Month: October 2023

Oct 26, 2023, 09:36 AM ET Open Extended Reactions New Birmingham City manager Wayne Rooney has said he is not concerned after his side were booed off in his first home game in charge following a 2-0 defeat to Hull City on Wednesday. Rooney left his role at MLS side D.C. United to join Birmingham
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Oct 27, 2023, 03:18 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Saudi Arabian second-tier club Al Qadsiah sacked manager Robbie Fowler on Friday, just four months after appointing the former Liverpool striker. The 48-year-old, who is the eighth-highest goalscorer in the history of the Premier League and earned 26 caps for England, was appointed by the Saudi
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Oct 27, 2023, 02:43 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said he is relaxed about Darwin Núñez‘s finishing after the forward missed an open goal as the Merseyside club maintained a perfect record in the Europa League this season with a 5-1 win over Toulouse. The 24-year-old, who moved to the Premier
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Sam Marsden, Barcelona correspondentOct 24, 2023, 03:07 PM ET Open Extended Reactions As manager, Xavi has been working to turn Barcelona back into the kind of team that dazzled when he was a player in its midfield for almost two decades. Eric Alonso/Getty Images Xavi Hernandez frequently makes reference to Barcelona as being the most “difficult
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Associated Press Oct 26, 2023, 04:06 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Inter Milan fans have been preparing for days to give Roma striker Romelu Lukaku a most inhospitable welcome when their former player returns to San Siro. The Italian league leader’s most fervent supporters are planning to deliver 50,000 whistles “to use until you lose
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Liverpool thrashed Toulouse 5-1 at Anfield on Thursday, asserting their control over their Europa League section with a perfect record at the halfway mark of the group stage. Diogo Jota opened the scoring for the hosts after nine minutes, embarking on a solo run that saw him navigate past four defenders before planting the ball
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Rob Dawson, CorrespondentOct 26, 2023, 04:04 PM ET André Onana has defended Manchester United teammate Alejandro Garnacho after the English FA launched an investigation into a social media post made by the Argentinian featuring two gorillas above a picture of the Cameroon goalkeeper. Garnacho made the post on X, formerly Twitter, after Onana saved a
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ESPN News Services Oct 26, 2023, 02:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Lionel Messi was named on Thursday as one of three finalists for MLS‘ Newcomer of the Year award, despite playing in just six league matches during his debut season with Inter Miami. Messi is nominated alongside Atlanta United striker Giorgos Giakoumakis and St.
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ESPN News Services Oct 26, 2023, 12:55 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Manchester United reported revenues of £648.4 million ($783.5m) for the last financial year Thursday, a Premier League record. The latest financial figures from United come as British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe is close to buying a 25% share of the English club from
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Oct 26, 2023, 07:26 AM ET Newcastle United midfielder Sandro Tonali will be banned from football for 10 months over breaches of rules on betting on matches in Italy, the head of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) said on Thursday. Italy midfielder Tonali, 23, who joined Newcastle from AC Milan in a deal worth €70
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Open Extended Reactions The UEFA Champions League has reached the halfway stage, with all eight groups starting to take shape. This is the final season of the multigroup format, before it becomes a 36-team competition with all clubs in one league table. We take a look at who can seal their places on matchday four,
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Julien Laurens, CorrespondentOct 25, 2023, 09:14 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Senegal forward Sadio Mané is in the process of purchasing fourth-tier French club Bourges Foot 18, a source has told ESPN. Mané, 31, is thought to have been willing to invest in a football club for some time and his relationship with former Bourges
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Associated Press Oct 26, 2023, 03:42 AM ET Nice defender Youcef Atal has been suspended for seven matches by Ligue 1 for a social media post about the Iarael-Hamas war, it was announced on Wednesday. Nice had already suspended Atal last week until further notice and said that he apologised for his actions. After the
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Adriana Garcia Oct 25, 2023, 03:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Real Betis have agreed a deal to sign United States men’s national team midfielder Johnny Cardoso from Brazilian club Internacional, sources have told ESPN Brasil. The LaLiga outfit will pay an initial €6 million ($6.3m) to sign Cardoso. As part of the deal, Internacional
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Daniel Salloi converted Sporting Kansas City‘s decisive penalty kick as SKC defeated the San Jose Earthquakes 4-2 in the tiebreaker after a scoreless 90 minutes on Wednesday in the Western Conference wild-card match at Kansas City, Kan. Johnny Russell, Erik Thommy and Gadi Kinda also converted for Sporting in the shootout, though Alan Pulido‘s attempt
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