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The former Chelsea boss is expecting the Europa League to be a farewell outing for the Belgian, with a switch to Spain very much on the cards Jose Mourinho expects the Europa League final to be Eden Hazard’s “last match in blue” before he departs Chelsea and links up with Real Madrid. Speculation around the Belgian forward has been building for some time. He has ...

Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on 7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister. In an emotional statement in Downing St, she said she had “done my best” to honour the 2016 EU referendum result. It would remain a matter of “deep regret” that she had been unable to ...

A massive overhaul upon Florentino Perez’s return to the Liga giants made the winger expendable at the club but he found an eager suitor in Bayern Arjen Robben says politics at Real Madrid, and not just Cristiano Ronaldo’s arrival, forced him to suffer a “difficult” exit from the club, but added his subsequent move to Bayern Munich was the best decision of his career. The ...

Asamoah Gyan has made a u-turn on his decision to retire from the senior national team. His decision follows a conversation between him and President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday after he announced on Monday that he had recused himself from the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and subsequently retired from the Black Stars. The development, according to what ...

Petr Cech will return to Chelsea this summer in a new sporting director role at the club, Sky Sports News has learnt. The 36-year-old Arsenal goalkeeper announced he will retire from playing after next Wednesday’s Europa League final in Azerbaijan against his former – and future – employers at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have been without a technical director since Michael ...

The former Manchester City owner is looking to get back into football and is eyeing a potential bid for Crystal Palace Former Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra holds the aim of taking a controlling stake in Premier League outfit Crystal Palace. The 69-year-old was once the Prime Minister of Thailand, during which time he sought to buy both Fulham and ...

Red Devils keeper Lee Grant has revealed that the man in charge at Old Trafford has shown that he has lost none of his sharpness on the training pitch Ole Gunnar Solskjaer remains “pretty deadly”, says Lee Grant, with the Manchester United manager having given a finishing lesson to Romelu Lukaku and Paul Pogba. The former Red Devils striker is ...

The Italy-born Dutchman is one of the most well-known and elite football agents in the industry and has built up an impressive reputation Mino Raiola is one of the most powerful figures in football, responsible for handling stars such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba, Matthijs de Ligt and Romelu Lukaku. Most of his work is conducted behind the scenes, but ...

On today’s episode of SciTech, we explore how tech is powering democracy in South Africa, plus the latests breakthroughs in wildlife photography and explain why the Android system will no longer be available for Huawei smartphones. Tackling voter apathy using WhatsApp The Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh Xperience or simply #SMWX, the team produces a live-stream show on WhatsApp that focuses on the ...

Somali news outlets reported late Monday that Kenya had denied a number of lawmakers access into the country, the latest round of a diplomatic standoff between the two neighbours. Radio Dalsan said Somalia’s deputy minister of Water and Energy, Osman Libah as well as Senators Ilyas Ali Hassan and Zamzam Dahir had been left stranded at the Jomo Kenyatta International ...