Feyenoord are weighing up a summer bid for AZ Alkmaar winger Roy Beerens, .
The De Kuip outfit could stay without star player Ruben Schaken in the summer and they see the AZ midfielder as a very good replacement.
New Feyenoord boss Fred Rutten is well aware of Beerens qualities having coached him at PSV Eindhoven and he is determined to lure him to De Kuip.
And with his current deal at AZ Alkmaar due to expire in just over a year, Beerens should be available on a cut-price deal.
Roy Beerens came through the youth ranks at PSV Eindhoven, but it was at Heerenveen that he made a name for himself.
The 26-year-old spend four very successful years with the Frisians before joining AZ Alkmaar, where he scored a total of 13 goals in 92 Eredivisie appearan…
Stoke City will hope to extend their unbeaten streak to 10 games when they host Southampton ahead of a tough period for the home team.
Forward pair Jonathan Walters and Kenwyne Jones will head into the clash with Southampton with plenty of confidence after they almost single-handedly destroyed Liverpool 3-1 on Boxing Day.
Walters scored twice, with the second set up by Jones, while the Trinidad and Tobago international striker knocked in Stoke s other goal as Tony Pulis team picked up their fifth win in their nine-match unbeaten streak.
Stoke have moved up to eighth in the English Premier League but with games against Manchester City, Chelsea, Swansea to come after the visit of Southampton, a win on Saturday will be crucial to stay as high on the table as possib…
Manchester City assistant manager David Platt admits the club are concerned by captain Vincent Kompany s persistent calf problems.
The centre-back is set to miss the trip to face Queens Park Rangers on Tuesday after suffering a fresh injury blow and is expected to be absent for three weeks.
Platt feels City must get to the bottom of the issue to avoid being forced to cope without their skipper in the future.
It is a concern that it s not a fresh injury, he told reporters.
The calf is the strangest muscle there is probably more recurring issues with it than with hamstrings, groins and things like that.
And it has happened on a couple of occasions but the concern is to make sure we clear up the problem.
Kompany, who has made 198 appeara…
West Bromwich Albion are set to make a fresh bid for Leicester City’s Jeffrey Schlupp,.
The Baggies made a £9m approach for the Ghana international, who made twenty-four appearances in the Foxes’ Premier League winning 2015/16 campaign and scored in the 2-1 win over Norwich City last October.
However, he only started fourteen games and West Brom boss Tony Pulis is ready to offer him a more regular role.
Aside from a brief, yet impressive loan spell with Brentford in 2011, Schlupp has spent his entire career so far with Leicester.
In ten games for the Bees, he scored six times while he has racked up one hundred and forty-one games for his parent club, scoring fifteen goals.
He has been capped thirteen times with his one and only inter…
Carlos Tevez says he has played his last game for Boca Juniors as the striker has nothing more to give his boyhood club.
Tevez returned for a third spell with Boca in 2018 and helped the famous club win the Argentinian Primera Division title last year.
There were reports that Tevez, who was rocked by the death of his father in February, would retire on Friday but the 37-year-old revealed he was leaving Boca rather than calling time on his career.
The former Argentina international, who made his Boca debut aged 16, said: I thought this moment would never come, but here I am. It will be very difficult to speak to them [Boca fans], but here I am to tell them that I will not continue at the club.
It is not a farewell, but a see you soon, because I will al…
Gareth Bale has not run out of credit at Real Madrid and just needs to be looked after by the club following his injury issues, according to Alvaro Arbeloa.
The Welshman s future at the Santiago Bernabeu appears uncertain after enduring another stop-start season, with reports in the Spanish media suggesting the club could be ready to sell the player in the next transfer window.
Bale, who has twice suffered calf problems this season, has found first-team opportunities hard to come by under head coach Zinedine Zidane since his return to action last month.
Isco was preferred for the first leg of Madrid s crucial Champions League last-16 tie against Paris Saint-Germain, and while Bale did start the 5-3 win over Real Betis last weekend, he was back on the bench for We…
Paris Saint-Germain are interested in signing Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona in the summer of 2022, according to . It has been reported by the Spanish news outlet that De Jong is unhappy at Barcelona, and that PSG are planning to make a move for the 24-year-old midfielder.
De Jong has been on the books of Barcelona since 2019 when he joined from Ajax. The Netherlands international midfielder has not been at his best and has failed to show the kind of form that he did at Ajax. Players such as Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi have left Barcelona, who recently sacked Ronald Koeman as their manager.
PSG signed a number of players in the summer transfer window, including Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos. De Jong would make Mauricio Pochettino’s side a better and stronger team in …
Bernardo Silva acknowledged the pressure on Portugal to qualify for the World Cup but assured his side can cope with the challenge of making Qatar.
Portugal overcame Turkey 3-1 in the play-off semi-final on Thursday, when Roberto Mancini s Italy crashed out to North Macedonia as Aleksandar Trajkovski scored a 92nd-minute winner in Palermo.
Fernando Santos side boast home advantage in the final at Porto s Dragao Stadium as the Euro 2016 winners aim to qualify for a sixth straight World Cup, having previously failed to appear at three consecutive tournaments between 1990 and 1998.
Manchester City star Silva insisted that Portugal players will call upon their club experiences to deal with the expectations on them against North Macedonia on Tuesday.
The re…
Southampton made Premier League history on Monday, as they became the first team to beat all seven winners of the competition in the season after they lifted the crown.
Ralph Hasenhuttl s men defeated Liverpool 1-0 at St Mary s, prevailing in the fixture for the first time since 2016 thanks to Danny Ings second-minute lob against his former club.
Southampton have now beaten Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City, Chelsea and Arsenal in the campaign following a title triumph.
Here is a look back at the matches that make up that run.
7 Southampton are the first team in Premier League history to beat all seven winners of the competition in the season following a title win. Jubilant.
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Gonzalo Pineda remains confident things will turn for Atlanta United after nine MLS games without a victory, as the Five Stripes prepare to visit Inter Miami on Wednesday.
Atlanta sit 12th in the Eastern Conference, 21 points adrift of pacesetters Miami, after failing to win any of their last nine matches since the start of April (four draws, five defeats).
Sporting Kansas City (two) are the only team in MLS to earn fewer than the four points Atlanta have picked up in that span.
However, Pineda believes the fact Atlanta are still creating chances is a major positive, saying Thiago Almada s return to full fitness will surely lead to an upturn.
Speaking after Saturday s 1-0 defeat to Los Angeles FC, he said: I m very confident in the team, honestly.
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