John Heitinga is Everton’s latest defensive recruit. The strong right back, also able to play centre back, is at the club’s training centre for the latest medical tests.
The last days there were reports that the defender of Atletico Madrid didn’t want to leave Spain but it seems that he changed his mind.
Everton pays € 8 million for the 25-year-old defender.
Last week Everton and Atletico already reached an agreement about the transfer fee for the Dutch international.
Heitinga wasn’t too keen about leaving Madrid after just one season, last week he mentioned that he wanted to fight for his chance in the Spanish capital.
In the summer of 2008 he left Ajax to join …
Former Spain coach Jose Antonio Camacho has been named the new boss of Osasuna after Jose Angel Ziganda was sacked earlier on Monday.
Osasuna said in a statement that an agreement between Camacho and the club had been made on Monday evening and Camacho would be the new coach until June 2009.
After six league matches, which includes four draws and two defeats, Osasuna sit in 16th place with just four points.
Ziganda, who arrived at the club in 2006, was the second Spanish top flight coach to be sacked this season following Manolo Zambrano s axing by Recreativo Huelva last week.
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Manchester City have loaned new signing Enes Unal to Genk.
Unal was manager Manuel Pellegrini s first signing of the close-season, the highly-rated striker arriving from Turkish team Bursaspor earlier this month.
The 18-year-old travelled to Australia and Asia for City s pre-season tour, but the Premier League side have decided to send the prodigy away to gain experience in the Belgian Pro League.
Unal became the youngest goalscorer in Turkish Super Lig history when he netted against Galatasaray as a 16-year-old in 2013, while he scored four times in 37 predominantly substitute appearances for Bursaspor.
After news of his move emerged, Unal tweeted: I m going to play for @KRCGenkofficial this season on loan, it d be great experience for me and I m impat…
Marc Albrighton has been handed a new four-year deal by Leicester City, joining fellow Premier League winners Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and Kasper Schmeichel in penning fresh terms at the King Power Stadium.
A largely unheralded free-transfer signing from Aston Villa in 2014, winger Albrighton flourished under Claudio Ranieri last season, his endeavour and guile complementing Mahrez s trickery on the opposite flank.
Albrighton had almost three years left on his original Foxes deal, but his new contract follows a trend at the club, manager Ranieri is another to have extended his stay since the Premier League title was won in thrilling circumstances last season.
Four. More. Years.
Marc Albrighton signs a new deal until 2020!
Full stor…
Maps are crucial if you have long-term plans to play in any Minecraft world. As the name suggests, maps allow you to chart specific areas in the world so that you always know how to get to certain locations. Luckily, making them is fairly straightforward, but they won’t operate as intended if you make them wrong. Don’t worry; this guide details everything you need about crafting and using a map.
How to craft a map
To craft a map, you need the following items first: one compass and eight papers. As soon as you get your hands on those items, go to a Crafting Table, and you should see an option that’ll allow you to make one. But if it doesn’t appear, you’ll want to place all the items, as shown in the picture below.
It’s also worth m…
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City must work harder, play better and pray to close the gap to Liverpool, but he is confident a fully fit squad could still compete for the Premier League title.
City have won the league in each of the past two seasons, yet they are now 14 points off the rapid pace set by Liverpool, who also have a game in hand heading into 2020.
While an ageing City squad have fallen below the standards set in previous campaigns, Guardiola is keen to emphasise the impact of key injuries on his team with Aymeric Laporte and Leroy Sane out for long periods and David Silva and Sergio Aguero also dealing with issues.
Asked what his team must improve on to catch Liverpool, the City manager told reporters: Work harder, play better and pray.
Wit…
Brazil forward Gabriel Jesus insisted his focus was on helping his team at the World Cup, not winning the Golden Boot.
Jesus is set to start up front for the Selecao, who are among the favourites in Russia and begin their campaign against Switzerland on Sunday.
The Manchester City star would become the first Brazilian since Ronaldo in 2002 to top score at the World Cup if he wins the Golden Boot.
But Jesus said that was not among his focuses heading into Brazil s first game of the tournament.
Even before we had these options given by Tite [of playing Neymar, Philippe Coutinho and Willian up front] I have always been relaxed. I m very active with or without the ball, he told a news conference.
Not just because of a formation, but because of every…
Alex Ferguson has stated that he will retire as manager of Manchester United should he lead the club to the Champions League trophy in 2009 and 2010.
I d love the club to win more European trophies than they have done and I think I ve made this point a few times over the years, Ferguson told CNN.
I don t think we ve won the number we should have won. There have been years when we ve been unlucky and years we ve been disappointed, and there ve been years when we ve thrown games away, and that sort of gives a kaleidoscope of what football s like.
If we could win a couple more European trophies I then would definitely quit.
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European champions Barcelona had four players named among the ten finalists for the Ballon d Or, or the European Footballer of the Year award, on Sunday.
The ten, shortlisted from an initial list of 30 nominees voted for by journalists, were revealed in alphabetical order on the France Football website.
The winner will be unveiled in the next edition of France Football magazine on Tuesday, December 1 with Argentina s Lionel Messi tipped as the favourite to succeed last year s winner, Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal.
Real Madrid player Ronaldo makes this list again this year with former Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney.
Four Barcelona players make the final ten Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Spaniards Andres Iniesta and Xavi and Argentina s Lionel Messi.…
Lyon manager Remi Garde has admitted his side have not been at their best this year, but is hopeful they can finish the season strongly.
The former champions have struggled for consistency this term but currently find themselves in third position in Ligue 1, battling with Saint Etienne for the final UEFA Champions League place.
Two points is all that separates Lyon in third from their fierce rivals in fourth and Garde admits that the season has not gone as he had planned, but he is focused on maintaining their top-three place by the end of the campaign.
It is not a secret. Lyon 2013 is not Lyon 2012, he said. But we are still working
on our objectives. We want to be on the podium at the end of the season.
We have
to continue in this way and get good …