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Pep Guardiola is targeting 100 points to cap an “almost perfect season” after champions Manchester City set a hat-trick of Premier League records and home fans said farewell to veteran midfielder Yaya Toure. City’s 3-1 win against Brighton on Wednesday took them to 97 points and 105 goals for the season as they registered their 31st win of the campaign ...

JOSE MOURINHO wants Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford to stay at Manchester United for next season. France international Pogba has been routinely criticised for his performances and was even axed by Mourinho for the first leg of their Champions League clash with Sevilla. He has scored just six goals and provided 10 assists in 25 league appearances for second-placed Manchester ...

Russian authorities have given their “assurance” fans will be safe from violence at the World Cup finals next month. Officials have a “blacklist” of known hooligans and have banned anyone responsible for trouble at Euro 2016 from attending, the Foreign Affairs Committee heard. Foreign Office Minister Harriett Baldwin was responding to concerns of other MPs. About 10,000 England fans are ...

JOSE MOURINHO has accused some of his Manchester United stars of lacking mental strength. Mourinho reckons United’s inconsistency this season – they are the only team to lose to each of the three promoted clubs – indicates some players cannot reproduce the level of performance week-by-week needed to recapture the title from neighbours City. He didn’t mention names but it ...

Goalkeeping is football’s most quintessential position, as such goalkeepers are always on the borderline of the making the next match-winning save or committing the most costly howler. It is strange how a moment of sheer brilliance or folly from the goalkeeper can determine the fate of a football match. In view of this, the 2017/18 Ghana Premier League has witnessed ...

Even with no World Cup on his calendar, Christian Pulisic has a big summer ahead of him. The highly-rated American teenager has been subjected to numerous transfer rumors over the past 12 months since bursting onto the scene with Borussia Dortmund, with many taking him to the English Premier League. With Dortmund’s future in flux, it could be the right ...

WEST BROM have been relegated from the Premier League after Southampton edged a narrow 1-0 victory over Swansea at the Liberty Stadium. The Baggies, who have won three of their last four Premier League matches, sat just one point above bottom-placed Stoke City ahead of tonight’s match but needed a draw in Wales to take their chances to the last ...

NEYMAR will be at Real Madrid next season, according to Spanish journalist Eduardo Inda. The Paris Saint-Germain star is at the top of Real Madrid’s wishlist this summer as club president Florentino Perez looks set to splash the cash. Following a disastrous defence of their La Liga title, Zinedine Zidane knows he needs a mass overhaul of the squad if ...

MANCHESTER UNITED were going to replace Sir Alex Ferguson with Ryan Giggs, according to former Old Trafford No 2 Rene Meulensteen. Manchester United saw Ferguson depart five years ago today, with the Red Devils then handing the job to David Moyes. Moyes left Everton for Old Trafford after Ferguson tipped him to bring stability to the club. However, United axed ...

Ghanaian forward Nicholas Gyan has picked his first career league title with Tanzanian side Simba FC. Gyan joined Simba FC midway through last season from Ghana Premier League side Ebusua Dwarfs and quickly cemented his place in the team with impressive performances. The 28-year-old kept up his great form for the Reds as they inflicted a 1-0 defeat on Ndanda ...