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MONACO — Had Paul Pogba taken a different path, he might have been part of the Manchester City squad facing AS Monaco in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday. Instead, he’s waiting for a chance to restart his career with the Ligue 1 side more than two years after playing his last competitive game.City were interested in signing Pogba in 2022 when he left Manchester United on a free transfer. Pep Guardiola was keen and Pogba was open to it, but the move never materialized.A lot has happened since.He eventually returned to Juventus after leaving Old Trafford, suffered a series…
LONDON — Jose Mourinho suggested there are many Chelsea managers who live in his shadow, and Chelsea’s unconvincing 1-0 win over Benfica offered a reminder of the work Enzo Maresca still must do to earn the same level of infatuation.It is a curious position for Maresca to be in to some extent. After all, he is a champion of Europe and the world after winning both the UEFA Conference League and the FIFA Club World Cup in the last few months.And yet, as he noted the build-up to this game, the Chelsea fans do not sing Maresca’s name, which Mourinho’s…
Beth LindopSep 30, 2025, 06:53 PM ETCloseBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.Liverpool coach Arne Slot has confirmed goalkeeper Alisson Becker will miss this weekend’s clash with Chelsea after sustaining an injury in his team’s 1-0 defeat to Galatasaray.The Brazil international was replaced by Giorgi Mamardashvili in the 56th minute after appearing to pick up a knock at Rams Park. He is now set to be ruled out of Saturday’s trip to Stamford Bridge, with further assessment of his injury to take place in the coming days.- Champions League recap: Galatasaray…
The top stories and transfer rumours from Wednesday’s newspapers…DAILY TELEGRAPH Barcelona remain open to signing Marcus Rashford on a permanent deal despite the England forward being dropped for being late to a team meeting earlier this month.Israel have forced Reebok into a major climbdown after threatening to sue the company for ending its contract with their national teams.Newcastle United have been called “idiots” for paying £69m to Stuttgart for Germany international striker Nick Woltemade. THE SUN Michael Carrick is among the caretaker options Manchester United could turn to if they give up on head coach Ruben Amorim. Please use Chrome…
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson has been ruled out of Saturday’s game at Chelsea, live on Sky Sports, head coach Arne Slot has confirmed.The Brazil international limped off during Liverpool’s 1-0 Champions League defeat at Galatasaray on Tuesday night, with summer signing Giorgi Mamardashvili replacing him for the final 46 minutes as the Reds fell to a second defeat in four days. “It’s never positive if you go off like this. [Alisson] is definitely not going to play on Saturday,” head coach Arne Slot told Amazon Prime. In his press conference, he added: “When he sprinted back, he felt something. I cannot…
Sep 30, 2025, 06:19 PM ETMADRID — Antoine Griezmann scored his 200th goal with Atlético Madrid in the team’s 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.Griezmann, the club’s all-time leading scorer, hit the milestone goal with a shot from close range after an assist by Julián Alvarez in first-half stoppage time.After scoring, Griezmann held up a jersey with the No. 200 and the nickname “Grizi” on the back.”I’m happy and very proud to have reached this mark,” Griezmann said. “It wasn’t easy.”The France forward also had a goal disallowed for a handball in the 67th…
Arne Slot’s men fell to defeat in their second league-phase fixture of the campaign through a first-half penalty from Victor Osimhen.With the Reds having now suffered back-to-back losses, Van Dijk stressed the need for the team to quickly brush off the disappointment as they head to Chelsea on Saturday in the Premier League.Read on for the captain’s post-match interview with Amazon Prime Video in Istanbul… On whether Galatasaray deserved to win….Difficult to say at the moment. Obviously they got the penalty, they got a couple of opportunities basically through our mistakes in possession, losing the ball in unnecessary moments, a…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Oct. 1, 2025. NYSEThe S&P 500 closed at a record high on Wednesday as traders were hopeful that a U.S. federal government shutdown would be brief and possibly have little impact on the economy.The broad market index gained 0.34% to close at 6,711.20. Earlier, it had hit a new all-time intraday high. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.42% to settle at 22,755.16, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded up 43.21 points, or 0.09%, to finish at 46,441.10.It was a notable turnaround. At its low of the day, the S&P 500 was…
The goalkeeper was forced from the field in the second half of the Reds’ 1-0 defeat at RAMS Park after making a save from Victor Osimhen in a one-on-one situation.Arne Slot’s side also lost Hugo Ekitike to an issue soon after in the Champions League encounter, with the forward set to undergo assessment by the club’s medical staff.Regarding Alisson, the boss told his post-match press conference: “When he sprinted back he felt something. I cannot tell you [exactly] because I am not a physio, but normally when a player when he sprints back, feels something, goes to the floor and…
China has ordered domestic steel mills and trading firms to suspend all new purchases of BHP Group’s iron ore cargoes, escalating a pricing dispute that has unsettled commodity markets and placed fresh pressure on Australia’s mining sector. China Mineral Resources Group (CMRG), a state-owned Chinese company established in July 2022 to centralize the import of iron ore, has urged major steelmakers and traders in China to halt their purchases of BHP’s dollar-denominated seaborne iron ore cargoes, Bloomberg reported on Monday. This means no new contracts can be signed. Shipments already departed from Australian ports are also affected. Only some BHP…