Gianluigi Buffon needs knee surgery in the coming months, the Italy and Juventus goalkeeper revealed.

Juventus maintain they acted within doping rules over claims Fabio Cannavaro failed a drug test and the club will co-operate with the Italian Olympic Committee’s investigation.

Fabio Grosso has expressed his delight at sealing his transfer from Lyon to Juventus.

This is probably the derby of Champions League second round. The best German and Italian club meet in the same group after several years. Ambitions are still the same, to conquer Europe, while both clubs made a revolution in their squad during the summer. They have new managers and a lot of money was invested so it will be interesting to see which one of them will recover first from the latest failures in domestic championship. However, Bayern are in a slightly better position in group A. Bavarians opened the competition with a win over Israeli champions, while Juve only got to a slim 1:1 draw against Bordeaux.