Pep Guardiola was caught off guard after Fernandinho said he will not renew his Manchester City contract.

Fernandinho has been a pivotal figure for City since his arrival from Shakhtar Donetsk in 2013.

He has helped the club win four Premier League titles, one FA Cup and the EFL Cup six times.

However, at the age of 36, he is now back-up to Rodri in Guardiola s midfield, while the Brazilian is also able to fill in at centre-back if required.

Fernandinho has made 23 appearances across all competitions this season, though only 12 of those have been starts and on Tuesday, he suggested he will not be signing a new deal, with his contract due to expire at the end of 2021-22.

I don t think so, he told a news conference when asked if he would be exten…

Eventually claiming what was an action-packed against Real Madrid in their Champions League semi-final first-leg on Tuesday night, Manchester City have their sights set on completing a European and domestic double this season.

Still holding a one-point buffer at the top of the Premier League table, Pep Guardiola s star-studded squad do appear to be on the verge of an historic campaign at the Etihad.

Heavily linked with a move for Borussia Dortmund superstar Erling Haaland, many are expecting what could be a blockbuster summer in the blue half of Manchester.

However, while City could see a host of big-name stars arrive through their doors ahead of the 2022/23 campaign, we have taken a look at a handful of players who could be on their way out.

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Croatia and Austria are set to face each other in the opening round of their respective campaigns of the UEFA Nations League at the stadium of Gradski vrt in Osijek on Friday evening, and it s set to be an interesting match. The other match of the group (League A Group 1) will see France play host to Denmark.

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As Real Madrid triumphed over Liverpool in the Champions League final on Saturday, Croatia became the country to have a winner of UEFA s elite club competition every year since 2013, when Mario Mandzukic used to play Jupp Heynckess s Bayern Munich. It may not count for much at international level, but it s certainly a remarkable achievement, quite apart from the fact that they were the runners-up of the last edition of t…

The Premier League says it will seek to ensure the outcome of Everton’s appeal against a two-point penalty imposed earlier this month is known before the last round of top-flight games on May 19.

Everton were docked points by an independent commission last week for an admitted breach of top-flight profitability and sustainability rules (PSR), and have now formally lodged an appeal.

It means PSR appeal processes involving Everton and Nottingham Forest, who sit just above the Premier League relegation zone in 16th and 17th respectively, are ongoing.

Forest’s hearing against a four-point PSR sanction is understood to have been scheduled in the week beginning April 22, and the league has now indicated it will do all it can to ensure Everton’s appeal outcome is …

Luis de la Fuente backed his Spain side to step-up in their Nations League clash against Serbia, despite being without a plethora of their irreplaceable players.

Spain know a victory over Tuesday s opponents will put them within touching distance of qualification, having taken seven points from their first three games.

However, De la Fuente will be without Barcelona s Lamine Yamal for the clash in Cordoba, with the 17-year-old the latest name to withdraw from La Roja s ranks.

Yamal limped off in the 93rd minute of their Nations League win over Denmark before returning to Barcelona to undergo further tests, revealing he suffered a hamstring strain.

(Yamal) is irreplaceable, De la Fuente told a press conference on Monday. (But) we have to play eleven and…

Even accounting for Chelsea s shoddy start to the Champions League, few would have expected Thomas Tuchel to be out of a job by Wednesday.

The Blues started their European campaign with a lacklustre 1-0 setback at Dinamo Zagreb, a result that follows an underwhelming trend to start the season.

With three wins, two losses and one draw from six games, the Blues sit sixth in the infant Premier League table.

Still, most would have expected Tuchel – who has won the Champions League and Club World Cup with Chelsea – to be afforded more time to bed in the likes of Raheem Sterling, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Wesley Fofana and Kalidou Koulibaly following a big-spending transfer window under the club s new owners led by Todd Boehly.

But, alas, he has not, and f…

Danny Drinkwater does not think he has done his chances of reaching Euro 2016 with England any harm with his performance against Netherlands at Wembley on Tuesday.

The Leicester City midfielder made his first international appearance in the 2-1 loss for Roy Hodgson s men, playing for 84 minutes at the base of the hosts midfield diamond.

Drinkwater relished his England debut but rued the defeat as he set his sights on continuing to impress Hodgson in order to win a place on the plane to France for the tournament in June.

Hopefully I have not done myself any harm, it s just about carrying on now until the end of the season and seeing if I can add to it, he said to Sky Sports on his Euro 2016 chances.

The lads have made it easy for me all week, it s an ea…

Paris Saint-Germain star Edinson Cavani has suggested he could retire once his contract expires in 2020.

Cavani joined PSG from Napoli in 2013 and has gone on to write his name firmly into PSG s history, having enjoyed a prolific spell.

Although his goalscoring hauls of 16, 18 and 19 in his first three campaigns were respectable, he really exploded in 2016-17, netting 35 in 36 Ligue 1 outings.

He followed that up with 28 in 32 league games last term, becoming the club s record goalscorer in the process when he netted for the 157th time, overtaking Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Despite his successes in Paris, the last couple of years have seen him linked with moves away, with Napoli said to be eager to bring him back to Serie A, but the Uruguay international is yet …

Paris Saint-Germain have announced the signing of Willian Pacho from Eintracht Frankfurt.

The defender has signed a five-year contract with the Ligue 1 champions for a reported €45million fee.

In one season at Frankfurt, Pacho made 33 appearances in the Bundesliga, the most of anyone in the squad, and played the most minutes (2970).

I m very happy to be joining Paris Saint-Germain. I hope to bring my personality and show all my determination to win many trophies, he told PSG s website.

Welcome to Paris!

— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_English)

Pacho won possession 216 times in the 2023-24 Bundesliga season, the second-best tally among all centre-backs in the competition behind only Nico Schlotterbeck (245).

Meanwhile, o…

Spain will face England in Sunday’s World Cup final less than a year after 15 players staged a mutiny over their treatment.

The row, which broke out in September last year, threatened to derail coach Jorge Vilda’s mission before an uneasy peace was brokered as the tournament neared.

Here, the PA news agency takes a look at what happened and the repercussions.

What is Vilda’s background?

The 42-year-old is steeped in football having grown up watching his father Angel – currently head of women’s football at the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) – working as a physical trainer for among others, Luis Aragones at Atletico Madrid, Johan Cruyff at Barcelona and Jupp Heynckes at Real Madrid.

Having worked his way up through the age groups, he was ap…