Manchester United may have to wait until Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola leave Liverpool and Manchester City respectively before they win another Premier League title, according to Gary Neville.
Not since legendary manager Alex Ferguson s final campaign at Old Trafford in 2012-13 have United lifted the top-flight crown, finishing in the top two just once since then.
Despite an upturn in form in the second half of last season, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer s side ended 33 points behind dominant champions Liverpool and 15 points adrift of runners-up City.
Klopp ended Liverpool s 30-year wait to finish top of the pile in English football, coming on the back of successive triumphs for City under Guardiola, including a record points haul in 2017-18.
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Jupp Heynckes has made an immediate impact on his return to Bayern Munich, according to sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic.
Veteran tactician Heynckes will begin his fourth spell – including a 2009 caretaker stint – as Bayern head coach when the Bundesliga champions host Freiburg on Saturday.
The 72-year-old has been given a contract until the end of the season, working alongside Willy Sagnol after Carlo Ancelotti was sacked in the aftermath of last month s 3-0 Champions League defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.
Ancelotti s tactics and training methods have all come under scrutiny since his departure, and Salihamidzic told Bild he observed an immediate improvement as a result of the structure Heynckes has implemented at Bayern s Sabener Strasse base.
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Manchester City are reportedly making plans to sign Lionel Messi next year.
Messi, 33, sensationally requested to leave Barcelona during the close season, but ended up staying with the LaLiga giants.
However, the six-time Ballon d Or winner is out of contract at the end of the season and City continue to eye the star forward.
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Manchester City are making plans to sign Barcelona captain Messi, according to Mundo Deportivo.
The report says the Premier League giants are trying to attract Messi with the idea of playing in England before finishing his career with fellow City Football Group (CFG) club New York City in MLS.
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According to a recent report from Sky Sports News, Borussia Dortmund are the latest club to enter themselves into the race to try and sign Norwich City defender Max Aarons.
There is a continually growing list of clubs around European football that want to secure the signing of Aarons which includes Arsenal, Everton, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United and RB Leipzig. However, most of them want to try and get a deal over the finish line in the summer transfer window as opposed to January.
Norwich are willing to let the teenager sensation leave the club for a fee believed to be worth around £30 million, with Tottenham contemplating whether or not to try and poach him with a deal that would be agreed upon before the January window ends.
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Giorgio Chiellini insists he and his team-mates are determined to repay the faith shown in them by Juventus and help put their recent struggles behind them.
The Bianconeri bounced back from successive defeats by Chelsea and Atalanta with a routine 2-0 win over bottom side Salernitana in Serie A.
Goals from Paulo Dybala and Alvaro Morata sealed victory for the visitors at Stadio Arechi. Juve dominated, enjoying 73.9 per cent of the ball, having 18 attempts, with seven on target, and finishing the match with a 92.9 per cent passing accuracy in contrast to their hosts completion rate of 75.9.
Dybala sliced a late penalty over the bar – his first spot-kick miss for Juve since 2017 – but the three points were already assured.
But despite the win, Juve r…
Sami Khedira is in talks with Hertha Berlin over a return to the Bundesliga, the German club s chief executive has confirmed.
Juventus midfielder Khedira is expected to leave the Serie A champions before the transfer window closes on Monday.
The contract extension the World Cup winner signed in 2018 is up at the end of the season, but he is set to depart early having failed to appear in a single matchday squad for Juve this term.
Khedira initially had a big impact after joining the Turin club in 2015, scoring 19 goals in 77 games across three successive title-winning Serie A campaigns.
He has since played just 22 times in the competition, suffering with injuries and falling out of favour entirely under rookie coach Andrea Pirlo.
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Erling Haaland had already made history by the time of Ronaldo’s tantrum after his hat-trick in the Manchester derby made it three consecutive trebles at home in the Premier League. More records have tumbled for the Norwegian since with his 20th top-flight goal coming before January and in only 14 matches, both new records, while he recently went past Alan Shearer and Andy Cole’s previous joint-feat of scoring the most goals (34) in a Premier League season.
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Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka were two of the stars of the World Cup in a brilliant redemption story after the disgusting racist abuse they received after Euro 2020. The duo had shone for United and Arsenal respectively ahead of the mid-season break for the tournament in Qatar and picked up where th…
Pep Guardiola admits he does not know if Kevin De Bruyne and Jack Grealish will be fit for next weekend’s FA Cup final.
Manchester City’s attacking duo, and defender Ruben Dias, missed the1-0 final-day defeat at Brentford through injury.
The champions, who face Manchester United at Wembley on Saturday as they bid to complete the second leg of an historic Treble, were consigned to defeat by Ethan Pinnock’s late goal.
With De Bruyne and Grealish missing completely and Erling Haaland left on the bench, it was a scratch City side and those established stars who did play, like Phil Foden and Riyad Mahrez, had little impact.
But Guardiola said: “Congratulations to Brentford for the victory. It’s difficult to faze them, how quick they play, how aggress…
Roma head coach Jose Mourinho has congratulated Napoli on already wrapping up the Serie A title, despite the season only being halfway complete.
Napoli are 12 points clear of closest challengers Milan at the summit after winning 16 of their opening 19 games and losing just once.
They are just the third different team in Serie A history, after Juventus three times and Inter once, to have won that number of games in the first half of a season.
Roma will look to halt Napoli s momentum at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Sunday, but regardless of the result, Mourinho can only see one outcome in the title race.
I ll say what I always say: they have already won the Scudetto, and deservedly so, Mourinho said at Saturday s pre-match press conference.
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Guiding Chelsea to a against Manchester City out in Portugal last weekend, there is no doubt that Thomas Tuchel has made quite the impact at Stamford Bridge since taking charge back in January.
Landing their third straight victory against Pep Guardiola’s domestic champions over the past six weeks, The Blues also lifted their first Champions League title since that famous night in Germany nine years ago.
With last summer’s club-record signing bagging the winner in Porto, it has been widely reported the former PSG boss will be given a real treasure chest worth up to £200million.
With it expected that veteran defender Thiago Silva should be extending his stay in the capital, we have taken a look at three other stars who have been linked with a move to West L…