Chelsea ace Frank Lampard believes the 2008/09 season is his best ever.
The 30-year-old has shown superb form in recent months and is hoping to get even better.
I think personally it has been my best season, said Lampard.
Over the course of the season different things have cropped up, and as a group we ve had some ups and downs, but I m very pleased with the way I ve been playing.
Hopefully my thirties can be my best years. I m more experienced, more aware of how to play the game and how to manage myself in between games.
People used to joke about me hitting shots from all over the pitch, and when you re younger you do try a lot of things.
Now I m looking for the right moment to slip people in and the right moment to score.
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Everton have signed Andre Gomes from Barcelona in a £22million deal following a successful season on loan.
Gomes, also linked with Premier League rivals Tottenham and West Ham, has signed a five-year contract at Goodison Park.
The Portugal midfielder appeared 29 times for Everton in all competitions last season after joining on a deadline-day loan in August 2018.
I m really happy to sign the contract with Everton it wasn’t hard to decide, it was an easy decision and I’m very happy to have made it, Gomes told his new side s official website.
I know the club made a massive effort to sign me and I m very happy and thankful to them. I said during the year that I felt part of a family and that is the most important thing to me.
Last year was a …
Sergio Reguilon expects Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos to sign a new deal with the Bernabeu giants but would recommend Tottenham to the Spain great if he was tempted by the Premier League.
Ramos has been linked with a possible move to Spurs at the end of the season, when his Madrid contract expires.
Captain of club and country, Ramos turns 35 in March but still appears to have plenty to offer at the highest level.
Reguilon, who revealed Tottenham s Jose Mourinho presented him with a cooked suckling pig on Christmas Day, is confident the Portuguese boss is leading Spurs in the direction of silverware.
Left-back Reguilon left Real Madrid to join Tottenham in September and revealed in an interview with AS that he did not speak to Los Blancos boss Zinedine …
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Chelsea shot themselves in the foot with a home draw against Huddersfield and their Champions League qualification hopes now hang by a thread ahead of the final Premier League match at Newcastle.
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Newcastle United have endured a difficult season in the Premier League. Even though their top tier status is assured, the Magpies head into the final match of the season with plenty to fight for.
Rafa Benitez’s men currently sit in 10th but could end up sliding as low as 15th if other results do not go their way on Sunday. Such a scenario will seemingly make a little difference but could have a huge effect on the club’s budget. Newcastle look set to pocket £21.3 million in merit payments for their 1…
Kevin De Bruyne thinks it will be very difficult for any team to match Manchester City s record tally of 100 points for a Premier League season.
A last-minute winner from Gabriel Jesus against Southampton on Sunday saw the champions become the first team ever to reach three figures for points in a single 38-game campaign in the competition.
The achievement underlined the remarkable performance of Pep Guardiola s side in 2017-18, who also set records for most wins overall and away from home, most goals scored, biggest goal difference, greatest title-winning margin and the least time trailing in their matches.
De Bruyne admits it was a special moment to hit the points tally in such dramatic fashion, and the Belgium star does not expect the feat to be repeated again…
Luis Alberto is set for another season out on loan from parent club Liverpool, with the 22-year-old to undergo a medical with Deportivo La Coruna on Monday.
Midfielder Alberto signed for Liverpool from Sevilla in June 2013, but made just two starts for the Premier League club throughout his maiden campaign in England.
The 22-year-old Spaniard was subsequently loaned out to Malaga last term, making 15 appearances in La Liga.
And Alberto is set to return to his homeland again for the 2015-16 campaign, with Deportivo confirming his imminent arrival on Sunday.
Luis Alberto Romero Alconchel (San Jose del Valle Cadiz, September 28 1992) lands tonight at 23:30 at the airport of A Coruna, read a club statement.
The attacking midfielder, who played las…
Goals from Ahmed Musa, Shinji Okazaki and Christian Fuchs saw Leicester City record a 3-1 win over Crystal Palace at the King Power Stadium on Saturday as the reigning champions three-game winless streak in the Premier League came to an end.
Leicester were beaten 3-0 by Chelsea last week, having previously failed to beat Southampton (0-0) and Manchester United (4-1), but they returned to winning ways following a sublime strike from Musa in the closing stages of the first half and a clinical finish from Okazaki after the break.
Fuchs added gloss late on with a wonderful, long-range effort before Yohan Cabaye netted an 85th-minute consolation.
Claudio Ranieri opted to make two changes to the team that beat Copenhagen 1-0 in midweek in the Champions League, dro…
Eredivisie champions PSV Eindhoven are said to be interested in Juventus youngster Moise Kean.
The 18-year-old Italy Under-19 international spent the 2017/18 season on loan at Verona where he scored 4 goals in 19 appearances as the Butei got relegated to the Serie B.
Kean is regarded as one of the most talented forwards in Italy and Juventus are not willing to give up on him that easily despite the fact they could cash in up to €20 million which PSV are reportedly willing to splash out.
The Bianconeri are reluctant to sell but are contemplating a buy-back clause which would allow them to bring the 18-year-old back in the future.
Tuttosport notes that Kean’s agent Mino Raiola is half Italian, half Dutch which could be seen as the reason the teenage st…
Mauricio Pochettino praised Armando Broja as one of the most promising young strikers in Europe after his goal helped Chelsea to a 4-0 FA Cup third-round win over Preston.
The 22-year-old started in place of Nicolas Jackson, who is away at the Africa Cup of Nations, and netted his team’s opening goal early in the second half at Stamford Bridge.
Preston had done a fine job in the first period of containing Chelsea, who lacked cutting edge to go with their domination of the ball, but Broja’s strike was the first of three in an 11-minute spell in the second half.
Will Keane was hounded off the ball inside his own box by Mykhailo Mudryk, who laid it back for Malo Gusto to cross and Broja headed in.
Thiago Silva then nodded in a second before Raheem Sterli…
Cristiano Ronaldo`s Portugal is in danger of missing the World Cup but Wayne Rooney isn`t bothered at all by Portugal`s qualifying struggles.
In fact, the Manchester United striker revealed he hopes Portugal will fail to qualify for the WC 2010 in South Africa.
`It would be nice to see Portugal not there because in the last two tournaments they ve knocked us out,` Rooney told BBC Radio 5 live.
`When we didn t qualify for Euro 2008, we got a lot of stick from Ronaldo.`
Rooney made it clear he admires his former team mate, stating that he`s still the best player in the world.
` It s clear for everyone,` Rooney said. `He scores goals. I ve watched his first few games for Madrid and he seems to have improved again. `But he does add with a grin. `He …