Villarreal have sacked manager Javi Calleja following their disappointing start to the LaLiga campaign.
After finishing in the top six in each of the previous five seasons, Villarreal are currently in 17th place in the table and in the midst of a relegation battle.
They have won just one of their nine league games since September and Calleja has paid the price.
The 40-year-old played for Villarreal before joining the coaching staff seven seasons ago, initially in a role with one of the youth teams.
Calleja won three consecutive titles with the under-19s and stepped up to a position with the senior side in September 2017.
Villarreal finished fifth last year to qualify for the Europa League group stages, and they are top of Group G in that competiti…
Brighton and Hove Albion are interested in signing Nicolas Gonzalez from Fiorentina in the summer transfer window, according to . The report has claimed that the Seagulls have come forward for the winger and are been on securing his services ahead of next season.
Fiorentina manager Vincenzo Italiano does not want Gonzalez to leave the Serie A club this summer and has told his bosses to keep the 25-year-old Argentina international winger. have claimed that if Fiorentina receive an offer of more than the €35 million that Leicester City offered him in the January transfer window, then it would be tough for Fiorentina to turn it down.
Gonzalez made 13 starts and 11 substitute appearances in Serie A for Fiorentina last season, scoring six goals and providing one assist in…
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Starting with the hosts, while Southampton might have really impressed many with their eye-catching run at the end of the extended 2019/2020 campaign, the Saints have opened the New Year in what has been worrying fashion. Marking their Premier League return with a shock 1-0 defeat away at Crystal Palace last weekend, Ralph Hasenhüttl s men also came crashing out of the EFL Cup in dreadful fashion earlier in the week. Despite fielding arguably their strongest starting XI against a heavily-altered Brentford side on Wednesday night at St. Mary s, the Championship outfit picked u…