He joins his Argentina teammate Ezequiel Lavezzi at the club.

Feyernoord 0 - Man City 4: Manchester City produced an outstanding performance to open their seventh successive Champions League campaign with an emphatic 4-0 win at Feyenoord.

Cristiano Ronaldo's reported unhappiness in Spain will have some of the biggest clubs in world football on alert in a bid to sign the Real Madrid forward.

Paul Rouse tackles the wage packets of some of your beloved, and less so, soccer stars and whether or not they deserve the kind of money they make.

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho has revealed he turned down a “big offer” to go to China.

Arsene Wenger has warned of the “danger” of astronomical wages being offered by Chinese Super League clubs becoming the benchmark for the Premier League’s top talent.

Leicester 0 Chelsea 3: As Chelsea maintain their grip at the top of the Premier League it appears as though even the millions of Chinese football cannot stop them marching towards the title.

Antonio Conte believes the €300m offer made to Real Madrid for Cristiano Ronaldo by an unnamed Chinese Super League club is wrong.

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Pro footballer Wendell Lira has announced his retirement, but already has a plan in place. The 27-year-old aims to become a FIFA world champion.

Captain Vincent Kompany claims Manchester City are hungry for success and determined to deliver in the Champions League.

Juventus have completed the signing of Croatia forward Mario Mandzukic from Atletico Madrid in a €19m transfer deal.

Manchester City have failed with a renewed bid for Liverpool’s Raheem Sterling despite increasing their offer by £10m (€14m).

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri will not stand in Paul Pogba’s way if the French midfielder decides to leave the Turin giants this summer.

Juventus have reached an agreement to sign German midfielder Sami Khedira on a free transfer, the Italian champions have announced.

Luis Suarez made it a perfect ending to Barcelona’s astonishing season with the Champions League final winner against Juventus.

Football managers are either wizards or muggles.

Real Madrid 1 Juventus 1 (Agg 2-3): Alvaro Morata was again the hero as a 1-1 draw at Real Madrid in last night’s Champions League semi-final second leg at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu sent Juventus through to the competition’s final.

Not for the first time in his almost two seasons at Real Madrid, Gareth Bale goes into tonight’s Champions League semi-final second leg with debate raging over his talents.

Lionel Messi or Carlos Tevez, surely there is no comparison?

The Old Lady of Italian football — not to mention one or two of its old men — is long overdue a European trophy; and after Carlos Tevez inspired Juventus to a 2-1 Champions League semi-final first leg victory over Real Madrid there is a growing feeling that this could finally be their year.

Juventus playmaker Andrea Pirlo has described Champions League semi-final opponents Real Madrid as the “most important club side in the world”, but insists his team will face the holders without fear.

Monaco 0 Juventus 0: Juventus moved into the last four of the Champions League for the first time in 12 years after playing out a goalless draw with Monaco in the second leg of their quarter-final tie.

Borussia Dortmund 0 Juventus 3 (Juventus win 5-1 on aggregate): Carlos Tevez scored two and set up another as Juventus cruised into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 3-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund.

A bad year for the Manchester City skipper got worse with the closure of his two pubs in Belgium.

The ‘Cult of Joe’ that has fastened itself around the team and its coach is no bad thing, writes Brendan O’Brien.

European round-up

Former AC Milan and Italy midfielder Demetrio Albertini is confident misfiring striker Fernando Torres can rediscover his goalscoring touch in the near future.

Juventus ended their away day blues to reignite their chances of progressing from Group A of the Champions League with a 2-0 win over Malmo.

Real Madrid ensured they will go through to the Champions League knock-out stages as Group B winners with a 1-0 win over Basle.

Barcelona boss Luis Enrique says he is honoured to be Lionel Messi’s coach after the Argentinean became the top goalscorer in Primera Division history.

International Friendly

The crisis in Italian football is a bit like climate change.

The father of Argentina and Juventus footballer Carlos Tevez was released yesterday, eight hours after being kidnapped in the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

The father of the former Manchester United and Manchester City player Carlos Tevez has been freed after being kidnapped in Argentina.

Swansea last night confirmed the signing of Gylfi Sigurdsson from Tottenham and the sale of Ben Davies and Michel Vorm to the north London club for undisclosed fees.

Any preconceived ideas we had before the World Cup have been cast aside in an amazing tournament

Fantasy football and grim reality are set to collide at the 2014 World Cup. Liam Mackey, in Rio de Janeiro, predicts the winner.

Say hello and wave goodbye to winners?

The stats are with Paris, according to national sports daily L’Equipe and the French have a right to be confident about their match against Chelsea tonight.

Carlos Tevez’s return will bolster Juventus as the Italians look to bounce back from their defeat at Napoli in tonight’s Europa League quarter-final first leg at Lyon (8.05pm).

A groundbreaking week, in many ways, as we have Joey Barton to thank for defining, at long last, the morality of sport.