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Midfielder has been a target for Italians since January Jones in the final year of his contract at Anfield Inter are in talks with Liverpool over a deal for Curtis Jones, with the 25-year-old expected to leave his boyhood club should the Italian champions offer around £30m. Jones has been a target for Inter since January and was the subject of a failed €25m bid from them in June. Liverpool valued…

Two fans were wearing shirts with XX-XY message Another fan told to cover shirt supporting trans people League: ‘This should not have happened’ At least three fans were asked by WNBA security personnel to cover shirts that had messages about transgender women participating in women’s sports during Sunday’s game in Atlanta between the Dream and the Indiana Fever. The league said in a statement Mon…

1892 Holdings has first refusal if FSG opts to sell Group paid more than £2bn for initial 38% slice of club 1892 Holdings, the new investor in Liverpool, has first refusal to become the majority shareholder in the next 12 months should Fenway Sports Group decide to sell. The consortium led by Amit Bhatia and including the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was believed to have bought 30% to one-third of L…

USA striker missed no matches after sending-off ‘Far too often now decisions are viewed as corrupt’ Howard Webb was “really troubled” by the decision of Fifa’s disciplinary committee to suspend Folarin Balogun’s ban for a red card during the World Cup, warning of a growing belief in refereeing conspiracies among supporters. Webb, English football’s chief refereeing officer, was speaking before th…

27-year-old Dutch rider takes win in Cumbria GB’s Josie Nelson in third, Italy’s Chiara Consonni second Lorena Wiebes took victory in the first stage of this year’s Tour of Britain. The opening stage started and finished in Cockermouth on a circuit spanning 158.9km in Cumbria. Wiebes powered to victory in a thrilling sprint finish, where the Team SD Worx-Protime rider narrowly pipped her rivals o…

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He is replacing a World Cup winner and is his country’s first Premier League keeper, but Villa’s new signing has already dealt with harder challenges In November 2001, the first Japanese goalkeeper to play English league football conceded a goal within the first minute of his debut. Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi may have struggled for second-tier Portsmouth, conceding 21 times in his 12 games after being …

Tourists return to England having won just two of their last 13 Test series amid rapidly changing personnel Last Friday was a glorious anniversary for Pakistani cricket, 10 years on from a 10-wicket win against England at the Oval. Younis Khan, their greatest run-scorer, hit a double hundred. Yasir Shah, a magical leggie and Lionel Messi lookalike, took a five-fer. Misbah-ul-Haq, their 42-year-ol…

Mourinho: Madrid made midfielder ‘a very good offer’ Spain captain chose to join Barcelona instead for £65.4m José Mourinho has confirmed Real Madrid made Rodri an offer and that he spoke to him about joining the club, but claimed the player’s doubts about the transfer made him unsure about signing Spain’s World Cup-winning captain. On the same day Rodri was presented at Barcelona following the c…

Bid short of Brighton’s valuation for midfielder Cameroon international was a United target last summer Manchester United are confident of signing Brighton’s Carlos Baleba for less than £75m, with the 22-year-old midfielder having agreed personal terms. United have made an initial offer of £60m plus £5m add-ons for Baleba, which is below Brighton’s valuation. Baleba has been a target for United s…

Offer of almost £40m rejected for England striker Watkins has two years left on his contract Aston Villa are braced for another bid from Al Hilal for Ollie Watkins, after rejecting an offer worth almost £40m for the striker. Al Hilal are pursuing a move for Villa’s all-time Premier League goalscorer, who has reached double figures in the top flight in his six seasons at the club after joining fro…

Monique Ngock starred as Cameroon triumphed for the first time in a tournament of compelling surprises, even if crowd figures disappointed Cameroon became only the fourth country to lift the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) title following Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa, and only the third to have both a men’s and women’s continental champion, after a 3-0 win over Malawi in Rab…

IFA points to ‘unprecedented crisis of confidence’ Premier League chief says Infantino ‘hit self-destruct’ Gianni Infantino’s decision to sack his chief operating officer , Kevin Lamour, after the Frenchman’s criticism of the World Cup sell-off plan has hardened some opposition to the Fifa president, with the efforts to force him out expected to intensify over the next few days. On Tuesday Israel…

Move could be confirmed along with $100m US Open pot Slams have been in dispute with players for 18 months The grand slam tennis tournaments have agreed to establish a formal Player Advisory Council in a joint move aimed at defusing the ongoing row over prize money. The Guardian has learned that an agreement on the joint venture has been reached and could be confirmed on Wednesday as part of US T…

Updates from the opening day’s card at York Constitution River can fill Bow Echo void | Mail Greg Good afternoon from the Knavesmire in York on day one of the Ebor Festival 2026, when the first meeting between Ombudsman and Constitution River, two of the best middle-distance horses in global Flat racing this year, in the Group One International Stakes is the feature event on the card at 3.35. It …