Part 1
This week Declan Rice announced his decision to declare for the English national team. A bitter blow for Irish football, but we wish him the best. What now for Mick McCarthy and the dream team?
Part 2
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suffered his first defeat as Man United manager after going 11 games unbeaten.
Tottenham, on the other hand, won comfortably enough in the end. 3-0 against Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund
Ernesto Valverde has signed a contract extension at Barcelona to keep him at the club until 2020, which isn’t very far away…
It’s chaos at the moment at Inter Milan. Mauro Icardi has been stripped of the captaincy and is being linked with a move away from the club.
Part 3
It’s been reported over the last week that Maurizio Sarri has only mere weeks left to save his job as Chelsea manager. We’ve talked over the course of this season as to why things haven’t gone so well for the Italian this season, but is this still too soon for trigger-happy Chelsea, or was Sarri always doomed to fail at Stamford Bridge? Who do Chelsea even propose to replace the 14th manager of the Abramovich era?
Part 4
The rest of the Champions League second round first legs take place this week.
Lyon - Barca; Liverpool - Bayern Munich; Atletico - Juventus; Schalke - Man City
In the Premier League we’ve got a huge clash at the top of the table:
Manchester United host rivals Liverpool Sunday afternoon.
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