Premier League team news and more: weekend football countdown – live!

Fellow footballers pay tribute to Emiliano SalaThe latest football news before the weekend’s gamesAnd email Gregg here or tweet @GreggBakowski 1.50pm GMT Pep Guardiola is showing no signs of title-race nerves given his bold choice of attire for his press conference. He’s turned up wearing an outrageous multicoloured striped jumper that looks like it’s been plucked from the year 1976. It the busiest sweater you’ll see this year. Unbelievable confidence from Guardiola to roll that sweater out pic.twitter.com/F9Zvfb0R2UI didn’t know it. What? Fuck! I’ll have to install Instagram. I have to figure out what the manager wants to do. I see Chelsea and I can understand what they want to do. When you see the team and the players they have and the midfield players they have and the striker, the best players in the world … I have a lot of respect [for them]. The game on Sunday is a final for us. I want to feel like it’s a final for us. He has incredible moments … he doesn’t need much to score a goal. He has incredible experience. He’s an exceptional striker. 1.36pm GMT And let’s zoom over to south-west London now, where Maurizio Sarri has been talking about how his Chelsea side are now only in the running for a top-four place – he sounds a bit negative and says his team is quite some distance behind Manchester City and need money or “hard work” to bridge the gap.At the moment in my opinion Manchester City are the best team in Europe. We have to work. Guardiola is in his third season. We need to work or we need to be more competitive in the market. We have to try to reduce the gap.I speak every day with Eden but I speak about hi position on the pitch. I will be really very happy with him if he wants to stay. Because you now very well that in my opinion he is the best in Europe. But it’s up to him, I think. I want to see him happy. And so he has to decide. Continue reading…
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