BERLIN (AP) — Another extraordinary summer or another national embarrassment. No one knows quite what to expect from this Germany team heading in the European Championship. The optimists point to the opportunity of staging another monthlong party like the one that gripped the country when it hosted the 2006 World Cup. The pessimists can point to three straight fiascos at major tournaments that has forced Germany fans to readjust their expectations of the men’s soccer team. The latest signs seem
Manchester United have been told whether they will be allowed to play in the Europa League next season after UEFA came to a decision on their future in the competition.
The Champions League final was on TNT Sports: the football telly equivalent of being press-ganged into watching a relative’s am dram at the village hall. Great laugh for the participants, great pain for the audience.
Bayern Munich have made an approach about signing 29-year-old Portugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes from Manchester United. O Jogo - in Portuguese) Jadon Sancho is ready to go back to Manchester United, following the 24-year-old winger's loan spell at Borussia Dortmund, but only if Erik ten Hag leaves this summer. Mirror) Cristiano Ronaldo has spoken to his former Manchester United team-mate Casemiro, 32, in a bid to persuade the Brazilian to join him at Al Nassr.