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armory Forward Gabriel Jesus is once again talking up a return to Palmeiras – and at this point, it’s starting to feel like a weekly episode.

The 28-year-old has been consistently linked with a summer exit. Reports point to Italy, with AC Milan interested, while Brazil remains an emotional option in the background.

At the same time, Gabriel Jesus has made it clear more than once that his priority is to renew with Arsenal. If it doesn’t happen then he wants live in europeIdeally in the Premier League.

And yet, here we are again.

This season has not been straightforward. Gabriel Jesus has played 21 matches, starting seven of them, scoring five goals and adding one assist. Injuries have once again limited his impact.

Nevertheless, when available, he has been useful to Mikel Arteta. This keeps him relevant in the team even without the guarantee of a starting role.

Now, his latest comments add another layer to an already confusing picture.

Gabriel Jesus keeps Palmeiras’ dream alive

talking to globo esporteGabriel Jesus once again opened the door for a return to Palmeiras – and did so with great enthusiasm.

“My main focus today is still on Arsenal, making things happen here, helping the coach as he needs. Then, obviously, when the season ends, we start thinking”He said.

“My desire is to return to Palmeiras one day and win more titles. I have already felt what it’s like to win there. That’s still in me, it’s a very strong desire.”

He also revealed that he has had several long talks with Palmeiras manager Abel Ferreira during his return to the club.

“When I went to train in Palmeiras I had the opportunity to talk with him two or three times for more than an hour. We always talked good about football and life.”

All very hot. Everything is very open. All very… recurring.

No offer – at least not yet

However, there was actually a new detail. This time, Gabriel Jesus admitted that Palmeiras has not yet taken any steps to bring him back.

“Of course, I have to get an offer from Palmeiras as well. But my relationship with them has always been very good and always will be. I am very grateful to them.”

Although the emotional connection is strong, no concrete steps have been taken from Brazil at this stage. And it feels like he’s begging for it.

trying to balance everything

At this stage, Gabriel Jesus is managing to keep every possible door open.

he talks Renewal with Arsenal. he talks living in europe. he talks return to palmeras. Sometimes all within the same week.

No one paid any attention to that. Frustration is growing among Palmeiras fans in Brazil. Some people believe that he is too dependent on the emotional connection without showing any real intention of returning in the short term.

Meanwhile, Arsenal fans are left staring at a player who contributes when fit, but regularly brings to mind the thought of leaving.

In the end, he’s managing to annoy two fans at once.

what happens next

Gabriel Jesus has not taken any definite decision. But unless Arsenal make a move on a renewal, or a concrete offer comes from Europe, the comments are likely to continue.

At the moment, there has been no offer from Palmeiras yet. There has been no final call from Arsenal either.

Once again, Gabriel Jesus is talking about Palmeiras – and keeping everyone guessing.

Chelsea and Newcastle United are set to sign Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Gregor Kobel in a summer transfer.

The Switzerland international’s move to the Bundesliga side has not gone unnoticed as the Blues only showed interest last summer.

In April 2025, Sport Witness Covered Claims Told the German that Chelsea is serious about him.

Two months later, the stopper said that his love for the BVB fans convinced him to stay despite interest from the west London club.

That time, He said: : “Everyone knows I feel extremely comfortable at Dortmund. I love the fans, the stadium, the club and the atmosphere. Everyone knows it and sees it when I’m on the pitch. I really appreciate it.”

Chelsea and Newcastle United target Cobble transfer

March is fast approaching and the 28-year-old is back on the agenda for Liam Rosenior’s side and this time, Newcastle United have joined them in the transfer race.

is according to foot marketWho cover Chelsea and the Magpies’ interest in Gregor Kobel.

English clubs are ‘tracking’ the stopper and could fight to bring him to the Premier League in the summer.

Bayern Munich are also in the mix, along with the Blues and Eddie Howe’s team. The Bavarian club are considering the Borussia Dortmund star as a replacement for 40-year-old Manuel Neuer.

