Ah. Manu Sainz. Yawn.

Militao isn’t often injured.

Casemiro was heavily touted when he was at São Paulo. He had a falling with the club towards the end of this time there which meant that his hype died down and he began to be regarded as arrogant and cocky.

At Madrid, he did not play much in 13/14 because we had the likes of Alonso, Illaramendi and Khedira ahead of him. Even then he was absolutely critical to us qualifying to the semis against Dortmund. He was sent on loan to Porto to let him gain experience because he lower down the pecking order. His performances at Porto earned him his spot back (after a buy out by Porto and buy back from Madrid). Well, 15/16 season and Zidane having the guts to bench Isco and James led to the history we witnessed.

I’m convinced that Clos Gomez is learning PS to doctor images in real time as we speak.

From my rudimentary knowledge of the situation, most of these cases stemmed from the fact that the Spanish Treasury moved against players using offshore companies to sell their image rights and avoiding paying taxes in Spain on income generated from those rights. Alonso is the only one I know who took the treasury to court. Most of the others settled and made deals with the Treasury.

I have had the pleasure of meeting some of City’s match going fans and luckily for me, they have been exceptional people. Incredibly passionate about their club.

I was responding to OP who brought up the BdO thing. My comment literally downplays the BdO thing.

As for OP, they are most likely conflating it with the statements made by Valerie Boyer who said Benzema’s BdO should be stripped.

The Ballon d’Or thing is insignificant. Accusing Benzema of having connections with Muslim Brotherhood is a much more serious accusation. And to say that he’ll withdraw the accusation if he tweets xyz thing I want just shows you the current situation in France. It is despicable from this guy. That he is a minister just makes the situation even more ridiculous.

They should go back their old badge. It had a lot more character than the new one which looks incredibly generic.