Paul Scholes has said he is sick of Jose Mourinho’s moaning and has challenged the Manchester United boss to restore confidence in his players. United have made their worst start to a Premier League season since David Moyes was in charge and are on their worst run at home since 1990. Ahead of the crucial clash with Newcastle at Old Trafford on Saturday, Scholes insists the issue is confidence rather than a lack of talent in the squad. “Unfortunately because the form is not great, he’s chopping and changing, he has no idea what his best team is, he has…
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Cesc Fabregas has said he would love to stay at Chelsea beyond this season, while adding he wished Maurizio Sarri had arrived at Stamford Bridge sooner than this year. The Spaniard was voted man of the match as Chelsea battled to a 1-0 win over Hungarian champions Vidi in the Europa League group stage on Thursday evening, making only his third start of the season at the base of midfield. “I like it, everything goes through me,” Fabregas said. “This is what I like. I feel sensations under Sarri that I never thought I would feel again. To be honest…
Niko Kovac has said he is not “clueless” after the club’s winless run extended to three matches following the Champions League draw at home to Ajax. Bayern have also drawn with Augsburg and lost to Hertha Berlin, with Borussia Dortmund overtaking them at the top of the Bundesliga, and reports in Germany have claimed Kovac is losing the faith of some of his stars. But speaking at a news conference ahead of the weekend match against Borussia Monchengladbach, he said: “Just because a coach does not get out the clubs after a match, but instead focuses on what he says,…
Jose Mourinho has said he is not the only one to blame for Manchester United’s poor start to the season. United face Newcastle at Old Trafford on Saturday having won only four of their first 10 games in all competitions. They have not won any of their last four matches, have not won at home since the opening weekend of the season and are closer in the table to bottom side Huddersfield than to leaders Manchester City. Mourinho has borne the brunt of the criticism that has come United’s way but the coach told his news conference on Friday that…
Jurgen Klopp has said he is completely relaxed about Mohamed Salah’s start to the season despite the Liverpool forward appearing frustrated in recent weeks. He failed to score in the midweek Champions League defeat to Napoli and was substituted 66 minutes into last weekend’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea. “Obviously expectation changed, that’s normal,” Klopp told a news conference on Friday. “He’s set a completely new standard last year. “From the rest, it’s what he did last year. Nobody expected 10 goals after five, six, seven games. It was always a nice surprise. “Each striker could write a book about these…
Unai Emery has insisted he is not focused on the club’s eight-match winning run and believes he can balance the Premier League and Europa League commitments this season. “Usually I don’t look behind, every day I’m looking at the next matches — what’s in front,” Emery said. “For me, whether we win or lose, every match is giving me a lot of information about how to improve. Every coach wants to win, but it’s not easy to do that. “For me the challenge is every day and every match — to look back to the last match is not good…
A 90th-minute goal by Alexis Sanchez helped Manchester United complete an unlikely comeback and claim a 3-2 win over Newcastle at Old Trafford on Saturday. Juan Mata and Anthony Martial also scored in the second half for United, who came back from a two-goal deficit to end a run of four games without a win in all competitions — form that has manager Jose Mourinho under fire. Newcastle, who began the day second-bottom in the table on goal difference, had not held a lead in any league game this season before Kenedy opened the scoring in the seventh minute. The…
Eric Dier scored his first Premier League goal since April 2017 as Tottenham Hotspur defeated Cardiff City 1-0 at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. Dier handed Tottenham the lead in the eighth minute when a header by Davinson Sanchez was blocked and the ball fell for Dier to tap in from six yards out. Son Heung-min and Lucas Moura missed good chances to extend Spurs’ lead before half-time as a nervous energy began to take hold of the home crowd. Cardiff created chances and came close to equalising in the second half when Josh Murphy raced through and lifted the ball…
Unstoppable Juventus maintained their perfect start to the season after 10 matches when first-half goals from Rodrigo Bentancur and Cristiano Ronaldo gave them a 2-0 win at Udinese in Serie A on Saturday. Juventus, chasing an eighth successive league title, have 24 points from their eight matches in Serie A and have won their first two games in the Champions League. Uruguay midfielder Bentancur’s goal was his first since joining Juventus at the start of last season while Ronaldo took his tally to four since his move from Real Madrid. Juve dominated the opening half hour and broke through in…
A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential a spirant, Tanimu Turaki has called on PDP delegates to vote for Senate President Bukola Saraki. According to reports, Turaki said him and Saraki are the only two people who possess the pedigree, competence and character to solve Nigeria’s problems. “People have been arguing that there are a lot of presidential aspirants in PDP. And people are laying ambush, thinking that this election process will create a lot of problem that they could benefit from. “And all of us are speaking to ourselves as speaking to each other “And we agree that anybody who…
