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Man City player ratings vs West Ham as Savinho and Erling Haaland star but one 5/10

Manchester City overcame a few wobbles to beat West Ham 4-1 at the Etihad Stadium.

Barcelona's Dani Olmo Suffers Fresh Registration Setback

Barcelona took their desperate attempts to register Dani Olmo to Spain's High Council for Sports on Saturday after La Liga and the national federation pushed their star playmaker closer to a potentially embarrassing departure. The future of Olmo and young forward Pau Victor at the Catalan giants has been on hold over a financial and administrative limbo that prevented their registration beyond 2024. Debt-laden Barcelona registered their star signing Olmo last summer without breaching La Liga's budget rules after defender Andreas Christensen was injured in August.

Coco Gauff, Iga Swiatek To Clash For United Cup As Czech Player Makes Abrupt Exit

Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek will battle for United Cup glory after the USA and Poland won their respective semi-finals on Saturday in Sydney amid bizarre circumstances. Swiatek beat Elena Rybakina to help last year's runners-up Poland see off Kazakhstan and they were joined in Sunday's final of the mixed-teams tournament by the Gauff-led United States. The Americans defeated the Czech Republic, with Gauff beating Karolina Muchova and then an increasingly irate Tomas Machac retiring from his match against Taylor Fritz in an abrupt and bewildering ending.