Mikel Arteta hailed Thomas Partey’s performance in Arsenal’s 5-1 win over Sporting CP in the Champions League as ‘one of the best performances I have seen from him’.

Mikel Arteta with Thomas Partey after the full-time whistle against Sporting.

Manchester United have agreed a deal in principle to appoint Ruben Amorim as their new manager. The Reds are looking to hire their first permanent manager under Ineos after Erik ten Hag’s sacking on Monday. It’s been an inauspicious start for United’s co-owners, who now control football operations at Old Trafford. Ineos have been heavily criticised in some …

Reflecting on his time at Sporting CP, Amorim admitted that he had long admired these players and even attempted to bring them into his squad during his

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Real Madrid, a club synonymous with Champions League dominance, experienced an unprecedented low on Wednesday night after suffering a 2-0 defeat to Liverpool at Anfield. This result, in what has been a woeful campaign for Carlo Ancelotti’s men, etched an unwanted record into the club’s storied history. The Spanish giants, who are accustomed to setting benchmarks of success in European football, now find themselves grappling with an alarming reality: they have lost three group-stage matches in a single Champions League campaign for the first time ever.