Gavi has signed a new deal with Barcelona through to 2026, with a buyout clause of €1billion.
The 18-year-old midfielder has been a revelation since breaking through to the Barca first team, and has become a key part of Xavi s side.
Gavi has already made 54 appearances in all competitions for the Blaugrana, having joined the club from Real Betis as a youngster in 2015 before emerging through the Catalan giants famed La Masia.
Bastia have tied down experienced defender Sebastien Squillaci until June 2016 after he agreed a new one-year contract extension.
Sebastien Squillaci has extended his contract with Bastia for a further year in a deal that will see him stay at the club until June 2016.
The central defender, whose contract was set to expire at the end of the season, moved to the Ligue 1 club from Arsenal in 2013 and has since made 58 appearances in all competitions, scoring four goals.
Squillaci was also the hero earlier this month when he netted the winning penalty in a shootout to take Bastia to their first Coupe de la Ligue final since 1985, the Corsicans knocking out his former club Monaco.
Ghislain Printant s side are 13th in the table following an eight-match unbe…
Fernando Torres is in danger of missing Liverpool s Premeir League game with Wigan on Saturday after suffering a thigh injury in Spain s 2-1 win over Belgium here on Wednesday.
Torres had to be replaced by Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas in the 15th minute in this 2010 World Cup qualifier.
Spain team doctor Oscar Celada told Spanish television: He has intense pain in the back part of the thigh. It is difficult to diagnose now exactly the extent, if it is a question of a strain or a small tear. If it is a strain then he could be out for about a week.
Euro 2008 champions Spain lead Group 5 but only after David Villa struck in the closing stages.
Belgium took the lead from Wesley Sonck s seventh minute header, the first goal Spain keeper Iker Casillas has c…
George Boateng has learnt to live with the fact that he will never play international football for his native Ghana.
But the thought of playing alongside the richly-talented Stephen Appiah, Sulley Muntari and Michael Essien in the Black Stars engine room is one that struggles to go away.
As a naive teenager Boateng made the decision to switch to Dutch nationality in a bid to make it easier to get into the Feyenoord first team.
It was a choice that would end up having more far reaching consequences than he ever imagined.
At 15, I had to change my nationality from Ghanaian to Dutch, because at the time there were only three non EU (European Union) residents allowed to play in the first-team, Boateng told AFP.
I had to change it to give me a be…
Arsenal are ready to hand Mohamed Elneny a new contract, according to the the Mirror.
The twenty-five year old still has two years remaining on the deal he signed on arrival from Basel in 2016 and was linked with a move away from the Gunners in January.
However, with Francis Coquelin moving to Valencia two months ago Elneny has been called upon and is set to remain with the North London club.
Since arriving in England, the Egypt international has racked up sixty-four appearances in all competitions while he grabbed his second goal for the club in the 6-0 thrashing of BATE in the Europa League back in December.
Arsene Wenger’s men booked their place in the quarter finals of that competition after securing a 5-1 aggregate victory over AC Milan in th…
Mauricio Pochettino has revealed how he carried the burden of Tottenham s last-day collapse through to pre-season, when he held a meeting to tell his players he wanted to kill them.
Spurs succumbed to a 5-1 loss at Newcastle United to slip to third at the end of a 2015-16 campaign that at one stage held the promise of a maiden Premier League title.
With many of Pochettino s squad heading away on international duty, the Argentine had to wait before delivering a dressing-down following their pre-season tour of Australia.
When we came back from Australia, we talked a little bit about the end of last season, he said.
The players needed to hear from the manager my feelings, how I felt after the game and after the season, because there was no time to share it…
Monaco boss Claudio Ranieri helped his club to promotion to Ligue One last season and is likely to bring in a host of players this summer
It seems that French club Monaco are determined to make a big splash on their return to Ligue One next season.
The club are owned by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who looks like he is serious about his club becoming a force in French and European football.
Onwards and upwards
PSG have already started the upward trend in French football and have spent big to clinch the Ligue One title.
PSG also made it to the quarter-finals of the Champions League last season. No doubt, the Parisians will strengthen again this summer.
While PSG clinched the Ligue One title, Monaco were busy winning the Ligue Two…
Table-topping Argentina face a tough task against Colombia as they look to keep their impressive qualification form going on Friday.
Alejandro Sabella s side have been in dominant form as they look to secure a spot in Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, losing just once in eleven games, a 1-0 reversal in Venezuela.
Since that defeat in October 2011, Argentina have gone on to live up to their billing as favourites to win the CONMEBOL qualifying section with six victories including a 2-1 success in Colombia and three draws.
The two-time World Cup winners now sit comfortably top of the group, four points clear of second place Ecuador and five above Colombia, although Jose Pekerman s charges do have a game in hand on the leaders.
Colombia will also be buoyed by the start they…
German side Schalke 04 said on Thursday that thay had parted company with their Dutch coach Fred Rutten.
Mike Buskens, Youri Mulder and Oliver Reck, all members of the club s backroom staff, will take charge of training.
Earlier Thursday, the 46-year-old Rutten said he had expected to leave the struggling Bundesliga side at the end of the season.
Rutten had a contract with Schalke until 2010 having only taken over as trainer of the Royal Blues in July 2008, but the club are eighth in the table and have been blighted by erratic form this season.
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Louis van Gaal put an end to a decade-long trophy famine by guiding AZ Alkmaar to the Dutch league title on Sunday and he promptly hailed the achievement as arguably the highlight of his career.
Van Gaal, who won back-to-back Spanish titles with Barcelona in 1998-99, said on Monday: This was perhaps the most notable because it was the most unexpected.
I am truly very proud.
Since leaving Barcelona in 2000 the 57-year-old had struggled to make his mark, failing to qualify Holland for the 2002 World Cup in his stint as national coach.
A brief return to the Nou Camp between 2000 and 2003 came to nothing after which he had a spell as technical director at Ajax, a club he had guided to three Dutch titles between 1994 and 1996.
But the call of the du…
Sadio Mane claims lifting the Africa Cup of Nations trophy with Senegal would top his Champions League success with Liverpool.
The 27-year-old played a key part in Liverpool s triumphant run in 2018-19, culminating in a 2-0 victory over Tottenham in the final on June 1.
But Mane, who started all 13 of the Reds European matches last season, now has a chance to eclipse that achievement by leading Senegal to glory in the continental showpiece for the first time in their history.
It is up to us to achieve something great, he told France Football. Of course we are one of the favourites, we cannot hide from that. But this standing is not enough to go all the way.
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