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Ryan O’HanlonSep 30, 2025, 07:44 AM ETCloseRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”Not every great signing hits the ground running.Andy Robertson arrived at Liverpool from Hull City and spent the first few months of the 2017-18 season sitting on the bench while Alberto Moreno ran up and down the left flank. A year later, midfielder Fabinho was signed early in the summer but didn’t play a single minute in the Premier League until Oct. 20. Come May 2019, they were both starting in Liverpool’s Champions League…
The people of Gaza have suffered relentless genocide for two full years. Time has frozen here. Life has become a constant cycle of mourning, loss and death. Every day brings a new wound. Every night carries a fear heavier than the last. We have endured two years of death and destruction, of limbs scattered across Gaza’s streets, of Israeli rockets leaving nothing but ruins. We live between bombardments and explosions, measuring out our days to the rhythm of death. It has been two years without the loved ones who once walked beside us. We fall asleep to the sound of…
Scotland head coach Steve Clarke has recalled goalkeeper Craig Gordon to his squad for October’s World Cup qualifiers.The 42-year-old – who last featured for Scotland in the Nations League play-off defeat to Greece – replaces his Hearts team-mate Zander Clark. Both players have struggled for minutes this season. Gordon has recently recovered from a neck injury, meaning he has not played for the Scottish Premiership leaders since May 3, while Clark has not featured since August.Clarke’s other goalkeeping options are also short of game time at club level. Angus Gunn – who kept back-to-back clean sheets in Scotland’s opening two…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised Israeli forces will not be leaving Gaza, despite references to their withdrawal in the Donald Trump-approved “peace plan”. Trump’s plan to end the war on Gaza was unveiled on Monday with a map showing three stages of withdrawal for the Israeli army to be implemented following the release of Israeli captives. The map – which included no timeframe for each stage – showed Israeli forces moving in the third stage to a “security buffer zone” on the edge of the enclave. According to the plan, the Israeli army would “progressively” hand over the Gaza territory…
There was only two players who scored three hat-tricks in a major European league last season. One was Harry Kane. The other was neither Erling Haaland nor Kylian Mbappe. It was Croydon-born former Arsenal striker Mika Biereth for Monaco.He achieved the feat within the first seven games of his Ligue 1 career following a January move from Austrian club Sturm Graz. One year prior to that, Biereth had made his big breakthrough in senior football while on loan in Scotland with Motherwell. “It is fantastic what he is doing,” Stuart Kettlewell tells Sky Sports. Kettlewell, now in charge at Kilmarnock,…
William Saliba has signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal.Sky Sports News understands the 24-year-old has penned a five-year deal to keep him at the club until the summer of 2030. “I’m so happy to sign a new deal with my club. I have to keep going like this and win some trophies. The only thing we’re missing here is winning trophies,” Saliba said”We all believe in the project and the future of the club, we have a good squad, good staff and good coaches. We are close to achieving things, and I’m sure soon we’ll be able to win…
William Saliba has signed a new long-term contract with Arsenal.Sky Sports News understands the 24-year-old has penned a five-year deal to keep him at the club until the summer of 2030. Saliba said: “I feel proud of myself because I first signed in 2019 and now, in 2025, I’m still here to extend my contract. I’m so happy. I feel at home. We have a good team, we have a good squad, we have good staff. The coach is perfect for me, so it’s the best place to be.”I enjoy every day when I have the chance to wear this…
Jose Mourinho might not be as special anymore, but the Benfica coach will still command center stage when he walks out at Stamford Bridge at Chelsea on Tuesday.Last dance? Probably.Mourinho’s longevity and ability to land another big job just when the last one appeared to take him to the end of the road means that you can never quite be certain what will happen next with the 62-year-old. But with his surprise return to Benfica earlier this month, preceding what many expected to be a move into international management with Portugal after the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Champions League…
Demands for a sporting boycott of Israel have grown in Europe amid its ongoing genocide in Gaza – and nowhere more so than in football. Several European nations recognised Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly earlier this month. Human rights experts appointed by the UN refugee agency UNHCR urged football’s governing bodies to ban Israel, saying that they must not “turn a blind eye to grave human rights violations, especially when their platforms are used to normalise injustices”. Israeli teams currently compete in Europe. But Uefa, the continent’s governing body, is facing calls to allow member states to vote on whether it should…
Sep 30, 2025, 05:43 AM ETFormer Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has said that Ruben Amorim’s time as Manchester United manager so far has been a “disaster” and that it may be best for both parties to “just shake hands and move on.”Amorim was appointed at United in November last year off the back of a successful spell as head coach of Sporting CP, but he has failed to turn fortunes around at Old Trafford since then, collecting just 34 Premier League points in his 33 games in charge at the club.Carragher, who made over 700 appearances for Liverpool, has joined…