According to a recent report from L’Equipe, Ligue 1 club Marseille are set to demand a fee of around £25 million for 24 year old midfielder Morgan Sanson. The youngster has been with the French club since back in 2017, when he made the switch over from Montpellier. The primary club that are currently said to be interested in acquiring his services is Premier League high flyers Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The top eight club appear to be on the verge of a place in the Europa League, although it doesn’t realy seem like the deal is going to depend on that all too much. The reason for that stems from their recent dealings, as a number of high profile European names have made their way over to Molineux on a permanent or loan basis in the last few years.
Either way, this fee…
Market: Mirassol win
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Looking to extend on their recent purple patch when they turn their attention back to Serie B duties late on Tuesday night, Mirassol will welcome Avai to Sao Paulo.
Starting with the hosts, putting in another dominant display while on Copa Paulista duties over the weekend, Mirassol have continued on a real domestic flurry over the past month. Eventually grabbing a 2-0 victory away at Marilia a few days ago, Ricardo Catala’s men have now won each of their previous four straight appearances across all formats. Likewise, last seen in Serie B action grabbing a 1-0 win away at Chapecoense, the Sao Paulo-based outfit now have their sights firmly set on clinching a top-four finish in 2023. Opening the midweek fixtures sat just a singl…
Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola has brushed off debate around the club s spending insisting it is relative to ambition.
City landed Jack Grealish for £100 million from Aston Villa in the off-season and have been heavily linked with a big-money move for Tottenham s Harry Kane.
In 2020, City purchased Ferran Torres from Valencia for £20m, Nathan Ake from Bournemouth for £40m and Ruben Dias from Benfica for £62m, with their total off-season transfer expenditure reaching almost £144m.
Guardiola pointed to the fact the club sold players to the region of £97m last off-season, while they have again made money selling peripheral players such as Ivan Ilic, Jack Harrison and Lukas Nmecha.
I said last year that we couldn’t spend £100m, Guardiola to…
After years of waiting, Carlo Ancelotti believes Real Madrid will win LaLiga this season, with Cristiano Ronaldo to top the goalscoring charts.
While Madrid have reigned supreme in Europe, winning two Champions League titles in three seasons, they have played second-fiddle to arch-rivals Barcelona and Atletico Madrid domestically.
Madrid have not claimed LaLiga since 2012, with Barca and Atletico sharing the four trophies since, but former boss Ancelotti now in charge of German champions Bayern Munich has backed the capital club and Ronaldo for success.
In Spain it is difficult, but I think that after so many years Real Madrid will win the league title, Ancelotti told RAI.
And Cristiano Ronaldo will be the top scorer.
Madrid s LaLiga quest has…
Tottenham Hotspur are considering making a bid for Manchester United winger Ashley Young, .
The North London club had made Crystal Palace’s Yannick Bolasie their top transfer target though they have been deterred by the Eagles’ £25m valuation.
The DR Congo international is thought to be keen on a move to White Hart Lane, but Palace are in no mood to let him go without a fight.
England international duo Aaron Lennon and Andros Townsend have both been linked with a move away from Spurs this summer though they are unlikely to leave without reinforcements being brought in first.
Young has spent four seasons at Old Trafford so far, having signed from Aston Villa in the summer of 2011.
He has made one hundred and fifteen appearances in all co…
Serbian international midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic has dazzled the entire football world with his Lazio displays over the course of the last two years.
The 22-year-old has consequently emerged as a transfer target for a host of Europe’s greatest clubs with the. Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Barcelona and most recently Paris Saint-Germain are all said to be keeping close tabs of the Lazio starlet.
The world has already taken a good notice of the Serbian but what is it exactly that makes Sergej Milinkovic-Savic so special?
World-Class Pedigree
With his father Nikola Milinkovic a former professional footballer and mother Milana Savic a former professional basketball player, Sergej was blessed with a sport gene – together w…
Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane has voiced his admiration for Jose Mourinho and suggested he would not be the same player if it were not for the current Chelsea manager.
The France international,22, joined Real from Lens in 2011 and initially struggled to secure regular first-team football at the Santiago Bernabeu.
However, a training-ground discussion with Mourinho made him realise that he could not afford to take it easy and that he had to give his all if he was to succeed in the Spanish capital.
During my second season at Real Madrid, Jose Mourinho gave me a kick up my arse, Varane told Le Journal du Dimanche.
I was not doing well and I was unable to do the things I wanted to do on the pitch. So he took it up with me. He asked why I wasn t run…
Robert Lewandowski s double and a thumping finish from Kingsley Coman ensured Bayern Munich beat RB Leipzig 3-0 to win the DFB-Pokal and complete a domestic double in Niko Kovac s first season.
Having secured a seventh straight Bundesliga title last time out, Bayern went ahead against a resilient Leipzig featuring in their first ever major final thanks to Lewandowski s wonderful 29th-minute header.
Things would have been different if not for Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who on his return from injury pulled off a pair of fantastic stops to deny Yussuf Poulsen and Emil Forsberg.
Thiago Alcantara passed up a golden chance to extend the lead, but his miss mattered little as Coman made sure of Bayern s first domestic double in three years before Lewandowski…
Burnley s stuttering start to 2018 has taken another blow with Steven Defour to miss at least two months with a knee injury.
The midfielder will undergo surgery to repair cartilage damage, robbing Sean Dyche of a key figure in the Clarets impressive season to date.
Defour started all 24 of his side s Premier League fixtures prior to the injury, scoring once in the 2-2 draw with Manchester United on Boxing Day.
The setback also clouds the 29-year-old s chances of appearing for Belgium at this year s World Cup in Russia.
He was a member of the squad that reached the quarter-finals in 2014 and has won 52 caps for the Red Devils.
BREAKING: Sean Dyche confirms will miss at least two months following knee surgery. Read:
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The international break has come to an end and in its place, we have the return of European football across the continent and that includes Serie A. The shock of seeing Juventus lose their crown last season really has opened things up in the title race and even though we re just a few weeks into the new campaign, it already seems as if we re in for a wild one and that trend is likely to continue when reigning champions Inter Milan take on Sampdoria this weekend.
Sampdoria
From European contenders to mid-table fodder it s safe to say Sampdoria fans have been at something of a stalemate in the last few years. They haven t known whether they re coming or going and that s the sort of unpredictability as…