Liverpool bid to end title wobble, troubled Spurs face Everton battle
Premier League leaders Liverpool must end their recent wobble to keep the chasing pack at bay this weekend.
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Atletico hold slender Liga lead as Spain’s big two resume battle
Atletico Madrid lead Spain’s two giants by a whisker heading into the second half of the La Liga season, after racking up 15 victories on the spin across all competitions.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer set for first job since Man United exit with Jose Mourinho waiting
Manchester United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is closing in on a return to management with Turkish giants Besiktas.
Saudi chiefs hand Salah £65 million deal
Saudi Arabia chiefs are set to offer Mohamed Salah a £65million deal across two seasons, according to reports. Salah, 32, is one of the Liverpool’s all-time greatest players, with the Egyptian having scored a remarkable 232 goals in 376 games for the club since joining from Roma in 2017 for an initial £36.5m fee.
NSC will support school sports to unearth new talents, says Dikko
Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Shehu Dikko, has promised to support the Nigeria School Sport Federation (NSSF) in its mission to discover and nurture grassroots talent.
Raducanu apologises to Murray to avoid ‘bad blood’
Emma Raducanu said she apologised to Andy Murray over her Wimbledon mixed doubles withdrawal last year as she did not want any “bad blood” between the pair. Murray was due to play alongside Raducanu during his final outing at the All England Club before his fellow Briton pulled out of the mixed doubles because of “some stiffness” in her right wrist.
West Ham intensify efforts to sign Taiwo Awoniyi
West Ham United are reportedly making a ‘serious attempt’ to sign Nottingham Forest star, Taiwo Awoniyi, this January. Football-talk reports that 27-year-old Awoniyi, who joined Liverpool as a teenager back in 2015, never managed to secure his place in the Reds’ first-team. So, he went out on loan on several occasions to develop his career before signing for Bundesliga side Union Berlin permanently back in 2021.
Tennis star Fritz to give £67,000 prize to LA fire victims
Fourth seed Taylor Fritz said he is going to donate his first-round prize money from the Australian Open to support victims from the Los Angeles wildfires.The fires, which began on January 7, have killed at least 25 people and are being marked as the most destructive in the city’s history. After beating Chilean qualifier Cristian Garin to reach the third round on Thursday, American Fritz pledged his 132,000 Australian dollars (£67,000) first-round prize. “I just want everyone to stay safe, it’s insane what happened,” the 27-year-old said. “I’m going to be donating my first round prize money to LA wildfire relief funds. “It’s the least I can do. Southern California is my home and LA was my home for a very long time, so I’m just doing what I can possibly do to help.” Fritz, who lost to Jannik Sinner in last year’s US Open final, wrote “LA” and drew a love heart on a camera lens after his 6-2 6-1 6-0 over Garin in Melbourne. The world number four will face French veteran Gael Monfils in the third round.