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.
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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…
Achraf Hakimi dreams of wearing the white shirt of Real Madrid again one day, according to Antonio Conte.
Conte coached Hakimi at Inter Milan last season after the Nerazzurri bought him off from Real for a fee believed to have stood at around €40 million. Together they won the Serie A title before Conte left the club at the end of the campaign and Hakimi moved on to Paris Saint-Germain in the summer transfer window, for close to €70m.
As relayed by , Conte recently spoke to Sky in Italy about the Algerian right-back.
Psychologically, Hakimi suffered a little bit from last year s games against Real Madrid, the Italian tactician said.
His dream is to play for that club again as a key player.
Hakimi spent two extremely successful seasons on…
Gabriel Martinelli and Emile Smith Rowe struck in the second half to earn Arsenal a 2-0 win over West Ham at the Emirates Stadium to move the Gunners into the Premier League s top four.
Following a keenly contested first half in which Kieran Tierney struck the bar, Martinelli raced into the box in the 48th minute to slot a classy finish into the bottom corner.
The Gunners continued to assert their dominance in the second half as Alexandre Lacazette won a penalty, with Vladimir Coufal receiving a second yellow and a red for the challenge, but the France international s spot-kick was saved by former Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski.
However, substitute Smith Rowe lashed home late on to secure an important result that sees Arsenal leapfrog the Hammers into fo…
Mikel Arteta has confirmed Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is not available for selection against Leeds United, having been left out of the squad for the club s last two Premier League games.
Aubameyang reportedly returned late from a trip to France and was not involved as the Gunners beat Southampton 3-0 at home on December 11.
The Gabon striker was subsequently stripped of the captaincy and was omitted again on Wednesday as Arsenal clinched an important 2-0 London derby victory over West Ham to leapfrog the Hammers into fourth.
The Gunners success in the absence of Aubameyang suggests the team is moving on from their reliance on the 32-year-old, who has managed just four league goals in 14 appearances so far this season.
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Schalke striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has revealed a number of English clubs enquired about his availability earlier this winter.
The Netherlands international has been linked with clubs such as Liverpool and Arsenal in the past few months, but he eventually decided to sign a two-year extension to his expiring contract.
A number of clubs from England enquired about me. However, I never opened contract talks with any of those teams, Huntelaar told Welt.
I asked myself whether I wanted to stay put or make the move to England. The Premier League is the only top league in Europe where I have not played yet.
The most important thing for me was that my family feels well, though. And we have everything we need here at Schalke.
The 29-year-old then we…
Newcastle United defender Steven Taylor insists his team are too good to be relegated from the English Premier League.
Alan Pardew s side suffered a 4-0 defeat to Manchester City on Saturday, leaving them just three points clear of the relegation zone.
But centre-back Taylor is not worried about the potential to repeat their demotion from the top flight in 2008/09.
I am confident in my team-mates, Taylor told reporters.
I look around the dressing room at the players who I train with every day and what I am sat around is top class.
This definitely makes me believes we are going to do well.
We are not looking down we are looking up. We are looking at who we can catch and chase.
Taylor feels the quarter-finals of the UEFA Europa …