Plymouth defender Matthew Sorinola has been ruled out of the remainder of the Championship season with a thigh injury. The 24-year-old wing-back played the full 90 minutes at Swansea in midweek but picked up a quadriceps injury. Captain Joe Edwards is fit after a hamstring injury and is in line to replace Sorinola against promotion...
Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has confirmed a hamstring injury will rule centre-back Wesley Fofana out for the rest of the season. On Saturday, the club confirmed the 24-year-old France defender had undergone “successful surgery”. While Chelsea will have to do without Fofana, Maresca is hopeful midfielder Romeo Lavia and striker Marc Guiu could play again...
Dean Lewington once admitted to being a bit of a footballing dinosaur. “As you get older, especially the way modern football is going, over 30s are seen as prehistoric really,” he said in the autumn of 2022 as he approached the 900th match of his career. Now just over a month away from his 41st...
AC Milan defender Kyle Walker is set for a spell on the sidelines following surgery on a fractured elbow. The 34-year-old England international sustained the injury during training and has subsequently had an operation. “To ensure better healing and optimise recovery time, the player underwent surgery in Milan,” the Serie A club said in a...
Everton defender James Tarkowski made history on Saturday when he received the 64th Premier League booking of his career. It means he has the highest number of yellow cards of any player in the competition never to have received a red. The 32-year-old was cautioned for a foul on Arsenal full-back Myles Lewis-Skelly as the...
Kyle Walker says he “wanted to cry” the day he left Manchester City to join AC Milan on loan. Walker moved to Milan in January on loan until the end of the season after falling out of favour under City manager Pep Guardiola. Speaking on The Kyle Walker Podcast, the England defender told of his...
Bergisch Gladbach-born Hummels came through Bayern Munich’s youth ranks and made his first-team debut for the Bavarian club aged 18 in May 2007. He joined Borussia Dortmund January 2008, initially on loan, and went on to become a key part of the team that twice won the Bundesliga under Jurgen Klopp. Hummels moved back to...
Former Manchester United defender Brandon Williams says it “hurts watching football” after being without a club since last summer. Williams was released by boyhood team Manchester United at the end of the 2023-24 season after his contract expired and has spent this campaign watching the game from the outside. The 24-year-old’s last appearance came in...
Arsenal defender Gabriel will miss the remainder of the season after the club confirmed he requires hamstring surgery. The Brazilian was substituted in the first half of Arsenal’s 2-1 win against Fulham at the Emirates stadium on Tuesday. The former Lille defender has started 28 of Arsenal’s 30 Premier League matches this term, helping the...
James Tarkowski should have been sent off during Everton’s defeat at Liverpool on Wednesday, the Premier League’s refereeing body has acknowledged. Tarkowski caught Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister just below the knee with his studs in the 11th minute of the Merseyside derby at Anfield. The Everton centre-back was shown a yellow card and the...
Plymouth Argyle boss Miron Muslic has praised the commitment of central defender Julio Pleguezuelo after his return from broken ribs. The Spaniard, 28, was hurt in the 2-1 win at Portsmouth two weeks ago but returned to full contact training earlier this week and could feature at Watford on Saturday. It is a timely boost...
Plymouth Argyle defender Maksym Talovierov is set to miss the rest of the season after suffering a knee injury. The 24-year-old Ukraine centre-back was hurt towards the end of Argyle’s 3-2 loss to Derby County earlier this month. The Pilgrims’ record signing joined up with his international team-mates last week to be assessed ahead of...
Plymouth Argyle defender Nikola Katic featured in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s 2-1 win over Cyprus in Monday’s Fifa World Cup qualifier. The 28-year-old came off the bench for the final 20 minutes of the game in Zenica as the Bosnians won for the second successive match to go top of their group. Meanwhile, Argyle midfielder Darko...