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Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp is optimistic forward Mohamed Salah will sign a new contract at the club. The Egypt international is enjoying a superb season and is the Premier League’s top scorer with 13 goals. Salah, 29, joined the Reds in 2017 and his current deal expires in 18 months. “We’re talking – and extending the contract for a player ...

Demarai Gray’s superb injury-time strike earned Everton a first win in nine games to end a bruising week with a stunning comeback against Arsenal. After a week in which the hosts were thumped by Liverpool and director of football Marcel Brands left the club, Rafael Benitez’s team responded with a much-improved display that showed the character and resilience fans were ...

Hearts of Oak coach Samuel Boadu has named 23-man for the CAF Confederation Cup second leg meeting with JS Saoura. The Phobians will travel to Algeria on Wednesday. The match is scheduled for Sunday, December 5 and will be played at the 20,000 capacity 20 August 1955 Stadium in Bechar. Hearts have the advantage in the play-offs tie following a ...

3FM news has gathered that the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has suspended scheduled surgeries at the facility’s Intensive Care Unit due to low pressure of the hospital’s oxygen plant. The plant, according to information gathered so far is unable to pump the required level of pressure needed to the Intensive Care Unit. Maintenance of the plant is scheduled to be ...

Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos and club legend Iker Casillas have led criticism of the decision to hand Lionel Messi this year’s Ballon d’Or, with the German claiming ‘it’s absolutely not deserved’. The Paris Saint-Germain forward saw off competition from Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski and Chelsea midfielder Jorginho to lift the seventh Ballon d’Or of his incredible career. Messi ...

Alexia Putellas became just the third female player to win the Women’s Ballon d’Or following a treble-winning campaign for Barcelona. Having already been crowned UEFA Women’s Player of the Year, Putellas was favourite to land the award handed out by France Football. The Barcelona captain, 27, steered her side to the Spanish league and cup in 2020-21 and then completed ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has accused the France Football editor of lying after he said the Portuguese’s only ambition was to retire with more Ballon d’Ors than Lionel Messi. Ballon d’Or organiser Pascal Ferre made the claim to the New York Times. Paris St-Germain’s Messi won his seventh Ballon d’Or on Monday, with five-time winner Ronaldo voted sixth. “I always win for ...

Ghana Premier League side, Berekum Chelsea have announced the appointment of Benard Amofa Jantuah and Gifty Oware Mensah as President and Vice President of the club respectively. The club announced the appointments on their social media handles today. “ ‘ . .” A statement on the club’s official handle read. Football administrator, Nana Kwame Nketiah was the President of the ...

The Ghana Premier League had some exciting and mouthwatering games this weekend. Records were set and broken this weekend as the various teams were in the quest to grab all three points. WAFA have picked up their first win of the Ghana Premier League this season, in what was their 5th game. In their first four games, they played against; ...

Chelsea’s Senegalese goalkeeper Edouard Mendy is confident he can win the Lev Yashin award for Europe’s best goalkeeper when the Ballon d’Or gala takes place on Monday night. The 29-year-old is one of the ten goalkeepers in contention for the prize, with only Paris Saint-Germain’s European Championship-winner Gianluigi Donnarumma up for the main Ballon d’Or trophy itself. Nonetheless, Mendy – ...