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Except Liverpool have hardly been parsimonious either. After the Loris Karius debacle in Kyiv, they spent £67 million to bring in Alisson in 2018, then a world-record fee for a goalkeeper. Conscious of compensating for Sadio Mane’s move to Bayern Munich, they paid £85 million for Darwin Nunez. These were not the luxury signings open

The telegram was signed by Roger and Nita, Gunner’s parents. The true author is unknown but one can only assume it was the handiwork of Captain Chris Towler, the man who had donated Gunner to the club.Towler was the editor of The Sporting Life newspaper and a passionate dog breeder. According to The Story of

Wales international Neco Williams [an initial £10 million from Liverpool] and centre-back Andrew Omobamidele [£11 million from Norwich] also represent the youthful core of the squad with their best years ahead of them.Forest remain under the threat of breaching profitability and sustainability rules [PSR] this summer, and there may need to be a reluctant sale

Louis Rees-Zammit has admitted that he is “a bit devastated” to not be a part of Gloucester’s bid to win the Challenge Cup at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium later this month, while adding that he hopes his switch to the NFL can inspire other rugby players with similar ambitions to make the move.Rees-Zammit left Gloucester and

As part of three law tweaks to be implemented on July 1 this year, alongside removing ‘Dupont’s law’ and ‘crocodile rolls’, it will no longer be possible to scrum from a free-kick.When assessed alongside the other changes it looks like a fairly inconsequential tweak. How often do teams actually choose to scrum from a free-kick

He also had a knack of quickly reversing bad spells with an uplifting result to ease the pressure.Although the league form was breaking the wrong records, the cups and Europe were a salvation. In all competitions, Arteta actually won more of his first 100 fixtures than Arsène Wenger.That meant amid the setbacks there was always

Henry is in the “transaction committee” through his role as head of the Strategic Sports Group, an American coalition that has pumped more than £1 billion of private equity into PGA Tour Enterprises, the new for-profit entity set up in the wake of the ‘framework agreement’ signed with the Saudis last summer.These negotiations will be

But, as they have done so often before, they then lay siege to their opponents’ goal and Gianluca Mancini put through his own net before Stanisic found the bottom corner in the seventh minute of stoppage-time.Leverkusen wing-back Jeremie Frimpong told TNT Sports: “We did it again. I think this one was the best one so

A well-known figure in Premier League football has secured a High Court anonymity order after civil action was brought against him for alleged sexual abuse.The man in question is reportedly being sued for aggravated damages by a woman who claims she was 15 when offences allegedly took place in the 1990s.However, at a recent London

For the first time in four years, there will be no English clubs in a major European cup final, a collective failure that inevitably leads to thoughts of decline and mismanagement, provoking debate about the reasons why.There might not be anything to worry about. After all, by the very nature of knockout football, the best