Manchester City came through their bruising Champions League encounter with Atletico Madrid and they should be confident of seeing off the city’s other inhabitants in the first leg of their semi-final tie. Real Madrid are on the brink of sealing the title in Spain but have excelled in the role of underdogs in Europe this […]
Luka Modric hopes Kylian Mbappe will join him at Real Madrid next season. Mbappe’s contract expires at the end of June and the Paris Saint-Germain forward continues to be strongly linked with a move to Madrid. The prolific 23-year-old has been included in PSG’s squad to face Los Blancos in the second leg of their […]
FIFA and UEFA have banned Russian teams from club and international competitions, denying them entry to the 2022 World Cup and Women’s Euro 2022. The decision means Spartak Moscow will be removed from the Europa League last 16, where they were due to face RB Leipzig. UEFA has also ended its relationship with Gazprom, the […]
Former Manchester City and Hull City defender, Omar Elabdellaoui has made a sensational return back to football as he played all 90 minutes of Galatasaray’s Super Lig win this week. The 30-year-old defender was left clinically blind in one eye when a firework exploded in his face during a New Years Eve party back in […]
Manchester United interim manager, Ralf Rangnick has reportedly held talks with some of the big stars in the squad amid reports of a rift within the United dressing room Rangnick is understood to have held talks with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Pogba, and Bruno Fernandes while also meeting with Marcus Rashford last week. […]
Xavi is confident Ferran Torres will come good at Barcelona despite a tricky start to life at Camp Nou. Torres, a €55million December signing from Manchester City, rescued a 1-1 draw for Barca at home to Napoli in the Europa League, scoring from the penalty spot. Yet that was the only one of the forward’s […]
Marcus Rashford has rubbished suggestions that Manchester United’s English players have formed a “clique” in opposition to Cristiano Ronaldo’s dressing room influence. The England forward took to social media to shoot down a claim from German journalist Christian Falk that a split was developing in Ralf Rangnick’s squad. Falk posted on Twitter: “The English Players […]
Bernardo Silva scored twice as Manchester City made Champions League history with an emphatic 5-0 away win over Sporting CP in the first leg of their last-16 tie. Riyad Mahrez got them on their way with a simple finish early on before Silva added a second with a thunderous strike before the midway point of […]
Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United interim boss Ralf Rangnick’s relationship is ‘completely fractured’ as the forward believes the manager is out of his depth, according to a new report in Spain. The German manager was brought in to turn the Red Devils’ season around following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. But United are struggling […]
The impact of Barcelona’s teenage sensation Gavi this season has been “marvellous”, according to head coach Xavi. Since making his senior debut against Getafe in August, the 17-year-old midfielder has played 26 appearances for the Blaugrana across all competitions – matching Xavi’s tally during his maiden campaign at Camp Nou in 1998-99. Gavi will surpass […]