☕️ Mou, Levante and Aubameyang's fire extinguisher: the day's 5️⃣ stories | OneFootball

European football is going through a spell in which not even the best screenwriter could have come up with these headlines: Mourinho is circling Madrid, Levante come back from the dead by miracle, and Aubameyang puts out his problems in Marseille with a fire extinguisher.

These are the five stories to get your Saturday started properly:

🇵🇹 Mourinho to Real Madrid: what they’re saying in Portugal

The Portuguese newspaper A Bola confirms that contacts between Florentino Pérez and the representatives of the 'Special One' are moving forward and that his return is "becoming more real by the day". Sport leads with a historic image of Mou and Florentino holding a white shirt, and the question is no longer whether Mourinho is coming back, but when.

🤔 Florentino Pérez’s inexplicable silence

In this Real Madrid vaudeville, there is one main figure conspicuous by his absence: Florentino Pérez, whose silence at the club’s worst moment is starting to become, according to Marca editor Juan Ignacio Gallardo, "deafening" and fueling the feeling that "the club has slipped out of his hands".

📸 PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA - AFP or licensors

The editor of the outlet that has uncovered the latest scandals in the Real Madrid dressing room is asking the president to reconsider his intention not to travel to Barcelona because, in his own words, "the captain of the ship cannot hide his head under the pillow when the thunder starts crashing down".

💥 A wild and heroic Levante

Far from all the noise around Madrid, Levante wrote one of the wildest scripts of the season last night: they reached stoppage time trailing 0-2 against Osasuna and ended up winning 3-2 at the Ciutat de València.

Three points of pure oxygen that bring the Granota side closer to survival, something that just weeks ago looked like a miracle.

🧯 There’s never a quiet day in Marseille...

And if football gives us heroes, it also gives us surreal episodes: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been left out by Olympique de Marseille after spraying Bob Tahri, a representative of the club’s sporting management, with a fire extinguisher. 

OM have, of course, punished him, and he will not play on Sunday against Le Havre.

📺 Saturday’s best matches

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