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It was largely considered a great week for Spanish soccer, even when Villarreal didn’t fairly pull off a superb four-goal comeback in opposition to Olympique Marseille, Spain can have three sides within the Champions League quarter-finals, greater than anybody else.
Essentially the most dramatic was Atletico Madrid’s penalty shoot-out win over Inter. Diego Simeone has now fathered 7 of Atletico’s 12 Champions League quarter-finals, and is but to lose a house knockout tie. The penalties after all concerned Antoine Griezmann in obscene trend making it clear that he thought Alexis Sanchez would miss, though he has reportedly apologised to the Chilean.
Barcelona additionally acquired a wonderful win over Napoli, coming by means of 3-1 at dwelling and returning to the quarter-finals for the primary time in 4 years. It earns them an additional €15m which was important for his or her monetary woes, however nonetheless they may nonetheless require gross sales. This week it emerged that the Blaugrana would contemplate provides for near a €100m for star defender Ronald Araujo.
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Sporting Director Deco did meet along with his Manchester United counterpart, John Murtough in Madrid on Monday, however Araujo was not introduced up in keeping with the newest studies, fairly Ansu Fati, Alejandro Balde and Frenkie de Jong.
United additionally met with Getafe, Atletico Madrid and Actual Madrid whereas within the Spanish capital, and whereas Barcelona have cooled their curiosity in Mason Greenwood fearing public backlash, Atletico are nonetheless , as are Getafe. With a view to keep in Spain although, Murtough made it clear they might be promoting to the best bidder, round €50m they hope, fairly than loaning the problematic ahead once more.
In different information, the prosecutor and the sufferer within the Dani Alves rape conviction are set to enchantment the choice, asking for the sentence to be prolonged past the 4 and a half years. In lighter authorized information, Actual Madrid-bound Kylian Mbappe is reportedly threatening to sue a kebab store in Marseille for likening their spherical roll to Mbappe’s head – ‘Don’t you will have something higher to do?’ responded the irate proprietor.
