The Gunners want the duo to sign new deals to remain at the Emirates Stadium although several Bundesliga clubs are keeping tabs on the situation Arsenal are attempting to tie down two of their brightest young talents amid interest from Bayern Munich. Teenagers Tyreece John-Jules and Xavier Amaechi are wanted across Europe, with several Bundesliga clubs keeping close tabs on the pair. The Gunners are well aware of the interest from abroad and Goal understands contract talks are now underway aimed at securing both to long-terms contracts, with their current deals due to expire in 2020. But Arsenal know that they will need to demonstrate that there is a clear progression…

The Arsenal legend has created his Squad Battle team but no Arsenal players make his starting XI With the FIFA 19 Team of the Season (TOTS) event well underway, you might be looking for some extra coins to sign up some of game’s best players for your Ultimate Team. One of the quickest and easiest ways to do just that is through Squad Battles (SB), a mode in which players challenge themselves against strong FUT squads controlled by the computer in order to earn rewards. EA Sports release a featured squad each week which has been hand-picked by a celebrity or FIFA personality. This week is the turn of legendary…

The Swiss midfielder knows the Gunners have missed out on Champions League football for the past two seasons, and he’s determined to avoid a third Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka has stated the club simply cannot afford to miss out on Champions League football for a third season in a row. The North London outfit missed out on qualification via a place in the Premier League’s top four after a disastrous run that saw them win just one of their final five games of the campaign. However, the Gunners have one last chance to land a prized spot at European football’s top table by beating Chelsea in the Europa League final…

The 45-year-old takes his side to the Balkans and has stated that he feels more can be done to combat the issues of discrimination rampant at games Wales manager Ryan Giggs has called upon officials to be prepared to take teams from the field if they face racist abuse during their upcoming 2020 European Championship qualifiers. The Dragons travel to Osijek on Saturday to face Croatia in the first of two matches this month, with him side also facing Hungary. It will be the first visit of a British side to the Balkans since England travelled to Montenegro in March, where players were the targets of discriminatory chanting from home supporters.…

The Croatia midfielder has been quick to play down talk of a summer move away from Camp Nou Ivan Rakitic has dismissed reports linking him with a move to Inter, insisting he is happy at Barcelona. The Croatia midfielder has been heavily linked with a €50 million (£43m/$56m) move to the Italian side in recent weeks. However, the 31-year-old insists there is nothing in those claims and he has no plans to leave the club anytime soon. “I cannot explain it [the Inter rumours]. I respect the other teams a lot. Inter is a great team and we have played against them this year,” he told Mundo Deportivo . “I…

The new Red Devil’s meteoric rise in the last 12 months was taken to new levels by Marco Rossi, who compared him with two iconic sporting figures Hungary head coach Marco Rossi has compared new Manchester United signing Daniel James to Usain Bolt and former Brazil striker Ronaldo. Rossi is readying his Hungarian troops to take on James and his Welsh team-mates on Tuesday, in their Euro 2020 qualifier. The 54-year-old appears to have earmarked James as one of Wales key men ahead of the game, despite the youngster earning just two senior caps to date. The winger has gleamed a reputation for his unstoppable pace in the past year,…

Several of the team’s former rivals on the pitch have lashed out at the side for its celebrations in its opening World Cup match The U.S. women’s national team has been slammed for its celebrations against Thailand, with current Canadian national team star Diana Matheson saying USWNT manager Jill Ellis should be embarrassed at her team’s antics. The USWNT began its World Cup defense with a 13-0 destruction of Thailand on Tuesday night in Reims, setting an all-time World Cup record for the highest margin of victory in a game. With goal differential a tiebreaker in the group stage, the U.S. was incentivized to score as many goals as it…

The SEC is the only conference to ever put two teams in the same four-team College Football Playoff. Is there room for one more? After two weeks, No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Georgia and No. 4 LSU occupy three of the top four spots in the AP Top 25 and would likely be in the same spots if the first College Football Playoff rankings were released this week. If we’re talking four very best teams, those three can make that argument right now behind No. 1 Clemson, the defending national champion. MORE: Kirk Herbstreit talks Playoff for LSU, Oklahoma, Ohio State “The committee is told to pick the best four…

There are now doubts about the legitimacy of Justify’s Triple Crown triumph in 2018. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the colt tested positive for the banned substance scopoloamine after winning the Santa Anita Derby in April of that year, a violation that should have ruled him out of the Kentucky Derby a month later. California horsemen, however, moved slowly in investigating the test; that delay, in turn, allowed Justify to race in, and win, the Ketucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes and become the 13th Triple Crown winner in thoroughbred racing history. Positive tests for scopolamine had led to other horses being disqualified from races; a DQ in…

Arda Turan has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for firing a gun ‘to cause fear and panic’, as well as for the illegal possession of weapons. A Turkish court suspended the sentence, however, meaning he will not have to go to prison unless he commits another crime in the next five years. Turan, who has played 100 times for Turkey, was involved in a fight with famous singer Berkay Sahin in a nightclub in late 2018. The fight resulted in Turan breaking the singer’s nose. The brawl reportedly started after Turan made some suggestive comments towards Ozlem Ada Sahin, Berkayu’s wife. Turan then allegedly followed…