Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew knows the importance of a positive result at Swansea City as speculation over his future intensifies.
Reported comments by Mike Ashley that Pardew had one game to save his job prior to Monday s 1-0 Premier League defeat to Stoke City were written off as tongue-in-cheek by the Newcastle chairman, but that joke could wear thin if results do not turn around soon.
The St James Park club, who are without a Premier League win this season, currently sit 19th in the table, ahead of rock-bottom Burnley on goals scored alone.
Pardew knows the pressure from all quarters will only increase if his side come away from the Liberty Stadium empty-handed on Saturday.
There s not much to say we need to get a win, he said. No matter what…
Uruguay star Luis Suarez hinted he would have no issue with repeating his infamous deliberate handball if required against England.
Suarez played no part in Uruguay s shock 3-1 FIFA World Cup defeat to Costa Rica on Saturday, which came just hours before Italy beat England 2-1 in Group D s other fixture.
Early defeats means the stakes have risen for both sides ahead of Thursday s clash in Sao Paulo and Suarez suggested he would have no problem with being the villain again – as long as it benefited his team-mates.
The striker stopped Ghana from being the first African side to reach the World Cup semi-finals with a deliberate handball in the last minute of extra time in 2010, to deny Dominic Adiyiah a dramatic winner.
Suarez was sent off as a result, but Asamoah …
Wayne Rooney has completed his return to Everton after the Toffees agreed an undisclosed fee with Manchester United.
The 31-year-old has agreed a two-year-deal at Goodison Park after passing a medical on Saturday.
Rooney left Everton for United in 2004 for a reported fee of £27million, which made him the world s most expensive teenager at the time.
He went on to win 12 major trophies for the club in 13 years, including five Premier League titles, three League Cups, the FA Cup, the Champions League and the Europa League.
He was named captain by Louis van Gaal in 2014 and broke Bobby Charlton s long-standing scoring record at United last season, eventually finishing on 253 goals in 559 appearances.
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Manuel Neuer wants to celebrate his new contract at Bayern Munich with a glut of trophies at the end of the season.
Germany goalkeeper Neuer penned a fresh deal that runs until June 2021 on Wednesday.
Pep Guardiola s team sit seven points clear in the Bundesliga with four matches remaining and have the DFB Pokal final, and a Champions League semi-final tie against Atletico Madrid on the horizon.
Neuer was part of the Bayern side that completed a Bundesliga-Pokal-Champions League treble under Jupp Heynckes in 2012-13 and the 30-year-old is keen for a repeat.
I feel very good at Bayern and I am glad that we have now got the contract in the bag, he told the club s official website.
We are now everywhere in the title race and have great opportunitie…
Inter defender Milan Skriniar says he is close to agreeing a new contract with the Serie A club.
The centre-back has three years left on his deal but is reported to have been negotiating a year-long extension that will include a pay rise.
Skriniar has shone at San Siro since arriving from Sampdoria in July 2017 and has been linked with Manchester United and Barcelona.
However, the Slovakia international insists he wants to stay in Milan.
You all know I want to stay at Inter, the 23-year-old told Tuttosport.
I have a great relationship with the club and the directors. We re talking and we re close to an agreement.
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Monaco have completed the loan signing of Adrien Silva from Leicester City, who have brought in Youri Tielemans from the Ligue 1 strugglers as part of the deal.
Tielemans joined Monaco from Anderlecht in 2017 but has struggled to fulfil his undoubted potential, while Silva has been unable to break through for Leicester.
Silva played under Leonardo Jardim at Sporting CP and will be reunited with his old boss at Stade Louis II.
I am very happy to join Monaco, Silva told the club s official website.
I look forward to meeting my team-mates, and doing my best to help the club reverse the situation.
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Belgium international Tielemans, meanwhile, is keen to get started after joining the Foxes, with both playe…
Andre Onana hopes Manchester United can still finish in the top four despite dropping more points in their dramatic 1-1 draw at Brentford.
Substitute Mason Mount fired the visitors ahead against the run of play with his first United goal six minutes into stoppage time.
But three minutes later Kristoffer Ajer converted Ivan Toney’s cross to secure a fully-deserved point for the Bees.
United are now 11 points behind fourth-placed Aston Villa, albeit with a game in hand, and eight behind Tottenham in fifth as their Champions League hopes faded again.
“I feel sad because we are Manchester United, so it doesn’t matter who you play. Everywhere we go, we have to win,” goalkeeper Onana told MUTV.
“We gave away this game in the end. We did a fant…
Real Madrid cannot afford to be complacent despite Barcelona s early season struggles, defender Dani Carvajal says.
Barca are ninth in LaLiga heading into the November international break, already 11 points behind leaders Real Sociedad and 10 shy of second-placed Madrid.
The Blaugrana are winless in four as a miserable season, which began with Lionel Messi leaving for Paris Saint-Germain, continues at Camp Nou.
Club great Xavi will take charge when the campaign resumes, with Sergi Barjuan having overseen two league matches since Ronald Koeman was sacked.
Xavi, who won 25 major honours in his Barca playing career, said as he was presented this week: We have to work hard to get back to winning trophies.
Most commentators expect, at least in the lea…
Just a day after being named Super Bowl MVP for the second time, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning paid tribute to his team-mates.
The 31-year-old was instrumental in his side s 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in Indianapolis on Sunday, completing 30 of 40 passes for 296 yards and one touchdown.
Manning s performance resembled the one he produced in the 2008 showpiece, when he led the Giants to a 17-14 win over the Patriots to claim his first Super Bowl ring.
On Sunday he became only the third active quarterback to win multiple Super Bowl rings along with Pittsburgh s Ben Roethlisberger and his opposite number on Sunday, Tom Brady.
Despite the accolades, Manning said it had been a fantastic effort from the whole team.
I thought we …
Gianluca Mancini headed home the winning goal in the Derby della Capitale as Roma defeated rivals Lazio 1-0 at the Stadio Olimpico.
In a typically tight affair, Mancini’s 42nd-minute header proved the difference between the two sides as Daniele De Rossi won his first Rome derby as a coach.
Daichi Kamada did have the ball in the net for Lazio but the Japanese international was in an offside position from Matteo Guendouzi’s defence-splitting pass.
While Lazio failed to bounce back from the Coppa Italia semi-final defeat to Juventus, Roma consolidated their grip on fifth in Serie A.
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De Rossi’s side started the game on the front foot, winning a corner inside the first minute, with Leandro Paredes’s drive…