Cristiano Ronaldo: Czech FA claims Juventus striker has not broken Josef Bican's goalscoring record

Cristiano Ronaldo scored 760th career goal in Juventus' 2-0 win over Napoli in the Italian Super Cup on Wednesday, seemingly breaking Josef Bican's all-time goalscoring record for club and country; Czech football federation claims Bican scored 821 official goals and not 760

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Odegaard close to joining Arsenal from Real Madrid

The playmaker joined Madrid in 2015 and was expected to play a major role in La Liga this season following a successful loan spell at Real Sociedad last term, but he’s only featured for 232 minutes. The 22-year-old has shown real quality as a number 10, and the idea would be for Arsenal to take him on loan as competition for Emile Smith Rowe following the departure of Mesut Ozil.

Arteta turns focus to Arsenal signings after shedding unwanted players

We are in that process right now, Arteta said. We are looking at various positions because the movements we’ve made in this transfer window, with some players leaving the club, leave us a little bit short in certain areas, he said. Arteta said the final step in completing that deal was proving the longest ever but no problems are anticipated. He is a great footballer, a really talented footballer, a player who has done a lot for the football club, but at the moment I want to take the team in a different direction, Arteta said of Özil’s much-discussed exile from his squad.

He was part of some plans at the start, and he wasn’t at the end. Arteta, whose side visit Southampton in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday, was asked whether the investigation he promised two months ago into training-ground leaks had borne fruit.

Upamecano has impressed for RB Leipzig and Bayern have make their interest known

The club have already contacted Leipzig to make their desire known, and have requested to be informed of any moves by other parties. And on Thursday, chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge made crystal clear their desire. «Of course he will stay with Bayern.

Sane: I had a mini Guardiola in my ear telling me what to do at Man City!

Leroy Sane says Pep Guardiola spent so much time trying to improve him as a player, he ended up with ‘a little man in my ear’ telling him what to do on the pitch. Media reports during his time at Manchester City often suggested Sane did not see eye-to-eye with Guardiola, but he insists the pair got on well. Sane scored 39 goals in 135 games during his time at City, developing into one of the most dangerous wide players in the Premier League. The winger actually used to live in the same building as Guardiola in Manchester, along with David Silva and Ilkay Gundogan, but he didn’t feel any extra pressure on his personal life as a result.

I saw Pep's family in the building more often than Pep himself, Sane said. If I hadn't moved to Manchester, I probably wouldn't have reached that level. Sane got his long-awaited move back to the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich over the summer, but things haven’t gone quite as he would have hoped so far. He started with a goal and two assists in an 8-0 thrashing of Schalke on the opening day of the season, but his form has been up and down since then.