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Salah Sends Message To Postecoglou After Tottenham

Liverpool forward Mo Salah has reacted to Tottenham’s victory over Manchester United in the Europa League final on Thursday night.
Spurs went into the game having tasted victory over United on three occasions this season but went one better with a fourth on the big stage in Bilbao.
Brennan Johnson scored the only goal of a scrappy game to finally end Spurs’ 17-year trophy drought and secure qualification for next season’s Champions League.
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Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou was full of emotion after a difficult period was capped off with a trophy.
The Australian repeatedly said that he always wins silverware in his second season, and he did so in his 100th game in charge of Spurs.
Following the full-time whistle, Salah – a scorer against Spurs in the 2019 Champions League final in Madrid – brought up that now iconic comment as he congratulated the North London outfit.
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“He did say he’d win in his second season. Congratulations!” Salah wrote on his X account.
The Egyptian’s post was met by many responses from Liverpool supporters.
Another Liverpool legend, Jamie Carraghe,r poked fun at Manchester United.
Carragher flipped an infamous phrase from a Sir Alex Ferguson team talk about Spurs. “Lads, it’s Man United!” he wrote on X.
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Ballon d’Or: Why Neymar Didn’t Win Award – Gerard

Barcelona legend, Gerard Piqué has said that Brazil legend, Neymar could have won the Ballon d’Or had he remained at the Catalan side a little longer.
Neymar left Barça for PSG in 2017, becoming the costliest player in the world.
Pique said that the move stopped the Brazilian from winning the Ballon d’Or.
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He said that the superstar footballer actually deserved to win the France Football award in his career.
Speaking on the PodPah podcast, Pique, who was Neymar’s teammate for many years at Barcelona, said he tried to convince the Brazilian not to make the move but the former PSG star did not listen to him.
“I’m convinced he deserved a Ballon d’Or. I think going to PSG hurt him. We tried to convince him not to go, we did everything possible.
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“Everyone thought he was going to stay, even me, but it seemed that it was already decided. In the end, he had an incredible career,” he said.
The Brazilian was at Camp Nou until 2017 when he decided to move to PSG who were willing to activate his €222 million release clause.
He left for Al-Hilal in 2023 and returned to Brazil with Santos in 2025.
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Lionel Messi Names 10 Best Young Players Currently

Argentina and Barcelona legend, Lionel Messi, has named the 10 players he sees as future stars.
The legendary attacker has players from Chelsea and Liverpool in his list.
As part of an Adidas campaign, the 8-time Ballon d’Or winner was asked to name the players he deems the next big stars in the game.
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The Inter Miami goal king partnering with Adidas Football for the ‘Messi+10: Season 2’ campaign named his 10 best rising stars.
He named Liverpool’s Rio Ngumoha, Chelsea’s Andrey Santos, Kendry Paez, also of Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder, Brajan Gruda.
Others are Nico Paz (Como), Rodrigo Mora (Porto), Mika Godts (Ajax Amsterdam), and Kader Meite (Stade Rennes).
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He named two female players, Barcelona’s Clara Serrajordi and Olympique Lyon’s Lily Yohannes.
Messi made a similar selection in 2024 to include Lamine Yamal, Antonio Nusa and Kenan Yildiz.
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2026 World Cup: Why ‘England Can’t Win Trophy’ – Paul Scholes

Former England international, Paul Scholes, has said that the country stands no chance of winning the 2026 World Cup to be hosted in the USA, Canada and Mexico.
England became the first European country to qualify for the World Cup on Tuesday after beating Latvia 5 goals to nothing.
Scholes said Thomas Tuchel’s team has ‘no chance’ of winning the tournament unless the German gaffer brings his ‘three best players’ back into the squad.
Tuchel will now be hoping to lead England to their first major trophy in men’s football since 1966.
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The former Chelsea manager was appointed as Sir Gareth Southgate’s successor last year.
England made it to two European Championship finals and two World Cup semi-finals under Southgate but failed to lift those trophies.
But former Manchester United midfielder, Scholes believes that England has ‘no chance’ unless Tuchel brings his ‘three best players’ back into the fold.
Jude Bellingham, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish were left out of the team for their last matches.
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“I was a little bit surprised. Those three players, they have to be in his squad and they will be in his squad for the World Cup,” Scholes said on The Overlap.
“If you look at the squad now, you would say they have virtually no chance of winning the World Cup. Even with those three players it’s still a big ask but it gives you more of a chance of winning the cup.
“Jude Bellingham has missed a little bit of football but he’s fit now so I would have brought him back in.
“Thomas Tuchel hasn’t got many games left now until the World Cup actually starts, it’s only the November break and then the March one and then we’re there so we need to get these players playing.”
While announcing his squad for the last international break, Tuchel insisted he had ‘no problem’ with the omitted players, especially Bellingham.
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