Yannick Carrasco has re-joined Atletico Madrid from Dalian Yifang on loan until the end of the season and Diego Simeone has not ruled out further deadline-day arrivals.
Belgium international Carrasco trained with Atletico prior to confirmation of the deal being announced on Friday and coach Simeone hopes to be able to call upon him in the LaLiga meeting with rivals Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday.
The 26-year-old joined Atletico from Monaco in 2015 and left for Chinese Super League side Dalian in February 2018, but Simeone is pleased to have him back.
[Carrasco] is excited and wants to be here, said Simeone. If the paperwork is done, he will certainly be with us [against Madrid].
I want him to come with the same commitment we spoke abou…
RB Leipzig thrashed Mainz 8-0 and moved above Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga table as Germany international Timo Werner had a hand in six goals.
Julian Nagelsmann s team were 5-0 up at the interval after Marcel Sabitzer, Werner, Christopher Nkunku, Marcel Halstenberg and Yussuf Poulsen all found the net.
Werner scored again three minutes into the second half and then provided his third assist of the afternoon for Nordi Mukiele to make it 7-0 with 40 minutes still to play.
It was 8-0 when Werner swept home to complete his hat-trick three minutes from time and Leipzig s big win, coupled with Bayern s shock 5-1 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt, meant Nagelsmann s side moved above the champions and into third in the Bundesliga table, four points behind leaders Borussia…
Marko Arnautovic s agent says they have received an offer from a well-known club amid reports linking Manchester United with a move for the Bologna forward.
The Austria international joined the Serie A outfit last term, having spent two years with Shanghai Port in the Chinese Super League, and remains under contract until 2024 with them.
But news broke over the weekend that United, who suffered an opening Premier League defeat to Brighton and Hove Albion, were exploring a remarkable move for the 33-year-old.
Bologna have reportedly rejected an opening offer from the Old Trafford club, but now Danijel Arnautovic both agent and brother to the star has confirmed the existence of a bid and says they are working for a result.
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Bayern Munich sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic insists speculation linking winger Leroy Sane with a move to Manchester United is wide of the mark.
Reports have suggested the Premier League club enquired about the availability of the Germany international, who spent four years in England with United s cross-city rivals Manchester City between 2016 and 2020.
Sane scored 25 goals in 90 Premier League appearances for the Citizens before moving back to Germany in order to join Bayern, where he has won two Bundesliga titles in two seasons.
Bayern left Sane out of their starting eleven for a 6-1 thrashing of Eintracht Frankfurt in their Bundesliga opener on Friday, but Salihamidzic says the 26-year-old is not going anywhere.
When questioned regarding a pot…
According to a recent report from Sport Bild, Borussia Dortmund are interested in bringing two Juventus stars to the club during the January transfer window – Emre Can and Mario Mandzukic, with an offer reportedly being put in place of around £25 million for the pair. Can has been a known target of Dortmund’s for a while now, but the Mandzukic interest certainly appears to be a little bit more fresh.
Mandzukic has made no secret whatsoever of the fact that he is interested in sealing a move away from the Italian champions sooner rather than later, and Dortmund seems as good of a place as any to go.
There’s always the possibility that he leaves Europe entirely in favour of a move to Major League Soccer with David Beckham’s Inter Miami, or perhaps another cl…
Zinedine Zidane is targeting a return to football coaching before the start of next season, the former Real Madrid boss has confirmed.
In the meantime he has accepted a role as an ambassador for the Formula One team Alpine, but Zidane stressed the flirtation with four wheels will not prevent him returning to his first love.
The 50-year-old ended his second stint in charge of Madrid after the 2020-21 season and has not coached since.
It appeared he had his heart set on taking over from Didier Deschamps as France boss, but that option was ruled out when Deschamps signed up to stay until the 2026 World Cup.
Zidane won the Champions League three times and triumphed twice in LaLiga during his time as boss of Madrid, making him an attractive potential recruit f…
Cristiano Ronaldo is heading back to Old Trafford.
Going into Friday, it seemed as though Manchester City would be signing one of United s all-time greats.
On Friday morning, the deal appeared to be edging closer – Ronaldo was pictured leaving Juventus training ground before coach Massimiliano Allegri confirmed the 36-year-old was departing the club altogether.
Yet in the time it took for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Pep Guardiola to complete their pre-match news conferences, the deal had turned on its head.
By early afternoon in the United Kingdom, City had pulled out to leave United as clear front-runners and, just before 17:00 BST, Ronaldo s sensational return to Old Trafford had been confirmed.
United reached an agreement with Juve for the atta…
Arsenal and Chelsea have been named among the clubs to have tried and failed to sign Daniele Rugani from Juventus this summer, before the defender went on a season-long loan to Rennes.
Rugani came through the youth ranks at Empoli and joined Juventus Under-19 side in 2012. He had several loan spells back to his old club as a first-team player, the last of which ended in the summer of 2015. He has so far made a total of 101 appearances for the Old Lady in all competitions, but he hasn t been able to nail down a regular starting spot.
As relayed by the , Davide Torchia, who represents Rugani, has revealed that a number of clubs, the two London ones included, were interested in his 26-year-old client and made concrete bids for his services this summer. However, none of tho…
Holders Manchester City will face FC Copenhagen in the last 16 of the Champions League.
Arsenal, the current Premier League leaders, will take on Portuguese side Porto in the first knockout round.
The ties, the first legs of which will take place over two weeks in February 2024, were confirmed after the draw at the Swiss headquarters of organiser UEFA in Nyon on Monday.
City played Copenhagen – who came through a group that included Manchester United – in the early stages last season, winning 5-0 at the Etihad Stadium and drawing 0-0 in Denmark.
Pep Guardiola’s side, who are currently in Saudi Arabia for the Club World Cup, qualified this time with a 100 per cent record in Group G.
Arsenal were also convincing winners of Group B on their ret…
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Desperate to open their Group E account and find an immediate response on Monday night, Poland will welcome Albania to the Stadion Narodowy.
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Starting with the hosts, although Poland might have punched a World Cup knockout stage ticket over the winter, that was not enough to save Czeslaw Michniewicz s job. Failing to make much of a statement in Qatar and eventually crashing out thanks to a 3-1 drumming at the hands of European heavyweights France, the Eagles also opened their qualifying campaign with a nightmare display. Coming under a huge amount of scrutiny as they were hit with a 3-1 loss away at the Czech Republic, new boss Fernando Santos really couldn t have dreamt of a worse start to his tenure in charge. Although Poland m…