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WINNER: Pascal Durugbor scores hat trick for Vaxjo to lift Hyundai Cup in Sweden

Just days after hitting a brace for promotion chasing Swedish Division 3 Club Vaxjo United in the league play offs, Nigeria’s sensational striker Pascal Durugbor netted a hat trick (on Wednesday)...... Read more Khan withdraws offer to buy Wembley

Fulham owner Shahid Khan has withdrawn his offer to buy Wembley Stadium from the Football Association. Khan had offered £600m for the national stadium, with the FA retaining the Club Wembley...... Read more Even Lionel Messi would struggle at Manchester United — Paul Scholes

Paul Scholes has told ESPN FC that Alexis Sanchez’s form shows that even Lionel Messi would struggle playing for Manchester United this season. United sit eighth in the Premier League and...... Read more Real Madrid protest against Girona-Barca game being played in US

Real Madrid have opposed staging a Spanish league game between Barcelona and Girona in the United States. La Liga asked the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for permission to hold the match...... Read more Mane undergoes hand surgery

Liverpool have announced that forward Sadio Mane has undergone surgery on a suspected broken thumb. Mane suffered the injury while in training with Senegal and was held out of his country's...... Read more Football needs great managers like Wenger — Pires

Robert Pires hopes Arsene Wenger takes up a new job as expected in 2019, believing football needs more men like the former Arsenal manager. Wenger has been out of the game...... Read more Man Utd boss Mourinho charged over ‘abusive’ comments

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has been charged over comments he made in Portuguese to a television camera after his side’s win over Newcastle. It is claimed Mourinho used “abusive, insulting...... Read more Gareth Southgate praises Three Lions’ ‘courage’

England manager Gareth Southgate praised the “courage” of his side after they beat Spain to claim their first Uefa Nations League victory. The 3-2 loss was Spain’s first at home in...... Read more Liverpool injury concerns grow as Keita carried off in Guinea clash

Naby Keita has become the latest Liverpool player to suffer an injury problem during the current international break after he was carried off the pitch in Guinea's Africa Cup of Nations...... Read more Barcelona star faces 12 years in jail for brawl with singer

Turkish prosecutors on Monday charged Barcelona player Arda Turan over a brawl with a prominent singer, asking for the footballer to be sentenced to twelve-and-a-half years in jail. The prosecutors charged...... Read more ‘Bolt has been offered European deal’ — Agent

Usain Bolt’s agent has confirmed that the sprinter-turned-football player has received an offer from a major European club. The 32-year-old is currently on trial with Australian side Central Coast Mariners, where...... Read more Lionel Messi’s Argentina absence a ‘pity for football’— Neymar

Brazil forward Neymar said he hopes Lionel Messi will return to play for Argentina as it is a “pity” he is missing international football at the moment. Messi has taken a...... Read more Southgate says Premier League’s early start affected players

England coach Gareth Southgate said the Premier League’s early start was a factor in some of his players lacking sharpness or suffering from injury and questioned why the season began less...... Read more Uefa promises 50% funding rise for women's football

Women’s football will get 50% more funding from Uefa from 2020 to try to make it Europe's biggest female sport. An extra 2.75m euros (£2.4m) will be available for women’s football...... Read more Bakayoko must improve — Gattuso

AC Milan boss Gennaro Gattuso has opened up on Tiemoue Bakayoko’s difficult start to the season, amid reports the Chelsea midfielder could have his season-long loan deal with the Serie A...... Read more Germany coach Loew expects renewed debate over his future after 3-0 loss to the Netherlands

Germany coach Joachim Loew expects there to be a renewed debate over his future after a 3-0 loss to the Netherlands in the Nations League on Saturday. Of course, I have...... Read more Hazard keen to work under Mourinho again

Chelsea’s Eden Hazard has revealed his appreciation for Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho and said the Portuguese is the one coach he would like to work with again. The Belgian forward...... Read more Why Messi is not a good leader — Maradona

Argentina great Diego Maradona has hit out at his countryman Lionel Messi, saying the forward is not a leader on the pitch and should not be considered a footballing God. Maradona,...... Read more Man City deny claims of Messi bid

Manchester City have rubbished claims they made a failed bid to sign Barcelona legend Lionel Messi. Messi has been linked with City several times since former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola was...... Read more Official: Arsenal Legend Henry appointed as Monaco head coach

Former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry has been appointed as head coach of Monaco until June 2021. The 41-year-old Frenchman, who had been Belgium’s assistant manager, began his professional career at Monaco...... Read more Salah returns to Liverpool after limping out of Egypt game

Mohamed Salah has returned to Liverpool after he was injured during Egypt’s 4-1 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying win over eSwatini on Friday. The 26-year-old forward put Egypt 4-0 up shortly...... Read more Cassano retires again, 5 days after comeback

Antonio Cassano has announced his retirement from playing for the second time, only five days after he had begun training with third-tier club Virtus Entella. Ex-Italy international forward Cassano, whose club...... Read more Russian internationals charged with hooliganism

A Moscow court ordered the arrest of Russia internationals Aleksandr Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev late on Thursday after they were charged over violent attacks in central Moscow. Zenit St Petersburg forward...... Read more 9 nabbed in Belgium over massive financial fraud and match-fixing

Belgian authorities have arrested nine people in relation to a massive financial fraud and match-fixing probe into soccer. Three days after an operation targeting nine Belgian clubs, and raids in seven...... Read more I won’t leave Arsenal in January — Ramsey

Aaron Ramsey has said he won’t seek a January exit from Arsenal and that he thought he had reached a new deal with the club before contract talks broke down. Ramsey...... Read more