A record number of 13 Real Madrid players have been nominated for long list of the FIFPro World XI, while Manchester United’s Paul Pogba and Arsenal’s Alexis Sanchez lead the pool of Premier League nominees. A total of 25,000 professional footballers were asked to select a team of 11 players – one goalkeeper, four defenders, [...]
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Robert Lewandowski has instructed his agent to push through a move from Bayern Munich to Real Madrid, according to AS. The Polish striker made waves earlier this summer when he questioned why the German champions didn’t match the spending of Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona. Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge then added fuel to the flame by [...]
Barcelona already have three signings ‘at the ready’ as they look to fill the void left by Neymar, who this week completed a world-record €222 million transfer to Paris Saint-Germain. Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho, Ousmane Dembele of Borussia Dortmund and Real Sociedad defender Inigo Martinez are all wanted by the Catalan giants between now and the [...]
Bayern Munich have signed James Rodríguez from Real Madrid in a two-year loan deal. Bayern have an option to buy the Colombian at the end of the loan deal for €40m. In addition, Bayern will pay Real Madrid €5m per season for Rodríguez and they will also pay all of his wages, believed to be [...]
Strikers Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe have attracted a lot of attention already this summer with potential record breaking transfers to other clubs. But the best striker potentially on the move this summer is Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, and the German giants are moving quickly to try and keep him at the Allianz [...]
In what is not good news for Arsenal fans, Alexis Sanchez says his future in North London is in the hands of his agent as he prepares to play in this month’s Confederations Cup for Chile. Arsenal have so far been unable to persuade last season’s top scorer Sanchez to sign an extension to his [...]
According to Yahoo Sport France, striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will leave Borussia Dortmund and join Paris Saint-Germain in a £61 million deal this summer. The Bundesliga’s top goalscorer last season has reportedly agreed a contract that will pay him a whopping £5.25m signing-on fee plus a wage package of £168,000 a week. PSG have been linked [...]
Manchester United have moved clear of Real Madrid as the most valuable football club in Europe, a report by auditors KPMG has found. United have been valued at €3.004 billion, ahead of both Real (€2.895bn) and Barcelona (€2.688bn). KPMG had estimated Madrid and United as being worth €2.9bn at the end of the 2015-16 season. [...]
Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool’s participation in the Audi Cup will be the perfect preparation for the 2017/18 season. The Reds boss, who was beamed into the Munich launch of the competition by hologram from Melwood, is relishing the return to his homeland. Liverpool will play two matches at the Allianz Arena on August 1 and [...]
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mario Götze has been sidelined indefinitely by his club after medical tests revealed that the muscular problems he has been suffering over the last few months have caused ‘metabolic disturbances’. Götze, who returned to Dortmund last summer after a three-year spell with Bayern Munich, has played just 27 minutes in 2017 and [...]
