Victor Moses is looking to leave Chelsea as soon as possible, and the claim Manchester United are now favorites for his signature.
Chelsea have enjoyed a highly successful start to the season, and the fact that Moses is yet to play a minute of Premier League football says a lot about manager Maurizzio Sarri s plans when it comes to the Nigerian despite him winning the Premier League title in 2016/17 under Antonio Conte. Since joining the club from Wigan in 2012, he had loan spells with Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham.
The winger worked with United manager Jose Mourinho during his days at Chelsea, and it is to be expected the Portuguese will have no problems in persuading him to move to Old Trafford should his departure become imminent. Apart from the 20-time Englis…
Tottenham will aim to tackle their supposed Wembley curse as the Champions League continues on Wednesday, with Real Madrid seeking to win the tournament for the third year in a row.
No manager has won the Champions League three times in succession so Zinedine Zidane will be out to make history, and has the competition s record goalscorer Cristiano Ronaldo available despite serving a domestic ban.
Elsewhere, RB Leipzig will make their Champions League bow against last season s semi-finalists Monaco, the Ligue 1 champions shorn of many of the stars who fired them to glory in France last year.
Premier League sides Liverpool and Manchester City also get up and running with their first group games on Wednesday and here we examine the upcoming schedule with the help…
Championship promotion hopefuls Middlesbrough have signed David Nugent from Leicester City, .
The one time England international moves to the Riverside Stadium for an undisclosed fee after falling further out of favour at Leicester following the arrival of Japan striker Shinji Okazaki while Jamie Vardy, Andrej Kramaric and Leonardo Ulloa are also ahead of him in the pecking order.
Since signing for the Foxes four years ago Nugent racked up one hundred and eighty appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring fifty-nine goals while he was part of the squad that won the Championship in 2014.
Prior to his move to the East Midlands, the thirty year old averaged around a hundred games in spells with Portsmouth, Preston North End and Bury while he also had a…
One-step run up to a penalty is not a thing you’ll get to see very often in a professional football game.
Still, it’s exactly what happened in Spain this weekend as Athletic Bilbao forward Aritz Aduriz tucked it in audaciously against Valladolid.
Aduriz is a sort of a penalty specialist who bagged 21 spot kicks in La Liga since 2012 which is the most for any played in top 5 European leagues since that time.
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Borussia Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke says the club has not given up on retaining Mats Hummels after the captain announced his desire to join Bayern Munich.
The worst fears of Dortmund supporters were realised this week when the Germany international stated his intention to seek a move to the Bavarian giants, who have already lured Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski to Allianz Arena from Signal Iduna Park in recent years.
Former Bayern youth team player Hummels, who made one senior appearance for the club before joining Dortmund, initially on loan, in 2008, is under contract until the end of next season.
And while Watzke acknowledged the reasons behind the centre-back s wish to return to Munich, the Dortmund chief also insisted a transfer is by no…
Two goals from Moise Kean got Paris Saint-Germain their first win of the 2020-21 Champions League as they beat Istanbul Basaksehir 2-0.
A positive result for Thomas Tuchel s side, who lost 2-1 to Manchester United on matchday one, was undermined by the loss of Neymar to an apparent thigh injury in the first half.
PSG delivered a largely laboured display in Turkey, one that is unlikely to do much to ease some of the pressure on Tuchel, but Kean followed up his double against Dijon last weekend with a timely header from Kylian Mbappe s corner 64 minutes in and a clever finish 11 minutes from time.
Neymar hobbled off after treatment before the half-hour mark and his absence was telling as PSG mustered only one shot on target in the first 45 minutes.
They ha…
Guus Hiddink has urged Chelsea to turn their recent good run into a winning period , starting with a tricky visit to Crystal Palace in the Premier League on Sunday.
Chelsea are unbeaten in the three matches they have played since Jose Mourinho departed the club last month.
Hiddink took a watching brief for a 3-1 win over Sunderland, before seeing Chelsea draw 2-2 with Watford and 0-0 against Manchester United over the festive period.
Chelsea now make the short trip to Selhurst Park and Hiddink, while praising the job done by opposite number Alan Pardew, is keen to turn draws into maximum points.
Crystal Palace are doing well. Alan Pardew has done a marvellous job in the period he has been working there, Hiddink said.
If you look at the statistic…
Dani Alves has landed in Turin ahead of his long-anticipated move from Barcelona to Juventus, with a medical set for Monday.
The Brazil defender has been at Barca since 2008, winning six Liga titles and four Copa del Reys and lifting the UEFA Champions League trophy on three occasions in his time at Camp Nou.
However, Alves had a break clause inserted into his contract, which is due to expire at the end of next season, enabling him to move to Serie A champions Juve on a free transfer.
Juve posted on their Twitter account on Sunday: Look who s just landed in Turin! Welcome, @DaniAlvesD2!
They later confirmed on their website that the full-back s medical is now the only barrier to his signature.
Alves made 391 appearances for Barca, scoring 21 go…
Gareth Southgate believes he has the best striker in world football in captain Harry Kane – but admits the Bayern Munich forward would benefit from ending his career-long trophy drought.
Kane has been in scintillating form since moving to Germany from Tottenham in the summer, scoring 19 goals in 15 games for the Bundesliga giants.
He is the record goalscorer for both England and Spurs but has yet to win any major honours during his career.
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On Wednesday afternoon Japan will welcome Ghana to the National Olympic Stadium in an international friendly.
For Akira Nishino s Japan side, after finishing rock bottom of Group C at the 2014 World Cup, Japan appears to have bounced back after dominating in the Asian qualifying groups. Finish top of the group and holding both the best attacking and defensive records in the group stages, Japan will head to Russia in a group with Poland, Senegal and Columbia. While they did impress during the Group stages, Nishino will know his side must use their friendlies against Ghana, Switzerland and Paraguay to iron out their recent issues. Japan are coming off the back of a 2-1 loss at home to Ukraine and they have now won just two of …