More PCR results are expected on Wednesday afternoon which could result in more absentees from Xavi’s squad.
Barcelona will be without seven players in Mallorca this weekend due to more positive covid-19 tests. In addition to the injured and suspended players, head coach Xavi has 16 players currently unavailable in his squad.
Samir Nasri has revealed he once ripped into Roberto Mancini and ‘insulted him by all names’ during an explosive dispute between the pair at Manchester City.
Mancini signed Nasri for City back in the summer of 2011, with the club forking out £25million to prise him away from Arsenal.
The France international enjoyed great success at the Etihad, registering 27 goals and 40 assists in 176 appearances while winning two Premier League titles.
The first of those titles came under Mancini, when he racked up 30 league appearances to help City become champions for the first time in 44 years.
Leo Messi: “Ronaldo was the best striker that I ever saw play. He’s a phenomenon and his shooting was the best in history.”
Zlatan Ibrahimović: “Ronaldo doesn’t play football. He was football. For me, he’s the perfect player.”
Kaka: “The best player I have ever played with? That’s Ronaldo. I have seen Il Fenomeno do things that nobody else has ever done."
Alessandro Nesta: “The worst experience I ever had was playing against Ronaldo, Ronaldo was simply unstoppable."
Never forget when Ronaldo Nazario ruled the football world 
Cristiano Ronaldo has been honoured in India with a controversial huge sculpture as the state of Goa looks to inspire the next generation of footballers.
Ex-captain Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has made his Arsenal departure as he joins up with his national team, Gabon, for the Africa Cup of Nations.
Aubameyang has rapidly fallen down the order at the Emirates Stadium and has now missed five games since the disciplinary breach which led to boss Mikel Arteta stripping him of the club’s captaincy.
Trent Alexander-Arnold created 108 chances in the Premier League in 2021 
The most of any player in the league this year 
Manchester City won 53 matches in all competitions during 2021 
That’s the most any English league club has managed in a single year since the creation of the Football League in 1888 
CR7 has sparked a rather hilarious reaction from football fans after opening his Instagram post with a not-so-subtle brag.
Ronaldo wrote: “2021 is coming to an end and it was far from being an easy year, despite my 47 goals scored across all competitions.”
Jurgen Klopp will miss Liverpool’s trip to Chelsea after becoming the latest Premier League manager to test positive for coronavirus.
Klopp returned a positive Covid test on Saturday morning, and will therefore be absent from the touchline at Stamford Bridge. Assistant manager Pep Lijnders will take charge of the team, with three other staff members, as yet unnamed, also set to miss the game after contracting the illness.
The Reds’ preparations have already been severely affected, with three first-team players testing positive earlier in the week.
Argentine forward Lionel Messi and three other players from PSG test positive for Covid-19. Juan Bernat, back-up goalkeeper Sergio Rico and midfielder N athan Bitumazala were the other players who returned positive tests.
Diego Maradona played only 5 league games for Newell’s Old Boys.
On his debut for Newell’s, at halftime, a 6-year old boy did tricks with the ball on the pitch.
That 6-year old boy was Lionel Messi. 
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Heung-Min Son has won the Best Footballer in Asia award for the fifth year in a row! 
Oliver Kahn once played in a penalty shootout against a group of 9 year old’s.
For every penalty scored by the kids, money was to be given to charity.
Kahn saved every single penalty. 
Lionel Messi was born one year after Diego Maradona won the World Cup.
Diego Maradona passed away one year before Lionel Messi won the Copa America.
Neither of the two saw the other be a champion. 
Robert Lewandowski signed his first Bayern Munich contract on this day in 2014 
354 games
324 goals
18 trophies
An era-defining signing 
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80 assists
