One of the longest-running transfer sagas was finally completed a day before January’s deadline, with Fernandes agreeing personal terms after undergoing a medical at Carrington. It is understood that United will pay around £47m as an initial fee, with add-ons depending on elements including Champions League qualification.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu commented: "I would like to thank UEFA regarding FFP, they've been doing fantastic work in the last couple of years. We have regular investigations and we have supported UEFA in everything it does in football. Asked about the comments after City's 2-0 league win over West Ham United, Guardiola, a Barca title winner as player and coach, said: "If they are happy we are suspended, I say to the president of Barcelona, let us appeal.
Frankfurt beat Guimaraes 1-0 when the pair locked horns for their reverse group fixture back in October and both teams scored in four of Frankfurt’s and three of Guimaraes’ last six matches, so you can already start to see why we have backed a 2-1 home win this Thursday.
A talisman for many of those years, there have been few finer sights than Silva in full flow orchestrating City's attacking play. While the Spaniard is set to leave the club this summer, he has won the Premier League four times, the FA Cup twice and the League Cup on five occasions. Not a bad return. Wright: "You can't question how integral he has been to Manchester City and he is a World Cup winner.
With second-placed Inter travelling to Napoli on Monday evening, Juve put pressure on their title rivals with a dominant home performance. The Portuguese pounced on a mistake in the Cagliari defence to break the deadlock four minutes after halftime before adding the second from a penalty as he scored for the fifth league game in the row.
A league match in the Czech Republic between Karvina and Mlada Boleslav. The guests are playing better this season and are in 9th place in the league while the home team is in 14th place. However, the home team is in good shape at the moment but Mlada will be more motivated. After the restart of the league, both teams are still winless with a respective 0-2-3 row. Karvina has only 25 points and sit third last, but at home has a record of 3-1-1. That was before the break, but Boleslav is no longer a good team and is tenth on the verge of wasting the playoffs for the EL. A draw may well serve for Mlada.
Paris St-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and ex-Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke will be tried in September in a corruption case linked to media rights for Fifa tournaments. The case involves a third, unnamed man, and relates to alleged criminal mismanagement, incitement to criminal mismanagement and falsifying documents. The trial will take place in the Swiss city of Bellinzona. Khelaifi's lawyers said the case was "completely unfounded".
Still, they have a more than respectable record of five victories from their eight Premier League away games, with only a shock defeat against Norwich and a rather more expected loss at Anfield tarnishing their losses column.
Monday's victory over West Ham United equalled Manchester City's record of 18 straight Premier League wins between August and December 2017. It's so special. The numbers are incredible, so difficult. I said we wanted to write our own stories, create our own history," said manager Juergen Klopp. Another game with potential implications for Champions League places sees Spurs take on Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday while Chelsea travel to struggling Bournemouth on Saturday.
Edinson CavaniGetty Images 14. Timo Werner (RB Leipzig) WHY COULD HE MOVE With 27 goals and 12 assists in 36 games in all competitions, Timo Werner has statistics that would attract any club. He had extended his contract last August, until June 2023, and RB Leipzig are not in a position where they have to sell their striker, but.
L'Equipe also said LFP members had voted on Friday to push back the start of next season by two weeks to Aug. France's Football Federation (FFF). The French Cup final between Paris St Germain and St Etienne has been scheduled for June 27, according to the document, while the League Cup final between PSG and Olympique Lyonnais had been pencilled in for July 11.
Karim Benzema scored and picked up an assist as Real Madrid recorded a comfortable win over Espanyol but were down to 10 men for the final stages after Ferland Mendy was sent off. Benzema set up French team-mate Raphael Varane for the opener and made it 2-0 with just over 10 minutes to go. The striker also wasted a huge chance in the second half, hitting it straight at keeper Diego Lopez from close range.
