11:16 AM ET Manchester City have announced a deal to sign Kayky from Fluminense at the end of the season. Sources have told ESPN the teenage forward will move to City for €10m plus add-ons and is likely to be loaned out next season. City confirmed the news in a statement. “We are delighted to
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8:08 AM ET Zinedine Zidane has dismissed talk of Real Madrid being thrown out of the Champions League over the club’s involvement in the Super League as “illogical” and “absurd.” UEFA’s executive committee discussed the proposed breakaway league on Friday, confirming that it was looking at “the options available to UEFA and the steps it
9:57 AM ET Chelsea midfielder Jorginho has told ESPN Brasil that former manager Frank Lampard “wasn’t ready” for the managerial job because he “skipped a few steps.” Lampard took charge at Stamford Bridge in 2019 to replace Maurizio Sarri and led the club to a top four finish and an FA Cup final during his
8:37 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Joan Laporta is working on a three-year contract to offer to Lionel Messi in an attempt to persuade him to stay at Barcelona, sources have confirmed to ESPN. The Barca president is aware the club can no longer afford to pay Messi what he is earning at the
12:04 PM ET Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has been charged for assault. Mark Hawkins / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Wales manger Ryan Giggs was charged on Friday with assaulting two women for incidents from 2017 to 2020, Greater Manchester Police said. The former Manchester United midfielder was accused of causing “actual
9:31 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ed Woodward never recovered from the summer of 2013. Thrown in at the deep end when legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson and CEO David Gill left Manchester United within months of each other, he wanted to make a splash. Instead, it was a flop. The transfer window, his first as
1:22 PM ET Gab Marcotti Mark Ogden It’s been a seismic week for soccer. From the hasty unveiling of the Super League on Sunday — with 12 top clubs around Europe announcing their intent to form a breakaway competition in which they’d compete, consequence-free, outside the UEFA Champions League — to its rapid collapse on
8:23 AM ET It’s been quite a week if, like millions of football fans, you had to process the shock news that your favourite football club was in the process of breaking away to form a lucrative new European Super League. For supporters of the 12 would-be “founder” clubs, this was doubtless a source of
3:36 AM ET Online racist abuse directed at football players has reached a “crisis point” and social media platforms must join forces with authorities to tackle the problem more quickly, according to Britain’s sports minister Nigel Huddleston. A host of players at Premier League clubs have been targeted in the past few months, including Manchester
4:48 PM ET The fan attacks on Schalke 044 continue to shake the German club after the Bundesliga side were relegated on Tuesday, with the team not having trained in two days and club officials unsure if all players will want to continue wearing the Royal Blues jersey this season. “The fear in Buyo’s eyes