Quiz time It’s five years since Jurgen Klopp took charge of Liverpool. Since then, the German has taken the club to the very pinnacle of the game, conquering Europe and ending a three-decade wait for domestic glory. But what of the players who have helped fire the club back to the top? This quiz asks […]

5 years ago

United have named their 25-man Champions League squad Manchester United have confirmed that Phil Jones, Sergio Romero and Marcos Rojo will not be included in their squad for the Champions League group stages, which commence later this month. In their place, United have added their trio of new signings Edinson Cavani, Alex Telles and Facundo […]

5 years ago

#FreeRomero Sergio Romero finally appears to be on the brink of leaving Manchester United after hopes of a move to Everton were dashed on transfer deadline day. After playing understudy to David De Gea for five years, the Argentine stand-in goalkeeper has slipped to third choice at Old Trafford following Dean Henderson’s return from a […]

5 years ago

United and Liverpool are reportedly ready to lock horns over the defender Get used to hearing lots about Dayot Upamecano in the coming weeks and months. The RB Leipzig defender’s reputation was already growing steadily throughout last season – and that was before he caught the eye with a string of composed performances in the […]

5 years ago

Up and running River Plate, Real Madrid, Napoli, Juventus, AC Milan, Chelsea (yes, we’d also nearly forgotten he played for Chelsea). Wherever Gonzalo Higuain has played, Gonzalo Higuain has scored goals. Now, in his third appearance in Major League Soccer – and a matter of days on from his eventful debut – the Argentine is […]

5 years ago

Zaha had shared screenshots of the abuse Police have said the 12-year-old boy who sent racist messages to Wilfried Zaha is ‘extremely remorseful’ for his actions. The Crystal Palace forward had shared screenshots of the sickening abuse he received on social media prior to his side’s Premier League meeting with Aston Villa in July. West […]

5 years ago

Another success for Roma’s Missing Children initiative AS Roma have confirmed a missing teenage girl has been found after featuring in the club’s social media posts announcing the signing of Chris Smalling. Smalling completed a permanent move to the Serie A side from Manchester United on transfer deadline day after spending last season on loan […]

5 years ago

Wenger wants to make significant changes Former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is calling for radical changes to be made to the laws of football. Wenger, now Fifa’s Head of Global Development, has spoken of his desire to make significant tweaks to the offside law, as well as a rule which would see some throw-ins replaced […]

5 years ago

This? Oh, just another reminder that Manchester United are bad at transfers They left it late – really, really late – but Manchester United did manage to get some badly needed reinforcements through the door on transfer deadline day. Although Ed Woodward reportedly failed to sign a single one of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s primary targets, the […]

5 years ago

The FootballJOE Badge Quiz is going international Welcome, friends. By now, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with how the FootballJOE Badge Quiz works. We give you a few club badges, stripped of all letters and numbers, you correctly identify which team they belong to from the options below. Simple stuff. This – a special […]

5 years ago

Hang in there. Manchester United aren’t done yet There we were, naively thinking we were done with Manchester United transfer stories for a little while. Well, not quite. After an eventful deadline day, now comes news that another of their first team squad members could be set for a season-long loan abroad. Jesse Lingard was […]

5 years ago

Lyon did all they could to make deadline day deal happen While much of the focus on these shores has been trained on the train wreck of a transfer window at Old Trafford, it shouldn’t be forgotten that this has been a particularly difficult time for the mighty Barcelona, too. After a very public spat […]

5 years ago

Done deal Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Edinson Cavani on a hectic transfer deadline day at Old Trafford. With only Donny van de Beek arriving at United in the summer, Cavani was the club’s third piece of transfer business on the last day of the window, having closed a deal for Porto’s Alex […]

5 years ago

Quite the deadline day at Old Trafford After being in talks with pretty much every right-sided forward under the sun at some point on transfer deadline day, Manchester United appear to have reached a deal for one. Or two. Or, hey, maybe three. Frankly, who knows any more? Jadon Sancho isn’t arriving at Old Trafford, obviously, […]

5 years ago

Even the Arsenal diehards will struggle with this one… Since 1992, over 100 players have scored for them in league games. In this quiz, we ask you to name as may as you possibly can. You have ten minutes and you only need to enter a player’s surname to get the mark.

