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Saints need more time to gel, says Wanyama
REUTERS – Southampton need more time to gel after a host of close-season changes, midfielder Victor Wanyama said after his side’s 2-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on Saturday. Manager Ronald Koeman brought in four players during the European summer transfer window as the sale of key duo Nathaniel Clyne and Morgan […]
Milan to sign Boateng on free transfer, says Galliani
Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng set to return to Milan on a free, according to Adriano Galliani
Impressive Sterling will make history, says City’s Silva
REUTERS – Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling has been among the most impressive players this season and the 21-year-old “will make history”, midfielder and team mate David Silva has said. Sterling, who joined the Sky Blues from Liverpool during the off-season, has scored eight goals in 23 appearances so far, including smashing in his first […]
Kane hoping for Champions League after breakthrough year
LONDON (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane believes the inconsistency of leading Premier League teams this season gives his club a “big opportunity” of bringing Champions League football back to White Hart Lane next season after a gap of five years. That would be an appropriate accompaniment to the last campaign there before the […]
Hughes confident Stoke City can heap more misery on United
REUTERS – Stoke City will look to heap more misery on an out-of-sorts Manchester United side when they host Louis van Gaal’s men at the Britannia Stadium in the Premier League on Saturday, manager Mark Hughes has said. The Potters, who were held to a goalless draw by West Ham United on Dec. 12 and […]
League cash has made smaller clubs more competitive: Wenger
REUTERS – The Premier League’s surging television revenue has allowed even smaller clubs to attract best players from Europe and made England’s top flight more competitive, according to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. A lucrative new domestic broadcast deal, a 70 percent increase on the existing one, comes into effect next season and the richest clubs, […]
European roundup: Festive joy for Leicester, Real on fire
LONDON (Reuters) – Shock leaders Leicester City are certain to go into Christmas at the top of the table in England while champions Chelsea began the post-Jose Mourinho era with a 3-1 home win over Sunderland. Bayern Munich, who announced Carlo Ancelotti would be replacing Pep Guardiola as coach in the summer, enter the Bundesliga’s […]
Celta and Villarreal disturbing La Liga order
MADRID (Reuters) – Sevilla and Valencia were expected to challenge La Liga heavyweights Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid this season but it is surprise packages Celta Vigo and Villarreal who are hot on their heels. Fourth-placed Celta stayed two points behind Real, who are third, thanks to a 2-0 win at Granada on Sunday […]
Honeymoon well and truly over for Klopp
By Steve Tongue LONDON (Reuters) – Last week Liverpool’s extrovert manager Juergen Klopp was dancing down the touchline in front of jubilant fans after Divock Origi scored deep into added time to earn a 2-2 draw with West Bromwich Albion at Anfield. However, any suggestion his new club were back on track after a feeble […]
Mendoza’s last-gasp strike hands ISL title to Chennaiyin
REUTERS – Colombian Stiven Mendoza missed a penalty before scoring a last-minute winner as Marco Materazzi’s Chennaiyin beat Goa, coached by former Brazil great Zico, 3-2 to win the Indian Super League title on Sunday. Chennaiyin, who had won both their previous matches at Goa’s Nehru Stadium, appeared set for their first defeat there when […]
River count their losses, Barca count their titles
YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) – While Barcelona pondered how to jam yet more silverware into their trophy cabinet, River Plate were counting their losses after Sunday’s Club World Cup final defeat, which emphasised the difference between club football in Europe and the rest of the world. Success for a big European club tends to breed more […]
Premier League loses a Special One but now courts another
LONDON (Reuters) – And then there was one…. After the spectacular implosion of the Jose Mourinho regime at Chelsea, there is now just one world-beating coach left in the global game with a glittering curriculum vitae unsullied by the stain of any striking failure. Step forward then Pep Guardiola, whose announcement on Sunday that he […]
