Liverpool have parted company with their director of football Damien Comolli by mutual consent.
The decision coincides with a wretched run of Premier League form which has seen Kenny Dalglish s side fall way off the Champions League qualification pace, while the majority of signings who arrived at the club under Comolli s watch have failed to make significant impacts.
The Frenchman, who joined the club in November 2010 to work alongside Roy Hodgson, claimed his sudden departure, which was announced just two days before the FA Cup semi-final against Everton, was due to family reasons.
I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to work at Liverpool and am happy to move on from the club and back to France for family reasons, he said.
I wish the clu…
Australian goalkeeper Mitchell Langerak is confident Borussia Dortmund can create more history in their record-breaking season.
Dortmund clinched their second straight Bundesliga title on Saturday with a 2-0 defeat of Borussia Moenchengladbach that left them eight points clear of second-placed Bayern Munich with two games remaining.
The German league triumph is Langerak s second in as many seasons with Dortmund, having joined the champions from Australian side Melbourne Victory in 2010.
With 75 points to date, Dortmund, who are undefeated in the Bundesliga since September, can surpass the mark of 79 in a single German league season set by Bayern in both 1971/72 and 1972/73.
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Lyon have signed Argentina full-back Nicolas Tagliafico from Ajax on a three-year deal.
The 29-year-old had been a regular for Ajax over the past four-and-a-half seasons, making 169 appearances for the Eredivisie champions and winning five major honours.
Following a protracted transfer saga, Lyon confirmed the arrival of Tagliafico on their official website on Saturday.
The Ligue 1 club agreed a fee of €4.2million for the left-back, who will fill the void left by loanee Emerson Palmieri s return to parent club Chelsea.
Tagliafico has been capped 40 times by Argentina and is expected to be part of Lionel Scaloni s squad for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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When did Russia forward Andrei Arshavin become worth £20million? That is the amount Zenit St Petersburg are allegedly expecting to receive for his sale.
Arshavin has dealt a blow to any Premier League clubs who may be after him, rumoured to be Arsenal and Chelsea, after a spokesman from his current club announced that he only wants to play for Barcelona.
The Zenit spokesman told the BBC, Arshavin wants to move to Barcelona. He doesn t want to play anywhere else. Barcelona have made an offer but we are still negotiating with them. I don t know when a decision will be made but I think Arshavin will leave the club.
It could be that Barca would like to take Arshavin but are not interested at the silly money that Zenit manager Dick Advocaat is looking for.…
Arsenal s dismal run of form rolled on as Neal Maupay s superb header earned Brighton and Hove Albion a 2-1 victory at Emirates Stadium.
Alexandre Lacazette s 50th-minute equaliser on his 100th appearance for the club looked set to pave the way for Arsenal to claim their first win under caretaker boss Freddie Ljungberg.
Yet Brighton, who had deservedly taken the lead through Adam Webster in the first half, managed to wrest back control after David Luiz had a goal ruled out by VAR.
And it was Maupay who had the final say, as he brilliantly turned home Aaron Mooy s cross in the 80th minute to end Brighton s three-match losing streak and condemn Arsenal to their longest winless streak since 1977.
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