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Bayern Munich have called on national associations to place greater emphasis on player welfare, with the club set to receive compensation over an injury to Alphonso Davies. In March, Davies ruptured his cruciate ligament while representing Canada in a CONCACAF Nations League third-place play-off match against the United States. As a result, Davies missed the remainder of the Bundesliga season, as well as Bayern’s Champions League quarter-final defeat to Inter, while he will also sit out the Club World Cup and Canada’s Gold Cup campaign. In the aftermath of the injury, Bayern’s sporting director Christoph Freund described Canada’s handling of…

Bayern Munich have gotten off to a record breaking start in the Bundesliga this season. Brought in to replace Robert Lewandowski, Harry Kane has been nothing short of incredible in Munich. The goalkeeper-captain Manuel Neuer gave his take on comparisons between the two. While Bayern has been fortunate to have a great player replace Lewandowski, sometimes curiosity about comparisons can be inevitable. Captain Manuel Neuer gave a classy response to a question of comparing the current striker to the previous one at Bayern. Speaking after the Bremen game (via @iMiaSanMia), Neuer said “Everyone knows how good Lewy was for us,…

After days of high tension and drama, Barcelona and Marc-Andre ter Stegen finally made peace on Friday night. Barça had stripped Ter Stegen of the captaincy over his refusal to sign the authorisation for his medical report to be sent to La Liga’s Medical Commission, which must determine the length of his absence following lumbar surgery. A day later, the German goalkeeper issued a statement confirming his willingness to co-operate with the club and ended up reversing his decision. In return, the club restored his captain’s armband. Laporta-Ter Stegen meeting turned things around Now, according to MARCA, the turning point…

The 2025 summer transfer window saw plenty of drama involving Barcelona, with both their own players and those of other clubs. For the former, the most notable situation involved Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, who had been temporarily stripped of the captaincy after initially refusing to help the club de-register him. Barcelona had been struggling to register Joan Garcia in time for their La Liga opener against Mallorca, and it was eventually decided that they would go down the route of de-register Ter Stegen, who had recently undergone surgery to fix a problematic back injury. However, the player had blocked the club’s…

Barcelona will be heading into tonight’s game against PSG with Wojciech Szczesny in goal, as new signing Joan Garcia is injured, while Marc-Andre ter Stegen has been sidelined due to surgery. In any case, the German wouldn’t have been considered for the first-team – something Barcelona made it clear in the summer, thus leading to quite an internal brawl. In a recent interview with BILD (h/t SPORT) ahead of the PSG tie, Hansi Flick opened up about the Ter Stegen saga in the summer, admitting that communications could have been better between the two sides. What Flick said about ter…

When Luis Enrique returned to Barcelona with his Paris Saint-Germain side, he did so in the knowledge that if the visitors won again they would become the first side in European football history to beat the Catalans in three successive away games. They would have to do so with a vastly different XI than normal however as all of Ousmane Dembele, Kvicha Kvaratskhelia, Joao Neves, Desire Doue and captain, Marquinhos, were injured. Araujo and Lewandowski benched For his part, Barcelona coach Hansi Flick had some injury issues of his own. Raphinha was missing along with Gavi, Fermin Lopez and goalkeeper,…

Jordan Clarkson was attending a Carlos Alcaraz match at Wimbledon when his agent, Rich Paul, called with an important question. “Where you wanna go?” Paul asked. “I said, ‘I wanna come to New York,’” Clarkson recalled Saturday night. Paul then reached out to the Knicks to relay Clarkson’s interest. “It all happened in two minutes,” Clarkson said. “Then I was a Knick.” Clarkson, 33, revealed this exchange Saturday night during a live taping of “The Roommates” podcast hosted by his new teammates, Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart. The interview, which took place in front of hundreds of rain-soaked Knicks fans…

Jordan Clarkson might not be on the Utah Jazz anymore, but their fans know all too well about the Clarkson experience. After the New York Knicks scooped him up following his buyout, it only took his first preseason game for their fanbase to realize that no how difficult the challenge may be, there isn’t a shot Clarkson won’t take. The Knicks played the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA’s first preseason game in Abu Dhabi. Clarkson didn’t play badly, putting up nine points while shooting four-for-nine from the field. However, Knicks fans got their first taste of what Clarkson brings, warts…

In 2025, the Mets’ payroll became a punchline for a different reason. For much of the last decade, the Mets’ amorphous but always restricted budget drew the justified ire of their fan base. Every offseason, the most important question facing New York was how much the Wilpon ownership would permit it to spend — and an answer didn’t come, even to the front office, until late in the winter. This season, the Mets’ payroll was cited often — again justifiably — in contextualizing their fall to an 83-79 record outside of the postseason. Three key questions facing the Mets this…

MIAMI — The New York Mets’ stupefying 2025 season, a 162-game ride that launched with World Series aspirations, ended with a thud at 2:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, the final day of the regular season. The Mets reported to LoanDepot Park needing to beat the Miami Marlins and needing the Milwaukee Brewers to beat the Cincinnati Reds to reach the postseason. But New York couldn’t handle its business, losing 4-0 to fall short of playing October baseball. The Reds will open a three-game wild-card series in Los Angeles against the Dodgers on Tuesday. The Mets will go home wondering what…