Man City boss Guardiola lets slip Aguero deal to join Barcelona

On Thursday night in Paris, Cristiano Ronaldo won his fifth Ballon d’Or award to move level with Barcelona rival Lionel Messi. Ronaldo played a massive part in Los Blancos winning La Liga and the Champions League last season.

His 42 goals in 46 appearances in all competitions were his second lowest goal tally since joining the club. However, a number of those goals were vital ones, especially hat-tricks against Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter and semi-finals, not to mention his brace in the final against Juventus.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a fine footballer. Love him or loathe him he knows where the old onion bag is and finds it on a regular basis. He works hard and shows tremendous determination to be the best in the world.

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Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson was overcome with emotion about leaving Roma and cried for a long time when he realised his time in Italy was over.

Alisson only played a single season as first-choice at Roma, but he impressed so much that Liverpool struck a deal that could be worth almost £67million a world record for a goalkeeper at the time.

The Brazil international has swiftly established himself as a regular between the posts at Anfield and, although he made an error that led to a goal against Leicester City, he has generally been solid.

But Alisson concedes he had some reluctance about the move, with the 26-year-old so fond of Roma and the Italian capital that he broke down ahead of leaving.

Leaving Rome was difficult, he told Gazzetta dello Sport. I …

Luton captain Tom Lockyer has been discharged from hospital following a successful procedure to fit an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD).

Lockyer collapsed in the 59th minute of Saturday’s Premier League match against Bournemouth after he suffered a cardiac arrest, which resulted in the game being abandoned.

Luton said the 29-year-old Lockyer has now begun a period of rehabilitation at his own home in the wake of the incident, which they said was unrelated to his previous collapse in the play-off final in May.

We are thankful to report that our captain Tom Lockyer has now begun a period of rehabilitation from the comfort of his own home after he was discharged from hospital on Wednesday.

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— Luton Town FC (@Lu…

Ajax star Donny van de Beek confirmed Real Madrid are in talks with the Eredivisie champions over his transfer.

Van de Beek has emerged as a €60million target for LaLiga giants Madrid, who have been unable to prise Paul Pogba from Manchester United.

The 22-year-old Van de Beek confirmed Madrid s interest on Friday, and he provided an update following Saturday s 2-2 draw away to Vitesse.

It is true that Madrid are in talks with Ajax, but I can t say any more, Van de Beek told Fox Sports after scoring and providing an assist in the club s Eredivisie opener.

My agent will have spoken with them. Real Madrid are a great club to play for, but Ajax are still a great club. We ll see what happens.

— AFC Ajax (@AFCAjax)

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Manchester City set a new Premier League record goals tally of 104 courtesy of Bernardo Silva s effort against Brighton and Hove Albion on Wednesday.

With two goals in the opening 34 minutes against Brighton, champions City surpassed Chelsea s 2009-10 effort of 103 to take ownership of the milestone outright.

Danilo put Pep Guardiola s side ahead 16 minutes into proceedings at the Etihad Stadium and, after an equaliser from Leonardo Ulloa, Silva notched the milestone strike.

It is another feather in the cap for Guardiola s supreme side, who have netted the highest amount of goals by any side in the English top flight since Tottenham scored 111 in 1962-63.

104 Man City now hold the outright record for most goals in a single Premier League campaign. Champio…

Pep Guardiola has described Manchester City as Champions League teenagers and warns they cannot take their place in the quarter-finals for granted ahead of Tuesday s game with Schalke.

City hold a 3-2 lead from the first leg of the last 16 and are expected to progress against a side who sit 14th in the Bundesliga and lost 4-2 to Werder Bremen last Friday.

Despite their impressive domestic success since the Abu Dhabi-backed takeover in 2008, City have yet to progress beyond the semi-final stage in Europe s elite competition and Guardiola has suggested previously that they are not ready to win it.

Speaking on Monday, he conceded they are a long way from matching the continental success of the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United, who have eight titles between t…

Inter assistant coach Cristian Stellini has challenged Nicolo Barella to take the next step in his career by adding more goals to his game after scoring in Friday s 2-0 win at Fiorentina.

The Italy international curled in a delightful opener after 31 minutes at Stadio Artemio Franchi and Ivan Perisic added a second as Inter moved top of Serie A.

Barella, who was earlier denied by a fine Bartlomiej Dragowski save, now has three goals and five assists in 21 league outings this term.

That makes 2020-21 the midfielder s best Serie A season in terms of goal involvements, though he did net six times for Cagliari in the 2017-18 season.

Stellini, who was filling in for suspended head coach Antonio Conte against Fiorentina, hopes to see Barella build on those figu…

Edinson Cavani has a lot of options regarding his potential destination when the transfer window opens, according to his mother.

The 33-year-old signed for Paris Saint-Germain from Napoli back in 2013, and between then and now he has scored 200 goals in 301 appearances in all competitions for the French champions. However, this season he fell down the pecking order after the arrival of Mauro Icardi from Inter Milan on loan, and he was heavily linked with Atletico Madrid in January. The move reportedly collapsed with the La Liga side unwilling to match PSG s demands, and his contract is now set to expire this summer.

As quoted by , the Uruguay international s mother said he still doesn t know where he wants to go. He would prefer Spain, but the options to choose from are…

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated his 900th career goal, but the Portugal captain claimed he is haunted by records.

Ronaldo scored his landmark goal in the 34th minute of Thursday s Nations League contest between Portugal and Croatia in Lisbon.

The 39-year-old s close-range finish, his 131st goal for Portugal, was enough to secure a 2-1 win for Roberto Martinez s team, who went ahead through Diogo Dalot, although the full-back then scored an own goal that dragged Croatia back into proceedings.

Ronaldo was taken off late on to a standing ovation, and speaking to Portuguese media, he said: It was an exciting goal for me. It s a round number.

Only I know how hard it is to work every day to score your 900th goal.

It s a unique milestone in my career. I d…

Lazio have completed the signing of Pepe Reina after Milan reportedly agreed to the cancellation of his contract.

The 38-year-old Spanish goalkeeper had a year left to run on his deal at San Siro, but it is said to have been terminated in order to allow him to move to the Italian capital.

Lazio have not confirmed the length of his contract in Rome, though Italian media claim it is a two-year deal.

Reina, a former Spain international, spent the second part of 2019-20 on loan at Aston Villa in the Premier League but returned to Milan upon its conclusion.

A move to Lazio – who will be his third club in Italy – had been mooted for several weeks and it was finally confirmed on Thursday.

The former Liverpool keeper has been well-travelled since his…