Galatasaray striker Didier Drogba says there will be no room for sentiment during Tuesday s UEFA Champions League clash at Chelsea.

Chelsea who won the competition in 2011-12 would appear to hold the upper hand heading into the second leg of the last-16 clash, having claimed a 1-1 draw in Turkey last month.

Drogba, who scored 157 goals in 341 games for Chelsea, is revered by the club s support and sure to get a fantastic reception at Stamford Bridge.

Yet while the Ivorian has acknowledged the sense of occasion, he is focused on winning the match for his current club.

Drogba said on Monday: It s very difficult to play against Chelsea but it s not going to be difficult for me because now I belong to Galatasaray.

I need to be professional. Of course there will…

that Alexis Sanchez is prepared to stay with Arsenal for another season, if they are prepared to show their ambition in the transfer market.

The Chile international has long been linked with a move away from the Gunners, who currently sit four points shy of the Premier League top four.

Leaders Chelsea have been strongly linked with a move for the forward, and Stamford Bridge could be his destination next summer once his contract with the North London club has expired.

Since arriving in England from Spanish giants Barcelona the twenty-eight year old has racked up one hundred and thirty-four appearances for Arsene Wenger’s side in all competitions, scoring sixty-four goals.

He was part of the squad that won the FA Cup in 2015 while internationally …

The 24-year-old French winger Florian Thauvin is enjoying a stellar season in Ligue 1 with Marseille.

The Newcastle flop is currently playing on loan at Marseille who are thought to be considering a possibility to resign the player that left for England back in 2015.

Thauvin has made 34 appearances this season, grabbing 10 goals along the way and managing 6 assists.

The in-form winger has been awarded the March Player of the Month prize due to his impressive appearances which have caught the eye of Europe’s big sides recently.

La Liga giants Barcelona have been linked with a Newcastle player, as well as Serie A hotshots Lazio, who already made an offer to Magpies last summer.

According to the reports coming from the however, the player himself…

Paris Saint-Germain are interested in signing Goncalo Ramos from Benfica in the summer of 2023, according to . The report has claimed that PSG want to revamp their forward-line next summer, and that that defending Ligue 1 champions are reportedly looking at bringing in the Portugal Under-21 international.

Ramos is one of the best forwards in Europe at the moment and has been in great form for Benfica for a while. The Portugal Under-21 international has scored four goals and provided one assists in seven Portuguese league matches so far this campaign.

Last season, the striker made 17 starts and 12 substitute appearances in the league for Benfica, scoring seven goals and providing one assist in the process. Ramos made four starts and three substitute appearances in the UE…

Jean-Clair Todibo is the Barcelona player who has tested positive for coronavirus, the defender revealed on social media.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Blaugrana revealed one of their nine players in pre-season training had returned a positive COVID-19 test.

The group mainly consisting of fringe players had been kept separate from the first team ahead of their Champions League quarter-final against Bayern Munich, meaning that match was not impacted.

Although Barca did not confirm the identity of the coronavirus case, Todibo took to Twitter to inform supporters of his diagnosis.

Hello everyone, he wrote. I inform you that I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am asymptomatic and I feel fine.

Hola a todos, os informo que he dado positivo por covid-19…

SOFIA (AFP) – CSKA Sofia coach Pavel Dotchev resigned on Monday after just three months in the job and three days before a Europa League playoff meeting with Welsh minnows New Saints FC, his club said.

Pavel Dotchev is no longer coach of CSKA. The name of his successor will be announced later, CSKA said in a statement.

CSKA, in financial meltdown, have regularly chopped and changed coaches since 2007 and Dotchev, brought in from German second division side Paderborn, only arrived on May 13.

But after one point from their three opening matches the club, languishing in the bottom four, decided he had to go.

Dotchev said he had come up against many obstacles and hinted at problems with the mentality of both players and the club s ownership.

CSK h…

Tottenham, inspired by a Peter Crouch hat-trick, and former European champions Ajax move into the Champions League group stage draw Thursday after decisive wins in play-off action.

Joining this pair in the lucrative group phase were French side Auxerre, Slovakian outfit Zilina, and FC Copenhagen.

Wednesday s play-off winners go into Thursday s group stage draw along with Tuesday s triumphant quintet Sporting Braga, Werder Bremen, Partizan Belgrade, Hapoel Tel-Aviv and Basel.

These 10 play-off qualifiers go into the pot in Monaco with the 22 European heavyweights who gained automatic admission to the group phase.

Spurs are making their Champions League debut and their first foray into Europe s top flight competition for half a century.

This prize…

Barcelona have said that Alexis Sanchez is not for sale after the forward was linked with a move to a number of European clubs,.

The Chile international moved to the Nou Camp from Udinese in the summer of 2011, and he has since gone on to make one hundred and forty-one appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring forty-seven goals.

He has been the subject of a number of rumours that he will not be part of new managers Luis Enrique’s plans for next season, though the club have moved to dismiss such reports.

Serie A champions Juventus had been named as potential suitors of the 25 year old, along with Premier League duo Liverpool and Arsenal.

Sanchez is currently preparing for this summer’s World Cup finals in Brazil, where his side will c…

Chelsea return to the scene of one of the most bitter defeats in their history on Tuesday when they take on Spartak Moscow at the Luzhniki stadium.

It was here in the Russian capital that the reigning English champions missed out on the 2008 Champions League title 6-5 on penalties to Manchester United after a 1-1 draw in extra time.

Carlo Ancelotti has all but ruled out Didier Drogba for this Group F run out, the Ivory Coast striker suffering a fever which sidelined him for Saturday s 0-0 draw with Aston Villa.

I don t think he will be able to play on Tuesday because he hasn t trained this week, and he needs to train, said the Italian, who is also having to make do without Frank Lampard (recovering from a hernia-operation).

He (Drogba) will be here at …

Luka Modric has credited Zinedine Zidane with giving him the confidence to fulfil his potential and claim a maiden Ballon d Or.

Modric was crowned the world s best player on Monday, ending the 10-year stranglehold of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the prize.

The Croatia midfielder won three consecutive Champions League titles under Zidane before the 1998 Ballon d Or winner left in the wake of their most recent triumph in Kiev in May.

But Modric says a meeting with Zidane shortly after his arrival in the job in 2016 was key to his surge to the top of world football.

Here is something I will never forget: When Zinedine Zidane became Real Madrid coach, he called me into his office after training, Modric told France Football.  He told me how he was …