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Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho has questioned Gareth Bale’s midweek Instagram post and described it as a contradiction ahead of Saturday’s trip to Premier League leaders Manchester City. The Real Madrid loanee missed Wednesday’s FA Cup defeat at Everton after he was absent from training on Monday and asked for a scan following some discomfort. Bale […]
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Ralph Hasenhuttl feels it is a “crazy situation” that he received more personal support after Southampton’s 9-0 Manchester United defeat than after some wins. Southampton booked an FA Cup south-coast derby quarter-final clash with Bournemouth courtesy of Thursday’s 2-0 win at Wolves. Saints’ crippling injury problems saw Hasenhuttl’s men compound that record-equalling league loss at […]
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Ozan Kabak’s chances of making his Liverpool debut increased after stand-in centre-back Fabinho was ruled out with injury, and manager Jurgen Klopp is confident the youngster will cope. The 20-year-old Turkey international arrived on loan on deadline day to bolster a defence which has been playing midfielders Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, with Virgil Van Dijk, […]
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Aston Villa boss Dean Smith insists that no one has approached them about offering John Terry a management job. However, Smith stated that he would not stand in the way of Terry’s departure if the time was right, amid reported interest in his assistant manager from Bournemouth and Celtic. The Cherries, sixth in the Sky […]
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Jurgen Klopp says his Liverpool players are refusing to blame each other over their mixed recent run of results. The Reds were knocked out of the FA Cup in the fourth round by Manchester United recently so had a welcome week off this week as other Premier League sides played. Liverpool have only won two […]
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Brendan Rodgers needs to finally land a jab on Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool for Leicester to shed this particular inferiority complex. After finishing the (almost) glorious campaign of 2013/14 in second place, Liverpool were back in Europe’s biggest competition for the first time in five long years. This decent consolation prize should have been […]
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Thomas Tuchel says he has trained himself to ignore anything said or written about him as a defence mechanism against the abuse circling around football. The Chelsea manager conceded he has no social media profile as much due to technical limitations as a determination to avoid the dark side of online interaction. Chelsea will host […]
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Bayern are FIFA Club World Cup champions Bavarian outfit have six French players in their ranks We take a closer look at the club’s enduring French connection Bayern Munich’s love affair with French players dates back to the mid-90s with the arrival of Jean-Pierre Papin. Nascent Franco-Bavarian ties were further strengthened during the 2000s, when […]
Steve Bruce has already seen enough from “modern-day midfielder” Joe Willock to be confident he will be a success in a Newcastle shirt. The 21-year-old Arsenal loanee needed just 16 minutes of his debut to score his first goal for the club in last Saturday’s 3-2 victory over Southampton before playing his part in a […]
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Mikel Arteta admits Thomas Partey has been left “devastated” by his latest injury setback and said a lack of pre-season and the demands of the Premier League could be to blame. Partey suffered a hamstring injury during last weekend’s defeat at Aston Villa which has definitely ruled him out of Sunday’s visit of Leeds and […]
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