Author: admin

The UEFA Women’s Champions League (UWCL) returns on Tuesday with a new format, mirroring the men’s competition, and all 18 clubs playing six league-phase games each in one single table before the knockout rounds.Europe’s top club tournament features three clubs from England (including debutants Manchester United), Spain and France, while, as ever, it will provide a platform for the stars of both the present and future to shine.With that in mind, here are the players to watch from every team in this year’s UWCL.- UWCL preview: Team-by-team, talking points, predictions- Women’s Champions League 2025-26 kits: Ranking every jersey- Thakur: OL…

It is impossible to understand Monday’s joint news conference held by US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the American 20-point plan to end the genocide in Gaza outside of the general context in which the event took place.  It came a week after the UN summit in New York, which discussed a French-Saudi proposal to recognise a Palestinian state, and amid intensified international criticism and boycotts targeting Israel.  This, in turn, has fuelled Israeli criticisms of the war amid fears of the economic consequences – a shift from cultural isolation to economic isolation, which has coalesced with EU discussions on…

Wolves gambled this summer bringing in six players new to the Premier League. So far, that gamble has not paid off. Vitor Pereira thinks they just need time. “Without time, it is like buying a lottery ticket,” he tells Sky Sports. “You don’t know what will happen.”Having seen standout performers Matheus Cunha, Rayan Ait Nouri and Nelson Semedo depart, Wolves invested north of £100m on new players. They recruited them from Celta Vigo and Girona, from AZ Alkmaar and Genk, from Hellas Verona and Fluminense. But five consecutive defeats underlined the point that the Premier League is not prepared to…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Saturday’s newspapers…THE TELEGRAPH Ruben Amorim could be sacked if Manchester United lose to Sunderland on Saturday.Ange Postecoglou is fighting for his Nottingham Forest future and facing a potentially pivotal game at Newcastle United on Sunday.England are in talks with Sale Sharks to bring highly rated Byron McGuigan on board in time for the autumn internationals. The R360 rebel breakaway league has been dealt a major blow after the world rugby players’ union refused to endorse the competition or any contracts offered to its members. DAILY MAIL The mood among the Manchester United hierarchy…

NEW YORK (AP) — If the U.S. government’s latest shutdown can’t stop the stock market, what can? Stock prices keep rising, even as the shutdown delays important economic reports that usually steer trading. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average set all-time highs Friday. It’s not just Big Tech driving the market, which has often been the case in recent years. Sure, Nvidia and other darlings of the artificial-intelligence frenzy are still climbing, but almost everything on Wall Street is coming up a winner. The Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks has set a record after taking nearly four…

Saudi Pro League clubs could come back in for Manchester United’s Bruno Fernandes in January, while Manchester City see Bayern Munich’s Aleksandar Pavlovic as a long-term replacement for Rodri. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s grades | Women’s gradesTOP STORIES- Amorim: I’ll be sacked if results don’t improve- Sources: USWNT’s Murphy to join NWSL’s Boston- Savinho signs new Man City contract until 2031Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has been repeatedly targeted by clubs in the Saudi Pro League. Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside via Getty ImagesTRENDING RUMORS- Manchester United are braced…

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The pumpkin in Tony Scott’s backyard weighs almost as much as a small car.He’s been tending to it for months, feeding it fertilizer and covering it with a blanket at night to keep it at a stable temperature. A roll of measuring tape wrapped around the pumpkin gives him a rough estimate of its size.“I’ve never seen anything grow this fast,” said Scott, a semiconductor engineer from upstate New York.Every year, growers like Scott push their pumpkins to the limit. They compete in annual weigh-offs with colossal fruits that are well over 2,000 pounds (900…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani authorities reached a peace agreement on Saturday with a civil rights alliance, ending days of violent protests that left at least 10 people dead and bringing calm to Pakistan-administered Kashmir.Under the deal, the regional government led by Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq agreed to continue subsidizing wheat and electricity, besides accepting more than three dozen other demands related to reducing the number of ministers and improving health, education, and other public services.Federal Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry praised the success of the negotiations in a post on X. He wrote the agreement followed two days of talks…

BLANTYRE, Malawi (AP) — Peter Mutharika was sworn in as Malawi’s president Saturday after a political comeback at the age of 85 to win last month’s election.Thousands gathered at Kamuzu Stadium in the commercial capital, Blantyre, for Mutharika’s inauguration. He previously served as president of the southern African nation from 2014 to 2020. He lost office in 2020, after a 2019 election he won was nullified by a court because of widespread irregularities and ordered to be rerun the following year. He won a Sept. 16 election with 56% of the vote compared with 33% for incumbent Lazarus Chakwera to…

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has warned it could take most of the season for Rodri to get back to his best as he backed understudy Nico González to keep improving.Rodri played an hour of Wednesday’s 2-2 Champions League draw in Monaco after sitting out City’s two previous fixtures, with Guardiola having to carefully manage his star midfielder who missed almost all of last season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.Guardiola has indicated the 29-year-old will be fit for Sunday’s trip to Brentford but the process to get him back to the player that won the Ballon d’Or last year…