Kalidou Koulibaly is the best centre-back in the world and is worth €150million, according to Napoli head coach Carlo Ancelotti.
The 27-year-old has been at the Stadio San Paolo since signing from Genk in 2014, developing a reputation as one of Serie A s top defenders.
Senegal international Koulibaly has been linked with a move to Manchester United but Ancelotti warned off potential suitors.
The best centre-back in the world? I would say so, he told Tuttosport. And he can still improve. He is worth €150m and he is not available for transfer.
Koulibaly’s contract expires in 2023, in 2021 there s a €150m clause but Napoli do not need to sell, the president [Aurelio De Laurentiis] does not want to sell and the question doesn t come up.
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to bet on Odd/Even goals in football. What does odd/even mean in betting? How do you place an odd/even football bet? These are just a few topics discussed in this article.
What is an odd/even bet?
An odd/even bet is a wager placed by punters who predict the total number of goals during regular playtime using an odd or even selection.
Odd and even numbers can be described as follows:
Odds are numbers that divided by 2 will return a fractional number (2,5 or 3,25 etc)
Evens are numbers that after being divided by 2 will result in another whole number (2; 4; 6 etc)
Since in football betting can only be whole numbers, an odd/even bet can also be seen as flipping a coin, which is the basis of many
Example of odd/even fo…
It wasn t so long ago that voicing the idea of Juventus challenging for the Scudetto this season would have seen you laughed out of the room.
Yet, remarkably, they could potentially end the weekend just four points off the summit, and a victory over defending champions Inter would be a decent barometer of just how emphatic their late push is going to be.
Serie A s standout match this week is undoubtedly the Derby d Italia between Juve and Inter in Turin, with Italy s top flight essentially establishing a pretty firm top four ahead of the international break.
But Massimiliano Allegri s Juve surely won t be content with just settling for fourth spot, and a win on Sunday will show they mean business.
A bedrock for improvement
Even if Juve do end up w…
Mikel Arteta maintains hope of pipping Chelsea to third, although he expects Arsenal s bid for Champions League qualification to go to the wire after an ugly win at West Ham.
Arsenal played in Sunday s late Premier League game after third-placed Chelsea and fifth-placed Tottenham played earlier in the day.
Chelsea lost at Everton, but Spurs beat Leicester City to briefly move ahead of their rivals into the top four.
Arsenal came up with a vital response, however, edging West Ham 2-1 at London Stadium to reclaim fourth place and close to within three points of Chelsea, with Thomas Tuchel acknowledging concern regarding his side s Champions League hopes.
Manager Arteta was not impressed with the Gunners performance but recognised the importance of the victo…
Inter are on the verge of exiting the Champions League after losing 2-0 to Real Madrid in Wednesday s clash at San Siro.
Madrid won the reverse fixture 3-2 earlier this month to revive their Group B campaign and they made a strong start to what was the first meeting between these sides at Inter s iconic ground since 1998.
Eden Hazard converted an early penalty his first goal in the competition in three years and Inter s task was made all the more difficult when Arturo Vidal was sent off for dissent with 33 minutes played.
Madrid added a second goal through substitute Rodrygo s volley to move a point behind Borussia Monchengladbach in second, with Inter five points worse off in fourth heading into the final two rounds of fixtures.
Eden Hazard = Champions L…
Sadio Mane has rejected any notion of a rivalry with former Liverpool teammate Mohamed Salah after the new Bayern Munich signing won his second African Player of the Year honour on Thursday.
Mane, 30, previously won the award in 2019, and earned it again after helping Senegal win their first African Cup of Nations crown, while being named Player of the Tournament.
In the process, he became Senegal s all-time leading goalscorer, finding the net 33 times from 91 senior caps.
Mane and Salah have now split the past four African Player of the Year awards evenly, with Salah winning in 2017 and 2018, and Mane now the winner in 2019 and 2022. The award was not given out in both 2020 and 2021.
AFRICAN PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Congratulations, Sadio Mané!
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Hugo Lloris has committed to Antonio Conte s Tottenham project by signing a new two-and-a-half-year contract with the Premier League club.
Lloris, 35, had entered the final six months of his previous deal and was entitled to discuss an end-of-season free transfer with foreign clubs.
He was linked with his boyhood club Nice, where he came through the academy before spending three years in the first team, but will be staying in north London.
Tottenham confirmed the deal that will take Lloris past 10 years with the club, with the goalkeeper set to remain at Spurs until the end of the 2023-24 season.
The news is a huge boost for Conte, who took on the Tottenham top job in November and made it clear he saw Lloris as part of the team s future.
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Lionel Messi will reassess his playing future with the national team after the World Cup in Qatar later this year, with retirement not ruled out.
Messi was among the scorers on Friday as already-qualified Argentina eased past Venezuela in World Cup qualifying at La Bombonera in Buenos Aires.
The 34-year-old guided Argentina to a breakthrough Copa America triumph last year, the nation s first since 1993. Argentina have not the World Cup since Diego Maradona led them to glory in 1986, with Messi getting closest in 2014 when they reached the final in Brazil.
Messi, who joined Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona last August, admitted that his international playing future beyond Qatar was on his mind.
I don’t know what I will do after the World Cup. I am th…
Matt O’Riley revealed Brendan Rodgers has told his Celtic squad to consign last season’s domestic treble to history to focus on more success.
The Hoops completed the clean sweep of trophies in Scotland for the eighth time before popular boss Ange Postecoglou stunned the fans when he departed for Tottenham.
Rodgers has returned to Parkhead for a second spell as boss, having won seven trophies out of seven in his first stint in charge between 2016 and 2019 before leaving for Leicester, but, according to Hoops midfielder O’Riley, he is clearing the way for a fresh start to next season.
Following a tough training session at Lennoxtown, the 22-year-old said on Celtic’s official Twitter account: “It is an amazing achievement, we’ve kind of broke that record…
Italy deserved to automatically qualify for the 2022 World Cup given their status as European champions, according to head coach Roberto Mancini.
Top seeds Italy finished second to Switzerland in their qualifying group and then suffered a shock loss to North Macedonia in March s play-off semi-final.
It means Italy have missed out on successive World Cups, having also failed to reach Russia 2018, though they did win Euro 2020 in between those qualifying disappointments.
However, Mancini insists the Azzurri should not have had to go through the qualifying process for Qatar on the back of conquering their continent last year.
Not only the European champions but the winners in every continent, he added in an interview with Corriere Della Sera. I am saying it…