For the majority of professional footballers pre-season training is a necessary evil. Something most would happily forget as quickly as jumping in and out of an ice bath for aching muscles. But what if countless hours running on tracks, pitches and over hills felt like they were never going to end?That has been the situation facing players in Sweden, where pre-season training is entering its sixth month, after the start of the campaign on 4 April was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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We are shocked and disappointed," said Levinson. We will not give up our hard work for equal pay. We are confident in our case and steadfast in our commitment to ensuring that girls and women who play this sport will not be valued as lesser just because of their gender. Federal judge Gary Klausner allowed the players' case for unfair treatment in travel, housing and medical support to go to trial, which is set for 16 June in Los Angeles.
Goals went in at either in 100% of Wanderers' last six league games and in a whopping 79% of their EPL matches since the summer. It's also worth noting that their 0-0 draw with Leicester City on the opening weekend of the season remains the only Premier League game this term where Wanderers didn't score.
EDINSON CAVANI (forward, 32, Paris St-Germain)Linked with: ChelseaFrank Lampard has accused his Chelsea team of "causing their own problems" with their lack of cutting edge. Could Edinson Cavani fit the bill?Uruguay international Cavani has been pushed down the pecking order at Parc des Princes behind new arrival Mauro Icardi, Kylian Mbappe and - when he is fit - Neymar. Cavani has scored just three goals this season, his contract is up in June and he could be available at a decent price in January, although they could face stiff competition from Atletico Madrid.
Napoli are away to Udinese this weekend, with the Partenopei favourites to claim all three points when they face the side who are only two spots clear of the bottom three. While the Zebrette are languishing quite low in the table, Napoli are closer in points to Udinese (6) than they are to the top four (8).
Dutch teenager Zirkzee, who also scored in stoppage time in their 3-1 midweek win over Freiburg, slotted in three minutes after coming on as a substitute and Gnabry doubled their lead in the 89th to lift Bayern to 33 points in third place. RB Leipzig went top with a 3-1 win over Augsburg. Leipzig needed second-half goals from Konrad Laimer, Patrik Schick and Yussuf Poulsen to grab victory and move on to 37 points, three clear of Borussia Moenchengladbach, who take on Hertha Berlin in the capital later on Saturday.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is hopeful centre-back Virgil van Dijk will be fit to return for Saturday's Club World Cup final against Flamengo. The Dutchman missed the 2-1 semi-final win against Monterrey on Thursday through illness. Klopp confirmed Van Dijk trained on Friday and he will be assessed at the end of the session. The game, which kicks off at 17:30 GMT, will be live on BBC One, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website.
Klopp decided to miss the fourth-round replay because it fell during the Premier League's winter break. A Reds side with an average age of 19 years and 102 days set up a tie at Chelsea with a 1-0 win. There was a message at half-time and and at full-time [from Klopp]," said under-23s boss Neil Critchley.
All 23 teams in League One have between eight and 10 regular-season fixtures remaining. How might the final table have looked?What would have happened in League One if the season had not been interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic in March?Here at BBC Sport, we've tried to predict how things might have ended, with the help of Professor James Reade and Dr Carl Singleton from the University of Reading.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola insists he is still happy at the club. City are fourth in the Premier League - their lowest position since the end of Guardiola's first season in 2017 - and a 3-1 loss to Liverpool a fortnight ago left them nine points behind the Reds. Why should people think I'm not happy? Because we lost at Anfield or I've lost three games this season?" he said before Saturday's match with Chelsea.
Kingsley Coman gave Bayern the lead inside 15 minutes but his night was blighted by what looked to be a serious knee injury that forced him off in the first half of the dead rubber. See alsoFC Bayern Munich - Tottenham Hotspur The forward departed shortly after Ryan Sessegnon had scored a thunderous equaliser on what was his first start for Spurs as both managers were sent messages by fringe players given the opportunity to impress in a match that could have no bearing on the group.
Rangers dominated this match, they should have won comfortably. This should have been a mark of their improvement under Gerrard and yet it ended up as an illustration of how far they still have to go. Questions will be asked of Morelos again. The Colombian has 25 goals for the season, but he still hasn’t scored against Celtic in 10 games against them.
