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Strasbourg president Marc Keller on receiving Chelsea loanees: “They have to want to come to us.”

In an interview with L’Équipe, Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace President Marc Keller has spoken about the club’s takeover by BlueCo, the owners of Chelsea Football Club, specifically addressing the possibility of Chelsea players arriving on loan.  The officialisation of Strasbourg’s integration into the BlueCo family was confirmed on Thursday. Keller reveals that the investment firm have […]

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Mbappe: My only option now is to stay at PSG

Kylian Mbappe gave a press conference ahead of France‘s game against Gibraltar in Faro, Portugal on Friday. The PSG striker spoke once again about his future and maintained that he intends to honor the one remaining year on his contract with the Parisian club. However, with reports coming out of the club that PSG will […]

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‘I’d advise any young player to come here!’

His coach, Will Still: “Will is a very young manager and when I arrived here he was still just the assistant. But when Oscar Garcia left, he became the coach, and he’s taken on that role with such ease. He’s shown such serenity, as if he’d been doing it all his life. He’s behind me […]

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Feature | “Strasbourg isn’t Chelsea” – the view from France

On Thursday evening, it was confirmed in an official statement on Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace’s website that BlueCo, the consortium headed by Chelsea FC owner Todd Boehly, had bought Les Alsaciens. The Guardian have reported that BlueCo came to an agreement with Strasbourg’s previous board of 11 shareholders to purchase the club for £65m. […]

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Pep Guardiola: Manchester City won’t make a move for Mbappe, everyone knows where he wants to go

Pep Guardiola has confirmed that Manchester City are not willing to make a move for Kylian Mbappe, whose contract with Paris Saint-Germain runs until the end of next season. The Catalan coach claimed that Mbappe has already made up his mind regarding his next team amidst interest from Real Madrid. “[Manchester City] will not make […]

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‘I think I meet the criteria’

It has a been a successful post-season international window for France – a 3-0 win over Gibraltar on Friday and Monday’s 1-0 win over Greece have Les Bleus top of qualifying Group B with a perfect record of four wins from as many matches – and for Kylian Mbappé who, despite the furore surrounding his […]

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Official | Leandro Paredes to return to PSG following Juventus loan

Juventus have made Leandro Paredes’ (28) departure official. The Argentine will return to parent club Paris Saint-Germain, where his future remains unclear.  “Thank you Leandro,” read Juventus’s message to their now-former midfielder on Friday. Paredes had been on loan at the Serie A club since the beginning of the season in a deal which included an […]

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Messi on his departure from PSG: People started to treat me differently

Leo Messi has given an interview to beIN Sports in which he talks about his departure from PSG. “I came to Paris because I liked the club, because I had friends and a lot of people I knew in the dressing room, teammates from the national team or some I had been with before,” he […]

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how PSG replace Messi and Ramos

Messi leaves as a FIFA World Cup winner with Argentina, one who spent his final season in the French capital plundering 16 goals and 16 assists from 32 games as PSG won Ligue 1 Uber Eats a point clear of runners-up RC Lens.   But with Kylian Mbappé and Neymar Jr. also on the books, […]

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Bayern Munich no longer standing in the way of Lucas Hernandez’s PSG move

RMC Sport journalist Fabrice Hawkins is reporting that due to the imminent arrival of Kim min-Jae at Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga club will no longer stand in the way of Lucas Hernandez (27), who wants to move to Paris Saint-Germain.  As reported by Foot Mercato back in May, France international Hernandez has been prioritising a move to PSG. However, until […]

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