Lille have been ordered to pay €300,000 compensation to Belgian club Genk over the signing of forward Divock Origi.
Belgium international Origi joined Lille in 2010 after playing for Genk s youth academy. He joined Premier League Liverpool in July last year before being loaned back to the Ligue 1 club for the 2014-15 season.
FIFA ruled in Februrary 2014 that Genk were not entitled to compensation for training Origi as they did not offer him a contract.
However, they appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS), who have accepted Genk s justification for not trying to sign Origi to a deal.
Genk argued the club would have been punishable under Belgian law by offering a contract to Origi, who was 15 when he left for Lille.
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Jurgen Locadia s debut goal helped Brighton and Hove Albion ease past Coventry City 3-1 and into the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.
A club-record signing in January, Locadia opened his account in the 15th minute at the Amex Stadium as the Seagulls made light work of fourth-tier opposition with a Premier League scalp to their name this season after beating Stoke City.
Connor Goldson headed in prior to half-time before Leonardo Ulloa put the seal on victory with the first goal of his second spell at the club.
Jonson Clarke-Harris snatched a late consolation for the League Two side but they never truly threatened to deny Chris Hughton s men a fourth match unbeaten in all competitions.
The lowest-ranked club in the fifth round, Coventry received an early …
Former Bastia player Julian Palmieri has dismissed Mario Balotelli s claims that he was racially abused during Nice s 1-1 Ligue 1 draw at the Stade Armand Cesari.
Balotelli lambasted a horrible situation after Friday s game, alleging in an Instagram post that he was the subjected monkey noises from a section of the home supporters.
The French Professional Football League (LFP) has announced it will investigate incidents from the game and said in a statement it deplores all the incidents that occured during the SC Bastia OGC Nice meeting .
But Palmieri, who made his professional debut at Bastia in 2005 before returning to his hometown club for a stint between 2012 and 2016, questioned the striker s version of events and suggested Balotelli was looking for excus…
Bayern Munich and Germany doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt has launched another attack on Pep Guardiola, claiming the Manchester City coach overestimated himself during their time working together.
After 38 years at the club, Muller-Wohlfahrt left Bayern during Guardiola s tenure, having fallen out with the Catalan following a 3-1 loss to Porto in the Champions League quarter-finals in 2015.
He returned in November last year to be reunited with former coach Jupp Heynckes, who was tempted out of retirement to replace the sacked Carlo Ancelotti.
In an extract from his book published by Bild earlier this month, Muller-Wohlfahrt described Guardiola as a person with a weak self-confidence who does everything to hide that from other people .
And the experie…
According to , the loan agreement between Leicester City and AS Monaco for Islam Slimani allows the French club to sign the striker permanently for less than £8 million.
Slimani arrived to Leicester from Sporting Lisbon in 2016 for a club record fee of £28 million, a few months after the Foxes shocked the world by being crowned Premier League champions. However, the Algerian has never been able to justify that kind of investment in him, and since then, he s been on loan with Newcastle, Fenerbahce, and currently Monaco.
This season he has been on terrific form for the Ligue 1 side, netting five times and assisting six in seven games in all competitions so far, and should they decide to make the switch permanent at the end of the season, Leicester would apparently lose …
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain cruised to a 3-0 win over minnows Feignies-Aulnoye in Sunday s Coupe de France round-of-64 clash
PSG never looked in danger of suffering an upset against their fifth-tier opponents, and they went 2-0 up after 30 minutes through penalties from Mbappe and Mauro Icardi.
Former Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos was withdrawn at the interval on just his second appearance for the Parisians, perhaps not the best sign as he continues his recovery from injury, before Mbappe added a third goal early in the second period.
The Ligue 1 leaders, who have lifted the trophy in six of the last seven seasons, continued to create chances but ultimately fell short of adding gloss to the scoreline.
At the double tonight!�…
Nicolas Pepe is not happy with his playing time at Arsenal, but his frustration is something manager Mikel Arteta is happy to see.
The winger started Tuesday s 5-1 EFL Cup quarter-final win over Sunderland, scoring Arsenal s second goal and setting up the final two for Eddie Nketiah and Charlie Patino.
That was only Pepe s eighth start of the season in all competitions. In total, he has played 759 minutes in 2021-22, fewer than youngster Gabriel Martinelli and the apparently out-of-favour Alexandre Lacazette.
Arteta said Pepe is putting up a fight to earn more minutes for the Gunners, something he wants to see from all of his squad players.
A player that doesn t play, if he s happy you have a big problem and Nico has not been happy, he said of Arsenal s …
Mourinho( aha the real one) leaving or staying
If he stays theres a big chance of coentrao and ronaldo staying and also some players like bale or mabye kyle geting a chance in the team
Mabye joao moutinho even as a extra option in holding mid.field
But if the special one leaves
Things migjt change big time at madrid
And
I doubt it wil be for the good of real
But yeah ur right coentrao and marcelo are both left backs
But they do play on both sides well
( if needed) , i would rather let
Marcelo play on the right side and coentrao on the left
But its true kyle could be a good option( and as i said better then the current right back!)
Even though i rather see bale play at madrid
Having him and di maria and ronaldo
Play togeter would be an
Overkill to the world teams
XD
Norwich City transfer target Ola Toivonen has admitted that he knows very little about the Carrow Road outfit.
The Swedish striker, who plays for Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven, has been linked with a move to the Premier League club, who are reported to have offered in the region of five million pounds for his services.
Toivonen would provide additional depth to manager Chris Hughton s attacking options, which will also be bolstered by Dutch striker Ricky van Wolfswinkel, who signed from Sporting Lisbon in January, when pre-season training resumes.
But the 26-year-old, who has been on international duty recently, revealed that his knowledge of his prospective employers is limited.
He told Sky Sports: I really do not know what I have at home is not the right TV channels.
I only…
Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet told his team they had three finals left this season as they look to seal a top-four finish in the Premier League.
Jurgen Klopp s men claimed an important 1-0 win at Watford on Monday to consolidate third spot in the table.
Liverpool (69 points, 35 games) are well adrift of the top two, but remain ahead of Manchester City (66, 34), United (65, 34) and Arsenal (60, 33).
With games against Southampton, West Ham and Middlesbrough to finish the season, Mignolet said the outings needed to be treated like do-or-die matches.
We re hungry to play in the Champions League. We know what it means, not only for us, but also for the fans of the club, he told UK newspapers.
The history of this great club has been all about f…