🚨🇮🇹 Paolo Maldini and Leonardo RESIGN from their roles as Italy Federation technical director and advisor.
Decision to leave the project just 10 days after joining due to president Malagò being against appointing Andrea Pirlo as new head coach for Italian national team.
The president didn’t approve Pirlo due to his connections with Russian brands; Maldini and Leonardo only wanted Pirlo and leave their roles immediately.
BREAKING: Chelsea have had a bid worth £117m accepted by Aston Villa for Morgan Rogers 🚨
Rogers is expected to sign a six-year contract at Chelsea with the option of another year.
He's due to undergo a medical on Monday after he returns from the US after England's World Cup campaign.
Understand Chelsea pitched to Morgan Rogers as a left-wing starter. Rogers equally comfortable and impressive as a number ten, and his versatility part of the appeal to Chelsea, but told he is joining under the impression he'll play on the left, and alongside Cole Palmer.
Along with Xabi Alonso, Behdad Eghbali played a key role in convincing Rogers to join.🏴
🗣️ @FabrizioRomano: “Let me tell you Arsenal were never going to offer £117m- £120million for Morgan Rogers.
For Arsenal the value the realistic value of the player was around £90m-£100million maximum, no more than this. But they wanted to start a conversation from next week.
What happened in the last 24 hours is that Chelsea entered the deal in a very strong, strong way.”
Giovani Lo Celso has brought out a banner saying ‘Las Malvinas son Argentinas’ — ‘The Malvinas are Argentine.’
He held it with Nicolas Otamendi and then briefly put it away before laying it out on the pitch at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Las Malvinas is the term used in Argentina for the Falkland Islands, a British dependency which lies about 300 miles (480 km) off the east coast of mainland Argentina.
In 1982, Argentina’s military government invaded in an attempt to take the territory from the United Kingdom. The conflict lasted from April 2 to June 14 and ended with an Argentine surrender. In all, three civilians, 255 British and 649 Argentine troops died.
The Athletic has contacted FIFA for comment.
England 1-2 Argentina live blog: https://t.co/V6vsfDZJWj
Dying embers of the World Cup semifinal and it's coming down to Ezri Konsa crosses cause you left the most creative RB to ever play the sport at home. Life is beautifully poetic sometimes