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MANCHESTER UNITED’s owners, the Glazer family, are reportedly reluctant to let Jose Mourinho sign a defender despite their Premier League defeat to Manchester City on Sunday. Manchester United boss Mourinho retains the backing of the Glazer family despite Sunday’s defeat to Manchester City exposing their shortcomings. The Red Devils are, simply, not on the same level as their fierce rivals ...

PEP GUARDIOLA has revealed why he shouted at Raheem Sterling after Manchester City’s 3-1 win over Manchester United. Pep Guardiola’s men dominated their local rivals with a display of passing quality and attacking incision which reflected their spot atop the Premier League table. David Silva bagged the first goal 12 minutes in and Sergio Aguero added another at the start ...

TRANSFER NEWS LIVE – Express Sport is on hand to bring you all the latest rumours and gossip coming out of the Premier League and more. West Ham medical Samir Nasri is undergoing a medical ahead of a short-term deal with West Ham, reports claim. Nasri, 31, is still serving an 18-month drugs ban for breaching Uefa’s doping regulations. But ...

Ghanaian giants Hearts of Oak have sealed a mouth-watering apparel sponsorship deal with giants sportswear brand Umbro, in an agreement which marks the largest commercial deal in the club’s history, GHANAsoccernet.com can confirm. Umbro will provide the Accra club’s kit from the 2018-19 season. The latest deal is a feather in the cap of chief executive Mark Noonan, who is ...

Algeria are expected to arrive in Ghana Monday afternoon, four days to the start of the 2018 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations finals. Les Verts Dames face the tournament hosts in the opening match slated for the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday, November 17. Algeria, who have been holding their final training camp in Abidjan, would touch down at the ...

Former France and Arsenal attacker Robert Pires is backing his 1998 World Cup winning team-mate Marcel Desailly to take up the coaching reins of the Black Stars in after 2019 AFCON. Desailly for the past 8 years have been tipped by some fans and pundits including veteran coach JE Sarpong have called for Desailly to be appointed as the Coach ...

Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) has called off Kenya’s Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier against Sierra Leone, that was scheduled to be played at the MISC Kasarani on Sunday, November 18, 2018. In a letter from the Continental governing body’s Competition’s Division, CAF cited a suspension on Sierra Leone by World Governing body FIFA, noting that the status of the ...

Capital of Ethiopia Addis Ababa was flooded by runners over the weekend. Runners running in support of the peace deal signed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Eritrean counterpart, Isaias Afwerki in July 2018. Thousands of nationals from both sides cheered as they ran a 10 km race, which is the first major sporting event since the signing of ...

For the first time since the expose football corruption, ace undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas will openly speak to the motivation behind the “Number 12” investigative project which unearthed massive corruption in African football. Touted by connoisseurs and pundits of the inky fraternity and stakeholders alike, as the most dreaded undercover project of all time to have not just ...

Man. City vs Man United : Manchester United can forget trying to challenge Manchester City until they can even compete for a place in the Premier League top four, Jose Mourinho confessed as his side were outclassed in a 3-1 derby defeat by the English champions on Sunday. A fourth league loss of the season leaves United already 12 points ...