Month: December 2024

Atalanta have exercised their option to sign Merih Demiral on a permanent basis from Juventus following his loan stint at the club.

The Turkey international was a regular fixture for Atalanta last season, making 42 appearances across all competitions and scoring twice, and the Serie A club have decided to make his stay permanent.

Atalanta had a purchase option for the defender as part of the deal that brought him to the club for the 2021-22 season, and they have now exercised that clause, paying €20million for the services of the 24-year-old.

OFFICIAL | exercise their option right to sign on a permanent basis.

— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen)

The deal could rise by a further €2.5m if additional clauses are met, while Juventus will also recei…

If you are a passionate punter there is a high chance you have already placed both teams to score football bets. Alongside , BTTS is the 2nd most popular market you can use when wagering on goals.

In this article, I will show you how to win both teams to score football bets. Statistics, analysis, and my own experience as a bettor will be the ground for this useful article.

To win both teams to score football bets you have to predict that each team will score at least one goal in the match!

Although BTTS offers you the YES and NO options, I would only look to place YES bets.

Choosing NO is a negative bet and negative thinking and choices will return negative outcomes. In this case, losing your money. Having said that, I will explore how to turn the YES op…

Spain s Ballon d Or winner Alexia Putellas will not feature in the Women s Euros after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury.

Barcelona captain Putellas finished as the Champions League s top goalscorer with 11 goals last season, ending her domestic campaign with 18 league strikes.

Putellas, who has scored 27 goals in 100 international appearances and also picked up FIFA s The Best Women s Player award in 2021, was expected to provide creativity from out wide for La Roja, but faces a lengthy spell out of action after suffering the injury in training ahead of Spain s opening game against Finland on Friday.

An update issued on the side s official website read: The tests carried out on the Spanish international on the afternoon of this Tuesday, July…

Burnley have signed former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson until the end of the season, .

The thirty-six year old has been without a club since leaving Blackburn Rovers in the summer, but has now joined up with the Lancashire side’s fierce rivals on a short term deal.

Robinson racked up just over two hundred appearances in all competitions for Rovers over a seven year period while he has also played for Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United winning the League cup for the former in 2008.

Internationally, he was capped forty-one times for his country and was part of their squad’s for the 2004 European Championships in Portugal and the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

He joins a Burnley side who currently sit in third place in the Championship, four points…

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini is not giving up on the Premier League title ahead of the home clash against rock-bottom Aston Villa on Saturday.

After beating Liverpool to claim League Cup glory last weekend, City succumbed to a 3-0 loss at Anfield on Wednesday as they failed to seize an opportunity to make ground on title rivals Leicester City, Tottenham and Arsenal – none of whom won in midweek.

City have 11 matches to play and sit 10 points behind leaders Leicester with just one game in hand after losing three league games in a row for the first time since 2008.

However, even though City have been joined on points by rivals Manchester United in the battle for a top-four spot, Pellegrini still only has eyes for a title challenge.

I hope …

Fernando Torres says no other achievement in his footballing career would compare to winning the Champions League title with Atletico Madrid. 

Torres has won the Champions League, FA Cup and Europa League with Chelsea, as well as the Euro 2008, World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012 titles with Spain.

However, the Atleti youth graduate has only lifted the 2001-02 Segunda Division with his boyhood club.

Now, with their semi-final first leg against Bayern Munich coming up, Torres is out to etch himself into the history books at the La Liga outfit. 

We want to write a new chapter in the club s history, the Spaniard said. We can do that now. We have a fantastic opportunity a huge game against one of the favourites. Now we have in front of us a huge game.

T…

Sergio Santos hat-trick inspired the Philadelphia Union in MLS, while Sporting Kansas City also enjoyed a big win.

Sergio Santos netted three times as Philadelphia crushed Toronto 5-0 at Subaru Park on Saturday.

The result equalled the Union s biggest ever win and Toronto s largest defeat, as per Opta.

Philadelphia needed until the 27th minute to get going, Sergio Santos heading in a wonderful cross from Kai Wagner.

Just six minutes later and the hosts doubled their lead, Mark McKenzie heading in from close range after a corner.

Jamiro scored a spectacular third for Eastern Conference leaders Philadelphia in the 56th minute, his 20-yard effort going in off the underside of the crossbar.

The dummy from Aaronson 
The hit from Monteiro