Sevilla showed they remain a strong title contender in La Liga, ending Las Palmas' 15-game unbeaten streak at home with a late 1-0 victory to stay close to leaders Real Madrid and second-placed Barcelona.
Substitute Joaquin Correa score…
Gonzalo Higuain scored twice as Juventus extended their Serie A lead to seven points with a 2-0 defeat of Cagliari on Sunday.
Serie A's top goalscorer last season struck his first eight minutes before the break -- the former Napoli man …
Zlatan Ibrahimovic says "nothing is done'' with regards to his Manchester United future, but claims he has fulfilled the option needed to extend his contract.
The 35-year-old arrived in the summer on a one-year deal with the option of a…
Antonio Conte insists he is too experienced to be drawn into a war of words with Jose Mourinho after the Manchester United manager accused Chelsea of winning matches with defensive football.
Mourinho delivered a back-handed compliment …
Claudio Ranieri believes he may have been too loyal to his misfiring Premier League champions and suggested he is ready to ditch some of his struggling stars after watching Leicester fall deeper into relegation trouble with a 2-0 defeat at…
Iain Macintosh casts his eye over the best and worst of the action from the Premier League weekend.
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After six weeks of being lost in the wilderness, Liverpool have turned up safe and sound. But what a strange time to emerge. You…
The Black Stars of Ghana have moved back into the top 50 ranked nations in the February edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking.
The Stars who were perched a lowly 54th before the start of the 2017 AFCON have now surged nine places …
Philipp Lahm could have played on. Maybe not until 40, as Bayern Munich coach Carlo Ancelotti believed, but certainly for another season, maybe in a reduced role, maybe in the bigger games, maybe in defensive midfield.
A few more campai…
Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo does not believe Chelsea will allow Diego Costa to move to China this summer but said he still hopes the Spain international returns to his club in the future.
Spanish radio station Cadena Ser cl…
Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has told kicker he does not want to see the Champions League becoming a closed shop.
From next season, reforms mean the top four clubs in Europe will have four guaranteed places in the competition's group s…
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has called on his team to become heroes by beating Real Madrid in the Champions League next week and says that there is no such thing as unbeatable opponents.
The Azzurri will be outsiders when the…
Everton manager Ronald Koeman says Romelu Lukaku's finishing ability matches that of Netherlands legend Marco van Basten.
Lukaku, 23, scored four goals against Bournemouth last weekend to take his Premier League tally for Everton up to …
Jack Wilshere says regular playing time will be an important factor as he considers a possible exit from Arsenal this summer.
The 25-year-old midfielder, who is spending the season on loan at Bournemouth, has yet to sign a new deal with…
After dismissing their bosses, Swansea City and Hull City have found a new lease on life. Are more managerial changes on the way in the Premier League? Who is leading our Sack Race?
The front-runner
How much goodwill does a miracle g…
To say that there were a few eyebrows raised at Chelsea's £30 million re-signing of David Luiz last summer would be a sizable understatement. Much had been made of Chelsea's supposed good fortune two years earlier when Paris Saint-Germain …
Fashioned in fine style by manager Antonio Conte, Chelsea's inexorable rise to the top of the Premier League owes much to the Italian's ability to reprogram the minds of his players so they understand his philosophy.
Right through the t…
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has told Sky Sport Italia he "didn't like the way we had won" the first three games of the season but said he never considered any form of compromise during his early difficulties at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea b…
Odion Ighalo has told ESPN FC he would "love" to return to the Premier League in the future after completing a move from Watford to Chinese club Changchun Yatai.
Nigeria international Ighalo, 27, sealed a £20 million switch to the Chine…
Celtic striker Moussa Dembele said his focus was on fitness and not transfer speculation after returning to score a hat trick in the 5-2 win at St Johnstone on Sunday.
Dembele, 20, was linked with a move to Chelsea in January -- but a t…
Andre Villas-Boas has confirmed that Ricardo Carvalho has signed for Shanghai SIPG ahead of the club's first game of the season in the qualifying rounds of the Asian Champions League (ACL).
Carvalho, who turns 39 in May, was rumoured to…
Continent football is an unfamiliar terrain for Bechem United but they have promised to surmount the challenge to position Ghana in the limelight again as they open their CAF Confederation Cup campaign against MC Alger at the Accra Stadiu…
Should Wayne Rooney depart Manchester United this summer, he may look back in anger on the 3-1 loss at Watford on Sep. 18. It was that Sunday afternoon where the club captain lost his starting berth under Jose Mourinho. Since then, he has …
Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal are in a fight to finish in the top four this season after watching their Premier League title bid falter over the last week.
The Gunners have been an ever-present inside the top four since 1996 but that pos…
Paris Saint-Germain are approaching their most important match of the season so far when they host Barcelona in the Champions League last 16 next week but before that, they have to navigate a potentially tricky trip to face Girondins de Bo…
Bayern Munich make the short trip up the A9 Autobahn to Ingolstadt on Saturday hoping to enjoy a repeat of their neighbours' generosity in a Bavarian derby.
