Soccer News

All the top stories and transfer rumours from Thursday's newspapers...

Roberto De Zerbi says Robert Sanchez is not currently part of Brighton's first-team plans because the goalkeeper "wanted it this way". Sanchez was a surprise absentee from Albion's matchday squad for Sunday's 3-0 Premier...

What the papers say Bayern Munich are willing to offload Sadio Mane this summer after only one season at the club according to The Times. The 31-year-old forward has struggled for game time since his £28 million move fr...

Rob Edwards said his Luton team deserved their Sky Bet Championship play-off victory over Sunderland. The Hatters won 2-0 on Tuesday, overcoming a 2-1 first-leg deficit to progress 3-2 on aggregate amid joyous scenes at ...

Sheikh Jassim has submitted an improved bid in his attempt to buy Manchester United from the Glazer family, the PA news agency understands. Both Sheikh Jassim, the chairman of Qatar Islamic Bank and the son of a former Q...

Lautaro Martinez provided the finishing touch as Inter Milan cruised into the Champions League final with a 3-0 aggregate win over AC Milan. Martinez fired the only goal of a stop-start second leg to add to their 2-0 vic...

City defeated Real Madrid, 4-0, in the second leg of their Champions League semifinal to take another step toward the prize it has long sought.

Bernardo Silva struck twice in the first half as Manchester City produced a sensational performance to dethrone holders Real Madrid and reach the Champions League final. Eder Militao also turned into his own net and Juli...

Callum Smith scored against his former club Hamilton to give Airdrie a 1-0 win in the first leg of their cinch Championship play-off final at the Excelsior Stadium. Smith, who joined Airdrie from Hamilton in 2021, struck...

Chelsea cruised to a 4-0 victory at West Ham thanks to goals from Niamh Charles, Pernille Harder, Sophie Ingle and Erin Cuthbert to leave themselves just two wins from a fourth consecutive Women's Super League title.

Manchester City produced a resounding 4-0 thrashing of 14-time winners Real Madrid to progress to the Champions League final with a 5-1 aggregate win.

Incoming Rangers chief executive James Bisgrove is working on a plan that aims to make them the "dominant club in Scotland" and promised supporters transfer plans were reasonably advanced. Commercial and marketing direct...

Manchester City are through to the final of the Champions League after a 4-0 mauling of Real Madrid in the second leg of their semi-final secured a 5-1 aggregate win.

David Moyes was the first manager to inflict a home defeat in Europe on AZ Alkmaar, and he wants to repeat the trick on Thursday night with West Ham. Moyes brought a proud 32-match record, spanning three decades, to an e...

Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been suspended from football for eight months. The England international's punishment, which will see him banned until January, comes after he admitted 232 breaches of the Football Associ...

Arsenal kept their slim Women's Super League title chances alive after a first-half onslaught helped them to a 4-1 win over Everton, who ended the game with 10 players.

Jake Daniels says he is proud of how the stigma around football has changed a year on since the Blackpool forward became the UK's first active male professional footballer to come out publicly as gay.

The two European titans are squaring off in a rematch of their classic Champions League semifinal from last season. The winner will face Inter Milan in the final.

Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been hit with an eight-month ban after admitting breaches of betting rules. Toney was charged by the Football Association last November for 262 alleged breaches over a four-year period. T...

James Milner, Roberto Firmino, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Naby Keita will all leave Liverpool when their contracts expire at the end of the season. Milner and Firmino joined the Reds in June 2015 and both played in the ...

David Moyes hopes West Ham have learned from last season's Europa League semi-final exit as they prepare to take on AZ Alkmaar on Thursday for a place in the Europa Conference League final.

Barry Robson plans to give Aberdeen talisman Luis 'Duk' Lopes until the last minute to prove his fitness for Saturday's third-place shootout with Hearts at Tynecastle. The 18-goal striker went off with a muscle injury in...