Haaland scored 52 goals in 53 games last season, as Man City won a historic treble consisting of the league title, the FA Cup and the Champions League. The signing of Messi - who would be reunited with former Barca team-mate Neymar at the Parc des Princes - is one of the most noteworthy captures in football's history. Filled with quizzes, stats and little known facts, plus illustrated and told with all the fun of a Tom Gates novel, the Football Superstars series is perfect for young readers five and up. If FFP had been rigorously enforced since the early 90s there'd be no City or Chelsea competing for titles and the EPL would be weaker for it.

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The Argentina captain, 34, left Barca - the only club he has played for - as they could not afford a new deal under La Liga's financial fair play rules. Chueko had guided the forward through the red carpet in Paris Monday night as Messi made his way into the ceremony.While most of the American soccer world has been focusing on Messi's every move, Nashville deserve a huge amount of credit for their run to the final. This is disappointing, this is really disappointing, there's no other way to put it," Austin's Ethan Finlay said after his side were eliminated from contention. Indeed, earlier in October Chueko instinctively sprang into life when an eight-year-old fan ran onto the field at Miami's DRV PNK Stadium when Messi was nearby. This is a team that joined the league alongside Miami in 2020 to much less fanfare, and yet they're now on the cusp of a first-ever trophy, led by the two goals and five assists from game-changing attacker Hany Mukhtar.

Messi agrees Paris St-Germain deal after Barcelona Lionel Messi agrees Paris St-Germain deal after Barcelona

What a difference for PSG coach Pocchettino; from being obliged to scrape the bottom of the barrel for bargains under Levy at Spurs to having Messi,Mbappe and Neymar as a strike force. He’s earned more than enough in his career to date plus would still have had all his sponsorship deals and endorsements to fall back on if he fell on hard times! Messi was the youngest player to score 50 goals in the Champions League, won the Ballon d'Or five times and once entertained the crowd by doing 1,200 keepy-uppies! Chueko reacted rapidly to stop the boy getting to Messi but when he realized it was only a child, he walked the fan over to his idol and they got a picture together.Playing as the constantly traveling visitors, Liga MX teams have so far gone 17W-12D-17L (90 minutes only, not including penalties). He also scored a whopping 32 goals in 55 games across all competitions for PSG, to help the side clinch the Ligue 1 title. Considered one of the greatest players of all time, Messi scored a record 672 goals in 778 games for Barca, the club he joined as a 13-year-old. An Ipswich Town fan since they won the FA Cup in 1978(it's true - look it up) he lives in Kent with his wife, daughter, and a cat with two names.