The Football Connect

🚨 | EXCLUSIVE : ILYA ZABARNYI 🇺🇦

Understand Liverpool FC have held direct talks with Ilya Zabarnyi and his camp in last hours over a potential move! 🇺🇦🚨🔴

Andoni Iraola would love to have Zabarnyi at the club, and Liverpool FC are trying to understand if a loan deal with an option to buy can be sorted out with PSG. 🤝🏻👀

Direct talks have taken place in the last 48 hours. Understand Ilya Zabarnyi is very keen on joining Liverpool FC, also for Andoni Iraola. LFC have been following Zabarnyi for the past 3/4 seasons. 👀🤝🏻

Ilya Zabarnyi would like to leave PSG as he is not a key part of Luis Enrique’s plans. PSG open to a sale but want a permanent deal for €60m or a loan with obligation. 🚨🇺🇦

However, Liverpool FC are interested in a loan with option to buy for around €40m-€45m package. No obligations or permanent deal interest right now. ❌️💰

Liverpool FC also monitoring other options as market opportunity to improve the squad but Ilya Zabarnyi is a concrete name for the club and Iraola. 👀🤝🏻

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Ezri Konsa is set to be England's RIGHT-BACK today vs. Norway. John Stores will be the centre-back.

🚨 Incredible! Ousmane Dembélé could become the first player in football history to win two World Cups, two Champions Leagues and two Ballon d’Or awards! 😍🇫🇷

Dembélé is close to achieving something truly historic. ❤️

🚨 𝐊𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐏𝐎 𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑾𝑬 𝑮𝑶, 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐓 — 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐔𝐏 ✨🇩🇪

Jürgen Klopp will lead the German national team until 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐂𝐔𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎 after agreement on availability reached last week 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

🏆🔜 Nations League 2027
🏆🇪🇺 Euros 2028
🏆🌏 World Cup 2030

Three top competitions to return into coaching as lead German football into new era. 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓. 🧢

The Xabi Alonso effect…He’s not just coaching them, he’s connecting with them. 🤍🥹

😮 Curtis Jones has replied on Instagram to reports he has agreed to join Nottingham Forest! 🚨

🚨🚨| BREAKING: Egyptian hackers are suspected of accessing Argentine Football Association (AFA) email accounts.

Following Argentina’s 3-2 World Cup round-of-16 victory over Egypt, fake emails were sent from AFA accounts claiming the win resulted from “corrupt refereeing decisions” and praising Egypt’s performance.

The AFA has confirmed unauthorized access, denied the messages, and stated they were not authorised by the federation. The incident is under investigation. {}

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Jürgen Klopp and the Germany reached an agreement last night in New York over a contract running until and including the 2030 World Cup.

🚨🚨| Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has presented the national team with the 𝐂𝐔𝐏 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐃𝐄 in honour of their participation at the 2026 World Cup. 🏆🇪🇬

🗣️𝗡𝗘𝗪 - Dominik Szoboszlai on his favourite position:

“My favourite position is central midfielder, because I have all the options: play short, long, run with the ball, make runs without it, shoot from distance or come inside.”