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13-time champions league winners and reigning European champions Real Madrid have finally announced their squad for the upcoming International Champions Cup fixtures. For the first time in 9 years, Real Madrid will be without their iconic No7 Cristiano Ronaldo in their squad as new boss Julen Lopetegui prepares the team for the pre-season friendlies. Real Madrid will be without their World Cup stars Raphael Varane, Luka Modric, Mateo Kovacic, Marcelo and Casemiro while new signings Andriy Lunin, Alvaro Odriozola and Vinicius Jr have been added to the squad Source: www. marca.com Goalkeepers: Keylor Navas, Kiko Casilla, Luca Zidane, Andriy Lunin. Defenders:  Dani Carvajal, Jesus Vallejo, Sergio Ramos, Nacho, Theo Hernandez, Alvaro Odriozola, Sergio Reguilón, Luismi Quezada, Sergio López, Javi Sánchez, De la fuente, Jose León Bernal. Midfielders: Toni   Kroos, Marcos Llorente, Marco Asensio, Isco, Dani Ceballos, Martin Odegaard, Federico Valverde, Jaime Seoan...

Werder Bremen has officially announced the capture of Davy Klaassen from Everton on an undisclosed fee, reportedly in the region of 12million euros. Source: SV Werder Bremen Twitter The former Ajax captain finally ends his tumultuous time with the Toffees after arriving at Goodison Park 2 years ago on a 23.6 million euro transfer from Ajax. The Dutch attacking midfielder had made just a little over 16 appearances for the club while failing to score any.

Source: AS Monaco Twitter Aleksandr Golovin has decided to join AS Monaco for an undisclosed fee, reportedly in the region of 27 million Euros, accepting a 5-year deal with the Ligue 1 side. Golovin joins the 2016/17 Ligue 1 champions amid heavy speculations linking him to the Premier League with Manchester United and Chelsea favourites to sign the 22-year old at one point of time. The Russian has been one of the finds of the 2018 World Cup, with the 22-year old helping Russia qualify to the quarterfinals, scoring 1 wonderful free-kick and assisting 2 goals in the tournament. The 22-year old joins the Mediterranean coastal line club after 4 years with CSKA Moscow, making more than 81 appearances and scoring 9 goals for the Russian club.

Source: Getty Images Premier League newcomers Wolverhampton Wanders has signed Euro Cup winner Joao Moutinho from AS Monaco for 5 million euros on a two-year deal. With the signing of Moutinho manager, Nuno Espirito Santo has made 9 new additions to the last season Championship winners. The 2014 Euro winner joined Monaco from Porto and has made over 158 appearances for the Ligue 1 side scoring 9 goals during his five-year stint.

Source: i2-prod.mirror.co.uk Reigning La Liga and Copa del Ray winners Barcelona has announced their squad for the upcoming International Champions Cup. Ernesto Valvedere will be looking to win the only trophy that has eluded Barcelona for a few years, the Uefa Champions League, in his second season in charge of the Catalan club. Source: i.ytimg.com Valvedere will be without talisman Lionel Messi, centre-forward Luis Suarez and all the Barcelona players who advanced beyond the group stages of the World Cup while new signings Clement Lenglet and Arthur Melo while Malcolm who recently joined Barcelona will be left out. Valvedere has also decided to add 13 players from the Barcelona B team in a bid to experience to the youngsters. Barcelona Squad Source: cdn.vox-cdn.com Goalkeeper Marc Andre Ter Stegen, Jasper Cilessen, Jokin Ezkiet Defenders Nelson Semedo, Lucas Digne, Alex Vidal, Clement Lenglet, Marlon Santos, Sergi Palencia, Marc Cucurella, Oscar ...

Source: http://a3.espncdn.com Fulham has signed former Chelsea winger Andre Schurrle from Borussia Dortmund on a 2-year long loan deal. The 27-year old former Premier League winner with Chelsea player will join the likes of Terry Ablade, Maxime Le Marchand, Jean Seri and Fabri as the fifth new signing at the Craven Cottage. The 2014 World Cup winner has had a relatively poor outing last season as the German found it hard to break into the first team mould of the  Die Schwarzgelben only making 12 competitive starts for the club scoring a just a single goal and registering only 4 assist.

