Thoughts of the 2013-14 run-in will be inspiring Manchester City's players as they attempt to overturn a 2-1 deficit in Wednesday's League Cup semi-final second leg against Everton. Then, as now, City are chasing glory on four fronts and while they fell short in the Champions League and FA Cup two years ago, League Cup […]

Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen has sustained knee ligament damage and will be out of action for a lengthy spell, the club said on Tuesday. The Belgian, an ever-present for Mauricio Pochettino's side this season, picked up the injury when he fell awkwardly in his side's comeback victory at Crystal Palace on Saturday. Vertonghen left Selhurst […]

Newcastle are poised to sign Tottenham and England winger Andros Townsend after the two clubs agreed a £12million (15.7million euros) deal, the Press Association reported on Tuesday. Magpies managing director Lee Charnley was able to confirm the deal was going through after several rounds of talks between the two clubs during the transfer window. Townsend, […]

A move to Monaco was supposed to reignite Stephan El Shaarawy’s injury plagued career, but four months on, El Shaarawy is set to return to Italy, on loan to Roma. Frozen out at Monaco after 15 games without a goal or assist, the one-time promising Milan player is still looking to rediscover what made him […]

Arsenal were beaten by rivals Chelsea, 1-0, on Sunday to leave the north London club three points behind surprise Premier League leaders Leicester City. The defeat to the Blues was essentially decided in the 18th minute of the match when defender Per Mertesacker was sent off after he brought down a goal-bound Diego Costa. While […]

Atletico Madrid lodged an appeal Monday against a one-year transfer ban imposed by FIFA over their dealing in under-age players. The ban starts from the July transfer window this year and finishes with the January transfer market in 2017. Real Madrid were hit with the same punishment. Atletico were also fined 900,000 Swiss francs (820,000 […]

Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng expressed hope Monday that he would recover from a torn groin muscle injury in time to figure for Germany at Euro 2016. Boateng limped out of Bayern's 2-1 victory at Hamburg on Friday and a scan in Munich revealed the full extent of the problem with the player facing three months […]

If Arsenal ever sell Mesut Ozil to a club in the Spanish league, Real Madrid have the right to match the transfer fee. And if they decline, Ozil's former club would still be entitled to 33% of the playmaker's final price. Those are some of the revelations from a leaked version of Mesut Ozil's transfer […]

Manchester United may officially be keeping quiet about the future of Louis van Gaal, but the manager accepts his position is being increasingly called into question by the club's fans. The mood turned sour at Old Trafford during the course of Southampton's 1-0 win over United on Saturday. Some fans didn't even wait until the […]

Brazilian midfielder Ramires is set to leave Chelsea in a $28.5 million move to China's Jiangsu Suning, according to The Guardian. The move would end the 28-year-old's five-and-a-half-year stay at Stamford Bridge. Ramires, capped 52 times by the Brazilian national team, moved to Chelsea from Benfica in 2010 for £18 million. Over course of the […]

Their last two league matches have pretty much summed up Liverpool’s season: dominating against a much better opponent (on paper) yet somehow throwing away a result at home against Manchester United; struggling against a team they should beat, looking unable to break down a packed defense before scraping through in 5-4 game of the season […]

While the Bundesliga title-race may be lacking drama, the battle between hot-shot strikers Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Robert Lewandowski to finish as top-scorer looks set to enthrall fans until the season's end. Bayern Munich remain on course to become the first club to win the Bundesliga for a fourth year running after Lewandowski scored twice in […]

Manchester United's home jersey for the 2016/17 season has been leaked on the Internet. In its second season of wearing Adidas, Manchester United will be wearing a half-and-half shirt design that features two shades of red as part of the new Adidas template, which features the three white stripes down the side of the jersey. […]

Zigzagging across the road like a clown car they may be, but Liverpool are also just 90 minutes from Wembley ahead of Tuesday's League Cup semi-final second leg against Stoke City. A team that recorded seven 1-1 draws in nine games in September and October is beginning to gain a reputation for slapdash spectaculars, following […]

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger dismissed suggestions that his side have a mental block regarding London rivals Chelsea following a 1-0 home defeat that carried an air of deja vu. Arsenal were bidding to return to the top of the Premier League table in Sunday's game, but they were left in third place after Per Mertesacker […]