️ Luis Enrique: “People see the minutes and they think they’ve found the secret. They see Dembélé playing 210 minutes in the league and then they see us beat Manchester City 4-2 in the Champions League, and suddenly they say we’ve cracked the code. Rest them in France, then destroy everyone in Europe. “I understand why it looks that way. We have a deep squad. We manage minutes. Some players play less in the league so they are ready for the bigger games. That is true. But it is not a trick. It is preparation. Every team does it. The difference is that when we do it, people notice because the results in Europe have been strong. “They talk about Man City terrorising England. We played them at their ground and we controlled the game for long periods. That was not because we rested players against Rennes or Monaco. That was because the players who started were ready, focused, and clear about what we wanted. The ones who played less in the league still trained every day. They were not on holiday. “I hear people call it the farmers league. I have heard it for years. We play the games that are in front of us. When the opponent is weaker, we still have to win. When the opponent is City or anyone else in the Champions League, we have to be ready. Managing the squad is part of that. It is not an insult to the league. It is respect for the season. “If someone wants to call Dembélé a part-time footballer because of the minutes, that is fine. He still scored against City. He still created chances. The minutes he played were the ones that mattered on that night. We will keep doing what we believe is right for the players and for the club. The results will decide if it works. The noise around it will always be there.”

🚨 Mason Greenwood on being loudly booed by Aston Villa fans on his return to England: 🗣️ Mason Greenwood: “I knew what was waiting for me. I heard it from the first minute. Every time I touched the ball, the noise changed. When I lost it, they celebrated. When I got it, they wanted me to know they hadn’t forgotten. “I’ve lived with this for years now. Different countries, different kits, different people. Some nights it feels quieter. Some nights it comes back all at once. Tonight it came back loud. “They were singing the score when it went 3-0. I just kept my head down and tried to play. I’ve beaten this team twice before. Different competitions, different moments. They remember those as well. That’s why the noise was so strong tonight. They know what I’ve done to them. “When I was substituted, it got even louder. Walking off while they’re singing at you… you just learn how to keep walking. You can’t answer the crowd. The only answer is what you do on the pitch the next time you face them. “People will say different things about me. Some will say I deserved every bit of it. Some will say enough time has passed. I’m not here to convince either side. I just want to play football. That’s what I’ve always wanted. “Fenerbahçe lost 6-0. That’s the result tonight. The noise is something else. I’ve heard it before and I’ll hear it again. And when we play them next, I’ll still be looking for the same thing I’ve always looked for against them.”

🚨 Enzo Fernández on accidentally pushing referee Sven Jablonski during Manchester City vs PSG: 🗣️ Enzo Fernández: “I saw the clip afterwards and I understand why people are talking about it. The referee ends up on the floor and it looks bad. But in the moment, I wasn’t thinking about the referee. I was thinking about the ball. “Khusanov played it to me and I was already moving to receive it. Suddenly there was a body right in front of me. I didn’t realise it was the referee until I felt the contact. My hands came up because I was trying to protect myself and keep going. That’s it. There was no intention to push him or show disrespect. “In games like that, when you’re 1-4 down and trying to get back into it, everything is happening at full speed. You don’t have time to stop and check who is in your way. You just react. If it was a PSG player, nobody would even talk about it. Because it was the referee, it becomes something else. “I went over to him after the action. I said sorry. He got up and carried on. He knew it wasn’t aggressive. The referee is there to control the game, not to become part of the story. I don’t want that either. “We lost the match. That’s the only thing that actually matters. The rest is noise. I’ve played enough football to know the difference between a foul, a red card, and just bad timing. This was bad timing. Nothing more. “People can watch the video and decide what they want to see. I know what happened. I know what I was trying to do. And I know I would do the same thing again if the ball is there and someone is standing in the way, because that’s the game. You don’t stop for anyone when you’re trying to win it.”

🚨🗣️ Toni Kroos on Arda Güler after Real Madrid’s 4-3 comeback against Roma: "It was 3-1 and we were poor. Mistakes, no control, and Roma were punishing every one of them. I’ve seen this club come back from that. It doesn’t mean you should be in it. Mourinho knows the Champions League. I’ll give him that. What I didn’t understand was Arda still sitting there while we couldn’t play a pass through them. I kept thinking, why is he on the bench? We needed someone who takes it between the lines and turns. That was him. When he came on, it changed. He wanted the ball. He found the spaces. Suddenly Roma had a problem they didn’t have for an hour. Endrick gave us the energy. Espí gave us another run. Arda gave us the idea. The two goals that turned it started with him. At 3-3 you could see Roma drop. They had been comfortable. Then they weren’t. The fourth goal was coming. I’ll credit Mourinho for the changes and for keeping them believing. I still think he waited too long. If a player can open a defence, you don’t leave him watching until 3-1. He’ll have his reasons. He usually does. Arda didn’t come on to stay out of the way. He came on to win it. From 3-1 to 4-3. If Mourinho wants more nights like this, he can’t keep leaving him there."

🚨🗣️ Sergio Ramos on Real Madrid’s comeback against Roma: "People are shocked. I’m not. I played for Mourinho. When it’s 3-1 and the stadium thinks it’s over, that’s when he starts. He’s the Special One for a reason" "Look at the second half. The goals that turned it came from the players he sent on. Espí. Endrick. Güler with the two assists. That’s not luck. That’s a coach who knows exactly what he’s doing" "You don’t question him in that moment. You trust it. We did. 4-3. He still knows"

🚨🗣️ Zinedine Zidane on Arda Güler coming off the bench to turn it around in Rome: "He wasn’t even starting. The game was 3-1 and it looked finished. He comes on and the two goals that matter both come from him" "One assist to make it level. One to win it. 4-3. That’s not a nice little cameo. That’s the comeback" "People keep asking when his moment is. It was tonight. He decided the game from the bench"

🚨🗣️ Didier Drogba on Nicolas Jackson’s form at Aston Villa: "I watched him at Chelsea. The chance would come and it wouldn’t go in, and that was all anyone spoke about. It sticks to a striker" "Look at him now. Spurs, Brugge, Brentford. One for Senegal as well. That’s not one lucky night. The goals are going in" "He left and he’s playing like he trusts his finish. That’s all it ever was. I’m happy for him"