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A clean sweep of domestic trophies for a second successive season was not enough to sate the appetite of ambitious Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
His damning assessment of the 2015-16 campaign, which he labelled a failure , spelled the end of Laurent Blanc s reign at the Parc des Princes.
Unai Emery has been chosen as his replacement and PSG will be expected to hit the ground running in the Trophee des Champions against Lyon on Saturday.
A repeat of last year s 2-0 win in Quebec against the same opponents will be the first demand placed upon a man who led Sevilla to three consecutive Europa League…
Liverpool winger Stewart Downing is being linked with a move away from Anfield
According to reports from the Guardian, Liverpool could be prepared to sell winger Stewart Downing for as little as £5million.
The 29-year-old’s future at Anfield has been in doubt since the arrival of Brendan Rodgers on Merseyside last summer.
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The England international is set for talks with Liverpool boss Rodgers about his future in the next week or so.
Downing started to produce some decent performances in the second half of last season, but is still not considered an important player for the Reds.
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The Middlesbrough-born winger is being linked with a £5million move to Newcastle by the Guardian. The Magpies have been quiet in the trans…
Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo is set to be in the starting XI for Thursday s international friendly against Algeria, according to head coach Fernando Santos.
Ronaldo has been watching from the sidelines following Real Madrid s Champions League triumph last month – the five-time Ballon d Or winner absent for friendlies against Tunisia and Belgium.
However, the 33-year-old is poised to return as Euro 2016 champions Portugal step up their World Cup preparations with a warm-up fixture at home to Algeria.
Most likely Cristiano will be in the starting line-up, Santos told reporters. We will try to continue with the team s evolution, to analyse the last two matches and try to rectify some things because after this we have the first match against Spain so it s im…
England defender John Stones will have a direct line to Pep Guardiola during the World Cup as he aims to make up for a difficult Euro 2016.
Now an integral member of Gareth Southgate s back three, Stones is set for his first minutes at a major tournament after going unused by Roy Hodgson two years ago.
The then-Everton player watched from the bench as England scraped through the group stage in France before crashing out to Iceland in a deflating last-16 defeat.
He has since blossomed into a Premier League winner under Guardiola at Manchester City and the 24-year-old will look to his club boss for guidance in Russia.
I will definitely speak to him in the tournament. He s very open, Stones told reporters.
He said we can call him or text him whenev…
St Louis City snapped their two-game losing skid with a statement win where they piled on five goals within an hour in a 5-1 hammering over Eastern Conference-leading Cincinnati on Saturday.
The MLS expansion side had suffered back-to-back losses after creating league history by winning their first five games but responded at CityPark.
Jared Stroud fired in a third-minute opener from a set-piece before Eduard Lowen lashed home a volley in the 39th minute.
Kyle Hiebert glanced in Stroud s cross in first-half stoppage-time and St Louis did not relent after the break, with Nicholas Gioacchini adding another from Rasmus Alm s classy touch in the 53rd minute.
It was five in the 57th minute when Alm s rifled strike from outside the box hit the post and deflecte…
Grimsby will honour 16-year-old youth-team player Cameron Walsh and his father Dave at Saturday’s League Two match with Notts County.
The Mariners have been left “devastated” after the pair died in a car accident on Saturday.
Tributes will be paid ahead of kick-off at the weekend, though the club are yet to announce the full extent of their plans.
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Walsh has been described as an “integral” member of the Mariners’ academy.
The League Two club said in a statement on Monday night: “It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that Grimsby Town Football Club announces the untimely passing of one of our cherished youth-team members, Cameron Walsh, aged 16, and his father Dave.
“Cam…
Former Newcastle United goalkeeper Steve Harper has called on owner Mike Ashley to invest in the team and engage with fans.
Harper spent 20 years at Newcastle as a player, only leaving in the close-season to join Premier League newcomers Hull City.
Few understand Newcastle United as well as him, and Harper – who has had first-hand experience of Ashley s reign – has urged him to reward the club s long-suffering supporters.
Newcastle last won a major trophy in 1969 and struggled last term, failing to build on their fifth-place finish in the 2011-12 season.
Ahead of his testimonial at St James Park, Harper told The Telegraph: The fans make the club tick, but they feel detached from it.
Whenever the club has done well over, the fans have been on board. They…
Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has ruled out a return to Inter Milan next season, but says he would like to rejoin the Serie A club one day.
Mourinho led Inter to an historic treble in 2010, and while he rejected rumours linking him with a return in 2013/14, the Portuguese said he wants to go back to San Siro in the future.
Next season, it is certain that I won t return to Inter, but I d like to go back one day, he was quoted as saying by Marca.
I speak from my heart, as I did when I said I want to return to England one day. But what is certain is that my next club will not be Inter.
Mourinho said in-form goalkeeper Diego Lopez is likely to keep his place in Real s starting line-up for the game at home to Levante, ahead of club captain Iker Casillas.<…
Henrikh Mkhitaryan says he was at fault for taking longer than expected to earn a first-team berth at Manchester United, not Jose Mourinho.
The Armenia international arrived at Old Trafford from Borussia Dortmund with high expectations after being named the Bundesliga Players Player of the Year for 2015-16.
He struggled to adapt, though, and was hauled off at half-time on his first start for the club, a 2-1 derby defeat to Manchester City, after which Mourinho said Mkhitaryan was guilty of turning in a really poor individual performance .
Mourinho subsequently suggested that Mkhitaryan would struggle under the pressure of a crunch match with Arsenal, but the playmaker insists he did not fall out with his manager.
There was no bad relation with him [Mouri…
Spain coach Julen Lopetegui has named Napoli forward Jose Callejon in his squad for next month s World Cup qualifiers against Italy and Albania.
Callejon has not featured for La Rioja since a pair of substitute appearances in 2014 but has been in superb form this season, with five goals in six Serie A appearances.
Real Madrid defender Nacho and Sevilla goalkeeper Sergio Rico are also in having missed out on Lopetegui s first squad for the September internationals against Belgium and Liechtenstein, while Barcelona captain Andres Iniesta is back from injury.
Isco returns to the national team fold despite playing just 54 LaLiga minutes for Madrid this season but fellow midfielder Cesc Fabregas misses out once more.
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