Patrick Bamford says Kalvin Phillips former team-mates were almost pushing for the midfielder to leave Leeds United and fight for trophies.
Leeds academy product Phillips left Elland Road this month to joined Premier League champions Manchester City for a reported £45million, signing a six-year deal.
The 26-year-old caught the eye in his first top-flight season under Marcelo Bielsa in the 2020-21 campaign before making a name for himself at Euro 2020 for England alongside Declan Rice.
Phillips recovered possession a team-high 45 times, while only three England players completed more than his 293 successful passes as the Three Lions reached their first major final in 55 years.
He was limited to 20 league appearances in the 2021-22 season, but still ra…
He s got physique, he s got quality, he s got a pass, he can go box to box. He s one of the best. Today he showed why.
It was the perfect response from United, who suffered a 2-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the opening leg of their Champions League round-of-16 tie last week.
With United facing an uphill battle to reach the Champions League quarters in the absence of banned midfielder Pogba and sitting fourth in the Premier League, the FA Cup is viewed as the club s most realistic chance for silverware.
However, Mata said: Obviously we had a difficult result against PSG, but we still believe we can come back.
In the Premier League our main target is to get top four, after a very good run of results. One or two months ago it was pretty impossible to…
Bayern Munich are ready to sell Sadio Mane in the summer transfer window, according to . The Senegal international forward joined Bayern from Liverpool only in the summer of 2022, but the defending German champions have already decided that they would sell him at the end of the season if they get a good offer.
Mane has failed to make a huge impact at the Allianz Arena this season, although it must be noted that he has had injury problems. New Bayern head coach Thomas Tuchel has not been impressed by Kane and has his told his bosses at the German club that he is prepared to offload him at the end of the season.
The 31-year-old former Liverpool forward has made 17 starts and five substitute appearances in the Bundesliga for Bayern this season, scoring seven goals and prov…
West Ham and Anderlecht will clash in a repeat of the 1976 European Cup Winners Cup final after being drawn together in the same Europa Conference League group.
It was Anderlecht who won 4-2 at Heysel Stadium to land the silverware 46 years ago, but the task for each side this time around is to plot a route into the knockout rounds of UEFA s newest men s club competition.
West Ham can point to strong recent form against Belgian teams, having beaten Anderlecht s domestic rivals Genk 3-0 in London last season in the Europa League after drawing 2-2 away from home.
They later knocked out Sevilla and Lyon on a run to the semi-finals, where eventual champions Eintracht Frankfurt proved too strong.
FCSB and Silkeborg join West Ham and Anderlecht in Group B of th…
Antonio Conte is looking for Tottenham to continue improving when they travel to Manchester United as the two teams battle for a Champions League place.
After hammering Everton 5-0 on Monday, Tottenham sit just two points behind the fifth-placed United with two games in hand and are looking to strike a huge blow in the top-four race on Saturday.
Conte has won four of his six meetings with United in all competitions, most recently winning the FA Cup final 1-0 against them as Chelsea coach in May 2018. However, the Italian has lost on both of his visits to Old Trafford.
Ahead of the crucial clash, Conte spoke about the improvements made by his team recently and suggested that the Red Devils struggles had offered hope for his team in the battle for the top four.