Louis van Gaal says anyone who derides Manchester United and Liverpool for being in the Europa League is living in the past. The English giants have been champions of Europe eight times between them — Liverpool on five occasions, United three — but now find themselves facing each other in Europe's secondary club competition. Van […]

Eternal rivals Manchester United travel to Liverpool in the Europa League last 16, first leg on Thursday in a battle of English football's two most successful sides. United have won the English title a record 20 times, twice more than Liverpool, but the Reds have the edge abroad, having been crowned European champions on five […]

Former Arsenal full-back Emmanuel Eboue has joined Premier League strugglers Sunderland for the rest of the season, the Black Cats announced Wednesday. The 32-year-old former Ivory Coast international, who was released by Turkish club Galatasaray in pre-season, was taken on by north-east club Sunderland after training with Sam Allardyce's squad for several weeks. Last week […]

Arsene Wenger will take stock of Arsenal's mounting injury problems after the FA Cup holders' progress to the quarter-finals came at a cost. Aaron Ramsey, Per Mertesacker and Gabriel Paulista were all substituted during the comfortable 4-0 victory at Championship side Hull City that stretched the Gunners' three-year unbeaten record in the competition. Retaining the […]

Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel said on Wednesday he is not convinced Germany's Ilkay Gundogan will stay amidst reports Pep Guardiola's future employers Manchester City are set to swoop. The 25-year-old has a contract with Dortmund until June 2017 and German media report that Gundogan's agent, his uncle Ilhan, met with City's director of sport […]

Wolfsburg sporting director Klaus Allofs admitted it was beyond his wildest dreams to have reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in the club's history. Andre Schurrle fired the Germans into the last eight with the only goal in Tuesday's 1-0 victory over Gent in the second leg of their last 16 tie […]

The number of viewers for the opening weekend of MLS games on national television in the United States declined by 11% compared to the opening MLS weekend in 2015. While this year's opening weekend is not an apples to apples comparison to last year, it's pretty close. For the opening weekend of 2015, the season […]

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane insisted he was happy as his side progressed into the Champions League quarter-finals despite being given a scare by Roma before sealing a 4-0 aggregate win. Madrid booked their place in the last eight thanks to two goals in four second-half minutes from Cristiano Ronaldo and James Rodriguez to seal […]

French authorities have seized documents from the country's football federation in connection with the Swiss criminal investigation targeting former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, Switzerland said Wednesday. The search was conducted Tuesday — two days before Blatter's 80th birthday — with Swiss officials present while French investigators searched the French Football Federation (FFF) […]

Chelsea captain John Terry will miss Wednesday's Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain at Stamford Bridge due to a hamstring injury, he announced on Tuesday. "I'm gutted to be missing the PSG game," Terry wrote on his Instagram account. "It's so frustrating missing any game, but these big Champions League nights at the Bridge are […]

Pep Guardiola reportedly met the sporting director of future employers Manchester City in Amsterdam on Monday — despite promising to focus solely on Bayern Munich in his final months in charge of the German club. Clad in a grey winter hat, thick sweater and carrying a rucksack, the 45-year-old Guardiola looked like a tourist as […]

Paris Saint-Germain talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovic said on Tuesday that he will not be motivated by revenge on his return to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea in the Champions League. The Sweden striker was sent off for a foul on Oscar in the first half of PSG's 2-2 draw at Chelsea last season, which took Laurent […]

Anyone seeking to understand Chelsea's steady return to form under interim manager Guus Hiddink will find a partial explanation in the unassuming figure of holding midfielder John Mikel Obi. Having started just two of Chelsea's final 16 Premier League games under Jose Mourinho, Mikel has started nine of 12 under Hiddink in the only notable […]

Paris Saint-Germain coach Laurent Blanc on Monday named midfielders Marco Verratti and Blaise Matuidi among his group traveling to London for Wednesday's crunch Champions League clash at Chelsea. Both Verratti and Matuidi are fighting for fitness after suffering a groin injury and thigh problem respectively. Verratti earlier posted a photo of himself on Instagram wearing […]

Arsene Wenger has launched a vigorous defense of his achievements as Arsenal manager as he hit back at the "boring" critics calling for him to quit. Wenger has become accustomed in recent years to Arsenal supporters and pundits calling for him to resign and the Frenchman was under-fire again last week after three successive defeats […]