Ligue 1 club Marseille have completed the signing of French midfielder Adrien Rabiot on a free transfer, the club announced on Tuesday. The 29-year-old, who departed Juventus this summer following the expiration of his contract with the Old Lady, returns to France, where he has previously played for Toulouse and Paris Saint-Germain, where he won six league titles. Rabiot had already reached an "agreement in principle"...
French champions Paris Saint-Germain have leapt in support of Nuno Mendes after the Portuguese defender was the recipient of racist and abusive comments on social media following their 3-1 win against Brest at the Parc des Princes on Saturday. The visitors had gotten ahead in the 29th minute through a penalty from Romain Del Castillo after Mendes had brought down Ludovic Ajorque in the danger area....
French Striker Kylian Mbappe has rejected a mediation offer by the French league’s legal commission over his unpaid wages and bonuses after a meeting in Paris between his representatives and Paris Saint-Germain officials on Wednesday. The 25-year-old Real Madrid forward is demanding around €55 million, which he claimed to be owed by PSG despite the French champions proposing that Mbappe has agreed to waive the money...
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...
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