Fabregas close to moving to Monaco

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas is edging closer to a move to Ligue 1 side Monaco,Sports HUB Najia understands. 


The 31-year-old is entering the final six months of his Chelsea deal and is prepared to move on with playing time hard to come by this season under Maurizio Sarri.


AC Milan are also in the mix for Fabregas but are struggling to come up with the funds for a transfer fee and wages.


Manager Gennaro Gattuso expressed his frustration with the situation last week, with Financial Fair Play restrictions preventing Milan from significant investment in players.


"We have stakes. We cannot do what we want," Gattuso told DAZN. "The club has been clear. Fabregas? There are important figures involved."


At Monaco, Fabregas would link up with manager Thierry Henry, who was the Spaniard's team-mate when the pair were at Arsenal between 2003 and 2007. 


Fabregas would provide a much-needed boost for Henry, who has endured a torrid time since he took over at Monaco in October.


Henry has lost six of his nine league matches in charge at the Ligue 1 club, with Monaco sitting 19th in the table in France's top flight, four points from safety.


Despite Fabregas's desire to seek an exit for more regular playing time, Blues boss Sarri still wants the experienced Spaniard to stay put.


"It would be really a problem without Cesc," Sarri said last week. "I want him to stay, I don't know the final decision of Cesc and the club of course.


"But for me it's very important and if Cesc will go I think that we need to buy another player, and it's not easy because, technically, Cesc is a very important player."


Fabregas has made just one start in the Premier League under Sarri this season, with the Italian preferring to play the likes of N'Golo Kante, Jorginho, Mateo Kovacic and Ross Barkley in central areas.

Source:goal.com

Aguero & Sane hand Liverpool thier first loss of the Season

A goal each from Forward Sergio Aguero and Leroy Sane was enough to hand Man city the win over Liverpool in what was seen as a title decider


This has now reduced the gap between the two teams on the Premier League table to four points ending Liverpool's unbeaten run since the beginning of the League,


Sergio Aguero struck superbly from a tight spot five minutes to the end of the first half to give Manchester City the 1 - 0 lead.

Bernado Silva assisted the first goal as Manchester City intended to end Liverpool's unbeaten run


15 minutes back from the break,it looked like Jurgen Klopp had talked some sense into his players as Roberto Firmino equalized after scoring  a hat trick in his previous game.


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Leroy Sane then handed the Citizens the lead again with another superb strike to close the gap between the two teams


The Premier League Season has taken another twist with this result


Manchester City's next game will be against Rotterdam in the third round of the FA cup on Sunday,January 6 sitting second behind Liverpool.


Liverpool's next game will be away to Wolves who have beaten Tottenham and Chelsea in the Premier League this Season in the FA Cup on Monday,January 7 sitting first on the Premier League table.

Nigerian Alex Iwobi is EPL's New King of Nutmegs

Arsenal Star Alex Iwobi has been named the Premier League player with the highest number of nutmegs(5) joint with West Ham's Felipe Anderson.

The Super Eagles star has only netted twice this season and assisting four goals in 18 appearances for the gunners this season


He may well not be topping the goal chart but he is topping another list.

He is no doubt one of the shining talents in the Premier League this season.He has completed five nutmegs same with Felipe Anderson of West ham even more than Chelsea Super Star Eden Hazard.

Well we football fans really love a good nutmeg.This was shown when Chhristian Atsu did it Paul Pogba this week.

Firmino scores Hattrick as Liverpool thrash Arsenal 5 - 1

Liverpool made their title ambitions clear with a whooping 5 - 1 win over Arsenal at Anfiled.Ainsley Maitland-Niles gave Arsenal the lead 11 minutes in scoring from an Alex Iwobi cross.

The grateful Arsenal defence gifted Firmino his first goal just three minutes later making it 1 - 1.

Firmino later then put on a show as he gave Liverpool the lead for the first time after dribbling past three Arsenal defenders to make the score 2 - 1.

Sadio Mane extended Liverpool's lead after 32 minute,as mo salah created a very fine assist.Salah was then on point to score his own goal with a soft penalty right before half time.

 

Liverpool then cruised to close out the win, Firmino completing his hat-trick from the spot after 65 minutes following Sead Kolasinac's push on Dejan Lovren.

 Manchester City, ten points adrift, will attempt to close the gap at Southampton on Sunday before they meet Liverpool in a pivotal encounter at Etihad Stadium on 3 January.

Arsenal were totally outclassed and have given Manchester United the chance to reduce the opportunity to reduce the gap to three if they defeat Bournemouth at Old Trafford.

Liverpool will  now finish 2018 at the top of the Premier League 9 points above Manchester City.

Hazard scores his 100th Chelsea goal as Blues see of Watford

Eden Hazard struck against Watford to make it 100 goals in the Chelsea shirt.He is the Chelsea's 10th player to reach this benchmark.


Mateo Kovacic picked up a loose ball in mid field and knocked it on to the Belgian star before he rounded Ben Foster to make it 1 - 0.

Roberto Pereyra hit back almost instantly to level matters prior to the break.

In the 58th minute,Foster picked up a yellow card as he burst into Hazard with the refree pointing to the spot.The Belgian star stepped up and sent the keeper the wrong way to give Chelsea the 2 - 1 win.

He joined Chelsea from Lille in 2012 and has now made 322 appearances for them across all competitions.

Of Hazard's 101 goals for the club, 79 of them have come in the Premier League, with eight having been scored in the Champions League, seven in the League Cup, five in the FA Cup and one in both the Europa League and UEFA Super Cup.


Bournemouth, Newcastle and West Brom are Hazard's favourite opponents in terms the opposition he has the best goalscoring record again during his time at Stamford Bridge, with seven having arrived against each of those sides.

Hazard has now scored in three of his last four games for Chelsea.

Ola Aina could join Torino in January

Nigerian Defender Ola Aina who is currently on loan at Torino has shown impressive performances since joining them.Due to his displays since arriving in the summer,Torino are considering activating buy-option in his loan deal.He has featured for Torino 11 times and has scored once.

The buy-option which costs $9M is being considered by the Torino board.He spoke about his long-term desire to return to the Premier League but he is open to options where he gets playing time under Coach Walter Mazzarri.He moved to Torino on loan just after renewing his Chelsea contract until 2021.

Aina who has been with Chelsea for 11 years could be set to leave in January but his progress at Torin is being monitored by Chelsea's loan coach Eddie Newton.He is one of Chelsea's 40 players on loan