Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert is set to open talks with Marc Albrighton over a new contract,.
The winger, who came through the ranks at Villa Park, signed his first professional contract in 2008 but has made just ninety-one first team appearances in those five-and-a-half years.
He was loaned to Championship side Wigan Atheltic earlier in the season, having spent much of the past two years out through injury.
Having made four appearances for the Latics, the 24 year old returned to his parent club, where he has racked up eleven outings in all competitions during this campaign.
The England U21 international will be hoping for a fourth Premier League start of the season as Villa travel to Cardiff City this evening.
Despite losing seven of t…
Real Madrid have reached an agreement to sign Palmeiras forward Endrick, with the 16-year-old sensation set to join the Champions League holders in July 2024.
Endrick scored three goals in seven appearances as Palmeiras won the Brazilian top flight in 2022, having become the first player born in 2006 to play a Brasileiro game in October.
The left-footed attacker cannot officially join a European side until he turns 18 in July 2024, but that has not stopped several of the continent s biggest clubs – including Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea – from being credited with an interest in him.
However, Madrid have won the race for Endrick s signature after reportedly offering €70million for his services, while it has been suggested he will sign an initial three-yea…
Roma will be expecting to extend their record-breaking start to the Serie A season when they take on bottom club Chievo on Thursday.
Rudi Garcia s side became the first in Serie A history to make it nine wins from their opening nine fixtures when they overcame a Maicon red card to pick up a 1-0 victory at Udinese on Sunday, and they will be heavy favourites for the visit of Chievo, who have just one win to their name so far.
The strugglers have only ever beaten Roma on three previous occasions, but encouragingly for this week s visitors to the Stadio Olimpico two of those came last season as they won 1-0 both home and away.
With Roma five points clear of closest rivals Napoli, their position at the top of the league is under no threat, though the chasing pack will be k…
The Ballon d Or voting process will undergo a number of reforms ahead of the next ceremony, it was announced on Friday.
France Football editor-in-chief Pascal Ferre confirmed in L Equipe there will be a number of changes, with the most notable being an alignment with the European club season, as opposed to the traditional calendar year awards.
While there was little debate regarding Alexia Putellas win in the Ballon d Or Femenin, Lionel Messi controversially won for a record seventh time in 2021, ahead of Robert Lewandowski and Mohamed Salah.
Messi s performances with Argentina in their Copa America triumph propelled him to that win, despite – in the eyes of many voters – Lewandowski and Salah having stronger years on the whole.
As a result of th…
Opening their Champions League adventure with plenty of pressure on their shoulders, Manchester United slumped to an action-packed 4-3 defeat away at Bayern Munich on Wednesday night.
While Erik ten Hag’s side might have started brightly at the Allianz, the Red Devils entered the half-time break 2-0 down as Leroy Sane and ex-Arsenal star Serge Gnabry bagged a quickfire brace.
Although big-money summer arrival Rasmus Hojlund might have bagged his first United goal just four minutes after returning from the interval, the midweek guests almost immediately came crashing back down to earth as the red-hot Harry Kane converted from the penalty spot just seconds later.
Despite it appearing that the German giants were cruising towards a major opening week statement in …
Massimiliano Allegri believes Juventus improvement in recent weeks is simply down to greater familiarity and understanding between himself and the players.
Allegri returned to Juve last May after two years away, with Maurizio Sarri and Andrea Pirlo each spending a season at the helm during the intervening campaigns.
The experiment with Pirlo proved particularly ill-judged, while Sarri was shown the door despite guiding Juve to the title – his successor presided over a fourth-placed finish as the Bianconeri s Scudetto streak ended at nine.
Allegri s return did not usher in an immediate change in fortunes, with Juve taking just two points from their first four Serie A matches. That was their worst start to a season in 60 years and left them in the bottom three.…
David Luiz hopes to win the Premier League for the first time with Chelsea after re-joining the club in a surprise transfer deadline day move.
The Brazil international signed for the Blues from Benfica in January 2011, moving to Paris Saint-Germain in 2014.
The 29-year-old was lured back to west London on August 31 in an unexpected swoop by Antonio Conte s team.
A Champions League, Europa League and FA Cup winner during his first spell at Stamford Bridge, David Luiz wants to add the Premier League to his Primeira Liga and Ligue 1 titles.
It is time to do it, he told the Chelsea website.
And I hope it will be this year. I am working hard for that and this is our goal this season. We don t have the Champions League to fight for so for sure we wil…
Damien Duff s Fulham career could be over after a knee injury ended his season.
The veteran midfielder – who turned 35 last Sunday is out of contract in June and looks set to take no further part in the club s battle to remain in the Premier League.
Duff has made 173 appearances for Fulham since joining from Newcastle United in 2009, the most he has played for one club during a career that also included spells at Blackburn Rovers and Chelsea.
We have to expect that he will not play this season anymore, said Fulham manager Felix Magath.
The loss of a creative player like Duff is an undoubted blow to Fulham s chances of staving off the threat the relegation.
Magath s men prop up the rest of the Premier League and have the chance to leapfrog over Cardiff Cit…
Maribor make their first outing in the UEFA Champions League group stage for 15 years at home to Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday.
While it may seem premature to label a fixture as must-win at this early stage in the competition, it would be difficult to argue against that being the case for the Slovenian champions if they have designs on making the knockout stages.
As the team with the lowest UEFA coefficient in Group G, a home tie against the third-ranked outfit represents perhaps Maribor s best chance of picking up valuable points in a pool that also contains Chelsea and Schalke.
But Portugal-born striker Luka Zahovic, who has scored five goals in as many league matches this season, claims that he feels part of Maribor s golden generation.
Last season, I …
Borussia Dortmund plan to step up talks with Marco Reus over a new contract, according to sporting director Michael Zorc.
The Germany international has 18 months remaining on his deal at Signal Iduna Park and has yet to agree to an extension.
Reus only returned from a cruciate ligament injury in February and has scored twice in his last two Bundesliga appearances, against Borussia Monchengladbach and Augsburg.
Zorc says the 28-year-old did not want to discuss new terms while he recovered but now expects negotiations to pick up pace.
We totally understood that Marco did not want to enter contract talks during his injury, he told Sport Bild. And, of course, we will now intensify the talks.
Reus, who moved to Dortmund from Gladbach in 2012, has bee…