I also thank all my team-mates, my two coaches, technical committee and all these amazing people employed by the club with whom I had the pleasure of sharing my days at the training centre and at Parc des Princes.

David Luiz helped PSG to a Ligue 1, Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue treble in both of his two seasons at the club and he was named in the FIFA World Team of the Year at the 2014 Ballon d Or awards.

The 29-year-old Brazil international scored eight goals in 89 games in all competitions for PSG, but will now seek to add to the 142 appearances he made in a Chelsea shirt between 2010 and 2014.

His message continued: To you the fans a very big, BIG THANK YOU! After two seasons at PSG, we had the opportunity to share unforgettable moments! Together w…

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert feels striker Grant Holt has nothing to prove against their former club Norwich City on Sunday.

Lambert and Holt combined to form a major part of Norwich s success between 2009 and 2011, which saw the club earn consecutive promotions from League One to the Premier League.

Experienced forward Holt scored 68 goals in 154 league appearances for Norwich before joining Wigan Athletic in July 2013, a year after Lambert left Carrow Road for Villa Park in acrimonious circumstances.

The pair were reunited in January when Lambert signed Holt on loan until the end of the season, with the 32-year-old set to play against Norwich for the first time since his departure in a key Premier League fixture this weekend.

And Lambert has backed the form…

Real Madrid have officially confirmed they will partake in FIFA s expanded Club World Cup after Carlo Ancelotti s comments about the competition were misinterpreted.

A statement was released by the recently crowned Champions League winners on Monday after Ancelotti told Italian daily Il Giornale he felt that FIFA had undervalued the compensation Los Blancos should receive for playing in next year s revamped 32-team tournament.

FIFA can forget it, footballers and clubs will not participate in that tournament, Ancelotti was quoted as saying.

However, the Italian distanced himself from those comments in a social media post on Monday.

Nothing could be further from my interest than to reject the possibility of playing in a tournament that I consider to be a…

Per Mertesacker is eager to sign a new deal with Arsenal amid suggestions he could return to the Bundesliga at the end of the season.

The 32-year-old s contract is due to expire in June 2017 and his former clubs Werder Bremen and Hannover are keeping a close eye on his situation.

But Mertesacker is set to disappoint his suitors as he wants to stay at Emirates Stadium.

A renewal with Arsenal is my absolute priority, the German told Spox.

But we have not made an appointment yet to discuss a new deal.

Arsenal are my top priority and everything else is just speculation.

Mertesacker, who arrived at the club in 2011, has nothing but praise for French boss Arsene Wenger.

Wenger should be immune to any public criticism. He has be…

Guingamp shrugged off their Ligue 1 struggles to win the Coupe de France with a 2-0 victory over Brittany rivals Rennes in Saturday s final.

Jocelyn Gourvennec s men are four points clear of the drop zone in the French top flight with three games remaining, but gave their fans a welcome break from relegation concerns by claiming a straightforward triumph in a repeat of the 2009 showpiece.

Guingamp were victorious in that clash five years ago and repeated the feat as Rennes who are not yet safe from the drop themselves missed the chance to end a 43-year wait for a major trophy.

Full-back Jonathan Martins Pereira emphatically put Guingamp ahead late in the first half at the Stade de France and Mustapha Yatabare added a second a minute after the interval, his third goal a…

Rivals ES Tunis and CS Sfaxien face each other this weekend in the third round of fixtures in the CAF Champions League group stages.

For the first time this season there will be an all-Tunisian clash in Africa s elite club competition, with two-time winners Tunis going into Sunday s game as underdogs after losing their opening two Group B encounters.

In stark contrast, Sfaxien who finished as runners-up to Tunis in the Tunisian Ligue 1 last season lead the way with four points from two games. However, Tunis have won three of their last four league matches with Sfaxien, but this will be their first continental meeting.

Sfaxien, runners-up in the 2006 Champions League, are unbeaten in their last five away games in the Champions League and have only conceded three goals …

According to , Daily Mail s arguably most reliable sport journalist, Everton are interested in Benfica s Andrija Živković.

Živković started out at Partizan Belgrade, where he spent four years and won the Super Liga title in 2014/15, and the Serbian Cup the following season. He carried his trohpy-winning habbit with him to Portugal in 2016, where he helped Benfica to season double of Primeira Liga title and the Taca De Portugal in 2016/17. He was a part of the Serbia U20 team that won the World Cup for that age group in 2015, and he is currently their senior international.

Apparently, Marco Silva has been following Živković s progress for a long time now and he s a big admirer of the 22-year-old winger. However, not only that Everton would have to fork out in exces…

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola claimed the double after he was crowned the League Manager s Association (LMA) Manager of the Year and the Premier League Manager of the Season.

Guardiola enjoyed a record-breaking season at the helm of champions City, who became the first Premier League side to reach 100 points, as the Spaniard scooped both awards on Tuesday.

The former Bayern Munich and Barcelona coach also helped City set Premier League bests in terms of wins (32), away wins (16), goal difference (+79), goals (106) and the most matches won in succession (18) after the Citizens finished 19 points clear of neighbours and second-placed Manchester United.

Guardiola held off Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp, Burnley s Sean Dyche, Wolves boss Nuno Espiro Santos, Card…

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin suggested there could be reform to the body s rules on racism but says the issue is a problem for wider society, not just football.

European football s governing body has faced criticism for not being strong enough with its punishments for discrimination.

Ceferin vowed to wage war on the racists after England players suffered racist abuse in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Bulgaria in October.

The Slovenian praised the commercial success of UEFA but conceded the organisation has more work to do when it comes to tackling racism.

Speaking at the UEFA Congress in Amsterdam on Tuesday, Ceferin said: Things need to change.

We must begin by applying the rules we already have. That would be a good starting point. That me…

Chris Hughton said Brighton cannot afford to rest after they earned a 1-0 win over Everton just two days before his fourth anniversary as manager.

Jurgen Locadia s second Premier League goal of the season settled a cagey encounter at the Amex Stadium in Brighton s favour and sent the Seagulls into the new year on the back of two unbeaten matches following a 1-1 draw against Arsenal in their previous outing.

Hughton took over at Brighton in December 2014 and secured automatic promotion from the Championship in April 2017, before guiding the club to 15th place in the table the following season.

Following a victory that leaves the club 13th in the table, Hughton paid tribute to the Brighton hierarchy, saying: I ve had great support from this club, from the chairma…