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Man City's Aguero Has COVID-19, In Race For Liverpool Clash
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Manchester City forward Sergio Aguero has tested positive for coronavirus and faces a race to be fit for the clash with Liverpool on Feb. 7.
Aguero had been in isolation after coming into close contact with someone who had tested positive for COVID-19 and missed City's last three matches against Brighton & Hove Albion, Crystal Palace and Aston Villa.
But, despite his self-isolation, Aguero tweeted on Thursday that results of a recent test have shown he is positive for the virus.
"After a close contact, I've been self-isolating and the latest test I took was positive for COVID-19," he posted on Twitter.
"I had some symptoms and I'm following doctor's orders for recovery. Take care, everyone!"
Aguero will now need to self-isolate for 10 days for his positive test but needs a negative result before he can play for the club again.
The news is a blow to both City, who are sweating on the fitness of midfielder Kevin De Bruyne and Kyle Walker, and Aguero as the injuries have restricted the Argentina forward to just five Premier League appearances this season.
City have seen an increase in coronavirus positives within the club since Christmas, with five players self-isolating in early January.
The club launched an investigation into a New Year's Eve party hosted by defender Benjamin Mendy, while matches against Everton and Aston Villa were postponed.
City face Cheltenham Town in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday, with clashes against West Bromwich Albion, Sheffield United and Burnley following before a meeting with Liverpool at Anfield.
Liverpool and City have been the top two sides in the Premier League each of the last two seasons -- with Pep Guardiola's side missing out on the title last term.
City have won their last six league matches and sit second in the table. They are two points behind leaders Manchester United with a game in hand.
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Sergio Ramos' Titles, Longevity For Spain And Madrid Are The Stuff Of Legend -- And He Isn't Slowing Down
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Sergio Ramos is a freak. It's impossible to deny that fact.
Now, Sergio, if you're reading this, I mean it in the most complimentary way. Not a hint of denigration or disrespect.
But facts are facts.
We live in an age when players are gasping for respite, a breather for their tired limbs to regenerate. Not only that but the merest pause from the endless, vicious cycle of: train, prepare mentally, play, recuperate, train, prepare mentally, play, etc. so that creative players can regain sharpness of instinct and even little flames of inspiration and daring. They all fear their sparks of genius vision and invention will be extinguished.
The evidence that we are squeezing more out of our elite footballers than they should be giving is not only staring us in the face, it's adopting an aggressive "Why don't you care?" expression. In recent days there were reminders -- futile, I'm sure.
Kevin De Bruyne, a mere stripling at 29 compared to gnarled veteran Ramos (34), warned: "I've played flat out for two years, but nobody listens to the players. It worries me sometimes. Your body is screaming out for a rest but nobody listens to the players."
Then, after Spain's flat and creativity-starved 1-0 win over Switzerland, 23-year-old Pau Torres admitted that the players have felt the strain of a three-game week for their clubs followed by a midweek friendly in Portugal and then this test against the disciplined, athletic, hard-pressing Swiss. Then there was the 7,600-kilometre round trip to Kiev, for a match against Ukraine, to be faced and suffered.
It really is nonstop for these guys.
Mental and physical tiredness against the Swiss cost La Roja those split seconds where an invented action, a brilliant piece of sharp passing or an individual skill properly separates truly top-class players from those who are truly giving their top effort. "But there can't be any such thing as tiredness when you're playing for your country," Torres said.
Then you have Arsene Wenger arguing, while promoting his imminent autobiography, that "the next game changer is neuroscience." Why does he put forward this idea? According to Wenger, "Because we are at the end of the improvement of physical speed."
Rate him or not, one of the modern era's most successful and epoch-changing managers believes that, athletically, elite football is already operating at absolute maximum -- pedal to the floor. With the needle steadily edging into the red zone, if this were a car, you'd slow down and find your nearest mechanic.
But not Ramos.
His stated aim, despite his 35th birthday coming in March, is to lead Spain at the European Championship next summer, do the same at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in autumn 2021 and then captain La Roja to the Qatar World Cup in 2022. All the while, no doubt, inspiring Real Madrid to another La Liga title and winning back-to-back Champions Leagues.
