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BARCELONA will look to loan out starlet Ousmane Dembele if they sign Atletico Madrid’s Antoine Griezmann. The former Real Sociedad star has been heavily backed to join the Catalan side this summer, after resisting offers from elsewhere at the start of the season. Griezmann is said to be the biggest priority for Barcelona in the transfer market this summer after ...

MOHAMED SALAH looks to have escaped retrospective action after appearing to lash out at Stoke’s Bruno Martins Indi on Saturday. The Liverpool winger has been in sublime form for the Reds this season. But Salah had an unusually quiet afternoon against Stoke at the weekend. The Egyptian missed a guilt-edged chance to open the scoring in the first half. And ...

Kenyan top flight side AFC Leopards have parted ways with Ghanaian striker Eric Kwabena Bekoe after failing to impress in the league. The former Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Ghana Premier League goal king failed to hit the heights that saw him leave the country for the Leopards. Head Coach of AFC Leopards Robert Motano and Dennis Kitambi were not impressed ...

SERGIO RAMOS has confirmed Real Madrid will not offer Barcelona with a guard of honour at the Nou Camp next week. Los Blancos are being urged to respect their arch-rivals when the two sides meet, after Ernesto Valverde’s side wrapped up the La Liga title against Deportivo on Sunday. Barcelona gave Madrid a guard of honour after Bernd Schuster guided ...

Ghana President Nana Akufo Addo has sent words of felicitations to Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe on becoming the new WBO Super Bantamweight champion. Dogboe has become Ghana’s youngest ever boxing champion after knocking out Mexican-American Jessie Magdaleno in Philadelphia on Sunday morning to make him the new WBO super bantamweight/junior featherweight titleholder. And that obviously left the president excited. He ...

Former Ghana Football Association Vice President George Afriyie believes his ex-boss Kwesi Nyantakyi will suffer an embarrassing defeat if he contest the GFA presidential election in 2019. Afriyie, 50, has again advised Nyantakyi to stay true to his words. Nyantakyi has said he will not seek re-election but he is under pressure from some Executive Committee members to rescind his ...

LIVERPOOL have distanced themselves from reports that assistant manager Zeljko Buvac has quit the club. However, Jurgen Klopp’s No 2 will be absent for the rest of the campaign. ‘The Brain’ as Zeljko is known, will not be in the dugout alongside Klopp as the Reds look to secure their place in the Champions League final and qualify for the ...

George Afriyie says he bears no grudge against Ghana Football Association boss Kwesi Nyantakyi despite his shock dismissal as the Vice President. Afriyie, who has been second-in-command to Nyantakyi for three years was sacked following a meeting of the GFA Executive Committee last week. This followed his sacking as the Chairman of the Black Stars management committee. It’s believed Afriyie was ...

Rafael Nadal won his 11th Barcelona title on Sunday when he breezed past Greek teenager Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2, 6-1 in the final. It was world number one Nadal’s 55th career clay-court title while he also extended his winning streak on the surface to 46 consecutive sets. The 31-year-old Spaniard won his 11th Monte Carlo Masters last weekend also without dropping ...

The former Vice President of the Ghana Football Association George Afriyie has warned GFA President Kwasi Nyantakyi to be ready for “battle” if he decides to seek re-election in next year’s presidential elections. Afriyie speaking on Asempa FM Monday confirmed that he will contest next year’s elections and urged Nyantakyi not to seek re-election adding that after almost 14 years ...