Author: Soccerhuz
Jurgen Klopp has insisted that Mohamed Salah is “100 per cent committed” to Liverpool amid transfer interest from the Saudi Pro League. Sources have confirmed to 90min that Salah and Paul Pogba are the Saudi Pro League’s marquee targets as they look to recruit the best players in world football, with champions Al Ittihad prepared to offer Salah that exceed what Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are earning at Al Nassr and Inter Miami respectively. Liverpool have made it clear that they have no intention of parting ways with Salah, who only signed a new contract last summer to commit his future to Anfield…
Ansu Fati was supposed to be the next big thing. A La Masia product who liked to cut in from the wing, take on defenders and fire on goal with deadly precision, he was pretty much the closest player Barcelona had produced to Lionel Messi in years. For 12 glorious months, Ansu looked ready to take up Messi’s mantle. He made his debut in September 2019, and tore up La Liga for almost a year. He broke countless records, scored at a better rate than early-career Messi, and, perhaps most importantly, played exciting football. This was the next Messi, the…
In doing do, the midfielder has matched Cristiano Ronaldo‘s record of scoring four goals in his first three LaLiga games. The 20-year-old, who scored a double in last week’s 3-1 triumph against Almeria, is the current top scorer in LaLiga. His latest came at Balaidos where the ex-Birmingham starlet headed home in the 81st minute from close range. Bellingham has slotted in seamlessly to life in Spain since joining from Borussia Dortmund in a deal rising to £115million. He has scored four of Los Blancos’ six goals so far, with no LaLiga club outscoring the player this term. And the England…
The 20-year-old joined the Spanish giants in a record-breaking £115million transfer from Borussia Dortmund in June. He made his league debut earlier this month and scored in a 2-0 win over Athletic Club. Bellingham then carried his impressive form over to Real Madrid’s second game of the La Liga season last week when he scored twice against Almeria. And he clinched the winning goal during the club’s clash with Celta Vigo on Friday in dramatic fashion. The 81st minute header saw him level Ronaldo’s total of four goals in his opening three La Liga games. And fans have been quick to draw comparisons…
The situation surrounding Luis Rubiales and the Spanish FA (RFEF) is going from bad to farcical. The organisation has released another lengthy statement in defence of their beleaguered president, including photographic evidence of the moment he kissed Spain player Jenni Hermoso Pressure on Rubiales has built and built, with figures within and without football calling on him to be removed. He was expected to resign today, only to shockingly refuse. In the early hours of this morning, the RFEF released this statement intending to corroborate his version of events (that it was a consensual kiss) and reject Hermoso’s (that it…
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has suspended Spanish FA chief Luis Rubiales after Jenni Hermoso was threatened with legal action. In a statement read on Saturday, FIFA said “the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, Jorge Ivan Palacio (Colombia), in use of the powers granted by Article 51 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC), has decided today to provisionally suspend Mr. Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities at national and international level. “This suspension, which will be effective as of today, is for an initial period of 90 days, pending the disciplinary proceedings opened against Mr. Luis Rubiales…
Soccerhuz.com have now reported that the German outfit’s stance toward a sale is ‘softening’, whilst decision-makers at Anfield are thought to be already discussing a follow-up transfer for a centre-back. That will, as ever of course, depend entirely on the right profile being identified at a value the recruitment team feel isn’t extortionate. To what extent this is possible after the club broadcasted its budget to the world in the failed Moises Caicedo saga remains to be seen. At this current point, it’s understood the Dutch international is keen on an exit from the Bundesliga, whilst both Liverpool and Manchester…
Gary Neville was impressed with Chelsea forward Nicolas Jackson last night but felt there was work he can do to improve. Jackson got his first goal in front of the Chelsea supporters as he tapped home Raheem Sterling’s cross to make it 3-0 against Luton last night. The Senegal striker looks very much like a good signing and his work-rate last night endeared him to the Chelsea faithful. However, speaking on Sky Sports about Jackson after the game, Neville questioned whether there were comparisons to be made with Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez so far. “Is there a similarity with how, sort of, Nunez…
Do mid-season international tournaments really have to be a thing? While the World Cup put a stop to the domestic calendar last season, no such luxury will be afforded to clubs who have players competing in the Asian Cup or Africa Cup of Nations. Both competitions start in mid-January, and it is the former that will see Endo fly to Qatar to lead Japan as they look to go one better than their runners-up finish in 2019. Typically, as we have seen with Salah and other AFCON members, players will leave up to a week before the start of the…
There’s a GOAT on either side and when that happens, you know what comes next: Debate, endless debate. On social media, the war has already begun: Lionel Messi and MLS versus Cristiano Ronaldo and the Saudi Pro League. Which league is winning? Who would win head-to-head? Where will each league be in 10, 20, 50 years time? It’s natural, really. Debate is what makes sports so fun. ‘Fan’ is short for ‘fanatic’, after all, and fanatics are willing to support their side to the end. That’s one aspect of it: the fun side, or the toxic side depending on how…