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Liverpool value Lucas, who was made aware that he would effectively become their fifth-choice central midfielder, at around £8m and clubs have until September 1 to bid.

Bournemouth kick off thier first top-flight campaign in their 116-year history at home to Aston Villa on 8 August, following three promotions in six years.

“In my first period, my personal relationship (with Abramovich) was very good, (but) professionally we had some interferences and a disagreement with some ideas”, Mourinho told Sky Sports News. Loic Remy, starting because Diego Costa was once again feeling his...

Speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Werner explained that the owners preferred to take a “long-term view” when making their choices, and that FSG’s “track record show they focus on stability”. That was only a year earlier when he was awarded that compliment.

However, the former Liverpool manager expects Ronaldo to be fit for the club’s opening La Liga game against Sporting Gijon.

They had to travel to Wembley without Alexis Sanchez, Danny Welbeck and David Ospina but Chelsea had injury woes of their own.

Still Villa continued to push and substitute Gestede should have done better with his first chance for Tim Sherwood’s side, dragging a volley wide nine minutes after coming on.

Meanwhile, Liverpool will kick-start the 2015/16 Premier League season with a trip to the Britannia Stadium as they face Stoke City on 9 August.

The injury hampered the 27-year-old’s involvement last season, but the club had been hopeful that surgery would not be required.

Liverpool chairman Tom Werner believes manager Brendan Rodgers is the right man for the job, but he expects to see “strong improvement”.

The 25-year-old has spent the summer recuperating in the United States after undergoing surgery on his torn hip muscle.

The Gunners have earned a reputation as poor starters to the season – with last term a chief example – but having won three trophies out of three in pre-season, they look in poised to hit the ground running at the weekend.

Twitter has added its own Premier League emoji, meaning you can use richer tweets than ever to express your honest belief that Southampton will surprise everyone by dominating the new season.

“I have players behind me and around me”, he was quoted as saying by the Liverpool website. He’s come in for huge money, and the fans were hardly unanimous in their support of the deal.

Manchester United open the new English Premier League season at home to Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday looking for signs they are ready to mount a sustained assault on Chelsea’s title.