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After leaving Barcelona in 2015 in the pursuit of more minutes, Andre Onana's career was on the rise. Under Erik ten Hag, Onana had established himself as Ajax's first choice and he was proving his early promise at the Catalan giants was not a flash in the pan. However, one mistake in October 2020 would cost him nearly a year of his career. After a 2-2 draw with Atalanta in the Champions League, Onana had been suffering with a headache and, instead of waiting until he got back to Ajax's De Toekomst training ground, he decided to take a paracetamol from his kitchen. Following the session, the 'keeper undertook a routine drug doping assessment. In professional sport, these are often random and an athlete can be selected at any given moment. While football has not been plagued by drug doping like some other sports, UEFA still deems it to be essential in order to guarantee a fair playing field. During a training camp with Cameroon a couple of days later, Onana w...

Pep Guardiola is in Japan to begin the team's tour of friendly matches. In this pre-season, the coach wants to observe all the Manchester City players to assemble his squad. The goal of the club is to win the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup again. Guardiola has been working at Manchester City for more than seven years and he has already fulfilled his objective in this team, which was to win the Champions League. At the end of the final against Inter Milan he said, "the job is done." Now in the Manchester City pre-season, The Sun newspaper revealed that Guardiola will end his contract with the club until the 2025 season but he does not intend to renew and will leave the team that year. Now, in one more season, the club's managers will have to look for Pep's replacement. In an interview with Radio Catalunya, Guardiola confirmed the news. "I will not be City's Ferguson. Being 25-28 years old, no", said the coach. Pep has won more...

Juventus midfielder, Paul Pogba has welcomed his third child with his wife, Zulay Pogba. The French superstar took to Instagram to share the happy news with his fans, but didn’t reveal the gender of the newborn child. Sharing adorable photos from his wife’s hospital bed, the proud father wrote: ‘’Al Hamdullilah. a new Pogba member has arrived .. so proud of my Queen @zulaypogba I’m so so so happy. #Daddyofthree The former Manchester United midfielder also posted three photos of himself at Zulay’s bedside, celebrating the birth of their baby. He appeared to be in good spirits as he lifted his wife’s arm in celebration after welcoming their baby boy. His other children are Labile and Keyaan. Labile was born on January 3, 2019, the same year Pogba married his wife Zulay. The pair then had their second son Keyaan in 2020. The arrival of their latest son comes after he sustained a career-threatening injury earlier this month.

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland has been named the Premier League Player of the Year in his debut season for Manchester City. The Premier League made the announcement on their website on Saturday. Haaland finished ahead of teammate Kevin De Bruyne, Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Marcus Rashford, Harry Kane and Kieran Trippier. The 22-year-old has scored 36 league goals in just 35 appearances – breaking a 29-year record for the most strikes across a Premier League campaign. He has also contributed eight assists as well as helping City to a third consecutive Premier League title and the finals of the FA Cup and Champions League in June. His 44 total goal involvements is the joint highest of all-time, equalling a record set by former Arsenal forward Thierry Henry in the 2002/03 season. A City player has now won the trophy for four consecutive seasons with team-mate Kevin De Bruyne collecting it in 2019/20 and 2021/22 and Ruben Dias in 2020/21. Former City captain Vincent Kompa...

Manchester United secured UEFA Champions league football next season with a commanding 4-1 win over Chelsea at Old Trafford on Thursday. It was the third consecutive win for Man United while Chelsea suffered consecutive losses to both sides in Manchester within seven days. Casemiro, Anthony Martial, Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford were on target as the Red Devils moved up to third in the Premier League. Chelsea's only goal of the game was scored by Joao Felix.

Barcelona have announced that left-back Jordi Alba will depart the club at the end of the season after 11 years. The newly crowned LaLiga champions made the announcement in a statement on their website on Wednesday. “FC Barcelona and Jordi Alba have reached an agreement to terminate the player’s contract with the club one year earlier than it was due to expire at the end of the 2023/24 season,” the club stated. “FC Barcelona would like to publicly express its gratitude to Alba for his professionalism, commitment and dedication, and his ever-positive and friendly relationship with all members of the Barça family, and wishes him every fortune in the future. Barça will always be a home for you, Jordi. “Jordi Alba, who has made the left side of the field his own in over a decade at Barça is leaving the club as the third captain of the senior team, bringing an end to a glittering career in which he has won 19 major trophies. In 458 appearances (at the time of writing) he has sco...

Inter legend Wesley Sneijder has warned Manchester City that his former side are capable of anything in a one-off game like the UEFA Champions League final. Inter qualified for their first Champions League Final in over a decade by eliminating city rivals Milan 3-0 on aggregate in the semi-final. The Serie A giants are up against City who are making a second appearance in the final. In their first final appearance in 2021, City lost 1-0 to Chelsea thanks to a Kai Havertz’’s first half goal. The Premier League champions will go into next month’s final as favourites but Sneijder is not ruling out the possibility of Inter securing a fourth European title. “There are no impossible games, there are difficult games and this is surely one of those,” warned the ex-Dutch midfielder Sneijder told Gazzetta. “Inter can do anything in one game. Many thought we had no chances against Barcelona in 2010, but then you have to play…” Sneijder’s Inter side eliminated Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona...