Edinson Cavani and Anthony Martial have been ruled out of Manchester United s Champions League clash with RB Leipzig.
Both forwards were substituted during Saturday s 3-1 Premier League victory at West Ham, where the Red Devils fought back from a half-time deficit to win through goals from Paul Pogba, Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford.
Manager Ole Gunnar Soslskjaer had hoped the injuries would be short-term but he confirmed on Monday that neither Cavani nor Martial will travel to Germany for Tuesday s game.
There was some good news, however, with David de Gea available again after missing the West Ham win and Luke Shaw back in the travelling squad after missing a month of action with a hamstring problem.
David s back in, Luke is travelling, Edinson and…
Chelsea could make shock moves for Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson and Enner Valencia of West Ham United at the end of the season, .
Wilson has been in fine for the Championship’s surprise side so far this season, with his fifteen goals in thirty appearances helping the Cherries to the top of the table.
Valencia only moved to Upton Park in the summer, and has so far bagged four goals in all competitions for Sam Allardyce’s side who are in the hunt for a European qualification place.
Didier Drogba is set to hang up his boots at the end of the season, while Loic Remy could also move on after just a year at Stamford Bridge.
Jose Mourinho’s men are currently seven points clear of second place Manchester City ahead of their match with Burnley on Sat…
Borussia Dortmund s CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke believes former coach Jurgen Klopp would make an ideal appointment for Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.
Klopp departed Signal iduna Park at the end of last term following seven successful years in which Dortmund regularly battled Bayern at the top of the German game.
Dortmund got the better of Bayern to clinch back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012 before the Bavarian giants scooped three successive German crowns.
With Guardiola rumoured to be a target for Manchester City when his contract expires in 2016, Watzke told the Rheinische Post: Jurgen Klopp is a candidate for every top club.
Klopp and Bayern would be 100 per cent suitable. You can t do much wrong at Bayern anyway they win the Bundesliga wh…
Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Thiago Motta is being linked with a return to Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, .
The Nerazzurri have already missed out on Jeremy Toulalan, while their ambitious bid for Yaya Toure remains in the balance.
Inter officials are, therefore, turning their attention towards PSG midfielder Thiago Motta, who has been repeatedly linked with a return to Serie A.
The 32-year-old has another year left on his contract at Parc des Princes, but it is believed he would consider leaving at the end of the season.
It remains to be seen though whether Motta would be interested in returning to Inter Milan, where he enjoyed two and a half very successful years before moving to PSG.
The midfielder had scored a total of 11 goals in 55 league outing…
Juventus will do everything possible to sign Liverpool midfielder Emre Can, according to general director Giuseppe Marotta.
Can, 24, is out of contract with the Premier League giants at the end of the season and has been heavily linked with a switch to Juve.
Marotta confirmed the Serie A outfit were chasing the Germany international, insisting they would try everything possible to land the talented midfielder.
Emre Can is a player whose contract is running down, so it allows us to approach him for negotiations and that is the course we have taken, Marotta told Sky Sport Italia on Wednesday.
I can t say if he could sign a new contract with Liverpool, but I can say we will try all we can to get the player.
Obviously, we have to respect what the p…
Borussia Monchengladbach star Thorgan Hazard always knew his future would not be at Chelsea when he joined the Stamford Bridge side in 2012.
The attacking midfielder made his way to the Premier League from Lens together with his older brother Eden, who signed for Chelsea from Lille.
Thorgan was sent out on loan to Zulte Waregem in his first two years, before earning a temporary move to Gladbach in 2014, with the Bundesliga side eventually making his stay permanent a year later.
I knew I would not stay at Chelsea when I signed for them, Hazard told Het Nieuwsblad.
It was a great opportunity to join such a big club, but I knew I needed regular playing time to show what I could do.
Chelsea like to buy young players and then slowly get them read…
Shamar Nicholson s long-range stunner saw Jamaica upstage the United States 1-0 ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
In a rematch of the 2017 Gold Cup final won by USA, Jamaica emerged triumphant courtesy of Nicholson s first international goal at Audi Field on Wednesday.
Nicholson came off the bench and beat Zack Steffen with a memorable strike from outside the penalty area in Washington as both teams stepped up their preparations for the upcoming tournament.
Playing without Chelsea-bound star Christian Pulisic as head coach Gregg Berhalter gave players a chance to stake their Gold Cup claims, USA made a strong start but struggled afterwards.
USA put Jamaica, who had Bayer Leverkusen star Leon Bailey among the substitutes, on the backfoot during the early ex…
Napoli have done some important business this summer, most notably by signing Hirving Lozano from PSV Eindhoven for 42 million euros, but now they have started looking at renewing the contract of some of the players that are currently at the club.
According to Corrierre dello Sport, one of those players is Arkadiusz Milik. Napoli have opened the contract talks with the Poland international, as they have been satisfied with the players performances in the past 12 months. Carlo Ancelotti s side won 2-0 against Liverpool in their Champions League opener this week in Naples and now they want to make the most use of that.
Milik is 25 years old and is still not in the peak years of his career, for which Napoli want to tie him down. He scored 17 goals in Serie A during last ca…
The Premier League returned to our screens yesterday after two weeks off due to the international break, and the opening day of action concluded with a tense affair between Manchester United and West Bromwich Albion at Old Trafford.
In what was a difficult bout for the hosts in more ways than one, the Red Devils were able to come away with a narrow 1-0 win to secure their first victory at Old Trafford in the league this season.
Johnstone s strong return
From saving Bruno Fernandes initial penalty to making a handful of vital stops throughout the game, this was one hell of a night to remember for Sam Johnstone. The former United man was with the club for nine years before leaving to head to The Hawthorns in 2018, and he made sure to let his former employers know what th…
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Starting in the early hours of Sunday, despite crashing out of the US Open Cup at the hands of Portland Timbers in midweek, LA Galaxy still have their sights set on making a charge for the Western Conference. Now seen to be the closest contender for runaway league leaders Los Angeles FC, Head Coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto has seen his side win two of their last three MLS contests and one man who has continued to spearhead their charge is former Manchester United strik…