Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere rejoins his team-mates for training after missing pre-season tour as he heads for Emirates Stadium exit

                                                                                              Jack Wilshere has returned to full training following the leg break he suffered at the end of last season.

The Arsenal midfielder, who is free to leave the club this summer, missed the pre-season tour to Australia and China as he continued his recovery from the fracture suffered at Tottenham Hotspur during the closing weeks of last season.

The England international has returned to full training back at the club’s London Colney HQ, and remains hopeful of forcing his way back into manager Arsene Wenger’s plans, despite the fact he was allowed to leave the club on loan to Bournemouth last summer. The midfielder knows he is unlikely to be given regular game time next season, but it remains to be seen whether he leaves or sees out the final year of his contract. 

Wilshere may be set to leave the Emirates Stadium with one year left on his contract, but the midfielder will still have plenty of friends at Arsenal. 

He was welcomed back with open arms on Wednesday, posing for a group picture with Rob Holding and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, the latter putting his arm around the midfielder's shoulders. The midfielder knows he is unlikely to be given regular game time next season, but it remains to be seen whether he leaves or sees out the final year of his contract. 

Wilshere may be set to leave the Emirates Stadium with one year left on his contract, but the midfielder will still have plenty of friends at Arsenal. 

He was welcomed back with open arms on Wednesday, posing for a group picture with Rob Holding and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, the latter putting his arm around the midfielder's shoulders. 

Barcelona 1-0 Manchester United: Neymar punishes Antonio Valencia error as Red Devils lose the final

                                                                                           United had threatened themselves. Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford were standouts with a sort of directness United so craved for large parts of last season. Rashford’s delicious cross from the right after just three minutes was begging to be finished by Romelu Lukaku but over it flew.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic on the money again as Swedish striker is immortalised on 1,000 kroner note

                                                                                           The former Manchester United, Barcelona and Juventus striker seemed impressed with the piece, made by photographer Bingo Rimer.Zlatan Ibrahimovic has attained living legend status in Sweden - he is the country's top scorer and is being immortalised in a statue outside the national stadium.

Now, the striker has his face on currency after being represented on the 1,000 kroner note by a Swedish artist. Ibrahimovic posed with a blown up version of the note on Instagram, captioned 'You have Benjamin Franklin and you have me' referring to the statesman whose likeness adorns the $100 note in the US.

The Belgian midfielder was sought after by Manchester United and Chelsea, Radja Nainggolan has signed a new four-year contract at Roma

                                                                                       The 29-year-old Belgian, who had been linked to Chelsea and Manchester United, has committed to the Serie A club until June 30, 2021.Nainggolan moved to the Stadio Olimpico from Cagliari in January 2014 and has since made 161 appearances for the Giallorossi, scoring 27 goals.

Real Madrid and Manchester City have acted on their interest in the 18-year-old sensation, but the club's vice-president insists no deal is close

                                                                                       Monaco vice-president Vadim Vasilyev has denied an agreement has been reached with Real Madrid for Kylian Mbappe, but are instead hoping to extend his contract.The France international is being linked with world record offers, there is a chance of an even more expensive transfer occurring during the current window, as PSG are hoping to trigger the €222 million release clause in Neymar's contract.

Chelsea star Eden Hazard steps up recovery from broken ankle by training alone as team-mates enjoy Singapore

                                                                                        Eden Hazard has taken a significant step in his recovery from injury after partaking in his first work with a football since suffering a broken ankle in June. Hazard has been forced to train alone at Chelsea's training HQ in Cobham while Antonio Conte's men enjoy the delights of China and Singapore as part of their pre-season tour of Asia.

But the Belgian would have been beaming from ear-to-ear after completing some basic drills as part of what is expected to be two more months of rehabilitation before he is ready to play first-team football again.

The Belgium international netted against Bayern Munich on Tuesday but his Spanish rival impressed during his half-hour cameo in Singapore

                                                                                         Antonio Conte's men only trailed by two goals by the time Chelsea's most expensive player finally entered the action, with Marcos Alonso having lifted the Blues' beleaguered spirits with a sweet strike just beforeChelsea were 3-0 down by the half-hour mark, with Thomas Muller netting a classy double after Rafinha had opened the scoring with bouncing drive from distance that Thibaut Courtois must still be wondering how he failed to reach. Morata did not inspire a turnaround but his arrival undeniably coincided with Chelsea's best spell in the match.Morata also challenged for the corner that dropped so invitingly for Michy Batshuayi to convert with just five minutes remaining but there was to be no dramatic last-gasp equaliser for £70 million man.

