Brazil and Liverpool star Roberto Firmino has emerged the winner of the 2018 Samba Gold award after seeing off the pair of Selecao teammates Neymar and Marcelo.
The quartet of Neymar, Messi and David Beckham and Gareth Bale are other football stars that are listed alongside Ronaldo in the top five sporting list.
He said: "He has not offered any bribe and he does not know anything about any bribe. He had a snack with the AIK goalkeeper, they knew each other and used to meet for lunch.
He has only made two appearances for the Spanish League giants this season and Talk Sports reported that Tottenham are also in the chase to sign the attacker who almost joined Roma before making a u-turn and join Barca.
The yet to be identified mascot can be seen crossing his arms uncomfortably and feeling the chilly autumnal air as the teams waited to walk out onto the pitch.
Crystal Palace are currently among the top six teams in the Premier League and manager Hodgson wants to maintain the challenge for the European qualification.
Antony, along with Anthony Martial and Scott McTominay have all missed United's recent run of games with ten Hag suggesting last week the Brazil international and the midfielder could be fit in time to be in the squad for the Barcelona clash
You know when you are going to play and when you're not going to play," he said. "When you play you know why and when you don't he tells you why not and that's the big difference," he added.
Every game he plays, he grows and grows. "He was the first one to take the ball down and settle us. We had to slow the game down. We were too quick to give the ball away. The three midfielders did really well."