Mauro Icardi has confirmed that he is staying at PGS on his Instagram account.
There have been rumors that Icardi could be going back to Italy with a possible swap deal seeing Cristiano Ronaldo going the other way. However, Icardi put up a story on his Instagram writing:
“This season and also the next one, I’m staying. There was never any doubt about that”
Already 28 years of age, Icardi initially joined PSG on loan for the 2019-2020 season before the club got him from Inter for €70 million.
Tottenham and Atalanta have reportedly come to an agreement regarding the transfer of Cristian Romero.
The Argentina Copa America winner looks to be on his way out of Italy as he has been linked with a move to Tottenham since the end of the Copa America. The two clubs have reportedly agreed on a transfer of €50 million with an additional 5 million in bonuses.
It would be a transfer which would keep him at the club until 2026. In addition, if reports are to be believed, Romero has already agreed personal terms with Tottenham.
Per César Luis Merlo, the transfer is not yet finalized as Atalanta themselves have to finalize a transfer first.
🚨Tottenham y Atalanta ya tienen acuerdo en la cifra de compra de Cuti Romero (€50M + 5 en bonus)
— César Luis Merlo (@CLMerlo) July 31, 2021
*️⃣Sin embargo, la operación no se firmará aún porque los 🇮🇹 además de Lovato tratan de fichar a Demiral y ahí liberarlo
*️⃣El 🇦🇷 tiene su contrato arreglado con los Spurs hasta 2026 pic.twitter.com/6tfhwNu02y
Atalanta manager Gasperini about Tottenham deal: “Romero will be with us on Monday and I think player decision will be important to understand his future. Then we’ve to see how negotiations between clubs will develop”. ⚪️ #THFC
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) July 31, 2021
…and Cristian Romero wants to join Tottenham.
Nicolas Gonzalez spoke about winning the Copa America with Argentina, what it meant for Lionel Messi, his response to the Brazilian players, Lionel Scaloni and the World Cup.
Gonzalez was a regular starter for Argentina in their Copa America winning campaign. Despite not starting the final itself, Gonzalez was often in the starting eleven, on the left side of the pitch. And while he didn’t start the final, he was present as Lionel Messi gave his speech before the match. Speaking in an interview with Ole, here is what Gonzalez revealed about Messi:
“Before the final, Messi told us that playing against them (Brazil) at the Maracaná was a miracle. And that they had the cup there for us to to win it. When be said that, more than one of us got goosebumps.
“When the match just ended, we all went to hug Messi because we knew what it meant for him. And also for Kun (Aguero), for Fideo (Angel Di Maria) and Otamendi, that have been fighting for it for so long. That it happened this way is something unique that they won’t ever forget.
“On a day to day basis, Messi was very comfortable and happy with all the boys. And this was later reflected on the pitch. You have to enjoy Messi because for the Argentine, he is everything.
“Seeing him as happy as a kid in a toy store is engraved in the head of every player.”
In addition, Gonzalez also commented on Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni:
“I’m very thankful to Scaloni. There are coaches that back you a lot and he is one of them. He backs his player to the death. He waited for me until the end. I enjoy Scaloni, he makes me play freely. There’s a lot of joy in every one of the players.”
As we posted a few days ago, there was back and forth posts between a few of the Argentina players and Richarlison of Brazil. Gonzalez even spoke about that:
“How are we going to tell the Brazilians something? Leave them alone, that they keep crying. I think the pictures of Dibu (Emiliano Martinez) and Rodrigo (De Paul) were very good. It was incredible how much I laughed when I saw them but let them talk because we are happy with (winning) the Copa America in their home.”
In regards to what and how much it cost the team to win the Copa America:
“It was very difficult to be isolated for 45 days. We all went for one objective: To win the Copa America. Every day we were focused on that, no one ever deviated away from it. Thankfully it happened but we thought a lot about our families, some became fathers and couldn’t see their kids. But we were focused in bringing joy to the people and we came back from Brazil happy.”
And finally, Gonzalez commented on the World Cup:
“The Argentine will always ask for more. We will do our best to fight until the very end at the World Cup in Qatar, just as we have been doing and how the guys before us did.”
Thiago Almada will reportedly join Atlanta United in the MLS.
Regarded as not only one of the best attacking young talents but one of the best talents in Argentina, the 20 year old is set to be leaving Velez and joining Atlanta United. Per a tweet by César Luis Merlo, there’s a verbal agreement for him to join the 2018 MLS Cup champions.
🚨Vélez acordó de palabra la venta de la totalidad del pase de Thiago Almada al Atlanta United 🇺🇲.
— César Luis Merlo (@CLMerlo) July 28, 2021
*️⃣Están cruzando los contratos y, cuando regrese de Tokio, viajará para la revisión médica y firma. #TratoHecho pic.twitter.com/yfGWbcuoRW
Part of the Argentina Olympic team, Almada would be the sixth Argentine player at the club. He would play alongside Olympic team mate Esequiel Barco. The other four Argentine players are Franco Ibarra, Marcelino Moreno, Alan Franco and Santiago Sosa.
Per reports, the transfer fee would be in the region of $15 million for him, on a four year contract.
💣 #Velez y #AtlantaUnited llegaron a un principio de acuerdo por Thiago Almada.
— Germán García Grova (@GerGarciaGrova) July 28, 2021
💵La transferencia ronda los U$S15M y #Velez se queda con un % de una futura venta del excedente.
📝Resta limar algunos detalles impositivos. https://t.co/Cz9u0AVYRw pic.twitter.com/4gqNGxtJvT
Two players from the Argentina national team, Rodrigo De Paul and Emiliano Martínez, responded via Instagram to the Brazilian players that fan of Argentina’s elimination at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The Brazilian player Douglas Luiz uploaded a boomerang to his Instagram stories where we can see him, along with Richarlison, Matheus Cunha, and Reinier Jesus, mocking the Argentina U-23 at the stadium where the Argentine’s were eliminated after drawing 1-1 vs. Spain.
Richarlison, who played the whole Copa America 2021 final vs. Argentina, then re-posted it.
“Bye little brothers.”
While the Argentina fans exploded on social media against the Brazilian players, Rodrigo De Paul responded by uploading to his Instagram stories a fantastic picture of the Copa America 2021 final, with Richarlison in it.
De Paul would later go and delete the photo from his Instagram stories.
Argentina’s goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez, who is Douglas Luiz’s teammate at Aston Villa, would also respond to the mockery of the Brazilian players. Writing the same but in Portuguese, this was Martínez’s reply via his Instagram stories:
But the crossfire didn’t end there. Later on, Richarlison would upload two more Instagram stories in reply to the Argentine’s’ comments. In the first one he is kissing the 2019 Copa America trophy, while in the other one he posted a picture of Pele, where he refers to the fact that Brazil has more World Cups than Argentina: “Who has more? We have five.”
But the “social media fight” between the Argentina players and Richarlison did not start today. After the Brazil U-23 team defeated Germany 4-2 in their opening game of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Leandro Paredes answered the following to an Instagram post of TyC Sports where they were praising Richarlison’s performance:
Giovani Lo Celso and Ángel Di María laughed at Paredes’ reply.
