Robin van Persie has hinted that may have to leave Manchester United as he seeks regular first team football, .

The Netherlands international hit just ten Premier League goals last season – by far his lowest return in his last five seasons in the English top flight.

Entering the final year of his contract, the 31 year old has previously been linked with a move to Champions League finalists Juventus, and there will be no shortage of potential suitors should he decide to move on.

Since arriving in England, Van Perise has hit one hundred and forty-four Premier League goals, leaving him tenth on the list of the top scorers in the division’s history, and won the Golden Boot in both 2012 and 2013.

Internationally, the former Arsenal man has forty-nine …

AC Milan head coach Marco Giampaolo is under significant pressure after his side lost their fourth game in six Serie A matches this season, marking their worst start to a campaign in 81 years.

The last time a Rossoneri side lost four of their first six games of a Serie A season was in 1938-39, and the only previous occasion it occurred was in 1930-31.

Anything other than a victory at Genoa on Saturday could prompt the club s directors to call time on Giampaolo s tenure after just seven league games in charge, with the club 16th in the table as they head to Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris.

Giampaolo replaced Gennaro Gattuso as head coach at San Siro after the club finished fifth in Serie A in 2018-19, narrowly missing out on a place in this season s Champions Leagu…

Tottenham goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini on Tuesday signed a one-year contract extension with the English Premier League club.

Cudicini, 36, has been sidelined since November after surgery on his right wrist and pelvis following a motorbike accident, but the Italian is back in training and has been rewarded with a new deal.

Tottenham s head of medical services Wayne Diesel told the club s website: We are delighted at how well Carlo has progressed. He has shown a great deal of self-discipline and motivation to come back from this.

Former Chelsea keeper Cudicini, who moved to White Hart Lane in January 2009, made seven appearances this season before the injury, but had to watch from the stands as Harry Redknapp s team qualified for the Champions League after finishing…

West Ham United will attempt to wrap up a season-long loan deal from Chelsea, .

The twenty-four year old moved to Stamford Bridge from Wigan Athletic in the summer of 2012, but has spent the majority of his time since out on loan in spells with Liverpool and Stoke City.

In forty-four appearances in all competitions for the Blues, the Nigeria international has scored ten goals though his last league game for the club came in a 2-1 victory over Everton in the final game of the 2012/13 campaign.

Moses has been capped twenty-four times for his country, scoring seven goals and was part of their squad for last summer’s World Cup finals.

West Ham secured a shock 3-0 win at Liverpool on Saturday afternoon – a result which has seen them rise to eighth pla…

Harry Kane insists Tottenham can prove Virgil van Dijk and Liverpool are fallible when last season s Champions League finalists renew their rivalry on Sunday.

Kane will spearhead the attack at Anfield in his side s first shot at exacting a measure of revenge for June s 2-0 defeat in Madrid.

Reds defender Van Dijk had the striker s measure in that match and kept the England captain goalless in a Nations League win for Netherlands less than a week later.

But the star centre-back and his six fellow Ballon d Or nominees do not intimidate Tottenham s talisman, even though they have won eight and drawn one of their nine Premier League games this season and are unbeaten in the top flight since January.

Van Dijk is a great defender but he s not ­invincible an…

Nuno Espirito Santo cut a relieved figure after seeing Tottenham end their losing streak by beating Aston Villa 2-1 in the Premier League on Sunday, the Portuguese coach thrilled with the team s character.

Spurs went into the match having lost three on the bounce in the top flight and another defeat would have seen them hit a 17-year low.

Unsurprisingly, Nuno s future has been called into question lately as a result of their struggles, with Spurs performances largely underwhelming even when they have won.

Prior to the weekend, Spurs 56 shots in the Premier League was the lowest of all clubs, yet they managed 17 against Villa, the most Tottenham have attempted in a single game this term.

Nuno will be able to rest a little easier over the international brea…

(GSM) Turkish giants Galatasaray have signed Wolfsburg midfielder Zvjezdan Misimovi? on a four-year deal.

The Bosnian playmaker had been deemed was surplus to the requirements of the Bundesliga club following the signing of Diego from Juventus.

The 28-year-old, who had joined Wolfsburg in 2007, was a key part of their Bundesliga triumph in 2008. In total, he scored 17 goals in 65 Bundesliga matches.

Misimovic is leaving and transferring to Galatasaray with immediate effect, Wolfsburg said in a statement.

We thank him for his performances and wish him success, Wolfsburg manager Dieter Hoeness said.

Misimovi? is joined at Gala by Liverpool left-back Emiliano Insua, who has moved to the Turkish club on a season-long loan deal.

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Diego Simeone feels Atletico Madrid will be up against the best team in the world when they take on Barcelona in the Champions League quarter-finals.

The two La Liga rivals will meet in the last eight after Friday s draw in Nyon produced a repeat of the 2013-14 tie at the same stage, which Atletico won 2-1 on aggregate.

Simeone, though, warned Barca have improved substantially since that encounter, but still spoke of his excitement ahead of the two-legged clash.

We have seen the draw and they are an important rival, the best in the world, surely, he said.

I m really excited about it. What better incentive for us than to play against the best team in the world?

But right now we are thinking of the Sporting [Gijon] game [on Saturday].

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Pep Guardiola was reluctant to identify his and Jose Mourinho s different approaches to life in Manchester as a reason behind their contrasting records at City and United.

Mourinho was sacked by United on Tuesday, ending an 895-day stay at the Lowry Hotel – the five-star residence that was the Portuguese home throughout his Old Trafford tenure.

The former Chelsea boss family remained in their London home, while Guardiola s wife and children live alongside him in an apartment in the City Suites complex a short walk from the Lowry.

The 47-year-old also teamed up with chef Paco Perez to open Catalan restaurant Tast in the city and claimed in an interview with the BBC in October that he will be a Mancunian for the rest of my life .

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With the 2023 Nations League trophy up for grabs on Sunday night, Croatia and Spain will meet at the De Kuip in Rotterdam this weekend.

Croatia

Starting with Croatia, putting in another stunning display earlier in the week as they eventually snatched an action-packed 4-2 victory against the Netherlands in Rotterdam, Croatia have only continued on their history-making flurry. Clinching a famous World Cup bronze medal finish out in Qatar over the winter and only continuing to gain a string of plaudits from across the footballing globe, Zlatko Dalic s side now have their sights firmly set on lifting a first piece of international silverware on Sunday night. Cementing their spot as one of Europe’s elite over the past five years, the Bl…