While Barcelona more often than not benefit from their talented academy graduates by employing them in the first team, many bright prospects also slip through the cracks. In search of more minutes, Dani Olmo was one of Barcelona’s young players to leave the Catalan outfit in 2014. Olmo took an interesting career path, joining Dinamo Zagreb before taking his talents …

Tottenham are reportedly in discussions with goalkeeper Brandon Austin regarding a contract extension, signalling the club’s intention to secure the future of the promising shot-stopper. That is according to Football London’s Alasdair Gold, who claims that the talks have already taken place and that there is optimism between the player and the club about finalising a deal. Gold claims that …

Juventus’ quest to win Serie A this season might be over, but reaching the Coppa Italia Final remains very much in grasp. Tim Weah, Weston McKennie, and the rest of the Old Lady squad travels to Lazio for the second leg of their semifinal showdown with Lazio. Weah is coming off a 68-minute performance against Cagliari on Friday while McKennie …

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April 22 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has joined the UEFA campaign to combat social media bullying with the federations leading players 2023 – Kiril Despodov and Evdokia Popadinova, as well as junior national players Chung Nguyen Do and Steven Gerard Jean Yves Gaote – leading the campaign. They are joined by the elite Bulgarian referee Pavleta Rashkova. The …

Following back-to-back defeats to Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid, the future of Xavi Hernandez has come under the microscope at Barcelona. Earlier in the year, the Spaniard had announced his desire to leave Camp Nou at the end of the season. But Barça were hopeful Xavi would change his mind, especially if the club were able to win against PSG …

April 22 – The New Saints, the 16-time JD Cymru Premier champions, have joined an elite group of clubs in world football after completing an unbeaten league season for the first time. Dominating the Welsh first division, the side won 30 matches and drew two across the league season, joining an elite group of clubs to reach ‘invincible’ status such …

Barcelona will have some tough decisions to make this summer as they look to trim the squad without degrading the quality of the team too much. While the likes of Frenkie de Jong and Ronald Araujo have been linked with potential exits, one player Barcelona do count on is Sergi Roberto. The club have informed Roberto of their desire to …

April 22 – Following their 2-0 defeat to Everton in the Premier League, Nottingham Forest made the extraordinary accusation that the Video Assistant Referee [VAR] was biased against them as they tried to push out of their relegation dogfight. The Trentside club felt aggrieved after referee Anthony Taylor denied three strong penalty appeals. After the match Forest turned to social …

Earlier today, Barcelona president Joan Laporta came out all guns firing against the refereeing in La Liga for Barcelona’s wrongfully disallowed goal against Real Madrid in last night’s Clasico. The incident in question was from a moment in the game when Lamine Yamal tactfully heeled the ball towards the goal from a corner kick. The ball went beyond the goal …