Author: Anuraag Peesara

Reigning Serie A champions Inter Milan are continuing their golden run of form on the field despite Antonio Conte leaving the duties a bit abruptly. Simone Inzaghi has done a terrific job thus far to keep them 4 points clear at the top of the table, but it seems like the 2009/10 treble winners have a new problem to worry about. The local finance police in Milan raided Internazionale’s office in search of information pertaining to player transfers, fees paid between clubs for the materialization of a transfer and others. Not very long ago, Juventus were also raided by the same organization…

Loc Blancos forward Borja Mayoral, who is currently on loan at AS Roma in Italy, has been linked with a shocking transfer to Crystal Palace in the upcoming transfer window. The 24-year-old graduate from the Real Madrid academy has not been getting a lot of action under Jose Mourinho in the ongoing season, and his parent club are looking to ship him elsewhere to provide him some game time. Former treble-winning manager Jose Mourinho joined the Giallorossi in May after a failed stint with Tottenham Hotspur last season. The manager had signed Tammy Abraham from Chelsea for just over 40 million Euros, which sidelined the Spaniard from getting…

After a series of Premier League matches got postponed in recent weeks, it was announced over the last 24 hours that two more games have been cancelled to prevent an outbreak. Wolves were supposed to play Watford on Boxing Day, whilst Leeds United were gearing up for another action-packed game against Liverpool for the same day. All four clubs have officially announced that their games will be postponed until further notice, and players will not be taking the pitch this week. This announcement came just a day after Jurgen Klopp had expressed his disappointment over the scheduling during Christmas eve and New…

Cricket has been on the backfoot in terms of getting involved with the Olympics for a long time and it doesn’t appear like things will be changing any time soon. However, for the 2028 Summer Olympics which will be held in Los Angeles, California. The International Cricket Council ICC doesn’t seem to be giving up on the idea any time soon and is planning to launch another million-dollar bid soon. Cricket was not included in the provisional list of sports to be conducted in Los Angeles, which involves 28 of them. The local organizing committee will be deciding on the additional sports…

Jordan Henderson is concerned by the fact that the Premier League is not considering the mental well-being of its players seriously. On Monday, it was announced that the schedule for the end of the year will go on as per the previous plan and none of the games will be postponed despite the coronavirus cases across the country increasing massively. A total of 10 games in the last week were called off due to an outbreak in a few clubs, resulting in an urgent board meeting between all shareholders of the Premier League. The decision taken by all of them was to…

Another name from the Red Bull circuit is about to join Manchester United’s coaching staff under Ralf Rangnick in the coming days. Ewan Sharp, who had worked with the German manager before at Red Bull New York, was also with him at Lokomotiv Moscow before Manchester United came swooping in for the 63-year-old. After Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked by the club for a set of poor results, Michael Carrick took over for three games until Rangnick could get his Visa approval and left the club immediately after that. Kieran McKenna, another man who had been working in the coaching staff since the Jose Mourinho days…

The 59-year-old, who has worked with the franchise as their technical director, was a surprise pick to take over as manager, has experience of taking over the same duty was a decent enough sample size to win over the management. The Gaurs are off to their worst Indian Super League start ever. They lost their opening three games of the campaign to Mumbai City (3-0), Jamshedpur (3-1) and NorthEast United (2-1), but fought back to beat East Bengal (4-3) and Bengaluru (2-1) in the next two games. After a 1-1 draw against Hyderabad FC on December 18, which meant they had not kept a clean sheet for the opening six games, Ferrando…

Having quit a series just an hour before it kick-started, the Kiwis have agreed to tour Pakistan twice in the 2022/23 cycle to make amends for the postponed series. The news was confirmed by both boards, who announced that a total of 8 ODIs, 5 T20Is and 2 Tests will be involved across both the tours. The first visit will be a part of the Future Tours Program. NZ players will be in the subcontinent in December 2022, right after the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, to play the men in green in two Tests and three ODIs. They will be…

Currently 19th in the Premier League table, The Magpies are looking to appoint Dan Ashworth of Brighton & Hove Albion as their director of football, hoping to stay up after a terrible start this season. Having appointed Eddie How as a manager in early November, they have managed just one win thus far in the league. Brighton have given Ashworth the green signal to hold talks with the Tyneside club. Although the Seagulls are desperate to retain their man, they reckoned it would be counter-productive to not let him have a conversation with the bosses of the club. Ashworth is…

Manchester City midfielders Phil Foden and Jack Grealish have been warned over their conduct by Josep Guardiola shortly after their 4-0 win over Newcastle United on December 19. Both players were left out from the first team squad that headed to Tyneside for this fixture as the manager was unhappy with their behavior. Foden and Grealish were instrumental in thumping Leeds United 7-0 at the Etihad stadium. They both were pictured having a night out after that stupendous win and Guardiola clearly mentioned that these players were not rested. He said to the media that he notices off field and on…