Xavi accepts Sergio Busquets could decide to end his Barcelona career on a high at the end of the season, though the Blaugrana boss remains hopeful of keeping the midfielder.
Busquets has won 31 major trophies during a glittering 15-year spell with Barca s senior side, but the 34-year-old s contract with the Catalan giants expires at the end of this season.
While Barca president Joan Laporta revealed the club were looking to offer Busquets a one-year extension last month, MLS side Inter Miami have long been credited with an interest in him.
Barca are 12 points clear of Real Madrid at LaLiga s summit ahead of Monday s meeting with Girona, and while Xavi hopes Busquets will stay at Camp Nou, he accepts his captain may view a title triumph as the ideal time to depar…
Trent Alexander-Arnold felt Liverpool delivered their best performance of the season so far when they hammered Leicester City 4-0 to move 13 points clear at the top of the Premier League.
Champions League and Club World Cup holders Liverpool stormed closer to winning their first domestic title in three decades by thrashing the second-placed Foxes at the King Power Stadium.
Roberto Firmino scored twice – both goals coming from crosses provided by Alexander-Arnold, who was also on target along with a James Milner penalty as the Reds showed no sign of fatigue despite being in Qatar for the Club World Cup last week.
It was the Reds 17th win from 18 Premier League games and Alexander-Arnold felt Thursday s victory was their finest to date.
We played real…
Yesterday s transfer deadline day was relatively quiet compare to previous years, but some interesting deals were still completed. Portsmouth were the busiest side signing three players thanks to money coming in from new owner Sulaiman Al Fahim. Those players were Mike Williamson from Watford for £3million, Tal Ben Haim from Manchester City for a undisclosed fee and Hassan Yebda from Benfica on a season-long loan.
Here are some of the players who have moved on transfer deadline day that I believed will prove shrewd signings.
Johnny Heitinga (Atletico Madrid to Everton £6million)
As an Everton I am a bit biased towards this deal, but I still have to say its probably the best signing of the day. The 25 year-old has bags of experience at European an…
Arsenal s Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky made his first competitive appearance after 20 months on the sidelines when he started Wednesday s World Cup qualifier against minnows San Marino.
The 28-year-old, who has scored 19 goals in 68 games for the national team, has been out of action due to injury since January 2008 and has not played for Arsenal in the Premier League since then.
Czech coach Ivan Hasek called up Rosicky to give a boost to a team that is struggling in fifth spot in Group Three, seven points behind leaders Slovakia.
I am convinced he will be all right. It s been five weeks since his (last) muscle injury, so there s no risk, Hasek told reporters on Tuesday.
I ve also talked to (Arsenal) manager Arsene Wenger and it s possible that Tomas…
Gerard Deulofeu may have to wait for his competitive Everton return after Roberto Martinez confirmed the Spaniard is still recovering from a hamstring injury.
The former Barcelona forward joined the Merseyside club on a permanent basis in June after an impressive loan spell at Goodison Park in 2013-14, scoring three goals in 25 league appearances.
Deulofeu played in Everton s pre-season tour to Asia, but has not featured since mid-July after sustaining the injury against Arsenal in Singapore.
Martinez had hoped to have the 21-year-old available for this weekend s Premier League opener with Watford, however that now appears unlikely.
He s already working at 60 per cent so I don t expect him to be too far away, Martinez told the Liverpool Echo.
Everton full-back Leighton Baines may need another operation on his left ankle, according to manager Roberto Martinez, who described the injury as a disaster .
Speaking after Everton s 2-2 draw with Watford in the Premier League on Saturday, Martinez claimed Baines had looked stronger than ever before hurting the ankle he had surgery on in May.
Baines hurt his ankle at training on Friday and could miss over a month.
We don t know how long he will be out for but it has been a real disaster, Martinez said.
We were preparing for the Watford game and in training, he blocks the ball and it hits him in exactly the same place where he had surgery, with the unfortunate result that he s going to be out for a while.
Martinez was expecting a big season fr…
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Premier League rivals Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp are among the candidates to win the Best FIFA Men s Coach award, while Jill Ellis heads up the Best FIFA Women s Coach nominees after she led the United States to World Cup glory.
Guardiola guided Manchester City to the Premier League, EFL Cup and FA Cup in a glittering 2018-19 campaign that saw Klopp s Liverpool push them all the way for domestic glory.
The Reds won the Champions League for the first time in 14 years, beating Mauricio Pochettino s Tottenham in the final, and the Spurs boss is also in the running for the FIFA award.
There is no place on the shortlist for Massimiliano Allegri despite the former Juventus coach having clinched his fifth consecutive Scudetto with the Bianconeri, and his successor M…
Walter Samuel has talked up the idea of a swap deal involving Inter captain Mauro Icardi and Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain.
Speculation about transfers for both players has floated around for the past month and reports have suggested both sides coaches are open to the idea of the change.
However, while he can see a swap deal being agreed, Samuel believes Inter should also receive cash along with the services of Argentina striker Higuain.
I wouldn t be surprised if it happened. I like Higuain, but that s not to say that I don t like Icardi. The swap could happen, plus there s the money that Inter would also earn, he told Balalaika.
111 Since becoming an Inter player, Mauro has scored 100 league goals; only Gonzalo (111) has more in Serie A in that ti…
Spain underscored their status as World Cup favourites on Wednesday by swatting Austria 5-1 away in an international friendly encounter, David Villa twice on target.
But three-times winners Germany, who Spain beat in the final of Euro 2008, had to rely on a last-gasp goal from Lukas Podolski to secure a 2-2 home draw with Ivory Coast.
Reigning world champions Italy saw a second string side come through 1-0 at home to a Sweden team missing star player Zlatan Ibrahimovic with central defender Giorgio Chiellini netting in Cesena.
While Portugal were coming through their playoff match against Bosnia to sneak through the backdoor into the World Cup finals the team that beat them to automatic qualification, Denmark, had to come from a goal down to beat the United Stat…