5:30 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Anthony Martial will “come good,” according to Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The French striker scored 23 goals in all competitions last season but has managed just five this term with only two coming in the Premier League. – Dawson: Examining Bruno Fernandes’ first year at Miami– Insider Notebook:
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4:46 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent It was after Bruno Fernandes‘ third game for Manchester United that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer knew he had made the right decision in bringing the midfielder to Old Trafford. – Ogden: De Gea’s mistakes dent title challenge– Report: Man United miss chance to go top While the rest of the squad
3:30 PM ET Sid LoweSpain writer Eric Garcia was “all tied up,” they said, but somehow he escaped. “Garcia: OK,” Barcelona said. “Garcia: now,” they said. “Garcia: done,” they said. A bit like they had said, “Neymar: OK,” “Neymar: now,” and “Neymar: done.” The Brazilian had been coming pretty much every day for months, right
8:57 AM ET New York Red Bulls defender Aaron Long has caught the attention of English Premier League giants Liverpool with an eye towards taking the defender on loan, multiple sources have told ESPN. Liverpool has been beset by injuries to their backline, with Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip all sidelined. Such
3:52 AM ET Marcus Rashford has been ordered to take extra finishing lessons at Manchester United — ESPN’s Insider Notebook has the latest. PLUS: The extent of Barcelona’s cash crisis. Jump to: Madrid must sell to fund Mbappe, Haaland moves | Barca cash crisis laid bare | Diallo set for Man United debut | Dzeko’s
8:06 AM ET Andrew Cesare Richardson AC Milan manager Stefano Pioli has defended striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic from accusations of racism following a clash with Inter Milan‘s Romelu Lukaku during the midweek Coppa Italia quarterfinal clash. The pair had to be separated after exchanging strong words on the pitch with both receiving bookings and Ibrahimovic was
3:00 AM ET What a difference a year makes. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, football clubs have taken some drastic steps to reduce their spending in the January transfer window, and, as a result, the big moves that drive interest in the game at this time of year are nowhere to be seen. At the time
3:28 PM ET Inter Miami CF re-signed veteran midfielder Federico Higuain to a new contract for 2021, the club said Thursday. Higuain, 36, appeared as a substitute in four matches with Miami last season after being traded from D.C. United on Oct. 10, 2020 for $50,000 in 2021 general allocation money. – Carlisle: Can Neville
3:26 PM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United and West Ham have reached an agreement in principle to loan Jesse Lingard, sources have told ESPN. West Ham have beaten competition from Newcastle, West Brom and Sheffield United to sign the 28-year-old England international until the end of the season. – Lingard, Pellistri loan exits on Man
5:54 PM ET Call off the search — Liverpool‘s front three are back. Jurgen Klopp had to wait more than a month for a Premier League as his misfiring forwards — Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane, and Mohamed Salah — endured a spell so lacklustre it led to genuine questions about their durability in defending the
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10:38 AM ET Thomas Tuchel has revealed Frank Lampard sent a personal message wishing him luck in succeeding him as Chelsea boss and admitted any fan backlash to his appointment could have a damaging effect on the team. The 47-year-old signed an initial 18-month contract to take charge at Stamford Bridge on Tuesday, 24 hours
10:05 AM ET Green’s reemergence in the German second division has prompted him and U.S. soccer fans to wonder: when will he rep the USMNT again? TF-Images/Getty Images Julian Green’s career began almost perfectly. Just weeks after his 19th birthday, he checked two huge items off of his career bucket list: (1) sign with Bayern Munich,
5:00 AM ET As with most aspects of daily life, the timing of everything in this season impacted by the pandemic is just a little bit off. Traditionally we hit the Bundesliga winter break right before Christmas, allowing us to reflect and take stock at the halfway stage, but in 2020-21, there are no such
3:30 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen Barcelona are in the midst of a crisis. With reports of €1.2 billion debt (€730m owed short-term); no president, sporting director or even a board to take decisions; star player Lionel Messi‘s future still unresolved despite his contract running out in the summer; and sitting 10 points behind La Liga
5:30 PM ET Jose Mourinho has urged officials to clamp down on Jurgen Klopp if necessary when Tottenham Hotspur host Liverpool in Thursday’s Premier League clash after reiterating his claim that other managers are shown more leniency for their touchline behaviour. The Spurs boss clashed with his Liverpool counterpart Klopp following the reverse fixture in
4:09 PM ET LONDON — The mitigating factor is that Thomas Tuchel had one training session. The bad news is that he isn’t going to get too many more before Chelsea play again, or in fact any sort of extended period to work on things for some time. Tuchel was initially reluctant to take the
6:35 PM ET It is an old truism that you can’t win a league title with an unreliable goalkeeper and David De Gea produced further evidence of that brutal reality as Manchester United‘s Premier League ambitions suffered a devastating blow with a 2-1 defeat against bottom club Sheffield United. The mistakes of one man are
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