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Pep Guardiola insists he has a “high opinion” of Manchester United‘s Andre Onana, who has struggled following his summer move.

Fifa’s newly expanded, 32-team Club World Cup, expected to have a huge prize fund worth up to £50m-plus per team, will kick off in the USA in 2025. The Champions League winners from 2021 to this season will gain entry, alongside eight clubs from the four-year ‘coefficient’ list, based on European results. According to a report by The Sun, Fifa want only one club …

Kylian Mbappe used to wear Manchester United shirts emblazoned with Cristiano Ronaldo’s name, his mother has revealed.

A supercomputer’s updated simulation predicts that Manchester United will slump to ninth this season - their worst-ever Premier League finish.

Sheikh Jassim is understood to have raised his offer for Man Utd in June but it was not satisfactory for the Glazers despite being far more than the club’s $3.3bn valuation on the New York Stock Exchange; Sir Jim Ratcliffe now close to agreeing a deal to buy 25 per cent of the club Qatari banking tycoon Sheikh Jassim bin …

EDEN HAZARD has announced his retirement from football.

Sir Alex Ferguson’s wife Cathy has died 57 years after marrying the former Manchester United manager. Ferguson retired from football in 2013 to spend more time by her side Sir Alex Ferguson’s wife Cathy has sadly passed away leaving behind the former Manchester United manager and their three sons. Lady Cathy - formerly Holding - met Alex in 1964 and they were …

Paul Pogba could be banned from football for four years after his backup B sample came back positive on Friday, with Juventus now deciding his future Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba is facing the risk of a four-year football ban after counter-analysis on a B sample tested positive. The France international has not featured for Juventus since he was suspended from playing after it was confirmed …

The mastermind behind a huge illegal Premier League streaming service has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. Steven Mills, 58, from Shrewsbury, ran an operation called Firesticks which claimed to have 30,000 subscribers and netted more than £1m over a five-year period. Investigators from the Premier League, West Mercia Police, and anti-piracy organisation FACT also identified over 1,000 users. Many of those users …

Liverpool were denied a goal by a VAR decision during their Premier League defeat at Tottenham on Saturday, with a later PGMOL statement referring to “significant” error Liverpool have vowed to “explore the range of options available” after claiming sporting integrity was undermined after Luis Diaz’s goal was ruled out against Tottenham for what the PGMOL described as “significant human …