Manchester United have opened contract talks with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, according to the Mail Online.
The thirty-five year old is currently undergoing surgery on a knee ligament injury that ended his season in April, and he is expected to be out of action for the rest of 2017.
However, United are keen to secure his services with the club competing on four fronts this season.
AC Milan, who had the Sweden international on their books for 2011/12 campaign have also been monitoring the situation as have a number of sides in the MLS.
Ibrahimovic made forty-six appearances for the Red Devils last season in all competitions, scoring twenty-eight goals and helped the side to success in the EFL Cup and the Europa League.
He has eleven league champion…
Kevin De Bruyne has been backed to roar back to form by Belgium boss Roberto Martinez as the Manchester City playmaker looks to come through a sticky patch.
Ahead of Saturday s derby against Manchester United, De Bruyne is looking to improve on his unusually quiet start to the season.
In 13 appearances across all competitions, he has managed three goals but just one assist and has played a full 90 minutes only three times, with Pep Guardiola suggesting his chief creator is feeling a little fatigued.
Martinez has selected De Bruyne in his squad for World Cup qualifiers against Estonia and Wales later this month, and quelled concerns about the 30-year-old s performance levels.
He pointed to City s EFL Cup penalty shoot-out loss to West Ham, and the Premier…
Marcelo Bielsa s Leeds United head to Anfield on Saturday to meet champions Liverpool in their first Premier League game since 2004.
The Reds have won all but two of their 28 home league matches since the end of 2018, their last defeat on home soil coming against Crystal Palace on April 23, 2017. By anyone s standards, that is an extraordinary run of form.
Of course, this is no ordinary Leeds. Bielsa s men finished 10 points clear at the top of the Championship last season and ended 2019-20 winning six games in a row, scoring 17 times and conceding just twice.
But are they a team well placed to end Liverpool s stunning home run? Opta advanced metrics paint an intriguing picture
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Barcelona head coach Ernesto Valverde hopes Ousmane Dembele continues to give the club joy after his solo effort in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Dembele s discipline has been in the spotlight since arriving from Borussia Dortmund in 2017 but the Barcelona forward dazzled with a stunning goal in Tuesday s 1-1 draw with Tottenham.
The 21-year-old France international opened the scoring in the seventh minute when he robbed and stormed past Kyle Walker-Peters on the halfway line before evading Harry Winks and slotting past Hugo Lloris.
Valverde was pleased with Dembele post-match, telling reporters: He has made a great goal, within reach of players with his talent.
We are happy with him and we said that throughout the season things happen that we try to …
Napoli have opened talks with Chelsea over the possibility of signing Tiemoue Bakayoko, according to .
Having invested heavily into their team this summer, Chelsea are now desperate to offload players who either don t have a place in Frank Lampard s plans or simply aren t happy with being there just for squad depth. Apart from Bakayoko, they are reportedly close to agreeing a deal which would see winger Callum Hudson-Odoi finally join Bayern Munich with the Bundesliga champions keen on his services for a long time.
As for Bakayoko, he failed to justify the £40 million spent on his signature in 2017, and was consequently sent out on loans for the last two seasons, first to AC Milan, and then AS Monaco. Milan are apparently keen to bring the 26-year-old midfielder back, …
Over 22 years since a debut clean sheet against AC Milan, Gianluigi Buffon celebrates his 40th birthday this Sunday.
There may only be two clubs on the legendary goalkeeper s resume but sustained excellence over more than two decades has filled his trophy cabinet with individual and team honours.
The former Parma prodigy has rubbed shoulders with the very best in world football throughout that time, forming part of World Cup and Serie A-winning sides.
In honour of Buffon s special day, we have compiled a star-studded group of former team-mates for a dream XI.
He s back
— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen)
GOALKEEPER: GIANLUIGI BUFFON
Who else has the pedigree to don the gloves in such a side?
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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp reiterated his support for Luis Diaz after the forward scored a stoppage-time equaliser which snatched a 1-1 draw at Luton.
Diaz missed Liverpool’s 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest last weekend after returning to Colombia following news that his parents had been kidnapped, but he returned to training this week and came off the bench to earn the Reds a point at Kenilworth Road.
The forward’s mother has been released but he is still waiting for news on his father. After scoring, Diaz lifted up his shirt to reveal a white T-shirt which read ‘libertad para papa’ – ‘freedom for my father’.
— Liverpool FC (@LFC)
Liverpool boss Klopp lauded the player after his header looped over Hatters goalkeeper Thomas Kami…
According to sources, Barcelona are set to activate the £108million release clause in the contract of Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann. The forward has already revealed that he will leave the club from the Spanish capital after a five-year stint. It seems that he will finally join Barcelona this summer.
Griezmann move to Barcelona almost inevitable
Last summer, Antoine Griezmann looked set to join the Catalan giants. However, instead, the French star decided to sign a new deal with Atletico. The move seemed a strange one on the part of the forward. It was a great act of loyalty to his club, though.
The previous summer, Griezmann had also been heavily linked with a move to the Nou Camp. It seems that the link just will not go away and Barcelona signing Griezm…
Raheem Sterling does not feel Manchester City will come under the same level of pressure as Liverpool during the Premier League title run-in.
City forward Sterling enjoyed a brilliant breakthrough campaign at Anfield in 2013-14, when Brendan Rodgers side launched a thrilling bid for Premier League glory.
They came up agonisingly short after Steven Gerrard s infamous slip against Chelsea and a surrendered 3-0 lead at Crystal Palace allowed Manuel Pellegrini s City to steal ahead during the final week of the campaign.
That was the closest Liverpool have come to ending a 28-year wait for their 19th English top-flight crown, while Sterling got his hands on a Premier League winners medal as he shone under Pep Guardiola last season.
That experience can be …
Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone is expecting tightly contested Europa League final against a Marseille side he believes possess similarities with the Rojiblancos.
Marseille needed extra-time to clinch progression to the final, beating Red Bull Salzburg 3-2 on aggregate in the semi-final, while Atletico earned a 1-1 draw against Arsenal in London before beating the Gunners 1-0 in the second leg to set up a clash with Rudi Garcia s men.
The showpiece in Lyon will be Marseille s first major European final since they were beaten 2-0 by Valencia in the UEFA Cup in 2004, and since then Atletico have won the competition twice and played in two Champions League finals.
Nevertheless, Simeone is anticipating a close game, telling reporters: It s going to be a compe…