Elliott made 18 league appearances under Arne Slot last season, but his only two starts came against Chelsea and Brighton, when Liverpool had already won the league. That was in stark contrast to the previous season, with 11 starts in 34 league games for the Reds in Jurgen Klopp’s final campaign. Elliott has made 147...
Laura Gozzi & Paul Kirby BBC News Reuters Security is tight at the Nato summit – President Trump’s first since 2019 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that Russia’s president understands only the language of force and that Tuesday’s “historic” Nato summit in The Hague will aim to ensure peace in Europe for generations to...
Gyokeres’ former team-mates and coaches remember a young boy who cried when he lost. They talk about a “stubborn kid” who was “wild, really aggressive” and would occasionally come to blows with team-mates. “I remember the older players were sometimes telling him to calm down a little bit, because he was always going all-in,” Magni...
Cherki is only the latest talent fresh off the Lyon production line, but may be the best yet. He joined Lyon at the age of seven from AS Saint-Priest and, aged 16 years and 140 days, Cherki became the youngest goalscorer in the Ligue 1 side’s history in a French Cup tie back in January...
If there’s anything we’ve done pretty well for a Stateside blog, I think it’s trying to keep y’all up with what’s happening across the pond. Granted, we have no deep understanding of either European tribalism or feudalism and it’s damn near every day I thank God the Founding Fathers did not harness us with the...
Nick Thorpe Central Europe correspondent ZOLTAN FISCHER/HUNGARIAN PM HANDOUT Hungary’s Viktor Orban described President Trump as a “truth serum” It’s been a big week in Europe for CPAC, the US Conservative Political Action Conference, with large gatherings in Poland and Hungary. The timing is crucial, ahead of Poland’s presidential election run-off on Sunday, between a...
What separates Wirtz from so many others isn’t just his touch or vision, it’s his mentality. Even early in his Bundesliga career, he carried himself like a leader. He’s not the loudest voice in the room, but his presence is felt. Some mistake his quiet, understated demeanour for simplicity, and Wirtz doesn’t go out of...
Huijsen ranks highly in many different categories for Premier League defenders to play at least 1,000 minutes this season, per 90 minutes. Second for clearances Third for interceptions Fourth for headed clearances Fourth for successful long passes Sixth for centre-backs playing passes ending in the final third 11th for forward passes 15th for fewest goals...
Not every gripe that Europeans have with Donald Trump stems from his bluntness when he tells them the truth–Danish people aren’t wrong when they say Trump is being rude to demand that they hand over Greenland to the US, even if Trump believes that the Danes can’t defend the strategically-located territory. Still, the hatred for...
In Spain, Barcelona are aiming to win their 28th title and sit four points clear of Real Madrid in second, and 13 ahead of third-placed Atletico Madrid. Barca and Real Madrid have five games to play in La Liga and will meet each other in El Classico at the Estadi Lluis Companys on 11 May....
The jacket was a perfect fit, a deeper green than you might imagine and in that moment came the realisation that he had actually done it. The burden had lifted, never again would we be able to ask the questions that had nagged him for more than a decade. Now, aged 35, he is an...
If PSG complete an unbeaten league season, they would become just the sixth team from Europe’s top five leagues to do so, joining Bayer Leverkusen from 2024, Juventus in 2012, Arsenal in 2004, Milan in 1992 and Perugia in 1979. “They would be the first French team ever to do it,” added Laurens. “One defeat...
It seems astounding that a single fire at an electricity source shut down one of the world’s busiest airports. The disruption to the journeys of thousands of passengers and millions of tonnes of trade goods on Friday has prompted a series of questions over the resilience of the UK’s major infrastructure. Disaster recovery plans keep...