PSV have wrapped up the signing of Monaco defender Nicolas Isimat-Mirin on a four-year contract.
The former France youth international spent last season on loan at Philips Stadion, helping PSV to a first Eredivisie title since 2008.
I m pleased with all the responses from the fans since the championship and the party, he told PSV TV. I am very happy that I can finally play [permanently] at PSV, a big club with great fans.
I want to make every effort to continue last year s success.
I m really happy with my contract here.
Isimat-Mirin made 15 league appearances for PSV last term.
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Tottenham Hotspur head coach Antonio Conte is open to selling Emerson Royal, according to . The report has claimed that Conte wants a right wing-back who is more comfortable going forward than Emerson.
Emerson joined Tottenham from Barcelona in the summer of 2021 for £22 million. The 23-year-old made in the Premier League for Tottenham last season. The Tottenham no. 13 scored one goal and gave one assist in those games. Atletico Madrid are reportedly interested in signing the 23-year-old in the summer transfer window.
Tottenham ended the 2021-22 Premier League season in fourth place with 71 points from 38 matches and will play in the UEFA Champions League in 2022-23.
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Victor Anichebe s double was enough to send West Brom through to the FA Cup fifth round as they overcame Birmingham City 2-1 at St Andrew s.
Tony Pulis continued his unbeaten start to life at The Hawthorns with a hard-fought victory over local rivals Birmingham City in an attritional Midlands derby.
Victor Anichebe s first-half double gave the Premier League outfit a two-goal lead in what was a scrappy opening period.
The powerful forward twice linked up superbly with strike partner Saido Berahino as Birmingham s defence was found wanting.
But Gary Rowett s side rallied before the interval and pulled one back through Jonathan Grounds on the stroke of half-time – the first goal that West Brom have conceded under Pulis.
Birmingham went into the…
Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has revealed Bayern Munich will meet with head coach Pep Guardiola to discuss his future at the start of the Bundesliga s winter break and says a decision could be made by Christmas.
The 44-year-old s existing contract with Bayern is due to expire at the end of the 2015-16 campaign and he has so far been reluctant to discuss his long-term future.
Nevertheless, Rummenigge has now suggested Guardiola s future could be clear by the end of the calendar year.
I am relaxed and so is the coach. We will have a conversation after the last game of the first half of the season, Rummenigge told the official Bayern website.
There will be a decision and we will announce what the outcome is.
One way or the other, it depends on t…
What the papers say
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has become the latest Premier League star to attract the attention of Saudi Arabia. According to The Sun, the Everton and England striker, 26, will be offered a lucrative deal by Steven Gerrard’s Al-Ettifaq.
Bayern Munich are keeping an eye on Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah, 24, reports the Daily Mirror. The centre-back is out of favour at Stamford Bridge under Mauricio Pochettino.
Luton will have to find at least £5.5 million to land Ecuadorian midfielder Oscar Zambrano, according to The Sun. The 19-year-old’s club LDU Quito are holding out for the best offer.
Sandro Tonali’s lawyers are meeting with prosecutors in Rome this week in a bid to halve the Newcastle United midfielder’s ban for gambling. According …
Niklas Sule and Corentin Tolisso were on target on their Bundesliga debuts for Bayern Munich as the champions title defence started with a 3-1 win at home to Bayer Leverkusen.
After a poor set of pre-season results, questions had been asked about whether Bayern were ready for the new league season, but they dispelled any such worries with a comfortable display on Friday at a wet Allianz Arena.
Despite being without injured first-team quintet Manuel Neuer, Javi Martinez, James Rodriguez, Thiago and Jerome Boateng, Bayern easily extended their run of home league wins against Leverkusen to five in a row by racing into a 2-0 lead.
A pair of league debutants combined for the opening goal after just nine minutes when Sule headed a left-wing free-kick from former Hof…
Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo believes being a father has softened him and helped give him a new outlook on life as he prepares to welcome his fourth child.
Ronaldo first became a dad when Cristiano Jr was born in 2010, before welcoming twins Mateo and Eva by a surrogate mother in June 2017.
Then, in July, Ronaldo confirmed that his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez is expecting to give birth to the couple s first child, a girl named Alana Martina, in November.
And the 32-year-old feels as though having children has had a profound impact on how he looks at the world, calling family life his greatest privilege .
Fatherhood has taught me things of love that I never knew existed, he told ¡Hola!
It has softened me up and given me a new pers…
Javier Mascherano is not concerned by his goal drought and insists he refuses to take a penalty just to break it.
Mascherano has not scored a goal for Barcelona in over 200 competitive appearances since joining the club in 2010.
The Argentina international has not found the net in club football since March 2008 when he was playing for Liverpool in a 2-1 Premier League win over Reading.
Barca team-mate Gerard Pique said Mascherano refused to take a penalty in the side s 5-1 win over Rayo Vallecano last week, in which Luis Suarez stood up instead and missed.
We told Mascherano to take the penalty kick but he did not have the confidence or has not wanted to shoot, but I asked, Pique said on Periscope.
But Mascherano says scoring his first Barca …
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says he has paid to settle accusations of tax fraud in Spain.
The 54-year-old attended court in Pozuelo de Alcarcon on Friday to answer charges of tax fraud totalling €3.3million, which he has always denied.
Speaking to reporters after the hearing, Mourinho said the case is closed and that he only attended to settle the matter.
I was told that my tax situation was completely legal, he said, as quoted by ESPN.
A few years later I was told that there was an investigation opened and they told me that to regularise my situation I had to pay sum X.
I did not answer, I did not argue, I have paid and signed with the state that I am definitely in compliance and the case is closed. That is why I am here, nothing…
Bayern Munich have completed the signing of Borussia Dortmund captain Mats Hummels.
Germany defender Hummels has agreed a five-year contract with the Bundesliga champions and will re-join them on July 1 for an undisclosed fee, subject to a medical.
Dortmund announced late last month that their skipper had informed them of his desire to follow the path of Mario Gotze and Robert Lewandowski by swapping Signal Iduna Park for the Allianz Arena.
And both sides confirmed on Tuesday that the deal has been done, with Hummels to return to his boyhood club, who he left for Dortmund in 2008.
The 27-year-old appears set to captain BVB for one last time when Thomas Tuchel s side meet Bayern in the DFB-Pokal final on May 21.
Hummels told Dortmund s official web…