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Hibs transfers: Harry McKirdy just one of many possible targets as options explored

Despite being linked with Swindon Town striker Harry McKirdy, it is understood that Hibs have not made any formal approach to the League Two club.

’Two different realities,’ says Ukraine tennis captain Savchuk

PARIS: Ukraine’s national tennis team say they are existing “in two different realities” as they prepare for a Billie Jean King Cup clash in the United States this weekend while war rages at home. The Ukraine squad are in the South Carolina city of Asheville to tackle the record 18-time champions with a place in the finals at stake. However, the brutal fighting 5,000 miles away in Europe remains in the forefront of their minds.

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Qatar 2022 ‘door open’ to Chelsea’s Ziyech: Morocco federation chief

RABAT: Morocco’s national team would still welcome Chelsea attacker Hakim Ziyech, the head of its football federation said Wednesday, despite a dispute with the national coach before the kingdom qualified for the 2022 World Cup.“The doors of the national team are open to all Moroccan players, regardless of their differences,” Fouzi Lekjaa said during a federation board meeting.Ziyech had in February ruled himself out of playing for his country again after coach Vahid Halilhodzic omitted the 28-year-old for an Africa Cup of Nations game, reproaching him for indiscipline.But Lekjaa said Wednesday that “nobody can stop a Moroccan player playing for the national team, whether it’s Ziyech, (right back Noussair) Mazraoui or anyone else.”He said he would discuss this “personal conviction” with Halilhodzic on the coach’s return from holidays later this month.Halilhodzic, a former Nantes and Paris Saint-Germain player, had said that Ziyech “lacks respect” and could “blow up the team.”Despite leading the team to qualifying for next year’s World Cup in Qatar, Halilhodzic has been criticized in Morocco for his strategic choices and rumors have circulated of his possible departure.Lekjaa said Wednesday that the Bosnian-French 69-year-old “is currently the trainer of the national team...