Folarin Balogun is considering leaving Arsenal, according to The Mirror. The 20-year-old striker is struggling for minutes under Mikel Arteta and said he would consider a loan move away, or more, with Middlesbrough and West Ham interested. He said: “I feel like I am definitely open to a new challenge, wherever it is I will be ready. As a striker and as a young player you need minutes. It is the best way to learn and get consistency.”
It meant Chelsea were highly vulnerable to being caught on the counterattack because they did not have the even distribution of bodies to regain possession (note how a Pep Guardiola team, by contrast, is always in a regimented and tightly-wound shape, never leaving space for opponents no matter the phase of play).
Michael Rose was taken ill overnight for Coventry, while Steve Cook made his first Cherries start since the play-off semi-final first-leg last season - the home side changing formation to a back three.
That could be worth exploring when assessing next season's ante post markets, especially if they lose Conor Gallagher.
He would always do a bit extra after training, reflected Hearts defender Taylor Moore, a team-mate of Yearwood's at Roots Hall.
“I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everybody associated with Glasgow Rangers for giving me the opportunity to manage such an iconic football club. Helping them secure a record-breaking 55th league title will always hold a special place in my heart. I would like to wish the players, staff and supporters the very best for the future.”
THE OBSERVER Barcelona will make tickets for European games non-transferrable after a reported 30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans entered the venue for their Europa League quarter-final at the Nou Camp.
Leicester are having their usual Brendan Rodgers scenario where the more he gets talked about the more they drop away. When they go on a high everyone starts talking about him and the team seems to fall away. They're very inconsistent. You can only keep talking about injuries for so long. Leicester are in the position where you’re not knowing what you’re going to get.
The home fans appealed for a red card early in the second half when Anderson went down holding his face after Dunne had run past him but referee Willie Collum saw nothing amiss.
Everyone has got to stay fit in those forward positions and they have got to hit form and stay in form all the way through to the end of the season because they do not have much wiggle room now in terms of the squad.
The behaviour of some casts a shadow over Belgian football. As a society, we cannot tolerate such insults resounding in a football stadium.
Taylor to continue at MiddlesbroughNeil Taylor is set to re-sign with Middlesbrough for the rest of the season as Chris Wilder looks to bolster their push for promotion, writes Lyall Thomas.
Alex is another established international player with the Czech Republic, and we hope he has similar characteristics and hunger to that of Tomas (Soucek) and Vladimir (Coufal). It's the second deadline deal the Hammers have completed, after signing Nikola Vlasic from CSKA Moscow for a fee of 30m euros (£25.7m) plus 9m euros (£7.7m) in add-ons.
Werder Bremen currently sit in eighth place in the 2. Bundesliga table following their relegation from the German top flight last season.
The Blues - who have one game left - have a four-point cushion over Arsenal, who have a match in hand.
Thomas Tuchel has described Ousmane Dembele as a “very good player” amid talk of a Chelsea bid for the Barcelona forward.
In Qatar, you are allowed to have five foreign players and the rest of the squad are local but just to put it into context, Xavi has 12 senior national team players of Qatar.
His cut-back was fired home by the midfielder, but Dortmund soon pulled a goal back. The England international then fired the ball home past Allan McGregor (51).
Conte also praised his team’s mentality, having watched Spurs pull off only their second comeback win of the season. “It means this team has character, has personality,” he added. “When you do this, after a first half where you struggle a lot, it means that the players have character.
Often playing just behind the striker, they are tasked with creating goalscoring opportunities and there's been many Premier League legends to have made it their own.
Manchester City took a big step towards the last-16 of the Champions League by claiming a second successive victory over Belgian champions Club Brugge, winning 4-1 at the Etihad on Wednesday night.
Every football club needs clarity from the top right through to all the things that make a football club what it is.
But if Palace turn up, and it is the final game of the season in front of Liverpool's fans, they will cause Liverpool problems as Burnley caused them enough problems the other night.
And the manager hopes to see the side tested more out of possession so they are better prepared for the Euros in the summer.
Louis van Gaal has warned Manchester United target Erik ten Hag off a move to Old Trafford, saying he must choose a football club and not a commercial club. The Ajax coach is one of the favourites to be appointed United boss but Van Gaal - who spent two seasons in charge at United and lifted the FA Cup in 2016 - says his compatriot has a difficult choice about whether to come to Manchester.
Chelsea, for their part, stay in second, but it's getting increasingly lonely. Amazon's experiments in staggered kick-offs meant that the final whistle at Stamford Bridge didn't immediately mean points lost in the title race, but even if Manchester City had slipped up against Brentford —
He will again hopefully be able to join us in the next few days. Champions League fixtures | TableFred hands Ralf Rangnick debut Man Utd winOn the need for a sports psychologist, Rangnick said: I don't know what the situation is like in England.
Armstrong's low drive was deflected by Kalas and dipped agonisingly on to the roof of the net with Vaclik beaten.
It meant 22-year-old full-back Nuno Tavares was drafted in as Tierney's replacement for just his seventh league start of the season, and his lack of minutes clearly showed as he was partly at fault for the Eagles' two first-half goals.
Today would have been Gordon Banks's birthday, so that's a handy excuse to indulge some nostalgia — and some sunshine! — by looking back at the
And, with the other players, they just see that they are giving 100 per cent to the club, and when that is the case, I think they have no option... Arteta grins.
Arsenal are removing the red from their iconic shirt and will wear a custom all-white kit for the first time in Sunday's FA Cup third-round tie with Nottingham Forest at the City Ground.
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Robertson remains first-choice, and rightly so given his body of work at Anfield, but Klopp knows his side loses nothing in terms of energy, playing style and, in particular, delivery from wide areas if Tsimikas is selected.
Losing veteran centre-back Richard Keogh to a 15th-minute injury did not help the hosts but they ought to have opened the scoring two minutes later.
Mings will keep fighting for his club and country on the pitch but it will be interesting to see where life takes him once his playing days are up. No.10 Downing Street? Don't rule it out...
We turned the ball over too cheaply first half. It seemed we lacked a bit of belief to go toe-to-toe with the best team in the division.
Newcastle are now expected to look elsewhere for attacking reinforcements. Because of that, they are now looking elsewhere for defensive reinforcements.
Kirby grabbed her first goal of the night in the 16th minute and following a quickfire brace from Kerr, she made it 5-0 just 10 minutes later.
Guardiola:To follow... But he did concede that a lack of precision in forward areas had been costly.
“Today we were so clinical – arrive, goal, arrive, goal, arrive, goal – and when that happens it is difficult for the opponent. But we didn’t do our build-up well.
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