7:57 AM ET Julien LaurensCorrespondent Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Thiago Silva will sign a two-year deal for Chelsea this week after leaving Paris Saint-Germain on a free, sources have told ESPN. The PSG captain’s contract at the French club ran out at the end of the previous campaign but he played all the
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11:09 AM ET MLS expansion side Austin FC has signed Paraguay international winger Cecilio Dominguez as its first Designated Player, the club announced on Monday. Dominguez, 26, moves to Austin from Argentine giants Independiente where he spent last season after moving over from Club America. Dominguez will remain on loan for the remainder of the
12:14 PM ET Malaga could sack half the first-team squad. Josquin Corchero / AFP7 / Europa Press Sports via Getty Images Malaga have announced plans to begin a “collective dismissal procedure” that could see the Spanish club sack half of their first team squad. The second-tier side went into administration in February, bringing an end to
7:30 AM ET It is 12.40 a.m. and Thiago Silva is the first Paris Saint-Germain player to get off the bus at the Myriad hotel in Lisbon city centre, for the last time. Unlike in his dreams, though the captain is not holding the Champions League trophy. Instead, he passes to the entrance of the
11:30 PM ET Reuters Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email Paris Saint-Germain manager Thomas Tuchel says Lionel Messi would be welcome at the club if he ever decided to leave Barcelona, but he does not expect the Argentine forward to do so. Messi, who joined Barcelona aged 13, has scored a record 634 goals for
8:58 PM ET Elche were promoted to La Liga by beating 10-man Girona 1-0 away thanks to a goal deep in stoppage time from Pere Milla in the Segunda Division playoff final, return leg on Sunday after the first leg had ended goalless. Milla’s header, which came after Girona’s talismanic striker Cristhian Stuani was sent
4:59 PM ET Major League Soccer side Vancouver Whitecaps will earn €1 million after former player Alphonso Davies won the Champions League with Bayern Munich on Sunday. Davies, 19, helped Bayern lift their sixth Champions League trophy after they beat French champions Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in Lisbon. – Stream FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)–
8:03 PM ET Paris Saint-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel has defended strikers Neymar and Kylian Mbappe after they failed to find the net in Sunday’s 1-0 Champions League final loss to Bayern Munich. The French champions missed their chances and then ran out of steam and ideas after the break, with former youth academy graduate Kingsley
1:20 PM ET Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is in talks over a new contract the club, according to his agent Mino Raiola. Pogba has entered the final year of his existing deal, although the club hold an option to extend until 2022. – Stream FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only)– Insider Notebook: Arsenal, Man
6:58 PM ET MLS deputy commissioner Mark Abbott said that the decision to play last Thursday’s match between the Chicago Fire and Columbus Crew SC, despite a Fire player’s preliminary positive test for COVID-19, was in line with the league’s protocol. The player in question wasn’t part of Chicago’s traveling delegation that went to Columbus