Ricardo Carvalho insists his return to international football will benefit club side Monaco. The defender retired from Portugal duty in 2011 but accepted new manager Fernando Santos' call for the matches against France and Denmark. Now the 36-year-old must get ready for the resumption of league action, with Monaco facing resurgent Evian on Saturday. Speaking to the club's website, Carvalho sa...Full Story »

The FPF - the Portuguese Football Federation, have denied that Cristiano Ronaldo, who is the captain of Portugal, demanded that Tiago Mendes and Ricardo Carvalho apologise publicly so as to be allowed to return to the team. "It is a lie that the captain has talked to these or other teammates and demanded that they beg forgiveness or behave in a certain way", said the FPF in a communiqué ...Full Story »

Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking is happy with the progress his team are making, but says they must now start delivering the results. A draw with Lille in the Europa League on Thursday was a disappointing result, but not necessarily a disappointing performance. "I always look at the big picture and I can say that our development in our last games has been going in the right direction," Hecking s...Full Story »

Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking is counting on his side to bounce straight back from their heavy defeat to Everton on Thursday when they host Bayer Leverkusen. The Wolves made a bad start to their Europa League group with a 4-1 defeat at Goodison Park. Their league form has not been much better either with only two points from their first three games, and Hecking says now the time has come for ...Full Story »

Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking says he is not feeling any pressure at all as he leads his side to Hoffenheim this Saturday, still searching for a first win of the season. The Wolves started the campaign as an outside bet to challenge Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund for the title. After a draw and a defeat from their opening games, they are currently in the wrong half of the table, three po...Full Story »

Ricardo Carvalho insists Monaco are fully focused on domestic improvement and will not be distracted by their impending return to the Champions League. The Portuguese defender has admitted last season's Ligue 1 runners-up have made a bad start to the new campaign, with just four points from their opening four matches. With the principality set to play in the Champions League proper following a...Full Story »

Wolfsburg coach Dieter Hecking is hoping for a result to match his side's performance this weekend when Eintracht Frankfurt pay the VW-Arena a visit. Had Junior Malanda not provided one of the early candidates for miss of the season in last Friday's opening Bundesliga fixture at Bayern Munich, the Wolves could well have come away from the Allianz Arena with a point. Instead, they returned home...Full Story »

As he rose to leave our interview amid the opulence of the reception area at St George’s Park, Ricardo Carvalho spotted three members of Chelsea’s Under 21 squad shuffling back from a video session with their coaches. ‘Hey, Chelsea boys,’ called out the defensive mainstay of the Blues’ first title-winning side in 50 years. The youngsters came over, mobile phones a...Full Story »

New Monaco signings Ricardo Carvalho and Jeremy Toulalan have insisted that they are ready to challenge Paris Saint-Germain for the Ligue 1 championship this season. Carvalho, 35, and Toulalan, 29, were unveiled for the newly-promoted Ligue 1 outfit on Monday and have already made their intentions clear about what targets they expect to achieve at the Principality-based club. "We are armed to ...Full Story »

TITLE TIP ... Ricardo Carvalho RICARDO CARVALHO insists Jose Mourinho will win the title with Chelsea next season. The former Blues defender played his final game for Mourinho as Real Madrid beat Osasuna 4-2 at the Bernabeu yesterday. And the Portuguese ace, who is now set to join French side Monaco, confirmed that Mourinho IS heading back to Stamford Bridge after three years in the Spanish...Full Story »