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Winger was highest earner at £325,000 a week He has not played this season after being frozen out Raheem Sterling is looking to revive his career after departing Chelsea by mutual consent. The 31-year-old winger was the club’s highest earner but has been out of favour since the summer of 2024. Sterling had 18 months left on a deal worth £325,000 a week. Sterling struggled to produce his best form…

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Remember that golden summer of strikers? Alexander Isak, the former hottest property in football. Get well soon, Alex. That all boiled down to a crazy last day of deal sheets, add-ons, release clauses, buy-backs, loans with options to buy, medicals and AI-generated InstaChat memes. Such halcyon days are unlikely to be repeated in this bleak midw…

Nerveless batter is a master of building an innings on spinning wickets and his form suggests he could have prospered in India and Sri Lanka The final night was Harry Brook’s but Joe Root still took the series, as he usually does in Sri Lanka. It was here that he began his stratospheric run against the red ball, a double hundred at Galle in 2021 the first of 24 Test tons in the next five years. G…

Midfielder speaks out on politics before World Cup Goretzka open to summer move to England from Bayern The Germany international Leon Goretzka has said Donald Trump’s actions have left him feeling “not only German but also European”. The US president has recently threatened to take Greenland by force and called Europe “weak” and “decaying” . Goretzka, who hopes to make the Germany squad for the W…

Rodman strikes again as USA rout Chile 5-0 Bethune, Joseph and Sams score first goals SheBelieves Cup in March is next up for US Croix Bethune, Jameese Joseph and Emily Sams scored their first international goals and the United States went on to beat Chile 5-0 on Tuesday night in Santa Barbara, California. Emma Sears and Trinity Rodman also scored for the US, who haven’t conceded a goal in five m…

Former world champion to face Arslanbek Makhmudov Briton has been training in Thailand ahead of his return Tyson Fury is to make his comeback against Arslanbek Makhmudov on April 11 in a fight that will be screened on Netflix. Fury announced his retirement a year ago in the wake of successive defeats to Oleksandr Usyk but has been training in Thailand ahead of his return to the ring. Continue rea…

Veteran dropped for alleged outburst at match officials France prop Uini Atonio forced to retire after heart attack Bundee Aki looks set to miss Ireland’s Six Nations opener against France after being withdrawn from Andy Farrell’s squad for disciplinary reasons. Aki is being investigated by the Irish Rugby Football Union for alleged disrespect shown to match officials in Connacht’s 34-23 United R…

Snow athletes have rebounded with a radical overhaul after funding was cut in response to poor results at Beijing Winter Olympics Just days before the Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, the young Team GB members who think nothing of flying 30ft in the air while spinning like gyroscopes have once again proved they have the X Factor. Last Friday, Mia Brookes, 19, soared to X Games gold in the snowb…

Highlight clips available at 8pm on Saturday for first time Traditional linear viewing of weekend show has declined Match of the Day’s viewing figures have increased considerably this season in a vindication of the BBC’s new digital strategy, according to data obtained by the Guardian. Traditional linear viewing of the Saturday and Sunday evening highlights programmes had declined by 770,000 to 6…

No 1 seed eases past American player 6-3 6-4 6-4 Sinner will now meet fortunate winner Djokovic Jannik Sinner will take on Novak Djokovic in another grand slam semi-final after a straight-sets win over Ben Shelton at the Australian Open. Sinner’s dramas of the third round, when he was in serious trouble in the heat against Eliot Spizzirri, now seem a distant memory, with the two-time defending ch…

Ward-Prowse has not featured under Nuno Espírito Santo Traoré understood to have joined from Fulham until June Burnley are poised to sign James Ward-Prowse on loan from West Ham. The midfielder is undergoing a medical with a view to spending the rest of the season at Turf Moor. He is preparing to leave West Ham on a day when the club confirmed the arrival of Adama Traoré from Fulham for a small u…

A record-breaking heatwave in Australia is a potent reminder of how cricket responded to previous wildfires It’s bushfire season once again in Australia. A record-breaking heatwave, plus intense winds, have resulted in a tinder-box landscape and hard-to-control blazes in large areas of the south east. “To be frank,” said Jason Heffernan, chief officer of Victoria’s Country Fire Authority on Tuesd…

On a soaked Brixton pitch, the club launch their latest programme as part of a widening mission that now stretches from Glasgow’s soup kitchens to Gaza relief You would not expect to find coaches from the Celtic FC Foundation in Brixton. But even the torrential rain in south London has not stopped them and four local teams from turning out to help launch a programme that will provide girls and yo…

World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era At 6.38pm CST on Saturday January 24, Indiana Pacer star Tyrese Haliburton posted on X : “Alex Pretti was murdered.” The NBA star was one of the first athletes to respond to what can only be described as the public execution by Department of Homeland Securit…

Today’s fluff is matching its ambitions Only five days remain of what has felt like a mercifully underheated winter window, but Manchester United could be about to fire it up a bit with an audacious bid for Cole Palmer . Teamtalk claims that a move for the Chelsea and England star is “building up a serious head of steam”. The departure from Stamford Bridge of Enzo Maresca, with whom Palmer was cl…