The new Premier League season
gets underway on tonight (Friday) and - for all the changes - it is hard to
imagine the battle for the title being too different from the last campaign.
Just a point separated champions
Manchester City from…
Premier League clubs splashed out well over £1 billion (US$1.2 billion) in the transfer market arms race ahead of the start of the new season tonight. Manchester City (2018/19: 1st)
Last season's domestic treble winners have strengthened…
Inter Milan have completed the signing of Romelu Lukaku
from Manchester United.
The 26-year-old striker arrives at the San Siro in a
club-record deal worth around £73m just two years after joining United from
Everton.
Lukaku has been AWOL from training with the…
Arsenal skipper Laurent Koscielny will end his nine-year spell in north London and join French Ligue 1 side Girondins Bordeaux for an undisclosed fee, the Premier League club said.
The 33-year-old French centre back, who joined from Lorient,
made more…
Many managers have spent big in their pursuit of glory, but
Liverpool coach Juergen Klopp has adopted a different approach ahead of the new
season, trusting his current crop to end the club's long wait for a first
Premier League crown.
In…
Manchester City's target this season will be to match
Manchester United's record of three successive Premier League titles but,
despite manager Pep Guardiola playing down their Champions League ambitions,
Europe could act as a distraction.
Guardiola's side have been nothing short of…
Former England captain Wayne Rooney is in advanced talks
with Derby County about joining the Championship (second-tier) club as
player-coach, Sky Sports News reported on Monday.
Derby's new Dutch manager Phillip Cocu declined to comment
on the reports but Sky said England's…
Manchester United signed Harry Maguire from Leicester on
Monday (Aug 5) for a reported £80 million fee that makes the England
centre-back the world's most expensive defender.
United have secured Maguire on a six-year contract with an
option for a further 12-month…
Pep Guardiola believes Manchester City's Community Shield
triumph against Liverpool was the perfect preparation ahead of this season's
duel for supremacy between the Premier League rivals.
Guardiola's side drew first blood on the eve of the new
campaign with a 5-4 penalty…
The 2019-20 season gets underway on Sunday afternoon as Premier League champions Manchester City and European champions Liverpool meet in the Community Shield at Wembley.
City, who beat Liverpool to the 2018-19 title by a single point, also brought…