Author: Anjishnu Roy

The Blues have officially joined the race for Chicago Fire goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina after coming close to a deal that ultimately didn’t pan out in February. Chelsea have set their sights on the 18-year-old. Reliable transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano recently tweeted about the Blues’ interest in the highly-rated American. “Important hours ahead for Gabriel Slonina transfer. Real Madrid made official bid turned down by Chicago Fire last week – but Chelsea are also in talks to sign him, after being really close last February. Decision to be made soon – gonna be one of MLS record transfers,” he wrote. However, Chelsea…

Former AS Monaco and Lille sporting director Luis Campos has been appointed as the new football advisor of Paris Saint-Germain following the departure of previous director Leonardo. He will begin work as soon as possible as a busy summer awaits the Parisian outfit. The Portuguese has been announced to be the new football advisor of PSG in a statement released by the club on June 10. Campos has previous experience working at Ligue 1 clubs AS Monaco and Lille, helping them build solid squads and achieve domestic and international success. Credit: Ligue 1 His work on transfers was one of…

The fraud trial involving former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and ex-UEFA head Michel Platini over alleged corrupt payments came to a halt on Wednesday after the former fell ill and couldn’t testify. The trial has now been delayed by a day. Prior to entering the courtroom in Switzerland, the former FIFA president claimed on Wednesday that he was bothered by chest trials and had difficulty breathing. Therefore, he was unable to testify on the opening day of his criminal trial. The Swiss is facing charges of defrauding FIFA in a Swiss criminal court. He is joined by former UEFA boss Michel…

Pep Guardiola’s insistence on playing with a false nine and following the signing of Erling Haaland, Manchester City are almost sure to sell striker Gabriel Jesus. Chelsea have now joined the race for the Brazilian along with their city rivals Arsenal, reports AS. Jesus looks set to depart City following his worst season with the club since signing in 2017. However, he still managed to score 13 goals across all tournaments despite extremely limited playing time to take his club tally to 95 goals for the club over the last five years. https://twitter.com/Squawka/status/1524049165680099328 The striker arrived in Europe with the tag of massive prodigious…

It has been a disastrous few weeks for Canadian football which continued on Sunday. Just hours after the men’s national team’s friendly with Panama at the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver was rescheduled, their preparations for this year’s Qatar World Cup suffered yet another massive setback as the team went on a de-facto strike. The Canada national team have gone on a strike as player protests continue over compensation demands and player perks for Qatar World Cup 2022. They refused to train on both Friday and Saturday to drive the point across after months of fruitless conversations and back and…

Thanks to their Champions League victory, the non-decision of Kylian Mbappe and some big names being offloaded, Real Madrid are expected to have a transfer budget of 350 million pounds available to spend on players this summer, reports Goal. Whilst their arch-rivals Barcelona are perennially languishing in debt and are struggling to raise immediate funds in order to write off losses before the year closes, Los Blancos are enjoying a wonderful year both on and off the pitch. https://twitter.com/realmadriden/status/1533362306150719489 Carlo Ancelotti’s team recorded comeback after comeback to not only reach the Champions League final and also defeated Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool to win their…

There were a few nervous gasps from the away fans who had travelled to the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara Arena when Germany went behind to Lorenzo Pellegrini’s 70th-minute strike. However, Joshua Kimmich’s calm and collected equalizer three minutes later was enough to earn a 1-1 draw with Italy in their UEFA Nations League opener on Saturday. It also ensured that Die Mannschaft remained unbeaten under new manager Hansi Flick. It has been a woeful few months for Italian football. Their 37-match winning streak, which peaked with their Euro 2020 win last July, was a beacon that the Italian national team was…

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, fresh off the back of leading his club to yet another Champions League title, now finds himself in legally shark-infested waters. The Frenchman has dropped an appeal against a one-year suspended sentence for complicity in a bid to blackmail former international teammate Mathieu Valbuena with a sex tape, his lawyer said on May 4. Last November, Benzema was found guilty in the sex tape extortion scandal surrounding former France midfielder Valbuena. He was handed a one-year suspended jail sentence and been fined 75,000 euros for his involvement in a scandal. The Versailles court found that…

With the club season having come to an end across Europe, the focus switches back to international football and the latest cycle of the UEFA Nations League is underway. The clash between Italy and Germany, to be hosted at the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara in Bologna is expected to be one of the highlights from the first round of fixtures. Italy are arriving into this clash on the back of what has been a horrific and disappointing year. The European champions have failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the second time in a row after a miserable outing…

With a new complainant coming forward to share her story of sexual abuse at the hands of Benjamin Mendy, the defender now stands accused of eight counts of rape, one count of sexual assault, and one count of attempted rape, relating to seven young women, reports BBC. The Manchester City full-back plead not guilty to all the charges last month besides the latest one, and it has not been put to him, and he is yet to enter a plea to. A court order had banned the media from publishing reports about the latest charge until the order was lifted…