Stoke City striker Peter Crouch looks set to be offered a new deal this week.

The giant striker is a free agent at the end of the season and has been linked with a host of rival Premier League clubs, including West Brom, where former Stoke boss Tony Pulis has recently taken charge. 

But Stoke manager Mark Hughes is determined to keep hold of Crouch, who has scored 36 goals since moving to the Britannia Stadium in August 2011. 

And Hughes expects fresh terms to be tabled imminently to the former England international.

We have been in talks for a long time and we need to put something in front of him,  Hughes told the Stoke Sentinel.  That makes sense to him and to us, and I would anticipate that happening some time this week. 

There is an …

Barcelona s Lionel Messi said he and his team-mates understand the importance of getting three points against arch-rivals Real Madrid.

The Catalans currently trail Jose Mourinho s side by three points in the La Liga standings, having played one game more.

And Messi knows that with Real currently on a 14-game winning streak, Barca can ill afford to lose at the Bernabeu on Saturday.

It s going to be a fantastic match, Messi told Fifa.com. Obviously it s vital we get a good result because it’ll set us up for the rest of the season.

If we don t, then we re not going to have much time to relax because we ve got the trip to Japan (for the Club World Cup) coming up, which is very important for us too.

Indeed, Messi insists that he and his team-mat…

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has a vision, that Manchester United can win the Premier League title this season.

United have made a perfect start to the campaign, winning their opening two matches after seeing off Southampton 2-0 on Friday.

Ibrahimovic has made an instant impact, scoring three goals in two games on the back of his brace against Southampton at Old Trafford, as world-record signing Paul Pogba made his first Premier League start.

But the evergreen 34-year-old striker insists United led by Jose Mourinho will only get better in their quest for a first league trophy since 2013.

I believe that we can win the title, I have this vision, said Ibrahimovic. But we need to work hard for it and we will do everything to bother all the other teams that want to win…

Alex Ferguson believes Juventus have all the qualities required to challenge Barcelona and Real Madrid s Champions League domination.

Between them the LaLiga rivals have won Europe s elite club competition four times in the last six years, and the sides are favourites to challenge for the title again this season.

Atletico Madrid pushed their city rivals close in 2013-14 and last season but were unable to stop them moving onto 11 European crowns, while Juve were beaten in the 2014-15 final by Barca.

Bayern Munich and Chelsea are the only other teams to have won the Champions League in the last six seasons, and Ferguson expects the former to push for a sixth title under Carlo Ancelotti.

But it is Juve who the former Manchester United manager sees as the m…

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In a recent interview with GamesBeat, Embracer Freegroup CEO Lee Guinchard shed some light on the company’s plans with J.R.R. Tolkien’s works.  Embracer Group plans to split into 3 public companies going forward – namely Coffee Stain & Friends, Asmodee Group, and Middle-earth Enterprises & Friends. Guinchard details his plans to build stronger relationships between different organizations to facilitate better development.

He also compares The Lord of the Rings franchise to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and draws parallels to the various kinds of experiences the vast lore enables developers to create.

“Year on year, you can add and test things with something like Call of

With The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Mario and Luigi: Brothership, Super Mario Party Jamboree, and more, the Nintendo Switch has a stronger lineup of upcoming first-party titles to look forward to than you would expect for a console in its eighth year, but it looks like Nintendo has yet more in store that it hasn’t yet lifted the lid on.

Out of nowhere, the company has dropped multiple teases for what seems to be a mysterious, as-yet-unannounced horror game. A brief video uploaded on YouTube showcases some found footage-style glimpses showing a man in a trench coat and wearing a paper bag with a smiling face crudely painted on it. Some text flashes on the screen towards the end of the video, which, interestingly enough, tra…

With Dragon Age: The Veilguard around the corner, it’s interesting to look back at Dragon Age: Inquisition, which launched in 2014 and saw exceptional critical acclaim. It also became BioWare’s bSports Bettingest-selling game, per former executive producer Mark Darrah (now a consultant on The Veilguard) in 2018. However, just how successful was it?

Darrah responded on Twitter, addressing any potential claims about the project being a “commercial failure,” that it sold “over 12 million at this point.” The fantasy RPG also “massively” oversold internal projections at publisher Electronic Arts. Check out our review of the title when it first l…

Liverpool are interested in signing Milan Skriniar from Inter Milan in the summer transfer window, according to . It has been reported that the defending Premier League champions have identified the Slovakia International as a potential replacement for Virgil Van Dijk.

Van Dijk is injured at the moment and is likely to be out of action for the rest of the season. One of the potential targets for Liverpool in the middle of the campaign is Skriniar. has claimed that Tottenham Hotspur wanted to sign the 25-year-old centre-back in the summer transfer window and remain keen o securing his services in January.

According to , Skriniar has played twice in Serie A for Inter so far this season. During the 2019-20 campaign, the Slovakia international centre-back made 30 starts an…