9:33 AM ET Lionel Messi is one of the best to ever play the game, and he has three clubs to choose from when his contract expires this summer. ESPN Illustration Lionel Messi needs little introduction: he’ll go down in history as one of the best to ever play soccer, with six Ballons d’Ors to his

12:57 PM ET Inter Milan and AC Milan have a real shot of ending Juve’s run of Serie A titles. Whoever wins this weekend will move into pole position. Jonathan Moscrop/Getty Images While the return of the Champions League is, for very obvious reasons, the top story of the week, the European soccer weekend will provide

Saves 0 Shots 0 0 Shots on Target Fouls Committed 0 0 Fouls Against Assists 0 Discipline 0 Yellow 0 Red Goals 0 Shots 0 0 Shots on Target Fouls Committed 0 0 Fouls Against Assists 0 Offsides 0 Discipline 0 Yellow 0 Red Goals 0 Shots 0 0 Shots on Target Fouls Committed 0

5:40 AM ET ESPN’s Bundesliga commentator Derek Rae analyses high-profile moves in Germany, as a star defender opts to leave title challengers for the champions, and an up-and-coming coach announces he is to join Borussia Dortmund. It has been a strange few days of goodbyes in German football, all beginning while I was on air

7:28 PM ET Nick JuddTransfer writer The transfer window may have slammed shut, but that doesn’t mean the rumour mill has shut down! Speculation over summer moves is heating up so check out the latest gossip below, and see all official deals here. Arsenal could move on from Lacazette, keep Ceballos Arsenal are plotting wholesale

4:54 PM ET Goals from Mehdi Taremi and Moussa Marega propelled FC Porto to their first ever victory over Juventus in the Champions League after they secured a 2-1 win over the Italian champions in the first leg of their last 16 tie on Wednesday. – Stream LIVE games and replays on ESPN+ (U.S. only)–

6:57 PM ET Nick JuddTransfer writer The transfer window may have slammed shut, but that doesn’t mean the rumour mill has shut down! Speculation over summer moves is heating up so check out the latest gossip below, and see all official deals here. United eyeing Valverde if Pogba leaves Manchester United are monitoring Real Madrid

2:01 PM ET It’s possible that you don’t immediately know who Ramon Rodríguez Verdejo is, and you certainly won’t know what his annual salary plus bonuses is. But if you’ve even spent an instant in thrall to Sevilla’s building of a trophy empire over the past 16 years, you’ll know that the bold Ramon is

6:04 PM ET We look for meaning — especially these days — and there was plenty to be had in an empty Camp Nou. Kylian Mbappe‘s hat trick — only the second Barca conceded at home in the Champions League after Dynamo Kiev‘s Andriy Shevchenko in 1997 — propelled Paris Saint-Germain past Barcelona 4-1 and,

5:26 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Gerard Pique has made a miraculous recovery from a knee injury to make Barcelona‘s squad for Tuesday’s Champions League game against Paris Saint-Germain. The defender suffered ligament damage in Barca’s defeat to league leaders Atletico Madrid at the end of November and it was initially feared he would