Justin Kluivert has named Cristiano Ronaldo, Erling Haaland, Eden Hazard and Son Heung-min among his Premier League inspirations as he prepares to start his career in England with Bournemouth.
The Dutch attacker, son of Barcelona great Patrick Kluivert, has admired the impact made by Manchester City striker Haaland after arriving in the division.
Kluivert has joined Bournemouth from Roma ahead of the new Premier League season.
Having also had loan spells with RB Leipzig, Nice and Valencia, he will complete the set of playing in each of Europe s top five leagues when he makes his debut for the club.
Kluivert is delighted his chance to play in the Premier League has come and has been watching some of English football s greatest recent performers to prepare.…
Qatar have been cleared of any wrongdoing following a FIFA report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Qatar s successful bid for the 2022 showpiece faced particular scrutiny due to several allegations of corruption.
However, an investigation led by former United States attorney Michael Garcia, who heads the investigatory chamber of FIFA s Ethics Committee, confirmed the Gulf state will not face any sanction. Neither will Russia, who will host the 2018 tournament.
The report, published by FIFA on Thursday, read: The evaluation of the 2018/2022 FIFA World Cups bidding process is closed for the FIFA Ethics Committee.
The chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA ethics committee finds that the investigation into the said biddin…
Erik ten Hag wants Manchester United to be difficult to beat, as they aim to build on their opening-day win over Fulham against Brighton on Saturday.
Joshua Zirkzee made a mark on his United debut, scoring a late winner in a 1-0 win over the Cottagers to snatch three points.
It followed an up-and-down pre-season which finished with a penalty shootout defeat to Manchester City in the Community Shield.
Ten Hag has laid out high ambitions for the season and, with a team they have struggled against in recent years next up, he is keen to get United s style of play nailed down early on to set the tone for the campaign.
The project is about building, working and constructing, Ten Hag told SuperSport.
We talk also about what we want to achieve, and we …
This is one of the biggest games of the season and sees Struggling Liverpool entertain the brilliant but inconsistent Arsenal.
Liverpool have made a poor start to the season and really need a good performance to reward their great fan base after a torrid time this season. Occupying a lowly seventh place in the league, and having already crashed out of the Champions league, so far it;s not a season to remember for Reds fans. Much has been down to injuries to star players Gerrard and Torres, and the lack of players available to fill their boots. David Ngog has battled willfullly up front for Liverpool in Torres absence, and is expected to do so again this weekend. A liverpool team with local hero Steven Gerrard in the team is always difficult to beat and he will want a victory ov…
data-mm-id=”_j3qnb67mn”>Every guy likes to think he wouldn't be the dude who ends up going viral because he swings and misses at a exploding ball as part of a gender reveal party or whatever. It happens to plenty of other people but surely it would not happen to him. "I'd hit that out of the park," is the thought that occurs to every man in existence when watching such a gender reveal gaffe. But if even David Ortiz misses, well… it's hard to really believe that anymore. On Monday night, Ortiz was having a gender reveal party and got a nice softball down the middle to take a cut at. He completely, utterly, and totally whiffed. It didn't even seem like he got close, which led to an amusing scene of Ortiz bending over to grab the ball while the blue confett…
Pep Guardiola has no doubt Manchester City’s rivals are hoping the club are punished for breaching financial regulations.
The Premier League champions are facing 115 charges that they broke the competition’s rules following a four-year investigation.
A long-awaited hearing into the allegations that could last up to 10 weeks is set to begin on Monday, with or even expulsion from the league if found guilty.
Javier Tebas, the president of Spain’s LaLiga and a long-time outspoken critic of Abu Dhabi-owned City’s financial model, .
City manager Guardiola, who rarely sees eye to eye with Tebas, feels his fellow Spaniard could be right on this point but, with the club denying any wrongdoing, he has urged them all to be patient and await the outcome.