Southampton have signed playmaker Dusan Tadic to a new four-year contract.
The 27-year-old, who joined Southampton from Twente in 2014, has been linked with a move away from St Mary s Stadium following manager Ronald Koeman s departure to Everton.
But he has now quashed talk of a potential exit by committing his future to the club until 2020.
Tadic scored nine goals and assisted 14 more in all competitions as Southampton achieved their highest Premier League finish last season by claiming sixth place.
And the Serbia international revealed that, although he had offers from elsewhere, he was impressed by the club s determination to keep him on the south coast.
I am really pleased. I have had two beautiful years here and a great connection …
West Brom head coach Tony Pulis has signed a one-year contract extension to keep him at The Hawthorns until the end of next season.
The club says the new deal brings assurance and stability after the takeover by Chinese businessman Guochuan Lai, with the eventual aim of establishing West Brom as a top-half side.
Pulis arrived in January 2015 when the club were just outside the relegation places, and steered them to 13th and 14th place Premier League finishes.
West Brom are 13th, with two wins and four draws from their opening nine league games ahead of the visit of Manchester City on Saturday.
Speculation had surrounded Pulis future earlier in the season when he appeared critical of the club s transfer activity during the transfer window, but the We…
Edin Terzic called Borussia Dortmund s 3-3 draw with Stuttgart brutally disappointing as they missed the chance to move level with Bayern Munich at the Bundesliga summit.
The Black and Yellow looked on course to join Bayern at the top of the table when Gio Reyna struck in second-half injury time at Mercedes-Benz Arena.
But a 97th-minute equaliser from Silas Katompa Mvumpa instead saw them drop two crucial points in the title race against their 10-men hosts.
It is the latest capitulation of a topsy-turvy season for Dortmund, and Terzic did not hold back in his scathing assessment of their performance after the final whistle.
We missed a huge chance as a team, he told Sky Sport Germany. That is brutally disappointing.
It is hard for me to find the…
Joan Laporta claimed Real Madrid have always been favoured by referees as he labelled the capital club the team of the regime .
Barca s president spoke at a press conference on Monday to robustly defend the club amid allegations they made payments to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the former vice-president of the technical committee of referees.
The club are subject to a UEFA investigation with prosecutors in Spain pursuing charges for alleged corruption. Barca are accused of having paid over €7million to a company owned by Negreira.
Laporta, though, has insisted Barca have no case to answer, as he looked to turn the spotlight onto rivals Madrid.
I want to mention a club which decided, on its own, to appear in court when the trial happens, Laporta said.…
Manchester United needs a Director of Football, according to Liverpool s former transfer overseer Damien Comolli.
After United s frustrating and largely unsuccessful transfer season, the man who is responsible for a number of football s best and worst transfers has thrown his voice into an orchestra of negative pundits.
The issue for Manchester United is that the two most important people at the club in Sir Alex (Ferguson) and David Gill left their positions and new people came in for their first transfer window, Comolli told BBC Radio 5.
If there was a club in need of a director of football to ease the process for both individuals it was Manchester United.
David only joined on July 1 which was quite late. For some reason the club weren t prepared or they didn t …
Luca Toni has revealed that Pep Guardiola phoned him before signing a three-year deal to coach Bayern Munich.
The Fiorentina striker and former Barcelona coach were team-mates at Brescia between 2001 and 2003, and Guardiola did not hesitate to get in touch with Toni to enquire about his time at the Allianz Arena.
He called me at some point and asked me how the conditions were in Munich and how my time at the club was. I then already thought that he was on his way to Bayern, Toni was quoted as saying by TZ.
Bayern are a fantastic club. His decision to move to Bayern was great for him personally and for the club as well. Bayern now have one of the best coaches in the world.
I believe that he can turn Bayern into Europe s undisputed number one within a fe…
Gianluigi Buffon has set his sights on Champions League glory and is confident Juventus have what it takes to challenge the continent s best.
The Serie A title-holders last won the European Cup in 1995-96 when they defeated holders Ajax on penalties in the final.
Having lost 3-1 to Barcelona in the 2014-15 final, Buffon is desperate to finally follow in the footsteps of former captain Gianluca Vialli, who led the Bianconeri to victory in Rome 20 years ago.
Lifting the Champions League isn t just my dream. Everyone at Juventus wants it and we ll try to make it come true, Buffon said at a news conference ahead of Wednesday s encounter versus Sevilla.
What we ve done in the Champions League so far hasn t been enough. We need to remain ambitious.
I…
Arsene Wenger declined to comment on allegations that Jose Mourinho wanted to break his face – insisting he wishes to be constructive rather than destructive .
The claims come from a new book written about Mourinho by journalist Robert Beasley and date back to the Portuguese s time in charge of Chelsea, when Wenger was critical of their decision to sell Juan Mata to title rivals Manchester United during the January 2014 transfer window.
Wenger will tangle with Chelsea once more at Emirates Stadium on Saturday, with Antonio Conte in the opposing dugout on this occasion, and he was faintly amused by questions surrounding Mourinho s apparent threat of violence during a pre-match news conference on Friday.
I haven t read the book and I certainly will not read it s…
Unai Emery concedes Arsenal struggled in their 1-0 win over Newcastle United but felt a collective team effort led to an ultimately deserved three points.
Arsenal came away from St James Park with a slender victory on Sunday thanks to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang s strike just before the hour mark.
Aubameyang made the most of some slack defending from Newcastle to score what proved to be the winning goal in a game of few clear-cut chances.
After equalling last season s away clean sheets tally in their first match of the 2019-20 campaign, Emery targeted more shutouts if Arsenal are to improve on their fifth-place finish from last time out.
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Kyle Walker says there is a family atmosphere within the England camp and that has played a big part in their march to the World Cup semi-finals.
For the first time in 28 years – and only the third time in history – an England team will be present in the last-four at football s global showpiece, Gareth Southgate s team having seen off Sweden in Saturday s quarter-final.
Croatia stand in the way of the Three Lions and a place in the final, the two nations going head-to-head in Moscow on Wednesday to earn the right to face France or Belgium.
England s progress is a long way from their group-stage exit at the last edition of the World Cup in Brazil, and their shock defeat to Iceland in the Euro 2016 round of 16.
And Walker says the spirit within the squa…