Portuguese daily newspaper that Ajax and Chelsea lead the chase for Lokeren midfielder Ayanda Patosi.

The 21-year-old has been touted as the next star of South African football and is widely tipped to make a big club move in the near future.

Dutch giants Ajax are believed to be leading the chase for his signature, but Premier League side Chelsea are also monitoring his development.

Ayanda Patosi joined Lokeren in May 2011, and has since made a total of 58 league appearances, scoring 10 goals in the process.

He has also earned his first two South Africa caps, having appeared in friendlies against Morocco and Spain.

Patosi is predicted a bright future in the game, but he obviously needs to continue playing on regular basis if he is to realise his …

Fiorentina have rejected a bid from for Giovanni Simeone, according to .

Atletico are actively looking to bolster their attacking options and it seems manager Diego Simeone is keen on working with his 23-year-old son.

The young striker started his career with River Plate where he spent three and a half years before going out on loan to Banfield. After a season there he moved to Italy in 2016, to Genoa, and then to Fiorentina in 2017. Last season he made 40 appearances and scored 14 goals in all competitions for the Viola.

The bid in question was one of €40million, and even though the Firenza club aren t categorically against letting the player join his father in Madrid, they want more than that to dispense with his services. Atletico president Enrique Cerezo …

Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce is hopeful of signing Yannick Bolasie on loan from Everton.

Bolasie joined Everton for a reported fee of £25million in August 2016 after impressing at Crystal Palace.

The forward suffered an anterior cruciate knee ligament injury in December 2016 and struggled for regular playing time upon his return to action last season.

Villa lost the Championship play-off final to Fulham in May, and Bruce is seeking to bring in attacking reinforcements as he attempts to guide the West Midlands club back into the top flight.

If we can put the icing on the cake with Bolasie tomorrow then it s exactly what we re looking for, he said after the 2-2 draw at home to Brentford on Wednesday.

He was here [watching the game] and we hop…

The true extent of crisis club Portsmouth s financial problems was revealed when their debts were revealed to be around 120 million pounds (185 million dollars) over 40 million pounds more than previously estimated.

Bad enough in itself, the chaos surrounding the south coast club s accounts was highlighted by the extraordinary disclosure they owe Tottenham Hotspur a million pounds over the sale of Asmir Begovic even though the goalkeeper has never played for the north London club.

Begovic was linked with Tottenham in January but instead signed for another English Premier League side in Stoke City.

However, Pompey have been left owing Spurs a one million pounds sell-on fee.

Portsmouth, bottom of the Premier League and already relegated after being deducte…

Football has a pedigree dating back to mediaeval England, when villagers hoofed an inflated pig s bladder around a muddy paddock.

Today, though, the 22 players on the pitch are supported by a ghost squad of scientists drawing on biomechanics, physics, nutrition, psychology and other performance-enhancing disciplines.

Here are some examples of how science has helped to change football, answer riddles and end hearsay.

FAKING A FALL: How can you tell when a player is diving? One telltale is the archer s bow, says British psychologist Paul Morris. This is when a player falls with both arms in the air, with open palms, chest thrust out and legs bent at the knee, like a sprung archery bow. This occurs in many dives but biomechanically it does not occur in a natural fa…

Premier League management jobs are coming about too easily for foreign managers, according to Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.

Mourinho is in his second spell at Stamford Bridge after managing the reigning champions from 2004-2007 before returning in 2013 and guiding the club to Premier League glory last season.

The Portuguese boss faces Italian manager Claudio Ranieri on Monday when Chelsea travel to Leicester City s King Power Stadium and he spoke about the high number of foreign managers in the league.

I think the Premier League was quite a closed space for foreign managers and to come here was not easy, Mourinho said.

To come here, you had to do something serious. I think I did enough to deserve to be here. You come to a country number one in European…

Paris Saint Germain have again been linked with a move from Chelsea defender David Luiz, .

Both Bayern Munich and Barcelona have already expressed an interest in signing the Brazil international, who Chelsea would be willing to sell for around £35m.

The Ligue 1 Champions are keen to pair Luiz up with his international teammate Thiago Silava, while fellow Brazilian Alex, who was at Stamford Bridge between 2007 and 2011, is hoping for a new contract with Laurent Blanc’s side amid talk of a move to Napoli.

Luiz moved to West London three years ago, and has made 133 club appearances in all competitions, scoring twelve goals.

In his three years with the Blues, he has won the both the Europa League and the Champions League as well as the FA Cup, in whic…

James Rodriguez really wants to leave Real Madrid this summer. The Colombian star has not been part of the club s plans for the past few years and his playing time when he was at the club was not satisfactory. He also had spent some time on loan at Bayern Munich, but now he wants to leave the 13-time European champions for good.

According to El Pais, he will definitely be playing for another club after this summer. Rodriguez made just eight La Liga appearances this season and it is obvious he is not in Zinedine Zidane s plans for the remainder of the 2019-20 campaign. But where will Rodriguez go then?

Some previous reports have stated that Rodriguez is close to make a move cross town, to Atletico Madrid, as some media even side things are almost done. He was also linked…

Erling Haaland will remain at Borussia Dortmund regardless of where they finish in the Bundesliga this season, according to sporting director Michael Zorc.

Dortmund are in danger of missing out on Champions League qualification from the Bundesliga and it has been suggested that could result in Haaland moving on.

The 20-year-old has scored 51 goals and supplied 11 assists in 55 appearances in all competitions since arriving at Dortmund from Salzburg in January 2020.

Those goalscoring exploits have seen him linked with a host of major European clubs, including Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain to name but a few.

He was unable to find the back of the net in Wednesday s 2-0 victory over Union Berlin, with Marco…

Premier League clubs continue to defy the global recession as a new report shows revenue from the top 20 teams in England reached a record 1.981 billion pounds in 2008-09 and is likely to have exceeded two billion pounds in the 2009-10 season.

According to the latest Annual Review of Football Finance from the Sport Business Group at Deloitte, new broadcast contracts will drive a further increase in revenues to 2.2 billion pounds in 2010-11.

In total, the 92 English clubs saw revenues increase by 100 million pounds to over 2.5 billion pounds in the 2008-09 season.

Dan Jones, Partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, said: Despite the sharp economic contraction, Premier League clubs were able to increase revenues by three percent in 2008-09.

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