Author: David Great

Yerry Mina, Andros Townsend and Asmir Begovic will leave Everton after their contracts expire this month while Seamus Coleman and Tom Davies have been offered new deals, the Premier League club said on Friday. Everton, who managed to preserve their Premier League status on the final day of the season, also activated the option to extend midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure’s contract until the end of June 2024. Mina has been a bit of a cult hero at Everton since his move from Barcelona in 2018 but the Colombia international was restricted to just seven league games this season due to injuries.…

West Ham have defeated Fiorentina to win the Europa Conference League and their first trophy in 43 years thanks to a late Jarrod Bowen strike. The Hammers took the lead thank to a penalty converted by Said Benrahma. The Italian side pulled level thanks to a sublime finish by Giacomo Bonaventura. The match at Prague’s Eden Arena looked like it was heading to extra time when Lucas Paqueta slipped a ball through to Bowen who outpaced the defenders and fired home past a sprawling Fiorentina keeper. Both sides struggled to create much in a nervy opening half with Fiorentina controlling…

Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kante will sign for Saudi Arabia champions Al-Ittihad on a two-year deal, Al Ekhbariya TV said on Wednesday. Al Ekhbariya added the contract with the 32-year-old, who won the 2018 World Cup with France, has an option to be extended for another year. If the deal is completed as expected, Kante will line up alongside compatriot Karim Benzema who signed a three-year contract with the Saudi side on Tuesday. The Saudi Pro League continues to attract high-profile players since Cristiano Ronaldo joined Al-Nassr in December for more than $220 million per year. Other big names Saudi clubs…

Real Madrid have agreed a deal with Borussia Dortmund to sign England midfielder Jude Bellingham for 100m euros (£86m). The 19-year-old, who joined Dortmund from Birmingham City in July 2020, was one of England’s top performers at last year’s World Cup. Bellingham wants the move and will have a medical in the next few days. The midfielder, who has been linked with some of Europe’s top sides, will sign a six-year deal. Manchester City and Liverpool were two of the sides keen on Bellingham, who is set to become the world’s third-most expensive teenager. In April, Liverpool dropped out of…

Argentina legend Lionel Messi will join American side Inter Miami after his exit from French champions Paris St-Germain. The former Barcelona player is set to reject a more lucrative offer from Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal. The Miami deal includes collaboration from brands like Adidas and Apple. Forward Messi, 35, won the award for the world’s best player seven times and is expected to win it later this year after World Cup success. This is the first time Barcelona icon Messi has played outside Europe. He wanted to remain in Europe for another season but, after no satisfactory offers were received,…

A witness for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, testified that both the party’s candidate and All Progressives Congress (APC) President Bola Tinubu are ineligible to be declared president because they did not receive 25% of the vote in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Under cross questioning by counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mohammed Aliyu, he stated that the 25% was a mandatory requirement for being proclaimed president. When questioned if his comment was personal, he said that it was based on a fundamental provision. In answer to a query on whether…

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador’s website is down, making it impossible to view any data on the site. According to the Chronicle NG, checks on the Province website on Wednesday, June 7 yielded a “server unavailable” answer. Further checks on the government’s social media accounts yielded no information on why the website server was offline. The official website of the province and the gateway to immigration information is www.gov.nl.ca.

Batman won a trademark fight with an Italian clothing retailer on Wednesday after Europe’s second-top court sided with an EU patent office, ruling that the Batman logo is distinctive enough to warrant its EU trademark. Warner Bros Discovery’s DC Comics, which registered the Batman logo with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) more than two decades ago, faced a challenge from Commerciale Italiana Srl in 2019. The Italian company had asked EUIPO to annul the trademark for clothing and carnival items, saying that it lacked a distinctive character. After EUIPO rejected its application, Commerciale Italiana Srl took its grievance…

Chelsea and France midfielder N’Golo Kante, 32, has been offered a salary that could reach £86m a year by Saudi clubs Al-Ittihad and Al-Nassr. (Guardian) Out-of-contract Crystal Palace and Ivory Coast forward Wilfried Zaha, 30, has received a £15m-per-year offer to join Cristiano Ronaldo at Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr. Atletico Madrid are also interested. (Sky Sports) Aston Villa want Belgium midfielder Youri Tielemans, 26, after his departure from Leicester. (Athletic) Aston Villa have held talks to sign Spain defenders Aymeric Laporte, 29, and Pau Torres, 26, from Manchester City and Villarreal respectively. (90min) Chelsea have joined Barcelona and Liverpool in wanting Celta Vigo’s 21-year-old Spanish midfielder Gabri Veiga, who has a £34m release clause. (Guardian) Tottenham have shown an interest in Manchester United defender Harry…

Brazil are still intent on making Carlo Ancelotti their new coach and federation (CBF) president Ednaldo Rodrigues said he would use the national team’s friendlies in Europe to talk to the Real Madrid boss. Rodrigues said he would also approach the Spanish club’s president Florentino Perez and described Ancelotti as their first choice to replace Tite, who left the Brazil team after their quarter-final exit at the World Cup in Qatar in November. “He remains the Plan A and in this trip with the selection in Europe we can have greater clarity,” Rodrigues said on Tuesday in a press event…