Erling Haaland should head to Arsenal if he is to make a Premier League move this summer, joked Norway team-mate Martin Odegaard.

The Borussia Dortmund striker is expected to bring the curtain down on his stay in the Bundesliga and move to new pastures in the off-season.

Having commanded interest from a host of European heavyweights, it is widely expected that the Leeds-born attacker will choose Manchester City as his next club.

But speaking to Stadium Astro, Odegaard – who skippers the attacker at international level and plays his club football for the Gunners – quipped he should move to the Emirates Stadium instead.

He is a funny guy, Odegaard said.  He s a good friend of mine and a great player as well. We will see what he will do. I don t k…

Pablo Zabaleta will leave Manchester City at the end of the season after spending nine years at the club.

City have announced that Zabaleta is moving elsewhere when his contract expires at the end of the campaign and will make his final home appearance against West Brom next Tuesday.

The 32-year-old joined the Premier League side from Espanyol for £6.5million in 2008 and has won five major trophies, including two Premier League titles.

Pablo Zabaleta is out of contract in the summer and has informed the club he will move to pastures new, but leave behind many happy memories, read City s statement on the Argentina international.

Fans will have the opportunity to show their appreciation for one of the club s most loyal and loved servants of recent times …

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Two sides who are firmly battling it out at opposite ends of the Championship table, Leicester will travel to Hillsborough on Wednesday night.

Starting with the hosts, while Sheffield Wednesday might have claimed a crucial 2-0 victory against Rotherham last month, it appears that result was nothing more than a minor boost for the Owls. In the midst of what has become a public Championship nightmare and dealing with a string of issues both on and off the pitch, Danny Rohl already has a huge amount pop pressure on his shoulders. Sat rock-bottom of the table and rightfully tipped as a leading relegation contender this season, they also open the midweek fixtures sat 10 points adrift of safety. Marking their return fro…

Robert Lewandowski continued his stunning goalscoring run as Bayern Munich beat Borussia Dortmund 4-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday.

In their maiden league match since the departure of head coach Niko Kovac, the champions made relatively light work of their opponents in the first top-flight Klassiker of the season to bounce back from a 5-1 thrashing by Eintracht Frankfurt last week.

Lewandowski struck twice against his former club, with Serge Gnabry also on the scoresheet before a Mats Hummels own goal condemned BVB to a sixth consecutive Bundesliga defeat at the Allianz Arena.

While the result will help Hansi Flick s hopes of staying in charge of Bayern until at least the end of the season, Lucien Favre s position at Dortmund is now beginning to look uncertain.<…

Bayern Munich head coach Hansi Flick is absolutely convinced Kylian Mbappe will win the Ballon d Or in his career.

Mbappe was the star of the show in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final tie between Bayern and Paris Saint-Germain, scoring twice as the holders were beaten 3-2 in Germany.

Should the 22-year-old score in the return fixture in Paris, he will become the first French player to reach nine goals in a single Champions League season.

Mbappe has scored 33 goals and provided 10 assists in 39 games this season in all competitions. Only Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski (42) has scored more, while only the Poland star (50) and Tottenham s Harry Kane (45) have had more direct goal involvements.

Ahead of the second leg on Tuesday, Flick ex…

FIFA has banned former CONMEBOL president Eugenio Figueredo from all football activities for life after finding him guilty of bribery.

The 87-year-old Uruguayan headed his nation s football association for nine years from 1997, doubling up as a CONMEBOL vice-president for part of that spell, a post he held for two decades until 2013.

It was at that point he replaced Nicolas Leoz as president of the South American confederation, but he was arrested two years later.

Figueredo was accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes relating to awarding contracts to companies for the media and marketing rights to CONMEBOL competitions between 2004 and 2015, FIFA said.

United States and Uruguay requested his extradition from Switzerland in 2015, and it was hi…

Zinedine Zidane described Marcelo and Dani Carvajal as two of the world s best full-backs after they helped Real Madrid to a 2-1 victory over Valencia.

Marcelo struck the winning goal in the 86th minute after Dani Parejo had cancelled out a Cristiano Ronaldo header, set up by a sublime Carvajal cross.

Speaking afterwards, Zidane was full of praise for his side s unlikely heroes as Madrid snatched yet another late result to move three points clear of Barcelona at the top of LaLiga.

I d like to secure the result earlier but we know we can score at any time and with any player, he said.

Marcelo and Dani s performances were very good. They attacked a lot. They are among the top three or four full-backs in the world.

When you don t get the second go…

Newcastle United defender DeAndre Yedlin has revealed he received a disheartening text message from his grandfather stating he would be worried for the full-back s life if he lived in the United States.

Protests and riots have erupted within cities across the country following the death of George Floyd, who died while in police custody after an officer knelt on his neck.

USA international Yedlin, who moved to England to join Spurs in 2015, says the systemic racism within his home country makes a mockery of the promise of liberty and justice for all a phrase contained within the national Pledge of Allegiance.

Writing on Twitter, Yedlin said: A couple days after George Floyd s death, my grandfather texted me and told me he s glad that I am not living in the U.S. ri…

Rumours linking Neymar to Barcelona refuse to subside.

Neymar left Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain in a world-record €222million transfer in 2017, but the Brazilian star wants to move back to Camp Nou.

Barca are desperate to make it happen by any means necessary.

TOP STORY – BARCA TO INVOKE CLAUSE IN NEYMAR PURSUIT

Barcelona are plotting an audacious plan to re-sign Neymar from Paris Saint-Germain, according to ESPN.

The report says LaLiga champions could invoke a little-known FIFA clause – Article 17 – in order to lure Neymar back to Camp Nou.

Article 17 states that players can leave their contracts without just cause once the three-year protection period ends.

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Watford s Gerard Deulofeu has revealed his desire to play for one of top European clubs, according to the Guardian. He has, however, also said that he has full respect for the role he currently plays at the Vicarage Road.

The winger started his professional career with Barcelona s B side back in 2010/11 and made his first-team debut the following season. But with the Catalans boasting players that they did at the time, he was never going to break through and establish himself as a regular member of the team. He spent 2013/14 at Everton and 2014/15 at Sevilla on loan, before signing for the Toffees permanently in 2015. The second part of 2016/17 he spent in Italy playing for AC Milan, and the following summer Barcelona exercised their buy-back clause and brought him back to Camp…