Real Madrid have reportedly ruled out a move for Manchester United’s Paul Pogba due to the midfielder’s association with Mino Raiola.
Real Madrid were expected to be in the race for the signature of the World Cup winner, whose agent Raiola has seemingly hinted that an exit from Man United could be on the cards for his client.
However, AS claims that Real have “totally” ruled themselves out of the running for Pogba’s services due to Raiola’s frosty relationship with president Florentino Perez.
Zinedine Zidane has supposedly informed Manchester United that he will be ready to return to management next summer.
According to Bild journalist Christian Falk, Zidane is unwilling to take over midway through the season, but he has informed Man United that he will be ready to return to management next summer.
As a result, United could stick with Solskjaer until the end of the 2021-22 season, but the powers-that-be have reportedly accepted that a change in the dugout is needed.
Manchester United’s club wage bill has increased by almost 1.6 million euros a week compared to the third quarter of last year. That’s a hike of almost 25 percent.
There are no prizes for guessing the main driver of that increase. It’s Cristiano Ronaldo, as the Portuguese returned to the UK to assume a weekly wage of 655,000 euros a week – the highest wage in Premier League history.
The arrivals of Jadon Sancho, Raphael Varane and Tom Heaton also contributed to this extraordinary outlay.
If Solskjaer does go, though, it will also mean yet more managerial compensation to go with the exorbitant sums already paid out to previous bosses David Moyes, Louis van Gaal and Jose Mourinho in the last eight years.
Taking charge of a team midseason means that Xavi Hernandez does not have enough time to work with his new players in training, as Barcelona are set to play five games in the next two and a half weeks.
he next five games are extremely important for the Catalans should they want to keep competing for LaLiga Santander and the Champions League.
Portugal failed to seal direct qualification to the 2022 World Cup after their 2-1 defeat to Serbia at the Estadio da Luz on Sunday night, and Cristiano Ronaldo was anything but happy with coach Fernando Santos after the game.
After the last whistle was blown, Santos went over to Ronaldo to greet his player, but the Manchester United forward looked furious.
Despite shaking his coach’s hand, Ronaldo made clearly disapproving gestures after Portugal failed to hold onto their 1-0 lead against the Serbs.
Spanish outlet Marca suggests that Messi may yet return to Camp Nou before the end of his playing career.
The report claims that calls are gathering behind the scenes for Barca to work on ways to bring the six-time Ballon d’Or winner back after next season.
Messi, who signed a two-year contract at the Parc des Princes with the option of a third, has scored three goals in eight appearances for his new club.
The 28-year-old had been due to represent his country in their upcoming World Cup 2022 qualification matches but was forced to withdraw with the muscular issue that he suffered in training.
According to RMC Sport, the midfielder is facing ‘eight to 10 weeks’ on the sidelines with the injury, meaning that he would not be seen in a Man United shirt again until 2022.
Phil Foden is set to sign a new contract with Manchester City.
There are not likely to be any stumbling blocks to the deal, with Foden a lifelong City fan and enjoying playing under coach Pep Guardiola.
Foden has become a mainstay of the City squad over the last year, with impressive performances in the team convincing the hierarchy that he is ready and deserving of new terms.
“Kylian will make the decision he has to make and the club will do everything possible to keep him, because we’re taking about one of the best players in the world at 22.
I’m left with the fact that the situation is open and in the future anything can happen, the position of a few months ago may change in the future, PSG as a club certainly have the ambition and ability to persuade him and offer him things so that he can stay and be happy, the possibilities that he could change his mind are there.” Pochettino detailed in an interview with COPE and Radio MARCA.
