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Erik ten Hag is still clinging on to his job as Manchester United manager despite their tough start to the season.
Elsewhere, Lee Carsley left journalists puzzled by saying 'hopefully I'll be going back to the Under-21s' after England's 2-1 defeat to Greece.
However, the Three Lions interim boss performed a U-turn by refusing to rule himself out of contention following a 3-1 win over Finland in Helsinki.
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13th Oct 2024, 14:00By Jack Johnson
Crystal Palace centre-back Marc Guehi has been speaking about his summer of transfer links to Newcastle.
He was suspended for their trip to Germany on Monday.
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12th Oct 2024, 13:30By Josh Fordham
Marc Guehi will reclaim his England starting place in Finland tomorrow, talkSPORT understands.
Crystal Palace centre back Guehi sat out Thursday's shock 2-1 defeat at home to Greece.
England are also hoping to have captain Harry Kane fit to start with Lee Carsley planning on reverting to a more traditional system after experimenting with a false number 9 against Greece.
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12th Oct 2024, 11:09By Josh Fordham
Former Liverpool defender Joel Matip has announced his retirement from football.
The 33-year-old left Liverpool this summer after making 201 appearances for the club and winning five trophies.
He joined them in 2016 on a free transfer from Schalke.
Matip saw his 2023/24 season curtailed due to a knee injury.
He did not join another club following his release by Liverpool and retires as a free agent.
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12th Oct 2024, 10:35By Josh Fordham
Bukayo Saka and Curtis Jones will not travel to Finland.
Saka has returned to Arsenal for further assessment having been substituted during the second-half of Thursday night’s match against Greece.
Liverpool’s Jones remains in England owing to a personal commitment.
A squad of 22 will train at the Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre before flying to Helsinki on Saturday afternoon ahead of tomorrow’s UEFA Nations League fixture.
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12th Oct 2024, 10:12By Josh Fordham
Mohamed Salah will be allowed to leave the Egypt squad.
That's because huge concerns have been raised about the injury risk to players ahead of their game with Mauritania on Tuesday.
Egypt technical director Hossam Hassan was concerned about the quality of the artificial pitch and claimed their opponents play 'hard and with violent intentions'.
If Salah specifically asks me to do so, I will agree."
Egypt are currently in control of their AFCON group, having won all three of their qualifiers without conceding a goal.
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12th Oct 2024, 09:57By Josh Fordham
Marc Cucurella has bizarrely claimed Premier League referees are out to get him after helping Spain beat England in the Euro 2024 final.
Cucurella starred for Spain as they lifted the trophy this summer.
He has since returned to Chelsea and has been a key player for Enzo Maresca.
The Blues star told Spanish outlet COPE: "You have more impact - people know you more [after winning the Euros].
"Being champion of the Euros is historic and you will always take it with you.
“I've already been suspended for five yellow cards and I've committed [only a] few fouls.
"They're going after me a bit.
I know this was just a prank, but this could have gone a lot worse.
“This needs to be looked at by the security and everybody has to take it really seriously.”
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11th Oct 2024, 16:13By Joe Brophy
Joel Matip is reportedly considering retirement from football at the age of just 33 - and no one might be sadder than Jurgen Klopp.
The defender, who most recently played for Liverpool, became a free agent over the summer after leaving the Reds but is yet to join a new club.
The Cameroon star joined Liverpool on a free transfer in 2016 after leaving Schalke 04 and became a firm favourite on Merseyside.
During his time at the club, Matip made 201 appearances and was a mainstay in Klopp's side.
Upon the announcement he would be leaving Anfield his former manager paid him a glowing tribute...
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11th Oct 2024, 15:39By Joe Brophy
Liverpool cult hero Joel Matip is reportedly considering retiring from football.
The 33-year-old defender has been a free agent after leaving the Reds at the end of last season.
The former Cameroonian international was one of Jurgen Klopp's first signings at Anfield after joining on a free transfer in 2016.
In eight years on Merseyside, he made 201 appearances for Liverpool, scoring 11 goals in that time.
Matip also helped the Reds to win the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, Carabao Cup and UEFA Super Cup.
He was a target for West Ham last month but negotiations failed to see a transfer materialise.
According to German outlet Bild, Matip is in constant contact with boyhood club Schalke - whom he left for Liverpool.
However, another report from Ruhr Nachrichten claims Matip is now considering retiring completely.
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11th Oct 2024, 15:14By Joe Brophy
Crystal Palace boss Oliver Glasner will be using the international break to find a way to get his attack clicking once more.
The Eagles were always going to suffer in the final third this season after losing talisman Michael Olise this summer.
However, the club retained the services of chief creator Eberechi Eze, and Jean Philippe-Mateta, who scored 13 goals in 13 games under Glasner.
Palace then added to that firepower with the arrival of Eddie Nkeitah from Arsenal, but despite this, have struggled this campaign.
The south Londoners are in the relegation zone and are the second-lowest scorers in the Premier League, with only one more than Southampton.
Having been rushed back from the Olympic Games, Mateta has struggled to replicate his form of the end of last season.
Both of the two goals he has scored in his first seven Premier League matches came in the same game, with blanks in his other six.
Nketiah meanwhile is yet to open his account for his new team, having been deployed in attacking midfield and right-wing roles.
