Crystal Palace are interested in signing former Chelsea and Real Madrid attacking midfielder Eden Hazard in the summer transfer window, according to . Hazard is a free agent at the moment following his departure from La Liga club Madrid at the end of last season, and Premier League outfit Palace are keen on him.

The report has claimed that Palace chief Steve Parish believes that Hazard still has something to offer despite his persistent injury problems in recent years. Much was expected of the Belgian when he moved to Madrid, but the former Chelsea star, who can operate as an attacking midfielder or as a winger, struggled badly with injury problems during his time at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Palace are a big and established club in the Premier League and will be determine…

Everton will be aiming to keep their European dream alive when they host Fulham on Saturday.

David Moyes side have failed to win their past two in the league hence falling out of contention for the UEFA Champions League, and are five points off Tottenham in fifth.

Everton must overhaul Spurs to gain entry into next season s UEFA Europa League, but with just four games left that appears an unlikely outcome, especially with the London club having a game in hand.

However, it is the only meaningful thing either side has to play for at Goodison Park with Fulham dwelling in 11th position on 40 points.

Moyes conceded the continent s second-tier competition was their only goal in the run-in.

We are going to try and qualify for the Europa League, he said…

Manchester City attacker Kevin De Bruyne s recovery from a serious knee injury remains on track and he hopes to return to training in five weeks.

The Belgium international was forced to watch from the sidelines as City won the League Cup at Wembley on Sunday due to an issue he picked up in the semi-final second leg against Everton.

It s a weird feeling to miss a final, but I m really happy we ve won, he told the club s official website.  It s my first trophy over here and hopefully not my last. I only missed this game in this campaign. That happens.

I hope to be back training with the squad in five weeks, after the international break at the end of March.

Everything s going according to plan. I ve already been working cautiously for four weeks now: …

Celtic could once again face Malmo in the Champions League play-offs if the two sides come through their third-round qualifying matches.

The Scottish champions were dumped out of the tournament at the final qualifying stage by Malmo in the 2015-16 season, losing 2-0 away after a 3-2 win in Glasgow.

But Celtic will have the opportunity to avenge that defeat if they overcome AEK Athens and Malmo see off Videoton.

Four-time European champions Ajax must beat Standard Liege and then either Slavia Prague or Dynamo Kiev to reach the Champions League s group stage.

The winners of a heavyweight clash between Benfica and Fenerbahce will face PAOK or Spartak Moscow.

CONFIRMED: play-off draw

Who will qualify?

— UEFA Champions League (@Ch…

Liverpool are confident of Georginio Wijnaldum signing a new contract soon, according to Football Insider (via Sky Sports).

The midfielder arrived to Anfield from Newcastle in 2016, and saw his role in the middle of the park change slightly under Jurgen Klopp. From playing further up the pitch as a number 10, Wijnaldum is now a full-time box-to-box midfielder, well-suited for the 4-3-3 the German manager has mostly been utilizing as his preferred setup.

The Dutch international has so far netted 18 goals in 177 appearances for the Merseyside club, but some of those were extremely important like the two he bagged in last season s Champions League semifinal against Barcelona.

Given that he is about to enter the final 12 months of his current deal, there have been s…

Erling Haaland will remain a Borussia Dortmund player next season, the German club s sporting director Michael Zorc has claimed.

The likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Champions League finalists Manchester City have been strongly linked with a move for the 20-year-old Norwegian striker.

Haaland joined Dortmund from Salzburg midway through the 2019-20 season and has scored a flood of goals for the Bundesliga side.

His double helped Dortmund beat RB Leipzig 4-1 in the DFB-Pokal final in Berlin on Thursday, and BVB chief Zorc has stressed he will be going nowhere in the near future.

Haaland is reported to have a clause allowing him to leave for a set price in the region of €75million at the end of next season, while his contract runs until 2024.

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Hans-Joachim Watzke has slammed the suggestion that Borussia Dortmund have issued Erling Haaland an ultimatum over his future as total b***s*** .

Haaland, who joined Dortmund in January 2020 from Austrian club Salzburg, is one of the most sought-after talents in European football.

Since the Norway forward made his Dortmund debut just over two years ago, he has netted 79 goals in all competitions.

He marked his two-year anniversary with a goal on Tuesday, though Dortmund nevertheless suffered a shock 2-1 defeat to St Pauli in the DFB-Pokal.

It means that, for the first time since 2006-07, neither Dortmund nor Bayern Munich will contend in the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals, while none of the winners from across the previous 26 years are left in this season s com…

Chelsea forward Timo Werner admits to having mixed emotions as he approaches the conclusion of the worst and unluckiest season of his career.

The Germany international joined Chelsea from RB Leipzig last June for a fee in the region of £45million (€50m) with a reputation of being one of the most prolific attackers in Europe.

He scored 34 goals and supplied 12 assists in 45 appearances in all competitions for Leipzig in 2019-20, departing as the club s all-time leading scorer with 95 goals in total.

Werner has not been able to scale the same heights in his maiden campaign in English football, though, the 25-year-old scoring 12 times in 51 appearances in 2020-21.

— Timo Werner (@TimoWerner)

However, Werner has also contributed 15 assi…

Nottingham Forest are closing in on the signing of former Chelsea youngster Michael Mancienne, .

The versatile defender has spent the last three years in Germany with Bundesliga side Hamburg, for whom he has made fifty-five appearances in all competitions.

He began his career with Chelsea, though he made only a handful of appearances for the club before enjoying extended loan spells with both Queens Park Rangers and Wolverhampton Wanders before moving abroad in 2011.

Mancienne knows Forest boss Stuart Pearce well after featuring regularly under him for England’s Under 21 side while in 2008 he received a senior call up for a friendly against Germany.

Should a deal for the 26 year old be completed, he will become the third defender to sign for the E…

Skipper Millie Bright said England “gifted” the Netherlands their goals and were “not ruthless enough” after the Lionesses were beaten 2-1 in Utrecht in their second Nations League group game.

The hosts took the lead in the 34th minute when Georgia Stanway was closed down near her own box, the ball went to Danielle van de Donk and she teed up a Lieke Martens finish, which it appeared would have been ruled out for offside if VAR had been in operation.

After Alessia Russo’s 64th-minute equaliser, England were then punished after losing possession again in the 90th minute as Alex Greenwood gave the ball away and Martens fed substitute Renate Jansen, who rifled past Mary Earps.

Defeat in Utrecht.

— Lionesses (@Lionesses)

Bright told ITV:…