The Swiss left VfB Stuttgart in 2021 and moved to Signal Iduna Park and has remained number 1 ever since. Since joining BVB, he has been a top-tier stopper in Europe, which has generated interest in him.

Foot Mercato, who clarify that this is their own information, report that Cobell could take the ‘next step’ in his career after this season. It remains to be seen whether this will lead to a move to England or Bayern Munich.

His Bundesliga statistics this season are as follows:

• Appearances: 27
• Start: 27
• Target allowed: 28
• Clean sheets: 12

transfer market He is worth €40 million. With a contract until 2028, the German club could demand more than his current valuation. Without renewal there will be pressure to transfer in the summer.

Foot Mercato established him as one of Europe’s leading goalkeepers.

Chelsea and Newcastle United can improve

The Blues have Robert Sanchez, Filip Jorgensen and Gabriel Slonina as their three stoppers at Stamford Bridge. The Spaniard lost his place in the starting lineup to Jorgensen at the start of the season, before regaining his place.

Both goalkeepers have failed to fully convince Chelsea, who may keep an eye on Gregor Cobel. This might be possible if Mike Penders or Dorsey Petrovic [both out on loan] Will not be considered.

Meanwhile, Eddie Howe has Nick Pope, Aaron Ramsdale and Mark Gillespie at St James’ Park. The contract of the former expires in 2027 while the contract of the latter is till this June.

Pope’s mixed performances led the Newcastle United coach to rely on Ramsdale, who is on loan from Southampton.

Considering the status of the trio, the Borussia Dortmund star could easily become the Magpies’ new No. 1 next season.

🇩🇪Nick Voltemade | wants everyone to calm down

➡️ Asked directly if he doesn’t suit Eddie Howe’s tactics
➡️ Definitely not trying to rock the boathttps://t.co/rT6xUgGQi0 #nufc

– Sports Witness (@Sport_Witness) 3 April 2026

Fans will know the results of the NBA vote in the coming days employed Forming teams in Las Vegas and Seattle by the 2028–2029 season.

Expansion has always been on the NBA’s agenda, especially with its continued success and expanding reach. It has been at the forefront of globalization in sports, possibly including the introduction of NBA Europe.

It was recently reported that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver would be working with FIBA ​​to launch a league similar to soccer in Europe, specifically in major cities.

NBA insider Mark Stein, however, does not agree with the idea, expressing concern on the “All-NBA Podcast” that the league may be biting off more than it can chew.

“I’ve spent a lot of time watching soccer in England, and I’m just trying to imagine NBA Europe franchises in London and Manchester that would essentially be expansion teams. You know, start-up teams. It’s different when you’re talking about Real Madrid and Barcelona going from the EuroLeague to NBA Europe,” Steen said.

“Those teams have a history. Those teams already have a fan base. They’ll obviously bring immediate credibility to NBA Europe. But a large portion of NBA Europe is in cities that don’t currently have basketball. And how is that going to work if the talent level isn’t good?”

Some are already concerned that competition will weaken if the NBA expands to Las Vegas and Seattle. So what’s more if NBA Europe moves forward? Silver and FIBA ​​are reportedly planning to start with a 12-team or 16-team league.

Europe’s talented players may spurn the NBA to stay closer to home. At the start of the current season, 71 Europeans were part of the opening-night roster, the most in league history.

In January, the NBA held two games featuring the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic in Berlin and London. Meanwhile, Paris has hosted five Games since 2020.

Arsenal star Piero Hincapie has defended his playing styleEmphasizing that they are not doing anything illegal from their point of view.

sportbild Get an interview with the 24-year-old today. They discussed a variety of topics, including ongoing criticism of Arsenal’s playing style under Mikel Arteta.

The Gunners currently top the Premier League table with seven points after 30 games. Second-placed Manchester City, with a game in hand, could ease it.

But at the moment the title is in the hands of Arsenal. Manchester City’s draw against Nottingham Forest last week was seen as giving Arsenal the advantage once again.

