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Manchester City have suffered a fresh injury blow with manager Pep Guardiola confirming Portugal central defender Ruben Dias has been ruled out for “three or four weeks” with a muscle injury. Dias, who suffered the injury in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat by Manchester United, will miss the entire festive programme and potentially the FA Cup third-round tie with Salford on 11 …

Tom Pidcock’s attention to detail is “next level” according to his new team boss Doug Ryder. The British rider, 25, signed for the Swiss Q36.5 team earlier this month after leaving Ineos Grenadiers following three years with the British team. “It’s a game changer for us,” said Ryder, “giving him full leadership, trust, and faith to try and support his …

Manager Philippe Clement has said Rangers “don’t need motivation out of negativity” as he urged his players to forget about the League Cup final penalty decision. Scottish FA head of referee operations Willie Collum has said video assistant refereeing officials made a ”really, really poor” and “unacceptable” decision not to award Rangers a penalty against Celtic. The Ibrox side, who …

Steven: This is the biggest January transfer window in Ann Budge’s tenure. The board have harped on about Jamestown Analytics for months now. They are going to have to use it now, they are going to have to shelve all the vanity projects and spend on the men’s first team or we are going down. Garry Finlayson: Worst team for …

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 …