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New Everton majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri, left, purchased 49.9% of the club in March but Bill Kenwright remains on the board.
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From left to right: Alexander Isak of AIK, Juventus’s Moise Kean, Gabriel Jesus, who is leaving Palmeiras, and Liverpool’s Ben Woodburn Composite: Ombrello/Getty Images, NurPhoto/Getty Images, Reuters, Rex/Shutterstock
Rising Football Stars: 10 Players to Watch in 2017
Naby Keïta (RB Leipzig, 21) Keïta was relatively unheralded outside Austria when he left RB Salzburg – to all intents a sister club to Leipzig – in the summer after a two-year stay but he had already been named the country’s player of the year and cannot be a million...Caption:
Swansea picked up only eight points from Bob Bradley’s 11 matches in charge. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images
Bob Bradley Had to Go but Blame for Swansea’s Plight Lies in the Boardroom
It was just gone 7pm on Boxing Day and a small group of reporters were walking away from the Liberty Stadium when a Swansea City supporter approached. “Has he gone yet, boys?” asked the fan, smiling in a way that made it clear it would be viewed as good news if there...Caption:
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Mönchengladbach’s Mahmoud Dahoud, Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk, Ajax striker Kasper Dolberg, Red Bull Salzburg’s Dayot Upamecano and Benfica defender Victor Lindelof. Composite: BPS/Rex; IPS/Rex; VI-Images; Tass; Rex/Shutterstock
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Victor Lindelof, Benfica Benfica still owe the tiny Swedish club Vasteras €250,000 from purchasing the defender back in 2012 but the Portuguese side could be cashing in to the tune of more than 200 times that figure next month. Lindelof began his career in Portugal as...Caption:
Coventry City play Portsmouth in front of a sparse crowd during their FA Cup soccer match at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, central England January 12, 2010. REUTERS/Darren Staples
My Coventry City Are Being Broken Apart and I Fear for the Club’s Future
In October 1991 I went with my dad and cousin to Edgar Street, the rickety home of Hereford United, to watch them play Aldershot in the old fourth division. The match itself was a forgettable experience but afterwards we at least got the autograph of Greg “he’s got no...Caption:
It is funny how it still seems important to go on about Lionel Messi 12 years into his extraordinary sporting life. You’d think by now we might have become glazed by repetition. But not when he keeps doing things like he did against Espanyol. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock