Zinedine Zidane revealed he left LaLiga giants Real Madrid as the club no longer has the faith in me I need .
Zidane called time on his second spell with Madrid after Los Blancos were dethroned by city rivals Atletico Madrid in LaLiga this past season.
The 48-year-old Frenchman returned to the Santiago Bernabeu in March 2019, having delivered three successive Champions League titles and one LaLiga trophy between January 2016 and May 2018.
While Zidane led Madrid to LaLiga glory in 2019-20, the Spanish capital side endured a difficult 2020-21 campaign – eliminated by minnows Alcoyano in the Copa del Rey, edged out by Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals, and pipped to back-to-back LaLiga trophies by Atletico.
Zidane lifted the lid on his Madrid e…
Arsenal struck a potentially significant blow in the race for the Premier League top four with a 2-0 win over Manchester United at Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
A Granit Xhaka strike and a second-half penalty from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who missed from the spot in the 1-1 draw with Tottenham last week, gave the Gunners three valuable points that lift them into fourth.
The result also ends United s nine-game winning run away from home under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, just four days on from their dramatic Champions League victory over Paris Saint-Germain.
Arsenal started positively but should have been behind nine minutes in, when Romelu Lukaku steered Luke Shaw s low cross against the crossbar from six yards out.
The Gunners punished that miss three minute…
With another weekend of action from across England ahead, we here at Soccer News have found a handful of helpful tips that can potentially boost your Saturday acca:
Saturday 1st December
15:00 Newcastle vs West Ham
While it may have been a sluggish start for Newcastle at the start of the season, Rafa Benitez s side appear to have finally found their feet. Picking up a 2-1 win away at Burnley on Monday night, the Magpies are now enjoying three wins on the bounce and are unbeaten in their last four. Putting in their best run of performances in recent memory, fans in the north west will also be boosted by their recent record against the Hammers. Putting three past their guests the last time the two sides met last season, they have also won the last three connective meetin…
Raheem Sterling urged calm and offered some perspective amid criticism of England s 0-0 draw with Scotland in their second game at Euro 2020.
England have come under intense pressure for their underwhelming performance against Scotland, with expectations high about the team s prospects having reached the 2018 World Cup semi-finals.
Sterling said the doom and gloom needed to subside, pointing to previous champions at both European Championships and World Cups who had started slowly.
England have four points from their opening two games in Group D, with Sterling scoring the winner in their opening 1-0 victory over Croatia, ahead of Tuesday s group finale against the Czech Republic.
[England manager] Gareth [Southgate] showed us some stats on teams that hav…
Manchester City playmaker David Silva is set to remain as the Premier League leaders creative fulcrum after signing a contract extension running until 2020.
Silva has dazzled since joining City from Valencia in 2010 and the Spain international is widely regarded as one of the finest players in the club s history.
City director of football Txiki Begiristain welcomed the news by hailing Silva as the best creative midfielder in English football and the numbers produced by the 31-year-old throughout this decade certainly add weight to that claim.
Using Opta data, we take a closer look at the brilliance of a two-time Premier League winner and an enduring fans favourite.
72 David Silva has made 72 assists in the , more than twice as many as any other player in…
Marcus Rashford is really important to Manchester United and the forward is very much in their plans amid reported transfer interest from Paris Saint-Germain, says Erik ten Hag.
The 24-year-old struggled during a tepid 2021-22 campaign at Old Trafford, losing his place in the England set-up and mustering just four goals in 25 league appearances.
Reports have since emerged that he could make a fresh start across the English Channel with Ligue 1 heavyweights PSG.
But speaking ahead of a trip to Brentford this weekend, Ten Hag insists he regards Rashford as a key member of his squad this term.
He is really important, Ten Hag said. You have seen from the first day I am here [that] I am really happy with him.
I do not want to lose him. He is def…
Competition: La Liga
Market: Espanyol to beat Malaga
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La Liga is back for yet another massive weekend of action as every side in the league looks to build upon the starts they made in 2017. Each team will know the importance of starting the new year in positive fashion, meaning a win, especially if a side is playing at home, is vital. With all of this in mind, Malaga host Espanyol on Monday.
Malaga have been struggling massively this year and they need to improve or they will face relegation. After 17 games they have three wins, two draws and 12 defeats, while they have only scored 13 goals, conceding 31 times. In their last five they have won just once, while they have drawn one game and lost three times, which has seen them onto 11 points…
The Premier League has countless memorable matches to look back upon over the course of almost 10,000 games.
Saturday s top-flight fixtures will take the competition into five figures in terms of matches.
If any of them are half as entertaining as our favourites below then we re in for a treat.
COLLYMORE LEAVES KEEGAN SLUMPED
Stan Collymore largely failed to deliver on Merseyside but an image of the former Nottingham Forest striker celebrating wildly in the red of Liverpool after thrashing home at the back post is etched on the consciousness of every football fan of a certain age, unhappily so for those of a Newcastle United persuasion.
The striker scored Liverpool s second equaliser and a 92nd-minute winner in the glorious, haphazard…
MEP Sander Loones has called on the European Commission to mount an investigation into the financing behind Gareth Bale s world-record transfer from Tottenham to Real Madrid in 2013.
Loones and fellow European Parliament members Daniel Dalton and Ramon Tremosa wrote to the Commission with concerns that Spanish banks bailed out by European tax-payers provided guarantees for the fee paid to sign the Welshman.
In 2013, Dutch MEP Derk-Jan Eppink raised questions over the financing arrangement behind the deal, and the trio have reignited the issue with their submission to the executive body of the European Union.
Promissory notes were issued to Tottenham Hotspur, which subsequently seem to have been sold on to Spanish banks, which have now ended up assuming the…
Juan Mata has signed a new two-year contract, with the option for a further season, at Manchester United.
Mata s previous deal was due to expire at the end of June, but after protracted negotiations United confirmed on Wednesday they have struck an agreement to keep the Spaniard at Old Trafford.
It is a real honour to continue to represent this amazing club and our incredible fans. I have been at Manchester United for five years and I am proud to call Old Trafford my home, said Mata.
I am looking forward to working with Ole [Gunnar Solskjaer] and his fantastic coaching staff; the vision that they have for the club is truly exciting and I am so happy that I will be a part of that.
The 31-year-old joined United in January 2014 after losing his spot in C…