Borussia Dortmund take on Wolfsburg in the DFB-Pokal final this weekend, hoping to give head coach Jurgen Klopp a triumphant send-off in his last game in charge.
Saturday s clash at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin marks the end of Klopp s seven-year tenure, which has seen Dortmund pick up two Bundesliga titles and one Pokal crown.
Dortmund also reached the 2013 UEFA Champions League final, where they were undone by Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich at Wembley.
Klopp bid an emotional farewell to Dortmund fans after his final home game last weekend a 3-2 win over Werder Bremen that sealed UEFA Europa League qualification.
It capped a remarkable turnaround for the club, who were second from bottom at Christmas, before a resurgence in the second half of the c…
Antonio Conte will be disappointed to lose his Chelsea assistant Steve Holland to England but understands the draw of coaching your country.
The Football Association confirmed on Wednesday that Holland would serve as number two to Gareth Southgate having assisted during the latter s interim spell in charge of the Three Lions.
Conte left Juventus in 2014 to lead Italy and masterminded their run to the quarter-finals of Euro 2016, by which time the draw of day-to-day club involvement had proved impossible to resist and he had his contract with Chelsea in place.
Holland will combine duties until the end of this season before focusing full-time on England and Conte said: Steve is a very good professional and he s been helping me a lot with my experience in Chelsea be…
Pep Guardiola is primed for Manchester City s showdown with Erling Haaland and Borussia Dortmund, suggesting even a blind person could see the Norwegian s talents.
City host Dortmund in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday, with Haaland unsurprisingly one of the main topics of conversation.
The Norway star has been in lethal form ever since joining Dortmund in January 2020 and boasts a remarkable haul of 10 goals in six Champions League outings this term, including two in each of their meetings with Sevilla in the last round as the German s narrowly progressed 5-4 on aggregate.
Since then, reports linking Haaland with Europe s biggest clubs have been frequent, as Barcelona and Real Madrid seemingly positioned themselves as interested …
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Real Madrid sit all alone at the top of the Liga standings and depend solely on themselves if they want to win the 2019-20 Liga title. They will try to take another step towards glory Thursday, when they take on Getafe, one of their local rivals and a team that also have a lot to play for. This match will kick off on July 2nd at 21:00 GMT.
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Los Merengues are only a few games away from winning the Liga title and depend solely on themselves to reach that goal. Following Barcelona’s 2-2 draw against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday, now Zinedine Zidane’s men are one point above their heated rivals while also holding one game in hand. To make things even better for the Madrid-based squad, who wil…
Manchester City have consulted their lawyers after being accused by Harry Redknapp of using their financial muscle to intimidate rival clubs in the transfer market.
Redknapp, the Tottenham manager, claims he was forced to drop a January 2009 attempt to sign Craig Bellamy from West Ham after City made it clear they would sabotage his bid for Wilson Palacios if he did not give way in the battle to secure the striker s services.
They came in and said: If you don t drop out of Bellamy, we re going to sign Palacios, Redknapp said. We re interested in Palacios. But if you pull out of Bellamy, we ll pull out of Palacios and then we both get a player.
So we had no choice really. They just said We ll blow you out of the water . They ve got the backing, they ve got the…
(GSM) Germany U21 international Lewis Holtby has agreed to join Mainz 05 on a season-long loan next season.
The 19-year-old will make the move from Bundesliga rivals Schalke 04, after failing to break into first-team on a regular basis.
In the second half of the 2009/10 campaign, he was loaned out to VfL Bochum enabling him to gain invaluable experience.
Holtby was due to remain with Bochum for the next 12 months, but the deal he penned did not take into account relegation.
As a result, he returned to Schalke at the end of last term and will instead be heading off to Mainz in 2010/11.
Lewis Holtby fits perfectly in our system and can play across the board in the attacking midfield, said Mainz general manager Christian Heidel.
We have be…
Giuseppe Rossi is hopeful of receiving an offer from the right club but would also be content to stay at Fiorentina, according to his agent Andrea Pastorello.
The Italy international s time in Florence has been blighted by injury, making just 39 appearances for the club since signing in January 2013.
Rossi has struggled for playing time under coach Paulo Sousa this season and has been linked with a number of clubs both in Italy and abroad as he hopes to improve his chances of representing Italy at Euro 2016.
Pastorello is awaiting a concrete offer of a transfer but did not rule out the possibility of the 28-year-old remaining at the Stadio Artemio Franchi.
We have no meetings scheduled because there s no point in meeting to say nothing. I don t know when…
Norwich City have signed Matt Jarvis on a season-long loan deal from Premier League rivals West Ham.
Jarvis has featured in 90 matches for West Ham since moving to Upton Park from Wolves in 2012 for a reported fee of £10.75million.
However, the 29-year-old winger has been limited to substitute appearances in the league this term and moves on after the Hammers completed the loan signing of Chelsea s Victor Moses earlier on Tuesday.
Alex Neil s Norwich have taken four points from as many matches at the start of the season and allowed Bradley Johnson to join Derby County prior to bringing in Jarvis.
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Kylian Mbappe cannot win the Ballon d Or with Paris Saint-Germain, according to former Liverpool forward El Hadji Diouf.
The talented 20-year-old finished fourth in the voting in 2018 after winning the World Cup with France.
Mbappe topped the scoring charts in Ligue 1 last season with 33 goals, but ex-Senegal international Diouf views performances in the Premier League as being more valuable.
He believes two of Liverpool s seven Ballon d Or nominees deserve to join Lionel Messi in this year s top three.
I think Sadio Mane had a better year than Kylian Mbappe, Diouf told Le Parisien. He deserves the Ballon d Or more from a personal and collective point of view.
We cannot compare Ligue 1 and the Premier League. For me, it would be Messi, [Virgil]…
Celta Vigo striker Iago Aspas is committed to the club for as many years as possible despite interest in him from LaLiga giants Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.
Since making three appearances and scoring one goal for Spain at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Aspas has made a bright start to the domestic season, netting twice in four league games for Celta.
The former Liverpool forward was a target for a number of Europe s top clubs during the transfer window, following his 22-goal haul in 2017-18.
But he told Radio Marca that he had no intentions of leaving the club where he first made his name 10 years ago, when Celta were in the second tier of Spanish football.
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