According to a recent report from Sky Italy, Inter Milan chief executive Giuseppe Marotta and Christian Eriksen’s agent Martin Schoots had dinner in Milan recently as negotiations over a potential transfer continue.
The belief is that Inter have put forward an offer of around £10 million plus bonuses during their talks with Tottenham, but Spurs are standing firm on their current valuation which is set at around £17 million.
It’s believed to be just a matter of time before the two clubs are able to come to some sort of final arrangement, as Eriksen’s long awaited departure from North London gets closer and closer.
On the flip side, though, many Spurs fans are hoping and praying that they’re able to bring in a few more bodies before the January w…
Manchester City s Sergio Aguero brought up 100 Premier League goals at the Etihad Stadium when he dispatched an early penalty against Watford on Saturday.
Since joining from Atletico Madrid in 2011, the 31-year-old has firmly established himself as a crowd favourite on the back of countless superb displays and one goal in particular.
He is City s all-time record scorer with 239 and scored 21 in the Premier League last season, as Pep Guardiola s side made it back-to-back league titles.
The Argentina international is the third player in Premier League history to bring up a century at a single venue after Thierry Henry and Wayne Rooney at Highbury and Old Trafford respectively.
As Aguero eyes further honours this season, we look back some of his best Prem…
Cristiano Ronaldo is chasing another slice of history when Juventus travel to Lokomotiv Moscow in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Tottenham, meanwhile, will hope Harry Kane can continue his wonderful form in the competition against Red Star Belgrade, while Manchester City take on Atalanta at San Siro.
Elsewhere, Kylian Mbappe will be licking his lips at the prospect of facing Club Brugge again after he plundered a hat-trick against them two weeks ago.
Here is the pick of the key Opta facts for Wednesday s eight matches.
Paris Saint-Germain v Club Brugge
4 PSG forward Mbappe scored a hat-trick as a substitute against Brugge on matchday three, becoming only the fourth player to achieve the feat in the Champions League. In three game…
Sky Sports journalist Lyall Thomas has said on that Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing Jordan Pickford from Premier League rivals Everton. The Toffees are reportedly open to selling England international goalkeeper Pickford, and Tottenham are interested in the 27-year-old.
Thomas said: They like the idea of getting an English goalkeeper, and there’s plenty of them around. Obviously, Pickford is the England number one.
“Everton have been looking at trying to recoup some money from selling players, and they’ve been looking at their most sellable assets.
“We’re quite sure that Lucas Digne is the one they’re most open to selling, but Pickford’s name has been mentioned as well, and Tottenham would be silly not to look at that, especially i…
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Chelsea will play host to Atletico Madrid at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday evening, as the two teams clash for the second time in the Champions League round of 16. The Blues won the first leg played in Bucharest by 0-1, courtesy of a goal by Olivier Giroud, having controlled the ball for 59% of the contest and preventing the hosts from taking a single shot on target.
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Chelsea parted ways with Frank Lampard in January and replaced their former midfielder with Thomas Tuchel, and it has been an interesting period for the team since. They are still to lose a single match in any competition under the command of the former Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain boss.
Chelsea s form is still perhaps not as good as that makes…
Thomas Muller s wife ridiculed under-fire Bayern Munich coach Niko Kovac for benching the Germany international and only introducing him with 20 minutes left of the 1-1 draw against Freiburg.
Bayern are four points behind Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund after Saturday s disappointing result, having conceded an 89th-minute equaliser.
Serge Gnabry found the bottom-right corner 10 minutes from time and had seemingly wrapped things up for Bayern, only for Lucas Holer to level at the end.
Muller s wife Lisa mocked Kovac on her Instagram account when the decision was made to bring the forward off the bench.
More than 70 minutes until he finally has a brain wave, she wrote.
Muller himself downplayed his wife s comments, however, putting it do…
The most notable element of a disjointed goalless first half in Saturday s FA Cup final was the organic soundtrack.
At the Leicester end of the 21,000-strong crowd, there was a throaty collective roar when Kasper Schmeichel completed a routine catch from a right-wing corner. Referee Michael Oliver had plenty of unflattering appraisals of his work and a wildly off-target drive from Chelsea forward Timo Werner drew hearty guffaws.
There aren t really buttons on a fake crowd noise soundboard for any of that stuff.
The most significant crowd any of these footballers had played in front of for 14 months also seemed to have an impact on some adrenaline levels and resulting performances.
Leicester great Gary Lineker, so poignantly emotional after his boyhood cl…
Prediction: Both Teams To Score and France To Win
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Reigning World Champions France will be aiming to extend their unbeaten start to their latest UEFA Nations League campaign as they travel to Zagreb on Wednesday evening to take on Croatia.
The two teams are already extremely well acquainted having previously contested the 2018 World Cup final so the clash is shaping up to be another intriguing and entertaining one.
Croatia
Zlatko Dalic s troops have not had the best of experiences in the UEFA Nations League it would be fair to say. Out of seven previous games in the competition, the nation have only managed to come away with two wins. In that time, they have taken some heavy defeats too including a 6-0 reverse at the hands of Spain, as well …
Jurgen Klopp thinks Liverpool s lack of rhythm in Sunday s 0-0 draw at Manchester United was caused by the hosts first-half injury crisis.
United had to use all three of their substitutions before the interval at Old Trafford, as Ander Herrera, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard were all forced off due to injuries.
Liverpool s Roberto Firmino also had his day ended early when he rolled his ankle in a contest that never really got going.
The draw was enough to return Liverpool to the Premier League summit, but Klopp felt the enforced United changes wreaked havoc with his team, adamant it was two points dropped.
It s difficult. It was a strange game, Klopp told Sky Sports. We started really, really well, exactly as we wanted to start.
Then the injury …
Lionel Messi scored one goal and provided two assists as Argentina kept alive their bid to end their 28-year Copa America title wait with a 3-0 quarter-final win over 10-man Ecuador in Goiania on Saturday.
Messi hit the post early before showing composure to find Rodrigo De Paul for his maiden international goal in the 40th minute.
Late on, Messi swooped on a heavy touch from Piero Hincapie to set up Lautaro Martinez – for his second goal in two games before adding one of his own with a superb free-kick.
Argentina extends their unbeaten run to 18 games under head coach Lionel Scaloni. La Tri exit without a win, despite reaching the knockout stage.
Argentina started strong, with Martinez s angled shot saved, while German Pezzella fired into the side-net…