New Chelsea signing Juan Cuadrado has already been forgotten at Fiorentina, according to coach Vincenzo Montella.
Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Montella says the club have already forgotten about the recently departed Juan Cuadrado.
The Colombia international signed for Chelsea on a four-and-a-half-year deal on Monday, leaving the club he joined in 2012.
However, Montella insists there will be no dwelling on Cuadrado s exit, stressing the focus will be on building for the future.
We can say that we have forgotten about Juan Cuadrado, he said following Tuesday s 2-0 Coppa Italia quarter-final win at Roma.
Unfortunately he has gone, but before leaving we wished him good luck.
We celebrated with him because he is going to play in a great envir…
Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola insists he is not trying to create a replica of the side he coached at former club Barcelona.
The 42-year-old had a trophy-laden four-year spell in charge at the Camp Nou, winning 14 trophies including three La Liga titles and two UEFA Champions Leagues.
After departing the Spanish champions at the end of the 2011-12 campaign, Guardiola took a sabbatical before taking over a Bayern side that completed a treble of the Bundesliga, Champions League and DFB-Pokal last season in July.
The Spaniard has overseen an impressive start to the season, with Bayern winning seven and drawing two of their nine league fixtures and taking nine points from their three Champions League games.
Parallels have been drawn in style between Guardiola …
The talks between Fulham and Newcastle United are progressing well, and the London club are confident about the deal being done this summer, according to .
Crystal Palace are also interested in signing the Serbia international with Christian Benteke having a terrible 2017/18 season, but it is understood Mitrović would prefer to continue his successful stint with Fulham. He spent the second half of last season on loan at Craven Cottage, scoring 12 goals that helped them earn Premier League promotion, and enjoyed a good relationship with his compatriot manager Slaviša Jokanović.
Newcastle are apparently ready to sell the striker for a reported price of £20million and they are already considering a swoop for Nice striker Alessane Plea, who is also on Fulham s radar,…
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In a showdown between two of the Championship s early-season promotion contenders, Watford will make the trip to Bournemouth on Saturday lunchtime.
Starting with the hosts, after it was announced earlier in the week that Jonathan Woodgate would be taking permanent charge at the Vitality, it is fair to say that Bournemouth fans were far from convinced by that appointment. While the Cherries might have opened the 2020/21 campaign with an immediate Premier League return at the top of their agenda, the former Middlesbrough boss saw his new squad put in another worrying display in midweek. While January arrival Shane Long might have grabbed Bournemouth another consolation strike on Wednesday night, Woodgate s side slumped to a 2-1 de…
In my younger years I thought of AC Milan as this giant mythical football club that would always have a special place within in football. They were European giants but their light seems to have dimmed in recent years.
In the shadow of Inter
If you would of said that AC would be in the shadow of their city rivals Inter ten years ago you would of been locked up. Inter hadn t won a league title since 1989 with AC claiming five titles in the nineties.
However Inter have dominated Serie A in recent history winning the last four titles and their rivals haven t came close to them. Milan have had to content themselves with two Champions League trophies in 2003 and 2007. Their domestic form has been awful though and they have tended to concentrate on Eu…
Schalke have agreed a deal to sign Mainz forward Adam Szalai, sporting director Horst Heldt has announced.
Szalai, who joined Mainz from Real Madrid in 2010 following a successful loan spell at the Coface Arena, is poised to move to boost Schalke s forward line as they aim to try and challenge Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund at the top of the Bundesliga.
Hungary international Szalai will become the club s third signing of the off-season after Felipe Santana moved from Dortmund and Christian Clemens agreed to join from Cologne.
We have agreed with Mainz 05 on the transfer of Szalai, Heldt said on the club s Twitter account.
We are currently exchanging contracts and are waiting for the medical check.
Szalai made 33 appearances in all competitions for Mai…
Southampton have been handed a boost ahead of the EFL Cup semi-final second leg away to Liverpool, with midfielder Oriol Romeu agreeing a new contract.
Former Barcelona and Chelsea player Romeu impressed during his debut campaign at St Mary s Stadium last season, having moved to the south coast from Stamford Bridge in August 2015.
He initially signed a three-year deal but will now be under contract until 2021 after penning an extension.
I couldn t be any happier to have this new contract with the club, he said in a statement.
Ever since I came here I have felt very, very good. Everything has been positive for me. I have developed myself and been getting better every day.
Looking forward, it s a good thing for me, but hopefully there will be mor…
Vincent Kompany is determined not to be defeated by on-going injury woes after his latest Manchester City comeback and concedes his can sometimes be his own worst enemy.
The 30-year-old centre-back suffered the 37th injury of his eight-and-a-half-year City career at Crystal Palace in November, when he collided with goalkeeper Claudio Bravo and landed awkwardly to sustain knee ligament damage.
It was a particularly cruel blow for the Belgium international, with the injury unrelated to the muscular problems that severely hindered his 2015-16 campaign before denying him a place at Euro 2016.
But Kompany returned to Selhurt Park and captained City to a 3-0 win in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Saturday.
It was more important for me [to play at Palace], he…
According to David Ornstein of , Chelsea have reached an agreement with Mauricio Pochettino, who is now set to become the Blues head coach at the end of the season. In the meantime, the former Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur and Paris Saint-Germain boss will collaborate with interim boss Frank Lampard.
Chelsea have been searching for the right man for the job since sacking Graham Potter in April. They ve reportedly held talks with several candidates and seriously considered former RB Leipzig and Bayern Munich boss Julian Nagelsmann at one point, but the negotiations eventually fell through, and they turned to Pochettino.
Chelsea have had an extremely difficult season despite investing well over €600 million in their squad in the last two transfer windows, breaking the …
Ange Postecoglou hailed the professionalism of Tottenham captain Son Heung-min ahead of his club return for Saturday’s visit of Brighton.
Son suffered Asian Cup disappointment with South Korea on Tuesday as they lost 2-0 to Jordan at the semi-final stage.
The South Korea skipper cut a dejected figure at full-time, but was quickly back on a plane to the UK and trained on Friday to make himself available for Spurs’ fixture with Brighton.
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Postecoglou said: “It wouldn’t surprise anyone to see him be like that.
“He was very, very disappointed with Korea’s exit because they haven’t won it for quite a while and after they got past Australia, when yo…