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The Reds forward is apparently considering his future after growing frustrated with life at Anfield Mohamed Salah is unhappy at  Liverpool  and the Reds are considering cashing in on the Egyptian, according to his former international team-mate Mohamed Aboutrika. Aboutrika says the 28-year-old was particularly frustrated at not being made captain for the recent  Champions League  tie against FC Midtjylland, though there are apparently other reasons why he is unsettled at Anfield. "I called Salah about his situation at Liverpool and he is upset, but that would never affect his performance on the field,” Aboutrika told  beIN Sports. "I know that Salah is not happy in Liverpool, he told me the reasons why he is not happy but they are secrets and I cannot talk about it in public. One of the reasons that made Salah angry was that he was not the captain against Midtjylland." Salah publicly expressed his frustration at not being given the armband against Midtjylla...

Danish side Nordsjaelland FC has announced Ghana legend Michael Essien as a new member of their coaching staff.  The former Chelsea midfielder will be acting as a player/coach with his vast experience set to come in handy for the side. The club made the decision after the legendary midfielder spent four months training with them. The club took to Twitter to announce their new acquisition with their sporting director praising Essien’s experience and attention to detail. He is delighted to have a player of Essien’s pedigree on the coaching team. “Essien left a very positive impression here during his visit and we continued the dialogue with him after he had left,” he told the club’s website. “We felt, he was excited by what he experienced here through our philosophy, the people he met at the club, and that our environment inspired him. ”At the same time, Michael’s visit gave us a clear impression of how much a coaching staff member on the pitch, as an active part of the training with...

  The Nations League is back: Here’s how UEFA’s latest international tournament works UEFA’s newest international football tournament is back for only the second time since it launched in 2018. The tournament largely replaced the international friendly matches, which were previously a fixture of the football calendar. But the tournament does carry some other significance: the 2018/19 iteration gave four teams the chance to qualify for Euro 2020, and the 2020-2021 fixtures provide the chance for two teams to enter play-offs for the next World Cup. What is the format? The UEFA Nations League consists initially of a league phase, with four leagues involved. Within three leagues there are four groups of four teams. The fourth league consists of two groups, one of which contains three teams, not four. Therefore a total of 55 teams will take part. Each team plays the others in their group home and away. The four group winners of League A - a league made up of the current highest ranking ...

Manchester City have confirmed two of its players have tested positive for COVID-19, less than a week before the start of the new Premier League season. In a statement on its website, last year’s league runners up said Riyad Mahrez and Aymeric Laporte were “observing a period of self-isolation” after testing positive. Neither of the players are displaying symptoms, the statement continued. They are just the latest Premier League stars to be confirmed to have caught the virus, with games due to kick off from Saturday, September 12. The news follows the positive coronavirus test for  Paul Pogba  at local rivals Manchester United in late August. In the UK, those who test positive for COVID-19 must self-isolate for 10 days from the day of the test result, restarting the 10 days if symptoms appear. Manchester City’s opening game against Wolves is on 21 September, meaning the two players could be available for selection. The Premier League is carrying out thousands of tests each mon...

If we are talking percentages then Manchester City are very much in the driving seat to be Lionel Messi's next club. Paris St-Germain have been in touch with Messi's dad, his agent, again about the possibility of signing the Barcelona captain, who  submitted a transfer request on Tuesday. And, perhaps most intriguingly of all, Juventus are now looking at the hugely unlikely scenario of organising some very daring financial deals and sponsorships that could see Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo playing together for the first time. What a mouth-watering prospect that would be. But it is also close to impossible. At the end of a week of countless headlines and rumours, there are two things we now definitely know above anything else, namely that Messi very much wants to leave Barcelona and Barcelona would very much like him to stay. That is the simple analysis of what promises to become an even more complicated scenario than it already is. And the reason for that is that both sides are A...

