Galatasaray have announced the signing of Sofiane Feghouli from West Ham for a fee of €4.25million.
The 27-year-old joins the Super Lig side just a year after signing for the Hammers from Valencia on a three-season deal.
Feghouli has signed a five-year contract with Galatasaray and is their seventh signing of a productive transfer window.
West Ham United would like to thank Sofiane for his efforts and wish him well in his future career, the Premier League club said in a statement.
Feghouli: Şampiyonluk için geldim!
— Galatasaray SK (@GalatasaraySK)
Feghouli s exit comes amid reports that West Ham are closing in on a club-record £30m deal for William Carvalho.
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Jimmy Greaves, the World Cup-winning former England striker, was taken into intensive care after suffering a severe stroke on Sunday.
A statement from the 75-year-old s family read: Football legend Jimmy Greaves suffered a severe stroke on Sunday May 3, and is in intensive care in hospital.
His wife, Irene, and four children have asked for privacy during what is a worrying time for the family. They will issue a bulletin on his condition when it is appropriate.
England’s greatest ever goal scorer was 75 on February 20, and has been working regularly on the personal appearances circuit in harness with his friend and agent Terry Baker.
Jimmy had a minor stroke in 2012, but appeared to have made a full recovery.
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According to a recent report from Tuttosport, Marco Asensio is also unhappy with his current situation at Real Madrid – in addition to a few of his teammates. It’s no secret that Isco and Marcelo and on the verge of leaving the European champions, but it appears as if they aren’t the only ones. Asensio has been with Real since back in 2014 when he joined from Mallorca, and has also been a member of the Spanish national team since debuting in 2016.
The 23 year old attacking midfielder doesn’t seem to be happy with his role at Real, and the report suggests that a move to Juve could be on the cards. Marcelo and Isco have already been linked with a switch to the Italian champions, and while Asensio jumping ship would be a little bit more difficult, it’s still a possibilit…
Harry Kane wants Tottenham to take inspiration from Chelsea and Liverpool s famous Champions League comebacks as Mauricio Pochettino s men plot their own great escape.
At the fourth time of asking this season, Spurs tasted victory in Europe s premier competition on Tuesday, coming from behind to beat PSV 2-1 thanks to a brace from England captain Kane.
Victories over Inter and Barcelona are still required to turn guarantee Spurs will progress from Group B, but their star striker is keen to add to a story of famous continental recoveries from Premier League clubs.
The Champions League has thrown up some amazing fairytales in the past, he told reporters, before evoking Chelsea s 2012 semi-final victory against Barcelona and Liverpool s comeback from 3-0 down to li…
Germany coach Joachim Low believes Bayern Munich will give themselves a very good solution should they re-hire Jupp Heynckes as Carlo Ancelotti s successor until the end of the season.
Heynckes is expected to be appointed as Bayern coach for a fourth time this week after Ancelotti was sacked at the end of September following a 3-0 Champions League defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.
Ancelotti was reported to have lost the support of several key members of the Bayern dressing room before his dismissal, with speculation suggesting his training methods left a lot to be desired.
Heynckes confirmed on Thursday that Bayern have approached him and that he was considering their offer.
Should he accept, Low believes Bayern have made a good choice.
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It seems to me he s been a great striker, Batistuta said of Higuain, who is on loan at Chelsea from Juventus. Respected all over the world. And treated in a bad way in Argentina.
We were talking about the fact that strikers maybe miss 200 goals, but then make one, two or three goals in the right moments, and so they are always remembered for those few ones they scored, compared to the ones they failed.
And I said: there s also the opposite . Higuain scored 200 goals, and missed three at the wrong time; and in Argentina, unfortunately, he is remembered for that.
When he is, instead, a great striker, one of the best we ve seen in the last years on a global scale.
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Diego Simeone shouldered the blame for Atletico Madrid s Copa del Rey elimination at the hands of Sevilla in the quarter-finals on Tuesday.
Atletico shipped two late goals to lose the first leg 2-1 and conceded within 24 seconds of the return before going down to a 3-1 defeat, with Simeone sent from the sidelines after Pablo Sarabia scored Sevilla s third at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
Atleti slipped 11 points behind LaLiga leaders Barcelona following a 1-1 draw with Girona on Saturday and will not feature in the Champions League knockout stages having finished third in Group C behind Roma and Chelsea.
However, the Argentinian backed his team to continue fighting in LaLiga and the Europa League having fallen out of two cup competitions already this season.
Jurgen Klopp was delighted by confirmation of a new long-term contract for Diogo Jota at Liverpool, where the forward now plans to play his prime years.
Liverpool announced Jota s extension on Tuesday, with his new deal reportedly set to expire in 2027.
After Mohamed Salah similarly agreed fresh terms and Darwin Nunez was bought from Benfica, Liverpool head into the new Premier League season with a strong attacking line-up despite the departure of Sadio Mane.
Only Salah (60) and Mane (39) have scored more goals for Liverpool than Jota (34) since he joined the club in 2020, with the same two players also leading the way in goal involvements (82 for Salah, 49 for Mane, 41 for Jota).
Averaging a goal every 157 minutes in all competitions, Jota outperformed …
Paulo Dybala scored a brace as Juventus went top of Serie A with a routine 2-0 home win against Udinese on Sunday.
With leaders Napoli in action later in the day against Inter, Massimiliano Allegri s men only needed a draw to claim top spot, even if only temporarily.
Dybala s double secured an 11th straight Serie A win as Juve seek a seventh consecutive title, with the champions now in ominous form, having kept eight successive clean sheets in the league.
Juve s latest victory was rarely in doubt at the Allianz Stadium after Dybala gave the Bianconeri the lead with his eighth free-kick goal for the club, a superb curling effort that gave Albano Bizzarri no chance.
Bizzarri denied Gonzalo Higuain from the penalty spot after Dybala was fouled, but the …
Diego Costa and Lucas Hernandez were injured as Atletico Madrid booked a place in the semi-finals of the Europa League.
Lucas was replaced at half-time after suffering what Atletico described as a strong facial trauma in a 1-0 defeat away to Sporting CP, Diego Simeone s men heading through 2-1 on aggregate.
Costa followed shortly after the restart after the striker appeared to sustain an injury to his left leg, but 2010 and 2012 winners Atletico were able to cling on.
Injuries to Costa and Lucas come as a blow to Simeone, who saw his squad options reduced by the sales of Nicolas Gaitan, Augusto Fernandez and Yannick Carrasco who all moved to the Chinese Super League during the January transfer window.
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