Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has declared big-money transfer headliners Alvaro Morata and Romelu Lukaku “at the same level” after signing the former for a club record £58 million on Friday. Lukaku appeared certain to return to Stamford Bridge this summer after confirming his desire to leave Everton, only for Manchester United to swoop in and sign the striker at the last minute. The Blues then turned their attention to Morata — who himself looked likely to be joining United — in their bid to strengthen their forward line ahead of next season’s Premier League title defence. Conte, however, believes that…
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Wayne Rooney scored his second preseason goal for Everton in Saturday’s 1-1 draw against Genk. Manchester United and England’s record goal scorer marked his first appearance back in an Everton shirt with a fine effort against Gor Mahia earlier this month and was on target again at the Luminus Arena. He produced a neat first-time finish at the back post just before half-time following a cross from Sandro Ramirez and later took the captain’s armband when Leighton Baines left the pitch. New £30 million goalkeeper Jordan Pickford made his first appearance for Everton, as did Sandro, and kept a clean…
Neymar showed exactly why Paris Saint-Germain would be willing to pay his €222 million buyout clause by scoring two stunning goals in Barcelona’s 2-1 International Champions Cup win over Juventus. Barca arrived in the United States on Wednesday and have spent the majority of their time since fending off questions about Neymar’s future and a possible move to France. Ernesto Valverde, Sergio Busquets, Jasper Cillessen and Sergi Roberto have all been in the firing line as the press pinged questions at them about the Brazilian. The stock answer, more or less, has been the same: Neymar is a Barca player.…
Pep Guardiola’s wishes are coming true, as brick by brick he is being allowed to assemble an expensive new Manchester City side. From a squad that could and maybe should have been disassembled a year or two earlier, the rejuvenation is now in full swing. People will gasp at the amounts being spent, but City have held on to many players until they were not fit for purpose and are now being punished for not acting sooner. The market always sees City coming, but this summer’s obvious needs have pushed sellers’ prices higher and higher. As well as an omnipresent…
It did not take long for Jose Mourinho’s name to come up once Real Madrid arrived in Los Angeles for their preseason preparations earlier this month. Marcelo took the first news conference of their stint at UCLA. Within a couple of questions, the Madrid vice-captain was asked about the “morbo” coming as his team face their former boss’ current side, Manchester United, twice during the coming weeks — Sunday’s International Champions Cup game in Santa Clara, California, and then the European Super cup in Skopje, Macedonia, on Aug 8. Marcelo is a skilled communicator, and fluent in Spanish after more…
Manchester City have announced the signing of defender Danilo from Real Madrid for a reported fee of £26.5 million. Brazil international Danilo, 26, has agreed a five-year contract with City and joins subject to a work permit. Sources told ESPN FC in recent days that Chelsea had also been interested but Danilo told City’s official website: “I am very, very happy to be joining Manchester City. There has been strong interest from other clubs, but it has always been my ambition to play for Pep Guardiola. “As soon as I heard of his interest, I knew immediately I wanted to…
Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool need to improve on their defensive work if they are to have a successful 2017-18 season. Klopp’s side beat Leicester 2-1 on Saturday to win the Premier League Asia Trophy in Hong Kong, having previously defeated Crystal Palace in last week’s semifinal. The Liverpool boss told Sky Sports he was pleased with the result, but conceded some of his team’s defending against Leicester had been poor, particularly in allowing Islam Slimani to open the scoring. “Two games, two wins so that’s of course the best thing,” he said. “You can see it was difficult again and…
Jose Mourinho has ruled out a summer move for David De Gea from Manchester United to Real Madrid after claiming it is “100 percent” that he stays. De Gea, who will share the goalkeeping duties with Sergio Romero in Sunday’s International Champions Cup clash against Madrid in Santa Clara, has been persistently linked with a move to Real for the past three years, with a transfer to the Santiago Bernabeu dramatically collapsing in the final minutes of the 2015 summer window. Senior figures at United have been confident in their ability to keep the Madrid-born De Gea, believing that Real…
Jose Mourinho has admitted that Manchester United have abandoned their interest in Gareth Bale by claiming the Welsh winger has no desire to leave Real Madrid. Mourinho only last week described a move for Bale’s Real teammate Cristiano Ronaldo as “mission impossible.” And when asked whether Bale was in the same category, Mourinho acknowledged that the former Tottenham player is no longer one of United’s targets. “The same [as Ronaldo],” Mourinho said. “You have contacts and feelings, you understand things, and it was clear that Bale likes Madrid, the challenge and situation. “They are in a very good situation now…
