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The last six meetings between Man City and Arsenal across all competitions:

➮ City 3-1 Arsenal
➮ Arsenal 0-3 City
➮ Arsenal 0-3 City
➮ Arsenal 0-2 City
➮ City 3-1 Arsenal
➮ Arsenal 0-3 City

On agg.: Man City 17-2 Arsenal.

John Terry reveals his father wanted him to sign for Man Utd:

"On the pitch of me signing my schoolboy form at Chelsea, my dad refused to go on the pitch with me.

"He said: '‘You’re not signing for this football club, we should sign for Manchester United’."

Bayern's eighth straight Bundesliga title sees them join Juventus in winning the most consecutive championships across Europe's top eight competitions

ChristineC:
I hoped his career wouldn't nosedive when he started misbehaving with Lingard on social media. thank God he was trolled/management spoke to him to change and take his career seriously because if we are to be factual, he got a lot of free pass and wasn't improving on his productivity.

patrickmuf:
If only they were in the EPL...

Talking about the EPL, I wish we can we play Chelsea every week...

handelex:
Nawa, this kind mind game strong gan oo but I doubt Mou will say that.... He's not even in the best position to say that because he himself has been out of his depth for years now.

Oasis007:

Alright sir.

ChristineC:

Oasis007:
Silva is a solid Defender, Cavani also is a proven Striker. I dropped the News, coz I think it won't be bad for United to get either of the two.

Oasis007:
Edinson Cavani and Thiago Silva will leave Paris Saint-Germain this summer, says the club's sporting director Leonardo.

- Sky Sports

Mourinho on Fred:

”The day we are stronger defensively, I think the horizons for Fred change completely.”

Fred needs a defensive assurance to do his job.

That’s he operates well with McT nd Matic, but not with Pogba.

Manchester United have many notorious tales of ‘near completed’ transfers. The most obvious, modern examples would be Wesley Sneijder and Nicolas Gaitan, names that immediately spark association with the Red Devils, despite neither figure ever representing the club.

Thomas Muller may not be as ‘clear-cut’ an example in this regard, but he is a player that shares a similar relationship with United. The German was heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford back in 2014, due to Louis van Gaal’s strong ties with the forward.

SportBild’s Head of Football Christian Falk spoke about the transfer story with utdreport, revealing that the club were very much interested in the player, and Muller himself could ‘imagine a future in Manchester’. Van Gaal told the forward that he ‘wanted him’ in an unofficial phone call.

The Munich hierarchy never expected such talk to materialise into an official bid though, hence their surprise when United faxed over €100m euros as an offer. This offer was rejected, but the story doesn’t end there.

In fact, Falk revealed to utdreport that a United representative actually spoke to Muller last winter. This came during a time when the player became a little unsettled under Niko Kovac and should this situation had prolonged, Muller to Manchester would have become a talking point yet again.

However, the arrival of Hans-Dieter Flick significantly improved relations. The forward has once again become a key part of the set-up at the Allianz Arena, contributing to fourteen league goals since the turn of the year.

Muller extended his Bayern contract in April, squashing any doubt over his long-term future. Falk put it simply, but yet so poetically, ‘The love story of Müller and United will never have a happy end.’

He is a figure that Falk describes in being ‘FC Bayern’ and ‘FC Bayern being Thomas Muller’. Fellow football fans around the globe share this association of the German, and now for those around the streets of Old Trafford, he will forever be a ‘what could have been’.