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Mohamed Salah will attend both Liverpool’s end-of-season awards and the Football Writers’ Association’s annual event on Thursday night, a source has confirmed to ESPN FC. Salah will be present at Anfield for Liverpool’s fifth annual Players’ Awards before then boarding a flight to London, where he will be honoured at the FWA’s Footballer of the Year dinner. The 25-year-old was ...

Egyptian giants Ismaily have until 23 May, 2018 to pay all monies owned Ghana Premier League side Dreams FC over the transfer of John Antwi or face sanctions. The Egyptian Premier League side have failed to pay Dreams FC the transfer fee and their training compensation after selling the striker to Al Shabab of Saudi Arabia in 2016. Ismaily risk ...

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 ...