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Jurgen Klopp predicted brighter days ahead for his Liverpool youngsters after they fell to an Angelo Ogbonna buzzer beater against West Ham United in their FA Cup fourth-round replay on Tuesday. A team featuring two players aged 20, a 21-year-old, two 22-year-olds and 18-year-old midfielder Pedro Chirivella stood toe-to-toe with West Ham at Upton Park until Italian centre-back Ogbonna headed ...

Jose Mourinho has told friends and associates that he will replace Louis van Gaal as Manchester United manager at the end of the season, according to reports in several British newspapers on Wednesday. The Daily Mail, Daily Star, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph all quoted an unnamed source close to the 53-year-old Portuguese as saying his installation at Old Trafford ...

Everton are moving closer to a £200m takover by an American consortium and a deal could even be concluded by the end of the month. The group, led by former San Diego Padres owner John Jay Moores and fellow entrepreneur Charles Noell, have been in talks with Toffees owner Bill Kenwright in recent months. Moores and Noell were previously interested ...

Lionel Messi is undergoing treatment on kidney stones which floored the Argentina superstar at the Club World Cup in December, Barcelona announced on Monday. The five-time world Player of the Year “will be submitted to various tests on Monday and Tuesday to assess the development of kidney problems he suffered last December”, the Spanish champions said in a statement. Messi ...

After hosting a successful Chan 2016, Rwanda is expected to make a bid to Caf to host Africa’s biggest football tournament, Afcon. With the next four editions already allocated to mostly West Africa, Rwanda will be looking to become the first East African nation to host Afcon since its inception in 1957 when it was hosted in Sudan. Gabon will ...

The man overseeing Fifa’s presidential polls should step aside due to conflict of interest, says the Liberian FA. Domenico Scala, who heads up Fifa’s Ad-Hoc Electoral Committee, is Swiss-Italian – as is Gianni Infantino, one of the five presidential candidates. Scala excused himself from the 2015 elections as he shared nationality with a candidate, Swiss Sepp Blatter. LFA boss Musa ...

DR Congo lifted their second African Nations Championship (CHAN) after an emphatic 3-0 win over Mali on Sunday evening at Amahoro Stadium in Kigali. Meshack Elia scored a brace before Jonathan Bolingi added a third to seal victory for the Leopards who had been handed the ‘favourites’ tag at the beginning of the biennial tournament. Elia opened the scoring in ...

Diego Costa snaffled a stoppage-time equaliser to preserve interim manager Guus Hiddink’s unbeaten record as Chelsea snatched a 1-1 draw at home to Manchester United on Sunday. United looked to be closing to within four points of the Premier League’s top four after Jesse Lingard’s 61st-minute goal set Louis van Gaal’s men on course for a third consecutive win in ...

Leicester City’s fairytale season scaled new heights on Saturday as they opened up a five-point lead at the Premier League summit by winning 3-1 at title rivals Manchester City. Centre-back Robert Huth scored twice, either side of a brilliant Riyad Mahrez goal, as Leicester recorded the finest win of their sensational 12-month rise from bottom to top of the English ...

Amahoro Stadium In Kigali will host the battle of the titans when DR Congo clash with Mali in the decider to determine the winner of the 2016 African Nations Championship. DR Congo had a roller coaster ride In the tournaments second round before stopping hosts Rwanda 2-1 in the quarter-final before dispatching battle hardened Guinea 5-4 on post match penalties ...