7:00 AM ET Liverpool’s coaching staff wanted Bill Shankly’s typewriter put on display at the club’s new training ground. Liverpool FC At every top club there is the internal conflict between the need to modernise and expand — reaching out to new global fans and recruiting the world’s best talent — and maintaining their identity through
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5:52 AM ET Liverpool will return to Budapest to play RB Leipzig in the their Champions League round-of-16 second leg match due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, European football’s governing body UEFA said on Thursday. Liverpool, who beat Leipzig 2-0 in the first leg on Feb. 16 in the Hungarian capital, cannot host Leipzig at Anfield
6:31 PM ET LONDON — COVID-19 will bring perennial club-vs.-country arguments into sharper focus this month, but the footballing reasons are stacking up for Manchester United to engineer a break for Bruno Fernandes. A third consecutive 0-0 draw across all competitions, this time against Crystal Palace, leaves Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side 14 points behind runaway
12:14 PM ET Niko Kovac has taken Monaco from midtable to title contenders in less than a full season in charge. VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images With 11 games to go between now and the end of the season, plenty of things can — and will — happen for AS Monaco and manager Niko Kovac. There
4:00 AM ET Euro 2020 is due to start in 100 days, on June 11, with Italy scheduled to face Turkey in Rome in the first game of a tournament that was postponed last year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But with the vast majority of European countries under strict lockdown measures, UEFA
4:00 AM ET Tor-Kristian Karlsen With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting football clubs’ finances around the world, Europe’s top organizations are looking to their youth teams rather than to transfers for ways to freshen up. Already this season we’ve seen teenagers like Borussia Dortmund‘s Giovanni Reyna, Arsenal‘s Bukayo Saka and Manchester United‘s Mason Greenwood make their
3:00 PM ET Associated Press Schalke 04 hired the relatively unknown Dimitrios Grammozis as their fifth coach of a turbulent season on Tuesday. – Stream new episodes of ESPN FC Monday-Friday on ESPN+– Stream Bundesliga all season long on ESPN+– Take our quiz: Which Bundesliga club should you support? The 42-year-old Grammozis — a former
7:58 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Edinson Cavani looks set to return to the Manchester United squad for their trip to Crystal Palace. United travel to Selhurst Park on Wednesday and after Cavani came through training on Tuesday unscathed, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is hopeful to have the striker available again after missing the last four
1:23 PM ET Milan rose to the challenge of Roma this weekend, putting the derby defeat behind them and keeping the pressure on Inter in the title race. Antonietta Baldassarre/Insidefoto/LightRocket via Getty Images The weekend in soccer was full of surprises, drama and action as per usual. AC Milan and Inter Milan both won their respective
9:00 AM ET Despite the inevitable hype, Chelsea and Manchester United produced a rather drab stalemate in the Premier League‘s most high-profile game of the weekend. The two teams slugged their way to a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge that produced little beyond a light sprinkling of VAR controversy in the first 20 minutes. –