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The Ukrainian national team continues its preparations for Euro 2024 in Germany. On Friday, 31 May, the national team held two training sessions.

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Barcelona's new head coach Hans-Dieter Flick has spoken about his appointment as the Catalan team's head coach.

"My team and I will do everything we can to make the fans happy and celebrate many titles in the near future. This is our goal. We need good football, that's what I want," AS quoted Flick as saying.

Former Chelsea and Everton coach Frank Lampard may take over at Burnley, according to journalist Nicolo Scira.

According to the source, Burnley bosses are currently considering several candidates for the head coaching position. Earlier, Vincent Kompany left the club and was signed by Bayern Munich.

Frank Lampard's last job was at Chelsea in London, where the 45-year-old worked as a crisis manager. Prior to that, Lampard coached Everton for more than a year.

London's Tottenham are preparing a major squad clear-out in the summer transfer window, the Evening Standard reports.

According to a source, 11 players may leave Tottenham in the summer transfer window. One of the players on the "for sale" list is Brazilian Richarlison. The 27-year-old striker has recently turned down offers from Saudi Arabia, but Angelos Postecoglou is not counting on the Brazilian. "Tottenham wants £60 million for him.

Emerson Royal, who is negotiating with AC Milan, may leave the team. Pierre-Emile Heibjerg, Giovanni Lo Celso, Brian Heal, Joe Rodon, Jed Spence, Sergio Regilon, Tanguy Ndombele, Japheth Tanganga and Manor Solomon may also change their club registration.

Renowned manager and expert Vyacheslav Zakhovailo summed up the results of the 2023/24 UPL season.

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AC Milan bosses will allocate €100m to strengthen their squad in the summer transfer window, La Gazzetta dello Sport reports.

According to the source, the club is set to buy four players. "AC Milan are looking to sign a new forward, a centre-back, a right-back and a holding midfielder. Among the main contenders are Bologna striker Joshua Zirkze, Monaco midfielder Youssouf Fofana, Brighton centre-back Igor Julio and Tottenham defender Emerson Royal.

As a reminder, AC Milan finished second in Serie A this season.

Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho will take over the Turkish Fenerbahçe, according to a reputable Italian journalist Gianluca Di Marzio.

According to the source, Mourinho will sign a two-year contract with the Turkish club. The signing is to be officially announced in the coming days.

As a reminder, the Portuguese specialist is currently not a head coach at any club. His last job was at Roma, which he led from 2021 to January 2024.

Head coach of Lviv "Rukh" Vitaliy Ponomaryov, summarising the results of the season-2023/24, separately dwelled on the two matches with Dynamo Kyiv (0:2, 1:2).

"I can't say that we were significantly inferior to Dynamo in terms of play, but in the second match we made very gross mistakes, which led to a negative result. "Dynamo" is one of the giants of our football, a more experienced team, so it does not forgive such things. If in the games with other opponents we also had gross mistakes, given the experience of "Rukh", they did not punish us for them as Dynamo did.

Considering that we were very close to the European cups, the defeat from Dynamo in the final round, of course, had a little impact on the guys. After the game, I thanked them for the season and said: if we did not get there, it is a sign that we need to work even harder, more persistent. To really grow good, quality players and create an even stronger team, which will be able to enter the Euro arena and look worthy. Meanwhile, it was a test for Ruch," Ponomariov said.

Former Real Madrid striker Gareth Bale has spoken about his expectations for the Champions League final to be held at Wembley on Saturday.

- "I still follow their results, I still love this team and support them like I did when I was a kid. Of course, I expect only victory from Real Madrid. They understand the pressure and know what to expect in these games, which is a big advantage," Bale told The Guardian.

The former goalkeeper of the Ukrainian national team and now a well-known Ukrainian coach Yuriy Virt, summing up the results of the season in the Ukrainian championship, singled out two clubs.

- "For the first time in history, Polissia made it to the European Cups, and this result is well deserved. Still, the team played 30 matches, and according to their total, they ended up in the European Cup zone. Yes, Polissia may not have shown many spectacular matches, but the players had a goal, and they achieved it. In general, the Ukrainian championship was interesting and intriguing, but the quality of the players decreased compared to the previous season. This can be explained by the fact that many legionnaires left Ukraine.

It's a pity for Minaj. In the second part of the tournament, the Transcarpathian club showed powerful football, but it was not enough, because the team failed in the autumn part. "And Metalist 1925 was sluggish this spring, so they deservedly dropped out of the UPL," the expert said.

Ukrainian midfielder Dmytro Khomchenovskyi told us what prevented Kryvbas from becoming the Ukrainian champion.

- "We still have a lot of work to do to at least catch up with our giants Shakhtar and Dynamo. So it is probably too early to think about it. It is not yet time for Kryvbas to get close to our most titled clubs. Although it was possible to talk when we were on the first place in the autumn part of the championship.

Is Kryvbas capable of looking good in European competitions? I think so. I am sure that after coming out of the holidays, each of us will think about the first qualifying matches. Now is the time when everyone knows how to play football, and Kryvbas is no exception. We will have two matches, following which we will try to go as far as possible in the European tournament and get into the group round of the Europa League or the Conference League. In any case, at this stage, we can do anything," said Dmytro.

From 31 May to 17 June, the Ukrainian Olympic team will hold a training camp in preparation for the Summer Games and take part in the Tournoi Maurice Revello international tournament in France.

Today, the team arrived in Warsaw and will fly to Marseille via Munich, where the competition will take place. Tomorrow, the Blue and Yellows are scheduled to have a theoretical session and their first training session. According to this scheme, Ruslan Rotan's wards will work every day until the opening match with Indonesia, which will take place on 4 June.

For various reasons, the composition of the Ukrainian Olympic team has been updated, and the coaching staff can count on 26 players at the tournament.

The composition of the Ukrainian Olympic team

Goalkeepers: Ruslan Neshcheret (Dynamo Kyiv), Kirill Fesyun (Kolos), Georgiy Yermakov (Oleksandriya).

Defenders: Taras Mykhavko (Dynamo), Arseniy Batagov (Zorya), Oleksandr Martyniuk, Danylo Skorko (both - Oleksandriya), Oleksandr Drambayev (Osijek Croatia), Yevhen Pavliuk, Ilya Krupskyi (both - Vorskla), Volodymyr Saliuk (Chornomorets).

Midfielders: Yegor Yarmolyuk (Brentford, England), Maksym Kucheryavyi (St Johnstone, Scotland), Maksym Hlan (Lechia, Poland), Valentyn Rubchynskyi, Oleh Ocheretko (both Dnipro-1), Nazar Voloshyn (Dynamo), Mykola Mykhaylenko, Kyrylo Sigeev, Denys Shostak (all of Oleksandriya), Oleh Fedor (Rukh), Maksym Bragaru (Chornomorets), Hennadii Synchuk (Metalist), Vladyslav Velyten (Kolos).

Forwards: Ihor Krasnopir (Obolon), Danylo Sikan (Shakhtar).

It will be recalled that 10 national teams, divided into two groups, will take part in the tournament. In the first stage, Ruslan Rotan's men will face Indonesia (replacing Egypt), Italy, Panama and Japan.