He finally got his chance to lead the line in the 1-0 defeat against Liverpool before the break with Mateta dropped and was only denied a goal by the offside flag.
Palace manager Glasner will be taking serious thought to changing formation to potentially find a way of playing the pair together.
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11th Oct 2024, 14:38By Joe Brophy
Former Manchester United defender Phil Jones has revealed Angel di Maria looked like a 'lost soul' ahead of his debut for the club.
The Red Devils broke the Premier League transfer record to bring in Di Maria from Real Madrid for £59million in 2014.
The Argentina international was handed Cristiano Ronaldo's iconic No.7 shirt but was moved on after just one season at Old Trafford.
His wife was scathing about the people, the food and the climate in the northwest and he ultimately joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2015.
Di Maria scored just four goals in 32 matches in all competitions that season and is not remembered fondly by United fans.
His former United teammate Jones has now admitted the 2022 World Cup winner was given a brutal introduction to life in England.
The 36-year-old played 70 minutes under Louis van Gaal during a goalless draw away at Turf Moor on the opening day of the season.
“I look at Angel Di Maria, I think ‘wow’.
Extremely sad.
“He was hard working, he was a very good player, he gave his all, he was honest, I don’t know if we had a better character or a better player during the time I’ve owned the club in these 11 years.
“My thoughts are with his family, I saw the news just before I boarded a flight and the whole flight I was thinking about him.”
When asked about a tribute for Bladock before United’s next match, the Prince added: “It goes without saying, but I don’t know if anything would be enough to explain or show how we feel and how huge this loss is.
“My heart goes to his family and the people close to him, we had many special players but I can tell you without hesitation that he was one of the most respected, the most loved and he was really a great player and great man.”
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11th Oct 2024, 12:04By Joe Brophy
Cole Palmer has won the Premier League Player of the Month but his success has unwittingly caused a mockery of his Chelsea teammate.
EA Sports, the video game publisher behind FC25 (formerly FIFA), has been a lead partner of the Premier League since the 2016/17 season.
As a result, English top-flight clubs usually do player ratings reveals at the start of every season to promote the release of the new game.
Following his exploits last season, Palmer received a 19-point increase to become Chelsea's highest-rated men's player with an overall rating of 85.
When the England star was gifted his copy of the game he ruthlessly poked fun at teammate Marc Cucurella who was alongside him.
Palmer took great delight in telling the Spaniard that he'd been downgraded to a non-rare player item on FC's Ultimate Team mode.
He added: "I've quick-sold him about five times", meaning Cucurella's card had been discarded at face value such is his lowly worth.
Palmer's virtual reward for winning POTM for September meant EA rewarded him with an upgraded 87-rated card that gamers can earn by completing three puzzle-based SBC challenges.
One of them extended the mockery of Cucurella by requiring users to submit a lowly bronze item to receive the left-back's non-rare item that Palmer had ripped into in return.
In the description of the Cucurella reward, EA made sure to put Palmer's words 'non-rare' in bold quotation marks.
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11th Oct 2024, 11:40By Joe Brophy
Manchester City have agreed a deal to make Sporting Lisbon's Hugo Viana their new sporting director, talkSPORT understands.
Former Newcastle midfielder Viana will take over from Txiki Begiristain when he stands down at the end of the season.
The Portuguese was signed by Sir Bobby Robson aged 19 for a fee of £8.5million and became the club’s most expensive teenage signing, eclipsing the £5m spent on Jermaine Jenas.
Viana's arrival is likely to put Sporting boss Ruben Amorim in the box seat to succeed Pep Guardiola if he leaves when his contract expires in the summer.
Amorim has impressed at Sporting having won the Portuguese title twice in the last four years.
And his side currently sit top of the table having won all eight league games so far this season.
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11th Oct 2024, 11:04By Joe Brophy
John Terry has claimed that Chelsea’s defensive record from their 2004/05 Premier League campaign will never be beaten.
However, the former Blues captain still believes the club's return should have been even better.
The west Londoners breezed to the title in Jose Mourinho's first season in charge at Stamford Bridge.
Their success was largely built upon their rock-solid defensive structure, with just 15 top-flight goals conceded all season.
Posting a list of the 15 players who breached Chelsea's defence that year on Instagram, Terry wrote: “I recently got sent this list of the 15 goals we conceded in 2004/05.
Great record for the season, mind.”
Chelsea set a record of 25 clean sheets in a single Premier League season that campaign among other defensive records.
That year was also the start of Mourinho's legendary Stamford Bridge run that saw the Blues go 86 matches unbeaten at home in the Premier League between February 21, 2004 and October 26, 2008.
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11th Oct 2024, 10:33By Joe Brophy
Julian Nagelsmann has fired a shot at Arsenal legend Jens Lehmann for his comments on Germany's goalkeeper selection.
'Die Mannschaft' saw Manuel Neuer retire after Euro 2024, while his successor Marc-Andre ter Stegen has suffered a serious knee injury.
Fulham star Bernd Leno rejected the opportunity to be called up after he was informed that he would not get any playing time.
Former Germany goalkeeper Lehmann revealed he was 'surprised' over the latter decision, which drew a response from Nagelsmann.
"Many so-called experts have commented on this," Nagelsmann said during his pre-match press conference on Thursday.
"Another expert this morning.
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