Author: David Great

Arsenal may still decide to sell England youth international Folarin Balogun in the summer, despite the 21-year-old forward scoring a Ligue 1 leading 14 goals in 21 games for Reims this season. (Sun) Chelsea could include English defender Trevoh Chalobah, 23, in a deal for Inter Milan and Netherlands right-back Denzel Dumfries, 26. (Fichajes – in Spanish) Newcastle United will compete with Manchester City to sign England midfielder James Maddison, 26, from Leicester City. (Northern Echo) Manchester United are targeting a £100m move for either Tottenham’s England captain Harry Kane, 29, or Napoli’s 24-year-old Nigeria international Victor Osimhen, with manager Erik ten Hag prioritising a world-class striker. (Telegraph) Qatari investors will soon make a formal bid…

Manchester United would be required to pay £120m to sign England midfielder Declan Rice, 24, from West Ham, after having a £100m bid rejected last summer. (Talksport) Paris St-Germain want to sign 28-year-old Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva, who is open to leaving Manchester City, but could face competition from Barcelona. (Le10 Sport – in French) Manchester United will look to sell French forward Anthony Martial, 27, England centre-back Harry Maguire, 29, and Brazilian left-back Alex Telles, 30, in the summer as the club aims to make room for a new striker in Tottenham’s England captain Harry Kane 29, or Napoli’s 24-year-old Nigeria international Victor Osimhen. (MEN) Tottenham will not sell club record goalscorer Kane to…

Death toll nears 3,000 in Turkey, at least 1,500 in Syria Quake is biggest recorded worldwide since August 2021 Overwhelmed rescuers struggled to save people trapped under the rubble as the death toll from a devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria rose past 4,400 on Tuesday, with despair mounting and the scale of the disaster hampering relief efforts. In the Turkish city of Antakya near the Syrian border, where 10-storey buildings crumbled onto the streets, Reuters journalists saw rescue work being conducted on one out of dozens of mounds of rubble. The temperature was close to freezing as the rain…

Ghana international winger Christian Atsu, who was among those missing after the collapse of an apartment building in Hatay, Turkey, following Monday’s huge earthquake has been rescued, a Turkish journalist has reported. Sports presenter and journalist, Yağız Sabuncuoğlu in a tweet on Tuesday said Atsu has been rescued from rubles in his apartment building. “Christian Atsu has been pulled from the wreckage alive,” he tweeted. Atsu scored a 97th minute winner for Turkish top-flight side Hatayspor on Sunday night as they beat Kasımpasa 1-0, but just hours later was reported missing following the 7.8 magnitude quake that brought down whole…

Google owner Alphabet Inc on Monday said it will launch a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine as well as developers, an answer to Microsoft Corp in their rivalry to lead a new wave of computing. Microsoft, meanwhile, said it planned its own AI reveal for Tuesday. The cascade of news reflects how Silicon Valley is anticipating massive change from so-called generative AI, technology that can create prose or other content on command and free up white-collar workers’ time. The ascent of ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI that could disrupt how consumers search for information,…

Leeds United have sacked their manager Jesse Marsch with the team 17th in the table, one place above the relegation zone, the Premier League club said on Monday. Marsch joined Leeds in February 2022, replacing Marcelo Bielsa and secured the club’s top-flight survival on the final day of last season. But failure to get the team winning games has led to the departure of the American. “We would like to thank Jesse and his backroom staff for their efforts and wish them well for the future,” Leeds said in a statement. “The process of appointing a new head coach is…

An operations manager of a commercial bank in Abuja Central Area was today, February 6, 2023, arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Commission, EFCC, for refusing to load the Automated Teller Machines, ATMs, of the bank despite having N29 million of the redesigned naira notes in the branch’s vaults. Before he was whisked away for further questioning, the operatives ordered the loading of all the ATMs and the payment of the stipulated amount across the counter to the delight of the distraught customers who had spent hours on queues without getting the new notes. This discovery, which indicates…

Senate President Ahmad Lawan has claimed that the verdict delivered by the Supreme Court on Monday on the disputed All Progressives Congress (APC) Yobe North Senatorial ticket was victory for his party APC and democracy. The Supreme Court, in its judgement, affirmed Ahmad Lawan as the APC Senatorial candidate for Yobe North ahead of the February 25th National Assembly polls. The judgement, in effect, set aside the earlier judgements of the lower courts which declared Bashir Machina as the candidate. Speaking to journalists after the judgement was delivered, Lawan said: “the Supreme Court Judgement of today on Yobe North is…

Manchester City have been referred to an independent commission over more than 100 alleged breaches of Premier League finance rules, England’s top-flight soccer league said on Monday. The breaches stretch from the 2009-10 season to the 2017-18 campaign, the league added. Manchester City were acquired by their Abu Dhabi-based owners, City Football Group, in 2008. If the charges are proved City, could face a range of sanctions, including a points deduction or expulsion from the Premier League. The club are alleged to have breached rules relating to the provision of accurate financial information, “in particular with respect to its revenue…

Senate President Ahmed Lawan has been recognised by the Supreme Court as the legitimate candidate for the Yobe North Senatorial District. In the lead decision, Justice Centus Nweze questioned Bashir Machina’s strategy for starting the lawsuit at the Federal High Court Damaturu division through an originating summons and without providing oral evidence to support fraud accusations. In the majority ruling, the Supreme Court also overturned the Gombe Division of the Appeal Court’s decision, which had upheld the trial court’s designation of Machina as the APC Senatorial Candidate for Yobe North. Justices Emmanuel Agim and Adamu Jauro, writing in disagreement, said that…