news tidbits
News
- Sevilla insist wantaway sporting director Monchi must pay £3.8m buyout clause with suspicions Mr Moneyball has offers from Manchester United and Real Madrid
Fair enough - Jose Mourinho will not let 'fights' with Pep Guardiola derail Manchester United's title bid: 'If we focus on him and me then another team will become champions'
Makes sense - Cristiano Ronaldo spent the whole match looking at himself' - Bruno Henrique remembers Madrid clash LOL, Ronaldo is that guy. The one that you'd walk into a room and find him getting off to a picture of himself. But you know... if you don't love yourself, who will?
- Pogba buys house in Barcelona he might just like the area? If I could afford to buy a house in Barcelona, I would!
- Juventus adamant no Olympics for Dybala Can't rep Argentina
- Real Madrid's Florentino Perez hints at La Liga bias toward Barcelona okay
- Perez says it's "not normal" to win La Liga with more than 90 points Hmmm
- Karim Benzema accuses France coach Didier Deschamps of bowing to racist pressure with Euro 2016 omission You allegedly blackmailed a teammate, bruv.
Squad Lists
Austria
final 23-man squad)
Goalkeepers: Robert Almer (Austria Vienna), Heinz Lindner (Eintracht Frankfurt), Ramazan Ozcan (Ingolstadt).
Defenders: Aleksandar Dragovic (Dinamo Kiev), Christian Fuchs (Leicester City), Gyorgy Garics (Darmstadt), Martin Hinteregger (Borussia Monchengladbach), Florian Klein (Stuttgart), Sebastian Prodl (Watford), Markus Suttner (Ingolstadt), Kevin Wimmer (Tottenham Hotspur).
Midfielders: David Alaba (Bayern Munich), Marko Arnautovic (Stoke City), Julian Baumgartlinger (Mainz), Martin Harnik (Stuttgart), Stefan Ilsanker (Leipzig), Jakob Jantscher (Luzern), Zlatko Junuzovic (Werder Bremen), Marcel Sabitzer (Leipzig), Alessandro Schopf (Schalke).
Forwards: Lukas Hinterseer (Ingolstadt), Rubin Okotie (1860 Munich), Marc Janko (Basel).
Belgium
France
(final 23-man squad)
Goalkeepers: Benoit Costil (Rennes), Hugo Lloris (Tottenham), Steve Mandanda (Marseille).
Defenders: Lucas Digne (Roma), Patrice Evra (Juventus), Christophe Jallet (Lyon), Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal), Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City), Samuel Umtiti (Lyon), Bacary Sagna (Manchester City), Adil Rami (Sevilla).
Midfielders: Yohan Cabaye (Crystal Palace), Morgan Scheiderlin (Manchester United), N'Golo Kante (Leicester), Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint-Germain), Paul Pogba (Juventus), Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle).
Forwards: Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich), Andre-Pierre Gignac (Tigres), Olivier Giroud (Arsenal), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Anthony Martial (Manchester United), Dimitri Payet (West Ham).
Germany
England
Feel bad for Drinkwater being dropped for Jack Wilshire. Shame.
(final 23-man squad)
Northern Ireland
Goalkeepers: Alan Mannus (St Johnstone), Michael McGovern (Hamilton Academical), Roy Carroll (Linfield).
Defenders: Craig Cathcart (Watford), Jonathan Evans (West Bromwich Albion), Gareth McAuley (West Bromwich Albion), Luke McCullough (Doncaster Rovers), Conor McLaughlin (Fleetwood Town), Lee Hodson (MK Dons), Aaron Hughes (Free agent), Patrick McNair (Manchester United), Chris Baird (Derby County).
Midfielders: Steven Davis (Southampton), Oliver Norwood, (Reading), Corry Evans, (Blackburn Rovers), Shane Ferguson (Millwall), Stuart Dallas (Leeds United), Niall McGinn (Aberdeen), Jamie Ward (Nottingham Forest).
Forwards: Kyle Lafferty (Norwich City), Conor Washington (Queens Park Rangers), Josh Magennis (Kilmarnock), Will Grigg (Wigan Athletic).
Random pictures: NT
Headquarters for NTs
If you guys want to get your stalking boots on
Belgium
Look at that gorgeousness
England's hotel. You can look at the rest here
Ugh. Who is this?
DDG and Casillas
General pictures
Mourinho and his lieutenant in Lisbon to give a talk
Football confessions
This Navas thing keeps coming up. He won the CL - isn't that enough?
Hmmm
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