Inter coach Claudio Ranieri is confident Thiago Motta will still be at the club after the January transfer window.
The midfielder has been tipped to join Paris Saint-Germain and his agent claimed during the week that Wednesday s Coppa Italia clash with Napoli would be the player s last game for the Milan club.
Motta was then omitted from the Inter squad to face Lecce on Sunday but Ranieri said the Brazilian-born Italy international is going nowhere at least until the end of the season.
I have asked that he stays and Motta will stay, the Roman told the Inter website.
I am convinced that Motta will stay. The club has assured me that will remain until at least June. This is good because we don t have another midfielder with his qualities.
Motta, …
Juventus 100 per cent start to the Serie A season was snapped by a battling Atalanta side who came from two goals down to earn a 2-2 draw against the champions.
A roller-coaster ride at the Stadio Atleti Azzurri d Italia featured four goals and a pair of contentious VAR decisions as either side felt aggrieved by reviews made by referee Antonio Damato.
Federico Bernardeschi, making his first start for Juventus, opened the scoring for the visitors in the 21st minute, before supplying the assist for Gonzalo Higuain to make it 2-0 three minutes later.
Atalanta s fightback started when Mattia Caldara – on loan from Juventus – pulled a goal back shortly after the half-hour mark and at 2-1, Juventus had a Mario Mandzukic goal cancelled out following Stephan Lichtste…
Danny Ward has been rewarded with a new long-term contract at Liverpool, before joining Huddersfield Town on a season-long loan.
Liverpool announced the deal on Monday following Ward s participation at Euro 2016 with Wales, where they suffered a semi-final elimination at the hands of Portugal.
While Ward was chosen as a second-choice goalkeeper, he started in their opening Group B game a 2-1 win over Slovakia before Wayne Hennessey recovered from his back injury.
Ward will now link up with Huddersfield coach David Wagner, who worked with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp at Borussia Dortmund.
I ve spoken before about using the loan market to bring special talent to the club and Danny is another great example of this, following closely on from Aaron Moo…
Steve Mandanda has left the France squad after testing positive for coronavirus.
The Marseille goalkeeper will play no further part in preparations for the Nations League matches against Sweden and Croatia after returning two positive results.
The world champions, who face Sweden in Solna on Saturday, confirmed Mandanda will leave Clairefontaine early on Friday.
Lyon midfielder Houssem Aouar was also forced to withdraw from the squad after a positive test last week.
France s preparations for this month s matches had been affected by coronavirus even before the squad met up, with Manchester United s Paul Pogba returning a positive test shortly before Didier Deschamps squad was announced.
Tottenham s Tanguy Ndombele, who was not named in the squad,…
Yannick Carrasco has completed a full return to Atletico Madrid after a deal was agreed with his parent club Dalian Professional.
The Belgium winger left Atleti for the Chinese Super League in February 2018 but returned on an initial loan deal in January.
It was confirmed on Tuesday Atleti have now made Carrasco s signing permanent, with the 27-year-old penning a four-year deal at the Wanda Metropolitano.
Since linking back up with Diego Simeone s side, Carrasco scored once and provided four assists in 16 matches as Atleti secured Champions League football via a third-place finish in LaLiga.
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The Belgian signs a year contract with Atleti after reaching a transfer agreement with Dalian Professional FC
Sevilla have chosen Vincenzo Montella to succeed Eduardo Berizzo as head coach on a one-and-a-half-year deal, after reaching a principle agreement with the Italian.
Montella has been out of a job for just over a month after he was sacked by AC Milan on November 27, with the Serie A giants enduring an underwhelming start to the season despite spending a reported €196million in the transfer market.
The former Italy international left Milan seventh in Serie A, though they have since slipped even further down the table to 11th since Gennaro Gattuso took over.
Although Sevilla have not won any of their last four games in all competitions, Montella joins them in a strong position, with Berizzo getting sacked despite the club sitting fifth in LaLiga and having book…
Mesut Ozil says his future at Arsenal depends on whether Arsene Wenger stays at the club as his contract saga continues.
Wenger, who signed the Germany international from Real Madrid in 2013, is out of contract at the end of the season
Ozil feels loyalty towards the Frenchman and wants confirmation on the manager s future as negotiations over an extension to his own deal – which expires in 2018 – go on.
The club knows that I am here most of all because of Arsene Wenger, Ozil said to Kicker.
He is the one who signed me and he is the one whose trust I have.
The club also knows that I want to be clear what the manager is going to [do in the future].
I am very, very happy at Arsenal and have let the club know that I would be ready to…
Julian Brandt of Bayer Leverkusen has been the subject of much speculation for over two years now. The winger was heavily linked with Liverpool in the spring of 2017, but he reportedly rejected the move to stay at the BayArena. Liverpool in turn signed Mohamed Salah instead, and the rest, as they say, is history.
However, Liverpool are still in need of a versatile forward, one who can successfully step in to replace on of their terrific front three, without the team losing too much of their attacking edge.
Meanwhile, the future of Brandt is once again a topic in the media, and once again he is being linked with Liverpool but also with Borussia Dortmund.
Dortmund are set to part ways with Christian Pulisic, whom they sold to Chelsea back in January and took him b…
Jorge Sampaoli would be open to handing Carlos Tevez an Argentina recall ahead of the World Cup.
Tevez played the full 90 minutes of Boca Juniors 2-0 win over Colon on Sunday, his first Superliga appearance since returning from a season with Shanghai Shenhua in the Chinese Super League.
The 33-year-old has reiterated his desire to compete with the likes of Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero and Mauro Icardi for a place on the flight to Russia, and Sampaoli is not ruling him out.
There is a group of people who work to know the current status of some players who are not on our list in case one stands out. If Tevez stands out, he will be analysed, Sampaoli told reporters.
No one is unaware of Tevez s attributes. When I was a coach I wanted to tak…
France will be without N Golo Kante for their World Cup qualifier against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday, Didier Deschamps has confirmed.
The Chelsea midfielder aggravated an ankle injury during the 1-1 draw with Liverpool at the weekend.
Sitting top of Group D with seven points from three games, Les Bleus resume their World Cup qualifying campaign with a trio of fixtures in early September.
However, the reigning world champions will be unable to call upon Kante for the first of those, which takes place in Strasbourg.
Addressing the media on Tuesday, head coach Deschamps said: Kante will be too soon for tomorrow.
There are too many risks; he will not be used tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Hugo Lloris believes Kylian Mbappe will not be bothered …