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Burkinabe attacker Songne Yacouba has informed the management of Asante Kotoko of his desire to discontinue his relationship with them, footballmadeinghana.com understands. Yacouba who was given a week leave to visit his family last week in his native country arrived in Ghana on Thursday and missed out the side clash with Aduana Stars in the Normalization Committee Special Competition. Footballmadeinghana.com ...

Ex-Ghana midfielder Anthony Obodai has revealed how he helped toughen former teammate Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Ajax Amsterdam. Obodai was also privileged to play alongside Rafael van der Vaart and Wesley Sneijder. The 36-year-old recounts how coach Koeman will assign him to keep the tabs on Ibrahimovic in training to get the best out of the Swedish star. He thinks his ...

ZINEDINE ZIDANE has thrown Gareth Bale’s Real Madrid future into further doubt after admitting he is planning to ‘make changes’ for next season. Bale has cut an increasingly frustrated figure at the Bernabeu and has been heavily linked with a switch to Manchester United after starting only 18 La Liga games this season. He was frozen out under former manager ...

CHELSEA boss Maurizio Sarri is not happy with fans chanting they want him out of the club. The Blues were lucky to beat Cardiff 2-1 at the weekend with supporters calling for the Italian to be axed throughout. But Sarri was defiant in his press conference today ahead of Chelsea’s clash with Brighton tomorrow night (7.45pm). He said: “I am ...

Experienced football administrator, Alhaji Karim Grusah has called on the return of Ghanaian duo Kelvin Prince Boateng and Sulley Ali Muntari to the Black Stars ahead of the 2019 Africa Cup Nations. Ghana will travel to Egypt in June for their 32nd AFCON. .The Stars are hoping to clinch the ultimate to end their long trophy drought having failed to ...

MESUT OZIL will discover on Sunday if his recent upsurge in form has been enough that Arsenal boss Unai Emery finally trusts him. The German playmaker was named man-of-the-match by Arsenal fans at the Emirates after his part in the comfortable 2-0 win over Newcastle that lifts the Gunners back up to third place. However, it has not been his ...

JOSE MOURINHO has taken a dig at Paul Pogba revealing he had once asked to leave the stadium in his Rolls Royce rather than the team bus. Mourinho and Pogba had a turbulent relationship at Manchester United with the manager finally losing his job in December. The problems started in January 2018 when Mourinho subbed Pogba after an hour in ...

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER has told Real Madrid they are wasting their time chasing Paul Pogba insisting the player has told him he is “happy” and staying put at Old Trafford. Speculation linking the midfielder with a move to the Bernabeu grew last week after the France international suggested it would be “a dream” to play for the Spanish giants. Flames ...

There are few jobs in professional sport as tough as being an elite-level football manager. The stakes at the very pinnacle of the game are ludicrously high, with a poor run of results usually ending up in the boss being given the boot. However, one solace for those men in charge of the world’s biggest clubs is that the pay ...

Ex- Ghana International Sam Johnson has urged players of the Black Stars to insist on what is due them from the authorities before they feature for the national team. According to him, he fully supports the idea of players demanding for their monies even before they play in any tournament. Sam Johnson revealed that,the current players have taken lessons from ...