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...
The draws for the new 36-team league format of the 2024-25 UEFA Champions League season were held at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco on Thursday. The new Champions League format ushers in the single 36-team league phase. Each team is expected to face eight different teams (four at home, four away) in a round robin format. The top eight overall advance directly to the round of...
Serie A club Atalanta have agreed to sign Ivory Coast international Odilon Kossounou on a season-long loan deal from Bayer Leverkusen, Afrosport reports. Kossounou, who was part of the Ivorian team that won the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, will join Gian Piero Gasperini's side in a deal that will see Atalanta pay a loan fee of €5.5 million. According to reports, the agreement includes a...
Former Napoli forward Michele Padovano has lashed out at Atalanta forward Ademola Lookman amid talks of a possible move away from the Serie A club. Padovano, a former Italy international, has tagged Lookman as "disrespectful," after reports suggested that the Nigerian asked to sit out Atalanta’s matches pending when his future is sorted. Lookman joined Atalanta in 2022, and he has since scored 32 goals and...
Atalanta have dropped their UEFA Europa League hero Ademola Lookman for their Serie A opening game against Lecce amid uncertainty around his future. French giants Paris Saint-Germain are reportedly interested in signing Lookman to bolster their attacking options following the departure of Kylian Mbappe in June. Italian outlet, Calciomercato reports that PSG are yet to make contact with Atalanta but they have presented an offer to...
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