17 October, 2024 : Football and Sport News
- Cristiano Ronaldo, the legendary Portuguese forward currently playing for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia, has once again claimed the top spot in Forbes' annual ranking of the world’s highest-paid footballers for 2024  
- Georgiy Sudakov’s career trajectory could have taken a very different turn, and he might now be playing for a top club if he had scored in the final moments of Ukraine’s group stage match against Belgium at Euro 2024. The player himself is well aware of this  
- Manchester City’s Spanish manager, Pep Guardiola, is currently regarded as the best football coach in the world, according to experts from FourFourTwo, who have released their latest ranking.  
- UEFA has confirmed that the qualification campaign will kick off on March 17, 2025  
- According to Marca, opposition members believe that the reported €91 million loss for the past season has been downplayed  
- Lionel Messi has officially announced that he will compete in the 2026 World Cup, confirming that it will be his final appearance on football’s grandest stage.  
- Portuguese coach Luís Castro firmly believes that Cristiano Ronaldo, his former player at Al-Nassr, has the potential to become the first footballer to score 1,000 goals  
- Real Madrid has firmly dismissed allegations made by the Swedish press accusing Kylian Mbappé of sexual assault following an incident at a Stockholm nightclub.  
- Manchester City is on course to claim a remarkable fifth consecutive Premier League title 