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Antony has spoken brightly about his relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo and how the five-time Ballon d’Or winner has helped him to settle at Old Trafford. The Brazilian completed a €100m transfer to Manchester United from Ajax in the summer and has enjoyed a bright start to life at his new club. He became the first player in the club’s history to score in each of their first three Premier League games, with goals against Arsenal, Manchester City and Everton. Antony’s relationship with Ronaldo was on show at Goodison Park when the pair celebrated the 37-year-old’s opening goal together in the first half. Quoted by PortugueseRead More →

Manchester City face Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday in a game that has come to be one of the newer competitive rivalries in English football given the level of success both have had in recent years. Both Premier League meetings between the two teams last season ended in 2-2 draws, while Liverpool have prevailed in each of the two most recent fixtures in the FA Cup and Community Shield. The latter was as recently as 31 July when Darwin Nunez scored and Erling Haaland was slated for missing a glorious chance; how times have changed since. Read on for all the key points addressed inRead More →

Newcastle United are ready to sit down with Bruno Guimaraes before the end of the season to discuss a new long-term contract, 90min understands. The 24-year-old joined Newcastle in January this year from Lyon in a deal worth £40m and he has been outstanding since his arrival on Tyneside, quickly establishing himself as a favourite of both the fans and manager Eddie Howe. His form has already seen him linked with moves away and he recently admitted that he knew talks over a possible move to Real Madrid had taken place, but he is more than happy with life in Newcastle. Guimaraes’s current deal isRead More →

Ipswich Town’s Conor Chaplin has been voted the PFA Vertu Motors League One Fans’ Player of the Month for September. The 25-year-old has continued his fine form so far this season having already scooped the prize for August. Chaplin scored three goals throughout September to maintain Ipswich’s fast start to the campaign. The versatile forward kicked off the month with a match-winning brace as the Tractor Boys won 2-0 at Accrington Stanley. He followed that display with a goal at home to Bristol Rovers, opening the scoring in another 2-0 victory. Ipswich ended September with a 2-2 draw at Sheffield Wednesday and 2-1 loss atRead More →

Who’d be a manager, eh? Who’d risk becoming a national pariah, a fraud and a scoundrel in either your home or newly-adopted country, all in the hope of a multi-million-pound pay-out and a reworked Millennial pop banger by Atomic Kitten with your name in? Well, this lot, actually. Ahead of next month’s World Cup in Qatar here’s a brief, yet extremely insightful, look at all the 32 managers we’ll soon be watching glare and grimace from the sidelines as their future career prospects, and hopes for the tournament, flash before their eyes. Age: 46Nationality: SpanishCareer Titles: 2019 Asian Cup Having worked his way through aRead More →

Paris Saint-Germain have fervently denied leading a smear campaign against wantaway forward Kylian Mbappe. 90min understands that Mbappe has asked to leave PSG as early as January following a breakdown in his relationship with those in charge at Parc des Princes, despite only inking a new contract with the Ligue 1 champions this past summer. The next twist in this saga came as Mediapart published a report accusing PSG of employing a company, Digital Big Brother, to create hundreds of fake Twitter accounts to criticise and abuse Mbappe, among others, to try and paint the club in a positive light – something Mbappe’s mother appearedRead More →

Thursday night saw matchday four of both the Europa League and Europa Conference League group stages, with 32 games across the continent. These fixtures were reverses of those seen on matchday three, with Manchester United hosting Omonia and and Arsenal’s travels to Norway to face Bodo/Glimt among the highlights. Bukayo Saka got Arsenal’s winner in Norway / David Lidstrom/GettyImages Arsenal weren’t at their best in Norway but have extended their winning run in the Europa League to three matches after another victory over Bodo/Glimt. Bukayo Saka scored the scrappy solitary goal midway through the first half, although the Gunners could have been pegged back soonRead More →

Aston Villa welcome Chelsea to their slice of Birmingham in the Premier League on Sunday afternoon. Steven Gerrard has steered Villa to four matches unbeaten but the scratchy stalemate against Nottingham Forest on Monday – the third draw in this sequence – underlined the struggles for fluency of those in claret and blue. Chelsea, by comparison, have swiftly adapted to life under Graham Potter, coming into the contest on a high after four consecutive victories and three clean sheets on the spin. Here’s everything you need to know about the meeting between this duo. Aston Villa: 1 WinChelsea: 3 WinsDraws: 1 Aston Villa: LDWDDChelsea: DWWWW Villa are expected to beRead More →

Newcastle director of football Dan Ashworth has insisted that while the club want to compete at the top of the Premier League table and for major honours, he doesn’t want to splash out on huge transfer fees to get there. The Magpies’ takeover by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund last year made them one of world’s wealthiest clubs overnight, though Financial Fair Play restrictions have so far limited the free-spending that fans will have hoped for. Nevertheless, Newcastle have seen a major turnaround in results since Eddie Howe became boss towards the beginning of PIF’s reign, and Ashworth – highly rated for his rolesRead More →

Mid-table Motherwell welcome Rangers to Fir Park in the Scottish Premiership on Sunday lunchtime. Steven Hammell inspired the Steelmen to a strong domestic start after his appointment this summer. However, a grinding sequence of one victory from their last six matches (D1 L4) has punctured the optimism tentatively building in north Lanarkshire. Rangers ended their 12-year wait for a Champions League goal but duly conceded seven against Liverpool in the club’s heaviest-ever home defeat on Wednesday. Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side are just two points off the pace set by Celtic – who remain the only Premiership side to beat the Gers this season. Here’s everythingRead More →