Juventus star criticizes Pep for "destroying the defender"
In early November, defender Giorgio Chiellini criticized Pep Guardiola for "destroying a generation of defenders". This point of view was further reiterated by the Juventus star in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport: "I'm definitely not the best person to talk about this issue, but I think I'm not wrong. Italy's signature defensive football has brought wonderful things to the audience until the so-called 'Pep Guardiola football style' appeared. He created a generation of defenders who were good at passing the ball and running but didn't know how to head the ball and play 1 vs 1".
Coutinho is very close to Barca
According to Don Balon, Philippe Coutinho's representative flew to TBN to negotiate personal terms with Barca. If everything goes smoothly, the Brazilian midfielder will arrive at Nou Camp in the summer transfer window of 2018 with a fee of 132 million pounds and a bonus of 200,000 pounds/week.
Inter "ties" Icardi, challenges Real
With Real Madrid's encouragement, Inter Milan has planned to keep striker Mauro Icardi. Accordingly, the new contract between the two parties will last until 2023 (the current contract still has a term of 2021), and at the same time increase the contract release fee from 110 to 130 million euros. In addition, Icardi's salary has also increased from 4.5 million euros/season to 7 million euros/season.
De Bruyne's "huge" treatment at Man City revealed
With Kenvin De Bruyne's excellent performance in recent times, Man City has urgently planned to reward the Belgian midfielder with a more generous new contract. Recently, Goal newspaper revealed details about the new contract with a term of up to 2024. Specifically, De Bruyne will receive a basic salary of £9 million/year, a weekly salary increase from £200,000 to £264 thousand, not to mention the image copyright fee of £2 million/year and many other subsidies. The signing ceremony between the two sides is expected to take place in January 2018.
Mbappe shows off his new head, leaving open the possibility of leaving PSG
On Instagram, Kylian Mbappe surprised NHM when he posted a video showing off his extremely " cool" platinum-dyed headstyle. According to the explanation from the striker from PSG, this is a gift to welcome his 19th birthday that he gave himself. More notably, in a recent interview, the "newHenry" unexpectedly left open the possibility of leaving PSG within the next 2 years: "To be honest, I don't know what my future will be like in the next 2 years. I have had a few plans for my career but everything is not on schedule, so you can't predict anything at the moment".
