Real Madrid are interested in signing Rafael Leao from AC Milan, according to . The report has claimed that former Serie A and UEFA Champions League winners Milan do not want to sell Leao and will demand as much as €150 million in transfer fees for the 24-year-old Portugal international winger.
Leao is one of the best wingers in the world and is a regular for Milan and the Portugal national football team. The 24-year-old winger has played 19 matches for Portugal so far in his career, scoring three goals in the process. Leao has scored two goals and given one assist in four Serie A matches and has played once in the UEFA Champions League so far this campaign.
Madrid are at the top of the La Liga table at the moment with 15 points from five matches, two points clear of …
Alvaro Morata spoke of how Massimiliano Allegri convinced him to stay Juventus and that if it were up to him he would always remain with the Bianconeri.
Spain striker Morata returned to the Allianz Stadium in September 2020 and is in the second season of a loan from Atletico Madrid.
During last month s January transfer window Morata was linked with a LaLiga return, with Barcelona reported to have been interested in his signature.
Such speculation only mounted with Juve spending big to land Dusan Vlahovic from Fiorentina.
Asked about Barca s interest, Morata – speaking at a news conference previewing Juve s Champions League last-16 first-leg tie against Villarreal – said: It s not important.
We talked with the coach during the transfer window,…
Disgraced former UEFA president Michel Platini insists his conscience is clear and vowed to continue fighting to clear his name following a suspension in regards to a disloyal payment from former FIFA chief Sepp Blatter.
Platini was banned from all football-related activity last year in relation to a $2million (£1.3m) disloyal payment from Blatter in 2011, with his initial ban reduced from six to four years.
The Frenchman consequently resigned his position at UEFA in May after he failed to overturn the ruling with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
However, Platini who was granted permission to speak at UEFA s Congress where his successor will be named on Wednesday maintained his innocence and once again denied any wrongdoing.
Just simply know that my …
Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler has praised the club s current manager Brendan Rodgers for bringing back the Anfield fear factor.
Liverpool sit second in the Premier League ahead of Sunday s clash with fierce rivals Manchester United, who languish 11 points behind them in sixth.
Rodgers side can complete a league double over United with victory this weekend, but have not won at Old Trafford since their famous 4-1 triumph in March 2009.
However, Liverpool are the Premier League s most prolific team this season and have earned emphatic wins over the likes of Arsenal, Tottenham and neighbours Everton over the last few months.
And Fowler, who scored 183 goals in 369 appearances across two spells at Anfield, believes they can continue that trend this weekend.
It …
Tottenham s Younes Kaboul has set his sights on League Cup silverware ahead of Wednesday s third-round showdown with Nottingham Forest.
Spurs have endured an indifferent start to the new season and Sunday s 1-0 home defeat to West Brom in the Premier League extended their winless run to four matches in all competitions.
Kaboul was appointed captain earlier this month and he is determined to get back to winning ways when Stuart Pearce s Championship leaders come to White Hart Lane.
And the fact that a trophy is on offer if Spurs four-time winners of the competition can go the distance is all the motivation the French defender needs.
The game on Wednesday is important because we want to win something this season, he told the club s official website.
New MLS franchise Los Angeles FC are readying a move for Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney, .
The California based outfit will make their debut in 2018 and are keen to make a statement of intent by securing the services of the England skipper.
Rooney has been at Old Trafford since the summer of 2004 and has since racked up five hundred and thirty-five appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring two hundred and forty-seven times.
That tally currently leaves him just two short of the Red Devils’ all time top scorer Sir Bobby Charlton, while he overtook the same player as his country’s top scorer last year.
However, he has not managed over twenty goals in a single season for his club since the 2011-12 campaign when he got thirty-four …
that Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has slammed reports that Kasper Schmeichel could be sold to Liverpool when the transfer window reopens.
The Reds have been strongly linked with a move for a new shot-stopper after less than convincing performances from their current incumbent and Schmeichel is said to be on their radar.
The Denmark international is rated at around £30m but Ranieri has insisted that the Foxes, who have reached the knockout stages of the Champions League, don’t need the extra income.
Schmeichel moved to the King Power Stadium from Leeds United in the summer of 2011 and has since racked up over two hundred and thirty appearances in all competitions.
He helped the East Midlands’ outfit clinch promotion to the Premier Lea…
Jose Mourinho has suggested he is not responsible for the high number of penalties being awarded to Manchester United.
United forward Marcus Rashford revealed the club s increase in favourable penalty decisions seemed to coincide with advice handed down by Mourinho during his spell as manager at Old Trafford.
Amid the debate over United penalties that was recently reignited by comments from Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, Rashford told the Football Writers Association: There s been times when we have not got penalties.
I remember when Jose was manager, there were five or six times I can remember where I should ve had a penalty.
Jose ended up saying to me if you re not savvy about the way you do it then you re not going to get it.
After that we s…
According to a report from Corriere dello Sport, Italian champions Juventus are said to already be planning out their next few transfer targets. The Old Lady are quite clearly dominating over in Serie A, and it’s been that way for quite some time now. They’re also going in search of Champions League glory too, and they’re seemingly willing on paying big money to stack the deck as much as they possibly can. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic is said to be located somewhere towards the top of their priority list, as speculation continues over the 23 year old’s future. Milinkovic-Savic has been with Lazio since back in 2015, having made the jump over from Belgian side Genk.
Alongside Milinkovic-Savic there is also a variety of other names that they’re interested in, including Feder…
Jamie Vardy converted a late penalty to earn 10-man Leicester City a gritty 1-1 Premier League draw at Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday.
The Foxes were a man light for more than an hour after James Maddison received two bookings in as many first-half minutes the second for simulation as he threw himself to the floor in the box in trying to win a foul against Shane Duffy.
Maddison s meek reaction as he trudged off suggested he knew he could have no complaints, but Vardy climbed off the bench in the second period and dispatched his 79th-minute spot-kick into the net to cancel out Glenn Murray s early opener.
Murray, who signed a one-year contract extension during the international break, headed in his seventh league goal of a stellar campaign 15 minutes…