9:53 AM ET Arsenal‘s players exchanged angry words with each other in a clear-the-air meeting after manager Mikel Arteta called the squad together to identify reasons behind their poor start to the season. Sources have told ESPN that Arteta assembled the entire first-team group on Tuesday in a bid to address a slump in form
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1:47 PM ET The reforms aim to give greater protections to women. Harold Cunningham/Getty Images Professional women footballers are to be guaranteed maternity leave under new rules approved by FIFA on Friday, the global football body’s president Gianni Infantino said. Under the new rules, approved by the decision-making FIFA Council on Friday, a player will be
12:49 PM ET Arsenal‘s best results under Mikel Arteta have come in a style markedly at odds with the philosophy the Spaniard outlined when taking charge last December. “There are some things that have to have a blueprint,” he said at the time. “We have to have passion, we have to be dominant, we have
2:15 PM ET Austin LindbergESPN FC How did the New England Revolution get here? The 15th-best team in the 26-team league when the 2020 MLS Cup playoffs began is suddenly the most in-form side of the postseason, preparing for Sunday’s Eastern Conference final against Columbus Crew SC (3 p.m. ET, stream live on ABC). And
2:39 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer The Camp Nou is falling down. Like really, genuinely falling down — and the rest of Barcelona is crumbling with it. That’s not some wild judgement from outside, nor a loud front-page headline inflated for maximum impact — in fact, the covers of Sport and Mundo Deportivo, the two
8:42 AM ET Paris Saint-Germain are exploring the possibility of signing Barcelona‘s Lionel Messi in the summer, sources have told ESPN. Messi wanted to leave Barca in August after the 8-2 Champions League elimination to Bayern Munich and sources told ESPN at the time that Manchester City led the chase to sign him. – Insider
6:54 AM ET Juventus are under investigation following irregularities found in an Italian citizenship test Luis Suarez underwent in September. At the time of the initial investigation on Sept. 22, the Italian finance police chief Selvaggio Sarri had said Juve were not being looked into, but that situation has now changed. – Insider Notebook: Man
6:16 AM ET Patrick Vieira has been sacked as Nice head coach after a poor run of form, the club announced on Friday. The French club were dumped out of the Europa League group stages after a 3-2 defeat at home to Bayer Leverkusen on Thursday. – Insider Notebook: Man United give Solskjaer backing Nice
8:00 AM ET Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho has said the Premier League could be “affected” by the Manchester clubs having a game in hand during the second half of the season. Manchester City and Manchester United missed the opening weekend of the campaign after it was agreed by all 20 clubs at a summer Premier
8:50 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman has said it wasn’t helpful for the club’s acting president Carles Tusquets to say that Lionel Messi should have been sold last summer. Tusquets, who is in charge of the managing committee running Barca until a new president is elected on Jan. 24, said