The America born singer chose pieces from Nigerian designers Amarelis Atelier, Elegante by Tiannah and Yvonne Couture for the colourful shoot. She chose a vibrant yellow piece from Amarelis Atelier’s ‘Innocencia de Florence’ Fall/Winter 2016 Collection featuring a 3D floral design on a sheer top merged into a soft pleats on a full skirt. She styled the look complete with a yellow headpiece. She also chose a tiered fill top over skirt in a yellow and blue mix showing off bronzed makeup look paired with gold heels. She also chose a teal belted wet look wrap piece with diamante detailed…
Celine Dion steps out in a bold top-to-toe Gucci look (except the Hermes handbag) and she’s internet sweetheart at the moment! The singer stays fashionable one look after the other, playing dress up in designer pieces and she’s getting it in recent times (even when she sports daring looks). While partially her new stylist; Law Roach is to thank for the recent fierce looks (ever since the singer signed up with the top stylist, her looks have been fire!) the singing sensation who seem to got her style fired up notches months ago makes a recent appearance in top to…
Lilian Esoro is the muse for DOS Clothing store’s 2017 Summer edit. The Nollywood actor makes the perfect poster girl in the chic offerings for the fashion retailer’s newest collection. Posing like a life size doll, the Nigerian actor and mum of one showed off a trim figure in chic pieces from the collection. Dresses with frills, cold shoulder tousled detailed pieces, ruched peplum hem dresses, embellished shirt dresses, decontructed blouses and more were some of the styles crafted to flatter her shape. “The DOS brand through their campaigns celebrate women of excellence. Women who are excelling in their chosen…
The relationship between HBO’s fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” and Pornhub is quite an interesting one. Pornhub reports that the site saw a 4.5 percent dip in traffic during the season seven premiere on Sunday, July 16, 2017, night. The decline is a big change considering the fact that Sunday nights are usually the busiest times for the site. In 2016, the first episode of season six led to a 4.0% drop in traffic, while the season finale resulted in the biggest traffic dip with 5.2%. However, throughout April 2016, searches containing “Game of Thrones” were slightly above average, but…
South-South Nigerian veteran singer Duncan Mighty is inspiring you the listener to be all you can be in ‘Mama born dem’ music video. The singer who has been a source of new generation artists such as Davido is spreading the good message of living out your full potential. Watch and share the visual interpretation for ‘Mama born dem’ sung in Nigerian pidgin local parlance.
Mavin’s Tiwa Savage lights up DJ Kaywise’s ‘Informate’. The DJ who recently released a Top 20 Summer mixtape brings this party starter joint to our doorsteps. Enjoy listening.
Tonto Dikeh has had enough of Speed Darlington’s public affection. The Internet sensation dropped a tweet about his love for Tonto Dikeh and the actress was having none of it. He tweeted, “Tonto Dikeh is my one and only sweet art. I love her so much.” To which Tonto responded, “Do I look like an artwork or do you mean sweetheart. If so, I hate scorpions and you are even their King.” The movie star who recently announced herself as a born again Christian, says she’s working on taking off all the tattoos on her body. The singer shared a…
Usher reportedly racked out $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit with a lady who claimed the singer infected her with herpes. Court documents dated back to late 2012 show that the 38-year-old singer, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, was diagnosed with herpes in 2009 or 2010. The ‘Confessions’ star had unprotected sex with the claimant without confessing that he was carrying the virus, the papers add. In California, it is illegal to knowingly or recklessly transmit a sexually transmitted disease. Usher allegedly did that when he told the victim he had tested negative for the virus, despite a…
Media personality, Toke Makinwa will be assisting one of her Instagram followers to pay his house rent in school. The young man made the plea under one of her Instagram posts saying his mum is unable to assist him as she has not been paid her pension fee for six months now. This is not the first time the Vlogger would be giving out money. Last month a fan who needed money to purchase school handouts reached out to her so he could buy the items. The fan who goes by the Twitter ID, “@godsown99” appealed to the presenter by…
According to the rality tv star, she didn’t let depression win the battle. She wrote, “The news of the untimely demise of Chester Bennington hit me really hard because I have been a super fan since forever, his voice & songs really touched my soul & helped get me through a lot. That’s why I’m pained that he didn’t have anybody to help get him through his own pain. Confession- Yes I have been through depression & it didn’t win. Confession Confession- it’s really only just a bad patch, not a bad life. Yes, you will eventually get out of…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday in Abuja, constituted a committee to articulate its position on restructuring of the country as agitations in that regard increases. The party`s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi , made this known in a statement. He said that the decision to raise the committee was part of resolutions reached at a meeting between the party`s National Working Committee (NWC) and governors elected on its platform. Abdullahi said that with various agitations on restructuring, the concept had assumed several disparate meanings, hence the need for the party to explain its position on it. According…