4:15 PM ET Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan says the new format for the UEFA Champions League is flawed and will add to player fatigue, calling it the lesser of two evils in comparison to the controversial European Super League. UEFA announced this week that they would expand the Champions League to 36 clubs from
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2:33 PM ET Kroenke Sports Enterprises have no intention of selling Arsenal and will cover the cost of the club’s aborted attempt to join a European Super League, director Josh Kroenke insisted during a stormy meeting with supporters on Thursday. The Gunners regularly hold Fans’ Forum events with influential groups throughout the season but Kroenke,
3:20 PM ET Zlatan Ibrahimovic has agreed to sign a contract extension with AC Milan which will see him play beyond his 40th birthday, the club has announced. The striker extended his deal at the end of last season and has decided to continue his spell with the Serie A club until the end of
10:09 AM ET Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said the European Super League (ESL) is “a necessity” but that the club’s members will have the last word on the proposal. Barca were one of the 12 founding members of the project and have not yet withdrawn their support for it. However, eight of the clubs
1:08 PM ET UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has warned rebel clubs and executive owners that they will face “consequences” for their aborted breakaway, including Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli who is claimed to have lied. “I have never seen a person who would lie so many times and so persistently as he did,” Ceferin said, leaving
5:58 AM ET Jesse Lingard has said that he considered taking a break from football last year due to issues concerning the mental health of his family and himself. The forward also discussed how coping with his mother’s depression impacted his life on and off the pitch. The interview was conducted in January but was
9:14 AM ET Bundesliga clubs will move into mandatory quarantine for the final two rounds of the season as a preventative measure against any further fixture postponements due to COVID-19. The German Football League (DFL) confirmed the measures on Thursday. The new protocols see the players and staff from the 18 Bundesliga clubs have their
6:13 AM ET Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has said owner Stan Kroenke apologised to him directly over the European Super League fiasco and believes the backlash proves “the soul of this sport belongs to the fans.” The north London side were one of six English clubs signed up to a breakaway competition which appears on
1:22 PM ET The roar from outside Stamford Bridge reverberated around a corner of southwest London, but it was felt throughout the footballing world. Chelsea‘s team bus was marooned outside their home ground, just a couple of hours before kickoff against Brighton & Hove Albion on Tuesday night. It led to Chelsea legend and the
9:00 AM ET Soccer’s long-simmering tension between tradition and hyper-capitalism came to a head with the announcement that 12 huge clubs would be breaking from UEFA to form a Super League. That the whole thing fell apart within 48 hours was certainly entertaining, but it didn’t really help us to understand what structural changes, if