Chelsea, Valencia and Lazio shook things up in England, Spain and Italy by climbing to the top of their respective leagues.
Former Inter Milan, Liverpool and Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez will return to Italy to take charge of Serie A club Napoli.
Juventus will have to play their next home Serie A game behind closed doors after fans racially abused Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli in Saturday's 1-1 draw, the Italian league said on Monday.
Ronaldo flew back to his native Madeira after Juventus beat Inter Milan 2-0 behind closed doors on March 8, their final game before Serie A was suspended because of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
A summary of the UEFA Champions League Group Stage action, on Wednesday.
IMAGES from soccer matches played across Europe on Sunday.
Italian soccer is back in fashion and next week three of the four teams in the semi-finals of the Champions League will be from the peninsula.
Ibrahimovic said he had received offers from the Premier League, Italy and outside Europe but gave no more details.
Napoli brush aside lowly Crotone to go third in Serie A.
Lionel Messi was at the top of his game as Barcelona earned a 3-2 win at Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday to move up to third in La Liga.
Mario Balotelli lit up the Riviera derby with two goals on his Nice debut to hand them a 3-2 victory over Olympique Marseille on Sunday -- his first league goals for a year. The 26-year-old former Inter Milan and Manchester City striker opened the scoring from the penalty spot after seven minutes and struck again 12 minutes from full time when he headed home a Ricardo cross.
Italy striker Mario Balotelli said he would "kill" anyone who threw a banana at him in the street during the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine next month.
Alessandro Del Piero, almost certainly playing his last home game for Juventus at the age of 37, celebrated with a goal as the Serie A champions beat Atalanta 3-1 on Sunday to finish their campaign unbeaten.
Asked whether he will make his debut against Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday, the 28-year-old said that he has been training throughout the pre-season and "feels good".
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
Surprise package FC Basel will be the only reigning domestic champions in action in the Champions League this week as they host Bayern Munich in the first leg of the round of 16.
IMAGES from football matches played across Europe on Wednesday.
Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti said his team would walk off the pitch if there was a repeat, leading to a debate as to whether teams should take the law into their own hands.
Manchester City dominated transfer activity on the eve of the Premier League season on Friday with the signing of Italy's Mario Balotelli.
AS Roma and Juventus lost on their domestic returns from midweek UEFA Champions League action as their miserable starts to the season continued. In England, frontrunners Liverpool and Chelsea fared better with wins while Valencia top the table on goal difference in Spain and Lazio, Udinese and champions Inter Milan share the lead in Italy.
Argentina's Juan Sebastian Veron turned down a personal offer from Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini to join the Premier League club, the midfielder said on Tuesday.
Juventus now have 83 points at the top of the Serie A table with a seven-point lead over the second-placed club Inter Milan. They will next take on Cagliari on July 30.
Netherlands midfielder Wesley Sneijder is resisting pressure from Real Madrid to accept a move away from the club, the player said on Saturday.
Marco Materazzi's agent said Zidane's head-butt was prompted by the Italian defender's loose comment about the French captain's wife.
Marco Materazzi is writing a book of jokes about the incident with Zinedine Zidane.
Inter Milan moved eight points clear in Italy after a 1-0 win over strugglers Empoli.
Lukaku's comments on being unhappy at Chelsea 'unhelpful': Tuchel
The result left Manchester United top of the EPL standings on 35 points, three ahead of Chelsea.
Luis Figo is ready to return for leaders Inter Milan at Catania on Sunday after missing three months with a broken leg.
Argentina's injured captain Lionel Messi has been named in a squad missing the suspended Javier Mascherano and Gonzalo Higuain for next month's World Cup qualifier against South America's bottom side Paraguay.
Star Italian forward Francesco Totti said he would not quit the Serie A in any circumstances.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met Thai businessman Bee Taechaubol on Wednesday to discuss the sale of a stake in Serie A football club AC Milan, which he has owned for almost 30 years.
'I would stop playing now to play cricket if I could get the same contract,' said the Italian football ace.
Italy manager Antonio Conte named his provisional squad for the European Championship on Monday, and his selection was notable as much for the player he left off as for those he chose.
Ronaldo has one year remaining on his contract at Juventus but there has been a flurry of media speculation that he could be leaving
The much-travelled Ranieri won the Premier League title with unfancied Leicester City in 2016 and most recently coached French side Nantes.
A round-up of Saturday's action in LaLiga, Ligue 1, Serie A and Bundesliga.
