With the takeover on the verge of completion, Chelsea are moving forward with their summer transfer plans. Sevilla’s Jules Kounde remains the primary target, but the Blues also have Barcelona duo Ousmane Dembele and Sergino Dest on their shortlist. With Chelsea set to confirm the Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital consortium takeover in the coming days, plans are underway to strengthen Thomas Tuchel and Emma Hayes’s squads for the seasons ahead. The attention turns to the men’s senior team, who finished 19 points off league leaders Manchester City. With several areas in need of refurbishment, the club is likely to dip into the transfer market – a…
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The Reds, who went down to Real Madrid in the 2021/22 UEFA Champions League final, should consider signing a midfielder like Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante, reckons former Manchester United icon Rio Ferdinand. The Frecnhman’s future has been a source of speculation over the past couple of weeks as his future at the West London club looks uncertain after a successful six-year stay at Stamford Bridge. With just 12 months left to run on his current deal with the Blues, it’s been widely reported that the club are contemplating whether to offer a player a new deal or sell him as he…
Ralf Rangnick will not continue consulting Manchester United as was the plan previously, the club announced on May 29. The German will instead leave the club after six months of interim management and join the Austria national team on a permanent basis. As per the initial agreement, the former RB Leipzig boss was supposed to manage the men’s senior team on an interim basis until the end of the season while the club looked for his successor, before then receding into the background to take up a consultancy role. However, the Austrian FA came knocking midway through his spell at Old Trafford,…
Two decades after falling down a division, Nottingham Forest are set to return to the Premier League. The Reds beat Huddersfield 1-0 in the EFL Championship playoff and became the 20th team for the 2022/23 league season. Promotion marks a remarkable turnaround the club has achieved under former England U17 and Swansea City manager Steve Cooper, who took over the head coach duties from Chris Hughton following a disastrous start to the season. Forest were 24th and bottom seven matchdays into the season, having lost six of their seven games and drawn the odd one. In comparison, the two-time European Cup winners lost six matches…
Liverpool striker Sadio Mane is expected to depart Anfield this summer, ending a six-year association with the club that brought one Premier League and one Champions League title among others. Bayern Munich are linked with the Senegalese forward. One of Jurgen Klopp’s first signings at Liverpool, and one of his most trusted forwards, the Senegal international could leave the club this summer. As per The Athletic’s James Pearce, the player will inform the Premier League and Champions League runners-up of his desire to seek a new challenge 12 months before his current deal expires. With no new contract talks on the horizon, Liverpool…
Internazionale winger Ivan Perisic will leave the club next month when his contract expires. Despite interest from Chelsea, the Croatia international will join his former boss Antonio Conte at Tottenham Hotspur for the next two years, reports the Guardian. Inter, too, remained hopeful of tying the 33-year-old down to a new deal, but he chose to leave the club upon the expiration of his contract next month instead. He will join Spurs on a two-year deal after Conte demanded the club sign him, despite him not fitting the profile of a player the hierarchy signs usually in the transfer market.…
Real Madrid’s eternal midfield pair of Luka Modric and Toni Kroos will continue to mesmerize the fans at the Bernabeu for at least another year. However, the club will bid farewell to one of their modern greats, Marcelo. One of Real Madrid’s modern greats, Marcelo lifted the club’s 14th UEFA Champions League title on May 29 in Paris as its captain. While he didn’t play in the final itself, the Brazilian’s contributions over the last 15 years stand out on their own; he has won 25 titles with Los Blancos, the most by any individual in its history. Shortly after the final,…
The reaction from the Real Madrid and Liverpool camps has been drastic to the events of the night of May 28, when the former beat the latter 1-0 to win their 14th UEFA Champions League trophy. Thibaut Courtois’s contribution to Real Madrid’s Champions League title will not be forgotten anytime soon. The goalkeeper made nine stops to keep opponents Liverpool at bay at Stade de France, many of which were barely believable on the first watch. Speaking after the game, the Belgian claimed that his motivation to win the competition was clear – he wanted people to put respect to his…
Sources indicate Arsenal are one of three clubs, who are closely keeping an eye on Udinese right-back Nahuel Molina and have also made an official bid. Spanish outlet Marca report that Atletico Madrid have submitted an official bid for the Argentina international. Los Rojiblancos had successfully signed Udinese captain and another Argentine stalwart Rodrigo de Paul last July and are also interested in his compatriot. However, they aren’t the only top side interested in the player, as Juventus and Arsenal have also made official bids for the player. Udinese, meanwhile, will not be keen on letting the 24-year-old leave for cheap. He had a strong season and scored…
A delayed start to the game did little to hamper the spirits of those present inside the Stade de France, where Liverpool met Real Madrid for the second time in four years to play for the UEFA Champions League trophy. As had happened on that day nearly half a decade ago, a winger was to decide the game in favour of Los Blancos. But, whatever events may have transpired later on in the night, Liverpool were the ones on top early on. The Reds raced out of the blocks with intensity, suffocating their opponents inside their half and fashioning chances all…