Gareth Southgate will take his time to make the correct decision regarding his future as England manager but was encouraged by the way his young team went toe to toe with France on Saturday.
England were the better team for long periods at Al Bayt but ultimately fell short with Olivier Giroud s 78th-minute header proving to be decisive as Les Bleus clinched a 2-1 win to set up a semi-final with Morocco on Wednesday.
Southgate s contract runs until the end of the European Championship in 2024, but he will use the next few weeks to reflect on whether he wants to carry on.
He said: Whenever I have finished these tournaments I have needed time to make the correct decision because you go through so many feelings.
I want to make the right decision, whatever th…
Sadio Mane will join Bayern Munich in a €41million (£35.2million) deal after Liverpool agreed to sell the Senegal international to the Bundesliga champions.
Mane became a prime target for Julian Nagelsmann s side, with Liverpool rejecting early offers for the forward, who had just 12 months to run on his contract at Anfield.
When Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp brought in Benfica star Darwin Nunez for a reported fee of £64million (€75m), with a further £21.4m (€25m) in potential add-ons, it left the door open for Mane to depart.
Senegal coach Aliou Cisse encouraged Mane to join Bayern as the best fit for his career, and Nagelsmann s club have finally struck a deal to suit all parties.
Stats Perform understands Liverpool will receive an assured sum…
Unai Emery was trying to keep a lid on the excitement levels after his Aston Villa side outclassed stuttering Manchester City in Wednesday’s 1-0 win to move above the defending champions and into third place.
Leon Bailey’s deflected strike in the 74th minute was enough to seal a 14th straight home win for Villa and add to the growing sense of belief that something special is brewing in the west Midlands.
Pep Guardiola declared that Emery’s side should “definitely” be considered among the title contenders after watching his depleted side struggle to contain a Villa team who had 22 shots at goal to City’s two.
Rise and shine.
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But Emery played down any title talk and insisted there is still much work to d…
Roberto Mancini believes Italy have four or five young players on the same level as England s Jude Bellingham, but the Azzurri boss says coaches must be brave enough to give them minutes.
Having failed to qualify for last year s World Cup, Italy will get their bid to defend the European Championship trophy they won in 2021 under way with a qualifier against England in March.
England s run to the last eight in Qatar saw a number of young players – including Borussia Dortmund midfielder Bellingham and Arsenal winger Bukayo Saka – come to the fore.
Mancini does not believe Italy lack talented young players. The Azzurri s problem, he claims, lies in coaches reluctance to hand them top-level experience.
I think Italy have four or five talents with the qu…
Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Haris Seferovic from Benfica in the summer transfer window, according to , as relayed by . It has been reported that Spurs had been following the 29-year-old striker, and that the North London club are ready to make a move, now that the European Championship is over.
Seferovic has been at Benfica since 2017. The striker has had mixed performances at the Portuguese giants over the years. The Switzerland international scored and gave seven assists in the league last season. However, in 2019-20, the Swiss scored five goals and gave two assists in the league. Back in 2018-19, Seferovic found the back of the net 23 times in the Portuguese league and also scored five goals.
Harry Kane is the number one striker at Tottenham at the m…
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With London bragging rights up for grabs on Saturday afternoon, Crystal Palace will welcome West Ham to Selhurst Park.
Starting with the hosts, opening the 2024/25 campaign with a 2-1 loss away at Brentford, Crystal Palace will certainly be seeking an immediate response here. Nevertheless, despite missing out on what they had billed as a potential opportunity last week, Oliver Glasner’s side have gained plenty of plaudits since the former Eintracht Frankfurt arrived at Selhurst Park back in February. Heading into the summer interval with a real statement as they stormed their way to a 5-0 romp at home against Aston Villa, the Eagles won all of their final three Premier League appearances last season by an aggregate scor…
Birmingham City have said they are appalled and saddened after it was alleged that one of their own fans racially abused captain Troy Deeney after Tuesday s home defeat to Cardiff City.
Deeney came on as a substitute at St Andrew s in the 73rd minute with the game goalless, before late strikes from Perry Ng and Callum Robinson gave the Welsh side a much-needed 2-0 win.
The Midlands club issued a statement on Wednesday revealing that the player and several of their fans had reported someone racially abusing Deeney after the match.
After the full-time whistle of Tuesday night s Sky Bet Championship match against Cardiff City, Troy Deeney and a number of supporters have reported hearing the 34-year-old subjected to racist abuse, the statement read.
The clu…
Jurgen Klopp conceded Liverpool must reinvent themselves after their underwhelming start to the season continued with a 4-1 hammering at Napoli in the Champions League.
Liverpool trailed by three goals at half-time for just the fourth time in their Champions League history after strikes from Piotr Zielinski, Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa and Giovanni Simeone on Wednesday.
Victor Osimhen also missed a first-half penalty after another slow start from Liverpool, who have conceded first in five games this season in all competitions, the joint-most of any Premier League side.
Zielinski added a second strike after the interval, with Luis Diaz scoring a consolation goal as Liverpool fell to their joint-heaviest defeat in the Champions League.
An abject showing in N…
Jose Mourinho ramped up the pressure on referee Michael Oliver ahead of the Manchester derby, calling on City s tactical fouls to be stamped out in Sunday s clash.
Mourinho s Manchester United host Pep Guardiola s runaway leaders hoping to eat into their eight-point advantage at the Premier League s summit.
City have only failed to win once in the league so far this season, scoring 46 goals in 15 games in a blistering start to their campaign.
Though Guardiola has courted fulsome praise for his attacking tactics, Mourinho manoeuvred in typical fashion before the derby, highlighting what he perceives to be an uglier side to their game, having earlier accused City of routine simulation.
It is a strategy that City have, Mourinho said. They put lots of playe…
Former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger believes Aaron Ramsey could still stay at Arsenal, even though he acknowledged the midfielder is now in a position of power as he enters the final year of his deal.
Ramsey this week stressed he will not leave the Gunners in January but talks over an extension have collapsed ahead of his current contract expiring at the end of the 2018-19 season.
The Wales international, 27, was signed when Wenger was in charge in 2008 and the Frenchman was keen to tie down Ramsey s long-term future before he left at the end of the previous campaign.
However, Wenger accepts Ramsey s contract situation means he can now come to the negotiating table with a strong hand.
Asked whether he would give Ramsey a new deal, Wenger replied: We tried t…