Barcelona star Lionel Messi reportedly cancels plans to travel to Turkey following a military coup d'etat in the country.

Antonio Conte says he hopes Chelsea under his stewardship will light up the Premier League title race this season.

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has called on French midfield enforcer N'Golo Kante to decide quickly on his future as the Premier League champions plan the defence of their title.

With just a week to go for the Dhaka Premier League clubs to complete their payments to their respective players, cricketers from two clubs are still yet to get 70 per cent of their payments.

Spanish League president Javier Tebas said Wednesday he does not consider Lionel Messi to be a criminal and was happy for the Barcelona star to remain in La Liga.

Paul Pogba teases Manchester United supporters over a possible transfer after he received a United shirt from broadcasters ESPN in Los Angeles.

French champions Paris Saint Germain laboured to a 2-1 win over West Brom in their first pre-season friendly on Wednesday with mercurial midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa making his debut.

Jose Mourinho is ready to keep Juan Mata and Marouane Fellaini at Manchester United – and hand Daley Blind a chance to prove himself.

Paul Pogba may stay put at Juventus despite talks about the French midfielder's possible move to England or Spain, his agent says.

Dimitri Payet is worth not a penny less that 50 million pounds, West Ham United co-chairman David Gold has said, but even that might not be enough to prise the France midfielder away from the London club.

Losing a final to Cristiano Ronaldo has become an unfortunate habit for Antoine Griezmann and he is not happy about it.

In light of Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic joining Manchester United on a one-year deal, United legend Eric Cantona had a special message for the Swede, warning him that he could only hope to be the ‘prince of Manchester’ rather than king.

Melvyn Lorenzen will miss the first three weeks of Werder Bremen's pre-season training after being attacked on his own doorstep on Saturday night.

Barcelona have launched a campaign in support of Lionel Messi and his father Jorge after the Argentine pair were sentenced to prison terms this week over tax fraud.

Less than 24 hours after having claimed that 'Bangladesh was close to hosting Nepal for two friendly matches', the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday made a complete U-turn and cancelled the proposed friendly matches without providing a satisfactory answer.

Nigerian international winger Ahmed Musa became Premier League champions Leicester City's second acquisition in a week on

Barcelona vow to support Lionel Messi following his decision to appeal against the 21-month jail sentence handed down to him by a Spanish court after being found guilty of fiscal fraud and believe the verdict is "an attack on his person".

Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after a court in Barcelona found him guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a statement from the court said on Wednesday.

Real Madrid teammates Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale have not spoken since the start of Euro 2016 but they will go face-to-face when Portugal take on Wales in the semi-finals on Wednesday.

The EU on Monday orders seven Spanish football clubs including Barcelona and Real Madrid to pay back millions of euros (dollars) in illegal state aid.