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Pogba, meanwhile, was heavily linked with a move to Barcelona in the close-season but not only did the midfielder remain in Turin, he was given Juve’s prestigious No.10 shirt following the departure of Carlos Tevez for Boca Juniors.

Kompany suffered a calf injury in the midweek Champions League loss to Juventus and is also out of Tuesday’s Capital One Cup tie against Sunderland, but Aguero has recovered from his knee problem.

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne claims he only spoke to Jose Mourinho twice during his ill-fated six months under the Portuguese manager at Chelsea.

De Bruyne said, although you can rest assured he’ll be hoping for a full debut sooner rather than later, he doesn’t think it’s a bad thing that Manuel Pellegrini is easing him into the first-team. He is likely to start for the Citizens as they prepare to host...

Sbloccatosi in Champions, Alvaro Morata è pronto per riprendersi la Juventus: “Adesso comincia la vera stagione”. E’ proprio Illinois Presidente del club madrileno a parlarne, in risposta ad una domanda di un socio del Madrid che gli chiedeva se si potesse...

After Eden Hazard had missed an early penalty, Willian put the hosts in front and Maccabi’s hopes were effectively ended when Oscar converted from the spot on the stroke of half-time.

“I think it is important to carry on playing with the same names but I always say we have a squad. We have a squad and we need to replace the captain”, Pellegrini said.

However, the deadlock was broken in the 57th minute when Kompany climbed above Chiellini from a corner and the Italian was unable to prevent the ball bouncing off his head and into the net. Still, City need to work on things if they want to have long run in the Champions League...

Perez was speaking at a meeting of Madrid members and was asked directly about the striker, who moved to Turin in 2014.

“You can not improve your team for the Champions League – you have to try to improve for the national competition”.

United are back in the Champions League after a painful exile last season, their first run-out seeing Memphis Depay make a quick return to the club he left in the summer.

They take on Kazakh debutants Astana who are the first team from their country to qualify for the Champions League group phase.

A new contract would address this while keeping the door open for a potential move and, crucially, protecting the club from the prospect of losing him on a free transfer next summer.

As far as the supporters are concerned though, there’s only one outcome in this year’s Champions League campaign…

Eden Hazard is at the moment, Chelsea’s highest paid player and makes £250,000-a-week before tax, but Jose Mourinho’s side will now have to shell more money as they seem desperate to complete a move for the Frenchman.