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Crystal Palace have had a verbal bid for midfielder Lamine Camara rejected by Ligue 1 side Monaco.The Senegal international, 22, was the subject of an offer reportedly worth more than £35m, which would have made him one of the most expensive signings in the club’s history.Camara has already made 49 appearances for his country and featured at this summer’s World Cup.He joined Monaco from Metz in 2024 for a reported fee of 15m euros (£12.8m), having moved to France after excelling in several prestigious Senegalese youth academies.Palace have made four signings this summer, bringing in striker Evann Guessand on loan…
(No Limit Boxing) Making his debut for promoters Matchroom, Australia’s divisive Michael Zerafa scored and eighth-round stoppage of Venezuela’s Alejandro Ortiz and then said he’d like to fight Chris Eubank Jnr. Eubank Jnr has, meanwhile, been linked to a fight with Sheffield’s Kell Brook, who holds a 2018 win over Zerafa. It wasn’t easy for Zerafa, boxing in the co-main ahead of the heavyweight clash between Teremoana Jnr against DeAndre Savage on Australia’s Gold Coast. It was not straightforward for Zerafa. The Australian was told by his corner to calm things down ahead of the second round. Zerafa looked to…
England boss Steve Borthwick has shaken up his centrally contracted squad with just over a year to go until the Rugby World Cup.Borthwick has announced the 25 players who will receive enhanced player contracts, worth around £150,000, for the 2026-27 season.Handed an elite deal for the first time are prop Asher Opoku-Fordjour, lock Alex Coles, flanker Guy Pepper, scrum-half Jack van Poortvliet and centre Seb Atkinson.Flanker Ben Curry, versatile back Elliot Daly, centre Ollie Lawrence and wing Tom Roebuck all miss out on contracts, while France-bound number eight Tom Willis is no longer eligible for England selection.Curry and Daly have…
Every year, football’s elite gather in Paris to determine the winner of the Ballon d’Or. Well, perhaps not if your name is Vinicius Junior. The Brazilian famously snubbed the awards evening in 2024 when he found out he’d been outvoted for the major accolade by Manchester City’s midfield sensation Rodri. Rodri It was a landmark year for the Spaniard, who won the Premier League with City and also won the European Championships after defeating England in the final. Having suffered a terrible ACL injury towards the end of the year, Rodri was not in the conversation to win the award…
All 12 Scottish Premiership clubs will enter a team into a legends version of cult indoor tournament the Tennent’s Soccer Sixes later this year.The revived event, backed by the SPFL, will take place at Braehead Arena on the weekend of 3 and 4 October and be broadcast on Premier Sports.Group stages will be played on Saturday, with the winner and runner-up from three regionalised groups of four teams progressing to the knockout stage along with the two best third-placed teams.Every game will have a winner, with a bonus point for a penalty shootout win in the event of a draw…
Manchester United midfielder Youri Tielemans revealed he did not expect to leave Aston Villa this summer. Tielemans completed a £35m move to Old Trafford after United triggered a release clause in the Belgium captain’s Villa contract. The 29-year-old made 134 appearances for Villa, scoring 10 goals and providing 24 assists, while he also netted in their Europa League final win over Freiburg last season. Among Villa players in the top flight in 2025-26, only Matty Cash (66) attempted more tackles than Tielemans (58), though the Belgian won the most in the team (36). Tielemans has twice been linked with a…
The World Cup has faded into memory. Now the real jeopardy begins. After a summer of transfer drama, managerial changes and major squad turnover, the Championship is back — and for Final One Standing players, it promises to be a minefield. On paper, this could be one of the closest Championship seasons in years. There are plenty of familiar faces, but some genuine heavyweights have dropped into the division. West Ham are back, and it was only a few years ago that the Hammers were lifting a European trophy, while Wolves and Burnley bring recent Premier League experience. At the…
Unbeaten George Liddard says he is living out a boyhood dream as he prepares to face Dario Morello for the vacant European middleweight title.Liddard, 24, from Billericay in Essex, will face Italy’s Morello at York Hall on 22 August after retaining his British and Commonwealth middleweight belts earlier this year.Since turning professional in 2022, Liddard has claimed eight of his 14 wins by knockout and predicted another victory against 33-year-old Morello, who has a record of 26-1.”When you work so hard that it seems unreasonable that you don’t achieve your goals… that just fills you with confidence.” said Liddard.”I’m not…
Tielemans is thoughtful though, and expansive in his answers, even if sometimes what he says is not quite what you expect to hear.One of those is around the length of his career and the number of games he has played.He made his professional debut for Anderlecht at 16. He has played 668 games for club and country and had to pull out of Belgium’s World Cup quarter-final clash with Spain last month after experiencing an issue in the warm-up.”I feel very good, actually,” he said.”In that last game, it was just an overload of too many games; too many minutes.…
Mielifeier Dalielibieke stormed over to Eddie Hearn at ringside after his fourth-round stoppage loss to Jack Bowen, furious with the referee’s intervention. Dalielibieke believed he could continue after Bowen unloaded with punches during a heated exchange. Both men had traded heavy shots without giving ground before Bowen forced the stoppage. Dalielibieke immediately challenged the decision, then took his complaint directly to Hearn as frustration over the referee’s call became the main talking point. Omar El-Abdallah broke Jordan Towns down in a punishing third round, sending him to the canvas twice as he pushed hard for the finish. Towns climbed back…