Manchester United defender Diogo Dalot has finished a 10-day injury treatment programme at Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG.
The Portuguese full-back arrived in Shanghai on August 29 to undergo rehabilitation on a hip problem with physiotherapist Eduardo Santos, SIPG confirmed.
Santos gained prominence in 2015 for his work with David Luiz, then of Paris Saint-Germain, and now heads up SIPG s medical department.
Dalot has not featured in a competitive match for United this season but a statement on the CSL side s website described his rehabilitation as being successfully completed.
Although it is a long journey, it is worthwhile for me, Dalot was quoted as saying.
United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer last month suggested the 20-year-old wou…
The PFA Premier League Team of the Year was released on Wednesday, prompting the usual arguments over who should and should not be included in the XI.
Champions Manchester City predictably dominate the selection with five representatives, but could have had even more, with Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane possibly unfortunate to miss out.
Liverpool fans would surely make cases for forward Roberto Firmino and left-back Andrew Robertson, while no players from outside the league s top-five sides have got the nod from their peers.
Here, we analyse the 11 men who made the cut with the use of Opta numbers and suggest who else could have made the team.
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Saint-Etienne coach Christophe Galtier is ready for a new challenge and will assess different offers, including those from the Premier League.
Galtier, 49, has been linked with numerous clubs in the English top flight, including Everton and Swansea City.
In charge of Ligue 1 outfit Saint-Etienne since 2009, Galtier said it was time for fresh opportunities away from his homeland.
I m ready for a challenge in a major championship and to fight for the top places, he told Gazzetta dello Sport.
Serie A is a great championship and I already speak some of the language.
But I will also assess carefully the offers from Spain, Germany or England.
Saint-Etienne sit fifth in the Ligue 1 table and have managed a top-five finish in each of thei…
Aleksandar Kolarov s sensational free-kick proved the difference as Serbia got their World Cup campaign off to a winning start with a 1-0 victory over Costa Rica in Group E.
Serbia, under the tutelage of Mladen Krstajic for the first time in a competitive match, controlled much of Sunday s clash at Samara Arena, but could not find a way through Costa Rica s stubborn rearguard until Kolarov stepped just before the hour.
Excellent throughout, Keylor Navas could do little to keep out the defender s blistering effort, which curled over the wall and into the top corner.
It was nothing less than Serbia deserved for a dominant display, although the best chance of the first half went to Costa Rica s Giancarlo Gonzalez, who headed over from point-blank range.
Serb…
Krasnodar celebrated the eighth anniversary of their founding by eliminating Fenerbahce and reaching the last 16 of the Europa League for the first time thanks to a 1-1 draw that secured a 2-1 aggregate triumph.
Dick Advocaat s Fener lost the first leg 1-0 in Russia and found themselves with an even tougher task after just seven minutes in the return match as Fyodor Smolov found the bottom-right corner from 20 yards following a defensive mix-up.
Fener piled the pressure on at times and did level just before the break through Souza s close-range finish after a set-piece caused havoc in the area.
But the hosts failed to complete the turnaround and Krasnodar, who were only founded on February 22 2008, scraped through to second knockout phase.
RESULTS: Krasno…
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes his side can reap additional benefit from having Alexis Mac Allister as a makeshift holding midfielder.
The Reds boss was dismissive of the suggestion the Argentina international, who usually plays further forward, faces the biggest test of his adaptation into a new role at Manchester City on Saturday.
Mac Allister, who joined for £35million from Brighton, has coped well so far filling a hole in a newly-formed midfield with fellow summer signing Wataru Endo, a genuine number six, only entrusted with two Premier League starts, but the prospect of facing Pep Guardiola’s side on their own turf is an entirely different prospect.
The 24-year-old’s poorest performances in the role have come away from home – at Wolves, wher…
Ivan Strinic will take an indefinite break from football after routine medical testing found the AC Milan left-back to be suffering from a heart problem.
The former Napoli man only signed on a free from Sampdoria last month but has now been ruled out pending further investigation of an initial hypertrophy of the heart .
Strinic, 31, is yet to make an appearance for the Rossoneri.
He featured in all but one of Croatia s matches at the World Cup, including the final defeat to France.
In a statement, the Serie A club said: AC Milan announces that during the six-monthly routine checks, scheduled in Italy for professional athletes, it was found that Ivan Strinic suffers from an initial hypertrophy of the heart, which needs further investigations to be performe…
Russia defender Viktor Vasin says it is difficult to compare Cristiano Ronaldo with Javier Hernandez as he prepares to halt the Mexico striker on Saturday.
Ronaldo and Hernandez have each scored once in their two Confederations Cup matches so far, with the Real Madrid star heading in Portugal s winner against Russia and Bayer Leverkusen striker Hernandez netting in a 2-2 draw with the European champions.
Vasin found it a challenge against Ronaldo on matchday two but he believes that the 32-year-old s scoring statistics and Ballon d Or victories place him in a different class to the Mexican marksman.
I ve only seen Javier Hernandez on TV, he told a news conference. Comparing him to Ronaldo, you d need to compare their stats, how many golden balls and golden boo…
The records and statistics are there to be broken, so we are told, and never was that more true than on Everton s most recent trip to fierce rivals Liverpool in February 2021.
An early Richarlison strike and Gylfi Sigurdsson s late sealer from the penalty spot earned Everton a 2-0 win, snapping the Toffees 22-year wait for victory at Anfield.
That success, coming on the back of a 20-game winless run away to Liverpool in the Premier League, gave Everton bragging rights and moved them level on points with the Reds.
Fourteen months on from that game, though, and the fortunes of the rival clubs could not be much different.
While Liverpool are still on track for an unprecedented quadruple of Premier League, FA Cup, EFL Cup and Champions League, relegation is a…
West Ham United are interested in signing Azzedine Ounahi from Angers in the January transfer window, according to . Ounahi has been playing well for Morocco at the 2022 Qatar World Cup, and West Ham are among a number of clubs who have been impressed by the 22-year-old midfielder and are keen on securing his services when the transfer window opens in January.
Ounahi has been on the books of Angers since 2021 and is one of the best young players in Ligue 1. The 22-year-old midfielder has made 13 starts and one substitute appearance in Ligue 1 for Angers so far this season. During the 2021-22 campaign, the young midfielder made 16 starts and 16 substitute appearances in the league, scoring two goals and giving one assist in the process.
The youngster has been a regular f…