🚨🌕 OFFICIAL: BALLON D’OR 2026 — THE 30 NOMINEES. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harry Kane 🇧🇷 Vinicius Jr 🇪🇸 Fabián Ruiz 🇵🇹 Vitinha 🇪🇸 Ferran Torres 🇫🇷 William Saliba 🇫🇷 Dayot Upamecano 🇵🇹 Bruno Fernandes 🇪🇸 Pau Cubarsí 🇪🇸 Marc Cucurella 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jude Bellingham 🇫🇷 Ousmane Dembélé 🇨🇴 Luis Diaz 🇪🇸 Lamine Yamal 🇳🇴 Erling Haaland 🇧🇷 Gabriel Magalhães 🇲🇦 Achraf Hakimi 🇬🇪 Khvicha Kvaratskhelia 🇦🇷 Lionel Messi 🇸🇳 Sadio Mané 🇧🇷 Marquinhos 🇦🇷 Lautaro Martínez 🇫🇷 Kylian Mbappé 🇵🇹 Nuno Mendes 🇵🇹 João Neves 🇫🇷 Michael Olise 🇪🇨 William Pacho 🇲🇽 Julián Quiñones 🇪🇸 Rodri 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Declan Rice

🚨 Thibaut Courtois: “I want to RETIRE here at Real Madrid”. “I am close to signing a new contract”.

🚨 Bruno Fernandes: “Everyone at the club should understand that we are NO longer in the past”. “We should look at the future, not at the past”, told Sky Italy.

🚨 Declan Rice: “For me, Harry is the clear winner of the Ballon d'Or 2026”. “His numbers speak for themselves. For a striker to play that pass for their first goal then take the penalty how he did... he's ridiculous, he's such a good player, insane!”, told @footballontnt.

🫂 Thibaut Courtois: “Vini is in search of his best version, and that will come with the support of the team and fans”. “We will help him to reach his best form.”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐐 Steven Gerrard: “In my view, Harry Kane is arguably the best English player there’s ever been”, told TNT Sports.

🚨🇪🇸 David Raya: “I would love to play in La Liga one day”. “Right now, I'm very happy at Arsenal, but it's true that I'd love to play in La Liga one day. It's a very competitive league”. “I'm Spanish and I'd love to play in Spain, that's obvious”, told @marca.

🚨🇦🇷 Lionel Scaloni agrees new deal as the Argentina national team head coach until July 2030. The story continues. 🤝

🤍🫂 Mbappé on Vini Jr: “I know he wants to give even more and play even better”. “But he should be proud of who he is, because he has all the quality”.

🚨 Youri Tielemans on what United miss now: “It's everything, you know…”. “It's a combination of everything, whether it's tactical, technical, effort. But, yeah, we need to try and do better at everything”.

🤍 Arda Güler: “I stole Kylian’s goal because I knew he was going to score another one!”.

❤️🤍 Vincent Kompany on Kane for the Ballon d’Or: “Look, if he can crown his career or his season with the Ballon d'Or… that would be deserved for the way he plays for the team”.

🚨 Michael Carrick: “I'm angry to be honest. My whole life is wrapped around this”. “I didn't like what I've seen tonight. I've not given my own position any thought”.

🚨 Michael Carrick when asked if he still feels backing from the club: “It's not about me”. “It’s about digesting the game, and how it went”.

🚨 Michael Carrick: “If you don't run forward and you don't run back, you ain't going to win”.

🤍💭 Vinicius Jr: “Living each moment. Everything will pass”.

🚨 Mikel Arteta on Saka’s injury: “The medical staff is a bit worried and that’s never good news”.

🚨 Michael Carrick’s reply to Bruno seemingly questioning tactics: “We actually half-pressed, man-to-man in the second half and then ended up conceding a goal from that…”.

🚨🇦🇷 BREAKING: Lionel Scaloni has agreed to sign new deal as Argentina head coach until World Cup 2030. The proposal sent in September has been accepted, details being sorted then time to sign. Scaloni said yes, as @CLMerlo reports. 🩵🤍

🚨 Mikel Arteta: “Bukayo Saka’s injury doesn’t look good at all”. “It’s his quad and we wait for the tests”.

✨🇪🇺 Harry Kane, UEFA Man of the Match for Bayern vs Arsenal. His last 11 games in all competitions. ⚽️🅰️ vs Bodø/Glimt ⚽️🅰️ vs Elversberg ⚽️⚽️ vs Union Berlin ⚽️ vs Spain ⚽️ vs Czech Republic ⚽️⚽️🅰️ vs Croatia ⚽️⚽️ vs Czech Republic 🅰️🅰️ vs Augsburg ⚽️⚽️ vs Viking ⚽️🅰️🅰️ vs Leipzig ⚽️🅰️ vs Arsenal