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The 26-year-old spent the second half of the 2018-19 season on loan at Selhurst Park and will be looking to impress for the Eagles again Chelsea forward Michy Batshuayi has joined Crystal Palace on loan for the second time. The 26-year-old Belgian international has signed for the duration of the 2020-21 season, having impressed during a short-term spell at the end of 2018-19. ...

Black Stars captain and Swansea City forward, Andre Dede Ayew has recounted the racial abuse he suffered during a Europa League game against Zenit St. Petersburg in Russia. The 2009 U-20 FIFA World Cup winner said bananas were thrown at him all through the game. Speaking to Sky Sports on the growing Black Lives Matter movement, Ayew said everyone must ...

Lead counsel for the GFA in the GFA vs Osei Kwaku at Court of Arbitration for Sports, Naa Odorfoley Nortey has revealed that some utterances in the past cost Osei Kwaku in his appeal case. The president of Tema Youth football club was disqualified from last year’s GFA presidential elections by the Normalization Committee after which he appealed his disqualification ...

Barcelona have contacted Arsenal over a potential move for Spain defender Hector Bellerin. (Sport – in Spanish) French champions Paris St-Germain also want to sign right-back Bellerin and have made contact with the 25-year-old’s representatives. (Independent) Rennes have confirmed they are in talks with Chelsea over a deal for Senegal goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, 28. (Goal) Real Madrid are willing to ...

Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka will be hoping to secure a rematch of the 2018 US Open final when both semi-finals take centre stage on Thursday. Six-time champion Williams, 38, who lost that infamous match, faces former world number one Victoria Azarenka. Japan’s Osaka faces 25-year-old American 28th seed Jennifer Brady. “I think she’s a really amazing player, she has ...

The euphoria surrounding the appointment of a new Board and the Chief Executive Officer for Asante Kotoko may just burst into flames with reports that there is raging conflict in the camp of the Porcupine Warriors. An unimpeachable source has told Ghanaweb that the CEO, Nana Yaw Amponsah has considered resigning and so has the Board Chairman, Dr Kwame Kyei ...

Social Commentator and former coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko football club, Isaac Opeele Boateng, better known as Coach Opeele, has stated that the New Patriotic Party has made the Presidential candidate of the Opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama a credible candidate. Speaking as a panelist on Hot 93.9 FM’s political talk show ‘Dwenehobiom’ political, Coach Opeele ...

Ghanaian club Hearts of Oak will unveil its new bus at the Premises of it’s sponsors StarLife Assurance in Accra today. The unveiling ceremony scheduled for tuesday morning will see the top Ghanaian insurance firm officially handover the new bus to Hearts Of Oak officials. The famous Ghanaian club is also expected to launch a new partnership agreement with StarLife ...

Novak Djokovic has apologised for hitting a line judge with a ball at the US Open, saying he is “extremely sorry for creating her such stress”. World number one Djokovic, 33, was disqualified from his fourth-round match against Spain’s Pablo Carreno Busta because of the incident. The Serb took a ball out of his pocket and hit it behind him, ...

Manchester City winger Riyad Mahrez and defender Aymeric Laporte have tested positive for Covid-19. Algeria’s Mahrez, 29, and Frenchman Laporte, 24, will not train with their team-mates while they self-isolate in line with UK government and Premier League rules. Manchester City say neither player was displaying symptoms of coronavirus. Pep Guardiola’s side play Wolverhampton Wanderers in their first fixture of ...