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LIONEL MESSI has reportedly been left gobsmacked after Gerard Pique told him Samuel Umtiti is considering leaving Barcelona for Manchester United. Umtiti has established a reputation as one of Europe’s top centre-backs since moving to the Nou Camp from Lyon in 2016. And his form has attracted plenty of admiring glances from across the continent, with Jose Mourinho eyeing him ...

REAL MADRID need to make big changes to their squad this summer but selling Toni Kroos must not be one of them. Those are the thoughts of legendary Liverpool defender turned pundit Steve Nicol. Real Madrid have struggled under Zinedine Zidane this season in La Liga. They are 15 points behind leaders Barcelona having surprisingly lost 1-0 to Espanyol on ...

Antonio Conte slams Chelsea board for lack of ambition as war of words rumbles on Chelsea visit Premier League leaders Manchester City on Sunday struggling to capture a top four place less than a year after winning the title in Conte’s first season in English football. Conte pointed to Man City’s runaway success, with Pep Guardiola’s team going into the ...

Two Burundi officials have been arrested after their town’s football team allegedly “roughed up” President Pierre Nkurunziza who was playing during a match with his personal team, legal sources and witnesses said Friday. A legal source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the administrator of the northern town of Kiremba as well as his deputy, who is in charge ...

A startup that licenses the Nokia phone brand has unveiled a new version of the 8110, a curved mobile phone that was first released in 1996 and featured in “The Matrix.” The phone, which is offered in banana yellow and black, will sell for €79 ($97). It comes loaded with a new version of the game Snake, Finnish startup HMD ...

CRISTIANO RONALDO would rather see Real Madrid sign Robert Lewandowski than Harry Kane this summer, according to reports. The Spanish giants are set for a squad overhaul this summer following a dismal campaign that’s left them 14 points adrift of Barcelona in La Liga. And that means there will be host of high profile departures, with the likes of Gareth ...

The attacker asked to be taken off at halftime during his side’s win over Marseille on Wednesday, prompting fears that his injury may be a bad one. Paris Saint-Germain coach Unai Emery is hoping Kylian Mbappe has escaped a serious injury after sustaining an ankle knock during Wednesday’s Coupe de France quarter-final win over Marseille. PSG have already been dealt ...

The newly appointed head coach of Kotoko, Paa Kwesi Fabin has decided to drag his former trainee and a media house in Kumasi to court over the bribery accusation the former made against him. The former Asante Kotoko striker, Kwadwo Poku in an exclusive interview with Kumasi-based Silver Fm accused his former boss Paa Kwesi Fabin of taking bribe during ...

A businessman has taken Google to the High Court in London in what is being seen as a landmark case over “the right to be forgotten”. He is challenging Google’s decision not to remove a criminal conviction he has from the 1990s from search results. People can ask for online information to be removed from searches if they feel it ...

A missing Nigerian masterpiece found in a “modest north London flat” has sold for more than £1m at auction. Ben Enwonwu’s 1974 painting of the Ife princess Adetutu Ademiluyi, known as Tutu, became a symbol of reconciliation after Nigeria’s Biafra conflict. The painting, expected to fetch £300,000, sold for £1,205,000 – a record for a modern Nigerian artist. Novelist Ben Okri ...