Marco Reus captaincy of Borussia Dortmund is not an issue of concern for chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke.
Reus role as Dortmund s on-field leader has come under renewed scrutiny after Lucien Favre s side twice threw away the lead to draw 2-2 at Eintracht Frankfurt last weekend.
In the aftermath of the contest at the Commerzbank Arena, Reus gave an interview to Sky Deutschland and snapped: Don t come to me with your s*** about mentality.
Every week it s the same c**p.
Briefly addressing the issue in quotes reported by Kicker, Watzke maintained the Germany forward s status was not up for debate.
The discussion about captaincy for Marco Reus leads nobody in Dortmund, he said.
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Liverpool will be looking to remain the only unbeaten side in the Premier League as they prepare to welcome their former manager Rafa Benitez’s Newcastle on Boxing Day.
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Christmas came early for the Reds who sit top of the Premier League tree with a four-point cushion ahead of Manchester City. Liverpool are the only unbeaten side in the league and will be looking to remain so when they play host to inconsistent Magpies.
Jurgen Klopp’s men are on a seven-match winning streak in the league but their flying form will be put to a test against the club Reds beat only once in last four encounters. Liverpool’s home record against Newcastle offers plenty of promise, though, knowing t…
Arsenal have completed the signing of Gabriel Jesus from Manchester City, the Gunners have confirmed.
The Brazil striker has signed a long-term deal at Emirates Stadium, with reports suggesting the deal is worth around £45million.
Jesus becomes the fourth player to arrive at Arsenal in this transfer window after Matt Turner, Marquinhos and Fabio Vieira.
Arsenal confirmed the signing on their official website on Monday and manager Mikel Arteta said: I m very excited.
The club has done a tremendous job to recruit a player of this stature.
I know Gabriel personally very well, and we all know him well from his time in the Premier League and being really successful here.
This is a position that s been on our radar for a long time now and we…
Adam Lallana is preparing to leave Liverpool when his contract expires at the end of the season, according to .
The midfielder arrived to Merseyside in 2014 as a part of the Southampton contingent, which also included defender Dejan Lovren and striker Rickie Lambert. Nathaniel Clyne, Sadio Mane and Virgil van Dijk later followed the same path.
Lallana was a vital part of the club s initial resurrection phase under the command of Jurgen Klopp, playing a big role in their return to the Champions League in 2017. However, injuries prevented him from moving forward in tune with the rest of the team and he slowly but completely lost his place in the starting XI. Klopp convinced him to stay on last summer, sensing that squad depth would be an important aspect of this season s …
According to a recent report over in the Netherlands, a series of top European clubs are interested in signing Steven Bergwijn. The 21 year old winger has been turning heads for PSV this season, having been at the club since 2011 at the youth level. PSV are said to be demanding £30 million for his signing when they open themselves up to offers in the summer transfer window, but for now, the interested clubs will have to wait.
Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are all said to be amongst the teams sniffing around, as PSV prepare themselves for a bidding war.
Bergwijn has already been able to establish himself as one of the most exciting young Dutch players in the league, and even received his first official call-ups to t…
Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer trimmed his squad ahead of Raphael Varane s arrival by shipping out Axel Tuanzebe on loan to Aston Villa on Sunday.
The announcement of Tuanzebe s switch for a season-long stay at Villa comes as United prepare to finalise the signing of France centre-back Varane from Real Madrid.
The Varane deal looked set to push Tuanzebe further towards the fringes of the Red Devils squad, and the 23-year-old will have more obvious first-team prospects at Villa Park, where he has spent two previous loan stints.
Tuanzebe s spells at Villa came in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons, before he looked to establish himself in the United first-team squad under Solskjaer.
Although Tuanzebe has left Old Trafford for now, he has signed…
Paris Saint-Germain are confident of signing Hector Bellerin from Arsenal in this transfer window, according to .
The right-back joined the Gunners first team in 2014 and has made a total of 205 appearances for the club in the five years since.
A bid of around £25 million is believed to be on the table, and both the player and Arsenal are open to the move. Bellerin is one of the three players the Ligue 1 champions are keen to bring in, which, despite some reports suggesting otherwise, does not include Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi.
PSG boss Thomas Tuchel was forced to make use of Thilo Kehrer on the right defensive flank after the departure of Thomas Meunier to Borussia Dortmund, even though his preferred role is in the middle of the back line. The arrival o…
Dani Carvajal is close to signing a new contract with Real Madrid, according to .
The right-back is currently bound to the club until the summer of 2022, but under the terms of the proposed new deal, his stint with the Spanish giants should be extended by two years, keeping him there until he turns 32.
Carvajal is a complete product of Real Madrid, having joined their youth setup at the age of 10, though he did spend the 2012/13 season at Bayer Leverkusen. He has represented Real at senior level a total of 282 times so far, and this extension represents an act of acknowledgement of his loyalty, past and present, as well as belief in it for the future.
Carvajal is currently recovering from a medial collateral ligament injury. He has already missed several games w…
Fiorentina are taking huge strides upwards in the Serie A at the moment. The latest victim of that magnificent run are Inter Milan, defeated at Guiseppe Meazza by a single goal, scored by Giacomo Bonaventura.
Having made 184 appearances for AC Milan before moving to Florenze in 2020, the 33-year-old midfielder will be extremely happy to have delivered such a blow to the city rivals of his former club.
The teams
Interestingly enough, Inter boss Simone Inzaghi left Lautaro Martinez on the bench at the start of the game, putting Joaquin Correa up to start alongside Romelu Lukaku in his preferred 3-5-2 setup. The rest of the lineup was pretty much expected, with goalkeeper Andre Onana starting at the backs of Alessandro Bastoni, Francesco Acerbi and Matteo Darmian in the b…
Juventus are interested in signing Ramy Bensebaini from Borussia Monchengladbach in the January transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that Bensebaini is out of contract at Monchengladbach at the end of the season, and that he could leave the Bundesliga club in the January transfer window.
Bensebaini has been on the books of Monchengladbach since 2019 when he joined from Rennes. The 27-year-old has been brilliant for the German club over the years and is one of the better defenders in the Bundesliga. Bensebaini can operate as a left-back or as a centre-back.
Juventus are eighth in the Serie A table at the moment with 10 points from seven matches, as many as seven points behind leaders Napoli. Meanwhile, Monchengladbach currently find themselves sixth in …