Marseille manager André Villas-Boas pulled no punches in an interview with O Jogo today, touching on a variety of subjects including calling out the Ligue 1 club for their lack of communication strategy. On the differences between Marseille & FC Porto: Marseille’s problem is that the feeling of love and hate on the part of the…
L’Équipe and Téléfoot Chaine report that Lyon midfielder Jean Lucas is unhappy and wants to leave on loan in January to another Ligue 1 club. The player has been authorised to return to Brazil on Sunday by Lyon to visit his agent. The action that took Lucas over the edge was Rudi Garcia’s decision to bring…
RMC Sport report that Ligue 1 club PSG are in negotiations to appoint former player and ex-Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino to replace the now fired Thomas Tuchel. Les Parisiens this morning opened negotiations with the German tactician’s lawyers to find a settlement, with Tuchel still having 6 months remaining on his current deal. Tuchel…
Le Télégramme report that 24-year-old Austrian striker Adrian Grbic could be leaving bottom of Ligue 1 side FC Lorient less than 6 months after joining Les Merlus from Clermont in a club record €10m transfer completed by FCL in summer. Click Here: cricket jerseys Relegation rivals St Étienne are in pole position to land the…
Click: When Kostas Mitroglou joined Marseille in 2017, there was good reason to expect some decent return from the Greek striker. Despite his controversial and weak spell at Fulham three years prior, he had managed to pick up his form in Portugal, for Benfica. Sadly though, Mitroglou has now left France after, not for the…
Brazilian attacker Neymar will miss next week’s Round of 16 1st leg Champions’ League clash with Barcelona after a groin injury that he picked up on Wednesday night in the Coupe de France clash with SM Caen. Neymar had scans this morning in a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine which confirmed that he has a grade 2…
RMC Sport have provided details from inside the PSG dressing room on the manner in which Mauricio Pochettino’s half-time team talk went at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday night after Les Parisiens put in a disappointing first 45 minute showing, fortunate to go in at the break with the score at 1-1. The outlet…
Speaking in an interview with TF1, Argentinian and PSG central midfielder Leandro Paredes discussed the Ligue 1 title race, the futures of Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, the robberies that Marquinhos and Angel di Maria were recently victims of and much more. On criticism of PSG: People expect us to be champions. We have that pressure. We…
Speaking to Le Parisien, PSG manager Mauricio Pochettino was asked if the 2021 Trophée des Champions victory, his first title as a coach, was seen as a relief to him personally. “Not especially. We see success in maximising team performance. We did not win anything at Espanyol, Southampton or Tottenham but the satisfaction and the mark…
L’Équipe report that Marseille have succeeded in convincing 27-year-old French left-back Jordan Amavi to sign a contract extension, one month before his existing deal is due to expire. The new deal will run for 3 or 4 years and should be made official at the end of this week. Amavi, who has had just 10…