Sevilla are ready to move for Southampton forward Gaston Ramirez, .
The twenty-five year old is currently on loan at Championship promotion hopefuls Middlesbrough having failed to hold down a first team place under Ronald Koeman and he appears to have played his last game for the south coast club with his contract set to expire in the summer.
In total, he has racked up fifty-five appearances in all competitions for the Saints, scoring just eight goals since signing from Bologna in the summer of 2012.
He also had a loan spell at Hull City last season, where he got just one goal in twenty-two outings.
Sides in his native South America are also monitoring his situation though Sevilla, who currently sit fifth in La Liga and have a chance of qualifying f…
If there is anything that can spike Clasico tension levels beyond their traditionally dangerous highs, it is Luis Enrique meeting Zinedine Zidane.
The former France great will take charge of Real Madrid against eternal rivals Barcelona for the first time on Saturday with something of a score to settle against his opposite number.
In April 2003, with the game level at 1-1, Zidane sparked a huge on-field shoving match at the Santiago Bernabeu after catching Carles Puyol with a flailing arm. Luis Enrique, incensed, was the first to confront him, and got a push in the face for his efforts. Zidane was booked; the Barca captain, already on a yellow card, escaped unpunished.
Everyone defends their own team and I don t have a good or bad memory of anything, was Luis En…
Jaap Stam is to replace Giovanni van Bronckhorst as Feyenoord head coach in June, the Eredivisie side have confirmed.
Former Manchester United defender Stam was only appointed by strugglers PEC Zwolle at the end of December but will leave that role to take on the challenge in Rotterdam.
Van Bronckhorst announced in January that he would be stepping down at the end of the season, having led the club he represented during his playing days to two KNVB Bekers, two Johan Cruyff Shields and the 2016-17 Eredivisie title.
Explaining his move, Stam told Feyenoord s official website: I really enjoy PEC Zwolle, but for every ambitious coach if the opportunity arises to work at a club like Feyenoord you will seriously think about it.
I am grateful to PEC Zwolle that…
Gylfi Sigurdsson will miss Swansea City s tour of the United States after the Welsh club announced he did not feel in the right frame of mind to travel due to the current uncertainty over his future.
The Iceland midfielder is the subject of reported interest from Leicester City and Everton, having scored nine Premier League goals and contributed 13 assists last season to help Paul Clement s men stay in the top flight.
Sigurdsson s exploits have not gone unnoticed and Swansea are looking to receive up to £50million for a player they signed from Tottenham in July 2014 in a deal that saw Ben Davies and Michel Vorm move the other way.
Clement had praised Sigurdsson s professionalism following the 1-0 pre-season defeat at Barnet on Wednesday but he will be without t…
Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing AC Milan midfielder Franck Kessie, according to . Kessie is out of contract at Milan at the end of the season, and it is very likely that he will be at another club in 2022.
Spurs have appointed Antonio Conte as their new manager, and the former Chelsea and Juventus manager wants to bring Kessie to the North London club. Conte reportedly wanted to sign the Ivory Coast international when he was the head coach of defending Italian champions Inter Milan.
Kessie has made seven starts and one substitute appearance in Serie A for Milan so far this season, scoring two goals in the process. The midfielder has made two starts and one substitute appearance in the Champions League so far this campaign.
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While the end of the international break may be in sight for some there are still plenty of important games to get through before we can return to domestic football once again. The continent of Europe is focusing most of its attention on the countdown to UEFA Euro 2021 next year, but in South America, they re already looking ahead to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Today, we re going to take a look at one of this week s qualifying games that will be contested between Bolivia and Argentina.
Bolivia
Comprehensive defeats against Peru and Venezuela ensured that Bolivia s Copa America dream came to an end in 2019, and when they battled Ecuador and Venezuela again, things didn t get better in 4-1 and 3-0…
Besiktas forward Hugo Almeida has backed Portugal coach Paulo Bento and feels the 42-year-old is doing a great job with the national side.
Bento has recently come under scrutiny after high-profile spats with Ricardo Carvalho and Jose Bosingwa, but Almeida feels the former Sporting Lisbon coach is still the right man for the job.
Paulo Bento is doing a great job with the national team, Almeida said.
The players understand where he’s coming from and everything is going nicely.
The striker believes Portugal have what it takes to progress to Euro 2012 in a play-off with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the same team they defeated in a play-off to progress to the 2010 World Cup.
Bosnia are a very strong side with some excellent players and they know mor…
Italy head coach Cesare Prandelli said Roma striker Francesco Totti could be called up for the Euro 2012 finals.
The Roma captain brought an end to his international career in July 2006, shortly after helping his country win the World Cup in Germany.
At the end of the season, we will assess the players physical condition, Prandelli told Tg1 when asked about Totti.
We started the season with a project: if there were players with great personality and in good shape, they would be taken into consideration.
Totti has made 14 competitive appearances for Roma this season, netting four goals for Luis Enrique s side, who are sixth position in the table.
The 35-year-old made history on Saturday, breaking Gunnar Nordahl s 210-goal record with one Serie …
Andres Iniesta is determined to win the Club World Cup for Barcelona having failed to lift the trophy five years ago.
Iniesta played in the Barcelona team who lost the final 1-0 to Brazilian side Internacional at the 2006 tournament, but was not part of the team who went on to win the title in 2009.
The 27-year-old is confident Pep Guardiola s men can claim victory, starting with Thursday s semi-final against Al Sadd.
We have to learn from the lessons of five years ago, Iniesta said. It s very important to me to win this tournament.
We will be ready. It is not easy to adapt to a new schedule. Everything is different to what we are used to in Spain, but we are trying to sleep well and tomorrow (Thursday) will be ready to compete.
We are look…
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique said he wants Pep Guardiola to sign a new contract with the Spanish champions.
The 41-year-old coach has been coy about his long-term future at Camp Nou, with his contract due to expire at the end of the season.
Having guided Barca to 13 trophies since taking over the club s first team in 2008, there are suggestions that Guardiola is in need of a new challenge, but Pique said he believes the coach has not lost his motivation for the job.
He must continue at Barca for all he has experienced and for all there is still to experience, Pique told reporters.
The Spain international then denied suggestions of a bust-up between himself and Guardiola, after being omitted from Barca s squad for their 3-1 Champions League victory ag…