As for the visitors, bouncing back from their shock defeat against London rivals West Ham last weekend to clinch a 2-1 win over Aston Villa in West London on Wednesday night, Frank Lampard will be desperate for his side to fully find their early season momentum. Still in a battle to secure a spot in the knockout stage of this year s Champions League, the former England midfielder finds his side open the weekend with a five-point buffer from losing their top-four status. Despite picking up three points at Stamford Bridge in midweek, there is no doubt that the former Premier League champions have continued to shine while outside of the capital. Aside from a close-fought 2-1 defeat away at the Etihad last month, Chelsea are unbeaten in their other eight matches on the road. If the Royal Bl…
Barcelona legend Xavi believes Bayern Munich star Joshua Kimmich would fit perfectly at Camp Nou.
The versatile 23-year-old has established himself as first-choice right-back at Bayern since moving from RB Leipzig in 2015, helping ease the impact of Phillip Lahm s retirement in 2017.
Like Lahm, Kimmich can operate at full-back and in midfield, roles he grew into under the guidance of Pep Guardiola.
Kimmich has started all 17 of Bayern s Bundesliga matches this season and has been an ever-present in their progression to the Champions League knockout stages.
His importance to Bayern means they would be unlikely to sell, but Xavi says Kimmich would be a great acquisition for his former club Barca.
I spoke to Pep Guardiola, my ex-coach from Barcelon…
Jurgen Klopp insisted his Liverpool side overcame the best team in the world after second-half goals from Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino sealed an authoritative Champions League quarter-final win against Manchester City.
Needing a considerable feat of escapology following last week s 3-0 first-leg defeat at Anfield, City led inside two minutes through Gabriel Jesus as the thunderstorm Klopp foresaw in his pre-match news conference came to pass.
Bernardo Silva hit the post and Leroy Sane had a goal incorrectly ruled out for offside but Liverpool held out, leaving Salah and Firmino to clinically punish a flagging City after the break.
That did not mean Klopp was about to waver in his admiration of old adversary Pep Guardiola and his side, who have now suffered t…
Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Maxwel Cornet from Burnley in the summer transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that Tottenham head coach Antonio Conte personally wants to sign Cornet, who can play as a winger, a full-back or forward.
Cornet joined Burnley from Lyon in the summer of 2021. The Ivory Coast international made 21 starts and five substitute appearances in the Premier League for the Clarets this season, scoring nine goals and giving one assist in the process.
Burnley paid Lyon an initial £10.2 million for Cornet. Now that the Clarets have been relegated to the Championship, a release clause of £15 million in his contract has now been activated.
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Bruno Guimaraes gambled on a move to Newcastle United despite interest from Juventus as he couldn t wait in a World Cup year, his agent says.
Midfielder Guimaraes is set to play for Brazil at Qatar 2022, having scored one goal and assisted three more in just 173 minutes across six qualifying matches.
The 24-year-old maintained that form despite requiring time to settle in England following a £35million (€42.1m) January move from Lyon.
Guimaraes was linked with Juventus and Arsenal among other top sides but instead joined Premier League strugglers Newcastle and had to wait until his sixth appearance for the club to be named in the starting XI.
It is a transfer that looks to have worked out for both Guimaraes and Newcastle, though, as he has subsequentl…
Lionel Messi has every right in the world to be angry with Eric Abidal, according to former Barcelona star Rivaldo.
Tensions are running high at Camp Nou following a disappointing week of results on the pitch and an apparent dispute between the club captain and the first-team technical secretary.
Messi used a social media post to criticise Abidal after he accused some Barca players of downing tools during Ernesto Valverde s final weeks as head coach.
Messi felt Abidal, a former team-mate at Barca, was dirtying the squad by making generalised comments about their efforts without naming any specific players.
The issue has led to suggestions Messi could exercise an option to have his Barca contract cancelled at the end of the season in order to leave on a f…
Vincenzo Montella defended his decision to bench Arda Guler against Portugal, insisting the teenager wasn t fit to play in Turkiye s 3-0 defeat.
Eyebrows were raised as Guler was forced to settle for a place on the bench, while only appearing for the final 20 minutes of his nation s loss in Dortmund, despite making such a positive impact in their opener against Georgia.
The Real Madrid prodigy scored a sublime long-range effort in the 3-1 victory, becoming the youngest player to find the net on his European Championship debut in the process.
The 19-year-old only played 10 times in LaLiga last season, with Montella believing a lack of competitive action is a concern for his players.
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Bayern Munich are interested in signing Luis Diaz from FC Porto, according to . It has been reported that the German and European powerhouse have been impressed with Diaz and are ready to sign him as a potential replacement for Kingsley Coman.
France international winger Coman is reportedly refusing to sign a new contract with Bayern, who have identified Porto winger as a potential regalement for the former Juventus and Paris Saint-Germain player.
Diaz has been on the books of Porto since 2019 and has very impressive for the Portuguese giants. The winger has five goals and provided one assist in six Portuguese league so far this season. Diaz scored six goals and gave five assists in 16 league starts last season and scored twice in four Champions League starts for Port …
Jose Mourinho s restlessness will ramp up this week as the Manchester United boss seeks to make some late additions to his squad ahead of Thursday s transfer deadline.
Mourinho has been a grumpy man during pre-season the club s lack of transfer activity the source of his frustration as rivals Liverpool splash the cash.
Preparing for his third season at Old Trafford, Mourinho claimed he provided Ed Woodward and United s hierarchy with a list of five targets months ago, but only Brazil midfielder Fred, Portuguese full-back Diogo Dalot and third-choice goalkeeper Lee Grant have arrived.
Mourinho wants two more signings, but the former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Inter boss believes he will land just one before United open their campaign against Leicester City on Frid…
Gareth Southgate was perplexed as to why Hungarian children booed England players when they took the knee before the Three Lions shock Nations League defeat on Saturday.
Dominik Szoboszlai s second-half penalty gave Hungary a shock 1-0 victory at the Puskas Arena.
The League A Group 3 game was supposed to be played behind closed doors as punishment for racist behaviour in the same stadium during Euro 2020 last year.
Yet children were allowed to attend the game and a crowd of 35,000 watched England s record 22-game unbeaten run come to an end in Budapest.
There were boos when England players took the knee prior to kick-off in the same stadium where some of Southgate s players were subjected to racist abuse during a World Cup qualifier in September.
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