5 years ago

Nothing to see here. Just more unrest at Manchester United This, to put it mildly, has not been a great couple of days for Manchester United. A 6-1 annihilation at home to Tottenham on Sunday capped a week in which anger had spiked within the fanbase at another shambolic transfer window. Though United have since […]

5 years ago

Sad news Former Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere is set to leave West Ham after it emerged on transfer deadline day that his contract would be terminated by mutual consent. Wilshere had only made one appearance so far this season – in the 5-1 Carabao Cup win over Hull City – and 19 altogether in his […]

5 years ago

Ding ding. Round Three After the insultingly easy return of the FootballJOE Badge Quiz™, we decided to raise the difficulty level a touch for last week’s edition: We go again. The second edition of the new and improved Football Badge Quiz. Go on, you've earned this: https://t.co/DxltW1WJhW — FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) September 29, 2020 Disappointingly, some […]

5 years ago

Finally, the end is here After months and months of feverish transfer speculation – almost all of it about Jadon Sancho’s nonexistent move to Manchester United – the transfer window has closed. Deadline Day was a hectic one and keeping pace with all that was going on was virtually impossible. To help you out a […]

5 years ago

“We lost the plot” Quite a day, that. After Manchester United’s capitulation at home to Tottenham on Sunday afternoon, you’d have been forgiven for thinking all the Super Sunday drama had been used up before a ball had been kicked at Villa Park. Not quite. Aston Villa, a side who survived a close scrape with […]

5 years ago

I mean, technically, he was absolutely right Oof. What a day. What. A. Day. There we were, thinking Manchester United’s 6-1 capitulation at home to Tottenham had hogged every single headline. We were wrong. Very, very wrong. The final game of Super Sunday saw champions Liverpool visit Aston Villa, a game many probably thought was […]

5 years ago

The players and manager are easy targets but the problems go much, much deeper Not so long ago, you may recall, there was a genuine sense that Manchester United, after seven years of mediocrity, were back. A derby win just before the pandemic shut football down, then a sequence of games after it which helped […]

5 years ago

Caught your breath yet? Nope, us neither Anthony Martial was shown a straight red card to cap a terrible first-half showing against Tottenham on Sunday. Bruno Fernandes had put United a goal up after Martial earned a penalty in the opening minute, but things swiftly fell apart from United. Spurs instantly hit back with a […]

5 years ago

Manchester United have finally woken up They’ve left it late – very, very late – but Manchester United look set to complete another transfer. Alex Telles finally appears on the cusp of completing a move from FC Porto, despite a string of reports claiming United were some way off meeting the Portuguese club’s asking price for […]

5 years ago

The Premier League champions will be without their number one at Villa Park Liverpool will be without their first choice goalkeeper Alisson Becker as they return to Premier League action on Sunday evening. The champions are set to visit Aston Villa for the late kick-off on Sunday but according to a tweet from The Athletic’s […]

5 years ago

You can only admire this There’s a subtle tug of the shirt, then there’s this: quite possibly the most magnificently unsubtle shirt-pull ever witnessed on a football pitch. The man responsible, who has quite rightly earned viral status across the world for his actions, is Huachipato midfielder, César Valenzuela. During a hard-fought 1-0 win over […]

5 years ago

Jadon Sancho, you might have heard, has been linked with a move to Manchester United Patrice Evra has (again) taken aim at Manchester United’s board for the club’s underwhelming transfer window, labelling their attempts to sign Jadon Sancho “embarrassing”. The former left-back has already been extremely vocal about his old club’s failure to adequately strengthen […]

5 years ago

The wait is over Few phrases in the English language will raise the heart-rate of any self-respecting football hipster quite like ‘new Boca Juniors shirt’. If that’s you – and let’s face it, you’re already here reading this, so it probably is – then we have good news. After the release of their all-new Adidas […]

5 years ago

Eight ‘f***ings’ in little over 10 seconds. EIGHT By now, you’d think managers and players would have grown used to this empty stadium thing. With no crowds there to mask the sound, some managers and coaching staff might even have learned to curb their expletive-laden touchline rants for fear of it being picked up […]

5 years ago

Shades of Benzema vs Karius, only much more spectacular That’s it. We’ve found it: the silliest last-minute winner you’re ever likely to see, courtesy of our friends across the pond. If we’re being honest, Wednesday’s USL Championship game between Hartford Athletic and Philadelphia Union II wasn’t really on our radar – even it did prove […]

5 years ago

It is, to use an over-used football cliche, a nice problem for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to have… Dean Henderson produced another steady performance for Manchester United on Wednesday night, strengthening the case for him to eventually replace David  De Gea as the club’s first choice goalkeeper. Another game at Brighton – significantly less eventful than […]

5 years ago

Lampard just shaded this one Frank Lampard isn’t having the best of weeks, bless him. Though his Chelsea side managed to escape The Hawthorns with a point after a calamitous first half showing against West Brom at the weekend, Lampard is said to have flown into a furious rage at Marcos Alonso when back in […]

5 years ago

City have got their man. But probably not the one they really wanted Now, look, we’re not saying Manchester City aren’t pleased to have secured the services of Ruben Dias from Benfica this week. After their disastrous display against Leicester City on Sunday, it was there for all to see why Pep Guardiola has been linked […]

5 years ago

In a matter of days, Manchester United fans will, one way or another, be put out of their misery As far as transfer sagas go, few in living memory have been more tedious than Manchester United’s ‘pursuit’ of Jadon Sancho. The Borussia Dortmund forward has been linked with a big money move to Old Trafford […]

5 years ago

Bigger and better Okay, okay. We’ll level with you. Last week’s triumphant return of the FootballJOE badge quiz might have been a little easy. Too easy, if a couple of the comments are anything to go by. This week, we’ve taken that on board and cranked up the difficulty level a couple of notches. Yes, […]

5 years ago

Three games, three wins… Liverpool continued their perfect start to the Premier League season with a 3-1 win over Arsenal at Anfield on Monday night. Despite falling behind to an Alexandre Lacazette opener in the first half, goals from Sadio Mane and Andy Robertson put Jurgen Klopp’s side in front before half-time, before new signing […]

6 years ago

The highest number of positive tests announced by the Premier League The Premier League has announced ten players or staff members were positive for COVID-19 following their latest round of testing. In total 1,595 players and club staff were tested between Monday 21 and Sunday 27 September. Though the number of positive tests represents only […]

6 years ago

Lampard singled out the Spaniard for not thinking about his teammates Chelsea full-back Marcos Alonso was reportedly on the receiving end of a furious dressing down from manager Frank Lampard following his side’s 3-3 draw at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening. Alonso had started the game at left-back but was one of two players hooked […]

6 years ago

Coutinho is back in the Blaugrana Philippe Coutinho made his return to action for Barcelona on Sunday night, helping his side to a comfortable season-opening victory over Villarreal in the Camp Nou. The former Liverpool midfielder wasted little time in catching the eye, either, thanks to a bizarre incident involving the referee. In possession of […]

6 years ago

Marcelo Bielsa looks poised to raid the European champions for his next signing Leeds United are reportedly inching closer to completing a shock move for Bayern Munich’s Michael Cuisance. Fabrizio Romano, a journalist with his finger firmly on the transfer pulse, tweeted on Sunday evening that, as per L’Équipé, the newly promoted Premier League side […]

6 years ago

Fati caught the eye again as Barcelona started the new season with a convincing win It was, without a shadow of a doubt, a man-of-the-match performance from Ansu Fati on Sunday night – even if not officially recognised as being so. With Barcelona returning to La Liga action after a turbulent summer, the 17-year-old had […]

6 years ago

City’s need for defensive reinforcements was there for all to see on Sunday afternoon Manchester City are poised to complete the imminent signing of Portugal defender Ruben Dias from Benfica, it has been confirmed. City’s failure to adequately replace Vincent Kompany a year ago was viewed by some as a significant factor in their failure […]

6 years ago

The highly rated youngster drew criticism from a small minority of fans for his error on Thursday Liverpool’s Neco Williams has blacked out his Twitter account after receiving abuse for an error in his side’s 7-2 win over Lincoln on Thursday night. The highly rated full-back, already a full Welsh international at just 19, lost […]

6 years ago

‘The truth is that nothing surprises me at this stage’ Lionel Messi, should anyone need reminding, is not a happy man. After being refused his wish of a move away from Barcelona earlier in the summer, the multi-Ballon d’Or winner made it explicitly clear that he was far from content at having to stay at […]

6 years ago

Nothing gets past Joe Hart (make your own jokes) After a brief scare, Tottenham recorded a comfortable 3-1 victory in their Europa League play-off game against Shkendija in North Macedonia on Thursday night. After the game, Jose Mourinho revealed how an observation from his goalkeepers prompted the club to lodge a successful complaint to Uefa […]

6 years ago

United will imminently submit their first – and only – bid for Sancho After months and months of speculation, Manchester United’s latest tediously drawn-out transfer pursuit is, one way or another, close to an end. Jadon Sancho remains a Borussia Dortmund player. Though there’s a very good chance this will still be the case when […]

6 years ago

Smalling is set to be the subject of a second bid from Italy Chris Smalling is – finally – closing in on a departure from Manchester United. The 30-year-old defender spent the entirety of last season on loan with AS Roma and was widely expected to make the move a permanent one in the summer. […]

6 years ago

We’re sure Dortmund fans will be completely understanding about this happening for a second time… Mario Gotze could be set for his second stint as a Bayern Munich player – weeks after leaving Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund for a second time. Gotze, scorer of the winning goal in the 2014 World Cup final, first made […]

6 years ago

Daniel Levy is in talks to sign another high-profile signing Tottenham’s summer (can we still call it ‘summer’?) transfer business is showing no signs of coming to an end with reports from Italy claiming Daniel Levy has opened discussions with Inter Milan over a possible move for centre-back, Milan Skriniar. Jose Mourinho is known to […]

6 years ago

West Ham confirmed the news via a statement West Ham manager David Moyes has tested positive for Covid-19, along with two of the club’s players. A statement posted on West Ham’s website on Tuesday evening confirmed that Moyes, along with defender Issa Diop and midfielder Josh Cullen, had all returned positive tests. West Ham’s medical […]

6 years ago