Pogba’s brother names City as one of three step-ups from Man Utd

Paul Pogba’s brother says “everything has improved” for the Manchester United midfielder under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – but the World Cup winner remains interested in moving to Spain. The France star looked certain to be heading for the Old Trafford exit while Jose Mourinho remained in charge, but the Portuguese’s manager’s dismissal and Solskjaer’s subsequent …

Hazard compares Higuain to ‘one of best’ ex-Chelsea stars

Eden Hazard has given his golden seal of approval to new Chelsea teammate Gonzalo Higuain. Higuain completed his loan move to Chelsea from Juventus earlier this week after his temporary deal with AC Milan was cut short. The Argentine is our player to watch this weekend, with his debut likely to come against Sheffield Wednesday …

DAVID ORNSTEIN DELIVERS MINT €20m ARSENAL TRANSFER UPDATE

Arsenal might actually be signing a player this month. David Ornstein says so. Yaaaaaas. After Unai Emery’s statement that Arsenal “cannot sign permanently” and “can only loan players”, it seemed unlikely that the Gunners would delve into the market. But Hector Bellerin’s season-ending injury – the third Arsenal have suffered this season – has somewhat …

Solskjaer tells Rashford, Lukaku his three striker tips

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed his three tips to becoming an excellent striker. Solskjaer was appointed interim United manager last month and has overseen the club’s return to an exciting, attacking style. The Norwegian established himself as a talented forward during his playing days at Old Trafford, scoring 126 goals in 366 …

Arsenal target’s foster father issues update on future

James Rodriguez is “comfortable” at Bayern Munich and would love to return to Real Madrid, according to his foster father. Rodriguez joined Real for all of the money in summer 2014, but struggled to make much of an impact in the Spanish capital. He joined Bayern on a two-season loan last summer but has fallen …

Add Henry to the list of great players, sh*t managers…

Send your thoughts for the afternoon Mailbox to [email protected] The DIV theory Ryan, Ireland, opines that, compared to Sterling on the matter of dives, “Salah is 10x worse” than Sterling. Scientifically-minded as I am, I would propose that you can’t state “A is 10x more than B” without defining your metrics of measure. Therefore, I …

Solskjaer: Man Utd ‘making progress’ on new deals

Caretaker manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Manchester United are “making progress” in contract negotiations with the likes of David De Gea, Anthony Martial and Juan Mata. With the Old Trafford giants highly unlikely to make a first-team signing this month, focus has turned to tying down players to new and improved deals. Scott McTominay this …

Sarri issues interesting critique of ‘not a leader’ Hazard

Chelsea head coach Maurizio Sarri has followed the extraordinary criticism of his players with a less than favourable critique of Eden Hazard. Hazard, in an interview with France Football this week, spoke about frustrating all his managers, with Sarri laughing when the comments were put to him while praising the Belgian playmaker in one moment and calling on him …

Dortmund prepared to smash transfer record for Zaha

Borussia Dortmund are prepared to smash their transfer record to sign Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha, according to reports. Zaha has three goals and two assists in 20 Premier League matches so far this campaign with the ex-Manchester United man failing to replicate the same form as last term. However, that hasn’t stopped Dortmund from …