Hector Bellerin has reportedly ruptured his cruciate ligament and will miss the rest of Arsenal’s season. The 23-year-old was stretchered off in the 72nd minute of their 2-0 win over Chelsea after suffering the injury at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday. The Sun reported that the swelling was so severe around the knee that medical…

Borussia Dortmund Under-23 coach Jan Siewert is in advanced talks to become Huddersfield’s new manager, according to reports. Sportbild claim that negotiations are progressing quickly with Siewert, who was assistant manager at Bochum before taking up the role at Dortmund. It is believed the German outfit would receive in excess of £260,000 compensation should the…

Elite European football clubs top up their cash reserves every other weekend thanks to supporters coming through the turnstiles. These gate receipts help teams to fund transfers, wages, and simply keep the whole organisation functioning from the megastore to the canteen. Some sides, make more on the door than others though and thanks to UEFA’s…

Liverpool have had a £61million bid for Benfica starlet Joao Felix rejected, according to reports in Portugal. The 19-year-old has been in excellent form since cementing a place in the Eagles’ first team, netting five goals and adding an assist in nine Premeira Liga matches. According to Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, Liverpool’s bid of…

Giuseppe Rossi is a footballer whose career has been hampered by injury. At the age of 31 he is now a free agent and been offered a lifeline by the club he left as a teenager to help get him a new team. Manchester United’s interim manager and Rossi’s former team-mate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer invited the…

West Ham United are in talks to sign the ‘new Luis Suarez’ as a replacement for Marko Arnautovic, according to reports. As talkSPORT revealed on Friday afternoon, the striker has not travelled with the squad to Bournemouth as a lucrative move to Guanghzhou Evergrande looms. Hammers boss Manuel Pellegrini is understandably keen to bring in…

Derby County manager Frank Lampard believes the Premier League’s top managers would not behave like Marcelo Bielsa, as the spying row rumbled on. Leeds’ head coach Bielsa gave a lengthy presentation to journalists on Wednesday while making the frank admission he had “observed all the rivals” in training sessions prior to their Championship games this…

When Unai Emery announced that Arsenal would only be able to sign players on loan in the January transfer window, fans had every reason to feel a bit down in the dumps. But an impressive 2-0 win over Chelsea over the weekend will have lifted spirits and now there’s a sense anything can happen. And…

Marcelo Bielsa has held talks with officials from the Football Association regarding the investigation into his scouting methods, with Leeds United seeking a quick resolution to the matter. The meeting, which was revealed by The Times, took place on Monday at the FA’s offices in London. The Argentinian faced questions over the incident which sparked…

Jermain Defoe scored just 12 minutes into his Rangers debut as Steven Gerrard’s men face Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premiership. The veteran striker was on hand to poke the ball into the net from four yards out in typical poacher’s fashion to give his side the lead. The 37-year-old has now extraordinarily scored on his competitive…