Bayern Munich s Bastian Schweinsteiger says his side face a difficult task against Marseille in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Bayern avoided favourites Barcelona and Real Madrid in Friday s draw, and appear to have received a favourable tie against French club Marseille, who have been inconsistent in Ligue 1 this season.
Nevertheless, midfielder Schweinsteiger feels Didier Deschamps men are likely to prove worthy opponents as Bayern seek to reach the final at their Allianz Arena home.
It is a difficult task, but if we want to win the Champions League, we have to face up to it, he said.
The good thing is that our first match is away from home.
Schweinsteiger s team-mate Holger Badstuber acknowledged Bayern avoided some harder teams in th…
Jurgen Klopp has given Liverpool s scouts the credit for the signing of Mohamed Salah ahead of the 2017-18 season.
Salah has been a revelation for Klopp s side, scoring 19 goals in 25 matches in all competitions.
But the German insists Salah s signing for a club-record fee only came about because of the persistence of Liverpool s scouting staff.
Our scouting department did a fantastic job around Mo. They just didn t get out of our ears about him, he said.
It was 100 per cent, he is ready, he is ready. They did a great job, absolutely.
There is only a short period of the season we have played so far, but already I have been asked if I am surprised by what he is doing.
I could be surprised if I had thought about it because I didn t set …
Napoli have secured the services of Piotr Zielinski from Udinese for a fee believed to be in the region of €15 million.
The 22-year-old underwent a medical on Thursday before signing a five-year deal.
The midfielder had previously been linked with Liverpool and seemed set to continue his career at Anfield, but the Premier League side refused to meet Udinese s valuation of the player and he has now moved to the Stadio San Paolo instead.
Zielinski joined Udinese from Zaglebie Lubin at the age of 17 and made his debut for the Stadio Friuli side in November 2012. He was unable to secure regular first-team football at Udinese, though, and spent the past two seasons on loan Empoli, where he did enough to earn himself a move to Napoli.
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Manchester United defender Phil Jones has penned a new deal at Old Trafford, .
The 23 year old moved to Manchester United in the summer of 2011, and has so far racked up one hundred and twenty-eight appearances for the club, scoring six goals.
Prior to his move to Manchester, Preston-born Jones played forty times for Blackburn Rovers while he won the Premier League title in his second season with the Red Devils.
Internationally, Jones has been capped seventeen times for England, with one of those appearances coming at last summer’s World Cup finals in Brazil while he was also part of Roy Hodgson’s Euro 2012 squad but didn’t play.
The news comes in the same week United lodged a bid for Real Madrid’s Spanish international defender Sergio Ramos…
There has been plenty of fire exchanged between some European countries on one side and FIFA, represented by president Gianni Infantino, on the other.
But faced with these questions, England and Tottenham Hotspur defender Eric Dier says he and his teammates have absolutely no influence over World Cup decisions, being, at the end of the day, just football players, not politicians.
We are footballers, we re not politicians.
Eric Dier says it s disappointing to have controversy surrounding the build up to the World Cup
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Ronald Koeman says the situation with Ilaix Moriba at Barcelona is horrible , claiming the teenager and his advisors are prioritising money over his career.
Moriba broke into the Barca first team in 2020-21, making 14 appearances in LaLiga and scoring his first goal as a substitute in the 2-0 win over Osasuna in March.
Barca have been in talks with the midfielder over a new contract, with his deal expiring next year, but little progress has been made in recent weeks.
Moriba was effectively sidelined for pre-season as the impasse continued and clubs began to be linked with offers, with Premier League sides including Manchester City and Liverpool said to be interested.
According to Sport, RB Leizpig have made an approach worth €8million, although Barca wa…
Eddie Howe admitted Newcastle United s performance in the 2-0 loss at Crystal Palace on Wednesday was way off the one that saw them thump Tottenham in their previous game.
Howe s men hammered Spurs 4-0 in their last match, but they never got close to matching the attacking verve from that outing and a Jean-Philippe Mateta double condemned the Magpies to defeat at Selhurst Park.
Newcastle didn t even manage a shot on target until the 87th minute, accumulating just 0.42 xG (expected goals) as the likes of Alexander Isak and Anthony Gordon struggled to make an impact.
Only against Manchester City in August (one) have Newcastle recorded fewer shots on target in a Premier League game this season than their two against Palace, and Howe was critical of his team s displa…
Didier Deschamps believes Kylian Mbappe is set for another memorable World Cup after he claimed a goal and an assist in France s 4-1 win over Australia, declaring: It s his competition .
Mbappe became just the second teenager – after Pele in 1958 – to score in a World Cup final as France downed Croatia to win the tournament in Russia four years ago, and he made a strong start to this year s competition as Les Bleus claimed a comeback win.
Craig Goodwin handed Australia a surprise lead in Tuesday s Group D clash, but Mbappe built on first-half strikes from Adrien Rabiot and Olivier Giroud as France got off to a winning start.
At 23 years and 337 days old, Mbappe is now the youngest player to have scored five World Cup goals for France, and Deschamps expects hi…
Chelsea have agreed a deal to sign Internacional midfielder Oscar, according to the Brazilian club s president Giovanni Luigi.
Highly rated playmaker Oscar is in England on Olympic duty with Brazil and was a standout performer in their 2-0 warm-up victory over Great Britain on Friday.
Oscar claimed on Friday he had undergone a medical at Chelsea but will delay a decision on his future until after the conclusion of the Olympic Games.
However, it now appears confirmation of a switch is imminent, with Luigi claiming a verbal agreement has been finalised between the two clubs.
There is a verbal agreement between the two parties. But we have to put that on paper and the lawyers of both clubs have to discuss the matter, he told Radio Guiaba.
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Patrice Evra says he is ready to fight for his place in the Manchester United starting XI after the arrival of youngster Alexander Buttner.
The former Vitesse Arnhem player, who joined the Old Trafford outfit during the summer, made his debut against Wigan two weeks ago marking the occasion with a goal and an assist.
Evra was reinstated from United s Champions League exploits and recent trip to Anfield and, despite being Sir Alex Ferguson s first-choice left-back since 2008, he asserted that he has never taken his place for granted, and has no intention of giving it up now.
It is too easy for people to say that now we have bought another left-back Patrice Evra will have to fight for his place. Patrice Evra has always fought for his place, the 31-year-old said.<…