Manchester City are interested in signing Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund in the summer of 2021, according to . It has been reported that the former Premier League champions could move for the Norway international striker if they are unable to sign Lautaro Martinez from Inter Milan.
City are on the hunt for a new striker. Sergio Aguero has had injury problems, and while the Argentine remains one of the best strikers in the world, he is now 32 years of age. Gabriel Jesus is still progressing and developing, and manager Pep Guardiola does need at leats two fully fit and established strikers to challenge on all front.
Haaland has made 14 starts and one substitute appearance in the Bundesliga for Dortmund so far this season, scoring 14 goals and providing three assist…
Manchester City will no longer face Arsenal on October 19, after the Premier League game was postponed to enable the Gunners to fulfil a Europa League fixture.
Arsenal were set to face PSV in their second Europa League group stage game on Thursday, only for that match to be called off in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Thursday s game was postponed due to severe limitations on police resources and organisational issues related to the ongoing events surrounding the national mourning of the United Kingdom s late monarch.
UEFA has now confirmed the match at Emirates Stadium will take place on October 20, with Arsenal s home match against City – which was set to take place a day earlier – postponed by the Premier League.
In a statement, Euro…
Zenit will hope to continue their unbeaten home record this season when they host Porto in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday.
Luciano Spalletti s side have not lost in all 10 of their home fixtures in all competitions, with seven of them ending in victories.
As a result, they sit three points clear at the top of the Russian Premier League, with the goals of Danny and Hulk crucial.
Midfielder Danny has netted 12 this season already three times more than he scored last term while ex-Porto forward Hulk has weighed in with nine, including two in the Champions League.
Zenit sit second in Group G and have already beaten one side from Portugal this season, toppling Pacos de Ferreira 8-3 on aggregate in the play-offs for Europe s premier club competition.
The…
Thomas Tuchel is looking forward to his return to Mainz with Borussia Dortmund in Friday s Bundesliga fixture.
Tuchel coached Mainz for six years, leading them into Europe twice, including courtesy of a seventh-place Bundesliga finish in 2013-14.
But the 42-year-old asked to leave at the end of that campaign despite having a year of his contract to run.
He reached a settlement with Mainz that meant he was not allowed to take on another job without seeking his former club s permission.
A year away from coaching followed before he was appointed as Jurgen Klopp s successor at Dortmund.
This week, Mainz president Harald Strutz described the manner of Tuchel s departure as borderline and claimed that both men have different conceptions of respect .
Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo thinks Lionel Messi has pushed him to become a better player and says he enjoys a good relationship with the Barcelona star.
The pair dominated the Ballon d Or voting for a decade, winning it five times apiece before Luka Modric broke their stranglehold last year.
Messi and Ronaldo were second and third respectively for the UEFA Men s Player of the Year award for 2019, which was won by Virgil van Dijk.
Ronaldo swapped Real Madrid for Juventus in 2018 and Messi recently confessed he has missed having the Portugal international in LaLiga.
Speaking at UEFA s award ceremony ahead of Thursday s Champions League draw, Ronaldo thanked Messi for helping to raise his game and vowed to maintain his high performance levels.
Leeds United are among the clubs interested in signing Ivan Toney from Brentford in the summer of 2021, according to . It has been reported that Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Leicester City and West Ham United are also keen on the former Newcastle United striker.
Wolves, Leicester, West Ham, Arsenal and Leeds all have asked to be kept informed of the situation of Toney. The striker joined Brentford from Peterborough in the summer of 2020 and has been brilliant for the Bees in the Championship so far this season.
According to , Toney has made 32 starts and one substitute appearance in the Championship for Brentford so far this season, scoring 25 goals and providing nine assists in the process. The Bees are aiming to finish in the top two of the Championship table thi…
David Beckham may have led the Los Angeles Galaxy to the MLS championship game but he has been left off the league s all-star squad.
While Galaxy midfielder Landon Donovan and Swedish star Freddie Ljunberg made the squad there was no room for Beckham.
Beckham s Galaxy will face Real Salt Lake in the 2009 MLS Cup game in Seattle on Sunday.
Donovan and Ljunberg were two of the five midfielders on the 11-man all-star team which also comprised one goalkeeper, three defenders and two forwards.
Chivas USA s Zach Thornton was picked as a goalkeeper while the defence featured Columbus Crew centre back Chad Marshall, Houston Dynamo s Geoff Cameron and the Chicago Fire s Wilman Conde.
The league s top two goal-scorers from the regular season, FC Dallas str…
Rising German football star Toni Kroos will return to Bayern Munich next season after being loaned to Bayer Leverkusen since January, club chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said Friday.
Toni will return to Bayern and will become an important player for the club, said Rummenigge.
Leverkusen had hoped to hold on to the teenager, who is under contract with Bayern until June 2010.
The 19-year-old was voted player of the tournament at the Under-17 World Cup in 2007, but had failed to regularly break into the Bayern first-team.
He joined Leverkusen to get more play as his game was limited at Bayern with the presence of Miroslav Klose, Luca Toni and Lukas Podolski.
Kroos played 19 times for Bayern between 2007 and 2009.
He has played 23 games for …
Lyon winger Mathieu Valbuena has denied speculation linking him with a January move away from Parc OL.
The 32-year-old has utterly failed to prove his worth since arriving from Dynamo Moscow, and he was repeatedly linked with a January exit.
Valbuena has recently started showing some improvement and he has now made it clear that he has no intention of leaving les Gones, but rather wants to prove his worth at Parc OL.
“The winter market is not a question I ask myself,” Valbuena explained to Canal Football Club. “Leaving my teammates in the middle of the season has never been my thing.
”My goal is to succeed at OL and impose myself. I detest failure.”
Valbuena’s career started taking the wrong turn when he snubbed offers from top Europe…
Real Betis have begun talks to sign Manchester City s Oleksandr Zinchenko on a permanent basis, according to .
Sky claim City had agreed a £16million fee with Wolverhampton Wanderers earlier this month, but the deal fell through as the player decided to stay and fight for his place in Pep Guardiola s team.
Now, however, it seems things have taken another turn regarding his future. It had been reported in Spain that Betis were initially after a loan deal for the midfielder but the reply from Manchester was that it was not an option. The 2018 Premier League winners are only interested in a sale and demand a fee of £15million to part ways with the 21-year-old.
Zinchenko made a total of 16 appearances for City, all last season, after spending 2016/17 on loan at …