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge promised Ingolstadt, then bottom of the table, a wagon lo…
Back in the increasingly distant fall, when Liverpool's season was giddy with possibility and Jurgen Klopp was joyously sprinting down the touchline or endangering the safety of his designer spectacles by leaping into celebratory scrums wi…
Luis Suarez will miss the Copa del Rey final on May 27 after Barcelona's appeal to have his second booking from Tuesday's draw against Atletico Madrid revoked was rejected.
What's more, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) hande…
Even as fan unrest grows among Arsenal supporters amid another crumbling title challenge, Arsene Wenger insists he can tune out the clamour and remain fully focused on his job.
Wenger's future is in increased doubt after Saturday's loss…
Mr. Isaac Asiamah, Minister-designate for Youth and Sports has indicated that he will use the provisions in the current Sports Act to administer sporting activities in the country.
He said similarly, an umbrella body under the name Yout…
Bastian Schweinsteiger's return to Jose Mourinho's first-team squad at Manchester United has now been confirmed on the club's balance sheet, with the former Germany captain reinstated as an "exceptional" item at a cost of £4.8 million, it …
After months of a desperate search for a new substantive coach, continental club champions, Accra Hearts of Oak, have finally contracted the service of Scottish trainer Frank Nutall.
The former Saint Mirren coach is scheduled to arrive …
Manchester United says it remains on track for record revenues for the current financial year, after making record quarterly revenues.
The Premier League's new TV deal meant broadcast revenues were up 40.8% in the last three months of 2…
Mesut Ozil should leave Arsenal for Bayern Munich if he wants to improve his chances of winning a major title, says Michael Ballack.
The Arsenal playmaker has yet to put pen to paper on a deal at the Emirates, with the 28-year-old's con…
Massimiliano Allegri would not "deny or confirm" speculation the Juventus boss is set to succeed Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager at the end of the season.
Wenger's current contract is set to expire at the end of the current campaign, a…
Qatar is spending $500 million a week on the country's infrastructure to ensure it is prepared to host the 2022 World Cup.
The country's finance minister Ali Shareef Al-Emadi said that over $200 billion will be spent in total on stadium…
Dimitri Payet has said he feels "liberated" after scoring his first goal for Marseille since returning to the club from West Ham in January.
Payet, 29, made his first start since his £25 million move as Marseille played Guingamp at home…
Thirty players were used in a match for the first time across Europe's major footballing nations in Wednesday's DFB Pokal clash between Borussia Dortmund and Hertha Berlin.
Astoria Walldorf had already made history on Tuesday when Benja…
Former chairman of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe has called for a complete overhaul of the Black Stars to make it more competitive for future competitions.
He said the current team was inundated with old …
Former Black Stars defender, Samuel Osei Kuffour, has called on the football authorities to employ a coach who has the personality, ambition and pedigree of growing the senior national team to win much glory at the continental level.
Su…
The Minister designate for Youth and Sports, Isaac Kwame Asiamah, has argued that the Ghana Football Association (GFA) should channel all their activities through the National Sports Authority (NSA), which is the mother body of all sportin…
Bayern Munich captain Philipp Lahm will retire at the end of the season.
The 33-year-old, who captained Germany to their 2014 World Cup victory, announced his decision after Bayern's German Cup last-16 win over Wolfsburg.
It was the …
Who is the best purchase in your club's history and who flopped the most?
ESPN FC asked our club bloggers for their all-time tops and flops in the transfer market. Whether goal scoring machines or cult heroes, big money flops or reviled…
Former Chelsea midfielder Oscar scored his first competitive goal on Chinese soil as Shanghai SIPG's Brazilian superstars ended Sukhothai's AFC Champions League dream after a 3-0 victory in a playoff in China.
Strikes from Oscar and Elk…
Borussia Dortmund coach Thomas Tuchel is refusing to write off Mario Gotze despite the Germany international being short on playing time at the Westfalenstadion.
Gotze, who scored the extra-time winner against Argentina in the 2014 Worl…
The Confederation of African Football says it will take greater control over pitches at Africa Cup of Nations to avoid poor playing surfaces.
The pitches at this year's finals in Gabon came in for heavy criticism, with the state of the …
N'Golo Kante won the title with Leicester City last season and is on course to repeat the feat with Chelsea, but Antonio Conte believes he can improve further.
Kante, 25, has only missed one Premier League game so far this season en rou…
Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo has told "El Partidazo de COPE" that Sergio Aguero was "stupid" to leave the club for Manchester City the way that he did.
Aguero had scored 102 goals in 233 games for Atletico, who he joined for…
Avram Grant has ended his time as Ghana coach after more than two years in charge of the Black Stars.
The Israeli's contract is shortly to expire and at the Africa Cup of Nations, where Ghana finished fourth, he said there would be no r…
Cameroon won their fifth Africa Cup of Nations trophy in Gabon on Sunday and it was arguably their greatest triumph.
World Cup star Roger Milla was the lynchpin of the victorious 1984 and 1988 sides, while the back-to-back title winners…
Manchester United forward Anthony Martial has said not to "listen to the papers" after reports claimed that he was interesting Paris Saint-Germain.
The stories also reported that Martial believes manager Jose Mourinho is trying to force…