Kick Off: Arsenal to sack Emery 'within hours'; Dembele faces 3-month lay-off

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TOP HEADLINES

Trident Messi-Lewy-Lukaku lead UCL Team of the Week, Lovren included

UEFA has announced the Team of the Week in the Champions League. Messi, Lewandowski and Lukaku are in the attack as Lovren are also included.

Astana 2-1 Man Utd: Ole's young boys take lessons despite Lingard's goal

Manchester United's teenagers did much to impress away to Astana but Di'Shon Bernard's own goal meant they slipped to a 2-1 loss.

Arsenal 1-2 Frankfurt: Emery in deep crisis after Kamada's 2 stunners, Auba nets

Daichi Kamada scored a brilliant double as Eintracht Frankfurt came from a goal down to defeat Arsenal and add more fuel to the speculation about manager Unai Emery's future.

TRANSFER RUMOURS

Florentino 'plans to offer two players plus €85m for signing Pogba' in January

Florentino Perez and Real Madrid have come up with their latest Paul Pogba offer as they look to tempt Manchester United .

Arsenal will sack Emery WITHIN HOURS of their latest UEL defeat (MD)

Arsenal will sack boss Unai Emery ‘within hours’ of their latest defeat, according to a prominent Spanish football journalist.

Sancho 'set to leave Dortmund as Madrid, Man Utd, City and Liverpool hover'

Borussia Dortmund are willing to listen to offers for Jadon Sancho as early as January after a breakdown in relationships, with most of top clubs closely monitoring his situation, according to Independent.

VOICES

'Important night' - Griezmann shares picture of MSG to celebrate win over BVB

Griezmann shares a picture of Messi-Suarez-Griezmann after their 3-1 victory over Dortmund in the Champions League.

Matthaus: Lewandowski is currently better than Messi and Ronaldo

Lothar Matthaus believes that neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo can match the level of Robert Lewandowski at the moment.

Willian wants to NUTMEG 'brother' David Luiz when Chelsea face Arsenal

Chelsea star Willian says he would not think twice about nutmegging David Luiz when he plays against his former team-mate next month.

Pique: Whether Valverde liked it or not, we were going out in New York

Numerous inside stories of incidents that took place behind the scenes at Barcelona are set to come to light with the release of the documentary 'Matchday'.

Alisson: When I looked at Messi & Suarez, they were feeling 'Roma' coming again

Liverpool's number one, Alisson Becker, gave an interview to 'The Independent' and spoke about many topics - including their historic win over FC Barcelona at Anfield. 

Pogba thanks his medical team as Man Utd star leaves Miami & returns to England

Paul Pogba has returned to England after receiving treatment on his ankle in Miami.

AF COLUMN & DEPTH

Tired, lonely & on the brink... Emery's like he knows his time at Arsenal is up

Unai Emery was stood on his own in the centre of one of London Colney’s finely manicured training pitches, clipboard grasped firmly in hand, without a single member of Arsenal’s playing squad or coaching staff within 20 metres of him.

Valverde still tops Football World Coach Rankings, Klopp, Pep & Sarri in top 5

The website Football World Rankings has published the latest world coach ranking.

11 dribbles from Messi, 10 saves from Navas... See the best stats in UCL Week 5

Whoscored have listed the best individual stats in Champions League Game Week 5.

WHAT'S HAPPENING

Messi wins the IFFHS World's Best Playmaker 2019 with overwhelming advantage

Lionel Messi won his fourfh Award of The World’s Best Playmaker after 2015, 2016 and 2017 with a runaway victory of 214 points before Belgium’s leaders De Bruyne and Hazard.

Most dribbles in a single UCL game this season: Messi holds 3 of top 4 👏

WhoScored has listed most successful dribbles in a single Champions League match this season.

Foden's FIFA 20 Ultimate Team revealed: No Messi or Ronaldo, himself included

Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden has clearly got a big future ahead of him, a creative player with immense talent, he's been gifted with brilliant technical ability that means he doesn't look out of place in Pep Guardiola's squad.

Messi & Griez lead most valuable XI of UCL Group F as 8 Barca players included

Transfermarkt makes an XI of most valuable players in Group F of Champions League. It is not surprising that most players are from Barcelona. Only 1 player is from Inter --- Skriniar. 

OFF THE PITCH

Rashford & Pepe shop with jeweller MJJ, spending up to £100k on watches

Man Utd’s Rashford and Arsenal star Pepe’s favourite jeweller MJJ, where diamond necklaces and watches cost up to £100k