Source: Marca Reigning Europa League winners Atletico Madrid has announced their squad for the upcoming International Champions Cup fixtures to be held in Singapore. Diego Simeone has reinforced his side with new signings Gelson Martins, Nehuen Perez, Thomas Lemar and Rodrigo while club legends Gabi and Fernando Torres along with Diego Jota have left the club Atletico Madrid Squad Goalkeepers Jan Oblak, Antonio Adan, Alex dos Santos Defenders  Juanfran Torres, Aitor Punal, Andres Solano, Francisco Montero, Alberto Rodriguez Tachi, Carlos Isaac Midfielders   Rodrigo Hernandez, Thomas Partey, Vitolo, Roberto Olabe, Toni Moya, Oscar Garcia Quintela, Mikel Carro, Joaquin Munoz, Victor Mollejo Forwards  Angel Correa, Kevin Gameiro, Luciano Vietto, Borja Garces

Source: Getty Images Arsenal has announced their squad for the upcoming International Champions Cup to be held in Singapore. This will be the first time in the 21st century and the first time in 22 years that Arsenal will be without their legendary manager Arsene Wenger in the dugout. New Boss Unai Emery will be looking make a statement to the other Premier League rivals as they start off their campaign against Athletico Madrid on the 25th of July (US time). Arsenal Squad for the 2018 International Champions Cup Goalkeepers  Petr Cech, Bernd Leno, Emiliano Marinez Defenders Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Hector Bellerin, Rob Holding, Calum Chambers, Sead Kolasinac, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Shkodran Mustafi, Jordi Osei-Tutu,  Midfielders  Mohamed Elneny, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Aaron Ramsay, Mesut Ozil, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Matteo Guendouzi, Emile Smith Rowe, Joe Willock Forwards   Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, Alex Iwobi, R...

Source: assets1.sportsnet.ca 7-time Champions League winners AC Milan have announced their squad for the upcoming International Champions Cup to be held in the United States of America. Manager Genero Gattuso has reinforced the Milan side with the new signings of Ivan Strinic, Fabio Borini (last season he was on loan), Nikola Kalinic (last season he was on loan), Pepe Reina and Alen Halilovic while selling M'Baye Niang, Gianluca Lapadula, Gianmarco Zigoni and Niccolo Zanellato  AC Milan Squad GOALKEEPERS Gianluigi Donnarumma, Antonio Donnarumma, Pepe Reina DEFENDERS Ignazio Abate, Luca Antonelli, Gabriele Bellodi, Leonardo Bonucci, Davide Calabria, Mateo Musacchio, Ricardo Rodriguez, Alessio Romagnoli, Stefan Simic, Cristian Zapata MIDFIELDERS Andrea Bertolacci, Giancomo Bonaventura, Marco Brescianini, Hakan Calhanoglu, Alen Halilovic, Frank Kessie, Manuel Locatelli, Jose Mauri, Emanuele Torrasi FORWARDS Fabio Borini, Patrick Cutrone, Nikola Kalinic, And...

Source: Getty Images In one of the most epic transfer deals to be done recent history, Malcolm has decided to snub AS Roma in favour of Barcelona after the Spanish giants made an 11th-hour bid to Bordeaux to snatch the 21-year old winger from Brazil to Camp Nou in a 36.5 million pound deal a day after Roma announced they had made a deal with the talented Brazilian. The young Brazilian joins La Liga champions Barcelona on a five-year deal after a 2 and half season stint with French club Bordeaux that saw the Brazilian making 84 appearances and scoring 20 goals.

Source: amazonaws.com Last season Champions League quarterfinalists AS Roma have announced their squad for the upcoming International Champions Cup. Eusebio Di Francesco has added a breath of fresh new talents into the squad with 21-year Ante Coric, 19-year old Justin Kluivert, 18-year old Nicolo Zaniolo, 18-year old William Bianda and 21-year old Daniel Fuzato along with the experienced campaigners like Ivan Marcano, Antonio Mirante, Javier Pastore, Davide Santon and Robin Olsen joining the side. While key players of the past few seasons like Radja Nainggolan and Alisson Becker along with the second keeper Lukas Skorupski, Marco Tumminello and Arturo Calabresi have left the club. Goalkeepers Antonio Mirante, Daniel Fuzato, Matteo Cardinali Defenders Rick Karsdorp, Luca Pellegrini, Juan Jesus, Aleksandar Kolarov, Ivan Marcano, Davide Santon, Federico Fazio, Alessandro Florenzi, Kostas Manolas, William Bianda Midfielders Bryan Cristante, Kevin Strootman, Lorenzo Pe...

