Author: David Great

Manchester City have dismissed claims that they have accepted a bid from Barcelona for Portugal playmaker Bernardo Silva, 28. (Mail) Reports from Spain suggested a fee of between £42m and £46.5m had been agreed for Silva between the Premier League champions and La Liga giants. (Managing Barca) After ending their interest in Bologna’s 33-year-old Austria striker Marko Arnautovic, Manchester United will now turn their attention to prising Watford’s Senegalese attacker Ismaila Sarr, 24, away from the Championship club. (Sun) United have also been offered the chance to sign Spain international and former Chelsea striker Alvaro Morata, 29, who has a…

RB Leipzig have re-signed Chelsea forward Timo Werner on a permanent deal, two years after he left the club for the Premier League. Chelsea met the Germany international’s £45m release clause in 2020 but will make a loss, with Werner returning in a deal thought to be about £25m. ???? @ChelseaFC pic.twitter.com/ak5cSXiqbR — Timo Werner (@TimoWerner) August 9, 2022 He has signed a four-year deal to 2026 with his former club. “I’m very happy to be playing for RB Leipzig again from now on,” the 26-year-old said. “It was a great time from 2016 to 2020 in which we caused…

Barcelona are still to register any new players before this weekend’s La Liga opener with Rayo Vallecano. Barca have been wrestling with severe financial issues, which need to be addressed to comply with La Liga’s strict financial regulations. In effect that has meant the Catalan giants have sold off huge amounts of their future income in order to comply and register new players. That includes striker Robert Lewandowski and forward Raphinha. As well as Poland international Lewandowski from Bayern Munich and Brazilian Raphinha from Leeds, the club have also signed defenders Jules Kounde and Andreas Christensen and midfielder Franck Kessie.…

Telecommunications solutions provider, Globacom, has promised its football-loving customers an exciting time on the network as it unveils another customer-centric offer dubbed EPL data packs. The company explained in a press statement released in Lagos on Tuesday that with the plan, customers will receive 4GB when they buy N500 data packs while N1, 000 data packs come with 10GB. Said Glo, “We are delighted to launch the EPL data packs to enable all our esteemed customers to enjoy the 2022/ 2023 English Premier League season. The packs are another in a series of innovative and affordable price offerings which allows…

Manchester United have ended their interest in Bologna striker Marko Arnautovic following backlash from fans on social media. New United boss Erik ten Hag was considering a move for the 33-year-old Austria international, whom he worked with at Dutch side FC Twente. But is understood United pulled out because of a combination of Bologna’s growing transfer fee demands and the negative reaction. United reportedly received complaints from fans opposed to the move. Ten Hag dismissed talk of potentially signing the former West Ham United and Stoke City forward after the 2-1 defeat by Brighton in United’s Premier League opener on…

Everton have signed Belgium midfielder Amadou Onana from Lille for £33m making him the fifth signing of the summer. The 20-year-old was at Goodison Park on Saturday to watch Everton’s 1-0 defeat by Chelsea in their opening Premier League game of the season. West Ham were also interested in Onana and had agreed a fee for the player. “It feels great to join Everton,” he told EvertonTV. “I know it’s a big, big club, one of the biggest in England. It’s something I want to be part of for many years.” Onana becomes Everton’s fifth signing of the summer after…

By Seun Bisuga I have watched Nigerians ignorantly delegate the handling of the Nigerian economy to the Vice President’s Office under Prof. Yemi Osinbajo over the last seven years, usually I laugh it off, but when Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor and labour leader also goofed on the subject matter, I reasoned it was time we considered the issue more seriously. Let me break this economy thing down. First, as Acting President, Prof. Osinbajo did oversee the economy. He held meetings and called the shots and truly Nigeria’s economy took a new turn. Food prices began to dwindle, the naira…

Former President Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation into Trump’s removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort. The unprecedented search of a former president’s home would mark a significant escalation into the records investigation, which is one of several probes Trump is facing from his time in office and in private business. The U.S. Justice Department declined to comment on the search, which Trump in a statement called a raid and said involved a…

The supporters of Peter Obi on Monday held a town hall meeting in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi state to woo voters and deepen the campaign of Obi/Datti movement. The meeting had in attendance national secretary of LP, Umar Faruk Ibrahim, officials of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kebbi state, youth movements for Obi and candidates of Labour Party and their executives. Speaking at the occasion, the chief host who is the state chairman of NLC Kebbi state said that, the party has come to rescue Nigerians from the current state of the nation, as he added that LP belongs to NLC. He…

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says the number of electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) customers in Nigeria increased from 10.37 million in 2020 to 10.51 million in 2021. The NBS Nigeria Electricity Report 2021 report  released in Abuja on Monday focused on energy billed, revenue generated and customers by DISCOS under the reviewed period. The report said the number of metered customers rose by 36.18 per cent from 3.51 million in 2020 to 4.77 million in 2021. It, however, said estimated billing customers decreased by 16.32 per cent from 6.86 million in 2020 to 5.74 million in 2021. 57% of…