Ajax head coach Erik ten Hag said he is ready to coach abroad and would be happy to take up that challenge amid reported interest from Manchester United.
Ten Hag has been linked with Premier League giants United, who are eyeing a long-term manager following the interim appointment of Ralf Rangnick until the end of the season.
Ajax s Ten Hag has impressed in his time in Amsterdam, where the 51-year-old has delivered two Eredivisie titles and embarked on a memorable run to the 2018-19 Champions League semi-finals.
Ten Hag s men have been the entertainers of Europe this term, dazzling their way into the Champions League round of 16, while topping the Eredivisie ahead of rivals PSV by a point.
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Mikel Arteta insists Arsenal thought long and hard about sending Joe Willock out for his fruitful loan stint at Newcastle United.
Willock is ineligible to face his parent club when Newcastle host the Gunners at St James Park on Sunday.
That in itself surely stands as a boost to Arteta, given Willock has come off the bench to score in each of Newcastle s past three Premier League games – strikes worth a total of four points to Steve Bruce s team, who are now nine points clear of the relegation zone with five matches remaining.
Willock is the first player to score on three consecutive substitute appearances in England s top flight since Adam Le Fondre did so for Reading in 2013.
Although his development is a boon to Arteta and others in north London, it i…
One of the major perks of football as a sport is how it can sometimes be completely unpredictable. It s always easy to believe after a match that its result could ve been guessed for this reason or that, but in reality, not many are capable of guessing when exactly an off-form team would get into its stride and start winning. And it s even more difficult to predict that happening against a team which appears already there.
Be that as it may, RB Leipzig smashed Borussia Dortmund by 3-0, with two Hungary internationals, Willi Orban and Dominik Szoboszlai scoring in the 6th and 45th minute, respectively, and Amadou Haidara finishing off a swift counterattack in the 84th to make it three.
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Both teams were deployed in the 4-2-3-1 shape. For Leipzig, …
Lionel Messi showed against Nice he has the quality to become the world s best player again, according to Paris Saint-Germain boss Christophe Galtier.
The Argentina international opened the scoring in PSG s 2-1 Ligue 1 win at Parc des Princes on Saturday with a lofted free-kick from 22 yards that he had won himself.
That was Messi s first direct free-kick goal for PSG since joining from Barcelona in August 2021 and the 60th of his career overall for club and country.
On the back of an underwhelming first campaign in the French capital, Messi has five goals and seven assists in his first nine Ligue 1 outings this season.
And after registering a goal in successive league games for the first time as a PSG player, Galtier has backed the seven-time Ballon d Or…
Aston Villa are interested in signing James McCarthy from Premier League rivals Crystal Palace in the summer transfer window, according to . It has been reported that Villa want to secure the services of the 29-year-old central midfielder in a £5 million move.
The Republic of Ireland international central midfielder is out of contract at Palace in the summer of 2019, and the Villans reportedly want to snap him up on the cheap. Villa believe that McCarthy will add much-needed Premier League experience to their squad, with the Villans having narrowly escaped the dreaded drop to the Championship at the end of the past season.
McCarthy started his professional club football career at Hamilton Academical in Scotland before he made the move to Wigan Athletic in 2009. The 29-…
Mary Earps will seek answers from Manchester United regarding the club s direction before making a decision on her future, saying she has felt like a punching bag this season.
Earps contract with the Women s FA Cup winners is set to expire in June, and there have been few signs of progress concerning a new deal.
Last year, United rejected a world-record bid for Earps, who starred as England won Euro 2022 and finished as runners-up at the 2023 World Cup.
Arsenal, Paris Saint-Germain and other clubs have been linked with Earps, and she is biding her time after enduring a difficult campaign in which her commitment to United was called into question.
The honest reality is that conversations are still ongoing, Earps told Sky Sports on Tuesday. I ve been clear…
Cristiano Ronaldo was nursing an ankle problem and could not continue as Juventus were denied victory by a last-gasp Felipe Caicedo goal in a 1-1 draw at Lazio, Andrea Pirlo said.
Portugal star Ronaldo opened the scoring after 15 minutes at Stadio Olimpico to net in his first four league games of a season for just the third time, having also done so in the 2009-10 and 2014-15 seasons.
With 27 goals to his name in 2020, no player in the top-five European leagues has more in the calendar year, but his withdrawal with 14 minutes of Sunday s clash ultimately proved a pivotal moment.
Explaining why Ronaldo, who did appear to hobble as he sat on the bench, was taken off, Juve coach Pirlo told DAZN: Ronaldo is a key player not only for us but for all the teams where he …
Cristiano Ronaldo made European Championship history on two fronts as Portugal staged a late show to begin their campaign with a 3-0 win over Hungary.
Also pitted against world champions France and Germany in the toughest group of the tournament, hitting the ground was viewed as key for Fernando Santos side.
It looked as if they would fail to do that in front of over 60,000 fans in Budapest, but Raphael Guerreiro s deflected strike finally gave them the lead six minutes from time.
And then Ronaldo – who became the first man to play in five different Euros – took centre stage as he broke the tournament goalscoring record with his 10th goal in the competition proper, emphatically dispatching a penalty after Willi Orban had brought down Rafa Silva.
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According to Fabrizio Romano, Genoa have contacted Tottenham Hotspur and opened the talks regarding a possible permanent transfer of Djed Spence.
Having represented Fulham and Middlesbrough at youth levels, Spence joined Spurs in 2022 and later had loan spells with Stade Rennais and Leeds United. He was sent to Genoa for another temporary spell in January this year, and he has obviously impressed enough as his team became the most successful among the newly promoted sides in Europe s top five leagues in 2023/24, finishing 11th in the Serie A rankings.
Playing primarily on the right defensive flank, the 23-year-old can also do a job on the left. He represented Genoa in 16 Serie A games.
The talks between Genoa and Spurs over his transfer are ongoing at this point…
Oscar Tabarez has been sacked as Uruguay coach, ending his 15-year reign at the helm of the national team.
The 74-year-old returned for his second spell in charge of Uruguay in 2006 – having also been in the role between 1988-1990 – after La Celeste s failure to reach the World Cup that year.
He led them to fourth place at the 2010 World Cup and presided over success in the 2011 Copa America.
However, after losing their past four games in World Cup 2022 qualifying, including a 3-0 defeat in Bolivia on Tuesday, Tabarez has been dismissed with Uruguay sitting in seventh place with four wins from their 14 games (D4 L6).
With four games remaining, they are just one point off Colombia in the fourth and final automatic qualification spot, but the Uruguayan…