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Gianfranco Zola has denied reports he will move to former club Chelsea next season as an assistant to proposed new coach Maurizio Sarri.
Incumbent Antonio Conte has regularly indicated he intends to see out his Blues contract, which runs to 2019, but a substandard Premier League title defence may deny the Italian the opportunity.
With Napoli flying high at the top of Serie A, outspoken coach Sarri has been tipped to succeed Conte at Stamford Bridge.
Reports in Italy have indicated Zola, who played for Chelsea between 1996 and 2003, winning two FA Cups, would return to west London as Sarri s assistant.
But Zola out of work since leaving Birmingham City in April 2017 denied he and Sarri have been approached about moving to Chelsea at the end of the season.…
Chelsea are lining up a move to bring Didier Drogba back to the club, .
The 36 year old is currently a free agent having spent the last eighteen months with Turkish giants Galatasary, and the Blues are leading the race to secure his services.
During his first spell with the club, the Ivory Coast international made three hundred and forty-one appearances in all competitions, scoring one hundred and fifty-seven goals on route to collecting a whole host of major honours.
His success culminated in the 2012 Champions League triumph in the Allianz Arena, where his penalty secured victory in the penalty shoot-out against Bayern Munich.
Should he return to Stamford Bridge, he is likely to do so as a player-coach and he could make his second Blues debut agai…
A fifth-successive win sent Omiya Ardija top of the J League on Friday, as they comfortably disposed of Kashiwa Reysol 4-0.
Last week s victory over local rival Urawa Reds was their 18th without defeat, a new J League record.
And the comprehensive victory in Kashiwa was enough for them to leapfrog Yokohama F Marinos, into top spot.
Omiya, who remain the only unbeaten side in the J League this season, started brightly against the 2011 champions.
And the positive start was rewarded in the 19th minute when Milivoje Novakovic tapped home to round off a swift counter attack.
The lead was doubled just before half time through Shohei Takahashi the 21-year-old poking in after a short corner found its way into the area.
Kashiwa Reysol have endured a mixed start to the campaign both dom…
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Looking to cause a real upset this weekend, a high-flying Southampton welcome Manchester City to St. Mary s on Saturday afternoon.
Southampton
Starting with the hosts, while Southampton would have been disappointed to have only picked up a point away at a 10-man Arsenal earlier in the week, the Saints have continued on a real Premier League romp this season. Although Ralph Hasenhüttl s men might have opened the 2020/2021 campaign with back-to-back defeats against Crystal Palace and Tottenham, the one-time RB Leipzig boss has seen his side bounce back in remarkable fashion. Now losing just one of their last 11 top-flight contests and with the mood in their camp likely to still be at a real high, fans around St. Mary s find their side …
Prediction: Barcelona to win 2-1
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Real Sociedad and Barcelona will face each other in La Liga this weekend. The match will be held at the Anoeta Stadium and is scheduled to kick off at 9pm UK time on Saturday.
Real Sociedad
Real Sociedad are sixth in the La Liga table at the moment with three points from one match. La Real kicked off their 2022-23 La Liga campaign with a 1-0 win against Cadiz away from home in the league. Takefusa Kubo scored the only goal of the match in the 24th minute.
Sociedad finished sixth in the La Liga table last season. For a while it looked like the Basque club would end up in the UEFA Champions League places, but eventually they could only clinch in a spot in the UEFA Europa League.
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Michael O Neill will call upon his experience of attempting to shackle Cristiano Ronaldo when Northern Ireland face Gareth Bale and Wales in the last-16 of Euro 2016.
Wales are favourites to progress from this Battle of Britain in Paris, largely down to the supreme capabilities of Bale the Real Madrid star having scored three goals in as many games on the way to securing top spot in Group B.
O Neill twice pitted his wits against Ronaldo during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, leaving Bale s club team-mate goalless on his 100th cap a 1-1 draw in Porto before being on the receiving end of a hat-trick in a 4-2 Belfast loss.
Gareth Bale s a huge player for Wales, he s shown that in the tournament already and he s shown that in qualification, O Neill told a pre-…
Steve Harper has called on Hull City s owners to hand Mike Phelan the manager s job on a permanent basis after their unbeaten start to the Premier League season.
Phelan took temporary control at the KCOM Stadium after Steve Bruce resigned three weeks before the start of the campaign due to frustrations at the lack of transfer activity at the club.
A host of names were linked with the role, including Gianfranco Zola and Belgium boss Roberto Martinez, however an appointment was not forthcoming, leaving Phelan – Bruce s assistant – to start the season in charge.
Goals from Adama Diomande and Robert Snodgrass gave Phelan a winning start as champions Leicester City were beaten 2-1 on the opening weekend, and the 53-year-old made it two from two with Saturday s 2-…
Arsenal in talks for Rabiot
French daily newspaper that Arsenal have established initial contact with Paris Saint-Germain for talented midfielder Adrien Rabiot.
The Gunners have been keeping close tabs on the 19-year-old for a while now, and they decided to act after AS Roma and Tottenham Hotspur made their moves.
Arsenal officials took advantage of yesterday s Champions League draw in Monaco to meet with their PSG counterparts and it is believed the two sides are close to reaching an agreement.
The Saints want between €10m and €12m for the player whose current deal at Parc des Princes is due to expire next summer.
Rabiot is determined to leave PSG in search of first team football, but it remains to be seen whether he would be interested in …
Uruguay international midfielder Gaston Ramirez cannot wait to get started at the KC Stadium following a deadline day move to Hull City.
Ramirez, 23, joined the Tigers on a season-long loan deal from Southampton on Monday night.
The former Penarol star joined the Saints from Italian Serie A side Bologna for a then club-record fee of £12 million in August 2012, but was dropped in favour of Northern Ireland international Steven Davis last season.
Davis, 29, has kept his starting-place in 2014/15, with Ramirez having done very little to impress new manager Ronald Koeman.
I m so happy to be here and I m eager to get started, Ramirez told the Tigers official website.
I want to show the Hull City fans what I can do. It was a quick …
Real Madrid s Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy, out injured since last November, says he hopes to play next season, although the team s prospective new management may have other ideas.
I have another year left on my contract and I am very happy. There isn?t a doubt in my mind that I will stay. I will get better and I will play again at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, he said on the club s website.
The team?s pre-season begins around the middle of July, and if everything goes as planned I hope to be back in action with the squad in August. I am so anxious to return.
Van Nistelrooy, who turns 33 in July, underwent an operation in November 2008 on his right knee. The club said he would be out for six to nine months.
The Dutchman, transferred from Manches…