ESPN FC’s Ale Moreno explains why Kylian Mbappe’s presence at PSG makes Neymar an expendable asset.
France striker Kylian Mbappe has been ruled out of Les Bleus’ 2020 qualifiers against Iceland and Turkey through injury, the French football federation said on Tuesday.
Paris Saint-Germain’s Mbappe, who was originally named to the squad despite a recurring thigh problem, has been replaced in the squad by Borussia Monchengladbach forward Alassane Plea.
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The Ligue 1 leaders had urged France boss…

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Don Hutchison takes issue with Mauricio Pochettino’s infrequent usage of Tottenham’s Lucas Moura.

Steve Nicol says Mauricio Pochettino needs to find a way to boost morale to get Spurs back to winning ways.

The ESPN FC crew breaks down whether Mauricio Pochettino and Ole Gunnar Skolskjaer’s futures are intertwined.

Mauricio Pochettino is adamant he’ll remain with Tottenham despite their poor run of form.
Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is unlikely to play again this year after scans showed he suffered damaged ligaments in his left elbow during the 3-0 defeat to Brighton in the Premier League, Didier Deschamps said.
Lloris suffered a dislocated elbow as he landed awkwardly when attempting to save a Pascal Gross shot and the ball fell to Brighton’s Neal Maupay to tap into an unguarded net for the opening goal.
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Craig Burley explains why it was so important for Chelsea’s young core to get a victory at Lille.
Didier Deschamps wants Chelsea boss Frank Lampard to play Olivier Giroud more often in exchange for the France manager’s leaving N’Golo Kante in London for last month’s European Championship qualifiers.
Kante on Thursday was called up for Les Bleus’ October Euro qualifiers along with Kylian Mbappe — who missed out last time due to a hamstring injury — and Giroud, who has seen limited minutes with Chelsea this season.
And Deschamps joked at a press conference that he would like Lampard to…

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On the flight back to Paris from Bordeaux on Saturday evening, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe were sat next to each other. While some on board were sleeping (or trying to), watching some shows on Netflix or playing the new Mario Kart game on their phones, the two best friends were messing around, playing music and dancing. You could almost hear them laughing all the way back to the capital.

What’s important here isn’t that Neymar was on the plane with Mbappe, but that the Brazilian’s happy and enjoying…

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Camavinga has been sensational ever since he broke into the Rennes first team and is already attracting interest from Europe’s top clubs at the age of 16.

Since the beginning of August, Stade Rennais have seen two things experience massive growth in their day-to-day operations as a football club and both of them are related to one player in their squad.The first thing is the requests for match tickets from scouts all over Europe, which have soared. The second is the solicitations for sit-down interviews, which have also multiplied. All this for a 16-year-old kid who still can’t drive his own car, is still going to school, still lives at the Academy…

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Every September, the excitement builds. And, as always, France is preparing itself for a new European campaign. There will be five clubs from “L’Hexagone” competing this season: Paris Saint-Germain, Lyon and Lille in the Champions League, plus Saint-Etienne and Rennes in the Europa League. Due to Strasbourg’s elimination in the Europa League playoff round this is one fewer than last year (PSG, Lyon and Monaco in one and Bordeaux, Rennes and Marseille in the other), but it’s certainly a more promising…

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