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Ander Herrera has announced his departure from Manchester United amid reports he will join Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season. The 29-year-old, who was named the Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year by United fans in 2016-17, has made 132 Premier League appearances during five seasons at Old Trafford but has become the first player to confirm he is leaving with others expected to follow as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer revamps his squad. Herrera has started 16 of United’s league matches this season, struggling to hold down a regular place as he once did under Jose Mourinho. In…

Ajax get ready to welcome Tottenham Hotspur in the 2nd leg of their UEFA Champions Leaguequarter-final tie at the Johan Cruyff Arena. The Dutch club hold a slender 1-0 aggregate lead over their English counterparts with Donny Van de Beek’s goal proving the difference at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The teams though, come into the game on the back of some contrasting fortunes. While Ajax has been leaving everyone in their wake over the past few weeks, Spurs has slipped and stumbled its way to a top four league finish. Mauricio Pochettino’s troops have lost five of their last six competitive fixtures with two…

What’s the story? Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has given his thoughts on Barcelona’s performance in the sensational defeat at the hands of Liverpool by comparing them to an under-14 team. In case you didn’t know Barcelona walked into the second leg of their Champions League semi-final fixture against Liverpool with a three-goal cushion courtesy of Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi’s efforts at the Camp Nou last week. However, the Spanish champions were completely undone by a resilient Liverpool side which was missing two key members of their attacking trio- Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah. Divock Origi and Georginio Wijnaldum emerged as…

Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling has been named the Football Writers’ Association’s Footballer of the Year for 2019, a day after he took home the PFA Young Player of the Year award. The 24-year-old has netted 29 goals for club and country this season and has proven himself to be an important player in Pep Guardiola’s title-chasing squad. The defending champions are in the midst of the most intense Premier League title race in recent memory as they battle Liverpool to keep the title at the Etihad. Sterling earned 62 per cent of the votes in the poll and finished 100 votes above…

Starting the 2018/19 campaign, Manchester United had signed a young Portuguese right-back in the form of Diogo Dalot from Porto and a midfielder to help out Pogba in the form of Fred from Shakhtar Donetsk. However Mourinho’s need for a central defender wasn’t completed and he entered the season with Lindelof, Bailly, Smalling, Jones and Rojo as his defenders. Without a shadow of doubt, Manchester United have struggled at the back and are now on the lookout for a new defender to replace an injury-prone and rather inconsistent Eric Bailly and to get rid of either of Jones, Smalling or Rojo, with only Lindelof…

Avengers: Endgame, with the use of the Mjolnir – Thor’s hammer- is smashing every competition by setting multiple records at the box office, just a day after its release. The Walt Disney Co. says domestically the film opened Friday with a record $156.7 million (including Thursday previews), besting Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($119 million in 2015, though it played on fewer screens) and Avengers: Infinity War ($106 million in 2018). Outside the U.S., Avengers: Endgame broke another record by grossing an estimated $487 million at the end of Friday, surpassing The Fate of the Furious aka Fast & Furious 8 ($443 million in 2017), Billboard reports. The Marvel Comics superhero film also broke the…

By Kehinde Matthew It’s that time of the year again when children have to return to school. It is barely three days to resumption and you feel like a mess. Your children do not even look like they are ready for school. Your head is rummaging asking questions: “Have I gotten all the books he needs?” “Will she adjust to school routines?” And then it hits you. You have not gotten her new water bottle! His mathematical set is bad too! And then you feel like the most unserious parent in the world. Relax, take deep breaths. You are not the…

Karim Benzema will miss Real Madrid’s LaLiga trip to Rayo Vallecano due to a hamstring injury. The often-maligned French centre-forward has been in superb form for Madrid since Zinedine Zidane’s return as head coach, scoring all of Los Blancos’ past eight goals. Benzema completed 90 minutes in Thursday’s 0-0 draw at Getafe – the first time in six matches he failed to find the net – but missed training on Saturday and Madrid confirmed the 31-year-old had suffered a setback. “Following the tests carried out on our player Karim Benzema by the Real Madrid medical department, he has been diagnosed with a muscular injury to…

When pleasure turns to pressure, the drive to keep on moving is always hard to come by. Both elements are part of the beautiful game. The former is what every team embraces because it produces a perfect atmosphere to get going while the latter’s unfriendly and catastrophic nature renders it irritable to every club; hence, everyone tries to avoid it. Yet, not every club is able to overcome this ugly situation. A number of clubs are going through this difficult experience in various parts of Europe at the moment, with Premier League giants Arsenal serving as a good example of such this…

Chelsea head coach Maurizio Sarri defended his first season at the helm, saying it was a success at this stage. Runners-up in the EFL Cup, Chelsea are still chasing a top-four finish in the Premier League and are in the Europa League semi-finals. Sarri has faced criticism throughout the campaign, but the Italian said his side had enjoyed a good season – albeit with at least five games still to play. “We played a final, which we lost on penalties. We are in the semi-final in the Europa League. We are fighting for the top four. So the season, at…