Here are the top headlines and transfer-related stories in Friday's newspapers...
Manchester City are lining up moves for Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk and Sporting Lisbon "midfielder" William Carvalho as long-term replacements for Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure. (Daily Mail)
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will make the strengthening of his defence the main priority in January. (The...
Saturday, 3 December 2016
Friday, 2 December 2016
One player each Premier League club shouldn't have sold – regretful decisions?
Mauricio Pochettino wishes Tottenham kept former playmaker Gylfi Sigurdsson – ‘He’d be PERFECT for this team!'
Gylfi Sigurdsson has four goals and four assists for Swansea this season
Sigurdsson will be hoping to deliver Pochettino a timely reminder of his creative...
Saturday, 26 November 2016
UK football child abuse: Wayne Rooney offers support
By James Masters, CNN
English football has been rocked by allegations of child sex abuse.
London (CNN)Wayne
Rooney has become the first star player to urge victims of past child
abuse in the world of football not to suffer in silence.
The
England captain spoke out after a hotline...
Burnley 1-2 Manchester City: Sergio Aguero sends City top of Premier League
Sergio Aguero celebrates after equalising for Man City
Sergio Aguero scored twice as Manchester City came from behind to beat Burnley 2-1 and go top of the Premier League.
The Clarets, for whom 37-year-old Paul Robinson started in
goal in place of the injured...
Jeonbuk, Al Ain face off in Champions League
Jeonbuk Motors of South Korea takes on
Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates on Saturday in the first leg of the
2016 Asian Champions League final. Let's look at the big questions ahead
of the game.
1. Can Jeonbuk shake off domestic disappointment?
The Greens were 14 points clear at the
top of the K-League table with six games to go in September, but were
then docked nine points...
Rivals or not, Man Utd-Arsenal has flare
It might have been a product of the
Premier League, but the rivalry between Arsenal and Manchester United
never felt manufactured. The contention that existed between the two
clubs was very much real. English soccer was dominated by the duo for a
time. It was the country’s defining fixture.
As soccer’s ultimate manifestation of
north versus south, the contest between Sir Alex...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Sam Allardyce gone as England manager after 67 days - Southgate to take over for next four games
The Three Lions manager was removed from his post after showdown talks with FA chiefs at Wembley on Tuesday
Sam Allardyce has been removed as England manager by mutual consent with The FA.
Allardyce’s departure was confirmed after emergency talks at Wembley with FA bosses on Tuesday.
England...
GOAL! Borussia Dortmund 2-2 Real Madrid (Schurrle)
Zinedine Zidane's men left it late to beat Sporting Lisbon
last time out but face the toughest task of their group campaign in
Germany
Madrid, for their part, narrowly missed out on setting a new Liga
record at the weekend. Their 2-2 draw with Las Palmas at the Gran
Canaria saw them...
Saturday, 24 September 2016
Arsenal fans troll Cesc Fabregas after the Chelsea midfielder was subbed at 3-nil down
Happy days at the Emirates Stadium.
Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas
Arsenal fans v Cesc Fabregas
If the truth be told, the...
Jose Mourinho explains his decision to drop Wayne Rooney from the Man United XI
Wayne Rooney finally dropped
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney was today dropped by his manager Jose Mourinho following a string of poor performances in different positions.
Having failed to shoehorn him into the first XI, Jose Mourinho’s decision to drop the 30-year-old captain of club...
Full time: Arsenal 3-0 Chelsea (Alexis, Walcott, Ozil)
GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Chelsea (Alexis 11)
Arsenal take the lead after a bad mistake from Gary Cahill. He dithered on the ball just inside his own half before shaping to pass it back to the keeper. As he did so Sanchez robbed him and ran clear before chipping the ball gently and sweetly...
Middlesbrough 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur
Heung-Min Son’s goal-den spell continued as we ran out deserved 2-1 winners at Middlesbrough on Saturday.
The South Korean star buried two beauties at the Riverside to take his tally to four in the Premier League this term. He’s already toppled his three goals from last season.
The...
Liverpool 5-1 Hull City
After a breathless finish to the county cricket championship the previous day, it was perhaps fitting that Liverpool virtually declared here at Anfield.
The Reds capitalised on a foolish red card for Ahmed Elmohamady when he handled Philippe Coutinho's goal bound shot,...