Arsenal’s long lead

The Gunners have held top spot for most of the season, spending 147 nights at the top of the table so far. He took the top spot for the first time in Match Week 7 in October and has remained there since.

However, this number means little, as they spent 248 days in the lead before finishing second in the 2022/23 season. This is a record of being ahead without winning the title.

In fact, they have been runners-up for three consecutive seasons, a record they are desperate to break this year. This has led to a more pragmatic approach from Arteta, whose team has the best defensive record in the league.

They are also dominant from set-pieces, having scored 22 goals from set-pieces already. This has seen them break various records, including most goals from corners, most match-winning goals from corners and being the fastest team to reach 10 goals from set pieces.

deadly from set pieces

The Gunners are lethal from set piece scenarios, with almost 38% of their 58 league goals coming from such situations. This has been criticized, but Hincapie disagrees.

“Our desire to win makes us perfectionists,” He said.

“We pay attention to details. Our set-piece strength is talked about throughout Europe. It is the result of daily training with our set-piece coach, Nico Jover. It sounds annoying, but the results mean that every one of us is eager to score from a corner or free kick.

“The most important thing to me is that we are successful and don’t do anything illegal in the process. You can’t always win beautifully.”

“Sometimes you have to play smart and fight to the limit of what is allowed. You have to have courage. In the double-win season, not all of our games were good to watch, but we won them.”

unbeatable odds

Of course, the problem for Arsenal is that their history shows that you can win by playing ‘beautiful’ football.

The last team to win the title for the club, the Invincibles, are famous for their champagne football and the style they brought to the game.

In comparison, he scored six goals from corners in the Premier League that year.

This huge difference reflects the differences between the two sides, meaning the criticism is likely to continue, even if Hincapie doesn’t want to hear it.

Despite this, he will not care if Arsenal secure the title.

🇩🇰Christian Nørgaard | Arteta meeting on status change

✅ Everyone is being taken positively by the midfielder
✈️Denmark manager also traveled to join
💬 Arsenal players explain what happened + their stancehttps://t.co/2WdAhZwNzz #afc

– Sports Witness (@Sport_Witness) 10 March 2026

During his NBA career, Joakim Noah was the quintessential fan favorite. He played 13 seasons with utmost zeal and passion, which naturally earned him tremendous praise from the paying customers. That was certainly the case during his nine years with the Chicago Bulls (2007-2016).

He became a two-time NBA All-Star (2013, 2014) and was the 2014 NBA Defensive Player of the Year. In the process, Noah teamed up with Derrick Rose, Taj Gibson and Kirk Hinrich to bring excitement back to the Windy City in the post-Michael Jordan era.

In 2011 and 2015, the Bulls made the playoffs. Noah and company led the Bulls to the best record in the East in 2011 with a 62–20 record and a berth in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Outside the court, Noah was the kindest person. He has his own Noah’s Ark Foundation to host a “peace” basketball tournament to support Chicago youth and prevent the spread of gun violence. Those efforts earned him the NBA Community Assistance Award in 2015.

In his post-playing years, Noah has tried his best to keep basketball the focal point. On one hand, changing lives and on the other, learning about the world.

The latter of which has enabled him to launch the documentary YouTube series, nomad. Noah, in collaboration with NBAT2, organizes globetrots to explore different basketball cultures in places ranging from Serbia to Japan.

In an exclusive with ClutchPoints, Noah talks candidly about his findings from his travels, especially from the audience’s perspective.

Joakim Noah fans celebrate freedom.

In American pro basketball, it is very common for fans to be ejected if they are too rowdy. And if they’re sitting in court, they’re especially at risk for possible removal.

However, in one episode, Noah visits Serbia. Of all the things that stood out to them, it was the reality that fans could just be. In other words, fans can do or say whatever they want without any repercussions.

“Even people sitting courtside are going crazy for their teams and letting the players hear it,” Noah said.

“Fans are definitely free to say what they want. And you think about the NBA, especially right now, if you’re a fan that’s out of line even a little bit, you’re being escorted off the field. That’s not the case there.”

