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TRANSFER NEWS LIVE – All the latest rumours and gossip coming out of the Premier League. Jose Mourinho told he can spend Man Utd have told Jose Mourinho he can splash the cash in the January transfer window. Mourinho is desperate to land Atletico Madrid’s Diego Godin, Lorenzo Pellegrini of Roma and out-of-favour Chelsea defender Gary Cahill. Neymar wants Barcelona ...

DIDIER DROGBA has revealed he asked Jose Mourinho to let him leave Chelsea – but was convinced to stay. Drogba, who announced his retirement last night, admits his Chelsea career could have been over before it had even got started. Drogba joined Chelsea from Marseille and the meteoric rise from France’s second division to the bright lights of London left ...

LIVERPOOL have blocked Barcelona from raiding Anfield for top talent such as Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk as fresh details of their bizarre deal emerge. The Spanish giants can only sign one of the Reds’ stars if they pay an extra £89m (€100m) on top of any transfer fee until 2020. It has emerged Liverpool inserted the clause when ...

Cameroon’s security forces have rescued kidnapped students and one teacher after a raid on a camp of separatist fighters in the South-West region. The group of nine, not 20 as first reported, was taken from a school in the city of Kumba, on Tuesday. Four attackers were shot dead in the operation but one was captured, a senior official told ...

Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter called Wednesday for the ethics body of world football’s governing body to investigate his successor Gianni Infantino. Blatter was speaking after the Football Leaks website alleged that Infantino had held meetings with Switzerland’s Attorney General Michael Lauber, possibly to obtain privileged information about a probe into corruption within FIFA. Lauber has dismissed the concerns, ...

US President Donald Trump has been asked to ascertain whether Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman played a role in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Republican and Democratic leaders of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday sent a letter demanding a second investigation. Mr Trump earlier defended US ties with Saudi Arabia despite international condemnation over the incident. ...

Another record year for the three comma club has boosted the wealth of female billionaires around the world. An all-time high of 256 women made the 2018 Forbes World’s Billionaires rankings; their collective net worth topped $1 trillion, up 20% since last year, outpacing the total gains overall. Though most of the women at the top of the list inherited ...

Africa and Europe could jointly host the 2030 football World Cup, if a plan by Spain to jointly bid for the hosting rights with Portugal and Morocco is successful. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who held a meeting with Morocco’s king Mohammed VI, announced the plans on Monday. “I made the proposal, firstly to the government then to King Mohammed ...

The eleventh extraordinary summit of the African union (AU) which ended Sunday in Addis Ababa has been hailed as fruitful. At the meeting, 55 members of the continental body agreed to some proposed reforms for the Commission. The meeting had been seen as a frantic attempt to push through reforms that have been in the pipelines for nearly two years. ...

Liberian activist and former Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Leymah Gbowee, has been awarded the 2018 Bonn International Democracy Prize. She was announced winner in mid October 2018 but the award ceremony took place last Friday, November 16, 2018. The award comes with a 10,000 euro cash prize. The latest award is for her continuous fight for the rights of Liberians ...