Real Madrid star Eden Hazard says he has rejected multiple offers from Paris Saint-Germain and would never sign for the Ligue 1 champions.
The Belgium international claims he has always made it clear he would only return to France s top flight to play for former club Lille, the team he left in 2012 to join Chelsea.
PSG were linked with a move for Hazard before the completed a switch to Madrid this year for a reported €100million fee.
No, never, he told L Equipe when asked if he would ever join PSG.
They ve often wanted to sign me. I didn t want to come back to Ligue 1 and with another club to Lille.
I always told them no. In my head, it was clear.
They re a club who can help you win the Champions League, but they were not in my plans…
Marco Reus has completed a move to the MLS, linking up with the LA Galaxy after leaving Borussia Dortmund at the end of last season.
Reus, who made 429 appearances across a 12-year stint with Die Schwarzgelben, has signed a two-and-a-half-year contract through to the end of the 2026 campaign.
During his time with Dortmund, the 35-year-old registered 301 goal contributions (170 goals and 131 assists), winning four major honours in the process.
He has twice been voted German Footballer of the Year, as well as receiving the Bundesliga Player of the Season on three occasions.
Reus featured in both of Dortmund s Champions League final losses, with his last outing for the club coming in their 2-0 defeat to Real Madrid at Wembley back in June.
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Burnley have completed the signing of Peter Crouch from Stoke City, according to Sky Sports.
The Clarets become the veteran striker’s seventh Premier League club, in a deal that sees Sam Vokes, and an initial sum of £7m head in the other direction.
Crouch played over two-hundred-and-sixty times for the Potters across seven-and-a-half seasons, scoring sixty-two goals.
The thirty-eight-year-old has also had spells with Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Southampton and Aston Villa in the English top flight while he also boasts relatively impressive international stats.
He won forty-two caps for England between 2005 and 2010, scoring twenty-two goals – one of which came at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany in a 1-0 group stage win over Tr…
Canada advanced to the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarter-finals for the first time since 2009 following their goalless draw with Honduras.
The Canadians had exited at the group stage of the past three tournaments after they failed to progress as co-hosts in 2015, but that changed in Texas on Friday.
Canada move into the last eight as runners-up to Costa Rica – who eased past French Guyana 3-0 – in Group A.
Honduras came into the final Group A fixture with plenty to play for after they were awarded a 3-0 victory against French Guyana, who were penalised for fielding ineligible forward Florent Malouda in the scoreless stalemate.
That result moved Honduras to within a point of Canada before kick-off, though the Hondurans can still reach the knockout stage as one…
According to a recent report from Bild, Borussia Dortmund are set to enter the race to sign Alfonso Pedraza. The 23 year old winger has been with Villarreal since he joined their youth system back in 2011, and ever since then he’s been building his way up through the ranks – and he’s done the same on an international level, too.
It’s no secret that the German club are also interested in bringing David Neres over to the club, but Pedraza seems to be an equally viable target for them. It’s also well known that Villarreal haven’t exactly had the best of seasons up to this point from a domestic standpoint, which could increase the likelihood of Pedraza moving on to pastures new.
The wheels have come off of Dortmund’s Bundesliga title challenge in recent weeks …
A late David Brooks winner secured Sheffield United a 2-1 triumph at Yorkshire rivals Leeds United on Friday to send the Blades top of the Championship.
Brooks converted his first senior goal for the club nine minutes from time to move Chris Wilder s side a point clear of Wolves, who travel to QPR on Saturday.
The visitors were much quicker out of the blocks than Leeds at Elland Road, with Billy Sharp giving them the lead in the second minute when he headed Mark Duffy s cross home.
Kalvin Phillips equalised for Leeds just after the half-hour mark, burying a sumptuous volley from the edge of the penalty area.
But the Blades took all three in the closing stages when Brooks slid a cross-goal finish from Duffy s throughball into the bottom-right corner, hand…
Arsene Wenger has described the criticism he received from sections of the fan base and board towards the end of his Arsenal tenure as unjustified and brutal .
The Frenchman spent 22 years as manager of the Gunners, winning three Premier League titles and the FA Cup on seven occasions, while famously overseeing the Invincibles side of 2003-04.
However, Arsenal struggled to match the standards of the golden days of Wenger s early tenure after the move to Emirates Stadium in 2006, though there were three FA Cup triumphs in 2014, 2015 and 2017.
There was an increasingly vocal Wenger Out brigade at Arsenal towards the end of his stay at the club and those moments were tough for Wenger to accept.
Speaking to the Guardian, Wenger said: The hostility o…
Manchester United players can sense they have a chance to make this a special season, says Gary Neville.
Paul Pogba scored a volley with 19 minutes remaining on Tuesday to give United a 1-0 away victory over Burnley.
That moved them top of the Premier League, three points clear of champions Liverpool ahead of the two teams crunch clash at Anfield on Sunday.
Former United captain Neville believes Liverpool are in for an uncomfortable few days and urged fans of the Red Devils to relish their return to the summit.
The last time United were top at this stage of the season was in 2012-13, Alex Ferguson s last season which ended in title glory.
I believe these players feel they can have a really special season, Neville said to Sky Sports.
It s…
Chelsea were punished for a profligate showing at Borussia Dortmund after Karim Adeyemi s second-half strike secured a slender 1-0 lead in the Champions League last 16.
Graham Potter s side will have home advantage in the return match at Stamford Bridge on March 7 but left Signal Iduna Park ruing missed chances on Wednesday.
Joao Felix spurned a pair of glorious first-half opportunities in an entertaining encounter in Germany, before Adeyemi s 63rd-minute goal inflicted further misery on Chelsea after a ruthless counter-attack.
The Blues still have the chance to turn the tie on its head, but Potter and his men cannot afford similar struggles in front of goal in the second leg in west London.
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Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne discusses reasons for leaving Premier League and returning (Video)
Kevin De Bruyne left Chelsea as a fringe player to join VfL Wolfsburg in 2014. A year later, he was back in the Premier League, having signed for Manchester City as a star.
It was obviously the right choice of paths for the Belgian midfielder, but here he is, discussing his reasons himself.
It was the right decision to leave come back
Kevin De Bruyne discussing why he returned to the Premier League with Manchester City after his stint with Chelsea.
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