Leicester s Harry Maguire is set to consider his options for the future after the World Cup in Russia this summer, .
The centre-back has been named Leiceter s Player of the Season in his first year at the King Power Stadium following his £17million move from the relegated Hull City last summer. He made 44 appearances for the Foxes in all competitions in 2017/18 and hit the target twice.
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has praised Maguire after the League Cup clash between their respective clubs, and there have also been links to Manchester United as Jose Mourinho seeks defensive reinforcements. But the Mirror report claims there are other top clubs apart from the Manchester duo monitoring any potential developments.
Maguire is a very strong player physicall…
Emiliano Insua has agreed to join Stuttgart from Atletico Madrid, signing a three-year contract.
The former Liverpool defender moved to Atletico from Sporting Lisbon in 2013, but made just seven La Liga starts for the Vicente Calderon club.
He was loaned out to Rayo Vallecano last season, where he made 24 league appearances, scoring one goal.
News of his move to Stuttgart was confirmed by the Bundesliga outfit on Saturday.
The signing of Emiliano Insua is another step in our senior management succession planning, said the club s board representative for sport, Robin Dutt.
We are delighted that he will wear the jersey and we wish him a good start at VfB.
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Andriy Shevchenko has backed fellow legends Paolo Maldini and Zvonimir Boban to put AC Milan back where it used to be after they were given key roles at the club.
Former Rossoneri captain Maldini was appointed technical director in June while Boban, who won four Serie A titles and the Champions League during his spell at Milan, is now their chief football officer.
Shevchenko, who played alongside Maldini and Boban at San Siro, is confident the pair can help turn Milan s fortunes around after a disappointing 2018-19 season in which the club finished fifth in Serie A, missing out on a place in the Champions League.
Maldini and Boban will guarantee that the club mentality does not change, Shevchenko told Gazzetta dello Sport.
They will do well. Paolo is …
Tottenham head coach Jose Mourinho praised midfielder Tanguy Ndombele for his performance against Norwich City in the Premier League.
Spurs star Ndombele impressed on his return to the squad as Mourinho s Tottenham drew 2-2 at Norwich on Saturday.
Ndombele – a club-record signing from Lyon in the off-season – was left out of the squad for Tottenham s Boxing Day clash against Brighton and Hove Albion.
The 23-year-old Frenchman, however, returned in the absence of suspended duo Harry Winks and Moussa Sissoko, and his display pleased Mourinho.
He played very well, Mourinho told reporters. We played without a positional player, no Winks, no [Eric] Dier and [Christian] Eriksen and Ndombele played so, so well.
Totally in control, the football was …
New Zealand s Jarrod Smith and Bermuda s Khano Smith were among 10 players selected by the Seattle Sounders on Wednesday in the Major League Soccer expansion draft.
Eight Americans also were chosen in the raid upon talent from other MLS clubs, who each could protect one player from their rosters and lose no more than one player to the league s 15th team that debuts in 2009.
Houston Dynamo forward Nate Jaqua was the first selection by the Sounders, who nabbed the southern hemisphere Smith from Toronto and the Caribbean one from New England.
The new stockpile of supporting talent joins a Sounders squad that already features US goalkeeper Kasey Keller, French midfielder Sebastien Le Toux, former Swedish international Freddie Ljungberg and Gambian teen Sanna Nyas…
Brazilian striker Fred aims to stay with French champions Olympique de Lyon at least until the end of the season, he told a website this week.
Only two weeks ago, Fred requested for his contract to be terminated in order to return to Brazil and play for a club in his home country. However, the player appears to have changed his mind and now wants to serve the full length of his contract, which expires in June 2009.
I ll stay until June, Fred told Lyon Capital s website. I can t say anything more but we will continue discussions over a new contract.
Fred, also known as Frederico Chaves Guedes, joined Lyon from Cruzeiro in 2005. Since moving to France, the forward scored 34 goals of which only two this season.
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Khvostov, the Exotic auto rifle based on the very first gun players find in the original Destiny, has made a return in The Final Shape. It’s one of the Exotics you can hunt down in the aftermath of the new Destiny 2 expansion’s campaign as you explore the Pale Heart of the Traveler, but unlike the others that provide you with Exotic missions, this one is a puzzle you have to figure out on your own. It requires doing a lot of exploring, fighting, and intuiting, and by the end, you’ll know the new destination pretty intimately.
After spending a whole lot of time in the Pale Heart of the Traveler, we’ve narrowed down exactly how to get everything you need to unlock Khvostov and where it’s all hidden Come from …
Tottenham Hotspur star Christian Eriksen has emerged as a target for Juventus, .
The Denmark international moved to White Hart Lane in the summer of 2013, and has since racked up eighty-four appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring twenty-two goals with he was named Spurs’ Player of the Year at the end of his debut season with the club.
He has three years remaining on his current deal, and the North London club have no intention of selling as Juventus attempt to strengthen as they look to land a fourth straight Serie A title.
The Turin club sold Arturo Vidal to Bayern Munich in the summer, and also have Schalke’s Julian Draxler and Chelsea duo Juan Cuadrado and Ramires on their wish list.
Juve kick of the new season at home to Udin…
FC Schalke 04 general manager Horst Heldt has revealed the club are on the verge of signing Manchester City defender Matija Nastasic on loan for the rest of the season.
The Serbia international, 21, is currently out of favour at the Etihad Stadium under Manuel Pellegrini, having not featured in an English Premier League fixture in 2014/15.
We are negotiating back and forth, that s how it goes, Heldt told Bild Magazine. You get closer and closer and in this case we are no longer far apart from each other.
I am optimistic that we will get this done in the coming days.
Both Nastasic and winger Scott Sinclair are expected to be sold this month, but Pellegrini has insisted the duo will leave only if the club receive good offers.
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Inter are seemingly nearing an agreement with Tottenham midfielder Christian Eriksen, reports say.
The Denmark international is out of contract at the end of the season and has also been linked with a move away from Spurs in January.
Inter are among the clubs reportedly interested in Eriksen and it seems the Serie A high-flyers are close to a deal.
TOP STORY – INTER IN ADVANCED TALKS WITH ERIKSEN
Inter are in advanced talks with Eriksen for a move ahead of the 2020-21 season, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Nicolo Schira.
However, he reports Spurs are looking to sell Eriksen in January for at least €20million (£17m).
Amid uncertainty over his future, Eriksen has made just nine Premier League starts for Totte…