Liverpool have signed an amazing player in Virgil van Dijk and his reported £75million price tag could ultimately appear cheap, according to Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola.
Van Dijk will move to Anfield when the transfer window opens in January after the Reds agreed to pay what Southampton claim is a new world-record transfer for a defender.
Guardiola is familiar with the scrutiny that accompanies major outlays on members of the backline, City having parted with significant sums to recruit John Stones, Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy since the Catalan coach arrived at Etihad Stadium.
Addressing the media ahead of his team s Premier League match at Crystal Palace on Sunday, Guardiola hailed the quality of the Netherlands international, who had previously …
Gerard Deulofeu and Denis Suarez will get a chance to show Barcelona what they are missing when Sevilla travel to Camp Nou on Saturday.
Barca coach Luis Enrique sent Deulofeu out on a season-long loan to Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan in August after the attacker returned from spending the 2013-14 campaign at Everton.
Deulofeu spoke of his shock that he had been allowed to make another temporary move away from Camp Nou, but vowed to make the most of the opportunity to play in La Liga at Sevilla.
The 20-year-old will come up against his parent club this weekend and Denis Suarez will be in the same boat after he moved to the Andalusian outfit on a two-year loan deal as part of the transfer which saw Ivan Rakitic join Barcelona.
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Ricardo Quaresma is among seven players to be cut from Portugal s provisional FIFA World Cup squad as Paulo Bento confirms his 23-man party.
The Porto winger has not played for his country since a 3-1 defeat to Turkey in a warm-up friendly for the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine in 2012.
Quaresma, although included in the squad for the finals that year, was an unused substitute throughout, but was named in Bento s original 30-man squad announced on Tuesday, despite not featuring in any of Portugal s qualifying matches.
Another notable absentee is Inter defender Rolando, while uncapped midfielder Joao Mario has also been cut and will have to wait for his international debut.
The Benfica duo of Andre Gomes and Ivan Cavaleiro also miss out, as do Lyon g…