UEFA: Europe’s top 30 clubs earn as much as other 682
Thirty of Europe’s top-flight clubs earned almost as much revenue as the other 682 combined in 2018 as the riches generated by the sport continued...
European football
Barcelona knock Real Madrid off top of Money League
Barcelona have overtaken Real Madrid to top the Deloitte Football Money League for the first time and become the first club to break the 800...
Barca sack coach Valverde, appoint Setien until 2022
Barcelona have sacked coach Ernesto Valverde and named former Real Betis coach Quique Setien as his replacement, the club said in a statement on Monday....
Iniesta criticises Barcelona handling of Valverde situation
Former Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta believes the Spanish champions are treating coach Ernesto Valverde unfairly. Barca approached Iniesta’s former team mate Xavi Hernandez to replace...
Messi laments Barca’s childish mistakes in Super Cup defeat
Barcelona captain Lionel Messi cursed his side’s careless errors in their 3-2 defeat by Atletico Madrid on Thursday as they crashed out of the revamped...
Lazio turn Serie A into a three-horse race after exposing Juve cracks
Lazio will attempt to chalk up their ninth consecutive league win when they visit lowly Brescia on Sunday as they threaten to turn Serie A into...
Real Madrid’s Hazard ruled out of Super Cup
Real Madrid’s joint-record signing Eden Hazard has no chance of returning from his ankle injury in time for the revamped Spanish Super Cup, coach Zinedine...
Ibrahimovic hopes to transform AC Milan fortunes
Zlatan Ibrahimovic vowed to help turn AC Milan’s season around after joining on a six-month deal. The 38-year-old striker completed his medical with the Rossoneri...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic in talks to rejoin AC Milan
Former Sweden and Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic is in talks to return to AC Milan. It is understood there are other clubs interested in...
Barca, Real share spoils in rare goalless Clasico
Real Madrid outplayed Barcelona for large parts of Wednesday’s La Liga clash but were unable to make their dominance count and the ‘Clasico’ ended goalless...
Real and Barca braced for unusual security steps ahead of Clasico
Real Madrid and Barcelona may find it easier to get themselves psyched up for their rescheduled Clasico La Liga clash on Wednesday, because both sides...
Serie A anti-racism campaign ‘looks like a sick joke’
Serie A’s decision to use three paintings of monkeys to illustrate a campaign to stamp out racism has been branded “a sick joke”. The paintings...
Napoli name Gattuso as coach to replace Ancelotti
Napoli named the famously combative former Italy midfielder Gennaro Gattuso as their new coach on Wednesday in an apparent attempt to restore discipline to a...
Gladbach stun Bayern with last-gasp penalty
Borussia Monchengladbach’s Ramy Bensebaini scored twice, including a stoppage-time penalty, for a 2-1 comeback win over champions Bayern Munich on Saturday which kept his team...
Real Madrid ease past Espanyol to move top of La Liga
Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema scored in each half to earn a comfortable 2-0 home win over Espanyol that sent their team provisionally...
Bale not ecstatic at Real Madrid, says manager
Gareth Bale’s agent insists the Wales winger’s departure from Real Madrid is not guaranteed despite admitting his client is “not ecstatic” at the club. Bale,...
Real’s Hazard out of Clasico with fractured ankle
Real Madrid’s 100-million-euro forward Eden Hazard is set to miss his side’s crunch match with La Liga leaders Barcelona later this month after being diagnosed...
Italian sports paper accused of fuelling racism with ‘Black Friday’ headline
Italian daily Corriere dello Sport has been accused of fuelling racism with its front page headline in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper. The paper ran...
Portugal, France and Germany drawn together, England face Croatia
Defending champions Portugal will be in the same Euro 2020 group as France and Germany while England meet Croatia in a repeat of last year’s...
Zlatan called ‘Judas’ in graffiti on Stockholm building
Former Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was branded ‘Judas’ in graffiti sprayed on a building he owns in Stockholm on Wednesday night following the announcement he...
