Jose Mourinho insists no quick fixes for Spurs in transfer window
Jose Mourinho on Friday said Tottenham will be "intelligent" in the January transfer window and there will be no quick fixes at the Premier League club. Mourinho has repeatedly said that he will not be overhauling his squad this month and that any business could ...
Ex-Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has avoided jail for tax fraud as part of a deal with Spanish prosecutors revealed Tuesday but will pay a fine of close to €2 million. The 56-year-old is accused of committing tax fraud in 2011 and 2012 when he ...
Jose Mourinho blasts pundits with barrage of Marcus Rashford statistics
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho blasted his critics with a barrage of statistics on Friday to defend the amount of playing time given to England striker Marcus Rashford over the past two years. Some pundits have expressed concern that the 20-year-old, who has scored twice ...
Southgate will keep World Cup foes guessing
With two friendly matches before the real thing gets underway in Russia you would think coaches should select the team with which they hope to open their 2018 World Cup campaign. England plays Nigeria at Wembley on Saturday, a sort of warm-up for Tunisia, the ...
Antonio Conte looks to give Chelsea a trophy on way out
If the Chelsea players want to give Antonio Conte a farewell present of winning the F.A. Cup final against Manchester United on Saturday, they will have to raise their game considerably from the shambolic, error-ridden performance in the 3-0 defeat by Newcastle United last ...
Man United faithful restless with Mourinho
Manchester United could probably have had Pep Guardiola, but in January 2013 the Catalan had agreed to take over at Bayern Munich. Instead, four months later, United appointed David Moyes as Sir Alex Ferguson's successor. United could also have signed Jurgen Klopp in the summer ...
Mighty Man City given reality check by Liverpool
Manchester City has collected compliments and plaudits almost on a weekly basis this season and rightly so, though the premature if inevitable claims about Pep Guardiola's team being the best English side of all-time took a severe dent when Liverpool thrashed — not too ...
Everton turns to Sam Allardyce in bid to stay up
"Sam Allardyce has resigned as manager of Crystal Palace and says he has 'no ambition to take another job' in football." —Newspaper report, May 2017 "While I've got the energy, I want to travel and also spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the ...
Mourinho's strategy not yielding desired results
Jose Mourinho returns to Chelsea on Sunday and it is the safest of bets that Saturday's press conference will fire the first bullets ahead of a match neither side can afford to lose. Antonio Conte will inevitably be in Mourinho's sights, but to the ...
Man City's De Bruyne in a league of his own
To death and taxes as the only certainties in life can, for managers on Planet Football, be added a blunder in the transfer market that comes back to haunt them. Jose Mourinho can claim enough shrewd business to be in credit: Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole ...
Manchester City primed to capture Premier League title
Antonio Conte is not happy. Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho are not happy. Arsene Wenger is reasonably happy and so is Mauricio Pochettino. The happiest of all the Premier League's heavyweight managers is Pep Guardiola. The 2017-18 season starts with differing moods among the men ...
Wenger admits his uncertain status has affected Arsenal
Arsene Wenger is not a man to show much emotion. The Arsenal manager tends to deal with the good, bad and ugly of football in a businesslike manner, rarely losing his cool or showing the joy victory can bring. An Arsenal goal is celebrated by ...
