Porto left-back Rafa Soares is flattered by reported interest from Liverpool, but insists he is solely focused on breaking into Sergio Conceicao s squad.
Omnisport understands that Liverpool are one of a number of Premier League clubs to have taken an interest in Soares, who spent last season on loan at Porto s Primeira Liga rivals Rio Ave.
The Portugal youth international, who is yet to feature for Porto s senior team, made 38 appearances in all competitions in 2016-17 – scoring three goals and contributing seven assists.
But with Porto in financial trouble after breaking UEFA s Financial Fair Play rules, which has already prompted the estimated €40million sale of Andre Silva to AC Milan, Soares – out of contract in 2020 and with a €15m release clause �…
Southampton are keen to re-sign Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the summer, .
The South Coast club are ready to make the winger their highest paid player as they look to push on next season.
Oxlade-Chamberlain swapped St Mary’s Stadium for the Emirates in the summer of 2011 and he has since racked up close to one hundred and fifty appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring fourteen goals.
During his time with Southampton he scored ten times in forty-three games while he has gone on to be capped twenty-four times for England.
He has five senior international goals to his name and was part of the Three Lions’ squads that attended the 2012 European Championships in Poland and Ukraine and the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil.
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When the United States Supreme Court overturned the PASA 1992 law that banned sports betting, Major League Soccer (MLS) publicly supported the move. The league acknowledged that regulatory bodies need to work diligently with professional sports leagues in order to protect the integrity of sports and stated that they looked forward to the process.
Major League Soccer is not as popular in the United States as the NFL, NBA, MLB or NHL hockey. When you look at any stats concerning MLS, you will find that .
As far as fans go, it is more on par with the Canadian Football League. Still, MLS is quite successful in some cities.
Atlanta has averaged 48,000 spectators at their home games while Kansas City has sold out their 20,000 plus seats for over 100 games. Nonet…
Javier Hernandez s £16million return to England with West Ham ought to have defenders up and down the Premier League quaking in their boots.
The Hammers have not had much recent luck in the striking department. Only one forward has managed double figures for West Ham since their return to the Premier League in 2012 Diafra Sakho bagging 10 league goals in 2014-15.
Hernandez s best return in four seasons with Manchester United was the 13 he scored in his debut campaign, but he went on to reach double digits in the following seasons also, despite rarely starting under Alex Ferguson.
In total, Hernandez scored 37 league goals for United in 103 appearances, of which just 49 were starts.
Mexico s leading scorer netted his goals at a rate of every 130.2 minutes…
Mikel Arteta thanked Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola after Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1 in the FA Cup final to give the head coach what he described as the best moment of his career.
Arteta left his position as City assistant in December after three years alongside Guardiola to take over from Unai Emery at Emirates Stadium.
The 38-year-old has enjoyed a successful first campaign at Arsenal, culminating in Saturday s win at Wembley to take their record tally of triumphs in the famous competition to 14.
And Arteta, who becomes the first Arsenal boss to win a major trophy in his first season in charge since George Graham in 1986-87, was quick to laud Guardiola.
He has been a key figure in my development as a coach, he said at his post-match news conference.…
It seems odd that it should be Switzerland, the neutral beauty spot of Europe, who have courted the only major political controversy so far of a World Cup in Russia.
The talk ahead of Wednesday s clash with Costa Rica, the one to decide Switzerland s fate at these finals, was dominated by the fines given to Xherdan Shaqiri and Granit Xhaka for their inflammatory celebrations against Serbia. The eagle emblem of Albania s flag has never been more widely scrutinised. Indeed, it was a topic that threatened to disrupt harmony between fans and players and distract them from their goal of getting to the knockout phase.
Valon Behrami insisted a World Cup was not the time to discuss that particular political issue and, to be honest, he was right. He was also right when he said Sw…
Neymar may not have secured his return to Barcelona, but the Paris Saint-Germain star s future continues to make headlines.
The Brazil forward was keen on making a Barca comeback, two years after his world-record transfer to the French capital.
But as Antoine Griezmann struggles to settle in at Camp Nou, the Frenchman could see himself shipped out to make way for Neymar.
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Barcelona are considering the possibility of sending Griezmann to Paris Saint-Germain for Neymar, claims Le10Sport.
Neymar was unable to secure a return to Barca during the transfer window following his €222million exit in 2017.
Neymar-Griezmann swap deal as potential Barcelona ploy coming out of France
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Liverpool have opened talks with Joe Gomez about a new contract, according to the northern football correspondent for The Times, .
Since his arrival from Charlton Athletic in 2015, Gomez has been deployed in every defensive role. Even though he was brought in as a centre-back, he started as a left-back alternative for the under-performing Alberto Moreno under manager Brendan Rodgers. He suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear just as Jurgen Klopp took charge, as well as several minor setbacks after his recovery. During the 2017/18 season, he mostly played on the right defensive flank.
With Dejan Lovren out injured at the start of this season and Ragnar Klavan having moved to Cagliari, Klopp practically had no choice but to return Gomez to his natural position. Paire…
Jurgen Klopp has lauded Sadio Mane for developing into one of the game s leading attackers.
Mane moved to Anfield in 2016, having shone for two years at Southampton after also impressing for a couple of seasons at Salzburg.
The Senegal international scored 31 goals in 63 league games for the Austrian club and 21 in 67 for Saints.
Mane looks to have kicked on to another level since joining Liverpool, though, netting 66 times in the Premier League across 130 matches.
He has been a key member of a team that reached back-to-back Champions League finals with Liverpool winning the tournament the second time around while Mane claimed a Premier League winners medal last term too.
I saw his potential [at Southampton] and I hoped that he could reach…
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is reported to have agreed a move to Guangzhou Evergrande, but Borussia Dortmund chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke expects speculation over the forward s future to continue.
Reports emerged in China on Saturday that the Super League club had beaten rivals Beijing Guoan to the Gabon international s signature, with the fee said to be €72million and the transfer to be finalised at the end of the Bundesliga season.
This latest twist in what has been a long-running transfer saga is sure to anger Guoan if true, as the capital side had been considered favourites to secure Aubameyang s services.
Watzke refused to confirm the news, however, telling Kicker: The speculation surrounding Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will circle for as lon…