Barcelona are interested in signing Julian Alvarez from Manchester City in the summer transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that the Argentina international striker is not happy with his current playing time at the defending Premier League champions, and that former La Liga and UEFA Champions League winners Barcelona want to bring him to Camp Nou.
City have offered Alvarez a new five-year contract with a better salary, but it is not clear if the 23-year-old will sign him. The young striker linked up with City in the summer of 2022 after spending the second half of last season on loan at River Plate. Alvarez won the 2022 Qatar World Cup with Argentina, but he is playing second fiddle to Norway international striker Erling Haaland at City.
Alvarez has mad…
Manchester City picked up from where they left off before the international break with a 3-0 win over Everton to move back into second place in the Premier League.
Pep Guardiola s side strolled to a 2-0 victory over Manchester United two weeks ago and were just as comfortable in Sunday s contest at the Etihad Stadium.
Raheem Sterling, making his 300th appearance in the English top flight, linked up with Joao Cancelo to fire City ahead after earlier having a penalty awarded and overruled.
Rodri scored an equally impressive goal from long range and Bernardo Silva then capped a win that moves City, who handed a full league debut to Cole Palmer, above Liverpool and within three points of leaders Chelsea.
Ilkay Gundogan looped a header on top of the crossbar …
Sarina Wiegman said England had made life difficult for themselves and been given a “hard lesson” after a 3-2 Nations League loss to Belgium in Leuven.
Having fallen behind to Laura De Neve’s early free-kick and then seen defender Alex Greenwood carried off on a stretcher, the Lionesses turned things around to lead via goals from Lucy Bronze in the 38th minute and Fran Kirby in the 44th.
But Belgium captain Tessa Wullaert equalised in first-half stoppage time before notching the winner with an 85th-minute penalty awarded for a Georgia Stanway handball as England slipped to third in Group A1 with two games to play.
Defeat in Belgium.
— Lionesses (@Lionesses)
Boss Wiegman, whose side had beaten the Belgians 1-0 in Leicester last Friday, to…
Dominic Calvert-Lewin s stunning start to the 2020-21 campaign has earned the Everton and England striker the Premier League s Player of the Month award for September.
The 23-year-old scored five times to help propel Carlo Ancelotti s side to the top of the table, with his exploits leading to an England debut on Thursday in which he promptly opened his account on the international stage.
Calvert-Lewin headed the opening goal in the Three Lions 3-0 victory over Wales at Wembley as his fine form continued.
His haul for Everton, which he added to with an effort against Brighton and Hove Albion this month, includes a hat-trick in the 5-2 thrashing of West Brom.
Introducing your September Player of the Month…
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West Ham United are preparing a third bid for Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter, according to the Express.
The East London outfit made two approaches for the Republic of Ireland international in January, with the latest of those bids in the region of £8m.
They were rejected by the south cost club, though the Hammers are set to bid £10m as they look to finally get their man.
Arter has started just eleven league games for Eddie Howe’s side so far this season having missed just three games in the 2016/17 campaign.
In total, he has racked up two hundred and fifty-five appearances in all competitions since signing from non-league Woking in the summer of 2010, scoring twenty-nine goals.
He was part of the squad that achieved promotion from t…
Liverpool are reportedly set to receive a total of £17 million for the services of Marko Grujic and Taiwo Awoniyi.
As reported by Neil Jones of , the Merseysiders have agreed to sell Grujic to FC Porto for £10.5m. The Serbian midfielder was the club s first signing under Jurgen Klopp as the manager back in January 2016, but he hasn t been able to earn a spot in the squad since. He returned to Red Star Belgrade on loan straight away and later had temporary spells with Cardiff City, Hertha Berlin and Porto. The 25-year-old will now join the latter on a permanent deal, despite reported interest from Germany and Italy.
Meanwhile, Awoniyi became a Liverpool player six months before Grujic, arriving from the Imperial Academy in Nigeria. However, he struggled for a long time…
According to a recent report from Sport, Monaco, Nice and Besiktas are all interested in trying to sign Samuel Umtiti on loan from Barcelona.
Umtiti has been part of the furniture at the Nou Camp since 2016 but now, it appears as if the French international is destined to make his departure from the club sooner rather than later.
Barcelona, in the eyes of many, are in the midst of something resembling a crisis with nobody really knowing what s going to come next for them. Lionel Messi s transfer to Paris Saint-Germain was always going to hit them hard but it really does seem to have created a ripple effect that ll take quite some time to get over.
Umtiti isn t nearly as big of a piece of the puzzle as the Argentine, but his exit will almost certainly raise furth…
Romelu Lukaku believes the decision to keep Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as full-time manager has been decided after Manchester United s incredible Champions League comeback against Paris Saint-Germain.
United overturned a 2-0 first-leg deficit to reach the quarter-finals on away goals thanks to Wednesday s dramatic 3-1 victory over PSG in Paris.
Marcus Rashford s 94th-minute penalty saw United become the first Champions League team to progress having lost by two or more goals at home in the first leg of a knockout tie.
United s comeback only further enhanced Solskjaer s chances of permanently replacing Jose Mourinho – the Norwegian with just one defeat to his name in all competitions since arriving on a caretaker basis in December.
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Premier League Fantasy Picks: Young talents offer goal threat, risky goalkeeper choice could be shre
By now, you probably all get it: Trent Alexander-Arnold, Kevin De Bruyne and Mohamed Salah are pretty good at kicking a football.
So, for this week s fantasy picks, Stats Perform has looked at the Opta numbers behind some players who may not offer quite the same points guarantee as the superstars, but are cheaper and nowhere near as popular.
If everyone picks the exact same players, fantasy football managers will pick up similar points – why not take a punt on some of these?
NICK POPE (Brighton and Hove Albion v Burnley)
Burnley may be mired in a relegation battle, but goalkeeper Nick Pope has looked sharp so far in 2022.
The England international has kept two clean sheets, bettered only by Alisson and Ederson, and prevented more goals than anyo…
Mohamed Salah is unhappy at Liverpool and the Premier League giants are considering selling the star, according to his former Egypt team-mate Mohamed Aboutrika.
Salah, who has starred since arriving at Anfield in 2017, refused to rule out a move to Real Madrid or Barcelona during a recent interview with AS.
The forward also said he was disappointed not to be made captain for Liverpool s Champions League clash against Midtjylland earlier this month.
Aboutrika, who played 100 games for Egypt, said Salah was unhappy at Liverpool.
I called Salah about his situation in Liverpool and he is upset, but that would never affect his performance on the field, he told beIN SPORTS.
I know that Salah is not happy in Liverpool, he told me the reasons why he is …