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LIONEL MESSI and Luis Suarez want Barcelona to land Liverpool star Mohamed Salah in a swap deal involving Ousmane Dembele, it has been claimed. Salah has been heavily linked with a move to Barcelona as a result of his stunning form for Liverpool. According to Spanish publication Don Balon, Messi and Suarez believe the Egypt international would be a better ...

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho reportedly has one concern about signing PSG bulldozer Marco Verratti. Manchester United want PSG star Verratti to help coax the best out of Paul Pogba next season. The Red Devils are losing Michael Carrick in the summer, with the England international retiring, and Mourinho is hunting reinforcements. The club are already well-stocked in midfield with ...

The Algerian Minister of Youth and Sports has announced his country’s official support for Morocco’s bid to host the World Cup in 2026. El Hadi Ould Ali made the statement at the weekend on a working visit to the province of El Bayadh, south of Algeria. “The decision of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to support the candidacy of Morocco to host ...

Juventus and Real Madrid will go head to head again in the first leg of their quarter-final tie tonight. The two teams have a similar spirit and mentality, faced each other in the Cardiff final just ten months ago. Cristiano Ronaldo is on a hot streak, just to say the least (22 goals in his last 13 games) but Juve’s ...

ANTONIO CONTE can have few complaints when he is sacked by Chelsea at the end of the season. That is the verdict of Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville. Conte has edged closer to the exit door at Stamford Bridge after Chelsea were beaten 3-1 by Tottenham on Sunday. The defeat was a damaging blow to their hopes of finishing in ...

MANCHESTER UNITED manager Jose Mourinho is said to be unhappy at reports linking Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino to the Old Trafford job. Manchester United boss Mourinho has found his position under threat amid talk Pochettino is being lined up to take the reins. The 54-year-old, however, is safe for now and is understood to retain the full support of Red ...

Hailed as mother of the ‘new’ South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s legacy as an anti-apartheid heroine was undone when she was revealed to be a ruthless ideologue prepared to sacrifice laws and lives in pursuit of revolution and redress. Her uncompromising methods and refusal to forgive contrasted sharply with the reconciliation espoused by her husband Nelson Mandela as he worked to ...

A Facebook executive’s memo that claimed the “ugly truth” was that anything it did to grow was justified has been made public, embarrassing the company. The 2016 post said that this applied even if it meant people might die as a result of bullying or terrorism. Both the author and the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, have denied they actually ...

One in five British households have experienced slow broadband speeds in the last year, according to Which. A similar number have had connection dropouts and router problems, the consumer rights group added. It polled more than 1,900 customers across 12 providers, more than half of whom reported having problems with their broadband service or price. Which said providers had “a ...

In a laboratory in Copenhagen, scientists believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough that could transform computing. A team combining Microsoft researchers and Niels Bohr Institute academics is confident that it has found the key to creating a quantum computer. If they are right, then Microsoft will leap to the front of a race that has a tremendous ...