Noooooo! I can’t believe Diomande has rejected us! I wish we could spend over £100m on a 19 year old with one decent season in top flight football 🤬

Breaking Bad star RJ Mitte has died by suicide at the age of 34, per TMZ

Warum jubelt Füllkrug? Mochte ihn immer aber anscheinend ein Unsympath #BVBSVW

BREAKING: Granit Xhaka has been fined £136,265, suspended for two years, for forging a COVID-19 certificate 🚨

…and it’s begun. Michael Olise is the ONLY player in the world that can step into Salah’s shoes. Liverpool know this. It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if we were in his ear when he left Palace. He knows we’re coming for him.

🚨 EXCL: Michael Olise’s representatives have been in contact behind the scenes with three clubs, namely Liverpool Football Club, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid, while Manchester City also approached his camp several months ago only to be informed that the feeling was simply not mutual, with Olise showing little desire to enter that conversation and City consequently deciding to walk away, #LFC meanwhile are understood to have already completed much of the groundwork behind the scenes and there are figures within leading agencies who increasingly believe England’s grandest institution have quietly manoeuvred themselves into pole position should Michael ultimately decide that the moment has arrived to leave Munich. The current tendency within the industry, and a reality Bayern Munich are slowly beginning to understand themselves, is that Michael Olise has little appetite to extend his stay in Bavaria beyond his existing contract as he increasingly feels that both his football and his own stature are beginning to outgrow the relatively small institution surrounding him, Germany has offered him the platform to become one of the finest footballers on the planet but not the emotion he ultimately craves, the Allianz Arena does not carry the electricity or sense of theatre he associates with football at its highest level while lifting another Bundesliga title before an ageing crowd gathered beneath a Munich balcony simply cannot recreate the feeling of conquering England beneath the red smoke of Liverpool, Paris erupting around the Champs-Élysées or Madrid surrendering itself to another European night. Liverpool in particular carries a fascination to Michael since childhood difficult to manufacture anywhere else, the mystique of Anfield under the lights, the weight of generations inside those four stands, the anthem before a European night and the idea that one extraordinary footballer can become immortal in a city which remembers its heroes forever is viewed as an entirely different emotional proposition to the polished but comparatively sterile existence Michael has encountered in Munich, and for a player whose ambitions now stretch far beyond collecting domestic trophies in Germany there is a growing feeling that the defining chapters of his career must be written beneath brighter lights, in front of louder crowds and upon a considerably greater stage. The Ballon d’Or inevitably sits somewhere within that thinking too, because Michael Olise and those around him increasingly understand that becoming the best footballer in the world is not only about producing the numbers but about creating moments the football world remembers, and there is a belief that the road towards that golden ball becomes shorter when those moments happen beneath the lights of Anfield, inside the Bernabéu or in the heart of Paris rather than within the comfortable boundaries of a small Bavarian institution whose greatest nights increasingly feel detached from the centre of the footballing world.

Derry Scherhant ⚡

Bayern are watching the market and scouting players for the left-wing position. The club would still ideally like a Luis Díaz backup - and if an opportunity arises in January, Bayern would go for it. As things stand, there's nothing concrete with a particular candidate [@itstheicebird, @cfbayern]

Lamine Yamal appears to take aim at Harry Kane in his most recent statements about the Ballon d'Or: "I think the Ballon d'Or should go to the best player in the world, period. Not to a player who's scored 80 goals, because when you score 80 goals, you get the 'top scorer' award for that. These are very different things that people aren't understanding. The best player in the world is the one that, as a commentator, you’re watching a game and enjoying - you see him and think, ‘He’s a player who is very different from everyone else.’. - When the award goes to the best, not the one who scores the most goals or the one who has won the most titles, then it will regain its true value." [@MPlusDeportes]

Back in the starting XI 🔴⚪