Eduardo Camavinga may have long been linked with a move to Real Madrid but the teenage midfielder wants to sign a contract extension at Rennes.
Madrid and Juventus are believed to be admirers of the 18-year-old midfielder, whose deal at Roazhon Park is due to expire at the end of next season.
Among midfielders currently aged 21 or younger to have played in at least 10 games in the top five European leagues this season, only Monaco s Aurelien Tchouameni (780) has made more successful passes than Camavinga (728). However, the Rennes talent has a superior passing accuracy of 89.9 per cent compared to his counterpart s 82.1.
His average of 3.9 tackles per 90 minutes is only bettered by Huesca s Sergio Gomez (4.4), though the Spaniard has played 345 minutes compared t…
Whenever a team under performs at a major tournament and crashes out the evaluation of what went wrong can be long and complicated but with Italy that will be far from the case.
Italy s deficiencies, or rather primary deficiency, has long been known, analysed, dissected and contemplated.
Before the team even arrived in South Africa, everyone back home knew exactly what their problem would be: scoring goals.
And so it proved following Thursday s shock 3-2 defeat to Slovakia that left the reigning champions in the unenvious position of joining France as recent holders who have suffered the ignominy of failing to reach the knock-out stages in the defence of their title.
Italy s attack was their major failing in their first two Group F games, both of which e…
Left-back Diego Contento signed a four-year deal with Bordeaux on Monday, ending his long-term association with Bayern Munich.
Bordeaux tweeted a picture of Contento signing his contract before posting a story on their website confirming the transfer from Bayern.
The transfer was completed soon after Bordeaux confirmed they had sold another left-back Lucas Orban to Valencia.
Contento passed a medical on Monday and will be officially presented to the media on Tuesday but Bordeaux coach Willy Sagnol had already confirmed on Saturday that they were close to bringing the German to France.
As soon as we started talking about bringing in a left back, we knew that Contento could be an interesting opportunity, Sagnol said.
He spent five years with the M…