Noah acknowledges the role fans play in making the sporting experience thrilling.

“You better bring it over,” Noah said. “And to me, I think that, I don’t know, there was something really refreshing about it. That a fan is paying money, but he has the right to push the player and say whatever he wants. And I think there was something about that that I think was very refreshing.”

Joakim Noah learned something about himself while living in Japan

During another venture into Japan, Noah was struck by the culture of respect and decency. In their basketball culture, altercations and arguments with officials are rare.

“Going to Japan and understanding their culture a little better and understanding why they have that level of respect for each other as a culture,” Noah said. “You see it in the culture. You never see Japanese players having technical fouls.”

In the process, Noah reflected on his career and the intensity it displayed, and he was surprised by something.

“So for me, it was an example of looking at myself and saying, wow, if I had studied these cultures a little bit, maybe I would have had a lot less stress, who knows? So it’s always a learning experience.”

Calm, cool, collected, or gritty, fiery, or gladiator. The game of basketball is played in different ways around the world. They are all beautiful and connected to their existence.

And Joachim Noah is on the ground, telling those stories.

Just days before the All-Star break earlier this month, Kevin Durant took aim at American-born basketball players for not attempting during the NBA All-Star Game.

“You have to ask the European and world teams if they’re going to compete,” Durant said. “If you look at Luka Doncic and Nikola Jokic right now, let’s go back and see what they do in the All-Star Game. Is that competition? So, we haven’t questioned what they’re doing. But we’re going to question the old heads and the Americans.”

The comments sparked a strong conversation, which was an excuse for both American teams to beat Team World in the new All-Star Game format. Now, he’s continuing his campaign against rhetoric he considers unfair to American players and a subtext that isn’t often talked about in the ESPN report about their playing in the 2028 Olympics.

“That’s a lot of bull—with it. I can read between the lines on that. It’s a shot at black Americans. We’re controlling the game. They’re tired of us controlling the game.

He added, “’France is coming for you.’ Really? We beat up those boys.”

Durant is right, as the 2024 version of Team USA defeated the Victor Wembanyama-led French national team at the Olympics. Team USA has won a gold medal in every Summer Olympics since a shocking bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics.

Durant also said he is not ruling out playing in the LA Olympics in the summer of 2028, indicating that the media has planted a narrative that he and Steph Curry will not throw their hat in the ring.

“You guys, the media, have anticipated this,” Durant recently told ESPN. “Where did that narrative, the last dance thing, come from? I didn’t say I wasn’t playing. LeBron said he wasn’t playing. You didn’t hear that from me or Steph.”

With the NBA now regularly hosting regular season games in cities such as Paris, London, Mexico City and Berlin, conversations about potential European leagues or expansion franchises internationally are gaining momentum. In particular, the NBA’s ongoing effort to bring regular season basketball to international territories may rely on Dyson Daniels and the Atlanta Hawks for support. Australian and inventive head coach Quin Snyder fully agrees, lobbying for more European and Austrian-based regular season games around the NBA All-Star break.

For Snyder, the initiative comes handy in an industry that has become increasingly global. The NBA’s efforts to strengthen ties with international markets is a positive development for all.

“I think (the NBA Europe project) is great,” Snyder told ClutchPoints. “The league is global and has players from all over the world. So playing in Europe, whether it’s in London, Paris or Berlin, there are games everywhere right now. You hear a lot about European players watching the NBA before they come here, and I think more and more American kids are exposed to basketball internationally.”

Snyder pointed to the long pipeline of European talent entering the league as evidence of basketball’s growing international roots, while influence flows in both directions.

“You usually see an increase during the World Cup or the Olympics,” Snyder said. “The more the game expands internationally, the better it is for everyone in the NBA. So, there are a lot of benefits from teams and players going out there. Whether it’s cultural benefits or raising awareness about other parts of this world that we live in.”

