Swansea City are lining up a move for Bolton Wanderers striker David N gog, .
Manager Michael Laudrup is eager to bolster his attacking options ahead of the final four months of the season, were the Swans remain active in both the Europa League and the FA Cup, while most importantly, they aim to improve on their flailing Premier League form.
Bottom of the form table with no wins in their last eight league games, the South Wales side have slipped to within three points of the relegation zone and have scored just seven goals in their last eight games.
Laudrup was initially interesting in securing former Liverpool man N gog’s services in the summer, but pulled out of a deal on transfer deadline day.
Since moving from Anfield to the Reebok Stadium in t…
Thiago Silva is targeting a Paris Saint-Germain victory over Lyon this weekend as he looks to fulfill his Christmas wish of achieving a league and European double.
Unbeaten PSG are 15 points clear at the summit of Ligue 1 and wrapped up a successful Champions League group stage with a 2-0 win against Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday.
Asked what was on his Christmas list ahead of the clash with Lyon, the Brazil international said: As every year, my first wish is that the club, the team, continue on this path.
Then I ask for the Champions League and the championship.
PSG are without a win in their last three league meetings with Lyon, whose own Champions League quest ended despite a 2-0 win in Valencia.
While Lyon may not have qualified for the l…
Liverpool have made contact with Wolverhampton Wanderers over a potential transfer of Adama Traore, according to Mundo Deportivo.
The winger has drawn plenty attention over the course of the season with his blistering pace and dazzling dribbling ability, not least those of previous title holders Manchester City, against whom he scored on both occasions twice at the Etihad. All told, he scored six goals and assisted further 12 in 45 appearances in 2019/20 so far. His performances have been vital in the successes Wolves have had under Nuno Espirito Santo. They are currently in sixth place and are battling to secure a European spot for the second consecutive season; even the Champions League doesn t seem impossible, especially if City s European ban is upheld by the Court of Arbit…
River Plate moved a step closer to back-to-back Copa Libertadores titles after defeating bitter rivals Boca Juniors 2-0 in the first leg of their semi-final clash.
Defending champions River and Boca are going head-to-head in a rematch of last year s controversial final, which the former claimed 5-3 on aggregate.
The second leg of the all-Argentinian 2018 decider had to be rearranged and moved to Real Madrid s Santiago Bernabeu in December after the match was twice suspended in November due to an attack on Boca s team bus by supporters.
Pitted against each other in the semis, hosts River drew first blood thanks to Rafael Santos Borre s seventh-minute penalty and an Ignacio Fernandez goal in the 70th minute on Tuesday.
Boca s woes were compounded by a stop…
Brazilian legend Pele on Monday launched a broadside against Argentina coach Diego Maradona, charging that he only took the job as he was out of work and needed the money, Brazilian media reported on Monday.
Pele and Maradona widely considered as the two best players of all time have regularly indulged in verbal sparring.
But Pele rose to the bait when the Brazilian media asked him about comments attributed to Maradona during the inauguration of the World Cup in South Africa.
Maradona allegedly implied that a dark gentleman taken to mean Pele had questioned the ability of the host nation to be the first African country to host the World Cup.
Pele hit back, saying: I don t understand a few things. When he did his first television programme (in 2005) in Ar…
Former Croatia international defender Robert Kovac has announced his retirement, his club Dinamo Zagreb said Wednesday.
Kovac had been one of the pivots of Croatia s national team in the past decade before quitting international football in 2009.
After spending the second of two seasons with Dinamo, the Croatian champions, the much-travelled Croat has decided enough is enough.
It s over, that s enough, the 37-year-old Kovac was quoted as saying on the club s website.
I m a little tired, I m not getting any younger and finally I m lacking a little motivation. I don t think I can contribute much to Dinamo.
Berlin-born Kovac spent most of his career outside Croatia.
He had spells with Hertha Berlin (1992-95), Nuremberg (1995-96), Bayer Le…
Ashley Westwood has agreed a new five year deal with Aston Villa,.
The twenty-five year old moved to B6 from Crewe Alexandra in the summer of 2012, and has since become an established first team regular.
His appearance in the opening day victory over Premier League newcomers AFC Bournemouth was his one hundred and first for club in all competitions, with his one hundredth the FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal back in May.
He is now committed to the Midlands club for the foreseeable future, and will look be involved as they prepare for Friday night’s game against Manchester United – a side they haven’t beaten in their twelve meetings.
Villa have finished in the bottom six of the Premier League in each of the last four seasons but can be backed at…
Professional Footballers Association chief Gordon Taylor has criticised Chelsea s transfer approach of warehousing players following the departures of Juan Cuadrado (Juventus), Marco van Ginkel (Stoke City), and Victor Moses (West Ham United) this summer.
At the moment, the Blues have 33 players out on loan, including former Germany international winger Marko Marin, who last played for Chelsea on 4 April 2013.
Moreover, the most popular loan destination for Chelsea players is Dutch Eredivisie side Vitesse Arnhem, who have taken the likes of Danilo Pantić, Dominic Solanke, Izzy Brown, Lewis Baker, and Nathan on loan for the 2015/16 season.
It s a bit of a worry with so many Chelsea players out on loan. It s almost a warehousing of players. You …
Gonzalo Higuain s first AC Milan goal salvaged a 1-1 draw at Cagliari but Gennaro Gattuso s men are already falling off the Serie A pace.
Making his first appearance after serving a doping ban, Joao Pedro gave Cagliari an early lead when converting a rebound that Gianluigi Donnarumma perhaps should have saved.
Giacomo Bonaventura missed two great first-half chances to equalise but Higuain hit the target at Sardegna Arena on Sunday, in the process getting off the mark following his move from Juventus.
However, having thrown away a lead to lose at Napoli after their opener against Genoa was postponed, Milan languish in the bottom half after taking only four points from their first three games of the season.
Cagliari took the lead inside four minutes, Don…
Thomas Tuchel is keen to continue using Neymar as a number 10 for Paris Saint-Germain to involve him in more attacking plays.
Neymar has primarily operated from the left since joining PSG from Barcelona in August 2017, but this season Tuchel has at times deployed him in a central playmaking role.
The Brazilian started on the wing against Rennes on Sunday but was shifted to the middle in the second half and played a key role in the Thomas Meunier and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting s goals.
On Tuesday Tuchel explained why he likes to use Neymar in that area when addressing the media ahead of PSG s Ligue 1 clash with Reims.
Of course he likes to be there and we like to have him in the number 10 position because he is involved in every attack, not only from the l…