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The former Atletico Madrid forward was presented on July 14 but the Blaugrana club captain is yet to speak to him Antoine Griezmann says he is yet to hear from Lionel Messi after joining Barcelona, but has received a message from Luis Suarez to welcome him to Catalunya. After paying €120 million (£107m/$134m) to activate the release clause in Griezmann’s ...

Ramon Calderon feels the Wales forward’s position at Santiago Bernabeu is “unsustainable”, with the current Blancos boss keen to offload the winger Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane “wanted to keep Cristiano Ronaldo and sell Gareth Bale” during his first spell in charge, according to former club president Ramon Calderon. Zidane announced after the 3-1 International Champions Cup defeat to Bayern ...

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is looking for a new leader after the departure of Antonio Valencia, and the goalkeeper sees himself as a candidate for the job David de Gea says he would be “really happy” to be named Manchester United captain and insists he is ready to fight for trophies at Old Trafford as he closes in on a new ...

FIFA’s plan to take over the running of African football is set to face a possible roadblock, with an executive committee member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) saying he will challenge the decision in court. Hasan Bility, who is from Liberia and a CAF executive committee member for last two years, said he will ask the Swiss-based Court ...

Manny Pacquiao has become the WBA Super champion at the age of 40 – outpointing previously undefeated welterweight Keith Thurman in a split decision in Las Vegas. Thurman was knocked down in the first round but a thrilling fight went the full distance. The American, 30, had been looking for his 30th straight win. Two judges scored it 115-112 to ...

Everton have moved to bolster their midfield ranks with an England international, but their manager is not planning on sanctioning any sales Everton boss Marco Silva insists Fabian Delph has not been signed as a replacement for Paris Saint-German and Manchester United-linked Idrissa Gueye. The Toffees have splashed out £10 million ($12m) on luring an England international midfielder away from Manchester City and Delph could ...

Paul Njoroge, whose family was killed in the Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia last March, addressed the US Parliament in witness against the aircraft manufacturer. Njoroge lost of his three children, his wife and mother-in-law in the boeing plane that crashed six minutes after takeoff. In a moving testimony to Congress on Wednesday, Njoroge recounted the last moments that ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) will work with authorities in Uganda to vaccinate about 590 fishmongers at the Mpondwe market, following the discovery that one of them vomited at the Ugandan market on July 11 before dying in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “The surveillance teams established that she had four episodes of vomiting on the day she was ...

The French businessman leapfrogged the Microsoft co-founder after seeing his own personal fortune grow by $39 billion in 2019. There’s still money left in luxury goods. Lots of it, in fact. Need proof? LVMH Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault just dethroned Bill Gates as the second-richest person in the world with a total net worth of $108 billion. On Tuesday, Arnault supplanted ...

The former Reds midfielder believes that any raid on Camp Nou this summer should be bringing in a French forward, not a familiar Brazilian playmaker Ousmane Dembele would be a “fantastic signing for Liverpool”, says Danny Murphy, with the Barcelona winger considered to be a better option for the Reds than Philippe Coutinho. A raid on the ranks at Camp Nou continues to ...