by admin_em8z1e00 | Jun 1, 2025 | Soccer News
Manchester United have confirmed the first big-money signing of the transfer window.
The Red Devils have confirmed the signing of Brazil international Matheus Cunha from Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Read: Liverpool Confirm First 25/26 Signing
The Brazilians becomes the second signing in the Ruben Amorim and the first for the 25/26 season.
Statement:
Manchester United has reached agreement with Wolverhampton Wanderers for the signing of Matheus Cunha.
The Brazilian forward’s signing is subject to visa and registration.
The 26 year-old has 13 senior caps for Brazil, and, in his club career, has made 270 appearances and scored 72 goals in the English, Spanish, German and Swiss top flights.
Read: Transfer Update: Bruno Fernandes
During two-and-a-half seasons at Wolves, Cunha has scored 33 goals in 92 appearances.
Everyone at Manchester United looks forward to welcoming Matheus to Old Trafford.
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by admin_em8z1e00 | Jun 1, 2025 | Soccer News
Former Manchester United and Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba has been linked with a surprise move to an African team ahead of the new season.
The French midfielder has been a free agent since parting ways with Serie A outfit Juventus in the January transfer window.
Read: Riveiro Brings African Star Back To Al Ahly Squad
Pogba is eligible to play competitive football after his four-year doping ban was reduced to 18 months last year.
Reports in Morocco claim CAF Confederation Cup champions RS Berkane were looking to make a move for the World Cup winner on a free transfer.
There were also reports claiming Wydad Casablanca could make a move for Pogba by trying to lure the midfielder by offering him a chance to compete at the FIFA Club World Cup.
Journalist Adel Al-Amari has now revealed that Pogba has no desire to play on the African continent is keen to stay in Europe.
“The information I have is that the player will not play in Africa,” Al-Amari said, as per LeSiteInfo.
“He refused Wydad and will not accept to play for Nahdat Berkane, unless other matters occur that change the player’s thinking and convictions.”
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by admin_em8z1e00 | Jun 1, 2025 | Soccer News
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PARIS (AP) — Translate Desire Doue’s name into English and you get the words “coveted” and “gifted.”
Both seem highly appropriate, considering how the 19-year-old’s stunning performance for Paris Saint-Germain in Saturday’s Champions League final launched him into soccer’s stratosphere, making Doué a player every team would love to have.
Doué scored with two clinical finishes in a 5-0 rout of Inter Milan after setting up PSG’s first goal with a remarkable piece of close control. Controlling the ball on his left foot and spinning in one swift movement inside the penalty area, he then effortlessly switched feet and passed with his right to Achraf Hakimi.
“I really don’t have the words to describe how I feel. What we did is magical. We showed we are a great side collectively,” said Doué, who turns 20 on Tuesday. “There are a lot of young players in the side who still need to improve, I am among them.”
Doué improving is quite a scary thought, given how good he already is.
A game-changing ability
When Doué joined PSG from Rennes for around 50 million euros ($55 million) in the offseason, it appeared a hefty fee for an unproven young player.
Except for the fans who closely followed Ligue 1, he was largely unknown in France and beyond. Furthermore, his return of eight goals in 76 games hardly suggested he would become a dangerous scorer.
But Rennes is one of the best youth academies in European soccer. Doué’s PSG teammate Ousmane Dembele came through the ranks there as did Mathys Tel before joining Bayern Munich.
PSG coach Luis Enrique, who coached Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar when Barcelona won the Champions League in 2015, saw a game-changing ability in Doué.
He was proved right.
Doué’s emergence in the second part of the season saw him take goal-scoring winger Bradley Barcola’s place in the starting lineup. It also coincided with PSG’s revival in the Champions League after a difficult group stage where the club lost to Arsenal, Atletico Madrid and Bayern.
Doué held his nerve in the penalty shootout win against Liverpool in March, scoring the decisive kick in emphatic style to send PSG into the quarterfinals. Later that month, he also scored for France in a penalty shootout win in the Nations League.
Doué kept improving in the big games
Doué equalized in the quarterfinal first leg against Aston Villa in Paris and scored five goals in the competition.
Overall he scored 15 goals for PSG this season, including spectacular curlers from outside the penalty area with his right foot.
His silky close control, allied to an ability to wrong-foot defenders, made him a vital part of PSG’s intricate approach play, particularly in confined spaces. His unorthodox dribbling is often brilliant, but does not always come off, so he reigned it in.
“I sometimes overdo it a bit, but I try to keep my personality. When you play, you know there are areas where you have to build, release the ball, and others where you have more freedom,” Doué said. “I analyze my matches and my training sessions a lot. I try to always maintain my discipline, and I hope that will take me to the very, very high level.”
Doué said that back in April.
On Saturday night he achieved it, and joined Barcelona’s 17-year-old prodigy Lamine Yamal among the most coveted young players in world soccer.
They could face each other on Thursday, when France plays Spain in the Nations League semifinals.
Both have the soccer world at their feet. ___
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by admin_em8z1e00 | Jun 1, 2025 | Soccer News
After Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper Denis Onyango became the most decorated player in the Betway Premiership with 12 titles, Soccer Laduma ranks the top five.
5. Daine Klate (6)
Klate has been surpassed along the way since he last won his sixth title with the defunct Bidvest Wits in the 2016/17 season.
The Gqeberha native former winger is the only former or current player on the list who has won the league with three different teams, after his first three with SuperSport United and two with Orlando Pirates.
Read: Treble Joy For Ribeiro & Cardoso In Betway Prem Awards
4. Kennedy Mweene (8)
After joining Sundowns in July 2013 from the defunct Free State Stars, Mweene won his first Premiership title in his first season at Chloorkop with former coach Pitso Mosimane and added the second in the 2015/16 campaign.
The Zambian shot-stopper went on to win six straight league titles at Masandawana from 2018 to 2023 until his retirement.
3. Hlompho Kekana (8)
Kekana is one of the lucky few who joined Sundowns in 2011 with two titles already from SuperSport and he went on to win a further six with The Brazilians, four in a row from 2018 until his retirement in 2021.
Kekana is rated third ahead of Mweene, as he won the league titles with at least two different clubs.
2. Themba Zwane (9)
It took Zwane a couple of years before he won his first league title in the 2015/16 season after he joined in 2011 but had loan spells elsewhere.
‘Mshishi’ has been a pivotal part of all the Sundowns sides who have won the Premiership for eight seasons in a row.
Read: Costa, The Best Foreign Import In The PSL?
1. Denis Onyango (12)
Onyango is the record holder of the most Premiership titles, having joined Sundowns in 2011 (two years out on loan) with three Premiership crowns from Matsatsantsa.
The Ugandan’s first league title with Masandawana was in 2016 before winning eight in a row up to the current campaign.
*former Sundowns midfielder Anthony Laffor also has six league titles to his name, four with The Brazilians and two with SuperSport.
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by admin_em8z1e00 | Jun 1, 2025 | Soccer News
After making a name in Asian football, game against English giants will stay in Mohammed Faeez Khan’s memory forever
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By VUYOKAZI NKANJENI – 01 June 2025
Nine years ago, Eastern Cape-born soccer player Mohammed Faeez Khan took a leap of faith, packed up, and left SA in search of green pastures.
That step into the unknown has seen him build a successful career as a footballer in Asia, and more recently, saw him part of the team that beat Manchester United last week…
Source: https://www.theherald.co.za/sport/soccer/2025-06-01-from-amateur-soccer-in-east-london-to-beating-man-united/
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