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Frenchman Isack Hadjar has been promoted to Red Bull’s second team to race alongside Japanese Yuki Tsunoda during the 2025 Formula 1 season. The announcement fills the final seat on the 20-car F1 grid. Hadjar is a replacement at the team that will now be known as Racing Bulls for Liam Lawson, who has been switched to Red Bull after …

Real Madrid are increasingly confident of signing Liverpool’s 26-year-old England defender Trent Alexander-Arnold next summer. (Caught Offside), external Chelsea have a potential move in mind for 21-year-old RB Leipzig and Slovenia forward Benjamin Sesko. (Teamtalk), external Arsenal have previously held talks about a move for Sesko and retain a strong interest in the player having established a good relationship with …

To say that Guiu hit the ground running after breaking into the Barcelona first team would be a major understatement. The La Masia graduate made an instant impact after coming on in the 79th minute of Barcelona’s La Liga match against Athletic Bilbao in October 2023, scoring just 33 seconds later to earn Xavi’s team a 1-0 victory. His path …

England’s Callan Rydz averaged 107.06 to book his place in the second round, before Gabriel Clemens was knocked out by Wales’ Robert Owen on Thursday afternoon. Rydz beat Croatian Romeo Grbavac 3-0, recording the tournament’s highest average first-round match average in its current 96-player format. It was the competition’s 26th highest match average overall and comfortably the best so far …

Despite his upcoming title defence, Dubois is eager to fight the winner of Usyk-Fury and said he would take on either, but would prefer to face Usyk, who he lost to in 2023. Dubois, who was stopped in the ninth round, floored Usyk in the fifth round of their unification contest but it was deemed a low blow. “I’d be …

Farhad Moshiri says the end of his Everton ownership has left him with “mixed emotions” and that he wonders where the club might have been had Carlo Ancelotti remained at Goodison Park. The British-Iranian businessman’s tenure in charge of the Toffees came to an end on Thursday after he sold his stake in the club to the Friedkin Group in …

Angry gamblers are behind 48% of the 12,000 social media posts that have been deemed abusive towards tennis players this year, according to an artificial intelligence-led detection system. The International Tennis Federation (ITF), Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) and the United States Tennis Association (USTA) joined forces at the end of last year to …

Fit-again John Cooney has returned for Ulster’s United Rugby Championship game against Munster on Friday (19:35 GMT), while academy fly-half Jack Murphy could make his debut off the bench. Ireland Under-20 international Murphy, the son of head coach Richie Murphy, joined the Ulster academy from Leinster earlier this year. The 20-year-old started all five of Ireland’s games in this year’s …

The Friedkin Group has completed its majority takeover of Everton, ending the turbulent tenure of Farhad Moshiri. The deal is believed to be worth in excess of £400m and the Toffees become the 10th club in the Premier League under majority American ownership. The group reached an agreement with Moshiri on 23 September and were awaiting regulatory approval, with the …

Christian Kist hit a nine-darter but lost his PDC World Championship first-round match to Madars Razma. The Dutchman became the first player to seal a perfect leg in the tournament since Michael Smith did so on the way to beating Michael van Gerwen in the 2023 final. Kist, the 2012 BDO world champion at Lakeside, collects £60,000 for the feat, …