Month: September 2020

3:14 AM ET Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has taken a dig at the spending power of Chelsea and Manchester City and said some clubs are owned by “countries” and “oligarchs.” The Premier League champions have only signed Kostas Tsimikas from Olympiakos this summer and have struggled in their pursuit of Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago. –
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2:26 PM ET Graham HaysESPN.com Close Graham Hays covers college sports for espnW, including softball and soccer. Hays began with ESPN in 1999. Japan Women’s World Cup winner Yuki Nagasato is joining men’s club Hayabusa Eleven of the Kanagawa Prefecture League in Japan. She will be the only woman playing on a men’s club in
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5:26 AM ET Adriana Garcia Cristiano Ronaldo is setting his sights on becoming the all-time leading scorer in men’s international football after passing the 100th goal mark with Portugal. The Juventus forward scored twice in Portugal’s 2-0 Nations League victory against Sweden on Tuesday and needs eight goals to equal the record of 109 scored
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12:03 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United‘s hopes of having fans back at Old Trafford for the start of the new season have been dented after the UK government and the Premier League both urged caution over test events. Talks have taken place over permission to use United’s game against Crystal Palace on Sept. 19
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12:17 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United‘s hopes of landing Jadon Sancho before the transfer deadline have been boosted after progress was made on issues surrounding wages and agent fees, sources have told ESPN. United have been struggling to get over the two major stumbling blocks — separate from agreeing a fee with Borussia Dortmund
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4:22 AM ET Most footballers shy away from comparisons to the greats but not Harry Kane. The Tottenham and England striker has consistently judged himself against the two best players of this generation, and perhaps all-time: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. A reminder of this came in the first episode of Amazon’s “All or Nothing:
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6:33 PM ET Just over an hour before kick-off at the Telia Parken Stadium, Gareth Southgate gently paced inside the centre circle of an otherwise empty pitch. It is difficult to know which was more ponderous: the England manager in those moments or the midfield performance that followed in a 0-0 draw in Copenhagen. Southgate
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11:00 AM ET Atlanta United technical director Carlos Bocanegra was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on Tuesday. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) The former U.S. Men’s National Team captain is the lone member of the Class of 2020 and will be enshrined in 2021. • Sources: Chelsea to
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1:40 AM ET Lee Nguyen, who played six seasons for the New England Revolution, is headed back to his old club. The 33-year-old midfielder was dealt from expansion Inter Miami CF to New England on Tuesday in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2021 draft and up to $50,000 in general allocation money. “His
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6:36 PM ET England manager Gareth Southgate admits he has been left puzzled by the full facts of Phil Foden and Mason Greenwood‘s quarantine breach and revealed the pair would have been dropped regardless of any safety concerns. Foden, 20, and Greenwood, 18, were sent home after inviting two women to the team hotel in
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2:30 PM ET Kevin De Bruyne has been voted the PFA Players’ Player of the year for the 2019-20 season, with the midfielder becoming the first Manchester City player to win the award since its inception in 1974. – Premier League preview: Big questions, team-by-team projections Despite finishing the season with a winner’s medal in
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