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Todd Boehly’s consortium is to be named as the preferred bidder to buy Chelsea.
It emerged on Friday Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s richest man, had tabled a last-minute £4.25billion bid to buy the west London club.
QPR boss Mark Warburton will leave the club this summer when his contract expires after a dramatic loss of form put pay to their play-off chances.
Warburton is out of contract in the summer and the club will not offer him a new deal when it expires.
QPR were on the fringes of automatic promotion
Ralf Rangnick is set to be announced as the next manager of Austria, but will continue in his Manchester United consultancy role until 2024.
Rangnick, 63, replaced Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at the club at the end of November, agreeing to take temporary charge of the team until the summer,
Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel says “nobody likes” Antonio Rudiger’s decision to leave the club this summer as the defender closes in on a free transfer to Real Madrid.
Rudiger, whose Chelsea deal expires at the end of the season, is close to agreeing a four-year deal with Real and Tuchel revealed at the weekend he had decided
There were no fist pumps from Jurgen Klopp after Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Villarreal as he said “it’s only half time” despite his team holding a huge advantage.
After a goalless opening half in the Champions League semi-final first leg, Pervis Estupinan’s 53rd-minute own goal brought the breakthrough before Sadio Mane
The Barcelona players realised it as soon as they ran out to warm-up, whistled onto their own pitch by an Eintracht Frankfurt contingent that would swell to 30,000 inside the Nou Camp by kick-off. “I very much believe it affected the result,” says Axel Hellmann.
Hellmann is the fan-turned-CEO at Frankfurt.
Jorginho admits Chelsea will “miss” Antonio Rudiger after Spanish football journalist Alvaro Montero told Sky Sports News on Tuesday the defender’s move to Real Madrid is a “done deal”.
Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel confirmed on Sunday the centre-back will leave the club this summer after he failed to agree a new deal.
Anita Asante, the Aston Villa defender who has won 71 caps for England and represented Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics, will retire at the end of the season.
Asante – who turns 37 on Wednesday – has been a regular for Villa this season, playing 21 times to help them to ninth place in the Women’s Super League.
There was a moment during the second half in Eindhoven when Leicester City looked set to be punished on the counter-attack as they pushed for the equaliser against PSV. Wesley Fofana came from nowhere with the recover run to end the danger.
Leicester levelled the tie within a minute and won
Former Manchester United coach Eric Steele says the club’s culture has been lost, but has backed incoming manager Erik ten Hag to reinstall the dressing-room discipline needed for the team to be successful again.
Ajax boss Ten Hag was appointed as United’s new manager last week and will take up his role in the summer, when he will be tasked with reinvigorating a club