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The rumoured Real Madrid target is in no rush to make a decision on his long-term future Chelsea star Eden Hazard said he will decide his future at the end of the season amid ongoing links with Real Madrid. Hazard’s Chelsea contract expires in 2020 and a potential move to Champions League holders Madrid continues to dominate headlines. The winger recently ...

Chelsea legend Michael Essien fears some top players at the club could leave due to limited playing time.Centre-back Andreas Christensen, striker Alvaro Morata, Cesc Fabregas, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Gary Cahill, Danny Drinkwater, Victor Moses, and teenager Callum Hudson-Odoi are all said to be reconsidering their future at Stamford Bridge due to limited opportunities.Essien believes this situation could force the players out.“Every ...

Bankroller of King Faisal, Alhaji Karim Grusah has described Asante Kotoko Chairman Dr. Kwame Kyei as the best sports personality of the year while naming the Sports Minister, Normalisation Committee and coach Bashir Hayford as the worse in the year under review for their roles in the Black Queens abysmal performance at the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations. With ...

MANCHESTER UNITED icon Sir Alex Ferguson had reservations about Jose Mourinho long before his sacking, reports say. Manchester United icon Ferguson witnessed Mourinho’s final match as manager of the Red Devils on Sunday in their 3-1 Premier League defeat to Liverpool. Since then, the club have turned to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as they try to lift the doom and gloom mood ...

ARSENAL star Mesut Ozil is happy in London amid reports Unai Emery wants to offload him in the January transfer market. Arsenal star Ozil has been tipped to leave the club on loan in January amid his struggles under Emery. Emery has regularly dropped the Germany international this season, making a decision that Arsene Wenger was always reluctant to make. As ...

MANCHESTER UNITED star Fred will NOT be leaving Old Trafford in the wake of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s arrival, according to agent Gilberto Silva. Manchester United signed Fred from Shakhtar Donetsk in the summer, paying £52million to make him their fourth most-expensive player of all time. His Old Trafford career has struggled for lift-off, however, with Jose Mourinho regularly leaving him out. ...

MANCHESTER UNITED caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has divulged details of his private conversation with Sir Alex Ferguson. Solskjaer, who has been handed the reins at Old Trafford until the end of the season, spoke to his former manager this week after news of his appointment broke. Sir Alex, who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013, gave his advice on how ...

MANCHESTER UNITED sacked Jose Mourinho because they feared a squad mutiny against the manager. Four players were ready to QUIT the club unless executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward wielded the axe. It is understood Woodward was concerned a mass exodus would be triggered if he remained loyal to the floundering Mourinho. The January transfer window is just a matter of days ...

The interim manager at Old Trafford is not ruling out a busy month of spending in the new year as he plans for his first match in charge at Cardiff Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has hinted that Manchester United will be making moves in the January window and has vowed he will “have an input” over the club’s transfer dealings. The ...

The Colombian reportedly wants to return to Real Madrid but refused to speculate about his future James Rodriguez insisted he is only thinking about Bayern Munich as the star midfielder denied reports of a rift with head coach Niko Kovac. Bayern are in no rush to use their option to buy James, who is in the second and final season ...