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Following another season of narrowly missing out on the Champions League, the vultures are again circling White Hart Lane hoping to pounce on the club's best assets.

Borussia Dortmund midfielder Ilkay Guendogan will stay at the Champions League finalists for at least one more season but has left his long-term future at the club open.

Ilkay Gundogan is on the verge of signing a new contract with Bundesliga and Champions League runners-up Borussia Dortmund.

'I had three-and-a-half years with Jose and it was like being at A Harvard University,' says Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers And while that nickname the Blues man has coined may inspire feelings of nausea, it also highlights the A influence A Mourinho will have on the A Premier League following his return .

Stuart Pearce's England head to Israel as Sky Bet's fourth favourites to lift the Under 21 trophy.

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The UEFA Champions League is over for another season, and that gives time to pause and reflect on the events of the 12 months just past.

Arjen Robben's thrilling winner brought the curtain down on a pulsating Champions League final and drew to a close a thoroughly engrossing tournament.

The Germans have officially taken over European football and Wembley Stadium, as Borussia Dortmund take on their title rivals Bayern Munich for a Champions League final which has been painted as the Cinderella story versus the Bavarian giants out to make up for the mistakes of last year.

An hour after the first of Jrgen Klopp's many jokes, interspersed with his worldly insights into football and life, he returns to a more personal memory.

Renowned for his stunning reflex saves at point-blank range. 20-Mitchell Langerak: 24: The Australian has been playing second fiddle to Weidenfeller for several seasons.

Borussia Dortmund midfielder Mario Goetze will miss Saturday's Champions League final against Bayern Munich due to a thigh muscle injury, the Bundesliga club said on Wednesday.

He built a team of youngsters, with an annual wage-bill of A 40m and now they are a game away from being crowned Kings of Europe.