Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl has said he would like to retire when his contract at the Premier League club expires in 2024.

The former RB Leipzig boss was appointed in December 2018 and he signed a new four-year contract 18 months later.

Hasenhuttl, who has coached since 2007, has previously been linked with a potential move to clubs elsewhere in the Premier League.

However, he has suggested that could be his last deal at the club, with the Austrian revealing he wants to try things away from the game.

I always wanted to prove to myself that I could very well work for a club for a longer period of time,  he told German outlet Kicker.

Hopefully it will be five-and-a-half-years here. That s a damn long time in modern football, and then t…

Ahmad Ahmad, the president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), has been banned for five years by FIFA after being found guilty of breaching ethics codes.

The 60-year-old, who is also a FIFA vice-president, had been investigated for his conduct during the period from 2017 to 2019.

FIFA s adjudicatory chamber said Ahmad had breached rules relating to duty of loyalty, offering and accepting gifts or other benefits, abuse of position and misappropriation of funds.

Ahmad has been banned from all football-related activity for five years and fined CHF 200,000.

FIFA said in a statement on Monday: The investigation into Mr Ahmad s conduct in his position as CAF president during the period from 2017 to 2019 concerned various CAF-related governance issu…

Ryan Giggs was left to rue missed chances as his Wales side went down 2-1 to Croatia in Euro 2020 qualifying on Saturday.

Croatia lost their last Group E game against Hungary in March, but returned to winning ways against Wales, with Ivan Perisic at the heart of things.

Having seen his cross deflect in off James Lawrence for Croatia s opener in the first half, Perisic got on the scoresheet himself shortly after the interval, with David Brooks deflected strike proving a mere consolation.

While Croatia had plenty of opportunities themselves, matters might have been different had Harry Wilson done better with an early volley, while Gareth Bale also passed up a presentable chance and Brooks flapped at a chance to double his tally and salvage a point late on.

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Inter have completed a season-long loan deal for Lazio defender Francesco Acerbi.

The Italy international will spend the remainder of the 2022-23 campaign at San Siro, where he will wear the number 15 shirt.

Inter had been targeting Acerbi for several weeks, with Simone Inzaghi keen to strengthen his options in the heart of the Nerazzurri defence.

Club president Steven Zhang reportedly blocked the deal initially due to concerns over increasing the wage bill, but has since given the green light for the 34-year-old to join the ranks.

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Acerbi is Inter s seventh signing in a window that has also seen the arrivals of Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Andre Onana, and the return of Romelu Lukaku.

The centre…

England boss Gareth Southgate has expressed his support for proposed changes to 2022 World Cup squads.

FIFA is expected to announce an increase in squad sizes for the tournament in Qatar, with 26-man squads instead of 23 – akin to those permitted at Euro 2020 – expected to be allowed.

Coaches of the qualified nations are also pushing for 15-man benches at the competition after Euro 2020 regulations forced Southgate and other bosses to leave three players out of their matchday squads.

England will begin their 16th World Cup campaign with a first-ever competitive meeting with Iran on November 21, before rounding off their group-stage campaign with games against the United States and one of Wales, Scotland, or Ukraine.

Southgate has now claimed that…

Radja Nainggolan has left Inter to re-join Serie A counterparts Cagliari for the 2019-20 season after spending just one campaign at San Siro.

The Belgian midfielder, who played for Cagliari for four years before joining Roma in 2014, has put pen to paper on a one-year loan deal.

Nainggolan, a €38million signing from Roma in June 2018, was restricted to 22 league starts in an injury-plagued 2018-19 and failed to make much of an impact.

Inter chief executive Giuseppe Marotta informed the 31-year-old last month he and Mauro Icardi were free to find new clubs, with head coach Antonio Conte deeming him surplus to requirements.

A number of teams reportedly showed an interest in Nainggolan, most notably Fiorentina, but Cagliari have agreed a deal to sign him.…

Newcastle United are interested in signing Mohamed Elneny from Premier League rivals Arsenal in the January transfer window, according to . It has been reported that Newcastle have discussed the possibility of signing the 29-year-old defensive midfielder when the transfer window opens in January.

Elneny has been on the books of Arsenal since 2016 and is out of contract at the North London club in the summer of 2022. No new contract is in place for the Egypt international defensive midfielder. The Arsenal no. 25 has made one start and four substitute appearances in the Premier League for the Gunners so far this season.

It is clear that Elneny is a squad player at Arsenal at the moment. If the Gunners get a decent offer from Newcastle, then they should sell the midfielder…

Crystal Palace have completed and the signing of Gary Cahill from Chelsea.

The 33-year-old leaves Stamford Bridge after seven and a half hugely successful seasons, during which he won everything there is to be won in club football two Premier League titles, two FA Cups, one League Cup, two Europa League trophies, and the 2012 Champions League. In all competitions, he represented Chelsea on 290 occasions, scoring 25 goals. Prior to that, he played for Burnley, Aston Villa, Sheffield United and Bolton Wanderers.

The experienced centre-back has 61 caps with England under his belt, and he was even named captain for a while, when his national team was under the command of the current Palace boss Roy Hodgson.

Having signed a two-year deal, Cahill told the Eagles offi…

Jose Mourinho feels Juventus capture of Cristiano Ronaldo will give Serie A a lot of attention in the upcoming season.

The Manchester United manager knows Ronaldo, 33, well, having managed Portugal s captain and all-time leading scorer at Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013.

Serie A had arguably the most exciting title race in Europe s top leagues last season, as Napoli challenged Juventus for long periods while the Milan clubs also had a resurgence of sorts, and Mourinho says more eyes will be on Italian football after Ronaldo s move to Turin.

Now we see three dimensional football. Everyone will look to Italy for Cristiano, to Spain for [Lionel] Messi and England for the Premier League, he told Tele Radio Stereo.

At this time, Serie A has become the most…

Barcelona are interested in signing Ilkay Gundogan from Manchester City, according to Marca, but the German midfielder has no intention of leaving the Etihad any time soon. The 31-year-old will be entering the final 12 months of his contract with City at the end of the season and Barcelona were looking to try and take advantage of that situation, but City are also keen to tie Gundogan down to a new deal and won t be entertaining any offers for his services this summer.

Having arrived to City from Borussia Dortmund back in 2016, the 54-cap Germany international has so far made 242 appearances in all competitions for Pep Guardiola s team, scoring 46 goals and producing 32 assists. He s helped Pep Guardiola s team win three Premier League titles, one FA Cup and four League Cups. H…