As decision-makers look to take advantage of the game’s global momentum, the increase in support reflects a growing sentiment among coaches and players that the league’s future success depends largely on its ability to think beyond the boundaries. For Snyder, the strategy is straightforward; The more the NBA invests overseas, the stronger the league will be domestically.

Earlier this week, sports witness Covered BILD’s claims about Tottenham’s interest in Leon Goretzka.

Igor Tudor’s side are said to be competing with Arsenal for the German, whose contract at Bayern Munich expires in the summer.

The newspaper is convinced that the midfielder has decided to leave Bavaria after a period of eight years.

His stance regarding the future club was not clear, but now information is emerging from Italy about his priorities and demands.

Tottenham can get a big benefit

interest The report regarding the Germany international, makes it clear that Inter Milan are also interested in Goretzka.

Their work will not be easy. The main reason for this is the 31-year-old’s wages, as he demands €9m per season. Inter cannot afford it and only clubs from the United States and Saudi Arabia will pay.

For now, Goretzka is keen to stay in Europe. This could prove crucial for Tottenham, who are also mentioned as suitors. There is also interest from Manchester United, AC Milan and Galatasaray, with the player awaiting a final decision on his next club.

The outlet is confident that the former Schalke player will leave Bayern Munich.

Tottenham may not need Goretzka

At the moment, Tottenham need technically skilled midfielders who can attack. They went the wrong way in January and signed Conor Gallagher, despite their strength being in the final third.

Goretzka is exactly the same. He has never been a technical outlet and his best performances have come as a receiver around the box.

This makes him a player that Tottenham cannot do without. Apart from this, he will also get a huge salary. Spurs may be able to afford him but he won’t meet the price, especially if he plays deeper. He is 29 years old and this too would only be a short-term option.

So the London club should be wary of this move and let other clubs take the lead.

John Heitinga’s time at Tottenham Hotspur is already over. Just 33 days after arriving as part of Thomas Frank’s staff, the Dutchman was out.

Heitinga joined Spurs as Frank’s assistant in mid-January. However, once the club sacked Frank on Friday, the writing was clear on the wall. Igor Tudor moved in as interim head coach until the end of the season. A few days later, Heitinga followed Frank out the door.

Now, a Dutch podcast has offered a brutal rendition of what really happened. But I am saying foreign travelPandit Suleyman Ozturk did not back down. He suggested that Tudor had no use for the former Everton defender.

“I think Igor Tudor can’t do anything with Heytinga. That’s just it. I think that’s the story. We shouldn’t make it bigger than it is.” He said.

That was not the only sharp comment. Discussing Tudor’s arrival, Ozturk described the Croatian as a confrontational figure brought in to shake up the dressing room.

“He has been brought in to take Spurs over the next two months and keep them in the Premier League. If you make such a call in front of this team, anyone who tells them the truth… will eat you up.”

strong words. And they paint a clear picture of why Heitinga might not have fit into the new arrangement.

Gone from ‘Europe’s greatest talent’ in a matter of weeks

The same podcast made fun of the publicity that followed Heitinga from the Netherlands. Ozturk described how some media had labeled him “the greatest coaching talent in Europe”.

“It’s painful. You’ve been an assistant for three weeks. The greatest European talent. And now? What do you do?”

Heitinga was tasked with organizing the defense of Tottenham under Frank. However, Dutch pundits also questioned whether Frank really wanted him, hinting that he may have been imposed by the board.

Meanwhile, Tudor has reportedly arrived with his staff. In modern football, this often means sweeping changes. Heitinga became collateral damage.

what happens next?

For Tottenham, the focus is on survival. Tudor’s mission is short and clear: to stabilize the ship and reevaluate it over the summer.

For Heitinga, this episode raises new questions. After a difficult tenure as head coach of Ajax, this meant a Premier League reset. Instead, it lasted barely a month.

Still, as explained in the podcast, a solid contract could soften the blow. The Dutchman has previous experience in England with West Ham and Liverpool. There is a possibility of another opportunity coming. But it ended with lightning speed.