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Despite spending heavily again in the summer, glaring issues remain within Enzo Maresca’s squad and Chelsea have underwhelmed to start the 2025/26 campaign as a result.Coming into the season, hopes for the Blues were sky high. The triumph in the Club World Cup and the summer transfer window of investment left some tipping Maresca’s side to push for the Premier League title. There is still time, of course, but the early signs have not been promising. Saturday 4th October 5:00pm Kick off 5:30pm An unconvincing draw to Crystal Palace started the season and now three defeats across their last five…

Sam MarsdenMoises LlorensOct 3, 2025, 05:57 AM ETLamine Yamal on Friday was named to and then withdrawn from the Spain squad hours after Barcelona confirmed a groin problem has resurfaced, ruling him out for up to three weeks.Yamal, 18, will miss now Barça’s LaLiga trip to Sevilla on Sunday and Spain’s World Cup qualifiers against Georgia and Bulgaria.After the international break, Barça host Girona and Olympiacos before traveling to Real Madrid for the first Clásico of the season on Oct. 26. Yamal will hope to be back for that game.Earlier on Friday, he had been called up to the Spain…

Sam MarsdenMoises LlorensOct 3, 2025, 05:57 AM ETBarcelona forward Lamine Yamal has been called up to the Spain squad after recovering from injury following last month’s club versus country row.Yamal, 18, aggravated a groin problem while on international duty in September, angering Barça coach Hansi Flick, and only returned to action last weekend.The teenage forward made his first appearance as a substitute in the win against Real Sociedad, before playing 90 minutes in the midweek loss to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.Spain coach Luis de la Fuente has subsequently named him in his squad for the upcoming World Cup…

Playing more together has been a bit harder than last season because of Alexander Isak, because of [Alexis] Mac Allister, because of Conor Bradley, that Dominik Szoboszlai has played on eight, on 10, on right full-back for the reasons I just said. But we are, in my opinion, too focused on this season, but the last part of last season had a lot of similarities with the start of this season – with one exception that [in] the second part of last season we scored seven set-pieces, which led to a lot of wins, and this season we’ve conceded four,…

Star names Jack Grealish, Jude Bellingham and Phil Foden have all missed out on selection for England’s October internationals with Thomas Tuchel handing another chance to the players who impressed him in September. There is also no place for Adam Wharton in the squad to face Wales in a friendly at Wembley on Thursday October 9 and then go to Latvia in World Cup qualifying on Tuesday October 14. Fit-again Bukayo Saka returns, with the injured Noni Madueke and Tino Livramento unavailable. England beat Andorra 2-0 and then thrashed Serbia 5-0 last month, with the win in Belgrade a standout…

Sam MarsdenMoises LlorensOct 3, 2025, 04:48 AM ETBarcelona star Lamine Yamal’s mum, Sheila Ebana, will be the special guest at a charity Christmas dinner in London next month.The event, which will take place at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London City on Nov. 7, has been branded by the organisers as an “unforgettable Christmas sports dinner gala.””JEN C Events is honoured to be the first events planners to work with Sheila,” the agency organising the dinner said.”It is going to be a great evening of networking, including a meet and greet with Sheila.”We don’t want to give too much away, but…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Former Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers learned all about technology’s volatile highs and lows as a veteran of the internet’s early boom days during the late 1990s and the ensuing meltdown that followed the mania.And now he is seeing potential signs of the cycle repeating with another transformative technology as a whirlwind of investments and excitement about artificial intelligence has propelled the stock market to new highs. Chambers took a similarly meteoric ride in his early days running Cisco, which had a market value of about $15 billion in 1995, when networking equipment suddenly became must-have…

It will be little comfort for Ruben Amorim after taking 34 points from his first 33 Premier League games as Manchester United boss, but at least he can say he saw it coming.The Portuguese coach has made it no secret that his preference was to take the United job in the summer after being identified as Erik ten Hag’s replacement. He didn’t want to be parachuted in mid-season, believing that his appointment in November would create more problems than it would solve. Yet co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the board had other ideas and told Amorim it was now or…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Ten months after Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government was overthrown when Islamist fighters marched into Damascus, many Syrians still go out and party despite some crackdowns over the past months by the country’s new rulers.Many restaurants, pubs and night clubs remain open in the capital and people can have a meal in places where alcoholic beverages are served.Since insurgent groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham of interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa took power in early December, some Islamic rules have been imposed in Syria, which for decades had been run by secular governments. In June, Syrian authorities…

Goalkeeper Alisson and forward Ekitike both went off with issues during the second half of the Reds’ midweek Champions League defeat at Galatasaray.Federico Chiesa, meanwhile, did not travel to Turkiye for that match due to a minor issue.“Alisson is not a part of the squad tomorrow,” Slot said at his pre-match press conference at the AXA Training Centre on Friday morning.“And he’s not going to travel to Brazil as well for the national team. So, he will be out for Saturday.“Hugo is going to train today again and let’s see where he is, and the same can be said for…