Ronald Koeman believes wholesale changes to his defensive unit are to blame for his Southampton side's slow start to the season. Despite progressing into the play-off round of the Europa League, Saints drew at Newcastle on the opening day of the Premier League campaign before losing 3-0 at home to Everton on Saturday. Southampton welcome […]

Leicester have completed the signing of Gokhan Inler from Napoli. The midfielder has signed a three-year deal at the King Power Stadium to become the Foxes' sixth signing of the summer. Boss Claudio Ranieri has been chasing a new midfielder after failing to persuade Esteban Cambiasso to stay at the club and has now snapped […]

Chelsea are in pole position to sign Pedro after Manchester United's interest in the Barcelona winger cooled. Premier League champions Chelsea, reeling from their worst start to a season in 17 years, are understood to be interested in the Spanish forward. It is not clear how far negotiations for the 28-year-old have progressed, but United […]

Everton's determination to retain John Stones appears only to have hardened in the face of Chelsea reportedly making a third bid for the defender. The Toffees, who rejected Chelsea's pre-season offers of £20million and £26million for England international Stones, would not comment on reports on Tuesday they had turned down a fresh £30million bid from […]

Wellington Silva, the 22-year-old Brazilian that has yet to feature for the senior Arsenal team, has secured a season-long loan to Championship side Bolton. Silva will be available for team selection ahead of this weekend’s round of matches. Bolton manager Neil Lennon confirmed the signing of the Arsenal winger following their 1-0 defeat at MK […]

Manchester United have tabled a staggering £60 million bid for Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller, according to the German publication Sport Bild. Should the story be true, it would appear United is once again prepared to flex its financial muscle in the transfer market. Just last summer, the club broke the British transfer record fee […]

Close your eyes and imagine for a moment, that you are the owner or president of a Major League Soccer team. Despite being five points from the last playoff spot, the team is in last place in its conference. Your team is the only team not to win a road game during the regular season. […]

Everton midfielder Darron Gibson crashed his car into a cyclist before driving off and hitting a petrol pump while over the drink-driving limit, it has been alleged. The 27-year-old midfielder was reportedly driving a black Nissan Skyline GT-R Nismo luxury sports car when it is claimed he hit the bike near his home in Altrincham, […]

Substitute Marouane Fellaini struck deep into stoppage time to give Manchester United a two-goal advantage over Club Brugge in their Champions League play-off. Louis van Gaal was looking to Wayne Rooney to provide the goals at Old Trafford, but instead it was Fellaini and Depay who stepped up to the plate in this 3-1 first-leg […]

After two rounds of Premier League action, there’s no team that’s put in a pair of performances quite as contrasting as Everton. A moribund, stagnant display gave rise to major concerns that had not been learned from the abject showings throughout 2014-15. Coupled with the lack of summer transfer activity, there was a stale atmosphere […]

For the United States national team, left back is the problem child that just cannot be tamed. Surely you’ve heard that before; this is hardly a recent thing. Going way, way back, left back was a mostly unsettled spot for Steve Sampson, then for Bruce Arena, then for Bob Bradley and now, generally, for Jurgen […]

A Dutch documentary will debut tonight in the Netherlands, and it includes footage of Dirk Kuyt from earlier this year when he revealed the news to his children that he was joining Feyenoord again. Kuyt gave each of his children a Feyenoord jersey of their own, and you have to sit back and watch what […]

West Brom have rejected an offer from Tottenham for striker Saido Berahino. Spurs have been linked with Berahino for much of the summer and finally made their opening move for the England Under-21 international on Tuesday. The bid, reported to be £15million, was swiftly turned down with Albion chairman Jeremy Peace insisting the club have […]

If the first Bundesliga matchday is anything to go by, Borussia Dortmund is definitely back. Taking over from Jurgen Klopp, as he did at Mainz, coach Thomas Tuchel has reinvigorated BVB. “We weren’t expecting that,” he said post­ match; having just beaten the other Borussia­­ Monchengladbach­­ 4:0. Perhaps more surprising than the scoreline, though, is […]

This Tuesday and Wednesday, clubs from around Europe will be competing in the first leg of their UEFA Champions League play-off matches as they hope to take a giant step into the Group Stage of the tournament that kicks off next month. The 10 winners of these playoff round ties, five from each route, will […]