Barcelona forward Lionel Messi wants to spend the rest of his career with the European champions, who he believes are one of the greatest club sides of all time.
England were 7-1 at stumps with Ben Duckett (4) and Ollie Pope (3) batting together
Udinese and former Italy striker Antonio di Natale said he would retire at the end of the season. The 36-year-old played for Italy 42 times and scored 11 goals before quitting international football after the 2012 European Championship.
Defender Raphael Varane scored his first Premier League goal as Manchester United returned to winning ways with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Brentford on a night of potential farewells at Old Trafford. Bruno Fernandes and Cristiano Ronaldo, the latter with a penalty, also netted on Monday, which is the last home fixture of a difficult campaign for United.
'I (had) never read a book in my life and I started doing that as well. Getting up in the morning, spending a good quality time at the rehab centre and focusing on everything, connecting myself, my brain and my body with the rehab and it helped me really well to recover a little faster.'
Ugly scenes marred Birmingham City's 2-1 League Cup quarter-final victory over local rivals Aston Villa on Wednesday with fans ripping up seats and throwing flares into the crowd after a post-match pitch invasion.
India vice-captain Hardik Pandya looks drained, flattened, under pressure and Mumbai Indians appear like a confused unit under him, reckon former cricketers Aaron Finch and Greame Smith.
The heady days of easy credit and sky-high wages are ending in Europe with the global financial crisis driving sports clubs and authorities to change course. Already saddled with debts, many European soccer clubs will now find it increasingly difficult to have access to credit.
The 30-year-old is out of favour with Real and manager Zinedine Zidane has said the club are "working on his departure".
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said his job at the English Premier League club may be on the line if they fail to win the Champions League title this season. City have won five major domestic trophies since Guardiola took over in 2016 -- including two Premier League titles and an historic domestic treble last year -- but have never progressed past the quarter-final stage of the Champions League since the Spaniard's arrival.
Sky reported Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea have been in touch with Kane's representatives.
Former England and Newcastle United captain Alan Shearer will manage Newcastle United for the remainder of the season, according to television reports on Tuesday.
Champions Manchester City crashed out of the League Cup after suffering a shock 2-0 defeat at struggling Southampton in the quarter-finals on Wednesday.
IMAGES from the Europa League semifinal matches played on Thursday.
F1, Silverstone still optimistic despite UK quarantine rules
Brazil forward Robinho will be fined for leaving Manchester City's training camp in Tenerife last week, team manager Mark Hughes said on Tuesday.
Former World champion Jenson Button says he is shocked Sebastian Vettel will not drive for Ferrari next season and that it would be "madness" if the team had pushed him out. Ferrari said last week that four-times World champion Vettel would leave them at the end of the 2020 season, after talks on a new contract ended without a deal.
England midfielder David Beckham has said that visiting British troops fighting in Afghanistan was 'one of the best things' he has done in his career.
Graeme Swann recalled how he once got Rahul Dravid out and it became a momentous occasion for him. Dravid played for Kent under John Wright's coaching and had a good season with the county side.
A summary of Saturday's action in the English Premier League.
Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho again spoke of his dislike for Italian soccer on the eve of his side's Champions League quarter-final first leg against CSKA Moscow.
'I am really sorry that it shouldn't happen again. I got a lot of stick from my wife and my mum for saying that'.
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 1st Test played between England and South Africa at Lord's on Wednesday.
Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen suffered a suspected broken leg during the goalless draw at Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday.
Europa League kings Sevilla breezed past Manchester United into the semi-finals of their favourite competition as Youssef En Nesyri scored twice
Everton have suspended on-loan Brazilian forward Jo for returning to his homeland without permission, manager David Moyes said on Friday.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic pulled up at the end of the session, possibly with a calf muscle problem. Atletico Madrid's record signing Joao Felix is likely to miss the start of the Spanish soccer season when it resumes next month after sustaining a sprained knee in training.
Manchester City's influential midfielder Yaya Toure will stay at the Premier League club.
Andrei Arshavin, a target of English Premier League side Arsenal, is in London on Monday with Sky Sports News showing pictures of the Russian forward at a snow-bound hotel north of the city.
Newcastle United's Charles N'Zogbia said on Thursday he would never play for the club again while manager Joe Kinnear is in charge.
Kaka's move to Manchester City fell through because AC Milan '"bottled it', City's executive chairman Garry Cook said on Tuesday. Cook was part of a group of City officials who spent seven hours in the Italian city on Monday trying to secure the world record transfer of the Brazilian midfielder, only for the Italian club to announce that no deal would take place.
Tottenham Hotspur sacked manager Juande Ramos on Saturday and Portsmouth's Harry Redknapp said he would be taking charge of the English Premier League team.
Milan missed the chance to jump to second and remained fourth with 48 points
'We knew it was going to be hard to play against them, but I give all the praise to the lads for the hard work.'
Britain's world number one Andy Murray will play against France in the Davis Cup quarter-finals in April after missing the first-round victory against Canada last weekend.
Juergen Klopp, who took over from Brendan Rodgers in 2015, led the club to three finals in three years -- Europa League and League Cup in 2016 and Champions League in 2018 -- but ended up on the losing side each time.
'I'm the first one to say we shouldn't be speaking bad about things on TV, but I think the new qualifying format is pretty rubbish'
'I think in football there is too much modern slavery, transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere,' FIFA president Sepp Blatter said.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger says "racism has won" and that he had been made a "scapegoat" after Tottenham Hotspur and London police said they found no evidence to back his allegation he was abused during the English Premier League match in December. Rudiger was involved in an incident in which Tottenham's Son Heung-min was shown a red card and indicated shortly afterwards that he had been the victim of a monkey gesture from the home section of the crowd.
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