Liverpool ties Firmino until 2023, Messi leads the Golden Boot race

Messi leads the European Golden Shoe race

Messi scored a hat-trick in the win over Deportivo in round 35 of La Liga. Not only did he help Barca win the title early, M10 also consolidated his personal record with 32 goals since the start of the 2017-2018 season.

Messi is currently ahead of Mohamed Salah, who has 31 goals in the Premier League. This is a big advantage for the Argentine star to break away and win the European Golden Shoe. Messi also has another advantage because he has four La Liga games left (including the make-up game against Villarreal), while Salah has only two Premier League games left with Liverpool.

In third place, Ciro Immobile has only 29 goals. The Lazio striker also ended the 2017-2018 Serie A season early due to injury.

Robert Lewandowski is currently fourth with 28 goals in the Bundesliga. In the next position, Mauro Icardi has only 27 goals in Serie A.

Messi won the Golden Boot last season, sharing the record with Cristiano Ronaldo for four wins. If he wins this season, M10 will set a new record.

Liverpool ties Firmino until 2023

Firmino has extended his contract with Liverpool until 2023. Photo: Reuters

Liverpool FC announced that it has extended the contract for another 5 years to keep striker Roberto Firmino (Brazil) at Anfield until the summer of 2023.

Roberto Firmino, 26, is Liverpool's second-highest scorer this season with 27 goals in all competitions. Currently, Firmino is playing very well with Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah, helping Liverpool become one of the most fearsome attacking teams in Europe.

With this new contract, Firmino's salary is raised to 180,000 pounds/week, becoming one of the highest paid players at Anfield.

MU confident to have Griezmann

Don Balon reports that Mourinho believes MU will get Antoine Griezmann this summer, in a spectacular "swap".

MU almost owned the French striker last summer. But because Atletico Madrid was under a transfer ban, the plan unexpectedly failed.

Mourinho and MU are confident of getting Griezmann with the Pogba exchange deal for Ateltico.

And according to the above source, in recent months, Mourinho has continued to return to this goal, due to disappointment with Griezmann's "friend" - Paul Pogba.

Because of the irreparable conflict, from an indispensable factor in the squad, Mourinho is now ready to remove Pogba from his plans, pushing the French midfielder out of Old Trafford.

On Pogba's side, agent Raiola has also made moves to contact top clubs such as PSG, Real Madrid and Juventus,...

But Mourinho discussed with MU leadership a bold plan: negotiate with Atletico, make a spectacular exchange, Griezmann joins MU, and Pogba goes to Atletico Madrid. The price of 2 stars is equivalent, 89 million pounds.

Regarding the future, Griezmann recently admitted that "he will sit down and talk with the club and everyone will wait and see what happens".

Previously, Barca was considered the leading candidate to sign Griezmann, but the information gradually decreased after Messi and his teammates were shockingly eliminated from the quarter-finals of the Champions League by Roma.

Fellaini is determined not to show mercy to Mourinho

The Star newspaper said that although coach Mourinho desperately wanted "frizzy hair" Fellaini to stay at MU, the Belgian midfielder was still determined to stay.

Mourinho is hurt because his favorite player Fellaini doesn't respect him, despite having 3 private meetings in the past month.

More specifically, Mourinho had 3 private meetings with Fellaini recently, the club also nearly doubled his salary, from 80,000 pounds/week to 140,000 pounds/week. However, Fellaini still shook his head, opening the door to transfer negotiations.

What Fellaini wants more from MU is the extension period. The curly-haired guy wants at least 2 years, while MU only plans to add 1 season.

Clubs interested in the 30-year-old midfielder include PSG, Juventus, Monaco, West Ham and Leicester.

Because he will leave on a free at the end of the season, in addition to asking for a double salary, Fellaini also aims to receive an attractive "kickback" fee.

Recently, Mourinho also spoke about the plan to strengthen 2 more midfielders for the Red Devils, due to Carrick's retirement and now Fellani's determination to leave.

Liverpool plans to increase salary to "tie down" Salah

British media revealed that, to avoid Real Madrid's attention, Liverpool's Board of Directors is trying to convince striker Mohamed Salah to sit down at the negotiating table to extend his contract. In addition, "The Kop" is willing to increase the Egyptian star's salary from 120,000 pounds/week to 185,000 pounds/week.