Barcelona appear most likely to sign Antoine Griezmann after the France international announced he will be leaving Atletico Madrid, despite having signed a new five-year contract last June.
The 28-year-old, who joined Atleti from Real Sociedad for approximately €30million in July 2014, has been the club s top goalscorer across all competitions in each of his five seasons in the capital.
His exploits took him to fifth in the club s list of all-time leading scorers with 133 in all competitions, but the World Cup-winning forward brought much more than just goals to the Rojiblancos.
A detailed look at his season-by-season statistics underline his huge importance to Diego Simeone s team over the past five years, but do they also indicate his best football may be beh…
According to a recent report from AS, Real Madrid are gearing up to sell Gareth Bale during the summer transfer window. The club’s president Florentino Perez has reportedly ran out of patience with Bale, who has had an uneasy time of things at the Bernabeu in the last few years. The report suggests that the only thing which could change Perez’s mind is an ‘outstanding’ end to the season for Bale, who scored twice in Real’s Champions League final win last May.
Bale has been with Madrid since back in 2013, when he made the then-world record jump over from Tottenham Hotspur. It was a move that had been in the pipeline for quite some time, and it’s fair to say that he’s enjoyed his fair share of success since joining.
Bale first made his debut for the Welsh na…
Tottenham secured their place in next season s Champions League and moved up to third in the Premier League with a 1-0 victory over Newcastle United at Wembley.
Harry Kane s second-half goal let an out-of-sorts Spurs team off the hook after they were second best at times versus Rafael Benitez s determined Newcastle side on a tense evening in north London.
A run of only one win from four league matches and a defeat to relegated West Brom left Mauricio Pochettino s men needing a drastic improvement against the Magpies but their performance lacked conviction and key players failed to deliver.
After a frustrating first half, a move involving Dele Alli, Kane and Son Heung-min produced the kind of cohesive, fast passing that was Spurs trademark earlier in the season …