Manchester City stance on Paul Pogba transfer links as Pep Guardiola handed opportunity

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag will not celebrate winning the Eredivisie title with Ajax in Curacao as he prepares to turn his attentions straight to the Old Trafford rebuild. Ten Hag has brought his time at the Amsterdam helm to an end after four-and-a-half successful years.

Manchester City playmaker Jack Grealish admits that he will have to put sentiment to one side as he continues to chase his Premier League title dream. Grealish sparked a turnaround for City at the London Stadium on Sunday afternoon as the champions hit back to draw with West Ham.

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Harry Kane's spot kick deep into first-half stoppage time settled the contest, and leaves Mike Jackson's side one point adrift of safety heading into the final week of the season.Burnley were left aggrieved after the VAR recommended Friend to check the pitchside monitor for a Davinson Sanchez shot which struck Ashley Barnes' arm from close range.

Cristiano Ronaldo posing in Manchester United’s new kit for the 2022-23 season. The Portugal international, 37 has been linked with a move away from Old Trafford following what’s been a torrid season for the Red Devils.

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City suffered a setback in the Premier League title race as Riyad Mahrez saw a late penalty saved in 2-2 draw with West Ham on Sunday.City fought back from two goals down but failed to move within touching distance of reclaiming their Premier League crown and handed Liverpool a significant boost in the title race. Guardiola's side now sit four points above the Reds, though Jurgen Klopp's men have two games of the season remaining compared to City's one.Jarrod Bowen opened the scoring at the London Stadium midway through the first half, latching on to Pablo Fornals' sublime ball over the top, before rounding Ederson to slot home the opener.

Erik ten Hag is ready to kickstart his Manchester United tenure with the blockbuster signing of Premier League and Champions League winning Chelsea midfielder N'Golo Kante. Kante, 31, has been at Stamford Bridge since leaving Leicester in 2016 but has just one more season on the five-year contract extension he signed in 2018 - which is thought to have boosted his wages to £290,000 per week.

Manchester United winger Jadon Sancho has admitted that he is looking forward to working with incoming manager Erik ten Hag at Old Trafford.

Manchester United a major boost in their pursuit of Frenkie de Jong after admitting that the Barcelona star could leave this summer. The Netherlands international is one of several midfielders being tipped to make the move to Old Trafford in the transfer window ahead of Erik ten Hag's arrival.

Manchester United only spent one training session working on the tactics used in their battering by Liverpool last month.The Red Devils suffered an embarrassing defeat in the Premier League to their traditional rivals in April. They were outclassed from start to finish and went on to lose the game 4-0 in what was very much a continuation of their lacklustre season.But it has now been revealed that the players had just one training session to prepare for the tactics used against the Premier League title contenders.

Liverpool and Manchester City hero David James once stripped down to his underwear and “volunteered to do cartwheels” at a Spanish petrol station to earn a dizzying photo shoot with fashion giants Armani.The retired goalkeeper’s acrobatics are best known for his jaw-dropping athleticism between the sticks, whether it was in the Premier League or in the World Cup for England. However, James once removed the gloves and the rest of his clothes, barring his pants, for a fascinating photo shoot directed by an even more eccentric photographer.While the photos of James cartwheeling and exploding into a handstand like Max Whitlock sadly did not make the Italian brand’s campaign, the FA Cup winner did put pen to paper on a deal which would see him appear in three campaigns.

Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand believes Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong would be a “fantastic signing” for Erik ten Hag and the Red Devils.The incoming Ajax boss is expected to make the acquisition of a new central midfielder his key priority when he moves to the red side of Manchester. The imminent departures of Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic, Jesse Lingard, and Juan Mata looks set to leave a gaping hole in the middle of the park for the Red Devils.De Jong was an essential part of Ten Hag’s Ajax team which was seconds away from reaching the 2019 Champions League final.

Liverpool midfielder James Milner has admitted that he refuses to watch Manchester City amid their Premier League title battle with the Merseyside club.

Incoming manager Erik ten Hag could be in the stands for Manchester United's trip to Selhurst Park to face Crystal Palace on the final day of the Premier League season next Sunday, according to reports.

Manchester United stars reportedly had to be 'pulled apart' in a training ground bust up.Two senior players shockingly had a 'full-on' scrap at the end of their session on Thursday at the Carrington training complex. The incident saw two unnamed stars go at it before the session was brought to a premature end.According to The Sun, the players were ordered to go back to the changing rooms after tempers boiled over.

Paul Pogba is set to have a massive pay cut ahead of a summer move to Juventus. The Old Lady have offered their former player £8million-a-year, according to the Mirror.

Manchester United cult hero Kleberson believes his old club made a mistake sacking Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and appointing a manager who has a completely different methodology to the Norwegian. United dismissed Solskjaer after a dismal 4-1 defeat to Watford in November, with the club seventh in the table and 12 points adrift of leaders Chelsea at the time.

If Manchester United's FA Youth Cup victory over Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford on Wednesday night taught us anything, it was that Alejandro Garnacho has a very exciting future ahead of him.

Arsenal's north London derby defeat - blame Mikela Arteta's fatal flaw.He wants to be Pep Guardiola and play Pep Guardiola football all the time but he just doesn't have the players. And that came back to bite him against Tottenham. I got sacked by Walsall for not being a very good manager but even I know how to play against Spurs.I like Arteta but he's not Pep.

Manchester United are reportedly facing a fight with Paris Saint-Germain for Darwin Nunez, with the French club understood to have made a huge opening bid for the striker.

Manchester City were thought of as the 'Noisy Neighbours'.In the nine years since Sir Alex Ferguson - who famously coined the label - departed, City have finished above Manchester United in the Premier League ever single season.United might always be 'bigger', but City are undeniably 'better' in almost every conceivable metric - and have been for almost a decade - and the enormous gulf between the two sides was illustrated after the Citizens' 5-1 thrashing of Wolves on Wednesday night.Pep Guardiola's side currently have a goal difference 71 higher than Ralf Rangnick's struggling Red Devils, with City on +72 and United only just breaking even with +1."Imagine if we didn't buy Ronaldo," one United fan tweeted in response to the stat."And next season they have Haaland, goal difference of +100 incoming," a rival fan joked.United's humiliating 4-0 defeat to Brighton on Saturday embodied their wretched season, and aptly consigned them to their worst ever finish to a Premier League campaign.The club have arguably never looked more rudderless, and following years of poor spending, corporate mismanagement and tactical inefficiency, Erik ten Hag's arrival at the club seemingly can't come soon enough.What will the gap in goal difference be between City and Utd next season? Let us know what you think in the comments section belowHaving failed to replace Sergio Aguero over the summer following their lengthy but ultimately unsuccessful pursuit of Harry Kane, City went into the season with just one recognised striker - Gabriel Jesus.As such, there were concerns that there wouldn't be enough goals in the team, but it didn't take long for fans' fears to be allayed.

Prince William ’s face lit up when he was presented with a lovely gift for his football-mad children George and Charlotte on Thursday. The Duke of Cambridge, 39, was given Heart of Midlothian football shirts with the names of the youngsters on the back. William was photographed beaming as he was handed the shirt.The visit was part of one of the Duke’s engagements on his second day in Scotland, where he and Kate are known as the Earl and Countess of Strathearn.