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Zenit defender Tomas Hubocan is followed by a number of Europe’s top clubs, according to the player’s agent.

The 27-year-old has been playing at a very high level for a couple of years now, and is heavily linked with a move to one of Europe’s top leagues.

Russian newspaper Izvestia has been told that clubs like Tottenham, Inter, Newcastle and Napoli are all keen on the experienced defender.

“Yes, we have contacts with English and Italian clubs,” the player’s representative Michal Holescak .

“We regularly receive a lot of calls from various European sides, but there have been no concrete proposals.

”Tottenham, Newcastle, Napoli and Inter are tracking Tomas.”

The Slovakian international began his career at MSK Zilina and w…

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp provided a promising update on Virgil van Dijk, but he remains unsure when the star defender will return for the Premier League champions.

Van Dijk underwent surgery on his knee in October after suffering a serious injury in the Merseyside derby against Everton.

The Netherlands international has been missed by Liverpool, who are fourth and six points adrift of rivals Manchester United ahead of hosting Burnley on Thursday.

Klopp was upbeat about Van Dijk s rehabilitation, but he is unsure when the 29-year-old might return.

He looks really good, Klopp told a news conference.

I spoke this morning to him on the phone, he is in a really good mood so it s all very promising but I don t know when he will be back.

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Norwich City have completed the signing of Lewis Grabban from Bournemouth, .

The striker has signed a three year deal with the Canaries, who are rebuilding with the hope of securing an immediate return to the Premier League after being relegated on the final day of the 2013/14 campaign.

He scored twenty-two goals in forty-four league appearances for the Cherries last season, taking his total for the club to thirty-five in ninety-three games.

The 26 year old began his career at Crystal Palace, moving on to Millwall in January 2008 having had brief loan spells with Oldham Athletic and Motherwell.

A permanent move to Brentford followed in 2011 having had two temporary stints with the club, while he spent the 2011-12 campaign at Rotherham United prior to …

Mauricio Pochettino has suggested Paris Saint-Germain s defeat against Nice came down to misfortune more than anything else, after Andy Delort struck late to sink the Ligue 1 leaders.

The title frontrunners came up short against Christophe Galtier s hosts at Allianz Riviera thanks to the Algerian striker s late finish.

With the suspended Kylian Mbappe s absence leaving Les Parisiens short in attack, they have now lost consecutive league games on the road for the first time since April 2019.

Pochettino admitted that his side had not done enough to claim victory, but maintained Nice had not earned their three points either, chalking it up as something of a sporting incident.

We thought it was going to end in a draw because neither of them had done enou…

Romelu Lukaku s second spell with Chelsea lasted just one season.

Inter have confirmed the return of Lukaku in a season-long loan deal just 321 days after selling him to Chelsea for just under £100million.

It reunites Lukaku with the club with whom he won the Scudetto in 2021 and writes another chapter in the history of the Blues signing a high-profile striker, only for them to fail to produce.

As the London club perhaps wonder what might have been with Lukaku, Stats Perform looks back at the string of forwards who saw their goals dry up after moving to Stamford Bridge.

Mateja Kezman

Kezman did not arrive for big money by today s standards, joining from PSV for a £5.3m fee in 2004, but he came with significant expectations after a goal-lade…

Atletico Madrid midfielder Saul saluted a good year for the club but hopes 2017 is better after the capital team progressed to the Copa del Rey last 16.

Saul and Co. made light work of minnows Guijuelo 4-1 in the second leg on Tuesday as they won the lopsided round-of-32 tie 10-1 on aggregate.

The comprehensive victory capped off a fine year for Atletico heading into the mid-season break, after the Spaniards reached the final of the Champions League, while they finished just three points behind LaLiga winners Barcelona in 2015-16.

Reflecting on 2016, Saul said: We could have won some titles that we fought for, but it s been a very good year for us.

We hope that 2017 is better.  

Atletico are sixth in the LaLiga standings, six points adrift of se…

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Before he was installed by the electoral college as Supreme Grand Primate Of THE GREAT UNRAVELING, Donald Trump was just one of the more poignant accounts on Twitter. There was nothing sympathetic about him, really, because there has never been anything sympathetic about him. He has been the same way, and locked into the same excruciating public performance of Rich Guy Whom Has Sex A Lot since 1985. But before he was in charge of peevishly barfing gold leaf onto our great democratic experiment, Trump spent his days peevishly barfing gold leaf onto the internet, keening about his golf empire and live-tweeting episodes of Access Hollywood—he had a lot of romantic advice for Robert Pattinson—and belching woundedly about his impenetrable decades-long feuds with, like, Bette Midler. All Do…