Barcelona have confirmed the re-signing of Gerard Deulofeu, according to the Mail Online.
The La Liga giants have decided to exercise the buy-back clause they placed in the deal that saw the Spaniard move to Goodison Park two years ago.
The twenty-three year old made just thirteen appearances for the Toffees last season before being loaned out to AC Milan, where he scored four goals in eighteen games.
The winger initially moved to the Merseyside club on loan in the 2013/14 campaign, when he played twenty-nine times in all competitions, scoring four times.
He then spent the following season at Sevilla before Everton signed him on a permanent basis in the summer of 2015.
He played just six times in his first spell with Barcelona but did rack u…
Former referee Howard Webb has admitted he should have sent off Nigel de Jong in the World Cup final between Spain and Netherlands in 2010.
De Jong was shown just a yellow card by Webb after a dangerous kung-fu tackle on Xabi Alonso in the 28th minute.
Webb said he would have sent the Dutchman off if he had seen the incident clearly.
I still thought I got it right on the pitch, he told BT Sport. So I get back into the dressing room and my assistant referee has gone to his pocket and got his phone out, and his face dropped.
I said, What’s wrong? and he said, De Jong should have been red carded, the guy from the referee headquarters is saying he should have been red carded’.
I went, You’re joking?’. I got my phone out, a mate of mine …
Ralf Rangnick will combine his role as RB Leipzig s director of football with first-team coaching duties for the 2018-19 season, as the club waits for the Julian Nagelsmann era to begin next year.
Leipzig pulled off something of a coup by securing the highly rated Nagelsmann for the start of the 2019-20 campaign shortly after Hoffenheim announced the 30-year-old was only going to remain for one more year.
But it left Leipzig in the unusual position of having a coach lined up for the future but not for the coming campaign following Ralph Hasenhuttl s departure.
Jesse Marsch had been expected by take up the position for a year after he left New York Red Bulls on Friday, but instead he is to be Rangnick s assistant.
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A spectacular strike from Marcus Rashford helped England to a 2-0 win over Costa Rica in Thursday s friendly clash at Elland Road.
The Manchester United forward s effort set the Three Lions on their way to victory in their final warm-up match prior to the World Cup, with Danny Welbeck sealing the result with a second-half header.
Manager Gareth Southgate made 10 changes to the team that beat Nigeria 2-1 on Saturday, with John Stones the one player to keep his place, while Liverpool s Trent Alexander-Arnold made his debut at right wing-back.
These two teams played out a goalless draw in their final group game at the World Cup in 2014, where Costa Rica went on to reach the quarter-finals, but Rashford made sure there would be no repeat of that result with a stunni…
Arsenal turned on the style with three goals in six first-half minutes to beat Slavia Prague 4-0 and progress through 5-1 on aggregate, setting up a reunion with Unai Emery s Villarreal in the semi-finals.
A number of spurned opportunities came back to haunt Arsenal in last week s reverse fixture as Tomas Holes scored late on to cancel out Nicolas Pepe s opener in a 1-1 draw.
But the Gunners were at their efficient best in front of a sparse crowd on Thursday, completely wiping out Slavia s away-goals advantage through strikes from Pepe, Alexandre Lacazette and Bukayo Saka inside 24 minutes.
Slavia had gone 23 games without defeat in all competitions and last lost at home in November 2019, but there was no sign of a comeback as Lacazette added a late fourth for …
Matteo Darmian has ended a difficult period at Manchester United by completing a permanent move to Parma.
Italy international Darmian returns to his homeland after agreeing a four-year deal with Roberto D Aversa s side.
The full-back was quoted over the weekend as telling Sky Sport Italia the move was an important opportunity to revive his national team career, Darmian having last been capped in 2017.
Darmian s appearances in the Premier League waned from 28 in his first season to six in his last at Old Trafford.
He becomes the fourth United player to finalise a switch to Serie A in recent weeks, after Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez both joined Inter and Chris Smalling signed for Roma on loan.
Parma, ninth in the table after two games, have rep…
RB Leipzig head coach Jesse Marsch has left the club my mutual consent following Friday s 2-1 loss at Union Berlin, their third straight Bundesliga defeat.
Marsch arrived from Salzburg as the successor to Julian Nagelsmann, who left for Bayern Munich, but has overseen a series of disappointing results, with the loss to Union and Saturday s results leaving them 11th in the table.
Leipzig have already been eliminated from the Champions League and could yet miss out on a spot in the Europa League too as they sit level with Club Brugge on four points in Group A.
Marsch has struggled to combine a high-intensity press with a solid defence, with the departure of France international centre-back Dayot Upamecano clearly still hurting the team.
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Manchester United sold Romelu Lukaku to Inter Milan in 2019, and Ashley Young took the same path as a free agent a year later. The pair of them have just won the Serie A title with the Nerazzurri.
Young says it was a mistake for United to sell Lukaku.
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Manchester United s Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo have become the first teenagers to score in an FA Cup final since Cristiano Ronaldo in 2004.
In the first half of Saturday s FA Cup final against Manchester City, 19-year-old Garnacho capitalised on a mix-up between Stefan Ortega and Josko Gvardiol to become the first teenager to net in the competition s showpiece match since Ronaldo did against Millwall in 2004, also for the Red Devils.
Garnacho s goal made him the third teenager to score for United in an FA Cup final after Ronaldo 20 years ago and Norman Whiteside back in 1983.
Then, just nine minutes later, a brilliant United move ended with Bruno Fernandes laying Garnacho s pass into Mainoo, who coolly finished to double United s lead at just 19-years-o…
Martin Odegaard has made such an impression at Arsenal that Mikel Arteta already sees him as captaincy material.
Arteta said Odegaard has all the qualities for the job as he considers who should take the armband that previously belonged to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
After falling out of favour, then moving to Barcelona, Aubameyang belongs to Arsenal s past, and manager Arteta has yet to appoint a new full-time skipper.
Kieran Tierney is another that Arteta could turn to, with former Gunners defender Martin Keown having highlighted the left-back as a suitable candidate.
At the age of 23, Odegaard is already captain of Norway, and Arteta believes such a role at club level would also suit the former Real Madrid player.
He certainly has all the qual…