Former Liverpool and Marseille striker Djibril Cisse will swap finals for vinyls after announcing his retirement from football, revealing plans to focus on a burgeoning DJ career.
Cisse picked up 41 caps for France during a playing career that also saw him win the Champions League, FA Cup and Super Cup with Liverpool, as well as the 2003 Confederations Cup.
But the 35-year-old, who last played for JS Saint-Pierroise in the Reunion Premier League, has now decided to call it a day.
He had reportedly been training with former club Auxerre with a view to a return after previously declaring his career over in October 2015 due to a hip injury.
I loved being a footballer, he told Yahoo Sport. So far football has been my whole life.
I would like to have…
Could Daniel Levy be about to loosen Tottenham s purse strings?
According to the Mirror, Tottenham are set for a spending spree to ensure manager Mauricio Pochettino does not quit.
Pochettino has been linked to Juventus and Manchester United, and the Argentinian is in a strong position after leading Spurs to their first Champions League final – without signing a player in 2018-19.
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Show me the money is the message from Pochettino, and chairman Levy is set to listen.
Tottenham have already reportedly had bids rejected for Real Betis star Giovani Lo Celso and in-demand Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele.
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Barcelona head coach Ernesto Valverde played down reports linking Paris Saint-Germain star Neymar with a move to Real Madrid.
Neymar has been widely linked with a return to Camp Nou, but reports on Wednesday said Madrid were lining up a move for the Brazil star.
But Valverde dismissed the talk as speculation while saying he was unsure what would happen with Neymar.
Now it s Madrid and we ll see what happens tomorrow, he told a news conference after Barca s 2-1 friendly win over Napoli.
Two years ago he was right here and I had to answer questions from many journalists. Now, they ask me again about him.
It seems that Neymar is following me. We have nothing to say about players who are on other teams.
Neymar seems set to leave PSG after …
Antonio Conte has urged Tottenham to be more careful in the transfer market after suggesting the club was guilty of making mistakes in the past .
Spurs allowed Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso and Bryan Gil all leave the club on loan in January, while Dele Alli joined Everton on a permanent deal.
Alli undoubtedly flourished for a time at Spurs, but Lo Celso and Ndombele have so far proven to be expensive flops since joining in 2019.
Lo Celso, signed for an initial £27.8million (€32m) from Real Betis, was shipped off to Villarreal with a purchase option, while Ndombele – a club-record signing at £55m (€63m) – was sent back to Lyon, who retain the right to buy him for a reported €65m (£54m).
Spurs do at least appear to retain hope for Spain in…
According to Jose Mourinho s dictionary of life , people with a lot of ideas are either idealists or idiots.
As such, writing an opinion piece on the Manchester United manager s recent musings probably qualifies as a fool s errand, but Omnisport s Dom Farrell has done just that.
Here are his thoughts on Friday s remarkable news conference.
Jose Mourinho s attempts at damage control in the hours and days following Wednesday s meek Champions League exit at the hands of Sevilla – not dissimilar, one would imagine, to how a pyromaniac might approach a job with the fire brigade – show he is increasingly ill-suited to the biggest jobs in world football.
The 55-year-old finest achievements came with Porto at the start of this century, Chelsea betw…
Lamine Yamal etched his name in history with a record-breaking goal before Dani Olmo fired Spain into the Euro 2024 final with a 2-1 victory over France.
Yamal produced a remarkable long-range equaliser shortly after Randal Kolo Muani s ninth-minute opener in Tuesday s first semi-final in Munich, the 16-year-old becoming the youngest scorer at a major tournament in history.
In-form Olmo then delivered the decisive strike midway through the opening half, manufacturing space inside Les Bleus area before squeezing a low effort home.
Didier Deschamps side had been unconvincing before this last-four meeting, and though they improved in the second half, they were unable to find a leveller as Spain teed up a meeting with either the Netherlands or England.
Spain …
data-mm-id=”_b8ay3hql9″>The New England Patriots were unable to continue their torrid start on the defensive side of the ball once the schedule picked up and they played teams that were not from New York or Washington. No one will deny that the unit is talented enough to be considered one of the best in the NFL, but all that talk about its place in history next to the truly great defenses of the past has rightfully been put to bed. One player, however, has not slowed down one bit: Stephon Gilmore. The South Carolina product is having the best season of his career, and one of the better seasons we've seen from any cornerback in this new pass-happy NFL. As the best player at the most important non-quarterback position in the league, with the season he's having, Gilmore should r…