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Arne Slot is the new top contender to take over #LFC — but who is he?

🧠 'Slow' midfielder who wouldn't have got in his own team

🗣️ 'Always thinks in an attacking way'

🏃 Intense training sessions

🇪🇸 'Crazy about Guardiola'

📈 Track record of improving players

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Liverpool have made Arne Slot their preferred choice to succeed Jurgen Klopp when the manager leaves this summer and have opened talks with Feyenoord.

The Anfield club’s pursuit of Slot did not emerge until earlier this week as they prioritised discretion and a desire to show Feyenoord respect before Sunday’s Dutch Cup final, which they won.

That approach is sure to be maintained as Liverpool enter negotiations with the 2023 Eredivisie champions and their highly-regarded CEO Dennis te Kloese.

They are also in contact with Slot, who is enthusiastic about the possibility of moving to Merseyside.

Liverpool are conducting a thorough process and will continue to assess other candidates, although Slot is the focus of their attention at present having emerged as the leading contender to succeed Klopp.

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Former Argentina international Carlos Tevez has been admitted to hospital in Buenos Aires after experiencing chest pain.

The 40-year-old former Manchester United and Manchester City forward underwent tests at the Sanatorio La Trinidad in San Isidro on Tuesday where he will remain as a precaution while further assessments are carried out.

Tevez has been head coach of Argentinian Primera Division side Independiente since August 2023.

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Arsenal have an embarrassment of midfield riches — and they simply toyed with Chelsea.

Arteta's options now appear to be limitless in that area. They head into the north London derby and the title run-in in great shape...

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When Chelsea have bad days they are callow, uncertain, disorganised, naive, wasteful.

Without Cole Palmer against Arsenal — they offered nothing — and Mauricio Pochettino's pre-match comments came back to haunt him.

Liam Twomey reports from a disastrous London derby for Chelsea

Teams at this summer’s men’s European Championship in Germany are set to be allowed to name squads of up to 26 players instead of 23.

UEFA had said it was considering the proposal during last month’s international break, with some national team coaches expressing their desire to see squad sizes increased over the fortnight. Earlier this month, the proposal was discussed at a workshop of national team head coaches in Dusseldorf, Germany.

The decision has not yet been confirmed by UEFA but that is expected to come following a meeting of its Executive Committee later this week.

The deadline for teams to submit their squads is June 7, a week before the opening game of the tournament.

Following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which saw football paused for several months and added a great burden to the calendar for the following year, UEFA allowed teams to take 26-player squads — instead of the traditional 23-player selections — at the delayed Euros in the summer of 2021.

FIFA also kept 26-player squads for the men’s World Cup in 2022.

Leandro Trossard described Arsenal's 5-0 victory over Chelsea on Tuesday as the "perfect night".

The hosts scored five goals and kept their 21st clean sheet of the season in all competitions to move three points clear at the top of the table — with Liverpool and Manchester City still to play.

The victory represents Arsenal's biggest ever win over their London rivals in any competition.

Trossard, 29, opened the scoring with his 10th goal of the campaign before braces from ex-Chelsea forward Kai Havertz and Ben White completed the rout.

"Clean sheets help you win games," Trossard told TNT Sports.

"We know that if we score a goal a lot of times we can go on to win 1-0, but we always want to score more and tonight was the perfect night where we scored loads of goals.

"Credit to everyone, because everyone works so hard defensively, including attackers and midfielders."

Arsenal are in next action against north London rivals Tottenham on Sunday.

A bank account belonging to Gerard Pique’s sports and entertainment company Kosmos has been embargoed by the judge investigating alleged corruption at the Spanish football federation (RFEF) during the presidency of Luis Rubiales from 2018 to 2023.

Pique and Kosmos were an intermediary in the deal which saw the Spanish Supercopa move to Saudi Arabia in 2019. That initiative was worth €240million over six seasons to the then financially struggling federation — with Kosmos also due a commission of €24m for their role, according to a report by Spanish media outlet El Confidencial.

The investigation under which Rubiales and a number of former federation executives have been arrested in recent weeks, codenamed Operacion Brodie, was set in motion by a formal legal complaint in May 2022 to a court in Majadahonda by Miguel Angel Galan over Kosmos’ involvement in the Supercopa deal.

