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…
The Metro understands that it was Roma who pulled the plug on Edin Dzeko’s proposed move to Chelsea in the winter transfer window.
The soon-to-be dethroned Premier League champions were linked with a move for the Bosnia and Herzegovina international in January during their pursuit of a new forward, eventually securing a deal for Olivier Giroud.
Dzeko was on their list of targets though the Serie A outfit pulled out of the deal despite having agreed a fee with the Blues.
The thirty-two year old moved to Roma initially on loan in the summer of 2015 and has since racked up one hundred and twenty-seven appearances in all competitions, scoring sixty-six goals a tally that includes twenty-nine in the league last season which saw him finish as top scorer.
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.
Parma coach Roberto Donadoni has released an official statement confirming he will remain with the club despite interest from elsewhere.
The 49-year-old has been linked with a switch to either Roma or Milan, with Parma recently confirming that the former had enquired about the possibility of securing his services.
However, Donadoni wants to stay at Parma in order to continue building on his side s 10th-placed Serie A finish last term, and has taken the step of releasing a statement on the club s official website to quell media speculation surrounding his future.
It read: I confirm once more so as to avoid any misunderstandings that I am staying at Parma.
I am happy here and fully in sync with president Tommaso Ghirardi and director Pietro Leonardi, while I have a contract for a…
Czech Republic international Frantisek Rajtoral has committed suicide at the age of 31, the country s football association has confirmed.
Midfielder Rajtoral made 19 appearances for the Super Lig side after completing a switch from Viktoria Plzen, where he won four Czech First League titles in eight seasons.
He made 14 appearances for the Czech Republic and was a member of their squad for Euro 2012, during which he played twice.
The Czech Republic Football Association confirmed the news in a statement in which it expressed its deepest condolences to all relatives .
Gaziantepspor president Levent Kizil was quoted by Sporx: Unfortunately I can confirm that the news of suicide is true.
Saddened to hear of the death of Czech international Franti…
Real Madrid cannot afford a slip up in their trip to La Rosaleda to face Malaga on Sunday, with the distance to La Liga leaders Barcelona in danger of becoming insurmountable.
Barca extended their lead at the summit to six points with a 3-1 win at Sporting Gijon on Wednesday, a game delayed due to their participation in the Club World Cup in December.
Madrid are seven points adrift of the defending champions in third position, but the gap could reach double figures with the Catalan giants taking on Las Palmas on Saturday.
Subsequently, Zinedine Zidane s side need to take maximum points regardless of the result achieved by Luis Enrique s team in order to boost their chances of denting Barca s bid for a second successive title.
History is on Madrid s …
Hatem Ben Arfa and Grzegorz Krychowiak are facing a close season full of uncertainty at Paris Saint-Germain after being left out of the matchday squad for the dethroned Ligue 1 champions final game at the Parc des Princes.
The former France winger and Poland midfielder have played bit-part roles at PSG in 2016-17 despite it being their first seasons at the club.
Ben Arfa has made 32 appearances in all competitions, the majority off the bench, 13 more than Krychowiak, who was a key player under Emery at Sevilla last term.
Both have been linked with a move at season s end and Emery has done little to quell the speculation ahead of Sunday s game with Caen with Ben Arfa left out and Krychowiak sent to play for the reserves.
He told reporters: Ben Arfa is not …