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Chelsea would end their chances of winning the Champions League if they opt to sell Cesc Fabregas at the end of the season, according to Ray Wilkins.

Fabregas has only started 10 Premier League matches under Antonio Conte this season, with N Golo Kante and Nemanja Matic the preferred pairing in centre midfield.

That has prompted speculation linking him with a £30million move to clubs including AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Liverpool and Manchester United.

But Wilkins, a former Chelsea player, assistant manager and caretaker boss, thinks the Blues would be making a huge mistake if they opt to cut ties with the 30-year-old, particularly with their return to the Champions League next season in mind.

You can t let him go, Wilkins said to Sky Sports of Fabregas…

Teenage midfielder Cole Palmer scored his first Champions League goal as Manchester City produced a slick performance to secure a 5-1 win over Club Brugge in Belgium.

Full-backs Joao Cancelo and Kyle Walker both found themselves on the scoresheet, the former scoring the first on the half-hour mark with a composed finish from Phil Foden s pass.

Riyad Mahrez calmly tucked a penalty away before half-time and, soon after the restart, Walker got in on the action, drilling into the bottom-left corner after Kevin De Bruyne playing in his home country  set him up.

Palmer struck within three minutes of coming off the bench, taking a neat touch before rifling a left-footed effort past Simon Mignolet from just inside the area.

While captain Hans Vanak…

Manchester City travel to Old Trafford for a meeting with cross-town rivals Manchester United in an eagerly anticipated clash on Saturday.

The early kick-off presents City with an opportunity to close the gap on table-topping United to just two points and any victory would give them a very real chance of winning their first Premier League/First Division title since 1968.

But winning at Old Trafford is easier said than done and City boast just one win at the venue since 1974.

That win came in 2008 when goals from Darius Vassell and Benjani gave the blue side of Manchester a famous 2-1 victory.

While City come into the game full of confidence after an easy 3-0 win over West Brom, Sir Alex Ferguson s side were surprise 2-1 losers to then-bottom Wolves at Mo…

Norwegian coach Ronny Deila has emerged as a shock candidate for the vacant managerial post at Celtic.

While the likes of Roy Keane, Paolo Di Canio and Michael Laudrup have all been mentioned as possible replacements for Neil Lennon, Deila, who led unfashionable Norwegian club Stromsgodset to the 2013 Tippeligaen title, has jumped to the head of the queue.

The 38-year-old, who also won the 2010 Norwegian Cup with Stromsgodset, has flown to Glasgow to meet with Celtic s owners.

It s flattering as Celtic are a big club, Deila said.

I have always said I dream about working abroad one day.

It s great to be linked to a club like Celtic but I ve been in football a long time and nothing is secure in it and I can only talk about things that are concrete.

Str…

Neymar is being followed by three clubs willing to activate his reported €190 million release clause at Barcelona, says his agent Wagner Ribeiro.

Brazil captain Neymar moved to Camp Nou from Santos in 2013 and has two seasons remaining on his five-year contract.

Talks over a new deal have continually stalled, with links to Paris Saint-German, Manchester United and even Real Madrid subsequently surfacing.

While Ribeiro insists Neymar is happy at Barca, he claims there are three teams primed to activate the buy-out clause in the forward s contract.

There are three big clubs in the world that want to sign Neymar and pay a clause of [approximately] €200m to Barcelona, Ribeiro told Radio Jovem Pan.

I cannot say more than this because it is conf…

Javier Hernandez scored twice in the last six minutes as West Ham secured a dramatic 4-3 Premier League win over rock-bottom Huddersfield Town at the London Stadium.

Jan Siewert s side had looked set for just a fourth league win of the season after a Juninho Bacuna header and Karlan Grant brace had cancelled out Mark Noble s early penalty.

They crumbled in the closing stages, though, with Angelo Ogbonna reducing the deficit with 15 minutes remaining and substitute Hernandez twice heading past Jan Lossl – the second coming in stoppage time – to seal an unlikely win in a seven-goal thriller.

Defeat leaves the Terriers rooted to the foot of the Premier League – 16 points from safety – while Manuel Pellegrini s side remain in ninth.

MASSIVE COMEBACK!!…

Alejandro Garnacho s strike to give Manchester United a 1-0 Europa League victory over Real Sociedad on Thursday was in vain as the Spanish side retained Group E s top spot.

A win by two or more goals would have seen United through as group winners by virtue of a superior head-to-head record, and Garnacho s early finish sparked hopes of Erik ten Hag s side achieving just that.

But a resolute defensive display from La Real saw them do enough to prevent United getting a second, despite coming under increasing pressure late on.

Ten Hag s men advance but will be forced into a two-legged play-off with one of the teams knocked out of the Champions League, a list that includes Barcelona and Juventus.

La Real started brighter but United grew into the game and too…

Sunderland will be out to bounce back from the sacking of Steve Bruce when they visit fellow strugglers Wolverhampton Wanderers on Sunday.

Assistant manager Eric Black will take charge for the clash at Molineux Stadium after Bruce was sacked on Wednesday following a poor start to the English Premier League season.

Sunderland conceded a last-minute goal to lose 2-1 at home to relegation-threatened Wigan Athletic last Saturday.

Franco Di Santo s winner for Wigan prompted the home supporters at the Stadium of Light to chant for Bruce to be sacked.

Sunderland made significant transfer outlays in the off-season, bringing in the likes of Nicklas Bendtner, Connor Wickham, Wes Brown and John O Shea.

Expectations rose accordingly, but the team has struggl…

Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has been surprised by the sudden development of midfielder Toni Kroos.

Hoeness said he was certain the 21-year-old had reached a brick wall in terms of his growth, after initially failing to live up to his potential.

For a long time I thought that he had no further potential and would not develop any more, Hoeness told Kicker.

However, Kroos has since has grown into an important playmaker for the Bundesliga giants this season to the extent that he could now be the man to help Bayern overcome world champions Barcelona, according to Hoeness.

He has undergone a sensational development, he said.

If you want to overcome Barcelona, you need such a player.

Current Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes worked with Kr…

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