He is said to be top of Pep Guardiola’s shopping list for this summer, but Luis Suarez says that he is going nowhere, even if Liverpool don’t finish in the top four this season. Liverpool are seven points behind fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League table with 14 games remaining and will face competition […]
Ashley Cole is set to become the seventh player to win 100 England caps after being named in the squad for next week’s friendly with Brazil. Cole would become only the seventh player to have reached 100 caps for England, joining Gerrard, Billy Wright, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton. Roy Hodgson […]
West Brom striker Peter Odemwingie doesn’t believe in burning bridges. He burns down whole cities. The problem for Odemwingie was that when the transfer window closed, he was still a West Brom player despite driving down to Queens Park Rangers and begging them to let him into the ground. It is hard to tell whether […]
After seeing midfielders Wesley Sneijder and Philippe Coutinho leave during the January transfer window, Nerazzurri were starting to get worried that nobody would be coming in to replace them But on transfer deadline day, Inter splashed the Sneijder and Coutinho by signing midfielders Zdravko Kuzmanovic, Ezequiel Schelotto and Mateo Kovacic. Kuzmanovic scored 17 goals in […]
Premier League teams spent £120m in January, double the total of January 2012. Still that is a long way way short of the record level of £225m in January 2011. Three clubs, Queens Park Rangers, Liverpool and Newcastle accounted for more than 50% of the total outlay this year. Deloitte’s Dan Jones said: “Premier League […]
David Beckham has joined French Ligue 1 side Paris St-Germain and announced he will be playing for free. The LA Galaxy midfielder has signed a five-month deal and said he would be donating his salary to charity. “I’m excited, it’s something we’ve been working on and talking about for quite a while,” he said on […]
Stoke City says it has reached an agreement to acquire midfielder Brek Shea from Major League Soccer’s FC Dallas for a reported £3.8m ($6m). At $6m, that would make the Shea deal the second largest transfer fee MLS has ever received. The only one bigger would have been Jozy Altidore’s move to Villareal, which fetched […]
Mario Balotelli has given his first interview as a Milan player. “I ran to Milan. I wanted to play here for a long time.” The striker flew into Milan this afternoon with the Italian club’s Vice-President Adriano Galliani to complete his €20m transfer from Manchester City. “As soon as I got the chance, I ran […]
After a promising start to the season, Inter Milan are really struggling at the moment with only one win in their last six league games, and three of their last eleven. Hopes of catching leaders Juventus are fading and Inter is in a battle to grab one of Serie A’s three Champions League places. So […]