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Manchester City have signed goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma from Paris Saint-Germain in a £26m deal.The 26-year-old Italy international has penned a five-year deal with the option of a further year. Donnarumma, who will wear the No 99 shirt, becomes Man City’s seventh and final summer signing, taking their total spend to £185.8m, and will replace Ederson after his move to Fenerbahce was confirmed on Tuesday morning. Twitter This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can use the buttons below to amend…
Just months into President Donald Trump’s second term in office, one of the United States’ most important strategic partnerships is in crisis. Relations between the US and India are at their lowest ebb in a quarter of a century. Things are so bad that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reportedly refused to accept calls from Trump for more than two months. In recent days, Trump labelled trade ties with India a “totally one-sided disaster” and a report emerged that he is no longer planning to visit India later this year for a summit of the Quad partners (India, the…
Jamie Carragher believes the Alexander Isak and Yoane Wissa transfer sagas could lead to a “sad day for football” in the future – after both strikers effectively went on strike in order to gain their moves.Isak and Wissa were two of the key players on a dramatic Transfer Deadline Day. Isak sealed a British record £125m move to Liverpool from Newcastle, while Brentford striker Wissa headed to St James’ Park in a deal worth up to £55m. Both players were united in not featuring for their teams in pre-season or the opening three games of the Premier League, though Wissa…
Real Madrid captain Dani Carvajal has described the departure of coach Carlo Ancelotti as a “necessary change” saying that there’s “more discipline” under successor Xabi Alonso.Madrid have three wins out of three in LaLiga so far this season — topping the table going into the international break — after failing to win a major trophy in 2024-25, in Ancelotti’s final campaign in charge.Carvajal missed most of last season with a serious knee injury, but is now back competing with new arrival Trent Alexander-Arnold for a place in the team.”I think it was a necessary change,” Carvajal told Cadena SER on…
Manchester City have completed the signing of goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma from Paris Saint-Germain.The Italy international has moved to the Etihad Stadium in a deal worth €30 million ($40.2m). He’s signed a five-year contract to replace Ederson in Pep Guardiola’s squad.Ederson’s eight-year stay at City is at an end after the Brazilian joined Fenerbahce for €14m.”To have signed for Manchester City is such a special and proud moment for me,” said Donnarumma.”I am joining a squad packed with world-class talent and a team led by the one of the greatest managers in the history of football in Pep Guardiola.”This is a…
Whoever finishes above Liverpool wins the Premier League. Simple as that. But I’m not sure about Alexander Isak at £125m.I like Isak. He’s a good player. But it all depends on whether it works with the frontline. You can have the best players in the world, but if it doesn’t gel, you don’t have the chemistry. When Liverpool were at their best, it was Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino. Firmino would drop off, Salah would make those runs in, and Mane too; there was chemistry. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Watch Liverpool’s announcement…
History will record that Pep Guardiola changed football in England. But it took Ederson for him to do it here. As the Brazilian departs Manchester City, it is a chance to acknowledge the role of one of the most significant footballers of the modern game.There are better goalkeepers than Ederson. Not many, but there are. The statistics suggest that he prevented more goals than might have been expected throughout his Premier League career. That tallies with an athletic figure, capable of the spectacular. But he does not top the list. That honour goes to Alisson Becker, his compatriot and long-time…
Graham HunterSep 2, 2025, 04:04 AM ETCloseGraham Hunter is a Barcelona-based freelance writer for ESPN.com who specializes in La Liga and the Spanish national team.If Spain are to come anywhere close to their 2008-2010 feats and back up their European Championship title by adding the World Cup, then they have a central problem. Literally.It’s a 6-foot-2, 118-pound problem by the name of Rodri Hernández: Ballón d’Or winner, leader, champion, enforcer, brainiac, and someone without whom, on top form, Spain simply won’t lift their second Mundial trophy in New Jersey next July.Ask anyone who cares about football, and they’ll could rattle…
A closer look at 2024-25Isak joins the reigning champions on the back of his most productive Premier League season so far.Last term, his total of 23 goals (from an xG of 20.42) was bettered only by new teammate Mohamed Salah in the race for the Golden Boot while, with six, he also comfortably topped his previous best in terms of assists provided.Isak registered a total of 46 shots on target, up from 36 in 2023-24, and recorded 211 touches in the opposition box (a total that was, again, fewer than only one player: Salah).He successfully converted all four of his…
Ryan O’HanlonSep 2, 2025, 03:57 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.”Every year, after the NFL draft, everyone is talking about “steals” and “reaches.” The “steals” are the players that the football-watching public thinks went way later than their talent warranted. And the “reaches” are the players we thought went way higher than they should’ve.It turns out: we’re only half right.A 2021 study by Timo Riske of Pro Football Focus looked back at six years of draft data and identified the players who went significantly…