Manchester City manager Gareth Taylor has urged his side to use last season s disappointment to spur them towards the Women s Super League title.
City finished second in the WSL last campaign with 55 points, the same as champions Chelsea, but missed out due to their inferior goal difference.
The Blues won their fifth consecutive WSL title, with City finishing as runners-up for a sixth time in the competition s history.
Having come so close to claiming their second league title last time around, Taylor is confident his players will be ready for another challenge this season.
Speaking at the Barclay s WSL s 2024-25 season launch Media Day, Taylor told Stats Perform: Well, you ll be surprised how strong it kind of makes you and how mentally determined you do…
Robert Lewandowski s time at Bayern Munich has come to an end.
Barcelona have struck a deal in principle with the Bundesliga champions to sign the star forward, who expressed his desire to leave Munich at the end of last season.
Lewandowski scored 50 goals across all competitions in the 2021-22 campaign, continuing his remarkable form across his eight-year spell in Bavaria.
Before his move to Bayern in 2014, Lewandowski was brilliant for Borussia Dortmund, and he leaves Germany as one of the Bundesliga s greatest performers, having scored 344 goals and contributing 57 assists.
Here are the 33-year-old s best figures and records from his stint in Germany s top tier.
Bossing the Bundesliga
312 Lewandowski has scored 312 Bundesliga goals…
Sevilla cry foul over referee treatment after LaLiga red cards exceed 100 for first time in seven ye
Sevilla claim they have suffered alarming treatment at the hands of LaLiga referees this season and said the number of red cards shown should serve as an urgent wake-up call to league chiefs.
In an extraordinary statement issued by the club on Saturday, Sevilla pointed to the team receiving 91 yellows and 11 red cards despite committing just 329 fouls.
That aggregate of 102 cards is the most shown to any team in the Spanish top flight this term, despite 13 teams having more fouls to their name.
Sevilla sat 13th in the table after a 2-2 draw with Celta Vigo on Friday, in which Pape Gueye and Marcos Acuna were both dismissed and a 2-0 lead was relinquished in the closing moments.
This season s performance has been a frustrating one, after three consecutive …
James Milner, Roberto Firmino, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita will all leave Liverpool when their contracts expire at the end of the season.
Milner and Firmino joined the Reds in June 2015 and both played in the 2019 Champions League final victory over Tottenham.
Oxlade-Chamberlain arrived in June 2017 and Keita the following summer, with the quartet all playing their part in the Reds’ Premier League title win in the 2019-20 campaign.
We can confirm Roberto Firmino, Naby Keita, James Milner and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will leave the club upon the expiry of their contracts this summer.
Special acknowledgements will be paid to the quartet at Anfield, with further tributes to follow at the end of the season.
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Stefano Pioli believes the character of his Milan side is second to none after the reigning Serie A champions secured a late win against Spezia on Saturday.
Olivier Giroud came off the bench at San Siro to score an 89th-minute winner in the 2-1 victory, though was then sent off for a second booking after removing his shirt while celebrating.
Pioli was full of praise for the mental strength of his team after the win, which took Milan up to second and back to within six points of league leaders Napoli after the latter beat Atalanta.
Our mentality is to believe in what we do, he told Sky. As far as character is concerned, we are second to none.
Theo Hernandez put Milan in front with a first-half volley from close range, only for Daniel Maldini son of Milan…
Luke Shaw has been selling Manchester United to his England team-mates and says he would take Harry Kane and Declan Rice at Old Trafford “in a heartbeat”.
Having continued their winning start to Euro 2024 qualification by beating Malta 4-0 on Friday, Gareth Southgate’s side have been preparing at Carrington for the season finale against North Macedonia.
Shaw posted an Instagram story on Saturday showing pictures of him at the United training base next to Kane and Rice with the caption “Carrington tour” and an eyes emoji.
The lighthearted post comes with the futures of Tottenham striker Kane and West Ham captain Rice among the highest profile of many transfer talking points surrounding this group of England players.
“It is not normally discusse…
Republic of Ireland boss Stephen Kenny has told his players they must believe they can still qualify automatically for the Euro 2024 finals until it becomes a mathematical impossibility.
The chances of Ireland making it to next summer’s finals effectively evaporated last month when they were beaten by Group B rivals France and the Netherlands, and even the prospect of a back-door ticket via the play-offs looks unlikely given their Nations League ranking.
However beleaguered boss Kenny, who has come under intense pressure as a result of just a single victory in the opening five qualifiers – and that against minnows Gibraltar – remained defiant as he plotted revenge against Greece, who got the better of his side in Athens in June.
The manager said: “We want…
Leeds United are interested in signing James Garner from Premier League rivals Manchester United in the summer transfer window, according to . The report in the British tabloid has claimed that the Red Devils are looking for £14 million as transfer fee for the 21-year-old midfielder.
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag is willing to let Garner leave, although the report has claimed that they had earlier turned down interest in the England Under-21 international. Garner has been on the books of Manchester United since 2009 and has come through the ranks, but he has never started a Premier League game for them.
Garner spent the second half of the 2020-21 season and the entire 2021-22 campaign on loan at Nottingham Forest from Manchester United. The youngster helped th…
England manager Fabio Capello has ruled out the possibility that he will continue in the job after the Euro 2012 tournament, killing off speculation that recent good performances could prolong his stay.
The Italian s reputation took a battering after England s dismal World Cup performance, but his stock has bounced back after impressive victories against Bulgaria and Switzerland in Euro qualifiers this month.
The renewed success of his team had raised questions about whether Capello would try and stay on after the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine but he moved late Wednesday to put an end to such talk.
Asked whether he would be leaving after Euro 2012, the 64-year-old responded: Absolutely. Yes.
We have to qualify first of course but after t…
Liverpool have signed Italy international Federico Chiesa from Serie A giants Juventus.
The Reds have reportedly paid an initial £10million for the 26-year-old, with that fee rising to £12.5m including add-ons.
Chiesa is said to have signed a four-year deal with Liverpool, though the club did not confirm the length of the contract.
He joined Juve from Fiorentina in 2020, and starred at the delayed Euro 2020 tournament, which Italy won by beating England on penalties at Wembley.
Capable of playing on either flank, Chiesa scored nine goals and set up two more in Serie A last term.
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Speaking to Liverpool s official website, Chiesa said: I m so happy to be a Liverpool player. When Richard Hughes calle…