Barcelona are top of the league, having walked La Liga last season and yet, the manager is under pressure at Camp Nou. He doesn’t carry any blame.” Naturally, club suits have been lining up Valverde’s successor with the Spaniard still technically at the helm. And so we arrive at Mauricio Pochettino, the former Espanyol manager now out of work, who said last year that he would “never train Barcelona or Arsenal because I am tied to Tottenham. Fiabema also met Frank Lampard and the rest of the Chelsea players after the win over Burnley on Saturday. Finally, Arsenal defender/calamity Shkodran Mustafi is off to Galatasaray, which seems like the best thing for everybody at this stage.

Source: The Guardian January 13, 2020 09:11 UTC