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IT SEEMS Jesse Lingard is already laying down the foundations for Antoine Griezmann to join Manchester United next season. Atletico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann was strongly linked with a move away from the Spanish capital this summer with Jose Mourinho chasing his signature. However, after months of speculation the transfer saga finally came to an end when he signed a ...

Tweet Ten Chinese Super League clubs say they have paid off debts related to player wages, bonuses and transfers after 13 of them were threatened with expulsion. Shanghai Shenhua, who signed Argentine striker Carlos Tevez in January on what are believed to be among the highest wages in world football, and Oscar’s Shanghai SIPG are among the top-tier clubs who ...

The CAF Executive Committee at its meeting on Thursday, 20 July 2017, among other decisions amended the calendar for the knockout stages of the Total CAF Champions League 2017 and Total CAF Confederation Cup 2017. For the quarter-finals of the two competitions, the first leg will take place on the weekend of 15-17 September 2017 with second leg on the ...

MANCHESTER CITY boss Pep Guardiola has responded to Gary Neville’s claims that Phil Foden was playing for the wrong Manchester club. Foden made his debut for Manchester City in the 2-0 defeat to Manchester United last week and the 17-year-old impressed, leading Guardiola to wax lyrical about the teenager. But in a reply to a fan on Twitter, Neville said Foden was ...

MONACO vice-president Vadim Vasilyev has denied suggestions a deal has been agreed with Real Madrid or any side for Kylian Mbappe. The 18-year-old striker is in hot demand following his stunning breakthrough season in France. Arsenal, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have all been linked with Mbappe. But Madrid has appeared his most likely destination should he ...

Priority will be given to foreign engineers on key government projects because of the inability of local engineers execute projects to the required qualitative standards, the Minister of Works and Housing, Samuel Atta-Akyea has said. The Minister had some harsh words for local engineers as he intimated that they were preoccupied with making money, as opposed to ensuring lasting projects. ...

Monaco striker Kylian Mbappe has attracted some of the biggest sides in world football in the last few weeks, making the 18-year-old football’s most courted teenager. The striker took Europe by storm last season, scoring 26 goals in all competitions in his first full season at senior club level. Mbappe is one of the most sought after players in the ...

Ghanaian football legend Abedi Ayew Pele tips Nigeria to qualify for the 2018 World Cup ahead of Cameroon. The Super Eagles top Group B with six points out of two matches, while the Cameroonians have only managed two points after two games. The Indomitable Lions are preparing fervently to make sure they beat the West Africans when the two meet ...

BAYERN MUNICH star Renato Sanches was not on Manchester United’s list of targets at the start of the transfer window, according to Sky Sports News presenter Kaveh Solhekol. Manchester United tried to sign Sanches 12 months ago after the Portugal international starred with Benfica. However, the Red Devils’ sluggishness in appointing Jose Mourinho as Louis van Gaal’s successor ultimately cost ...

ARSENAL have been keeping tabs on Real Madrid star Marco Asensio dating back to his time at RCD Mallorca, according to reports in Spain. Asensio is one of Real Madrid’s brightest talents for the future, with the 21-year-old scoring 10 goals as the club won La Liga and the Champions League last season. He followed that up with a series ...