According to reports, Manchester United are edging closer to signing England international Jarrad Branthwaite from Premier League rivals Everton.
had more than their fair share of injury issues to deal with this season and they were impacted worst at centre-back.
Injury issues forcedto select a makeshift centre-back pairing of Casemiro and Jonny Evans during the run-in.
Lisandro Martinez is United s best centre-back but was unavailable for much of the season. The Argentina international was partnered with Raphael Varane for much of the 2022/23 campaign, but the experienced Frenchman will leave the club this summer.
With Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof hardly setting the world alight, Man Utd need to sign one or two new centre-backs this summer and they…
Tottenham will look to make their interest in Crystal Palace winger Eberechi Eze concrete after Euro 2024, according to reports.
Spurs are looking to build on a positive first season under Ange Posteocoglou, which saw them finish fifth in the Premier League and narrowly miss out on Champions League football.
fans are now much happier with the style of play under the Australian and there s a feeling that they could be even more successful next season with a sprinkling of quality signings.
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Eze is available for around £60m this summer after contributing 11 goals and four assists in the Premier League last season over 27 appearances.
Tottenham are yet to make a bid for Eze but they have had an offer for £20m plus Giovani Lo Ce…
Ollie Watkins struck at the death to send England to their second successive European Championship final as Gareth Southgate’s side dug deep to see off the Netherlands.
The eyes of the nation were fixed on Dortmund on Wednesday evening as the Euro 2020 runners-up looked to seal a shot at history in Sunday’s Berlin showpiece against favourites Spain.
Harry Kane’s spot-kick cancelled out a superb Xavi Simons opener before Watkins stepped off the bench and wrote his name into the history books by sealing a 2-1 triumph in the 90th minute.
No English men’s team has made it to a major final on foreign soil before and now they have the chance to become European champions for the first time this weekend.
Southgate’s side played their best football of t…
Chelsea will need to up their offer to sign Villarreal goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen, with their opening bid set to be rejected.
The Blues have been keen to sign a new option for between the sticks, and Jorgensen is high on their wanted list as they look to create more competition for Robert Sanchez.
Djordje Petrovic is currently injured but could be sold this summer, raising the possibility of a move for a new goalkeeper.
New boss Enzo Maresca replaced Mauricio Pochettino this summer, despite the Argentine securing a top six finish in the Premier League during his only season at Stamford Bridge.
Maresca is particularly keen on Jorgensen, 22, and sees him as the ideal profile of player for his era at the club and the player is said to be keen on a swit…
Liverpool have been given a boost in their bid to sign a new centre-back this summer as Piero Hincapie has reportedly told Bayer Leverkusen that he wants a new challenge .
The 22-year-old – who made 43 appearances in Leverkusen s double-winning season in 2023-24 – has been near the top of Liverpool s wishlist for the last year.
Reports in December claimed Jurgen Klopp has made Hincapie his priority signing and it was later claimed that after the Merseyside outfit made him their top defensive target’.
Klopp’s main ‘focus’ was to improve the squad with a left-footed central defender and Hincapie was earmarked as a top candidate’.
The club initially planned to make the move in the summer but in the end made ‘enquiries about bringing forward…
Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher will fly to Spain on Tuesday night to complete his transfer to Atletico Madrid, according to reports.
Gallagher was made available this summer after failing to agree a new contract at Stamford Bridge.
The England midfielder was one of Mauricio Pochettino s top performers in 2023/24 but with one year left on his contract, the club have decided to cash in on their youth graduate.
The proposed £33million transfer to Atletico Madrid has attracted plenty of criticism, with many Blues fans questioning why the hierarchy would sanction the sale of a homegrown star who arguably walks into Enzo Maresca s best XI.
It has been another controversial summer at the Bridge, with an incredible amount of new players joining, leaving Ma…
Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin could be set for a move to Chelsea or Arsenal before the transfer deadline, according to reports.
Both the Blues and the Gunners are looking for a new striker this summer with Napoli s Victor Osimhen and Brentford s Ivan Toney among the names regularly linked with moves to both Premier League sides.
However, neither club have yet to sign a striker and now there are reports that cheaper option Calvert-Lewin could be one of the big moves on transfer deadline day as and Arsenal circle.
Chelsea could pursue a move for Calvert-Lewin before the transfer deadline with Football Transfers claiming late move away from Everton is currently deemed a possibility .
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Chelsea and Arsenal are both monitoring the situat…
Kylian Mbappe was reportedly ripped to shreds by France teammate Mike Maignan after their 3-1 defeat to Italy in the Nations League.
Bradley Barcola gave France the lead before Federico Dimarco, Davide Fratttesi and Giacomo Raspadori struck unanswered, leading to widespread criticism, for Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann in particular.
According to L Equipe, aimed specifically at Mbappe and Griezmann, questioning their attitude, hunger and desire; pointing out that Italy wanted it more and on paper, only two of their XI would get in the France team.
It s claimed the rant lasted for two minutes, after which the dressing room fell silent, with neither Mbappe nor Griezmann responding.
Maignan refused to discuss what he said with reporters: What is said in the …
Ange Postecoglou s future at Tottenham is currently game to game after their poor start to the new Premier League season, according to one journalist.
have taken just four points from their opening four matches of the new Premier League season with one win, one draw and two losses from their first fixtures.
And it was looking like they would follow up their with another loss after Brandon Thomas-Asante fired Championship side Coventry City into the lead in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night.
It would have put Postecoglou’s post-match comments last weekend about always winning silverware in his second season into sharp focus, but Djed Spence spared his blushes when he levelled with two minutes left.
Spot-kicks were still on the cards until Rodrigo Be…
Ohio sports bettors taking to social media to lash out at an athlete after losing a bet may want to think twice before logging on.
A new provision included in the approved Ohio 2024-2025 fiscal year budget will allow state regulators to permanently ban or place sports bettors on an exclusion list if they re found to be harassing or threatening athletes over a sporting event.
It s the first such provision ever approved in a state with legalized sports betting.
Commission Thanks Assembly for Additional Tools
A spokesperson for the Ohio Casino Control Commission told Sports Betting Dime that existing law already includes penalties for this type of behavior, but the new provision provides additional tools to address this type of behavior.
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