Thomas Frank is "1,000% sure" he can build a team at Tottenham and promised to learn from this bad spell as he prepares for an ominous meeting with Paris Saint-Germain.
Ousmane Dembélé could return for Paris St Germain in Wednesday's Champions League home fixture with Tottenham.
The centre-back had a difficult start in Ligue 1 but now he is captaining the club and dreaming of winning the World Cup By Get French Football News Leonardo Balerdi bursts into laughter as he describes the moment a police van stopped in front of his car in Marseille, sirens blaring, only for four officers to jump out, shout and sing “Allez l’OM!” and drive off again. “It was just a normal day, but it was brilliant. I thought: OK, I’m good here now,” he says with a smile. Marseille is a city that lives and breathes for its football club. Yet that same volcanic passion can weigh as heavily as it lifts – and Balerdi has felt both sides of it. In his early days at Marseille, a supporter staged a hunger strike outside the club’s training ground to protest against his continued presence in the team after he made mistakes in defeats to Paris Saint-Germain and Annecy. “I learned and grew a lot mentally during these years,” says the 26-year-old. “Whatever happened, I knew I couldn’t let things get to me, or at least not as much.” Continue reading...
Tottenham manager can afford a midweek defeat in Paris, but the same does not apply to Fulham’s visit on Saturday Welcome, then, to another of those Spurs weeks, where the executives are deeply concerned and it is impossible to ignore the sense of foreboding. The 4-1 derby humiliation at Arsenal on Sunday ensured the club are playing a game of crisis-baton hot potato with Liverpool and surely the last thing that the manager, Thomas Frank, needs is a Champions League trip to Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night. This is not the real fear because it is just about possible to paint the game against the European champions as a free hit. Even in the best of times, nobody would have expected much from Tottenham there and, with two wins and two draws from four matches in the competition, they can afford to lose this one. Continue reading...
Bayern Munich winger Luis Díaz has been banned for three games by UEFA following his red card against Paris Saint-Germain earlier this month.
Julien Laurens, Sam Marsden and Yash Thakur answer some of our burning UWCL questions.
Enjoy all the updates from Wednesday's matches in matchday four of the UEFA Women's Champions League.
PSG right-back Achraf Hakimi was named the 2025 African Footballer of the Year in Rabat on Wednesday, beating Liverpool star Mohamed Salah and Galatasaray striker Victor Osimhen.
Mary Earps was booed on her return as Manchester United made it three successive wins in the Women's Champions League with a 2-1 victory over Paris Saint-Germain.
Mary Earps' return to Manchester was the main talking point, but it was her former club that got the last laugh against Paris Saint-Germain.
Mary Earps received the boos she feared on her return to Manchester United 501 days after leaving, and departed defeated, as Marc Skinner’s team cuffed aside Paris Saint-Germain courtesy of Fridolina Rolfö’s expert second-half header. When jogging out for the warm-up Earps was cheered but as soon as the crowd swelled for kick-off she was targeted throughout, though for a footballer whose CV shows nine clubs, 52 England caps, and a Euro 2022 winner’s medal, this felt water off the proverbial for her. Continue reading...
⚽ Women’s Champions League news, 8pm GMT kick-off ⚽ Live scores | Follow us over on Bluesky | Mail Michael When Mary Earps left Manchester United for PSG last summer, the goalkeeper didn’t mince her words. “[United] is about to undergo a period of transition, and unfortunately I don’t feel it aligns with the timing of where I’m at in my career, therefore I think now is the right time to make a change and embark on a new challenge.” Sadly, her remarks felt justified. The week before Earps’ move was announced, it was revealed by the Guardian that United women’s team would be moving into portable buildings at the club’s Carrington training complex this season to allow the men’s squad to use the women’s building while the men’s indoor facilities were being revamped. United had finished the 2023-24 season in fifth, almost mid-table, 15 points adrift of Champions League qualification and although they had won the FA Cup at Wembley in May, club owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe decided not to turn up, choosing instead to attend the men’s side’s Premier League defeat at Arsenal. This did not feel like a club where world-class talent was given the proper chance to shine. Remember United were the final ‘big’ Premier League side to launch a Women’s Super League team, only doing so in 2018. Continue reading...
Paris Saint-Germain were expecting to push on and compete in the UWCL, instead they are struggling. What's going on in Paris?
Depleted Paris St-Germain snatched a last-gasp victory for the second weekend in a row to reclaim top spot in the Ligue 1 table.
