This is not the first time the title-winning director has spoken openly about potential discussions with Tottenham Hotspur. Dennis te Kloese admitted, during the summer of 2023, that Spurs had offered him a role in North London following the contentious departure of Fabio Paratici. The Premier League giants had also come calling for Arne Slot – the manager who ended Feyenoord’s six-year wait for an Eredivisie title – before handing the reigns to Ange Postecoglou. This time, the interest is not coming from Tottenham’s side, but from Feyenoord’s. Following the departures of Eric Dier, Davinson S ..read more

This time last year, Manchester City ascended to the pinnacle of the Pep Guardiola era, storming to a famous 4-0 hammering of Real Madrid on route to their first ever Champions League crown. The mood at the Etihad Stadium nearly 12 months on, Carlo Ancelotti’s European specialists taking a measure of revenge on a side that delivered one of their heaviest ever continental defeats in 2023, could hardly have been more contrasting. Phil Foden, in the best form of his Manchester City career, never really looked like emulating his thumping strike from the first leg at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Engl ..read more

EXCLUSIVE from Graeme Bailey Premier League trio West Ham United, Wolves and Brighton and Hove Albion have all watched Samu Omorodion during an eye-catching breakout season in La Liga for the Atletico Madrid-owned striker. HITC understands that, with the teams of David Moyes, Gary O’Neil and Roberto de Zerbi all in the market for a goalscorer, the performances of a 19-year-old have caught the eye over in Spain. Samu Omorodion joined Atletico Madrid last summer, Diego Simeone’s side triggering the £5 million release clause in his Granada contract. The teenager was then farmed out on loan ..read more

Nottingham Forest, since returning to the Premier League back in 2023, have had – by our count – five first-choice goalkeepers. First there was Dean Henderson. When the Manchester United loanee picked up an injury midway through last season, in came the Real Madrid icon Keylor Navas from Paris Saint-Germain. Matt Turner and Odysseas Vlachodimos shared the number one shirt in the first half of this campaign with neither man really establishing themself, before Forest offered Matz Sels another stab at English football a couple of months ago. So whether Alvaro Valles would have fixed Nottingham F ..read more

EXCLUSIVE from Graeme Bailey Aston Villa are not worried about the future of their head coach Unai Emery amid interest from two big European clubs, HITC understands. Unai Emery has helped transform Aston Villa since arriving in October 2022. Villa have backed the former Arsenal manager throughout and brought in compatriot Monchi last summer as president of football operations to further enhance their chances of becoming a force in the Premier League. Villa have shocked many with their top-four pursuit and are now favourites to finish fourth in the Premier League table this season ahead ..read more

EXCLUSIVE from Graeme Bailey West Ham United scouted Real Betis left-back Juan Miranda this weekend with Premier League rivals Brentford, Crystal Palace and Wolves also keen on the former Barcelona ace. HITC understands that the Spain international, who scored in a Man of the Match performance during Friday night’s 2-1 win over Celta Vigo, is on the radar of a number of clubs ahead of the summer transfer window. There is interest from a Brentford side who will look to replace Sergio Reguilon should the Tottenham Hotspur loanee return to North London. Crystal Palace and Wolverhampton Wanderer ..read more

If Arsenal legend Martin Keown had his way, the £25 million man Mikel Arteta cut loose last summer would still be at the Emirates Stadium today. With Tuesday’s thrilling 2-2 Champions League quarter-final first-leg draw against Bayern Munich still fresh in the memory, Keown is struggling to shake the image of one Jakub Kiwior being turned inside out by an electrifying Leroy Sane. Kiwior was put out of his misery at the break – and not for the first time this season – with Oleksandr Zinchenko coming on in his place after the interval. The Pole has undoubtedly made progress this term but, lining ..read more

When the subject of Tottenham Hotspur’s alleged interest was brought up, the former Premier League misfit could not help but laugh.  Why, he wondered aloud, were these rumours being dredged up again, at a time in which he is clearly enjoying his football after that highly-forgettable spell at Nottingham Forest in the 2022/23 campaign.  Loic Bade joined Sevilla from Rennes on a permanent deal last summer to the tune of £10 million. Now, the former Rennes and RC Lens stopper did appear to confirm, a few months back, that Tottenham were indeed ‘interested’, admitting to Estadio Deportiv ..read more

Now this is what the Champions League is all about. Arguably the two best football teams on the planet trading show-stopping goals during a six-goal thriller on perhaps the game’s greatest stage, the iconic Santiago Bernabeu.  Real Madrid 3-3 Manchester City. A matches which puts the ‘beautiful’ in the Beautiful Game.  “Good match. An advert for football,” was the reaction of Carlo Ancelotti, the veteran Los Blancos boss speaking to Sport Mediaset at full-time.  “It was an incredible game for both teams. We have no doubts about the quality of what we saw on the pitch. Two extrao ..read more

If you’re a centre-half who can call yourself both left-footed and tactically versatile, then you can expect to be in pretty high demand. That certainly looks like being the case for a £22 million defender who finds himself on the radar of Premier League trio Newcastle United, Aston Villa and West Ham ahead of the summer transfer window.  HITC reported on Tuesday that all three clubs have asked about Mario Hermoso’s situation, and have been made aware of the Spaniard’s demands.  The former Espanyol ace is currently under contract with Atletico Madrid, but not for much longer. Hermoso ..read more