HAALAND is THE BEST PLAYER of the YEAR | HUGE STATEMENT about MESSI' possible RETURN to BARCELONA

HAALAND is THE BEST PLAYER of the YEAR | HUGE STATEMENT about MESSI' possible RETURN to BARCELONA And now, let's have a look at the results of yesterday's matchday! EFL Cup. Quarter-finals Chelsea – Newcastle United 1:1 (4:2 pens) Everton - Fulham 1:1 ( 6:7 pens) Port Vale - Middlesbrough 0:3 Bundesliga. Matchday 16 SV Werder Bremen - RB Leipzig 1:1 Borussia Dortmund - 1. FSV Mainz 05 1:1 TSG Hoffenheim - SV Darmstadt 98 3:3 La Liga. Matchday 18 Rayo Vallecano - Valencia 0:1 Atlético Madrid - Getafe CF 3:3 Granada - Sevilla 0:3 Coppa Italia. Round of 16 Napoli - Frosinone 0:4 Alright, it's time to move on to the main news of the release! Barça won’t let their leaders out Helena Condis Reliability: 3.5 Barcelona have no intention of sending both Ronald Araujo to Bayern Munich nor Robert Lewandowski to Saudi Arabia this winter. Araujo is an important part of the project and Barca are confident he wants to stay there. The club has all the necessary financial means to acquire a new central midfielder in January in order to replace Gavi. Blaugrana consider it a top priority deal. Besides, according to Achraf Ben Ayad, Barcelona will definitely keep Xavi as head coach until the end of this season. Belgium's Courtois rules himself out of Euro 2024 Officially Real Madrid and Belgium international goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, has officially announced that he will miss the rest of the season and will not be available for Euro 2024. He will not have time to fully recover from the rupture of the cruciate ligament, the injury he picked up before the start of this season: "Due to the injury, there will be no Euro for me anyway. I have to recover the full one hundred percent first & then you better not stick a date on it. If I'm lucky, I can play another match in May. But then you can never be 100% ready for a big tournament". Barça meet influential agent Pini Zahavi Gerard Romero Reliability: 5 Yesterday evening, the president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta, held a meeting with the famous agent Pini Zahavi at one of the city's restaurants. Earlier on, Zahavi was spotted having lunch with Deco, the club’s sporting director. At first, journalists assumed that they were discussing a new central midfield option suitable for the Catalans. However, only after a while, Barça’s true intention became clear: they are trying to make changes to the contract of Robert Lewandowski, because according to the current agreement his salary gets increased every season. When Zahavi was leaving the place, he told reporters that the Pole would definitely stay at Barça. Barça open to pay tribute to Messi Mundo Deportivo Barça president Joan Laporta made it clear that the club would like to honor Lionel Messi for his outstanding career at Camp Nou in the future: "We are open to doing it whenever he wants. Leo Messi deserves to be honored in Barcelona. One game on loan for Messi to Barça from Inter Miami? There are many reports… but I believe that is not allowed even by FIFA." Haaland beats Messi as Best Footballer of the Year FourFourTwo Manchester City star Erling Haaland was named the best footballer of the year according to the famous British magazine FourFourTwo. Second place in the rating went to Jude Bellingham, while Harry Kane took the third spot. The winner of the 2023 Ballon d'Or, Lionel Messi, was only in sixth place on the list, and Cristiano Ronaldo did not even make the top 100. Real Madrid started working on Mbappe’s arrival! El Chiringuito Reliability: 3 As found out by El Chiringuito, a close representative of PSG striker Kylian Mbappe's family was present at Real Madrid’s latest display against Villarreal (4:1). On the sidelines, they began to discuss the conditions of the French striker's residence in Madrid. After the end of the winter transfer window, Real Madrid are still planning to intensify their efforts to recruit Mbappe as a free agent in the summer. It is expected that he eventually decides not to renew his contract with PSG.