2023-05-18 09:52:18 Vinicius Jr, Real Madrid striker, after Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final elimination against Manchester City (0-4): “It’s always very difficult to play against Manchester City because they are a team that always has control of the game. Today (Wednesday), we couldn’t impose our game, we couldn’t implement the coach’s ideas on the pitch. It’s … Read more
And also… Like Alexandre Lacazette, another Lyonnais did the windshield wiper: Steed Malbranque, left as his younger brother for the Premier League in 2001 (Fulham, Tottenham, Sunderland), and returned to OL in 2012 after a brief stint with the rival from Saint-Etienne. The former international midfielder Espoirs (42 years old today, 7 selections), still played … Read more
Four runs will mark the next season of Ligue 1 and Troyes is well aware of the need to arm themselves as quickly as possible in order to obtain a second maintenance in a row. Fifteenth in the last Championship, Estac is in any case on track to quickly strengthen its defensive sector. An agreement … Read more
We waited to see, we saw. For fifteen years, Lionel Messi weighed so much in the successes of Barça that he ended up being confused with the Catalan team. His arrival at PSG last summer was accompanied by an enigma: was his genius exportable? A few days before the end of the Championship, his first … Read more
That’s a pretty unlikely salary jump. While earning €4 million a year at OL, Xherdan Shaqiri left the Rhone club last winter after a completely failed half-season. But the Swiss has fallen back on his feet: he now earns €7.73 million a year in Chicago, according to MLS Players Association. He is the highest paid … Read more
The Parisians were complete in Montpellier, even the suspended players (Neymar, Kimpembe) having made the trip to be able to fly away in stride in Qatar. Among the group selected by Mauricio Pochettino for the match, only one player did not walk the pitch for the warm-up or the match: Idrissa Gueye. Already absent last … Read more
Two fortunes, two visions, two methods. Asked about the billionaires François Pinault and Frank McCourt, a hierarch of French football draws a western-style parallel: “I have the impression that the first is in the process of arming itself with a higher caliber when the other has already toasted quite a few cartridges”. Last summer, the … Read more
This Monday, FC Sochaux-Montbéliard and AJ Auxerre announced that their last matches of the season on Saturday, respectively against Dijon and Amiens, will be sold out. Concretely, 20,000 spectators will attend Sochaux-Dijon and 17,000 people will follow Auxerre-Amiens. These two meetings will be decisive in the race for the rise since the Burgundy club, currently … Read more