Interview with Samuel Iling-Junior: There is no bad blood at Chelsea – I just had to move on

Samuel Iling-Junior describes his decision to leave Chelsea and join Juventus in 2020, when he was just 16, and during Covid, as “black and white”. It’s a neat – if unintentional – way to discuss playing for the Old Lady of Italian football, given the colors of their famous stripes. But it was a far … Read more

Streich and Kovac leave as loose lips announce sinking of Bundesliga stints

Europa League draw LIVE! West Ham and Liverpool learn opponents in the quarter-final

Europa League draw LIVE! Liverpool and West Ham are about to discover their quarter-final opponents and their possible semi-final fates as the last English teams in Europe’s second tier leave. Both reached the last eight in style on Thursday, with the Reds finishing the job against Sparta Prague by winning 11-2 on aggregate, while the … Read more

‘Not an option’: Southgate says he had to go public about Ben White England

Gareth Southgate has revealed that Ben White does not want to be considered for the England squad. He said he had to make the truth public because continuing to ‘protect’ the Arsenal player would have risked his own credibility. Southgate wanted to call up White for the upcoming Wembley friendlies against Brazil and Belgium, with … Read more

The unlikely friendship that fuels Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola’s quest for glory

Jurgen Klopp (left) and Pep Guardiola (right) have pushed each other to greater and greater heights – Getty Images/Michael Regan After Liverpool won the Champions League final in 2019, Jürgen Klopp sat deep in Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano Stadium and tried to drink it all in just as he took a sip from a bottle of … Read more

The title is Leverkusen’s to lose as Alonso shows he is far from a one-trick pony

Pep Guardiola ‘honored’ by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s praise – now he wants to build Barcelona 2.0

Pep Guardiola would love to build a Manchester City Champions League-winning side dominated by academy graduates like Phil Foden – Adam Davy/PA Wire Pep Guardiola briefly basked in the praise of Manchester United’s new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe as he prepared for Sunday’s Etihad derby, although the City manager’s focus was on the future and … Read more

Napoli suffers again under Claudio Ranieri’s Cagliari in ‘zona Cesarini’