Unai Emery is ready to reunite with old friends as he takes his Arsenal side into an International Champions Cup tie against former club Paris Saint-Germain.
Emery departed PSG at the end of the 2017-18 campaign despite a clean sweep of domestic trophies and was subsquently appointed Arsene Wenger s successor at Arsenal.
The Spaniard tasted ICC defeat on penalties against Atletico Madrid in the Gunners opening match in the competition but has a chance to record victory against PSG in Singapore on Saturday.
I am very grateful to PSG, Emery told reporters. It was a good experience, a good moment in my career. Now we are going to play against a big, big club with big players.
They won’t have every player on the pitch because they are on holiday, but fo…
Ilkay Gundogan says Manchester City are ready to begin their Premier League title defence after continuing where they left off last season in the Community Shield.
City enjoyed a record-breaking 2017-18, claiming 100 points in the league, and they were dominant again in Sunday s Wembley clash with Chelsea, winning 2-0 thanks to a Sergio Aguero brace.
The champions start the league campaign against Arsenal this weekend and midfielder Gundogan drew encouragement from the performance level shown against Chelsea.
I wouldn t say it was necessary to give us confidence, but you never really know what to expect in the first weeks when the season starts and the important games start, he told City s official website.
You do not know 100 per cent what your level …
Despite topping their World Cup qualification group there seems to be a general gloom around the German national side with the World Cup looming.
The fact that they have underperformed by their very high standards in recent years has led to a lack of belief.
Struggling
Another reason for the gloom is the performances of two of their key attacking players in the Bundesliga. Striker Miroslav Klose has scored just two Bundesliga goals this season in 22 appearances.
He has started just eleven of those games having struggled to oust Mario Gomez and Ivica Olic from the team.
Klose’s strike-partner of the past Lukas Podolski has endured a terrible season after returning to Koln from Bayern Munich. The 24 year-old has also scored just two goals in 25 a…
Football legend Eric Cantona thrilled millions in his role as a striker and on Tuesday he scored in front of 320 spectators in a Paris theatre debut as a dying man trapped in a collapsed supermarket.
The 43-year-old has had parts in many cinema and television movies, making the jump from green pitch to silver screen as effortlessly as his infamous 1995 leap over the crowd barrier to deliver a kung-fu kick to a heckling fan.
But he had never performed live to a theatre audience, so the premiere of Face au Paradis (Facing Paradise), a new two-hander play written by Nathalie Saugeon and directed by his wife Rachida Brakni, was a gamble.
It paid off, judging by the enthusiastic applause and shouts of Bravo! that came as the final curtain fell after 90 minutes of the…
Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ) is HoYoverse’s third game launch in four years. You’d think that HoYo’s formula would get stale with yet another free-to-play gacha RPG dropping just 15 months after the release of Honkai: Star Rail, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The developer has managed to create another familiar but distinct gameplay experience by once again learning from past missteps to deliver a game that is both iterative and innovative at the same time. The downside here, however, is that ZZZ puts several new and interesting elements together but forces you to spend the most time with the least interesting of the bunch.
Zenless Zone Zero has more style and aesthetic excellence than both Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, all in a much smaller pa…
Giorgio Chiellini is hopeful that Juventus loss to AC Milan in the Supercoppa Italiana will prove a springboard for success.
The Serie A champions were beaten on penalties in Doha, but Massimiliano Allegri s men sit top of Serie A and face Porto in the last 16 of the Champions League after winning their group.
And defender Chiellini wants Juve to draw strength from the fact they suffered a Supercoppa defeat to Napoli in a shootout two years ago before going to the brink of European glory.
In 2014 when we lost the Supercoppa we got to the final of the Champions League. I hope it s a springboard into the next six months, he told La Gazzetta dello Sport of the Milan defeat.
We are aware that it is not ideal, but we can achieve great results by winning the …
Juventus have rejected an €80million offer from Barcelona for Paul Pogba, according to the club s managing director Beppe Marotta.
France international Pogba has been linked with a move away from Turin throughout the close-season, with Barca, Real Madrid and Manchester City all said to be interested in striking a deal.
Marrotta met with Barca officials on Wednesday, but confirmed a huge bid from the Spanish and European champions has been turned down.
Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, Marotta said: The mood of the meeting was very good, terrific, but we did not reach an agreement for Pogba with Barca.
We received an offer of €80million but I can say that Juve do not want to sell Pogba.
Speaking a day after Barcelona beat Juventus 3-1 in the…
According to a recent report from Sky Sports, Premier League clubs have delayed the decision on the official dates for this year’s summer transfer window. The next shareholder meeting is set to take place on July 24th, but with the season ending on July 26th, the vote is expected to take place before that.
The COVID-19 pandemic has already ensured a great deal of chaos has swept through the 2019/20 season, and now, it’s down to the 20 teams in the top flight to decide what’s going to happen for the 2020/21 campaign.
The clubs have yet to decide on a start date for next season, too, with the popular opinion being that things will get underway once again at some point in September.
For now, though, the focus from the Premier League will be on completing the …
Tottenham Hotspur and Atletico Madrid remain interested in Fiorentina striker Dusan Vlahovic, according to . It has been reported by the Italian news outlet that Premier League club Tottenham wanted to sign Vlahovic from Fiorentina in the summer transfer window. Spanish club Atletico, who won the La Liga title last season, were also keen on the 21-year-old.
However, no move materialised, and the Serbia international is still at Fiorentina. The striker could sign a new deal at the Italian club, but that will not stop Tottenham or Atletico from coming back for the youngster next year.
Vlahovic has scored three goals in five Serie A appearances for Fiorentina so far . The 21-year-old striker scored 21 goals and gave three assists in 34 league starts for the Florence outfit…
Guus Hiddink has ruled himself out of the race to become Liverpool s new manager, but Sven Goran Eriksson admits it would be a dream to take charge of the Reds.
Hiddink has been linked with the vacant Liverpool job since Rafael Benitez departed Anfield by mutual consent on Thursday.
The 63-year-old enjoyed a successful spell in the Premier League as interim Chelsea boss in 2009, but the former Australia manager has just taken over as Turkey coach and has no intention of walking out on his new employers.
Hiddink s agent, Cees van Nieuwenhuizen, told BBC Sport: Guus has shown over the years that he is loyal to agreements that he signed. There is no reason today why he would change such behaviour.
Guus just started two weeks ago in Turkey and as much as he…