🚨 OFFICIAL: Manchester City statement. “Manchester City FC is both disappointed and surprised by the opinion of the Premier League Commission, that has been published today. The Club is innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League and a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence exists in support of all of its positions, relating to this case. The Club will therefore be relentless, and where necessary proactive, in any and all appropriate regulatory and legal forums.  The Premier League process remains ongoing, with significant elements uncompleted. Manchester City FC will now pursue the appeal avenues open to it, on the basis that the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe.  The Club has diligently respected due process for eight years on the basis that the Premier League Board and Executive would behave as an independent, impartial and fair-minded regulator, free from partisan influence.   The Club is obviously restricted in what it can say further until all future proceedings are complete”.

✨🇵🇹 João Félix: “I am very happy at Al-Nassr. This will be my second year. At the end of the season I will be 27. I have it in mind to return to Europe, though perhaps not immediately”, told @diarioas. “I don’t know if it will be at the end of this season or the end of the next one, but I want to go back to Europe, play in the Champions League again and compete there”. “It is always different. Playing in Europe, playing in the Champions League, playing against the best teams in the world gives you extra motivation, and obviously I have that in my head”.

🚨⚠️ Tuchel on Cole Palmer: “I am told he is playing with discomfort and pain, and he cannot compete at the highest level with discomfort and pain”. “So he withdrew and informed us. Chelsea informed us”, says via @henrywinter.

🚨🇧🇷 Estêvão when asked what’s going on with Xabi Alonso: “I think every coach has their own way of playing. Of course, we work every day, I give my best every day, and that's what I do”. “We have quality players at Chelsea, so what I do is focus on what I can control, I try to give my best in training, when I get an opportunity I try to give my best, it goes day after day”, says via @cahemota.

🚨⚠️ Cole Palmer has withdrawn from England squad following small muscle injury. Decision confirmed with load management, @TheAthleticFC reports.