                                                                                        

10 Amazing Facts About The El Clasico That You Should Know

The El Clasico of 2017 has come and gone leaving fans and players of the Real Madrid and FC Barcelona with mixed feelings. So many El Clasico matches have been played with goals scored leaving either of the two clubs with the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat but little is known of the El Clasico, that match that focuses the spotlight on two of Spain’s biggest football gladiators

1 The El Clasico originally referred to competitions held within the Spanish championship alone

2 Apart from the UEFA Champions League, it is the fiercest most watched match annually throughout the globe

3 The rivalry is between two of Spain’s biggest cities, Madrid and Barcelona who have opposing political positions while Barcelona represents Catalan nationalism, Madrid represents Spanish nationalism

4 While Real Madrid leads in head to head wins 93 wins as against Barcelona’s 91, Barcelona is ahead in matches won winning 110 matches as against Real Madrid’s 97

5 These two El Clasico gladiators are two of the three clubs that have never gone into relegation, the third team is Athletic Bilbao

6 The El Clasico of 22nd of April will remain a memorable one for Lionel Messi who scored his 500th goal which was the winning goal of the match at the Bernabeu

                                                                                     

10 Unbelievable English Premier League Facts You Didn’t Know

The English Premier League 2016/2017 season is gradually drawing to a close with the Blues crowned as the Kings of English football. The English Premier League has come a long way with ups and downs, shocks, surprises and upsets as well as shocking facts and here are some

1 Alan Shearer has missed the highest number of penalties in the EPL (11) he has also scored the most penalties (56)

2 Bobby Zamora and Obafemi Martins are the only two players in the history of the EPL to score penalties with both feet

3 Peter Crouch has scored more goals with his head than 15 teams who played in the EPL, he scored an incredible 48 goals

4 Terry Connor is the only manager to have played 10 league games without winning 1 of them

5 Ryan Giggs has the most appearance of the EPL, 632 appearances

6 There have been 103 different foreign FIFA-affiliated nations who have played at least one game in the EPL

                                                                                       

6 Amazing Facts About Puma You Never Knew

Puma, that large American wildcat, which is also called a panther or a mountain lion, it is also a symbol for one of the biggest sports company in the world rivalling companies like Adidas, Nike, Kappa and a list of others yet there are some secrets the company has hidden from us, secrets you are about to find out

Shocking! There Was A Luis Suarez At Barcelona Before This Luis Suarez

                                                                                          

Shocking! There Was A Luis Suarez At Barcelona Before This Luis Suarez    Just imagine the shock when you while working in a place, be it a store, a shop or even at a studio or television station only to discover that you had a predecessor that shares both the first and last name with you. Believe it or not people before the present Luis Suarez who plays for Barcelona, there was another Luis Suarez who played for the Blaugrana. Yes, that means that one Luis Suarez replaced the other one at Barcelona.

Luis Suarez Miramontes who played for Barcelona and other Spanish clubs like Deportivo de La Coruna and CD Espana Industrial as well as Italian clubs like Sampdoria and Internazionale popularly called InterMilan. He was nicknamed ‘The Architect’ because of his elegant style of play. He became the world’s most expensive player in the year 1961 when Barcelona sold him to Inter Milan for a record 250 million lira. The year before he broke a record by becoming the only Spanish born player to be voted as the Ballon d’Or winner, the first Barcelona player to hit that feat, paving a way for other Barcelona players like Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi

Arsenal have also been linked with the Dutch ace and speculation linking the 26-year-old,Virgil van Dijk has been left out of Southampton's squad for a pre-season

                                                                                             Southampton have been fighting to retain the services of the 26-year-old former Celtic centre-back For a period, that quelled the Reds' apparent interest, yet over the course of the last fortnight, reports have steadily increased linking the Anfield club with a renewed push to sign the defender.On July 21, Pellegrino confirmed that Van Dijk had asked to leave the club and said that as a result he would have to train alone. 

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo touches down in China with freestyle skills above picturesque Shanghai

                                                                                                 Cristiano Ronaldo has touched down in Shanghai ahead of a brief pre-season appearance in China.

The Real Madrid superstar has made the trip to the Far East and was given a huge welcome by his mass of Asian followers.

Ronaldo took to social media platform Instagram to show off an image of himself juggling a football with the picturesque Shanghai skyline spanning behind him.Captioning the image Ronaldo wrote: 'Hello China! I'm here for 3 days. Ready for brilliance #CR7Live.'

Later on Saturday, he travelled to the Shanghai Stadium to watch the Chinese Super League match between Shanghai SIPG and Guangzhou Evergrande.

Manchester United 1-1 Real Madrid (2-1 penalties): Shootout success for Jose Mourinho's men after Casemiro cancelled out Jesse Lingard's opener

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The United boss confirmed that talks have taken place between the two clubs and he did not want to keep De Gea against his wishes.

But he indicated that Madrid walked away from a £60million deal, leaving De Gea unhappy at the Spanish giants and determined to focus on his career at Old Trafford.

‘I can guarantee that he’s not going this season,’ said Mourinho. ‘For me, 100 per cent he stays with us.’

‘He was contacted for a long time. The club was closed, then we open because I always have this feeling of when a player has a desire to go I don’t like to stop players to go because in the end you don’t get what you expect from them if they want to move and they don’t.

‘So we open it and then they decided to close and I don’t think the feeling from him (towards Real) is very very good. I see him very happy and focused and working better than ever.’

De Gea looked like a man possessed in the shootout even though he had been unable to keep out Casemiro’s equaliser from the spot in the 69th minute. It came after United’s new £31m defender Victor Lindelof had been guilty of hacking down Theo Hernandez.

the 24-year-old's career has progressed and projects what you can expect now that he has arrived at Stamford Bridge

                                                                                           Chelsea have signed Alvaro Morata for a fee belived to be around £58 million in a move to provide Antonio Conte the star name he needs up front.

Despite showing great promise at both Real Madrid and Juventus playing time has been an issue, with the 24-year-old having never started more than 16 league matches in a season. With Diego Costa seemingly on the way out of the club, Morata will be hoping that he can finally get a chance to show what he can do for a full season.