Joaquin said he will not celebrate if he scores against former club Valencia when Real Betis travel to the Mestalla on Saturday.
The former Spain international back at boyhood club Betis enjoyed five successful seasons as a Valencia player, having left Seville in 2006.
Joaquin, who swapped Fiorentina for Betis during the transfer window, will return to the Mestalla for the first time since April 2013. On that occasion he could not prevent Malaga from crashing to a 5-1 defeat.
The 34-year-old is relishing the opportunity to play in front of his former fans, so much so that he has vowed to respect the Valencia faithful.
Going back to Valencia is always special. I was there for five years and, apart from the first year when things didn t go too well, enjo…
Eden Hazard has signed a new five-and-a-half year mega deal with Chelsea, according to the Mail Online.
The Belgium international has set the Premier League alight with his performances over the past eighteen months, and has been rewarded by the club who he moved to from Lille in 2012.
He was named the 2013/14 PFA Young Player of the Year, and has continued his fine form into the season with thirteen goals in all competitions.
During his time at Stamford Bridge, the 24 year old has racked up almost a hundred and fifty appearances, while he was part of the squad the won the Europa League in 2013.
Internationally he has been capped fifty-three times, scoring six goals, with five of those appearances coming at last summer’s World Cup finals in Brazil.…
Philippe Coutinho has completed his season-long loan move from Barcelona to Bayern Munich, who have an option to make the deal permanent for €120million.
LaLiga champions Barca revealed the potential future fee is on top of an initial €8.5m loan payment.
The figures fall short of the €160m deal that Barca negotiated with Liverpool in January 2018.
Coutinho s switch from England to Spain attracted plenty of fanfare but he failed to deliver on expectations and spent periods out of Ernesto Valverde s preferred XI last season.
Barca are reported to have offered the midfield misfit to Paris Saint-Germain in a player-plus-cash exchange for Neymar.
Premier League clubs Arsenal, Manchester United and Tottenham were also linked with the former Inter …
Jordi Cruyff officially became Barcelona s sporting director of football on Friday in a move described by coach Xavi as a great decision from the club .
The Dutchman, son of Barcelona great Johan Cruyff and a former player himself for the Blaugrana, was brought back to Camp Nou by president Joan Laporta last year to take up a strategic role in the football operation.
Now, Cruyff has signed a deal to be the club s sporting director of football, working in tandem with Mateu Alemany, who already holds down a similar role.
Cruyff had been operating in his new role for several weeks, prior to putting pen to paper.
Barcelona announced in a statement: Jordi Cruyff has signed his contract as FC Barcelona s new sporting director of football. He has already been…
Goals from Charlie Adam and Steven N Zonzi earned Stoke City a 2-0 win over 10-man Sunderland at the Britannia Stadium.
Adam was in the thick of the action in the first half, opening the scoring on the half-hour mark before being involved in the incident that saw Wes Brown sent off nine minutes before half-time.
Brown was adjudged to have recklessly tackled the former Liverpool midfielder and was given his marching orders.
N Zonzi doubled Stoke s lead nine minutes from the end as Mark Hughes men made the most of their numerical advantage to record a first Premier League win since the end of August.
The result moves Stoke three points clear of the relegation places and drops Sunderland to bottom.
Hughes made one change to his Stoke starting line-up, with Gl…
Manchester United have allowed twins Michael and Will Keane to head out on loan to gain further first team experience, .
Striker Will has finalised his protracted move to Wigan Athletic, where he will link up with fellow United youngster Nick Powell while defender Michael has switched to Derby County.
It is the second time that Michael, who has made three Capital One Cup appearances for United, has moved to the East Midlands following a brief stint with Leicester City last season.
Will meanwhile has made on appearance for the current Premier League champions – a brief cameo in a 3-2 home defeat to Blackburn Rovers in December 2011.
Both have represented England at U21 level, though they could come face to face as the Rams take on the Latics at the…
Ernesto Valverde hopes Jasper Cillessen remains at Barcelona after the Netherlands goalkeeper suggested his future is unclear.
Barca paid an initial €13million to sign Cillessen from Ajax in 2016 and he made just four appearances in LaLiga and the Champions League over his first two seasons, with his main usage being in the Copa del Rey.
The 29-year-old has started all three of the Catalan giants International Champions Cup fixtures but was replaced by Marc-Andre ter Stegen, who only returned from a post-World Cup break this week, at half-time in Saturday s 1-0 loss to AC Milan in Santa Clara.
When asked in the mixed zone after the match if he will move on before the end of the transfer window, Cillessen simply responded: I don t know.
Great feeling …
Former Liverpool midfielder Emre Can has revealed Jurgen Klopp wished him luck after he finalised his move to Juventus.
Can spent four years at Anfield, making over a century of Premier League appearances for the English club while also breaking into the Germany team.
However, the 2017-18 season was overshadowed by rumours over his long-term future, as he played regularly in the first team despite being in the final year of his contract.
The 24-year-old eventually announced a move to the Serie A champions on a free transfer but is full of praise for the manager he left behind.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Can said: My relationship with Klopp was always good. He wished me all the best when I told him I was leaving.
Not a lot of managers would let …
There may still be eight games left to the end of the season but champions Inter Milan s visit to AS Roma on Saturday could have a crucial bearing in the title race.
Inter lead the Serie A table by four points from Roma and AC Milan who are level on points as well as goal difference.
Roma and Milan may be locked together, but many observers believe it is the giallorossi who have the best chance of denying Jose Mourinho s team a fifth straight league crown.
That is because since a disastrous start to the season, Roma have already clawed back 10 points on Inter.
They lost five and won only three of their opening 10 games and when the sides met back in November, they were separated by 14 points with the capital-based club hovering just above the relegation …
Portsmouth can look forward to a much-needed cash boost of after a stunning 2-0 win over Tottenham in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley.
Victory for the south coast strugglers, achieved a day after they were relegated from the Premier League, set up an improbable FA Cup Final against holders Chelsea at Wembley on May 15.
The match will pit a bust club in Portsmouth, a team with debts of some 76 million pounds (115 million dollars), against cash-rich Chelsea, a team Pompey boss Avram Grant managed when they lost the 2008 Champions League final to Manchester United.
But while the 900,000 pounds in prize money for reaching the final, with an another one million coming from television money and gate receipts, will be a welcome addition to the Fratton Park coffers, Po…