  Access Denied International football star, Didier Drogba, received some bad news on Thursday when the Electoral Commission of the Ivorian Soccer Federation (FIF) rejected his candidacy for the presidency of the federation. "The electoral commission (...) rejects the candidacy of Mr. Drogba Tébily Didier Yves Tébily," reads a section of Article 5 of the negative decision of the commission. Rejected but with the possibility to appeal This rejection was based on criticisms of the former striker for several eligibility requirement breaches and highlights the challenges the star faced in trying to establish himself within the Ivorian football industry in spite of his international status, athletic track record and personal wealth — and beyond just being a player on the field. Eligibility Requirements Drogba, who was partly trained in France and once played for European clubs, Chelsea and Marseille, only managed to obtain sponsorship of two first division clubs — one short of the...

  Usain Bolt  has tested positive for the coronavirus as Jamaica's Prime Minister says there will no special treatment if anyone has been found to break the rules stemming from a party held for the former sprinter's recent 34th birthday. Ricky Simms, Bolt's agent, confirmed the Olympic great's positive test. "The Covid test was positive, but Usain is not showing any symptoms," he wrote in an email. "It is now public knowledge that Mr. Bolt has been tested positive," Dr. Christopher Tufton, the Jamaican Minister of Health and Wellness, said in a virtual press conference Monday. "He has been formally notified -- I'm told -- by the authorities and in keeping with standard protocols once there is a positive case, irrespective of the individual, it triggers an approach to questioning, interrogation if you will, which would then follow through with contact tracing." Two notable footballers, Manchester City's  Raheem Sterling  and Bayer Le...

  Argentine football star Lionel Messi has sent a letter to Barcelona informing the club that he wants to leave the team, a source close to the footballer confirmed to CNN. Following the Catalan side's humiliating 8-2 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarterfinals, club president Josep Maria Bartomeu told Barca TV: "Messi has said many times that he wants to finish career at Barca. "(He) is still the best player in the world, and we have him with us ... A cycle is coming to an end and another one starts but in the Messi era." In July 2017, Barcelona and Messi announced a contract extension that would keep Messi with the team until June 30, 2021 and is reportedly worth €565,000 ($645,000) a week. Messi, 33, has been with the club since 2000. The six-time Ballon d'Or winner made his league debut for Barcelona in 2004. The Argentine has helped Barcelona win 10 league titles in his time at the club, as well as the Champions League four times, and he is...

Barcelona say an unnamed squad member has tested positive for Covid-19. He was one of nine reporting for pre-season training, showed no symptoms and has been quarantined at his home. Also on Wednesday fellow La Liga side Athletic Bilbao said six players had tested positive as they returned for pre-season training. Valencia confirmed two cases of Covid-19 this week, while  Atletico Madrid reported two positive tests  before their Champions League quarter-final. Barca say he their player has not been in contact with any senior players, who travel to Lisbon on Thursday to prepare for their Champions League quarter-final. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Champions League is concluding with a 'final eight' tournament in Lisbon, comprising single-leg games held behind closed doors. Barcelona play Bayern Munich on Friday, the day after Atletico Madrid face RB Leipzig. Everyone who has been in contact with the Barcelona player has been tracked to perform tests.

  On Saturday, Juventus broke the internet, in Italy at least, when they announced the sacking of Maurizio Sarri as head coach and the hiring of Andrea Pirlo - the man without an ounce of coaching experience on his CV. Pirlo, accustomed to making headlines as a legendary player for, among others, Inter Milan, AC Milan and Juventus, is now making headlines as a manager when he hasn't even submitted his final thesis to be called a qualified coach. Pirlo? Really? The man who started chapter nine of his autobiography with the words: "I wouldn't bet a single cent on me becoming a manager though. It's not a job I'm attracted to. There are too many worries…" It's one thing to have taken on the role of Juve's under-23 coach 10 days ago - a job without pressure - and quite another to take charge of Cristiano Ronaldo and company, while satisfying the obsessions of a side desperate for European success before the veterans retire. Yet Pirlo is used to surprising u...