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Chelsea are willing to sell two left wing options at the right price to make new additions, according to Ben Jacobs. If you enjoy Talk Chelsea coverage and want to see more of it, add us as a preferred source on Google to make us a favourite and see more of our content. As well as a central defender and a central midfielder, a left sided attacker looks like it will be on Chelsea’s priority list for a summer transfer. That’s in part because Jamie Gittens and Alejandro Garnacho, last summer’s additions in that area, worked out so poorly. Gittens…

“I want to go for another world title in my third weight division,” said Charlo to Fight Hub TV when asked about his long-term plans. “I feel a lot more comfortable at 168. I don’t care who they put in front of me. I might be on the smaller side of the super middleweights, but I feel like I have my advantages.” Jermall said the trip to Australia is about more than simply getting another victory. After years of inactivity interrupted his career, the 36-year-old wants to remind fans that he still belongs among boxing’s elite. “I feel like it’s…

Wales manager Craig Bellamy’s proposed move to take charge at Championship side Burnley has fallen through.The Clarets approached the Football Association of Wales with a view to appointing Bellamy as Scott Parker’s successor.The 46-year-old had talks with the Lancashire club but the move now looks to have collapsed.The breakdown is understood to not be related to compensation for the FAW, while negotiations for Bellamy’s backroom staff to join him at Turf Moor were thought to be a point of contention.Bellamy was a coach under Vincent Kompany at Turf Moor between 2022 and 2024 and had a brief spell in caretaker…

Part two of the EFL Trophy 2026/27 group stage draw is complete as a list of all the B Teams enter the competition. The EFL have, in a statement via their website on Tuesday afternoon, drew out the League One and League Two clubs into groups, with the 16 invited sides from Premier League Clubs’ Category One Academies joining them in a second draw on Thursday. The under-21 sides participating include Arsenal, Aston Villa, Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Ipswich Town, Leeds United, Liverpool, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland and Tottenham Hotspur. B…

The BCCI Ombudsman has ruled that Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) secretary Santosh Menon is not entitled to continue in office and has declared the post vacant.The decision was taken by BCCI Ombudsman Justice Arun Mishra (Retd.) on a complaint filed by KSCA institutional member Dolphin Cricketers. The Ombudsman held that Menon had completed the maximum permissible nine-year tenure under the rules.The complainant argued that Menon’s tenure had exceeded nine years when his stints as a KSCA Managing Committee member (December 2013 to December 2019) and as KSCA secretary (December 2019 to November 2022) were taken into account.ALSO READ: BCCI…

On Saturday, Jaron Ennis attempts to become a unified world champion in a second division as he collides with Puerto Rico’s WBA and WBO ruler Xander Zayas. Ennis was elevated to IBF welterweight champion in late 2023 and defended that belt against both David Avanesyan and Karen Chukhadzhian, before a brutal beatdown of then WBA champion Eimantas Stanionis saw him add another strap to his collection. The Philadelphian then decided to move up to 154lbs and made a statement upon his divisional debut, when he dispatched of Portugal’s Uisma Lima in the opening round of their October clash to claim…

Joe Cordina faces a court appearance in July after being charged “with assault and threatening a person with an offensive weapon in a public place”.The 34-year-old Welshman is a former super-featherweight world champion and had been due to fight for the WBO lightweight title in the United States on 4 July.South Wales Police (SWP) has confirmed Cordina and another man have been charged in connection with an incident that took place outside a petrol station in the Cardiff suburb of Pentwyn last February.SWP stated: “Joseph Cordina, 34, from Pontprennau, has been charged with assault and threatening a person with an…

In last season’s Premier League, Arsenal had the sixth highest number of passes attempted, behind Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Brighton and Fulham. This is not quite unprecedented for a Premier League Champion. Conte’s Chelsea in 2016-17 were also sixth for number of passes played. Ranieri’s Leicester were 18th for passes played in 2015-16- an outlier in every sense. But other than those two examples, the Premier League champion has topped the passes played metric 10 times in 34 seasons (Guardiola’s Manchester City are responsible for six of those), been in the top two 17 times and the top three 26…

“I don’t believe he has that,” Hrgovic told The Stomping Ground when asked if Itauma is willing to “die in the ring.” “Since the beginning, I don’t see him as a warrior. He’s a good fighter, skillful, talented. He got physical talent, but the way he looks, the way he talks, I just don’t see him as a tough man. “I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong, but when I see him, I just don’t see a warrior. I see a normal guy.” Hrgovic made it clear he respects what Itauma has accomplished inside the ring but believes the unanswered questions…

If Scotland make it through, there are three possible destinations.A return to Boston to meet the Group E winners, likely to be Germany, on Monday, 29 June (21:30 BST).A second route already has the opponent confirmed – Mexico in Mexico City at 02:00 BST on Wednesday, 1 July.There is also a slim chance of facing the winner of Group I, France or Norway, at the New York/New Jersey Stadium on Tuesday, 30 June (20:00 BST).Dave Watson, who is a presenter on the No Scotland No Party podcast, had initially shown his ambition and booked a flight home after the final.He…