These remarkable objectives from a remarkable man need putting in context.
First, Ramos's voracious hunger and stamina. From his debut match for Spain (at 18 he became the country's youngest debutant for 55 years), of all the 17 players used that day, only Joaquin is still a professional footballer. Ditto his debut in a World Cup: the 4-0 thrashing of Ukraine in Germany 2006. Of all starters and substitutes who played that afternoon, only Cesc Fabregas has lasted this long as an active pro. Even if you take the starting XI from the first international final he won, the 1-0 defeat of Germany at Euro 2008, only he, Fabregas, David Silva and Andres Iniesta are still in the game.
And the subject of this man's trophy lifts is important.
Ramos has won the World Cup and two European Championships for Spain, rewriting history, but that didn't sate him as it did others. While teammates, greats at that, silently slipped away -- Iniesta, Iker Casillas, David Villa, Jordi Alba, Pedro -- Ramos powers on.
For his club, the trophy list is gargantuan. Four Champions Leagues, five La Liga titles and a cupboard full of other medals that lesser men don't even get a sniff of.
He still isn't satisfied.
Return our focus to international football and the history he's made outwith lifting trophies begins to explain Ramos' perpetual voracity Regardless of these difficult, unpredictable times, should international football continue as intended, by Euro 2020 Ramos will overtake Egypt's Ahmed Hassan, who is at the top of the all-time appearance list with 184 caps. Of all the players in the top 10, only one (Mexico's Claudio Suarez) earned his caps in a shorter time than Madrid's captain.
Ramos, over his career, hasn't done injuries. That's not to say he's utterly immune -- just fantastically robust. Nor does Ramos pick and choose when he plays for his country. If Spain want him, he's there. Tired? Sore? Family commitments? Rather be fresh for his club? Can't be bothered with the trip to the Faroe Islands, Moscow or Minsk? Those ideas, according to Ramos, are for wimps.
He's the all-time winningest footballer in international history, having overtaken his friend and colleague Casillas, and he's the top-scoring defender in the vast history of football nations pitting themselves against one another.
And he isn't slowing down.
In the past two years, aged from 32 to 34, Ramos has played 108 matches for club and country. In that time, both Spain and Madrid have developed a distinct Ramos dependency. It's not that Real Madrid simply cannot win without him, it's that they lose an essential aggression, competitiveness and self-belief without their leader.
Look at the debacle against Manchester City in the away leg of last season's Champions League round of 16. Without Ramos by his side, Raphael Varane made horrible mistakes, and once they were 2-1 down Madrid utterly lacked the chutzpah, the "We're not beaten until the stadium floodlights are switched off" attitude with which Ramos bristles.
Compare that to how he almost single-handedly bullied all domestic rivals out of the way until Real Madrid won the title after La Liga's restart. Ten matches, nine wins, one draw, during which their 34-year-old central defender scored six times -- including the only goal in consecutive victories over Getafe and Athletic Club.
Nor should anyone overlook his record of big goals in Champions League finals. When Madrid were about to lose to Atletico Madrid in the 2014 Lisbon showpiece, Ramos didn't just score the most dramatic of added-time equalisers. No. He told me that he was thinking of his recently deceased grandfather as the minutes ticked away. Thinking to himself, "I can't, I won't let this match finish this way." And he didn't.
From that day to this, Madrid haven't found someone to replicate the Ramos effect. Cristiano Ronaldo was cut from the same cloth but when, if, Ramos ever departs this team, it'll be hell on earth to find anyone with the same mix of extraordinary talent, athleticism, technique, character and sheer, naked will to win.
It's the same for Spain. In his past 17 internationals, and please remember we are talking about a defender, he's scored nine times. He's their most potent striker. And while Luis Enrique has some productive scorers scattered throughout his squad, if Ramos doesn't hit the net, La Roja often struggle and look dry in front of goal.
Throughout his career he's taken 31 penalties and missed just three. Most importantly, though, he's scored 22 consecutively for Madrid and Spain since he last failed. He is metronomic from the spot.
The key thing to understand about Ramos is that he's a buccaneer, someone from times gone by. He's an adventurer, a rascal, someone who lives life to the absolute limit; someone who sees horizons where others see walls and boundaries; someone who, when young, truly wanted to be a bull fighter; a man who's always wanted not just to win but to tilt against the odds, the bigger the better; and he's someone who simply loves the training, playing and competing involved in football.
Recently, he told UEFA: "I'm full of motivation. You have to reset every year and start from scratch; to live each triumph, every trophy win, as if it were a completely new thing. I think it's very positive to continue enjoying football like this, without looking back, without stopping to think what you have done or achieved. This is how it feels like there is a whole life ahead of you when your body is trying to tell you that you can't do it any longer.
"In principle, just so long as I'm as full of inspiration, pride and hunger, then I'll treat the World Cup in Qatar as another challenge. I want to play in it and increase my number of caps. If I can make it to 200 appearances for Spain then all the better."
They were born just two months and 990 km apart in 1986, but when you see Rafa Nadal hurting, fighting, recovering lost causes, equalling title winners who, perhaps, were thought to be slightly more conventionally talented than him, try seeing Ramos instead. Two peas in a pod: Spanish, proud, aggressive, athletically brilliant, perpetually inspired, self-motivated, deaf to both critics and those who say, "Not this time, he won't be able to ..."
Two fabulous freaks: men who are easy to admire, impossible to ignore and who give meaning to the whole idea of sport as a means to test the boundaries of what human beings can reasonably achieve.
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Messi, Alaba, Ozil, Aguero Among The Top Free Agents In 2021
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Despite the financial downturn across the globe, clubs in Europe's top five leagues still spent over €4.6 billion in the summer window -- a drop of 43% when compared with 2019. And as the economic reality of COVID-19 hits hard in the next few months, free transfers will become even more important.
Some big-name players will be available on a free transfer in 2021 if they don't put pen to paper soon.
Here are 10 top players who can be picked up for nothing -- and can start to negotiate with other clubs in January -- with the help of Transfermarkt.
Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Messi's desire to leave the club he's been at since the age of 13 was the story of the summer, but he opted not to take them to court over a clause in his contract saying he could leave for free and not for his €700 million release clause. Manchester City (and former Barca manager Pep Guardiola) missed out on him but surely he'll move in 2021 when his contract actually expires. He'll be 34 but he's still world-class, so his return to Argentine club Newell's Old Boys before he retires is some way off.
Others: Barca's need to overhaul their squad could see them take advantage of some free transfers, too. With Dutch manager Ronald Koeman in place, moves for Liverpool's Georginio Wijnaldum and Lyon's Memphis Depay are on the radar, though they may not happen if Koeman doesn't last the season. The club will also have a decision to make about young midfielder Riqui Puig before his deal expires.
David Alaba (Bayern Munich)
Alaba has been with Bayern since 2008, but things are starting to turn a bit nasty. Recently, former Bayern president Uli Hoeness accused the agent of Alaba, Pini Zahavi, of being "a money-grabbing piranha" amid negotiations over a new contract for his client -- with the €11 million-per-year on offer reportedly short of the €25 million they want. Alaba is still only 28 and is a world-class defender, so won't be short of options.
Others: Bayern will likely let Jerome Boateng and Javi MartÃnez, who almost returned to Athletic Bilbao in the summer, go either in January or once their deals expire.
Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan)
It was something of a surprise when the best young goalkeeper in the game wasn't the subject of major attention in the summer window. Donnarumma is only 21 but is a class act and Milan are clearly confident they can tie him down to another deal. Milan's failure to get back into Serie A title contention is an issue though and this season's performance will be key.
Others: His brother Antonio is also nearing the end of his deal, as is midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu, defender Mateo Musacchio and a certain 39-year-old striker named Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Sergio Aguero (Man City)
The striker has spent almost a decade at City, having joined from Atletico Madrid in 2011, scoring an incredible 254 goals in 270 games. Now nearing the end of his career, Aguero has always been open about where he wants to play next. "I have always said that I want to return to [his former club] Independiente and I will do just that," Aguero told So Foot in 2015. "I will return to Independiente when my contract with City expires." Back then he was talking about moving in 2019, which clearly didn't happen, but now he's 32 the time might be right.
Others: City will also look to sell centre-back Eric Garcia to Barcelona in January to recoup some money, having failed to reach an agreement over the summer, but the 35-year-old Fernandinho is virtually irreplaceable and will surely earn another year.
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Mesut Ozil (Arsenal)
It was a coup for Arsenal to sign Ozil for €44 million from Real Madrid in 2013 but the club surely regrets handing him a £350,000-a-week deal in 2018 as he's become a pariah. Injuries, loss of form and a general lack of desire have seen the 31-year-old midfielder dropped from the first-team squad, while he says he will run down his deal despite the Gunners wanting to move him on.
Others: Arsenal have a host of centre-backs now, so it's hard to see any of Shkodran Mustafi, Sokratis or David Luiz getting a new deal either.
Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid)
Real failed to make a move in the summer window for the first time in 40 years, but when they have players like the 34-year-old Ramos it's easy to see why. The Spain defender joined in 2005 and has become one of the best in the business, so it's hard to see Real not granting him the two-year extension he wants (and deserves.)
Others: Luka Modric almost joined Inter Milan a while back, but the 35-year-old is keen to finish his career in Madrid. However, it's unlikely the club will offer Lucas Vazquez a new deal.
Paul Pogba (Man United)
Pogba is another player whose future has been the subject of much debate. Real Madrid and Juventus have been interested for some time now and would relish the chance to land him for free, though talks have been ongoing over a new deal and sources told ESPN in July that United are relaxed about the Frenchman's long-term future and will exercise the one-year option in his contract if terms have not been agreed.
Others: Less likely to stay on once their deals expire are squad players Sergio Romero, Juan Mata, Jesse Lingard and Marcos Rojo.
Julian Draxler (PSG)
Once tipped to become one of the world's best young players, Draxler has fallen down the pecking order under Thomas Tuchel at PSG.
The Germany winger told Bild: "Last season didn't go well at all. Not on a sporting level and also due to my injuries. Then the season ended due to coronavirus. It was definitely a season to forget for me." A €42 million signing from Wolfsburg in January 2017, he featured in just 11 Ligue 1 matches and, though he was linked with Leeds and Hertha Berlin, couldn't seal a summer move.
Others: PSG could have three spots on the wings open if they let Jese and 32-year-old Angel Di Maria depart too, though he played a much bigger role in the side last season. Defender Juan Bernat needs to earn a new deal once he comes back from injury, but PSG will be more concerned about Kylian Mbappe and Neymar's contracts which end in 2022.
Diego Costa (Atletico Madrid)
Love him or hate him, the combative Costa is a valuable addition to any squad. Atletico's style of play under Diego Simeone seems made for him, while the arrival of Luis Suarez this summer should provide some interesting moments in La Liga -- "One bites and the other kicks," as the 32-year-old said. Atletico have been looking to move Costa on as he's been plagued by injuries since signing from Chelsea in 2017 and probably would have if they had landed Edinson Cavani.
Arkadiusz Milik (Napoli)
This one has turned really ugly as Milik was linked with Juventus, Roma, Tottenham, Fiorentina and Valencia in the summer but turned down the chance to leave and won't sign a new deal. As a result, the Poland striker is being made to train alone until January, says Corriere dello Sport, and doesn't appear to have a future in Naples.
Others: Veteran striker Fernando Llorente surely won't get a new contract at 35, the club will decide on Matteo Politano, while there could also be some movement in defence as Nikola Maksimovic and Elseid Hysaj's deals expire too.
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Mourinho, United States Are Transfer Window Winners; Messi, Solskjaer Among Losers Across Europe
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The latest transfer window in history has finally closed, and as you'd expect, some clubs and players have done better than others.
Some teams did their business early, while others left it to the last minute after scrambling around for deadline-day bargains -- although time will tell whether they are canny transfers or expensive mistakes. Big moves that were supposed happen failed to materialise, while some unexpected deals came to fruition.
So as the dust settles on deadline day, who have been the winners and losers of the 2020 summer transfer window?
LOSERS
Lionel Messi
Football held its breath at the end of August when it became clear that Lionel Messi was ready to force a move away from Barcelona. He even sent a burofax to the club to prove his intentions.
As the days went by, it looked as though the unthinkable really was about to happen, with Manchester City waiting to strike a deal to reunite Messi with former Barca boss Pep Guardiola at the Etihad. But when it came to the crunch, the prospect of a lengthy legal battle over his €700 million release clause prompted Messi to back down and abandon his plan to leave the Camp Nou. However, after seeing close friend Luis Suarez forced out of the club and transferred to La Liga title rivals Atletico Madrid, the tension between Messi and Barca remains.
- Messi and Barcelona: The inside story on how everything fell apart
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
The Manchester United manager went into the window wanting Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho and a commanding centre-back but, despite saying that wealthy United could take advantage of football's financial crisis because of the coronavirus pandemic, he ended up with neither.
Solskjaer wanted quality and quantity this window. Donny van de Beek for £40m from Ajax represents good value, but the deadline-day signings of Edinson Cavani and Alex Telles were last-minute patch-up deals, and teenagers Facundo Pellistri and Amad Diallo are unlikely to make a serious contribution anytime soon. (In Diallo's case, he won't join United until January.)
Solskjaer has been let down by those in charge of United's recruitment, just as his predecessors were before him, and the end result is a squad once again ill-equipped to challenge for top honours.
- Ogden: Solskjaer's future must be in question after Spurs humiliation
- Man United's new signing Cavani: The striker with a passion for ballet
Memphis Depay
The Lyon forward has rebuilt his career in France since struggling to succeed at Manchester United following a big-money move in 2015, to the extent that new Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman wanted to sign his fellow Dutchman.
Negotiations with Depay and Lyon progressed enough for Barca to believe that a deal could be done on deadline day. But Barca's failure to find a buyer for Ousmane Dembele meant they could not sign Depay, so the Netherlands international must now focus on another campaign in Ligue 1.
Mesut Ozil
Remember him? The Arsenal midfielder has not kicked a ball for the club nor even been selected for a matchday squad since March, and manager Mikel Arteta has made it clear that he has no future at the Emirates. But with a year still to run on his £350,000-a-week contract, Ozil has proved impossible for Arsenal to offload during the window as nobody will pay even half those wages for a talented, but unpredictable, 31-year-old.
With Arteta building for the future, Ozil is highly unlikely to play again for the club. He may strike a deal to move in January, but by then he will have missed 10 months of football when he could have been playing elsewhere.
Sergio Romero
The Manchester United goalkeeper is now third-choice at Old Trafford following Dean Henderson's return from loan at Sheffield United to challenge David de Gea for the No. 1 spot.
The Argentina international was desperate for a move away, but despite interest from Everton, Romero remains at United with little prospect of competitive football for the next three months.
And to make matters worse, his wife, Eliana, took to social media on deadline day to criticise United for their failure to find a club for her husband.
Max Aarons
Norwich City defender Max Aarons has a big future in the game. You will certainly be hearing plenty about him in years to come, but this was a window that saw the 20-year-old targeted by Barcelona and Bayern Munich and miss out on a move to both.
The full-back remains a Norwich player, with a season in the EFL Championship ahead of him, rather than the prospect of playing in the Champions League with, and against, the world's top clubs. His time will come, but when you are linked with Barca and Bayern and fail to get the move, it must be a tough one to swallow.
WINNERS
Everton
Until this transfer window, Everton had been of those clubs that made terrible decisions in the market by spending way too much on players whose previous club had only been too happy to bid farewell to them -- Theo Walcott, Alex Iwobi and Moise Kean being recent examples.
But under manager Carlo Ancelotti, Everton have been transformed as a club that makes smart signings for good value. James Rodriguez from Real Madrid has been Everton's headline signing this summer, but Allan, Abdoulaye Doucoure and Ben Godfrey are quality additions, with goalkeeper Robin Olsen arriving on deadline day to compete with Jordan Pickford. Everton have had a great window.
- Connelly: Everton's perfect start -- how have they done it, and how far can they go?
Jose Mourinho
Transfer windows and Jose Mourinho usually mean only one thing: trouble!
In his last two jobs, at Manchester United and Chelsea, Mourinho's frustration over summer transfer dealings triggered fall-outs with his bosses at Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge that eventually saw him lose his job. But at Spurs, despite the prospect of clashes with the notoriously parsimonious chairman Daniel Levy, Mourinho has enjoyed a summer that has seen him land a series of top targets, as well as Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale on loan. Mourinho has been a happy manager this summer and Spurs can only benefit from that.
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting probably felt as though he hit the jackpot when he sealed a move to Paris Saint-Germain after a pretty unspectacular season in the Premier League with Stoke City in 2018.
But after two years winning trophies and playing with Neymar and Kylian Mbappe in Paris, the Cameroon forward has done it again by completing another dream move to Bayern Munich.
At 31, the German-born forward could not have picked a better transfer than a return home to play for the Champions League winners.
United States
The growing contingent of USMNT players in Europe's big leagues has continued this year, but big moves secured by Sergino Dest and Weston McKennie point to an increasing value placed on American talent. Dest's move from Ajax to Barcelona, which followed McKennie's switch from Schalke to Juventus, means that the U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter now has players at some of the biggest clubs in the world, with Christian Pulisic having already made his big move to Chelsea in 2019.
Giovanni Reyna and Tyler Adams look set to continue their progress in Germany with Dortmund and RB Leipzig respectively, making these exciting times for the U.S..
Borussia Dortmund
German giants Dortmund probably won the January transfer window by beating Manchester United to the signing of Erling Haaland from FC Salzburg, and they had a pretty good summer window at the expense of United too. Not only did Dortmund deny United in the race to sign teenager Jude Bellingham from Birmingham City, they also made it clear that they would not be railroaded into selling Sancho.
Dortmund set a deadline of Aug. 10 and stuck to it. United complained of Dortmund wanting too much for the England winger, but the winners are the team that ended up with Sancho. And it wasn't United.
Frank Lampard
It is too early to say whether Chelsea's £240m summer spending spree is a blessing or a curse for manager Frank Lampard, because he will certainly have to deliver a dividend after such a big outlay on new players.
But with the attacking talents of Timo Werner, Kai Havertz and Hakim Ziyech arriving at Stamford Bridge along with Thiago Silva, Ben Chilwell and Edouard Mendy coming in to strengthen defensively, Lampard has been given the backing most managers can only dream of.
Every area of weakness in Chelsea's squad has been addressed, so the pressure is now on the manager to make it all come together and ensure silverware is won this season.
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Ex-Brazil, Real Madrid Star Robinho Returns To Santos On $271 Monthly Wage
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Former Manchester City forward Robinho has signed a five-month contract with former club Santos and will earn $271 (R$1.500) a month which is just above the country's minimum wage.
The 36-year-old re-joined his boyhood club for a third stint as a free agent, having left Turkish side Istanbul Basaksehir shortly after helping them win their first Super Lig title last season.
"I will play for a minimum wage, but the most important thing is to be here," Robinho told the club's official website on Friday.
"I am well physically and mentally, obviously there is still a little bit of rhythm [missing], but that over time we will gradually evolve."
Robinho, who shot to fame after making his professional debut with Santos in 2002, went on to play for Real Madrid, City and AC Milan, among other clubs.
He won two national championships, two Paulista tournaments and the Brazilian Cup in his previous two spells with Santos.
"I have many fond memories here," Robinho added. "The fans can be certain that I will give my best to help Santos FC on and off the pitch.
"Santos FC is going through a difficult financial time. So this is the time for those who can do something. I want to help the club that always gave me everything. Santos FC has already done a lot for me and this return is still little."
Santos are going through financial difficulties and could soon face a transfer ban from FIFA over unpaid debts.
Chilean club Huachipato are demanding Santos to complete the $3.4m deal over the signing of Venezuelan striker Jefferson Soteldo, while Colombian outfit Atletico Nacional claim they are still owed $774,000 from the sale of defender Felipe Aguilar.
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Man United Players Disappointed By Romero Treatment
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A number of Manchester United players have expressed their disappointment at the treatment of goalkeeper Sergio Romero, sources have told ESPN.
Romero has fallen down the pecking order at Old Trafford after the return of Dean Henderson but was priced out of a move away on deadline day because of United's insistence on a fee of around £10 million.
The 33-year-old, a popular member of the squad, is set to return to Manchester after a break in Argentina but is likely to find no prospect of first team football until at least January while No.1 David De Gea and Henderson share duties in the Premier League, Champions League and Carabao Cup.
It comes just months after manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer surprised the United dressing room by omitting Romero from the FA Cup semifinal against Chelsea and Europa League semifinal against Sevilla last season, despite picking the Argentina international for the majority of games in both competitions until that point.
Romero has also been left out of this Champions League squad after Solskjaer chose 37-year-old Lee Grant as the third goalkeeper in the list submitted to UEFA. It has led members of United's dressing room to express their sympathy with Romero's situation with many to feel he has been unfairly frozen out after five years of service.
Everton were keen to sign Romero on deadline day but were unwilling to match United's asking price and instead opted for Sweden international Robin Olsen on a season-long loan deal from AS Roma to provide competition for first-choice Jordan Pickford.
Romero has made 61 appearances since arriving from Sampdoria in 2015, keeping 39 clean sheets and conceding 27 goals. He has one year left on his contract, while United could also trigger an option to extend it until 2022.
His failure to secure a move on deadline day prompted his wife Eliana Guercio to post an emotional message on Instagram.
"It is a very sad day because he desired the chance to go to another club," she wrote. "He has worked hard every day for this, because he gives his all for United and I think that his chances of playing for United have gone down.
"This doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't appear honest or professional or serious that they have to let him go. I am very sad because of this."
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LIVE Transfer Talk: PSG Eye Ronaldo If Real Madrid Target Mbappe Makes Exit.
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Paris Saint-Germain have eyes for Cristiano Ronaldo , according to Calciomercato. There are two problems facing the French champions, however... the player doesn't want to leave, and Juventus don't want to let him go.
While it's true that taking Ronaldo's salary off the books would be advantageous for Juve, and Kylian Mbappe continuing to look likely to move away from Paris next summer, it would appear as though PSG have their work cut out to land one of Europe's top talents.
Mbappe has been regularly linked with a move to Real Madrid, Ronaldo's former club, with two sharing a warm embrace following Sunday's Nations League scoreless draw between Portugal and France at Stade de France.
Les Parisiens are alleged to have made contact with Juventus about Ronaldo in the summer, with the
Bianconeri replying that he wasn't available to be moved.
PSG were looking to explore the option of a cheeky bid knowing that Juve are one of many clubs hamstrung financially by the effects of COVID-19.
However, Juve continue to state that their main man is going nowhere, while Ronaldo himself appears to want to stay in Italy.
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Casillas: Ex-Real Madrid Boss Mourinho Was First To Call After Heart Attack
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Former Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas has said Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho was one of the first people to call him after he suffered a heart attack while training with Porto.
Casillas suffered the heart attack in May 2019 while at Porto and has not played since. Less than three weeks later, his wife Sara Carbonero announced that she had ovarian cancer and was to undergo treatment.
Mourinho and Casillas famously clashed at Madrid to the point where the legendary keeper was dropped in favour of Diego Lopez but have repaired their relationship in recent years -- but the ex-goalkeeper said his former manager was one of the first to contact him on both occasions.
"You can become closer to people perhaps you weren't as close to before," Casillas told ESPN Deportes of the aftermath of his heart attack.
"A lot of people don't know for example that my old manager Mourinho was the first person who was concerned with what happened to me and then later with my wife."
Casillas, 39, has gone on to make a full recovery from his heart attack while Carbonero finished treatment for her cancer in November 2019.
He announced his retirement from football in August after a career that saw him win three Champions League titles, five La Liga titles, two Copa del Reys, four Spanish Super Cups as well as the UEFA Super Cup, FIFA Club World Cup and Intercontinental Cup on two occasions each
"I've seen people again that I hadn't seen for a long time. You value the day-to-day more," he added, when asked how life had changed.. "You're not stuck thinking about what to do tomorrow or next week. It's just about what today will bring and enjoy the moments more. I was very lucky for whatever reason. Others have not been
"I felt that I was definitely going to die that day, and the circumstances forced me to reconsider everything. I'm a privileged person."
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