Former Everton midfielder and national team coach Li Tie was sentenced to 20 years in prison for giving and receiving bribes.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday.
Everton have signed winger Gerard Deulofeu from Barcelona on a three-year contract for six million euros ($6.7 million), the Premier League club said on Thursday.
Manchester City's spending of more than 180 million pounds ($223.58 million) was the second-biggest outlay ever worldwide by a club in the January transfer window.
Manchester United completed their first home and away Premier League double over Manchester City since the Alex Ferguson era with a 2-0 victory at Old Trafford on Sunday.. Earlier, two goals in each half from a rampant Chelsea earned them a 4-0 victory over Carlo Ancelotti's Everton, cementing their place in the Premier League's top four.
A stunning strike from 18-year-old Curtis Jones gave a youthful Liverpool a 1-0 win over Everton in their FA Cup
IMAGES from English Premier League matches played on Sunday.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
A round-up of Sunday's action in the Premier League.
The next man in charge faces an unenviable task trying to sort out the existing mess and then living up to goals that seem ever more distant.
Manchester City secured a record 15th straight victory in all competitions with a 3-1 win at Championship side Swansea City in the FA Cup fifth round on Wednesday.
Some lament the FA Cup having lost much of its romance in recent years, in the face of obsession with the Premier League, but this tie had it in bucket loads.
'Everton can confirm that Wayne Rooney has rejoined the club from Manchester United on a two-year deal for an undisclosed fee'
IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Saturday.
United host seventh-placed Forest on Saturday, days after their defeat to Arsenal.
IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Saturday.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday.
A summary of Saturday's action in the English Premier League.
Tottenham Hotspur showed the English Premier League title race might not be just a two-horse affair with a hugely impressive 6-2 win at Everton.
Round-up of matches from the opening weekend of the English Premier League 2024-25
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored twice to earn Arsenal a 3-2 Premier League win over Everton on Sunday, extending the Gunners' unbeaten start to 2020 and moving them back into the battle for European places. The win lifts Mikel Arteta's Arsenal side up to ninth place in the league with 37 points, while Everton remain without a victory at the Gunners in 24 years and a point adrift in 11th.
The 25 year old from Galle is the joint third fastest to reach five Test centuries, joining legends like Don Bradman and George Headley, who also scored five hundreds in 13 innings.
British media reported that the fee for the 24-year-old would be around 75 million pounds ($96.68 million), making him the club's second most expensive signing after last year's world record deal for French midfielder Paul Pogba.
A summary of Saturday's action in the English Premier League.
IMAGES from soccer matches played in the English Premier League and the La Liga on Monday.
IMAGES from the English Premier League match played between Everton and Manchester City on Wednesday
James Rodriguez netted twice and Dominic Calvert-Lewin became the first Everton player to score in the opening four matches of a Premier League season as they beat Brighton & Hove Albion 4-2 on Saturday to stay top of the table with a maximum 12 points.
Everton moved up to fifth in the Premier League on Sunday with a 2-0 home defeat of Middlesbrough.
Everton have 36 points from 26 games
Images from EPL matches played on Wednesday.
Manchester City moved 17 points clear of the pack with a 3-0 win at Fulham on Saturday
The Premier League's bottom two clubs met at Goodison Park and there was more woe for Everton as they bowed out on penalties to Southampton after a 1-1 draw.
The top three places in the Premier League table look secure for Liverpool, Manchester City and Leicester City, but the fourth spot, currently occupied by Chelsea, remains tantalisingly within reach for several clubs including Carlo Ancelotti's Everton and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's United.
Everton's French defender Sylvain Distin has signed a one-year contract extension that will keep him at GoodisonPark until the end of the 2014-15 season, the Premier League club said on Wednesday.
Everton beat Portsmouth 3-1 at Goodison Park to move back into fourth place in the English Premier League.
Manchester United finished with nine men in a 1-0 defeat at Everton on Wednesday.
Manchester City were referred to an independent commission over the alleged breaches of financial regulations, which go back to the 2009-10 campaign.
Everton made it two wins out of two in the Premier League on Tuesday with a 3-1 away defeat of Tottenham Hotspur, who have yet to pick a point this season.
Chelsea and Everton have been charged by the FA after Wednesday's stormy Premier League encounter.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday
