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Club languishing at bottom of England’s Premier League Manchester United shares spike briefly on tweet Musk has history of unconventional tweets Entrepreneur seeking to exit $44 bln deal to buy Twitter Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, briefly lifted the gloom over Manchester United’s (MANU.N) shares and fans on Wednesday by tweeting he was buying the English soccer club – only to say a little later it was all part of “a long-running joke”. One of the world’s most successful soccer clubs, the “Red Devils” are languishing at the bottom of England’s Premier League and, having seen eight coaches come and go…

Former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Paul Robinson has said that the linkup between Liverpool forwards Mohamed Salah and Darwin Nunez is the opposite of any partnership at Manchester United. Nunez, who joined the Reds from Benfica in a club-record deal worth up to £85 million earlier this summer, has already established a relationship with Salah. The pair combined twice in the Merseyside outfit’s 2-2 draw against Fulham on the opening weekend. Both the attackers started Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace on August 15 and worked in tandem with one another for almost an hour. But the Uruguayan was sent-off in the 57th minute of the contest for…

Chelsea have opened talks with their manager Thomas Tuchel regarding a new deal, as per reports from The Daily Mail. The German is currently contracted at Stamford Bridge until the summer of 2024. The report suggests that the Blues want Tuchel to commit his future to the club for a further two years. The German was brought in by the west London club on a 17-month deal in January of 2021 following Frank Lampard’s sacking. He was given a fresh and improved three-year deal after guiding Chelsea to their second Champions League in 2021. The 2021-22 season was far from a smooth one for…

Kenya’s government bonds recovered some losses on Tuesday as the country braced for a legal battle over the presidential election win awarded to current deputy president William Ruto. The country’s 2024 maturing bond was up more than 2.6 cents in the dollar at 1000GMT, while others rose between 0.8 and 1.9 cents, according to Tradeweb data, recouping some of the sharp falls seen on Monday after the announcement of the election result descended into chaos. Calm returned to the western city of Kisumu and Nairobi’s Kibera slum on Tuesday after protestors had battled police ovenight. Both are strongholds of opposition…

Odinga urges supporters to remain peaceful Calm returns to the streets of Kibera slum and Kisumu city Election result disowned by majority of election officials Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga rejected as “null and void” the result of an Aug. 9 presidential election he was declared to have lost, adding on Tuesday that Kenya’s democracy faces a long legal crisis. His first comments on the result came shortly after four of the seven election commissioners said they stood by their decision a day earlier to disown the outcome of the presidential poll, saying the final tallying process had been “opaque”.…

Liverpool great Graeme Souness has urged Manchester United to make a move for Aston Villa midfielder John McGinn this summer. Manager Erik ten Hag has started his tenure at Old Trafford in the worst possible way, losing his first two games in charge. A 2-1 loss to Brighton & Hove Albion was followed by a humiliating 4-0 defeat at the hands of Thomas Frank’s Brentford on Saturday (August 13). Midfield has been an area where the Red Devils have looked completely out of depth as the duo of Fred and Scott McTominay have both come under scrutiny. Former Liverpool midfielder Graeme Souness has…

Barcelona are willing to pull out all the stops to get Martin Braithwaite off the books this summer, according to Spanish news outlet Diario Sport. The Denmark international is surplus to their requirements but he insists on remaining, exasperating the club’s chiefs. Braithwaite has another two years left on his contract but the Blaugrana want to expunge him and a few other deadwoods in the squad to reduce their wage bill. They are ready to go as far as terminating Braithwaite’s contract to achieve that. He refused to listen to any offers and also rejected the opportunity to get a letter of freedom from…

Securing a new $5 billion loan from the IMF would help reassure Ukraine’s other creditors that the war-torn country’s macroeconomic situation was under control, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief economic adviser told Reuters on Friday. Fresh financing from the International Monetary Fund for around 18 months could serve as the anchor for a larger package of $15 billion-$20 billion to help Ukraine weather the economic crisis caused by Russia’s invasion, the adviser, Oleg Ustenko, said. He said Ukrainian officials were in touch with the global lender about the potential request, adding that the goal should be to move forward as quickly…

Sierra Leone’s president, Julius Maada Bio, said on Friday that this week’s anti-government protests, which led to the deaths of six police officers and at least 21 civilians, were an attempt to overthrow the government. On Wednesday, police officers used tear gas and in some cases guns to disperse large crowds of protesters throwing rocks and burning tyres in the capital Freetown and several towns in the opposition’s northern heartland. “This was not a protest against the high cost of living occasioned by the ongoing global economic crisis,” Maada Bio said in an address to the nation. “The chant of…

Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga led Kenya’s presidential race, official election results showed on Saturday, pushing Deputy President William Ruto into second place. With just over 26% of votes counted, Odinga had 54% and Ruto had 45%, according to results provided by the Kenyan election commission and displayed on a large screen at a national tallying center in the capital, Nairobi. East Africa’s wealthiest nation and most vibrant democracy held presidential, parliamentary and local elections on Tuesday. Ruto and Odinga are in a tight race to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has reached his two-term limit. Kenyatta fell out with…