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Galatasaray have said Lukas Podolski will stay at the club after interest from Beijing Guoan failed to materialise.

Sporting director Levent Nazifoglu had previously said a transfer was nearing completion , but the Chinese club denied that they were ever interested in the former Germany international.

Podolski has scored 23 goals in 56 appearances for Galatasaray since his arrival from Arsenal in July 2015, including the winner against Fenerbahce in last season s Turkish Cup final.

After Gala s 1-0 victory over Atiker Konyaspor, Nazifoglu said: Podolski is a very professional player with good character, and the interest from China is no longer there.

Podolski is our player and continues to be.

Podolski has returned his family to Germany, so …

Eintracht Frankfurt and AC Milan have agreed a swap deal involving Ante Rebic and Andre Silva, according to the Bundesliga club s sporting director Fredi Bobic.

Croatia international Rebic was left out of Sunday s 2-1 win over Fortuna Dusseldorf amid speculation he was close to moving from Frankfurt to San Siro.

Bobic expects the forward to complete a switch to Milan on Monday before the transfer deadline, while Portugal striker Silva is due to sign for Eintracht. It is believed both players will move on loan.

The clubs have an agreement, Bobic told Sky in Germany.  If everything goes OK, Silva will be a Frankfurt player tomorrow and Rebic will be in Milan.

Rebic had also been linked with Inter following a fine 2018-19 season, in which he scored 10 goa…

French striker Frederic Piquionne scored twice to send cash-strapped Portsmouth back to Wembley for an FA Cup semi-final but that match might never take place.

Piquionne s second half goals were enough to condemn Birmingham City to a 2-0 defeat at Fratton Park here on Saturday but 2008 FA Cup winners Portsmouth s real triumph will come on March 15 in the High Court when they face the prospect of liquidation.

If British tax authorities succeed in getting bottom of the Premier League Portsmouth wound-up in the courts over their claim for 12.1 million pounds (18.3 million dollars), their potential semi-final opponents will have a bye into the final.

But such considerations were a million miles from the thoughts of a typically passionate Portsmouth crowd who roared …

Rafael Benitez

Being a football manager is not easy that’s for sure. Even at the lowly level I manage at , it is really difficult to keep a squad of eighteen players happy. If they are not playing, they are moaning and it is usually about the manager!

So it is against that fact that one must consider the words of Liverpool’s Albert Riera. Speaking to Spanish Radio Marca, he said,

I would like to spend my whole career at Liverpool, but we players live to play. My aim is to go to the World Cup and for this I have to be playing. When the coach says nothing to you and you are well, with no physical problems and training well, you cannot help but think it must be something personal. If I m doing something badly and you are my boss, and you value me, then you are g…

Bayern Munich face a mammoth task in their UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg against Barcelona, and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge is praying for a once in a century display.

In last week s opening leg at Camp Nou, Bayern matched Barca for 75 minutes until Lionel Messi inspired Luis Enrique s side to a commanding 3-0 lead.

The Argentine maestro scored the opening two goals before setting up Neymar for the third in stoppage time as the Catalan giants moved to the brink of their fourth final in the past 10 seasons.

Bayern s preparation for this clash has been less than ideal, with Pepe Reina who started in goal in place of the rested Manuel Neuer on Saturday- lasting just 13 minutes before being sent off in their 1-0 home defeat to Augsburg.

However…