Roma pulled plug on Dzeko deal to Chelsea

Chelsea s Brazilian midfielder Ramires says he would be more than willing to re-sign for former club Cruzeiro if given the opportunity.

Since arriving at Stamford Bridge two years ago, the Brazil international has become a key component of the Chelsea team, with his energetic and bustling nature an important characteristic in the club’s run to becoming Champions League winners last season.

Ramires played for Cruzeiro from 2007 until 2009 when he moved to Benfica for a fee of around 7.5 million euros, and is optimistic he will play for them once again, but admits money could be an issue for the Belo Horizonte-based club.

If Cruzeiro are interested, it s possible for me to go back, Ramires told Sportv.

Although it s not a decision I can make and diffic…

Vincent Kompany has been rewarded for captaining Manchester City to their first Premier League title with a six-year contract.

Goal.com exclusively revealed the 26-year-old a key figure under Roberto Mancini and scorer of the crucial winner against Manchester United late in the campaign would be offered a new long-term deal at the club.

Kompany said he felt as though the Blues project was also his own and the Belgian insisted he never dreamed of moving away from the Etihad Stadium.

For me if you are good somewhere then there is no reason to look elsewhere, he told the official City website on Thursday.

Man City as a project is not just a project of the owners or the people employed by the club; it is also my project.

I have been here since the…

Victor Moses is loving life at Chelsea again after being converted into a wing-back under Antonio Conte.

The Nigeria international joined Chelsea from Wigan in 2012, but failed to live up to the high expectations at Stamford Bridge as a winger.

He has been shipped out on loan to Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United over the course of the past three seasons, but was given a chance to prove his worth again following the arrival of Conte as the club s new manager.

Moses, 25, has impressed with a number of fine performances down the right and he is delighted with his new role.

I m feeling happy, I m feeling excited and right now I m looking forward to every game, Moses told Sky Sports.

I have not played there before but I have just got to liste…

United States coach Jurgen Klinsmann believes his team s wins over Netherlands and Germany in the past week will stand them in good stead for future World Cups.

Klinsmann s men stunned Germany 2-1 on Wednesday, ending their European tour with a perfect record, after they also surprised the Dutch 4-3 on Friday.

Having only won one knockout match at a World Cup since ending a 40-year hiatus at football s premier event in 1990, there has been a sense USA suffer from an inferiority complex when facing the world s best teams.

Klinsmann hopes that will not be the case anymore.

Results like this here and there give us confidence that we will win these games at a World Cup in the knockout stage, he said at his post-match media conference.

At last year s …

Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza has opted to snub Mauro Icardi for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers versus Chile and Bolivia.

Bauza recently travelled to Italy to hold talks with the Inter striker, fuelling speculation could make the cut for this month s internationals.

But Icardi made his senior debut for Argentina in October 2013, but has not featured for the national team since.

Lavezzi, meanwhile, remains part of Bauza s plans regardless of his underwhelming form for Hebei China Fortune.

The attacker has yet to find the net in an official game for the CSL side since joining the club from Paris Saint-Germain in February 2016.

E. Bauza dio a conocer la lista de convocados para los próximos partidos, ante y

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Barcelona are considering a move for Tottenham Hotspur defender Toby Alderweireld, according to the Daily Star.

Manchester United have also been linked with the Belgium international, who could be set to leave the North London outfit at the end of the season after contract talks stalled due to his demands.

His current deal isn’t set to expire until 2020 though he will be available for £25m in eighteen months time due to a clause in his contract.

Alderweireld signed for Spurs in the summer of 2015 following a season long with Southampton, where he first worked with manager Mauricio Pochettino.

Since then, he has racked up one hundred and eleven appearances in all competitions, scoring six goals.

Internationally he has been capped sixty-eig…

s Marcos Rojo has signed a new deal with the club. The contract should keep him at Old Trafford til 2021.

Rojo joined the Red Devils in 2014, and since then he has won an FA Cup, a League Cup, a Europa League trophy and a Charity Shield with them. that he is happy to extend his contract, that he came there to help them win trophies and that he s happy that the team has achieved that since his arrival.

The Argentine missed seven months of action starting in April 2017 with a cruciate knee ligament injury, and is being slowly reintroduced into the squad. He has not featured for Jose Mourinho s side since the start of February.

He thanked the fans and the manager for all the support and confidence he has been getting both on and off the pitch, and added that he i…

Bryan Gil has replaced Marcos Llorente in Spain s squad for the Nations League semi-final against Italy.

Atletico Madrid announced on Sunday that midfielder Llorente suffered a right thigh injury in their 2-0 LaLiga win over Barcelona on Saturday.

It is not clear how long he will be sidelined for but Llorente will play no part as Spain aim to get some small measure of revenge over European champions Italy, who beat them on penalties in the semi-finals of Euro 2020.

Instead, Tottenham winger Bryan will potentially get the chance to feature at San Siro on Wednesday.

Bryan has already won six caps for Spain during his international career and comes into Luis Enrique s squad despite a low-key start to his Spurs career.

Since joining Tottenham from S…

Ronald Koeman says he has his ideas for the future of Barcelona after Los Cules were once again linked with a move for Borussia Dortmund superstar Erling Haaland.

Barca are in a state of flux as they await to vote in a new president to replace Josep Maria Bartomeu and the club contending with spiralling and eye-watering levels of debt.

Despite their perilous financial position, Barca are among the clubs reportedly interested in signing Haaland, who saw his stock continue to rise with a double in Dortmund s 3-2 win over Sevilla in the Champions League last-16 first leg.

That made the Norway international the quickest player to reach double figures for goals in the competition for a single club, doing so in just seven matches three games fewer than Roy Makaay for B…

Dutch Eredivisie giants AFC Ajax Amsterdam have rubbished reports suggesting that they have agreed a deal to sell Denmark international midfielder Christian Eriksen to Liverpool this summer, .

Eriksen, 21, is considered to be one of the brightest talents in European football.

The 21-year-old playmaker, who has scored 12 goals for Ajax in 2012-13, will address his long-term at the end of the season after rejecting the chance to extend his current contract at the Amsterdam Arena, which expires in the summer of 2014.

Christian has informed us that he won t be signing a new deal with us at this time, Ajax technical directors Marc Overmars told Voetbal International. I think that he and his agent will want to see what options are available in the summer.