Author: Muktar Balogun

Rio Ferdinand, a former Manchester United player, has predicted that the Red Devils will finish in the top four of the Premier League standings this season. He also thinks Manchester City will win the Premier League again this year. Ferdinand believes Ralf Rangnick, Manchester United’s interim manager, will progressively improve the team. “I’ve followed my heart.” Ferdinand revealed his top four choices to BT Sport. Man United’s performance in the last four games has been questioned at times, but it’s a new manager attempting to install his methods and so on. He believes their current run of games will put them in…

Henry Onyekuru will join the Super Eagles camp in Abuja, which is already open due to injuries to some of the team’s players, according to Gazzetta. Augustine Eguavoen, the Super Eagles interim coach, revealed his 28-man roster, with the 24-year-old one of the conspicuous absences from the list of ten attackers invited. According to Gazzetta, Onyekuru will join the Super Eagles camp in Abuja, which is already open due to injuries to some of the team’s players “While he was initially excluded, a vacancy was created due to injuries to other “players,” which was thought proper to be filled by…

As Leicester’s injury woes increase, Jamie Vardy has been ruled out for up to four weeks with a hamstring injury. Vardy, who turns 35 next month, had complained of a problem during last week’s Carabao Cup defeat at Liverpool and was sidelined for Manchester City’s Boxing Day match. The striker, though, sustained the injury in Tuesday’s Premier League victory over Liverpool at Anfield. Rodgers noted that Vardy’s injury was exacerbated by the club’s busy holiday schedule and the additional demands placed on players as a result of an increase in Covid cases. Patson Daka is also injured and will miss…

Thomas Tuchel, Chelsea’s manager, says he doesn’t understand why the Premier League won’t allow additional substitutes. The German is displeased that only three substitutes are still permitted in the English Premier League, particularly amid the busy festive season and the onset of COVID. The former Borussia Dortmund manager stated he couldn’t understand why England has fewer substitutes than the rest of Europe. Chelsea played on Sunday and will play against Brighton on Wednesday night. He said it makes no sense, but it’s a circumstance, and it’s concerning that they are struggling, that they have injuries, and that they have players…

Jose Peseiro, a Portuguese tactician, has been named Head Coach of the Super Eagles by the Nigeria Football Federation. The NFF announced this in a statement issued after its National Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. Peseiro’s appointment was confirmed in a statement by Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. At a virtual meeting on Wednesday to discuss critical matters in Nigerian football, the NFF Executive Committee endorsed the idea for Peseiro’s appointment, according to the statement. According to NAN, the Executive Committee accepted a recommendation for the hiring of Jose Peseiro as the…

After deciding to have knee surgery, the 25-year-old, Ben Chilwell is projected to miss the rest of the season. Chelsea opted to discontinue Ben Chilwell’s prior rehabilitation plan and send him for surgery, which means he will miss the remainder of the season. After injuring his anterior cruciate ligament in November’s 4-0 Champions League triumph against Juventus, it was believed that the defender would avoid surgery and return in January. The Blues believe the issue now requires knee surgery, and the England international is expected to return next season. Chelsea will need to find a replacement for Chilwell during his…

Hugo Maradona, Diego Maradona’s younger brother, died in Naples on Tuesday at the age of 52, exactly a year after the Argentine football star went away, according to Italian football club Napoli. Napoli announced on their website, confirming rumours in the Italian press that the former footballer had died of a heart attack. The players and Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis “come together around Maradona’s family and unite with them in the agony of Hugo’s loss,” according to the club. Hugo Maradona was an Argentine youth international midfielder who played in Italy, Austria, Spain, Argentina, and Japan before settling in…

Ferran Torres has completed his transfer from Manchester City to FC Barcelona in a deal for up to 65 million euros. At the Camp Nou, the Spain international has agreed to a five-and-a-half-year contract. The club’s new head coach wanted to bolster the attack with a goal-scoring player, and they’ve found him. Despite the club’s financial woes, the transfer was a priority for Barcelona, and the club will be pleased to have completed it before the window officially opens, allowing Ferran to begin practicing with his new teammates as soon as possible. It was made possible, in part, by additional…

Callum Hudson-Odoi, a Chelsea midfielder, has surpassed Arjen Robben’s record of ten assists in the Premier League, becoming the club’s youngest player to do so. Hudson-Odoi, 21, won a penalty in the first half of Chelsea’s 3-1 Boxing Day triumph over Aston Villa, giving him his 10th Premier League assist since his debut in January 2018. At the age of 20,  Robben joined Chelsea at the age of 20. Since he joined the club, he had nine assists in his first Premier League season before adding his tenth at the start of the 2005/2006 campaign. Meanwhile, when Chelsea trounced Aston…

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has granted permission for the club to sign Barcelona’s Phillipe Coutinho, according to Fichajes.net. Arsenal are presently fourth in the Premier League, but Arteta wants to add to his team when the January transfer window opens. The North London club is now attempting to outbid Everton for Coutinho’s services. Coutinho is Barcelona’s highest-paid player, but he is said to have fallen out of favor with new coach Xavi Hernandez. Xavi has decided that the 29-year-old is no longer needed at Camp Nou. Given the LaLiga club’s precarious financial circumstances, they are working around the clock to…