Source: Getty Images The London based club has announced their squad for the upcoming International Champions Cup in the United States of America. Tottenham Hotspur has not added any reinforcement to their squad and has not seen any key members of the side moving out.  Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino has left out World Cup stars Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Hugo Lloris, Toby Alderweireld, Moussa Dembele, Kieran Trippier, Danny Rose, Jan Vertonghen, Eric Dier and Mousa Dembele while Argentine Juan Foyth is set to miss out the opening half of the season with a thigh injury sustained in the friendly against Brentford, although being selected to the squad. Goalkeepers   Brandon Austin, Paulo Gazzaniga, Michael Vorm, Alfie Whiteman Defenders   Serge Aurier, Cameron Carter-Vickers, Ben Davies, TJ Eyoma, Juan Foyth, Davinson Sanchez, Kyle Walker-Peters Midfielders  Luke Amos, Christian Eriksen, Anthony Georgiou, George Marsh, Georges-Kevin Nkou...

Source: Getty Images Marco is set to reunite with former player Richarlison as Everton agrees a potential 50million pound deal for the Brazilian. According to the BBC Everton are set to offer initially a 35 million pounds for the Brazilian with further clauses taking it to 50 million pounds. It was the Spaniard who signed the then-unknown Richarlison to the Vicarage road, when he was the manager of Watford,  from Fluminense in 11.5 million pound deal. Richardson had a bright start to his Premier League career as he netted 5 goals in his first 12 appearances before gradually going out of form since the departure of the Spaniard from Watford.

Source: Manoramaonline.com With Kerala Blasters set to take on A-League side Melbourne City at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi in the Toyota Yaris LaLiga World pre-season friendly tournament, the first of its kind in India, Let's quickly take a look at the 5 possible formations in which the Kerala Blasters can line-up in the upcoming tournament.   1. 3-1-4-2 Last season saw David James reverting the Kerala Blasters from a 4 man defence under Rene Meulensteen to a 3-man defence with Wes Brown, Sandesh Jhingan and Lalruathara occupying the 3 central back position. Former Indian U17 goalkeeper Dheeraj Singh might be picked up as the first choice keeper ahead of the more experienced Naveen Kumar while James might look upon new signing Anas Edathodika, club captain Sandesh Jhingan and Lalruathara or Nemanja Lakic-Pesic or new foreign recruit Cyril Kali to make the back three. The defensive midfielder ahead of the 3-man defence is the only position that t...

Source: fm. cnbc.com 7-time consecutive and reigning Seria A champions Juventus has announced their squad for the 2018 International Champions Cup Maximiliano Allegri has added new signings Joao Cancelo, Emre Can, Mattia Perin and Andrea Favilli while leaving out their new superstar signing Cristiano Ronaldo. World Cup stars Mario Mandzukic, Marko Pjaca and Blaise Matuidi are all given extended holidays while Paulo Dybala, Gonzalo Higuain, Juan Cuadrado, Rodrigo Bentancur and Douglas Costa are out injured. Juventus Squad Source: ytimg.com Goalkeepers: Mattia Perin, Carlo Pinsoglio, Mattia Del Favero,   Wojciech Szczesny Defenders: Mattia De Sciglio,  Giorgio Chiellini,  Mehdi Benatia, Alex Sandro, Mattia Caldara, Andrea Barzagli, Joao Cancelo, Daniele Rugani, Pietro Beruatto,  Roman Macek,  Grigoris Kastanos Midfielders Miralem Pjanic,  Sami Khedira,  Claudio Marchiso, Emre Can,  Leandro Fernandes,  Matheu...

With the big guns like Romelu Lukaku, David De Gea, Paul Poga and the rest missing from Manchester United arsenal Jose Mourinho has looked upon the fabled Manchester United Academy to provide him with the necessary replacements for the Red Devils. Let us take a look at the Seven players that Mourinho has decided to take to the US for the pre-season tour. 1.  James Garner Source: Metro.co.uk The Birkenhead born along with Angel Gomes and Mason Greenwood, was one of the stars for the U-18 side as they clinched the Premier League North champions for Red Devils.  The 17-year old was born on 13th of March 2001 and  is a product of the Manchester United youth system starting his football career in the Manchester-based side as he made through the U-8s and U-9s before representing the U-18 side less than 15 months ago. The first full season for Red Devils under Kieran McKenna saw the midfielder making 20 appearances for the U-18 side scoring 4 goals whi...