Gazidis wants Maldini as Milan technical director

Real Madrid are willing to listen to offers for attacking midfielder Isco, according to It has been reported by the Spanish news outlet that Madrid are looking for a buyer for the Spain international, who is out of contract at the defending La Liga champions in the summer of 2022.

Premier League club Everton have been linked with Isco, with manager Carlo Ancelotti having worked with the 28-year-old attacking midfielder when he was in charge of Los Blancos. The report has added that Madrid are also hoping that Arsenal make a move for Isco.

Isco has been on the books of Madrid since 2013 and has won the La Liga title twice and the Champions League on four occasions with the Spanish and European powerhouse. However, the 28-year-old has fallen down the pecking order this s…

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer insisted a lack of sharpness was the reason behind Manchester United conceding goals as he ruled out adding a centre-back in the transfer window.

United secured a 3-2 win at Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday thanks to a last-gasp penalty from Bruno Fernandes, who converted from the spot in the 10th minute of additional time.

However, having conceded three times when losing their Premier League opener at home to Crystal Palace, defensive deficiencies were again a topic of conversation after the final whistle on the south coast.

Neal Maupay and Solly March both scored for Brighton, the latter in the 95th minute to make it 2-2, while the home side were denied five times by the woodwork as they had 18 attempts at goal.

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Stefano Pioli insisted Milan learnt a valuable lesson following their entertaining 3-2 defeat to Liverpool upon the club s return to the Champions League.

Milan were featuring in the Champions League for the first time since 2014 and the seven-time winners threatened an upset at Anfield, where the visitors surprisingly claimed a 2-1 half-time lead.

Ante Rebic and Brahim Diaz both scored within two minutes of each other on the stroke of half-time to stun Liverpool, who had Mohamed Salah s penalty saved by Mike Maignan following Fiyako Tomori s ninth-minute own goal.

But Salah redeemed himself with an equaliser three minutes into the second half before Jordan Henderson s first Champions League goal in seven years settled the Group B thriller on Merseyside.

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Is Mohamed Salah the best player in the world? Jamie Carragher has no doubt after the Liverpool forward s stupendous goal at Watford drew immediate comparisons with Lionel Messi. 

Former England striker Gary Lineker compared the wonder strike to a Lionel Messi special after the Egyptian put Jurgen Klopp s Reds 4-0 up at Vicarage Road, on the way to a 5-0 win. 

Salah received the ball on the edge of the Watford penalty area and was surrounded by home defenders, but he showed supreme close control to weave a path beyond Craig Cathcart, Juan Hernandez and Juraj Kucka before whipping a clinical finish into the far corner. 

It was a goal that had the hallmarks of a Messi or Diego Maradona masterpiece, with Salah s astonishing footwork leaving the defenders…

Mauricio Pochettino out. Jose Mourinho in?

Former Manchester United manager Mourinho is reportedly set to replace Pochettino, who was relieved of his duties on Tuesday.

Tottenham sacked Pochettino despite a Champions League final appearance in June – Spurs languishing 14th in the Premier League this season.

What could Mourinho – a three-time Premier League champion with London rivals Chelsea – bring to Tottenham? Omnisport takes a look.

WINNING MENTALITY

Love him or hate him, Mourinho knows how to win. Since making a name for himself at Portuguese powerhouses Porto, the maligned manager has won 25 trophies.

A serial champion with Porto, Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid, Mourinho s haul includes a treble as Nerazzurri boss, a…

Steve Clarke insisted there is more to Norway than Erling Haaland after naming his squad for the resumption of Scotland’s European Championship qualification campaign in Oslo.

The Scots, who began their Euro 2024 qualifiers in March with impressive home wins over Cyprus and Spain, travel to Norway for their June 17 clash before hosting Georgia at Hampden Park three days later.

Clarke’s side face the daunting task, in the first match of the double-header, of trying to stop 22-year-old Manchester City striker Haaland, who has scored a staggering 58 goals in all competitions so far this season.

Speaking in Glasgow’s George Square at the McDonald’s Fun Football Festival, which is part of the Scottish Football Association’s week of football, he said: “Ther…

David de Gea is not a new problem for Manchester United. Of course, his backers – and that appears to include many people at the club – will always point to his shot-stopping ability, which has clearly been a strength over the course of his career in England.

We can t forget that legendary performance against Arsenal in a 3-1 away win for United in the 2017-18 season, when De Gea equalled a Premier League record by making 14 saves.

But if that kind of goalkeeper becomes less reliable at arguably the one thing they re good at, questions have to be asked. De Gea was, of course, culpable in United s 4-0 humiliation by Brentford on Saturday.

He let Josh Dasilva s tame long-range effort sneak into the bottom-right corner, and that opened the floodgates on what wa…