Manchester United have confirmed midfielder Hannibal Mejbri will spend the 2022-23 campaign on loan with Championship outfit Birmingham City.
The Tunisia international, who has made three senior appearances for United since making his bow at the end of the 2020-21 season, is the latest player to make a temporary exit from Old Trafford.
Mejbri follows goalkeeper Dean Henderson and defenders Alex Telles and Eric Bailly as additional departures.
Birmingham s social media accounts celebrated the signing for John Eustace s side with an edited poster for the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs , playing on the 19-year-old s shared name with the character Hannibal Lecter.
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A clutch of pre-season appearances du…
Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho refused to blame Serge Aurier for conceding an out of context penalty during their 2-0 home defeat to Leicester City on Sunday.
Spurs are now six points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool after following up a late loss at Anfield with a lacklustre display and a damaging defeat.
Aurier was at fault in first-half stoppage time as his shove on Wesley Fofana was rightly punished with a penalty that Jamie Vardy converted.
After James Maddison had a second-half effort ruled out by VAR for offside, Vardy saw a header inadvertently deflected in by Toby Alderweireld to double Leicester s lead.
Tottenham were unable to find a way back into the game and there will be scrutiny on the transgression of Aurier, who has developed a …
Five games, five wins and five clean sheets. Cruzeiro preserved their 100 per cent record in the Copa Libertadores after accounting for Deportivo Lara, while Atletico Mineiro crashed out.
Already assured of a place in the last 16, Cruzeiro continued their flawless Group B campaign with a 2-0 victory at Venezuelan hosts Deportivo Lara on Tuesday.
Fred – who scored a hat-trick against Huracan on matchday four – opened the scoring in the 31st minute after creating space and firing the ball into the top corner of the net.
Sassa came off the bench and sealed the victory thanks to his 78th-minute penalty away from home.
All he does is score! Fred picked out the top corner to give a 1-0 lead.
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Bruno Guimaraes declared he wants to become a Newcastle United legend after his match-winning double against Leicester City on Sunday.
Ademola Lookman silenced the lively St James Park crowd with his 19th-minute opener. It meant Lookman has scored on each of his last three Premier League starts, after only netting in two of his previous 22 such appearances.
However, Guimaraes bundled over the line for his first home Newcastle goal 11 minutes later, with a VAR check leading to the overruling of a foul on Kasper Schmeichel awarded by referee Jarred Gillett.
A lung-busting surge down the left flank by Joe Willock then created space in stoppage-time for Guimaraes, who profited from a deflected cross to head in and secure all three points for Eddie Howe s side.
Watford have had a £1m bid for Ben Foster rejected by West Bromwich Albion, according to the Mail Online.
The Hornets are interested in securing the services of the goalkeeper, who spent two years on loan at Vicarage Road earlier in his career though the Baggies deemed the offer unacceptable.
Foster moved to the Hawthorns initially on loan from Birmingham City in the summer of 2011 and has since racked up one hundred and eighty appearances in all competitions.
The thirty-five-year-old began his league career with Stoke City but spent most of his time with the club out on loan before switching to Manchester United in 2005.
He played twenty-three times for the Red Devils before leaving for Birmingham City while internationally he has been capped eigh…
Manchester United have invited the Thai football team rescued from a cave after 17 days underground to a match at Old Trafford this season.
The 12 boys and their coach became trapped in the cave system after heavy rain in northern Thailand on June 23, and the mission to bring them back to the surface has gripped the world s attention.
On Tuesday, the final members of the team were brought out to complete the rescue, and the news has been welcomed across football.
United hailed the news and offered a trip to Manchester during the 2018-19 campaign for the group and their rescuers.
Manchester United is greatly relieved to learn that the 12 footballers and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand are now safe, the club posted on Facebook.
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Tottenham Hotspur are interested in signing former Arsenal winger Serge Gnabry, according to . Gnabry is out of contract at Bayern Munich in the summer of 2023, and no new deal is in place yet. Tottenham are keen on the Germany international winger, but they want to secure his services on a free transfer at the end of next season.
Premier League club Tottenham have already shown interest in Gnabry and have asked about him. The winger is doing well at Bayern at the moment, but he is not entirely happy with playing more defensively under head coach Julian Nagelsmann. The former Arsenal player likes London, according to the report.
Arsenal let Gnabry leave in 2016. After a spell at Werder Bremen, the 26-year-old has established himself as a big player for Bayern and is one…
He is probably the best left-footed player in the world, in the history of football. Savo Milosevic lauded Sinisa Mihajlovic as he rallied around his former team-mate following the Bologna head coach s cancer diagnosis.
Serbian great Mihajlovic is set to undergo treatment after revealing his battle with leukaemia on Saturday, sparking an outpour of well-wishes from players – past and present – and supporters.
Milosevic played alongside Mihajlovic at international level, the pair representing Serbia – when they were known as the former republic of Yugoslavia – at the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.
And Milosevic hailed ex-Serbia boss Mihajlovic, who earned a reputation as a free-kick specialist during his playing days with Red Star Belgrade, Roma, Sampdoria…
Charlton head coach Michael Appleton praised the ice-cool finishing of Alfie May as his took his season’s goal tally to 17 with a double to down his former club Cheltenham at The Valley.
May was signed in the summer from the Robins to score goals. That is exactly what he is doing – and at a prolific rate.
The Charlton striker’s brace against his old employer means that he now has 29 league goals in 2023 – a figure only matched in England by Manchester City’s Erling Haaland.
May struck twice from the penalty spot to see off Cheltenham.
Appleton said: “It’s difficult for him because he knows them so well – whether it is the goalkeeper or the outfield players. There was certainly more pressure on him tonight than there probably would be again…
Gary Cahill says Chelsea are riding a wave of confidence after equalling their top-flight winning record of 11 matches by beating Crystal Palace on Saturday.
Chelsea s title winners of 2009-10 were the last to reach that number and Diego Costa s winner sent the club nine points clear at the top of the Premier League.
And Cahill claims Chelsea are in bullish mood every time they take to the field under Antonio Conte.
We feel very confident, he told Sky Sports. We re a very strong team and we ve worked very hard on it.
Physically, we re in good shape and we ve got some fantastic players, so that s the reason behind it.
We re organised and we re enjoying it.
You build momentum, you win games, you step out on the pitch or you re in the tun…