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Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher says he and his team-mates are “putting the effort in” after questions from supporters about their “fight”.

During Chelsea’s 5-0 loss at Arsenal last night, a fan held up a banner which read, “I don’t want your shirt, I just want you to fight for ours”, prompting Gallagher — Chelsea’s captain for the match — to be asked about the squad’s desire.

“We definitely are putting the effort in,” Gallagher said to TNT Sports. “I know how much it means to all the boys.

“It’s a very young squad with not much experience as a team in the Premier League.

“This season we’ve had a lot of ups and downs. We’re still improving and working as a team to get to that next level.

“Today was one of those days where we were nowhere near it and we need to dust ourselves off, look at the performance, where we can improve and all the mistakes we made that we can put right.”

Chelsea remain ninth following the heavy defeat by Arsenal and are next in action on Saturday when they travel to fourth-placed Aston Villa.

Unai Emery has given Aston Villa a massive boost by extending his contract as head coach until 2027.

The 52-year-old Spaniard joined from Villarreal in October 2022 and is on course to secure Champions League qualification while also reaching the Europa Conference League semi-finals.

Emery’s work has seen him linked to a number of vacancies elsewhere — however the former Arsenal boss has moved to end any speculation by committing his future to the Midlands side.

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Liverpool have contacted Arne Slot with the Feyenoord head coach a leading candidate to be Jurgen Klopp’s successor.

The Dutchman is on the shortlist having satisfied many of the relevant criteria set out during the club’s recruitment process.

There is yet to be contact between the two clubs over the 45-year-old but Feyenoord value him very highly and are likely to demand a large compensation figure should he leave.

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Mikel Arteta says he has “all the sympathy in the world” for Mauricio Pochettino after his Arsenal side beat the Argentine’s Chelsea 5-0 at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night.

Arteta played alonside Pochettino when he was on loan at Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona in 2001-02, and has kept in contact with his former team-mate since becoming a manager.

“With everything that he’s been through and everything that he’s been doing,” Arteta said.

“He knows that. I’ve been on the other side as well. He’s doing a great job, I think when you look at this team and analyse every second of them, they deserve to win many matches, they deserve to win against big teams. He’s doing a really good job so hopefully things will turn around and be as he deserves.”

Pochettino’s Chelsea had only been beaten twice in 2024 before tonight’s loss to Arsenal. Both defeats came at Wembley, to Liverpool and Manchester City in the Carabao Cup and FA Cup respectively.

Tonight’s result leaves them ninth in the Premier League, however.

For Arsenal, the win temporarily puts them three points ahead of Liverpool and four ahead of Manchester City. Liverpool have one game in had, while City have two.

Asked whether his relationship with Pochettino would effect the feeling of winning during a title race, Arteta added: “No. I love winning. He would try to do the same. When you talk about sympathy and someone I love and admire, for sure, I want the best for him.”

And welcome to our live blog looking ahead to four Premier League games this evening — including Liverpool vs Everton in the Merseyside derby.

We'll bring you all the fallout from Arsenal's 5-0 win over London rivals Chelsea and look ahead to the rest of the midweek fixtures, with the title race set to go down to the wire.

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Mauricio Pochettino says he was disappointed with Chelsea's "low energy" during their record-breaking 5-0 defeat to Arsenal on Tuesday night.

The defeat — Chelsea's 11th of the campaign — was the Blues’ heaviest in a London derby since losing 6-0 to Queens Park Rangers in March 1986, and their biggest ever loss to Arsenal in any competition.

"We said at half-time we cannot approach the game how we started the first half, but we started again showing too low energy and didn't compete in the way that we needed to compete," Pochettino told TNT Sports.

"When we conceded the third goal it was so easy for Arsenal to manage the game.

"The first 15 minutes of the game and the first 15 minutes of the second half, we lost the game there.

"It's a difficult performance because it's not nice to see your team playing like this from the beginning of the game when you're supposed to have full energy."

Chelsea — ninth in the table with six games remaining — are next action against Aston Villa on Sunday.