Everton s Seamus Coleman says he is taking inspiration from team-mate Leighton Baines as he looks to establish himself in the club s first-team.
The Irishman has been deployed at both right midfield and right-back by manager David Moyes since joining the club from Sligo Rovers in 2009.
And the 23-year-old has admitted he watches England full-back Baines closely in order to learn that position better.
Right-back is where I ve played all my life other than the last two seasons, Coleman told the Liverpool Echo.
When I m not playing games I am watching and I watch Bainesy and try and learn from him.
For me, he is the best left-back in England and if asked to play full-back, if I could do half as good a job as him that would be great.
I ve…
Marco Rojas left the A-League as the Kiwi Messi . He has returned just as good for Melbourne Victory.
Rojas, 25, returned to Australia after a frustrating spell in Europe, including stints at three different clubs in three seasons.
The attacker scored 15 goals in 27 games for Victory in 2012-13, winning the Johnny Warren Medal as the A-League s best player.
The impressive New Zealand international terrorised defences, leading to his move to Stuttgart in 2013.
But Rojas battled away in Europe in stints with Stuttgart, SpVgg Greuther Furth and FC Thun.
His spell in Switzerland was his most successful, making 37 Super League appearances in two seasons and playing in the Europa League.
A return to Victory followed on a two-year deal, with ques…
Andre Onana said there was no will on the other side to resolve differences after the Inter goalkeeper was suspended by Cameroon team management at the World Cup.
The 26-year-old looks to have had his last involvement at Qatar 2022, with reports indicating he planned to catch a flight out of the country on Tuesday.
Onana issued a statement in the wake of his shock demotion, which Cameroon team officials on Monday put down to undisclosed disciplinary reasons . For his part, Onana denies behaving against the team s interests.
Coach Rigobert Song left the goalkeeper out against Serbia, preferring Devis Epassy for Monday s thrilling 3-3 World Cup draw.
Reports suggested Onana s omission came after a disagreement with Song over his playing style in the 1-0 los…
Galatasaray have dismissed reports their Portugal Under-21 international Bruma has agreed a move to Tottenham.
Turkish newspaper Sabah claimed on Monday a deal worth in the region of £12.5million had been struck with the Premier League club.
But Galatasaray posted a withering statement on their official website to deny this was the case, while also rejecting suggestions Bruma had sought a 100 per cent raise as a condition to sign a new contract with our club .
The statement read: In this news that is not really interesting, there is no official offer to reach us, just as there is no secret agreement for the price [with] the club that has been named [Tottenham].
Bruma joined Galatasaray from Sporting CP in September 2013 and has spent time on loan at Ga…
Schalke midfielder Leon Goretzka insists there is no truth in reports suggesting he has reached an agreement with Bayern Munich over a free transfer in 2018.
The 22-year-old has repeatedly been linked with a move to the Allianz Arena and it was reported in Germany on Wednesday that the deal will go through once his contract with Schalke expires at the end of the 2017-18 campaign.
Nevertheless, Goretzka has dismissed claims his move to Bayern is a done deal, stressing no decision about his future has been made.
I want to give a brief response to the latest reports in the press, Goretzka wrote on his official Facebook account.
There are a lot of rumours, speculation, reports, but I can assure you that they are all false.
I will give you all t…
Borussia Dortmund interim head coach Edin Terzic hailed two-goal hero Erling Haaland, highlighting his team ethic in the 3-2 Champions League win against Sevilla.
Haaland scored a brace to fuel Dortmund to a first-leg victory in Tuesday s last-16 tie at Europa League holders Sevilla.
The Norway sensation became the fastest player to reach 10 goals for one team in Champions League history, having reached double figures for Dortmund in just his seventh appearance.
Heavily linked with the likes of Real Madrid, Manchester City, Manchester United and Juventus, Terzic heaped praise on the 20-year-old forward.
As a coach you always try to tell him [Erling Haaland] something before the game, Terzic told reporters.
You think about how you bring your stre…
If Chile captain Claudio Bravo inflicts his Manchester City form upon the 2017 Confederations Cup, tournament organisers are likely to feel a significant pang of frustration.
From domestic and European titles to the Ballon d Or, shot through the lens of club football s fiercest rivalry, the defining frontier of 21st century football is Lionel Messi versus Cristiano Ronaldo.
For a competition that serves a purpose as a World Cup test event, producing a reasonable share of entertaining clashes condemned to not living too long in the memory, billing this Confederations Cup as Messi v Ronaldo would have made for a blockbusting start to the countdown for Russia 2018.
And it would have been a reality but for Bravo – then the respected Barcelona gloveman as opposed to…
Josko Gvardiol had no problem with Julian Alvarez taking a late penalty in Manchester City s 4-0 rout of Fulham, as he passed up the chance to score a memorable Premier League hat-trick.
Gvardiol scored in both halves as City crushed Marco Silva s men at Craven Cottage on Saturday, going top of the table ahead of Arsenal s trip to Manchester United on Sunday.
The defender slotted his finish into the bottom-left corner after exchanging passes with Kevin De Bruyne for his first, then stretched to prod Bernardo Silva s cross under Bernd Leno for his brace.
It looked like he might get the chance to make it a treble when Alvarez won a stoppage-time penalty, and the Croatian was deep in conversation with his team-mates around the spot before the Argentine dispatched t…
Italy midfielder Marco Verratti can one day fill the void left by Andrea Pirlo, according to former international Ciro Ferrara.
Verratti, 23, has made 15 appearances for the national team and is sure to play an important role for Antonio Conte s team at Euro 2016 in June and July.
Pirlo, a 116-time international, is still part of the Italy setup after reversing his decision to retire following the 2014
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Ferrara believes Verratti, now at Paris Saint-Germain, is capable of producing for Italy – just as Pirlo has done for over a decade.
He left Italy, which is something that often happens with the best players from the Italian league, Ferrera told Omnisport.
He left to join an important league, but not as important as maybe …
Sepp Blatter has sent a letter to FIFA s member federations likening the current Ethics Committee proceedings brought against him to the Inquisition .
FIFA president Blatter and his similarly suspended UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have hearings before the FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert in Zurich on Thursday in relation to an alleged disloyal payment of two million Swiss francs made to the former France captain in 2011.
Both Blatter and Platini have denied any wrongdoing and the 79-year-old Swiss accused the Ethics Committee of having reinforced public prejudgement in a dangerous fashion in a letter distributed to football s 209 national governing bodies.
I am bewildered by the insinuations and allegations brought against me by the investigatory chamb…