Liverpool chairman Tom Werner believes the club are on track to claim a top-four finish in the Premier League this season.
The Anfield outfit are looking to secure UEFA Champions League football for the first time since 2009, and fell well off the pace last season with a seventh-place finish.
But Liverpool have shown vast improvement this term, and trail leaders Arsenal by just two points ahead of the sides meeting at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday.
And Werner who is also chairman of newly crowned MLB World Series champions Boston Red Sox is optimistic Brendan Rodgers men can challenge for major honours.
We know how much it means to our fans to get to the top of the Premier League and get back into the Champions League, Werner is quoted as saying by BBC Sport.<…
Everton are considering a move for Sevilla forward Fernando Llorente, .
With Romelu Lukaku’s future uncertain, the Toffees are on the lookout for a new forward and have identified the former Athletic Bilbao man as a potential target.
The thirty-one year old only moved to the La Liga outfit from Juventus last summer and scored seven goals in thirty-one appearances in all competitions, with three of those strikes coming or route to clinching the Europa League.
In three years with Juve, he racked up ninety-two appearances, scoring twenty-seven times and won three consecutive Serie A championships and the Copppa Itallia as well as playing in the 2014/15 Champions League defeat to Barcelona.
Internationally he has been capped twenty-four times for his…
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claimed his wife persuaded him not to take charge of the England national team in 2007.
Mourinho s first spell at Chelsea ended shortly before Steve McClaren paid the price for England s failure to qualify for the 2008 European Championships.
Fabio Capello was subsequently appointed as McClaren s successor, yet Mourinho admitted he was tempted to take on the role, particularly as the terms of his exit from Chelsea dictated that he was unable to take over another Premier League club for two years.
Speaking in his role as a World Cup ambassador for Yahoo, Mourinho said: At that time I could not get an English club because of my contract when I left Chelsea I couldn’t get an English club in the next two years. I could get the national team …
Ruben Loftus-Cheek has shelved any anxiety over the need to impress Maurizio Sarri in his fight to establish a place at Chelsea.
The 22-year-old England international is keen to stay at Stamford Bridge this term after returning from an encouraging loan spell with Crystal Palace.
New Blues boss Sarri, speaking after Tuesday s friendly win over Lyon, praised Loftus-Cheek as potentially a great player in a sign he is set for a first-team opportunity.
However, the homegrown youth product who has outlasted Jose Mourinho, Guus Hiddink and Antonio Conte since his 2014 debut is concerned only by meeting his own expectations.
At the moment I am at Chelsea, my mind is on playing well here and improving here, Loftus-Cheek told reporters.
I will play w…
Paul Pogba, Romelu Lukaku, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Nemanja Matic and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Jose Mourinho has spent close to £300million since replacing Louis van Gaal as Manchester United manager in May 2016. Yet, the Portuguese does not believe the significant investment is enough to compete with neighbours Manchester City.
City, meanwhile, have lured the likes of Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, Leroy Sane, Kyle Walker, Benjamin Mendy, Danilo, Ederson and John Stones to the Etihad Stadium in the same period – Pep Guardiola forking out almost £225m in the last transfer window alone.
Mourinho moaned about United s transfer business after the Red Devils fell 12 points adrift of runaway Premier League leaders City – a deficit which could…
Sevilla lived up to Diego Simeone s billing as LaLiga title contenders on Sunday as Steven N Zonzi s second-half strike clinched a deserved 1-0 win over 10-man Atletico Madrid.
Jorge Sampaoli s men came into the game in fourth after a strong start to the season and, having dominated possession for much of the match, they claimed a deserved first win over Atletico in any competition since October 2010.
Angel Correa wasted a glorious chance towards the end of a tight first half and Sevilla should have capitalised on that just after the break – Samir Nasri hitting the post and Vitolo going close.
That proved to be the start of a dominant second-half performance from Sevilla and, although Atletico became compact, the visitors were undone 17 minutes from time as N Z…
Thomas Tuchel is pleased with Kylian Mbappe s recent form but says he will consider leaving the forward out of Paris Saint-Germain s squad for Saturday s trip to Montpellier.
The France international wasted a good chance in Wednesday s 3-1 win over Manchester United as his scoreless streak in the Champions League stretched to a ninth game.
He is also without a goal in his past three appearances for PSG, failing to score from any of his nine shots in those games and finding the target only twice.
PSG face a huge clash with Istanbul Basaksehir next Tuesday, knowing that they are guaranteed a place in the last 16 should they avoid defeat.
And with that contest in mind, Tuchel will consider leaving out Mbappe for this weekend s Ligue 1 meeting against Montp…
I have to say I did not see Jose Mourinho’s justification of his time at Manchester United until last night. was the Red Devils boss being honest about his team’s shortcomings.
Mourinho is usually one for mind games and trying to get an advantage over his opponents anyway he can. However, for all those who are saying that he is just making excuses for his failure at United, Mourinho made some very valid points.
United in decline in the last five years
Mourinho talked about how the club has been in decline since 2013 when Sir Alex Ferguson guided United to the Premier League title. In seasons since United have failed to do a credible impression of a title challenging team, the reason being that the players have just not been good enough.
Ferguson’s…
Ever Banega and Manuel Lanzini ensured Lionel Messi s absence was not keenly felt as they hit the target in Argentina s 2-0 friendly win over Italy.
Messi, who has been struggling with a muscle problem, was not included and reduced to the role of spectator as Argentina dominated much of the encounter at the Etihad Stadium.
Italy s returning goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, who reversed his decision to retire from international football following the Azzurri s failure to qualify for the World Cup, was kept busy throughout as he won his 176th cap.
Yet Luigi Di Biagio s men, who paid tribute to late former Fiorentina captain and Italy international Davide Astori by emerging wearing number 13 shirts bearing his name, could have taken the lead themselves if not for…
LaLiga president Javier Tebas labelled Vinicius Junior s criticism of the league s anti-racism work unfair after the Real Madrid winger vented his frustration on social media.
Madrid beat Real Valladolid 2-0 at the Jose Zorrilla on Friday, but the match was marred for Vinicius.
The Brazil international wrote on Instagram the following day that racists continue to go to the stadiums and see the best club in the world up close, and LaLiga continues to do nothing .
Vinicius was substituted during the match and almost hit by several objects thrown from the stands as he walked behind one of the goals, with fans appearing to direct racist chants at him.
Tebas rejected Vinicius claim that LaLiga is doing nothing to drive racists out of the sport, however.
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