The Spain international striker will be donning the No. 29 jersey for the Blues next season, with the decision taken to move down the squad list Alvaro Morata has left Chelsea without a No. 9, with the Spanish striker opting to switch his squad number to 29 for the 2018-19 campaign. Having moved to Stamford Bridge in a club-record £70 million ($91.9m) deal last summer, the 25-year-old was offered the chance to follow in some illustrious footsteps. Morata happily snapped up a jersey usually offered to leading frontmen, with the Blues expecting big things of a big-money addition. He was able to contribute 15 goals in his debut campaign, but was more Fernando Torres than Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. Morata will be hoping to offer more to the cause in the upcoming season, despite Chelsea’s links to more high-profile additions and uncertainty surrounding his own future , and will take on that challenge free of the pressure No. 9 brings. Explaining the logic behind his decision to swap numbers, ...

Bonucci won six Serie A titles at Juventus before joining AC Milan Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci has rejoined Serie A champions Juventus from AC Milan, while striker Gonzalo Higuain has moved the opposite way. AC Milan will pay 18m euros (£16m) for the loan of Higuain and have the option to make the deal permanent in a year by paying a fee of 36m euros (£32.04m). Meanwhile, Italy defender Mattia Caldara has left Juve to join AC Milan. Bonucci, 31, and Caldara, 24, is a swap deal with both transfers worth 35m euros (£31.2m). Argentina striker Higuain, 30, scored 16 Serie A goals last season. Higuain, who was linked with a move to Premier League side Chelsea, joined Juve from Napoli for a then  domestic record fee  of £75.3m in 2016 and scored 40 league goals in two seasons. AC Milan  said in a statement:  "Gonzalo and Mattia are two important pieces of the new era of the club." Gonzalo Higuain was mobbed when he arrived in Milan on Thursday Bo...

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Anthony Martial says he will join Manchester United training on Thursday, after risking discipline by failing to return following the birth of his second child. Martial, 22, left United's Los Angeles training camp last week to attend the birth of his son, but after the safe arrival of Swan Anthony, he did not return to United's preseason tour of the United States or report back to Carrington. After leaving the U.S. on Wednesday, he has not trained under the supervision of club coaches for eight days. If United decide to take action it could mean the forward is hit with a fine of two weeks wages totalling £180,000. Manager Jose Mourinho questioned on Saturday why Martial had not flown back to the U.S. to rejoin the squad and said after Tuesday's win over Real Madrid that he "didn't know" when the former Monaco man would be back in training. But Martial broke his silence to give his side of the story on Wednesday, appearing to suggest he had remained in Paris w...

Everton have announced the signing of left-back Lucas Digne from Barcelona on a five-year deal. The 25-year old joined Barca from Paris St-Germain in 2016, and won La Liga and Ligue 1 titles with his former Everton have stumped up around £18m for Lucas Digne which actually looks to represent pretty sound business in this day and age. The full-back who will wear the number 12 shirt at Goodison Park has 21 international caps for France after all. However he was on standby for the World Cup in Russia this summer, where his compatriots won the Lucas Digne - who also spent a year on loan at Roma - made 46 appearances for Barcelona. And he said farewell to the Catalan club in an Instagram post on Sunday in which he thanked the staff for making the club "a family". Digne is Everton manager Marco Silva's second major signing this summer following the arrival of Brazilian Richarlison from Watford...

A move to Stamford Bridge looked all but guaranteed, but concerns over playing time has swayed the attacking midfielder's mind Chelsea have been handed a blow in the transfer market as Aleksandr Golovin has opted to move to Monaco rather than Stamford Bridge, with the Russia international set to put pen to paper on Friday. Golovin's transfer will cost the Ligue 1 outfit €30 million (£26.5m/$35m) up front, Goal understands, with CSKA Moscow in line to receive a percentage of any future sale of the 22-year-old star. The player will undergo a medical on Thursday and will sign a five-year deal with the Ligue 1 side, with his presentation likely to be on Friday. Golovin, tipped to be a future star ahead of the World Cup, had been linked with The Blues for some time, with the London club's Russian links making the move seem all the more achievable. Russia performed well above expectations as they hosted football's biggest tournament this summer, with Golovin playing a key rol...

Manchester United have welcomed two key men onto their pre-season tour as both Fred and David De Gea were spotted in training yesterday. Fred has been sidelined with an ankle injury picked up in Brazil training ahead of the World Cup but has now finally joined up with his new team-mates. The 25-year-old, who will wear No 17 after Daley Blind’s exit, completed his move to Old Trafford from Shakhtar Donetsk for £52million earlier this summer. De Gea was back in action following his post-World Cup holiday, although Spain failed to impress in Russia as they were knocked out by the hosts in the last 16. Meanwhile, United welcomed yet another celebrity guest to pre-season as WWE star Rey Mysterio posed for pictures alongside Jose Mourinho and his players. Take a look through the gallery above to see the best pictures from Manchester United’s latest pre-season training session.