French striker Olivier Giroud wants to stay at Arsenal amid reports he may be sold at the end of the season.
Giroud has endured a turbulent season at the Emirates after revelations he had slept with a model the night before the club s home fixture against Crystal Palace on February.
The married Frenchman was subsequently dropped by manager Arsene Wenger, although he has started Arsenal s past two matches.
That has not stopped speculation regarding his future in London, with reports linking him with a move away following his off-field indiscretions.
However, the 27-year-old has quashed talks of a possible departure, stressing he has no intention of leaving the Premier League side.
You shouldn t listen to that, he said. A lot of things were said.
I m s…
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Toby Alderwiereld is keen to secure a permanent move to Southampton once his loan deal has come to an end, .
The Belgium international swapped Atletico Madrid for the Premier League high flyers on a temporary basis in the summer, and has been a key member of a defence that have shipped a division-best just five goals so far this season.
The 25 year old only moved to Atleti from Ajax in the summer of 2013, and he made the last of twenty-two appearances in all competitions as a substitute in the Champions League defeat to city rivals Real in Lisbon back in May.
Southampton currently sit second in the Premier League after taking twenty-five points from their opening eleven games, and are just four behind leaders and title favourites Chelsea.
They are se…
Scotland and Republic of Ireland were pretty unlucky to be placed in the same Euro 2016 qualifying group, especially with Germany and Poland also in the mix, given that both sides have shown a great deal of improvement of late and are hoping to make it to the tournament finals. This basically means that stakes will be extremely high when they square off at Parkhead on Friday.
Scotland had struggled to live up to the billing for quite a while when Gordon Strachan took over the reigns from Craig Levein in January 2013 and the former Celtic manager has quickly managed to get the national team back in track. The Scots showed a lot of promise in the second part of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, with double win over very good Croatia side proving they have what it takes to mix it up …
Origi wants early Liverpool return
Liverpool striker Divock Origi admits that he would prefer to join his new club in January rather than in the summer.
The Reds purchased the highly rated forward from Lille in the summer transfer window, but then loaned him back to Grand Stade Lille Metropole.
And while Origi was not supposed to return to Anfield before next summer, Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers wants the Belgian to arrive in January in an attempt to solve the attacking crisis.
The player himself is eagerly anticipating the move to England and admits he would rather move in January, provided the two clubs can reach an agreement.
Maybe January, who knows? Origi . It s not me who makes the decisions, but if the club choose to let me go in Januar…
Head coach Garry Monk wants clarity on his Swansea City future after guiding the club to back-to-back Premier League victories.
Goals from Jonjo Shelvey, Pablo Hernandez and a Wilfried Bony penalty put Aston Villa to the sword in a 4-1 Premier League victory on Saturday, after Gabriel Agbonlahor had cancelled out Bony s earlier strike.
Swansea s first consecutive league wins since December 2012 leave them eight points clear of the relegation zone only Sunderland, who are 10 points behind with four games to play, can catch them and Monk is keen to know whether he has a future in his role after replacing Michael Laudrup earlier this season.
The mission I was given was to get the club safe, he said. We re still not mathematically, but I d be very surprised if what we ve g…
German World Cup-winning player and coach Franz Beckenbauer on Friday insisted veteran keeper Jens Lehmann was in top form, notwithstanding a couple of errors in his team s run to the Euro 2008 final.
Lehmann is on very good form right now. If Germany do not end up as champions it certainly won t be down to the keeper, Beckenbauer told AFP, with 38-year-old Lehmann having come in for some recent criticism.
Although Lehmann, who will play for Stuttgart after his move from Arsenal, played well enough in the 3-2 quarter-final win over Portugal he let in two more goals against Turkey in the semi which he might have stopped on another day.
Regarding those two goals he was left without cover by his defenders, said Beckenbauer, who said that Germany s inconsistency …
Germany s Spanish spy Christoph Metzelder says his side must take advantage of Spain s first appearance in a major final since 1984 when they face the Germans in Sunday s Euro 2008 final.
The 27-year-old Real Madrid centre-back has spent a season at the Bernabeu and he says Spain s lack of experience in the knock-out stages of a major tournament could help Germany win the Henri Delaunay trophy.
Spain have not been in a major final since they were beaten 2-0 by Michel Platini-inspired France at the Parc des Princes in 1984, while the bulk of the Germany team claimed third-place at the 2006 World Cup.
I know the Spanish have real respect for us, but there is a self-inflicted trauma in the team, it has taken them decades to move beyond the quarter-final of a tou…
As relayed by Fabrizio Romano, club president Joan Laporta has declared that Barcelona are keen on holding talks with Ousmane Dembele and his representatives over the possibility of the 25-year-old winger signing a new contract. They are happy with him and believe he is happy at the Camp Nou too, and they want him to stay there beyond 2024, which is when his current contract expires.
There is, of course, a possible motive of protecting a player s market value by not allowing him to enter the final 12 months of contract, but that s mere speculation at this point.
Dembele was already close to leaving Barcelona over a year ago and his previous deal was set to expire last summer, but head coach Xavi Hernandez gradually reinstated the France international into the team and h…
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The Premier League moves into its first fixtures of January in midweek as the league continues to heat up. Every side was given the chance to pick up a glut of points of December, and while some succeeded in doing this, others failed massively. With the season now well into its second-half, every side knows how important it is to embark upon a positive run of form. With this in mind, there is a huge battle at the top as Arsenal host Chelsea on Wednesday.
Arsenal have been in fairly good form lately, but it has not stopped them from losing ground on the teams above them. After 21 games they have 11 wins, five draws and five losses, while they have scored 38 times and conceded 26 …