Paul Pogba feels the Premier League is clearly the best in the world as he outlined the scale of the challenge facing Manchester United in the title race.
The World Cup winner is relishing United sitting top of the table after 17 games.
Pogba s winner against Burnley on Tuesday put Ole Gunnar Solskjaer s team top of the standings at this stage of campaign for the first time since Alex Ferguson s last season.
The midfielder explained fighting for the biggest trophies is why he returned to the club from Juventus in 2016.
While his agent Mino Raiola has said Pogba wants to leave United, he believes the division his current club play in is tougher than those he would be in if he joined reported suitors Paris Saint-Germain, Juventus and Real Madrid.
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Former Aston Villa and Trinidad and Tobago defender Jlloyd Samuel has died.
The 37-year-old was reportedly killed in a car accident in England on Tuesday.
The Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation said via their official Facebook page that Samuel had died following a collision shortly after dropping his children off at school.
Our sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of Jlloyd Samuel who has died aged 37, the PFA tweeted.
Villa later confirmed their players will wear black armbands in Tuesday s Championship play-off semi-final second leg with Middlesbrough as a mark of respect for Samuel.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of our former player Jlloyd Samuel at the age of just 37 in a car accident
Our players wil…
Oleksandr Zinchenko lobbied for the EFL Cup to be renamed in Claudio Bravo s honour after the goalkeeper s Wembley heroics sealed a 2-1 final victory for Manchester City over Aston Villa on Sunday.
Goals from Sergio Aguero and Rodri ensured Pep Guardiola s side lifted the trophy for a third consecutive season, although Villa hit back through Mbwana Samatta before half-time and pushed them to the limit during a breathless finale.
Dean Smith s Premier League strugglers came agonisingly close to forcing extra time in the 88th minute when Bjorn Engels rose above the City defence, only for Bravo to somehow push his header to safety via his right post.
A torrid debut season in English football in 2016-17 saw the Chile international lose his status as Guardiola s regula…
Alberto Moreno has admitted he isn t happy at Liverpool anymore. Speaking to Cadena Ser, the Spaniard revealed he is frustrated with the lack of game-time this season.
The former Sevilla left-back, whose deal with the current Premier League leaders expires next summer, says he has been thinking about going back to his homeland, with a return to Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium one of the possibilities. There is no agreement of a new deal at the moment.
Moreno arrived to Anfield during the days of manager Brendan Rodgers, back in 2014, and since then he has lost his place in the team three times to three different competitors. In 2015, Liverpool signed centre-back Joe Gomez from Charlton Athletic and he was temporarily reassigned to the left-back role due to Moreno s incon…
Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi has agreed a new four-year contract with the club, capping a busy off-season for the forward, who has also turned 30 and got married since the end of 2016-17.
After making his Barca debut aged 17, Messi has been the scourge of defenders in Spain and across the globe, racking up 568 goals for club and country.
In the process the forward has collected 29 trophies, but international honours with Argentina still elude him.
After Messi struck a deal to renew with Barca, we take a look at 10 of his best goals throughout a sensational career that will see him playing at Camp Nou until 2021.
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Even at 17, Messi had the confidence of a veteran. Having already had one goal wrongly ruled o…
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Milan play host to Napoli in one of the highlight Serie A matches this weekend. Rossoneri are hoping to close the gap behind the three leading sides while Partenopei are looking to maintain their pace in the title chase.
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Gennaro Gattuso’s men will be in high spirits after defeating Genoa 2-0 at Marassi last time out. Their confidence could get an extra boost with Serie A striking sensation Krzysztof Piatek arriving to replace Gonzalo Higuain who moved to Chelsea. The experienced forward reunited with Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge while Milan found a proper replacement in Piatek who scored 13 goals for Genoa in the first part of the season. The Polish international could get h…
Barcelona reportedly tried to sign Saul Niguez from Atletico Madrid in the summer of 2017 and failed. However, being in need of quality midfielders they aren t prepared to give up just yet, according to .
The report also claims that the Blaugrana have an agreement with Atleti in place, dating back to the sale of David Villa in 2013, which allows them to have the first pick on two of Madrid club s youngsters at the time Javier Manquillo and Saul Niguez. This means that, should Atletico ever receive an offer for Saul they would be willing to accept from any other club, they would be obligated to contact Barcelona and offer the versatile midfielder under the same conditions to them first. If so, it is a significant boost in their pursuit of the player and makes Camp Nou his most l…
Everton have made an approach for Swansea City midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, according to the Express.
The Merseyside club have tabled an offer of around £40m, with a further £5m in add-ons in a potential deal that would take their summer spending to over £130m.
Sigurdsson is keen to join the Toffees, who have already signed Jordan Pickford, Michael Keane, Davy Klassen, Henry Onyekuru, Sandro Ramirez, Cuco Martina and Wayne Rooney ahead of he new season.
The Iceland international has made one hundred and forty-seven appearances across two spells with the South Wales club, scoring forty-four goals.
He had a loan spell at the Liberty Stadium during the 2011/12 campaign before signing permanently in the summer of 2014.
In between those two st…
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola is not surprised by the scrutiny Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is facing at Manchester United having felt similar pressure during his Barcelona tenure.
Solskjaer s future has been the subject of widespread speculation this week following last weekend s historic 5-0 home defeat to Liverpool in the Premier League.
United lost by five or more goals without scoring for the first time since February 1955 in what was Liverpool s biggest ever margin of victory against their fierce rivals.
The Red Devils are seventh in the table with nine games played, already eight points behind leaders Chelsea, and have won just six of their 13 matches in all competitions
Solskjaer has spoken to United s board but has not sought any assurances about hi…
Napoli have contacted Liverpool over the possibility of signing Nathaniel Clyne this summer, according to Liverpool Echo.
When he arrived at Anfield from Southampton back in 2015, Clyne quickly became an important part of the Liverpool defence, in those days often described as the most consistent player in the team. However, injury problems kept him out for most of the 2017/18 season, and young Trent Alexander-Arnold took his chance and imposed himself strongly for the right-back spot in the starting XI. With Joe Gomez perfectly capable of deputizing on the right defensive flank too, Clyne soon became surplus to requirements and spent the second half of this season on loan at Bournemouth.
While Jurgen Klopp is looking to prune his squad a bit, Napoli are looking to bols…