Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has dismissed his team’s chances of winning this season’s FA Cup, stating they are not title contenders, Afrosport reports. The Villians finished in the top eight of the rebranded UEFA Champions League league phase and are contenders for a top-four spot in the Premier League. It has led to suggestions they could challenge for major honours this season but Emery is...
Former Ivory Coast international Sol Bamba has died at the age of 39, Afrosport reports. The former Leeds United, Leicester City, Cardiff City and Hibernian defender, who was recently appointed as head coach of Turkish club Adanaspor in July, was said to have taken ill shortly before his death. Bamba overcame non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2021 while playing for Cardiff, but the defender has now passed on...
Joe Aribo says he is upset by Southampton's 2-1 defeat at Cardiff City in the Championship on Saturday. The Nigerian midfielder put the Saints ahead in the 12th minute but the Premier League hopefuls could not hold on to it as Senegal's Famara Diedhiou and Cian Ashford guaranteed the three points for the Bluebirds. The result was a hard one to take for Aribo as it...
Paul Onuachu and Southampton will begin life in the Championship when they travel to Hillsborough to tackle Sheffield Wednesday on August 4. The Saints were relegated after 11 seasons in the Premier League last term, finishing last with 25 points. Onuachu was purchased from Genk in January but could not save Southampton from relegation and is yet to open his account for the south coast outfit....
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