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Liverpool forward Raheem Sterling and his agent have put contract talks on hold until the end of the season as speculation about his future continues to grow. The club have been in negotiations over a new deal to replace the 20-year-old's existing contract – which expires in the summer of 2017 – for several months […]

Pele has joined Harry Kane's growing list of admirers as the Brazilian great says he has been impressed by the "excellent" Tottenham striker. The 21-year-old's Roy of the Rovers rise shows no signs of abating, with the Spurs forward being rewarded for his exceptional form with a first senior international call-up on Thursday. Kane's 26-goal […]

Michael Carrick has signed a one-year contract extension at Manchester United. Carrick has been one of Louis van Gaal's best players since he returned from an ankle injury he suffered last summer. The 33-year-old's contract was due to run out in June, but the club confirmed at a press conference on Friday that the midfielder […]

West Ham boss Sam Allardyce has dismissed reports linking him with the Sunderland job as "pure speculation". The 60-year-old emerged as an early favorite to be appointed at the Stadium of Light in the summer after the struggling Black Cats sacked Gus Poyet and installed Dick Advocaat on a short-term deal until the end of […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger does not believe English football is suffering a European crisis with no teams in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, but has called for the "outdated" away goals rule to be changed. Manchester City followed the Gunners and Chelsea out of the elite club competition when beaten by Barcelona on Wednesday […]

Lionel Messi called Joe Hart's performance "phenomenal" after the Manchester City goalkeeper prevented defeat becoming humiliation against Barcelona on Wednesday night. Barca won 1-0 in the Nou Camp to complete a 3-1 aggregate win over City, but the scoreline would have been much greater but for a string of saves from Hart. "He was phenomenal, […]

Lionel Messi and Barcelona turned on the style to dump Manchester City and their inspired goalkeeper Joe Hart out of the Champions League. It was thanks to Hart's heroics that Barcelona could manage only a 1-0 win at the Nou Camp. Ivan Rakitic scored the only goal of another one-sided encounter between the two sides, […]

Ronald Koeman is ready to coach one of the biggest clubs in Europe, but his only focus right now is continuing Southampton's scarcely-believable season. The Dutch great's arrival during a summer of discontent at St Mary's surprised many – so too has his remarkable impact since taking the reins. The term meltdown was bandied about […]

Incredibly, Manchester City is England's last hope of a Premier League team qualifying for the quarter-finals of the UEFA Champions League. At the same time, City faces the toughest task — trying to overturn a 1-2 deficit from the home leg and get a 2-0 win or better at the Camp Nou against an in-form […]

England winger Adam Johnson's bail date has been extended by five weeks after he was arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a girl under 16. The suspended Sunderland star had been due to attend a County Durham police station on Wednesday, following his arrest a fortnight ago. A Durham Police spokesman said the 27-year-old […]

Arsenal battled to a 2-0 win at Monaco but the victory was not enough to keep them in the Champions League. The odds had been stacked against the English side following their 3-1 home defeat in the first leg, a deficit from which no team in the Champions League era has recovered when heading into […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has challenged his side to believe they can beat the odds to overturn a 3-1 deficit to defeat Monaco on Tuesday night and reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League. The Gunners jetted out to the Principality tax haven, famous for its casinos and yacht-lined waterfront, needing to rewrite the history […]

Emmanuel Adebayor thinks Harry Kane is the only man who can save Tottenham's season – but he is ready to do his best too after declaring he is over a "dark moment" in his career. Adebayor made his first Premier League appearance in almost two months on Sunday when he came off the bench for […]

Louis van Gaal set his sights on catching Manchester City after watching his team rip Tottenham apart with their best display of the season. For eight months Van Gaal has been promising Manchester United fans everything would soon start to click into place and it finally did on Sunday as United beat Spurs 3-0. Marouane […]

Everton's season turned a significant corner as a first home league win of 2015 against 10-man Newcastle eased growing worries of a relegation battle. Midfielder James McCarthy's first goal since May was followed in the second half by Romelu Lukaku's 17th of the campaign, one more than he managed in the whole of last season, […]