Xherdan Shaqiri has revealed he is ready to leave Liverpool and hinted he would enjoy playing under Maurizio Sarri at Lazio, praising the Italian coach s attacking style of play.
The Switzerland international joined the Reds in 2018 but has remained on the fringes of the first team throughout his time at Anfield.
And after enjoying Euro 2020 success, in which he became Switzerland s outright top scorer at major tournaments, Shaqiri has suggested his time under Jurgen Klopp may be coming to an end.
Fortunately, football has helped me achieve many of my dreams, Shaqiri told Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport. I was lucky enough to play with great teams and to win many titles.
Who knows, maybe I could get something even with the Swiss national team. …
Diego Simeone paid tribute to his Atletico Madrid players after overcoming numerous obstacles in their chaotic 4-3 LaLiga win over Getafe on Saturday.
The two teams played out an especially remarkable first half, which included six goals and a missed penalty by Luis Suarez.
Atletico were initially 2-0 up but then found themselves 3-2 down, with Borja Mayoral and a pair of Enes Unal penalties doing the damage.
Angel Correa got his second of the day just before the break to level the score, but Atletico received another blow when Felipe was sent off for a high and wild challenge on Mauro Arambarri.
The drama did not end there, however. Just when Atletico looked happy to play out for a draw, three substitutes linked up.
Rodrigo De Paul s deep free-k…
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is willing to pay £70 million for Brighton and Hove Albion midfielder Alexis Mac Allister in the summer transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that Liverpool are among the clubs who are keen on the Argentina international midfielder, and that Klopp personally wants to bring him to Anfield.
Mac Allister has been on the books of the Seagulls since 2019 and came to the fore this season when he helped Argentina win the 2022 Qatar World Cup finals. The 24-year-old has made 25 starts and one substitute appearance in the Premier League for Brighton so far this season, scoring eight goals and providing one assist in the process.
Liverpool are eighth in the Premier League table at the moment with 44 points from 29 matches, as many…
Jurgen Klopp says Mohamed Salah s PFA Players Player of the Year award was well-deserved after another fantastic season from the forward.
Liverpool fell just short in the Premier League title race with Manchester City, missing out by a point, but Salah edged out Kevin De Bruyne for another individual accolade on Thursday.
The Egypt international scored 23 top-flight goals to share the Premier League Golden Boot with Son Heung-min, while also claiming the Playmaker of the Season award for most assists.
Salah added the Premier League Goal of the Season trophy to his haul, alongside the FWA, PFA Fans Player of the Year and PFA Players Player of the Year awards.
No player in the Premier League could match the Liverpool talisman s 36 goal involvements (23 goa…
Thomas Tuchel is not putting any pressure on Romelu Lukaku as the Chelsea striker continues his recovery from injury.
Lukaku has been absent since sustaining an ankle problem in Chelsea s 4-0 win over Malmo in the Champions League on October 20.
The 28-year-old has subsequently missed five Chelsea games, along with Belgium s World Cup qualifiers against Estonia and Wales.
Chelsea have also been without Lukaku s fellow forward Timo Werner, who suffered a thigh injury in the same game.
Tuchel s team managed three victories without their strikers, though they needed a penalty shoot-out to get past Southampton in the EFL Cup before being held to a 1-1 home draw by Burnley before the international break.
Leicester City, who beat Chelsea in the FA Cup f…
With Liverpool looking to extend on their Premier League title charge in midweek, we have a pair of heavyweight showdowns on the cards.
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19:30 Liverpool vs Sheffield United
With Jurgen Kloop shockingly announcing his Anfield retirement plans back in January, Liverpool are desperate to make real history this season. With the German tactician looking to sign off his nine-year stay in the red half of Merseyside with a second Premier League crown, the mood in Klopp’s camp appears to be at a …
Nuno Espirito Santo has called for the Premier League to provide clarity as Nottingham Forest wait on their appeal against a four-point deduction for breaching profit and sustainability rules, describing the situation as a mess .
Forest were deducted four points in March after being found to have breached the competition s financial rules in the assessment period culminating in the end of the 2022-23 season.
Everton have also had a total of eight points deducted for two separate breaches, but with the Toffees pulling clear of the relegation zone, it is Forest who are looking over their shoulders.
Nuno s team sit just one point clear of 18th-placed Luton Town as they await the outcome of an appeal against their penalty, and he says the lack of clarity is affecting…
Harry Kane is dreaming of exorcising the ghosts of England’s Euro 2020 heartbreak at Wembley by leading them to Euro 2028 glory on home soil.
The UK and Ireland’s bid to host the next-but-one European Championship was formally approved on Tuesday, meaning England will get another shot at glory in front of their own fans, seven years after they were a penalty shootout away from winning at Wembley.
Kane will be 34 by then and in the twilight of his career, but is planning on still being around and wants to make amends for that despair against Italy two years ago.
Asked whether England had unfinished business in a home tournament, he replied: “I think so, we were so close to doing something really magical in the last Euros.
“That’s football, it did…
Villarreal 1-1 Manchester United (11-10 on pens): De Gea´s missed spot-kick gives Yellow Submarine f
David de Gea missed the only penalty of a marathon shootout as Villarreal won the Europa League with victory over Manchester United at Gdansk Stadium.
Gerard Moreno opened the scoring in the first half of a poor final in Poland on Wednesday to move level with Giuseppe Rossi as the Yellow Submarine s leading all-time goalscorer with 82 30 of which have come this season.
Edinson Cavani equalised early in the second half with his sixth goal in five Europa League games for United and the two sides remained level at 1-1 after extra time.
There had been an astonishing 21 successful spot-kicks until United goalkeeper De Gea s tame effort was kept out by his opposite number Geronimo Rulli, with Villarreal winning the shootout 11-10.
Villarreal go into the Champio…
Bayer Leverkusen managed to keep their unbeaten run going in a dramatic way as they returned from two goals down at home against AS Roma and booked a place in the Europa League final, thanks to their 2-0 victory in Rome in the first leg of the semifinals.
Leandro Paredes scored twice from the spot (43 , 66 ) to nullify Leverkusen s first-lg lead, but an own-goal from Gianluca Mancini (82 ) and a very late strike from Josip Stanisic (90+7 ) rescued Xabi Alonso s side from losing a game for the first time in 2023/24.
The teams
Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso perhaps surprisingly decided to rotate his side to an extent, apparently confident of his team not having too many difficulties in keeping their advantage from the first leg. Florian Wirtz and Robert Andrich, the two go…