5:26 PM ET Friday’s 1-0 defeat against Everton is precisely the sort of mediocrity the Arsenal fans outside of Emirates Stadium were protesting about. If given their right of reply, the Kroenke family might counter that these mid-table affairs would have become a thing of the past had the Super League they signed up to
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9:20 AM ET Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said it was “great” the Super League didn’t happen as he defended the club’s owners over the shelved plans, but also launched a stinging attack on the new-look format of the Champions League. Klopp, speaking ahead of Liverpool’s key Premier League match against Newcastle on Saturday, was
2:51 PM ET Associated Press The Spanish and Italian clubs still clinging to the Super League must disavow the breakaway or face being banned from the Champions League, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin told The Associated Press on Friday. Although the Super League imploded this week after being rapidly abandoned by most participants, Real Madrid, Barcelona,
9:57 AM ET Chelsea midfielder Jorginho has told ESPN Brasil that former manager Frank Lampard “wasn’t ready” for the managerial job because he “skipped a few steps.” Lampard took charge at Stamford Bridge in 2019 to replace Maurizio Sarri and led the club to a top four finish and an FA Cup final during his
1:22 PM ET Gab Marcotti Mark Ogden It’s been a seismic week for soccer. After the hasty unveiling of the Super League on Sunday — with 12 top clubs around Europe announcing their intent to form a breakaway competition in which they’d compete, consequence-free, outside the UEFA Champions League — and its rapid collapse Tuesday
8:37 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Joan Laporta is working on a three-year contract to offer to Lionel Messi in an attempt to persuade him to stay at Barcelona, sources have confirmed to ESPN. The Barca president is aware the club can no longer afford to pay Messi what he is earning at the
12:04 PM ET Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has been charged for assault. Mark Hawkins / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Wales manger Ryan Giggs was charged on Friday with assaulting two women for incidents from 2017 to 2020, Greater Manchester Police said. The former Manchester United midfielder was accused of causing “actual
9:31 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ed Woodward never recovered from the summer of 2013. Thrown in at the deep end when legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson and CEO David Gill left Manchester United within months of each other, he wanted to make a splash. Instead, it was a flop. The transfer window, his first as
5:30 AM ET Now that talk of a European Super League has been put to bed, it’s full steam ahead on the revamped Champions League format which will use the so-called “Swiss model” from the 2024-25 season. It’s going to be a dramatic departure from what fans are used to, so here’s a full breakdown
10:09 AM ET Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said the European Super League (ESL) is “a necessity” but that the club’s members will have the last word on the proposal. Barca were one of the 12 founding members of the project and have not yet withdrawn their support for it. However, eight of the clubs
5:40 AM ET Ligue 1 club Bordeaux have been placed in administration after their American-based owners King Street said they no longer wished to support the club financially. The former French champions have been struggling financially due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the premature end to the 2019-20 season also resulted in
2:33 PM ET Kroenke Sports Enterprises have no intention of selling Arsenal and will cover the cost of the club’s aborted attempt to join a European Super League, director Josh Kroenke insisted during a stormy meeting with supporters on Thursday. The Gunners regularly hold Fans’ Forum events with influential groups throughout the season but Kroenke,
4:15 PM ET Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan says the new format for the UEFA Champions League is flawed and will add to player fatigue, calling it the lesser of two evils in comparison to the controversial European Super League. UEFA announced this week that they would expand the Champions League to 36 clubs from
3:20 PM ET Zlatan Ibrahimovic has agreed to sign a contract extension with AC Milan which will see him play beyond his 40th birthday, the club has announced. The striker extended his deal at the end of last season and has decided to continue his spell with the Serie A club until the end of
1:22 PM ET The roar from outside Stamford Bridge reverberated around a corner of southwest London, but it was felt throughout the footballing world. Chelsea‘s team bus was marooned outside their home ground, just a couple of hours before kickoff against Brighton & Hove Albion on Tuesday night. It led to Chelsea legend and the
6:55 PM ET Danny Lewis The January transfer window might seem like a distant memory, but that doesn’t mean the rumour mill has shut down! Speculation over summer moves is heating up, so check out the latest gossip below, and see all official deals here. TOP STORY: Udinese’s De Paul eyed by Leeds, Serie A
12:09 PM ET Ian DarkeESPN.com writer Close Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, is ESPN lead soccer voice in the United States. He has covered the Barclays Premier League and the Champions League since 1982, and has one of the world’s most recognizable soccer voices.
9:00 AM ET Soccer’s long-simmering tension between tradition and hyper-capitalism came to a head with the announcement that 12 huge clubs would be breaking from UEFA to form a Super League. That the whole thing fell apart within 48 hours was certainly entertaining, but it didn’t really help us to understand what structural changes, if
5:52 PM ET Lionel Messi scored two first-half goals as Barcelona defeated Getafe to stay alive in the La Liga title race. Barca jumped back to third place behind Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid with 68 points, while a game in hand. Messi’s first goal came in the 8th minute, but was quickly canceled out
1:08 PM ET UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has warned rebel clubs and executive owners that they will face “consequences” for their aborted breakaway, including Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli who is claimed to have lied. “I have never seen a person who would lie so many times and so persistently as he did,” Ceferin said, leaving
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