Barcelona’s turbulent summer continues with the proposed sales of Memphis Depay and Pierre-Emerick Aubamyenag likely to occupy the Spanish giants for the next few days. The club is in a race against time to get multiple salaries off their books as their new, shiny arrivals wait in the wings for their names to be registered with LaLiga for the upcoming season. Depay is among those who could make room in the salary cap by leaving Barcelona this summer. As per Fabrizio Romano, the player and his representatives are in talks with the club to terminate his contract a year before…
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PSV Eindhoven will not sell Manchester United target Cody Gakpo before August 24. The striker has responded positively to Manchester United’s approach, and the 23-year-old winger would welcome a summer move to Old Trafford. United are stepping up their efforts to sign new players before the transfer deadline at the end of the month, following their Premier League opening weekend defeat at home to Brighton. According to the Daily Record, if they want to sign Dutch international Gakpo, they must now wait until PSV has completed their crucial Champions League play-off against Rangers. The Dutch club is refusing to let the…
Liverpool have followed Joe Gomez and Diogo Jota’s contract extensions by tying down youngster Harvey Elliott to a new long-term contract, which will run until the end of the 2026/27 season. The winger has penned down a five-year extension to his current deal, prolonging his stay at the club until at least the end of the 2026/27 season. Elliott joined Liverpool from Fulham in the summer of 2019, months after making history as the Premier League’s youngest debutant at the age of 16 years and 30 days. He spent the 2020/21 season out on loan at the Championship side Blackburn Rovers, where he…
Malang Sarr, whom Chelsea signed two seasons ago as a free agent after his contract had expired with OGC Nice, has returned to France to join AS Monaco on loan for the season. The Monegasque club also holds the obligation to sign the Frenchman on a permanent deal next season for a fee worth in the region of 12 million euros, should he make a certain number of appearances across the 2022/23 season. “I am very happy to join AS Monaco and to be back in Ligue 1 Uber Eats, a league in which I started and which I know…
As per reports, Premier League giants Chelsea are preparing a third offer for Leicester City centre-back Wesley Fofana, but they have other central-defensive targets in mind if that approach fails. Chelsea have already had two bids for the 21-year-old rejected, with Sky Sports News reporting that neither was competitive with Leicester’s asking price. The Foxes do not want to sell the Frenchman and are confident of keeping him after he signed a new five-year contract in March. Chelsea is likely to put that resolve to the test later this week. After joining Leicester for 31 million pounds from Saint-Etienne, Fofana had…
Romelu Lukaku is back at Inter Milan after a failed season with Premier League side Chelsea, which he joined last summer in a club-record transfer. The failed move has left anger inside him, he says. Chelsea shipped record signing Lukaku back to Inter after just one season at the club. The Blues had paid nearly 100 million pounds for the Belgian striker, who, the season before, had led the Nerazzurri to their first league title in a decade. However, problems on and off the pitch prevented the forward from hitting his best form in London, and he was promptly sent back to…
David Alaba and Karim Benzema scored in either half to give Real Madrid a 2-0 win over Bundesliga outfit Eintracht Frankfurt. Los Blancos won the UEFA Super Cup in Helsinki, the fifth in their history. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it: Carlo Ancelotti named the same line-up that beat Liverpool 1-0 in the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League final a couple of months ago for their Super Cup clash against Europa League winners Eintracht Frankfurt. New signings Antonio Rudiger and Aurelien Tchouameni made the bench while Karim Benzema led the line in a lopsided front-three with Vinicius Jr on one side and Federico Valverde on the other. Frankfurt created the first big…
On August 8, Indian Super League shield winners of the 2021-22 campaign Jamshedpur FC announced the signing of midfielder Germanpreet Singh until 2024. The former Minerva Punjab player has played five seasons in the ISL for Chennaiyin. He scored once and assisted three times for the Marina Machans in 62 appearances in the league. He was also part of Chennai’s ISL-winning squad in 2017-18. The seasoned midfielder expressed his delight after signing for the team from Tamil Nadu in a club statement. “I wanted to take on a new challenge after playing with Chennaiyin FC for 5 years. When Jamshedpur came calling it was…
Data has thrown Real Madrid and Barcelona’s names up top as the two most successful clubs in Europe over the last seven decades. But, there are plenty of surprising names in the top ten, including SL Benfica and Dynamo Kyiv. Real Madrid are the pride of Spain – when it comes to points scored for the UEFA country ranking, according to data released by Twitter user Swiss Football Data. While their fourteen UEFA Champions League titles haven’t gone amiss, their total of 180.505 points accrued over the last 67 years means that they have contributed the most to their country’s…
The Toffees have paid a huge fee to sign Belgian international Amadou Onana from Lille OSC. The central midfielder has joined the club on a long-term contract and will wear the number eight as a tribute to Kobe Bryant. The 20-year-old spent a season with Ligue 1 outfit Lille OSC, which he joined last summer from Hamburger SV for a small fee. Onana made 32 appearances for the French side throughout the 2021/22 campaign, only 11 of which were starts. Everton have paid 36 million euros for his signature with Lille also managing to stipulate a 20 percent sell-on clause on his…