Month: December 2021

5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester City will not replace Ferran Torres in the January transfer window and will instead renew their efforts to sign a striker next summer, sources have told ESPN. Torres was officially confirmed as a Barcelona player on Tuesday after City accepted a bid of €55 million with another €10m in

9:08 AM ET Ben Chilwell is set to miss the rest of the season after deciding to undergo knee surgery, sources have told ESPN. The 25-year-old originally sustained anterior cruciate ligament damage in Chelsea’s 4-0 win over Juventus on Nov. 23 with boss Thomas Tuchel ruling him out for an initial six-week period. Chilwell then

5:18 PM ET Harry Kettle Liverpool were left licking their wounds and wondering what could’ve been on Tuesday as they fell to a 1-0 Premier League loss against Leicester City. Jurgen Klopp’s men were all over Brenden Rodgers’ stubborn Foxes for long spells of the game, but after a collection of misses, it always felt

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11:33 AM ET The January transfer window is almost upon us and, naturally, all the gossip on who’s moving where is heating up. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz as we count down to the 2022 winter window. TOP STORY: Haaland would rather move to Spain than England Journalist Gianluca Di Marzio claims

7:33 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United have rejected a loan offer from Sevilla for striker Anthony Martial, sources have told ESPN. Martial has told coach Ralf Rangnick he wants to leave in January but United have turned down an approach from the Spanish side because they only offered to cover half of his wages.

7:10 PM ET Gary Neville described Manchester United‘s players as “whingebags” and criticised Cristiano Ronaldo for failing to applaud the club’s supporters, while interim manager Ralf Rangnick said his players lacked aggression during a 1-1 draw at Newcastle. Edinson Cavani‘s second-half equaliser rescued a point for United against relegation-threatened Newcastle, who had scored first through

5:02 PM ET NEWCASTLE, England — Ralf Rangnick now knows the true magnitude of the job he has taken on as interim manager at Manchester United. When he wasn’t shaking his head on the touchline during a dismal 1-1 draw at Newcastle on Monday, Rangnick was rubbing his forehead in frustration. The only positive for

2:21 PM ET Lyon have been handed a suspended ban from the French Cup until 2023 after a game was abandoned due to crowd trouble. BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images Lyon and Paris FC have been thrown out of the French Cup after their game earlier this month was abandoned over crowd trouble, the French Football

1:36 PM ET Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe and Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski have said they are not keen on FIFA’s plan to hold the World Cup every two years amid growing concerns over player welfare. FIFA president Gianni Infantino said at a “global summit” of leaders of national football federations earlier this month