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Real Madrid defender Fabio Coentrao has joined French side Monaco on a season-long loan deal. The Portugal left-back struggled for first-team football at the Spanish club last season. Former Manchester United manager David Moyes tried to bring him to Old Trafford in September 2013 but a transfer deadline day loan …

UEFA have announced their Champions League group pots for the draw later today, firstly here are a breakdown of the rules: There are 32 clubs. 22 qualified automatically. Ten won through from the play-offs. There are four seeding pots. Pot 1 consists of the champions of the eight highest-ranked UEFA …

BATE Borisov managed to advance to the Champions League group phase last night on away goals, a 2-1 defeat to Belgrade was enough to see them through. Here are some brief highlights (I know nothing else about the game, I just wanted to use this snazzy tagline)

I bet Wayne Rooney wishes he could play Club Brugge every week, he actually looked like the Rooney of old last night. Admittedly it wasn’t the toughest test last night but that hat-trick should hopefully set him in good stead and get his misfiring league campaign up and running this …

If you haven’t seen last Sunday’s Match Of The Day 2 – then you still have a few days to catch all of last weekends Premier League action (UK Viewers only – unless you are using a VPN) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06852q0

If you haven’t yet seen any of the Capital One Cup highlights from last night then here are is a link to all the action. (UK Viewers Only) http://www.channel5.com/shows/capital-one-cup-highlights/episodes/episode-2-775

If you didn’t see Shakhtar Donetsk vs Rapid Wien last night (and chances are you probably didn’t) then here is all you need to know:

Did Celtic even turn up last night? Ok that’s a bit unfair but they certainly were the lesser of the two sides and probably deserved to be dumped out of the Champions League after last nights performance Craig Gordon did keep them in the game with that fantastic double save …

Maccabi Tel Aviv have dumped Basel out of the Champions League on away goals to book their first group-stage participation in the competition for 11 years following a 1-1 draw on the night. With the aggregate score at 2-2 following last week’s stalemate in Switzerland, Maccabi’s two away goals gave …

Another week is in the books for this season’s FPL. Let’s see who the movers and shakers were this week: There’s a new king in town and it seems as if this pundit knows what he is talking about as “The Everyday Pundit” surges to the top of the Real …