They have managed 79 points so far, 30 better than sixth placed Wolfsburg. While Bayern do not have much to play for in this clash, hosts Wolfsburg will hope to finish sixth and that depends on the outcome here. They have 49 points, same to seventh placed Hoffenheim, but with a better goal difference.
Wolves and Sheffield United, you have to respect them, they are good teams. We have a fight on. Anyone who is in range has a chance. Lampard confirmed striker Tammy Abraham, winger Christian Pulisic and midfielder N'Golo Kante are all unavailable due to injuries but midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek could play for the first time since he ruptured his Achilles tendon in May.
So, here you are, standing and waiting for a fellow professional to hammer a ball at you from a close distance, and your job is to try and stop it. Nick Pope of Burnley saves the penalty of Jamie Vardy of Leicester City during the Premier League match between Burnley FC and Leicester City at Turf Moor on January 19, 2020 in Burnley, United KingdomGetty Images Finally imagine that you actually manage to save it, which the data tells us isn’t particularly likely, and then as you look up as a striker gleefully slams the ball in from one yard and wheels off in celebration, pretending they’re the greatest thing in the world and ignoring the fact that they just failed to score from 12 yards with no defenders in their way.
The Serie A title race took another twist last weekend, with Inter Milan dropping points at Fiorentina. It was another unlucky slip for the Nerazzurri, with Antonio Conte once again bemoaning his sides inability to close out a game. Having dropped four points in the space of a week, Inter were left trailing Juve, albeit with the clubs on the same points total.
Pompey took the lead inside the first 20 minutes at Fratton Park, setting them on the way to a 3-0 win. And when Huddersfield fell behind against the Blues, the south coast club were en route to survival. The same could not be said of Palace, who were still level at 0-0 at Stockport. The Terriers then levelled just before the break, putting them three points ahead of Palace and with a better goal difference.
They played well, although were not at their best, and may feel this is a game they would have won a month ago. They let Newcastle know they were in for a battle early on when Dickie and Joelinton clashed in an aerial challenge and both players needed bandages on their heads for the majority of the game.
Posted at 71' Attempt missed. Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Brighton and Hove Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Posted at 70' Alireza Jahanbakhsh (Brighton and Hove Albion) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Posted at 70' Foul by Joey Pelupessy (Sheffield Wednesday). Posted at 67' Corner, Brighton and Hove Albion. Conceded by Dominic Iorfa. Goal!Posted at 65' Goal! Brighton and Hove Albion 0, Sheffield Wednesday 1.
Foden, who got his first league goal of the season against Arsenal last week, scored twice against the Clarets as part of an impressive individual display, with Silva also on target. City thrash Burnley to make Liverpool waitBurnley 'strongly condemns' banner flown above Etihad Stadium during Man City gameRelive Man City v Burnley"It is difficult to find a replacement like David, what he has done with this club," Guardiola said afterwards.
Coming into Saturday's game with 4 wins from 5 across all competitions behind them, Stockport travel with confidence sky high. Over said fixtures, they've scored an impressive average of 4 goals a game and having looked a potent outfit all season, those taking to the pitch will be confident in giving Fylde plenty to think about
Both sides are struggling for form coming into this game. Lyon need to find some with that Juventus match next week and need to get back up the table. Metz are in relegation trouble but their home form is improving but they draw too many games. The majority of Metz fixtures have had under 2.5 goals scored in them and that's the tip for this game.
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Media playback is not supported on this device Steve Bruce praises Magpies' fighting spirit in 'remarkable' game Newcastle surely won't need to leave it to the death to get a result in this tie, though. Oxford are still at the top end of League One but their form has dropped off a little bit and they are still waiting for their first league win of 2020. Media playback is not supported on this device FA Cup: Newcastle United 4-1 Rochdale highlights Newcastle needed a replay to get past Rochdale in round three, but they should get the job done at St James' Park, and before you know it they could be on a cup run.
