Manchester City midfielder Jack Rodwell is on the verge of joining Gus Poyet's Sunderland side in the next few hours. The two clubs are reported to be in "advanced talks" regarding the player and Rodwell has arrived at Sunderland to have his medical. The 23-year-old product of the Toffees youth academy left Everton for Manchester […]

Reports from Spain have been surfacing over the past few days linking Villarreal defender Mateo Musacchio with a £17 million move to Tottenham Hotspur. Today, news from England says the deal is in place and the 23-year-old will soon be arriving at White Hart Lane. When the deal is announced, Musacchio will become the fourth new […]

Everton striker Steven Naismith has bought tickets for his club's home games to donate to unemployed people across Merseyside. Naismith grew up in a working class family Ayrshire in the west of Scotland and spent a good amount of time in Glasgow – a city that, at time, has seen high levels of unemployment. Although […]

Ciro Immobile's rise to prominence has been very impressive especially since he's only 24-years-old. The Italian international now has a new challenge of replacing Robert Lewandowski, who left for Bayern Munich, and he looks to be up to surpassing what the Polish striker has accomplished for Borussia Dortmund. Immobile is from Torre Annunziata, which is […]

After getting Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea, Everton are working with the Blues again as they try to sign winger Christian Atsu on a season-long loan. Allegedly, up to 12 teams are interested in signing Atsu but if the Toffees get him, here's what they can expect. Chelsea signed the Ghanaian international last summer from Porto […]

West Bromwich Albion has officially revealed its away shirt for the 2014/15 season. While West Brom's home shirt was controversial, the club's away shirt from adidas is more traditional. The red shirt with white trim looks like it's straight out of an adidas catalog of template shirt designs. Depending on which photos you look at […]

On a beautiful summer's day in Michigan, Manchester United and Real Madrid played 90 minutes in front of a record crowd of 109,318 Saturday. World Soccer Talk photographer Bo McMillan was there to capture the action. Here are exclusive images from the match that ended 3-1 in Manchester United's favor.

On Monday night, England's two most successful clubs descend on Miami for the final of the Guinness International Champions Cup as Manchester United battle against Liverpool to determine who will be the 2014 tournament winners. Before the International Champions Cup kicked off this summer, there were so many interesting concoctions of who could make the […]

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu, who ascended to his position midway through the 2013-14 season, believes his club's image has been tarnished due to the controversial transfer of Neymar from Santos last summer. The club was also given a 14-month transfer ban in April because FIFA ruled Barcelona had broken rules governing the signing of […]

Real Madrid and Levante have managed to agree terms for the sale of goalkeeper Keylor Navas, according to Real Madrid's club website. Navas, 27, had an outstanding World Cup as a central part of Costa Rica's run to the quarter finals, bringing the attention of many potential suitors. However, it is Madrid who have won […]

Saturday was a memorable day for Ann Arbor, and all of U.S. soccer. What started as a 90 minute soccer game quickly turned into a weekend event with the main event being Manchester United playing Real Madrid in the Guinness International Champions Cup at their football stadium, the Big House. Ann Arbor closed many of […]

The past few days have seen an increase in reports from Spain and France linking Monaco striker Radamel Falcao with a loan move to Real Madrid. As unlikely as the rumors may seem, respected news outlets have been commenting on the deal being "imminent" with the only issue holding the transfer back being in the […]

One of the better stories in sports is being hidden in the shadows of the media spotlight which has been focused on the arrival of Louis van Gaal to Manchester United. Taking nothing away from the Dutch manager's ability to re-focus and re-energize a squad of players which finished in seventh place last season in […]

Unlike most soccer fans, I can’t really remember my first Stoke game. My first clear memory of watching Stoke was against Middlesbrough at Vale Park, and then having a season ticket in 1977 in the Butler Street Stand. Relegation, inevitably, soon followed. So, basically, I was introduced to the Potters after a visit to our […]

Earlier this summer, Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke was targeted by La Liga giants Barcelona as a possible replacement for some of the club's aging stars. Xavi Hernandez had turned 34 in January and Andres Iniesta just reached his 30th birthday in May. So the Catalan club identified Koke as the perfect piece to slide into […]