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Newcastle United have confirmed the sales of youngsters Yankuba Minteh and Elliot Anderson to Brighton and Nottingham Forest respectively.

The Magpies needed sales by the end of their accounting year (June 30) in order to comply with the Premier League s Profit and Sustainability Regulations (PSR).

A breach of the PSR would likely have resulted in a points deduction in the 2024-25 campaign.

Numerous clubs were interested in Minteh, who thrived on loan at Feyenoord last season. A deal to Everton, which would have included Dominic Calvert-Lewin heading to St James Park, was mooted, but Brighton have sealed the signing of the 19-year-old on a five-year contract.

Minteh, who has cost the Seagulls a reported £33million, scored 10 goals and provided five assis…

Wolfsburg have signed Belgium international forward Divock Origi on a season-long loan from Liverpool.

The Bundesliga side will reportedly pay a loan fee of £6million for the 22-year-old s services.

Origi signed for Liverpool from Lille in 2014 before spending an additional year on loan with the Ligue 1 club.

He has 21 goals in 77 appearances for the Reds and his move to Germany comes as competition for places in Belgium s squad ahead of next year s World Cup heats up

1 Divock Origi is the first outfield player from to move to the Bundesliga since S. Kyrgiakos in 2011. Wolfsburg.

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Origi is currently with Roberto Martinez s national side for the World Cup qualifiers against Gibraltar and Greece.

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Sunday Oliseh has been appointed as the new head coach of Nigeria.

Former Nigeria captain Oliseh, who won 63 caps for his country and played his part in the Africa Cup of Nations success in 1994, was confirmed as Stephen Keshi s replacement on Wednesday.

Keshi another former captain left his post last month, having applied for the vacant Ivory Coast job.

Oliseh, whose previous coaching experience came with Belgian side Vervietois between 2008 and 2009, will now attempt to lead Nigeria to the Africa Cup of Nations in 2017 after they missed out on the most recent staging of the competition.

NFF general secretary Dr. Mohammed Sanusi said: There is no time to waste. The team has important matches to prosecute in the next few weeks and it is impe…

According to , Tottenham’s young French winger Georges-Kevin N Koudou is set to join Premier League rivals Burnley on loan for the rest of the season.

It seems like a sensible move for the 22-year-old, who has struggled to break into the Spurs starting eleven since arriving from Marseille in the summer of 2016. The youngster has made just one start this season in a 3-0 Champions League win over APOEL.

Hopefully, N’Koudou has a successful spell with the Clarets and returns to Spurs a better player. The deal seems to suit everybody involved at the minute.

Tottenham in a catch 22

Unfortunately, for Spurs N’Koudou’s situation illustrates their problems recruiting players. In the short cameos for Tottenham since his arrival, the winger has looked out …

Paulo Dybala began life as a Roma player by insisting he bore no ill feeling towards Inter once his expected switch to San Siro failed to materialise.

Argentine forward Dybala has joined Roma on a free transfer after his contract at Juventus was allowed to expire, with the 28-year-old confident the capital club are becoming an increasingly powerful force.

Inter appeared to be the option that Dybala would choose after his Juve exit, but Nerazzurri managing director Giuseppe Marotta last week said the club had no space and no need to do that deal. They have brought in Romelu Lukaku and Henrikh Mkhitaryan during the close season.

I didn t feel betrayed, Dybala said at a presentation media conference.  Since ending my contract with Juve I spoke to some teams more t…

Turkey remain in with a chance of reaching the last 16 of Euro 2016 after securing an impressive 2-0 win over Czech Republic in Lens on Tuesday.

Fatih Terim s side came into their final Group D encounter without a goal or point to their name, but victory thanks to strikes from Burak Yilmaz and Ozan Tufan lifted them above their opponents and into contention for one of the third-place qualification berths.

By contrast, Czech Republic, missing talisman Tomas Rosicky through injury, are eliminated with their stirring late fightback to earn a 2-2 draw against Croatia last time out ultimately counting for nothing.

The opener arrived in the 10th minute as Burak applied the decisive touch to a sweeping Turkey move with a fine finish, before Tufan smashed home to…

Erik ten Hag was angered by “three tough decisions” that went against Manchester United in a chaotic late loss at Copenhagen that damages their chances of reaching the Champions League knockout phase.

Wednesday’s helter-skelter Group A encounter started with a Rasmus Hojlund brace against his former club but ended in a crushing 4-3 defeat sparked by Marcus Rashford’s red card.

The United forward was sent off after a VAR review late in the first half for catching Elias Jelert, with Mohamed Elyounoussi quickly scoring before Diogo Goncalves levelled from the spot.

Bruno Fernandes’ penalty put the visitors back ahead in the second half, only for Lukas Lerager and substitute Roony Bardghji to score in a blockbuster conclusion to a bonkers match.

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A moment of magic from Philippe Coutinho secured a 1-1 draw for Liverpool and a place in the Europa League quarter-finals at the expense of bitter rivals Manchester United.

Jurgen Klopp s team claimed a dominant 2-0 win at Anfield a week ago but United were much improved from that lacklustre showing and sparked hopes of a turnaround when the impressive Anthony Martial won and netted a 32nd-minute penalty.

Visiting striker Daniel Sturridge struck the crossbar before Coutinho extinguished United s ambitions of a comeback with an exquisite solo goal on the stroke of half-time.

Louis van Gaal s team were criticised for their lack of creativity in the opening game – they created chances on this occasion but were regularly wasteful inside the area.

Klopp can …

Celtic edged out Manchester City 4-3 in a seven-goal thriller on Tuesday.

City won the Premier League title last season, retaining the crown for a fourth season running, but they were undone by the reigning Scottish champions in North Carolina.

Erling Haaland captained Pep Guardiola s team, and his header dragged City level after Celtic had taken a 3-1 lead by the interval.

Nicolas Kuhn scored twice for the Bhoys in the opening 45 minutes, either side of Oscar Bobb s effort, with Kyogo Furuhashi also getting in on the act for Celtic.

Bobb teed up Maximo Perrone to reduce the arrears before the Norwegian youngster supplied the cross for his compatriot Haaland to head home a City equaliser in the 57th minute.

But the day belonged to Celtic as, 11 mi…

Bayern Munich are currently considering a move for Kyle Walker from Manchester City this summer, according to German journalist Florian Plettenberg.

There has been no contact between the Bundesliga champions and the representatives of the England international as of yet, with no decision made. They are aware that he might leave the Etihad this summer, and with Benjamin Pavard set to leave Munich, they will need a right-sided defender with plenty of experience, so it makes sense for Walker to be on their radar. But for the time being, that s as far as things have gone.

Walker has, of course, been a very important part of everything City have achieved under former Bayern boss Pep Guardiola, winning a total of five Premier League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, two …