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You’re the first Georgian player to represent Liverpool. How proud are you of that fact and what will it mean to all the people back home?Of course I am very proud to be the first Georgian player for Liverpool, and I know how much this means for my family and [for] Georgian people as well.What was the reaction like back in Georgia when this deal was announced last summer? I will never forget this day – when I signed a contract with Liverpool. It was amazing in Georgia. So many messages I received and everyone was so happy and excited.…
Chelsea qualified for the Champions League, won the Conference League and became Club World Cup champions in Enzo Maresca’s first season in charge.Can they now launch a Premier League title challenge? Maresca-ball has landedChelsea fans turned against Maresca at half-time of their fixture at Fulham in April.Having won only once in their previous four games, their Champions League hopes were fading until Tyrique George and Pedro Neto produced a dramatic late turnaround. It proved to be the turning point of their season.Chelsea won 13 of their final 15 matches with Maresca tweaking his system and also experimenting at the Club…
England’s Euros campaign started painfully against France. At the time of that chastening defeat just over a week ago there were very few positives to glean and the mood was a sombre one.Sarina Wiegman was criticised, by myself and many others, for an imbalanced selection and the players blasted for a mistake-ridden performance. France made England look ordinary, stripping them of the status they earned as champions back in 2022. A prolonged title defence seemed improbable – nay, impossible.How, then, have we reached a point nine days later where the Lionesses are in the most advantageous position anyone could have…
Starbucks is requiring some remote workers to return to its headquarters and increasing the number of days that corporate employees are required to work in an office.In a letter to employees posted on Monday, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol said corporate employees would need to be in the office four days a week starting in early October instead of three days a week. The Seattle-based company said that all corporate “people leaders” must be based in either Seattle or Toronto within 12 months. That is a change from February, when it required vice presidents to relocate to Seattle or…
Brentford are highly unlikely to sell both Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa this summer amid interest from several Premier League clubs.Manchester United have been in talks with Brentford for Mbeumo for some time, but there remains in a gap in their respective valuations of the forward. United’s offer of a £55m fixed fee plus £7.5m in add-ons falls short of the £65m Brentford want, including all, if not most, up front.Meanwhile, Wissa is a target for Tottenham, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest, the latter recently having a bid rejected for the Congo striker.Whichever club agrees a deal for Wissa or Mbeumo…
Israeli state-owned weapons company Rafael released a promotional video showing its drone system, Spike Firefly, tracking and killing a person in Gaza. The video, posted across the company’s social media platforms, shows the miniature kamikaze drone hovering over a rubble strewn neighbourhood in the Palestinian enclave, identifying somebody walking down the street and then targeting them. The post is titled “Spike Firefly in urban warfare” and is accompanied by dramatic, miltary-style music. According to the on-screen titles, the drone “identifies the target,” “tracks it,” “and neutralises the threat”. The video shows the Firefly silently hovering before diving after the person,…
Jul 14, 2025, 09:18 AM ETSo, the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup is over, with Chelsea crowned champions after thumping Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 in Sunday’s showpiece final. What did we think of the competition overall after an exhausting month of heat, travel and matches? Did the atmosphere (good at times, underwhelming at others) come close to meeting expectations, or does FIFA president Gianni Infantino have work to do if this tournament’s going to be a long-term success?As the confetti is cleared from MetLife Stadium, our reporters who covered the competition chime in with their final thoughts on the good, bad…
LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) — NFL Hall of Famer John Elway won’t be charged after his business partner Jeffrey Sperbeck was fatally injured falling out of his golf cart at a Southern California golf resort community last April, authorities said. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told KUSA-TV in Denver on Friday that investigators found nothing criminal and ruled it a tragic accident.Sperbeck, Elway’s partner and former agent, died after suffering an injury when he tumbled out of a golf cart driven by the former quarterback on April 26 at The Madison Club in La Quinta, east of Los Angeles. Sperbeck…
Jul 14, 2025, 09:13 AM ETAt age 39, Luka Modric is going to try and help restore seven-time European champion AC Milan to glory after one of the most disappointing Rossoneri seasons in recent memory.The 2018 Ballon d’Or winner landed in Italy on Monday for a medical with Milan after saying goodbye to Real Madrid following 13 highly successful seasons in Spain. He was expected to a sign a one-year contract later, with an option for a second season.Modric grew up supporting Milan because his idol and fellow Croat, Zvonimir Boban, played for the club in the 1990s.- New coach…
A retired Army officer who worked as a civilian for the Air Force has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform.David Slater, 64, who had top secret clearance at his job at the U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, pleaded guilty to a single count before a federal magistrate judge in Omaha on Thursday. In exchange for his guilty plea, two other counts were dropped. Slater remains free pending his sentencing, which is scheduled for Oct. 8. Prosecutors and his lawyers agreed that he…