Senator Gbenga Ashafa has lost his bid to return to the Senate, for a third term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress. The 63 year-old senator lost by a wide margin, the primary for the Lagos East ticket to a four-term House of Assembly member, Bayo Osinowo, according to the results announced Saturday by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Electoral Committee of the National Assembly and State House of Assembly primaries in Lagos. Ashafa was expected to run unopposed in the primary as Osinowo was not originally cleared by the National Working Committee of the APC to stand…
Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) of Ondo State has asked the State Police Command to fish out the killers of Ajila Seun, a model and graduate of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo. She was allegedly was raped and stabbed to death around Sunday Bus Stop, Akure. Akeredolu gave the directive in Akure on Saturday through a press statement signed by Mr Segun Ajiboye, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor. The governor asked the police to ensure that Seun’s killers were arrested and prosecuted accordingly. He expressed sympathy with the family of the deceased and assured them that his administration would…
Muhammadu Buhari has said on Saturday that the Federal Government remained committed to getting back all Nigerians abducted by terrorists. Buhari made the commitment during the Passing Out Parade (POP) of 365 cadets of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna. “We are committed to ensuring the release of all the women and men held in captivity. ” Few days ago, Mr president spoke personally to the anguished mother of Leah Sharibu; Christian girl who is the only one left as part of the Dapchi girls still in Boko Haram captivity. “Mr President assured her mother that she would be…
The Osun Governor-elect, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Friday paid a `Thank You’ visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Oyetola, won the Osun State governorship election with 255,505 votes to beat Sen. Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who got 255,023 votes. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor was accompanied on the visit by outgoing governor of the state, Rauf Aregbesola and Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano state, who served as chairman, APC campaign committee for Osun governorship election. Oyetola, who spoke with State House correspondents after the closed door meeting…
Senator Shehu Sani has said that he will not participate in the Kaduna Central Senatorial primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Sani was earlier given an automatic ticket by the National Working Committee (NWC) panel of the APC. The Senator, in a statement signed by his media aide, Abdulsamad Amadi said that the ruling party’s leadership did not approve any primary election. According to Daily Trust, 3,000 delegates will be taking part in the senatorial primaries. The statement reads: “We wish to inform the general public that Sen. Shehu Sani is not part of, and is not participating…
As the race to clinch PDP’s nomination ticket continues, Senate President Bukola Saraki has revealed that he won’t be stepping down for anyone in his party. He reportedly mentioned this on Friday, October 5, 2018, through his campaign spokesperson Ilemona Onoja who also thinks he has more chances than others in his party. Onoja dismissed rumours that he might surrender to another aspirant. “This rumour is unfounded and totally lacking in truth and substance. Dr. Saraki has absolutely no intentions of stepping down his ambitions in favour of any aspirant. “In fact, Dr. Saraki is the foremost aspirant of the…
Yusuph Olaniyonu, a Special Adviser on Media & Publicity to the Senate President Bukola Saraki has responded to a police statement alleging misconduct by members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Some top officials including Saraki were accused of hindering public safety during their protest in Abuja. PDP members reportedly embarked on a march asking for more transparency during elections but they have been linked with disturbances around the Shehu Shagari Way. Olaniyonu believes these to be false accusations. He mentions this in a statement addressing meddling in elections. “Our attention has been drawn to the blatant lies contained in…
Davido and Tiwa Savage are set to go head to head in determining who the Best African Act is in the upcoming 2018 MTV EMA awards. The organizers of the awards have announced nominations for the 2018 MTV EMAs, including six top acts from the African continent; Davido (Nigeria), Tiwa Savage (Nigeria), Distruction Boyz (South Africa), Fally Ipupa (DRC), Nyashinnski (Kenya) and Shekinah (South Africa). One winner will bring this category’s prestigious awards home from the ceremony which will be globally broadcast live from The “2018 MTV EMAs” at Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Barakaldo, Biscay on Sunday, November 4. Internationally, Camila…
Jimi Agbaje has won the governorship primary election of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and will face Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the race to become the next Lagos State governor in 2019. Agbaje won the PDP’s primary election with 1,100 votes to beat his only opponent, Deji Doherty (742 votes), according to the result announced on Friday, October 5, 2018. Agbaje lost the 2015 governorship election to current governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, by over 150,000 votes, before also losing the national chairmanship of the PDP to Uche Secondus this year. Ambode failed in his bid to…
Gov. Abdul’aziz of Zamfara, on Friday called out his supporters for a peaceful protest over the decision of the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to cancel the party’s governorship primaries held on Wednesday. “I am calling on all our members to come out and storm the state Police Headquarters tomorrow (Saturday) by 10 am for peaceful protest. “We will continue with this decision until the national leadership of our party do what is right on this matter,” he said at a press conference in Gusau. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor is having…