Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes the main reason clubs on the continent are keen to establish a new European Super League is because they cannot compete financially with their rivals in the Premier League.
Manchester United and Liverpool are reported to be in talks over the creation of a new $6 billion breakaway tournament that would feature up to 18 clubs from Europe’s top five leagues.
Scottish Premiership clubs have received a major boost as UEFA confirmed Scotland will have two spots in the Champions League qualifying round next season.
Scotland currently has just one place with the Premiership winner now set to enter the third qualifying round and the second-place team joining the competition in the second qualifying stage.
Barcelona presidential frontrunner Victor Font wants Pep Guardiola to return to the club and has „no doubt“ Lionel Messi will stay.
Current president Josep Maria Bartomeu resigned earlier this week, along with his board of directors, ahead of an expected vote of no confidence next month.
Josep Maria Bartomeu revealed Barcelona have accepted a proposal to join a future European Super League moments after announcing his resignation as the club’s president.
Bartomeu has fallen on his sword as he quit, along with his board of directors, ahead of an expected vote of no confidence next month.
As Zoom meeting backdrops go, Jack Wilshere’s stack of England caps is hard to beat.
The ‘golden boy’ shadow still follows the player that made the first of 34 England appearances at just 18 years old. Now, a decade on, Wilshere is among the masses working from home as he looks to find a club under the confines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Tanguy Ndombele says he was neither hurt nor motivated by Jose Mourinho’s public criticism of him after he was hauled off in Tottenham’s 1-1 draw at Burnley last season.
The Frenchman became Spurs’ record signing when he joined from Lyon for £54m in July 2019 but struggled for consistency and received some harsh words from his manager following a lacklustre 45 minutes at Turf Moor in March, with Mourinho stating „I hope next season he can be fantastic because until now it is not enough.“
Pep Guardiola hailed they way his Manchester City players brushed aside recent criticism to ease to a 3-0 Champions League win at Marseille.
Ferran Torres, Ilkay Gundogan and Raheem Sterling were all on target in a one-sided contest at the Stade Velodrome that put City three points clear in Group C.
One incident in particular stands out when former Shrewsbury boss Paul Hurst thinks back to his time working with Ben Godfrey on the training ground. He had already given the teenager a couple of gentle reminders not to be overzealous with his tackling. These were his team-mates he was up against not the opposition. It was time to make that point again.
Former Tottenham striker Peter Crouch believes Jose Mourinho’s side have „as good a chance as anyone“ of winning the Premier League this season.
It has been a crazy opening to the 2020/21 campaign with five points separating the top 14 teams after six games and it looks like it is going to be a wide-open title race.
Slaven Bilic says Ahmed Hegazi was sold by West Brom against his wishes and claims the defender wanted to stay at the club rather than move to Saudi Arabia.
The Egyptian centre-back has moved on an initial loan deal to Al-Ittihad, with a permanent transfer agreed for next summer.
