Barcelona are interested in signing Angelino from Manchester City, according to .
The 23-year-old left-back joined City from PSV Eindhoven last summer and was supposed to act as a backup for Benjamin Mendy, which would have allowed for Oleksandr Zinchenko to return to his natural position in the middle of the park. However, halfway through 2019/20 manager Pep Guardiola obviously judged Angelino s progress would be better served elsewhere, somewhere where he would be a regular starter, and he spent the second half of the season on loan with RB Leipzig.
The Spaniard played a total of 18 games in all competitions for the Bundesliga side, scoring once and booking five assists to his name, before returning to the Etihad after Leipzig were knocked out of the Champions League …
Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew is calling on Cheick Tiote to take on more responsibility following the departure of Yohan Cabaye.
Cabaye left St James Park for Paris Saint-Germain in the January transfer window, and Newcastle embarked on a dreadful run of form thereafter, losing three straight Premier League games and conceding 10 goals in the process.
Tiote missed the last two of those matches 3-0 and 4-0 defeats to Chelsea and Tottenham respectively with a hamstring injury, but returned to the side for their 1-0 win over Aston Villa last Sunday.
And Pardew has urged the 27-year-old Ivory Coast international, who joined Newcastle from Twente in 2010, to become a leader within the squad.
He is an important player to us, he said.
And the captaincy whe…
Sir Alex Ferguson is preparing to unleash a fit-again Wayne Rooney on the Premier League as Manchester United look to kick-start their title charge at Blackburn Rovers on Saturday.
Rooney made his first start for United since early October in Wednesday s Champions League trip to Glasgow, scoring from the penalty spot to secure a 1-0 victory over Rangers.
Ferguson admits Rooney is a long way from being the unstoppable force that saw him score 34 times in all competitions last season on his way to scooping the Players Player of the Year award.
Yet the United boss plans to give Rooney as much game time as possible to restore him to full match sharpness.
He needs games, said Ferguson. The way we are going to do that is to keep him on the pitch for 90 minute…
Louis van Gaal has urged Manchester United to dare to play football when they host Chelsea in what could prove a pivotal game in the manager s Old Trafford career.
United slumped to a 2-0 Boxing Day defeat at Stoke City their fourth in a row in all competitions to pile further pressure on the under-fire Van Gaal and increase speculation that Jose Mourinho could replace him.
The Dutchman even suggested after the match that he could consider stepping down should United lose at Old Trafford on Monday, rather than face the sack, although he remains in charge for the time being.
With just two days to recover both physically and mentally after the Stoke loss, Van Gaal has called on his players to be brave against the Premier League champions, who are unbeaten in five a…
Samuel Eto o has pleaded with Antonio Conte to quickly restore Chelsea to their previous heights when he takes charge at Stamford Bridge this year.
Conte was appointed as the permanent successor to Jose Mourinho last week and will take up the role upon the end of his Euro 2016 campaign with Italy.
Chelsea occupy 10th in the Premier League following a dismal campaign and look set to miss out on European football next season.
Eto o spent the 2013-14 season with the club, but failed to claim any silverware and, with the club enduring another barren year, he hopes the new manager can bring about a swift change in fortunes.
I don t think that a great manager as Antonio Conte needs my advice, said Eto o.
I think that he s demonstrated already to b…
Nintendo has reconfirmed that the Switch successor will be revealed by the end of March 2025, when its current financial year concludes. Company president Shuntaro Furukawa made the announcement during an online press conference on Tuesday following the publication of Nintendo’s latest earning results, saying that announcement plans for the Switch successor have not changed.
Analysts are predicting that Nintendo won’t make an announcement this year, as doing so could have an impact on sales leading into the 2024 holiday season. “Making an announcement this year has gotten quite difficult,” Toyo Securities analyst Hideki Yasuda said to Reuters. “You would not want to divert attention to an upcoming console in the middle of the critical year-end shopping season.” Come from
Roberto Mancini basked in the emotion of a beautiful evening as Italy began Euro 2020 with a commanding 3-0 win over Turkey, but he is not getting carried away after one match.
Against a sorry Turkey side, Italy were a cut above on Friday in Rome s Stadio Olimpico, where the Azzurri are unbeaten in nine matches at major tournaments.
A frustratingly unambitious Turkey were finally breached early in the second half when Domenico Berardi smashed a cross in off Merih Demiral and, as their opponents cumulative expected goals (xG) value of 0.6 suggests, Italy need not have scored again.
But they did for good measure, Ciro Immobile pouncing on a rebound to net for the third successive game for his country, before then teeing up the excellent Lorenzo Insigne for a love…
Roberto Mancini says Giorgio Chiellini could still teach defenders around the world how to do their job after he made a commanding return to Italy action.
The 36-year-old made his first international appearance since June 2019 on Monday, delivering an excellent performance as the Azzurri beat the Netherlands 1-0 in the Nations League clash in Amsterdam.
Chiellini had surgery on a torn anterior cruciate ligament last September and only managed four appearances for Juventus in 2019-20.
Mancini is in no doubt over how important the centre-back is to his plans, however.
He has experience, quality he could still teach many defenders around the world, said Mancini.
It s important for us to have him on the pitch because he is a fighter. I m happy he is…
Martin O Neill is reportedly in line to replace Avram Grant as West Ham United manager, regardless of the outcome of Saturday s match against Arsenal.
West Ham are bottom of the English Premier League, but have lost only one of their last seven games under Grant, seemingly earning the former Chelsea manager a stay of execution.
West Ham beat Birmingham City 2-1 in a Carling Cup semi-final first leg on Tuesday, but it appears even having one foot in a Wembley final will not be enough to dissuade West Ham owners David Gold and David Sullivan from showing Grant the exit.
The 55-year-old Israeli, who took over at Upton Park with a four-year deal in June 2010, has been consistently linked with the sack throughout a difficult first half of the season for West Ham.
(GSM) Liverpool have enough left to work for in the UEFA Europa League after losing their round of sixteen first leg game at Sporting Braga. Porto, Villarreal and FC Twente got important wins.
Underdogs Sporting Braga hosted Liverpool in Portugal and opened the scoring after 18 minutes. Sotiros Kyrgiakos fouled Marcio Mossoro in the penalty area and Alan made no mistake from the spot, 1-0.
Liverpool failed to get an equaliser or even convince in the remainder of the game, which was later dubbed terrible by Reds manager Kenny Dalglish.
On a generally disappointing game for English teams, Manchester City suffered a 2-0 defeat at Dynamo Kyiv in Ukraine.
Former AC Milan and Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko scored the opener for Dynamo in the 25 minutes, and…