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The 23-year-old Spanish Alvaro Morata returned to Madrid this summer, while the club has also decided the time has come for the young talent Marcos Asensio to remain in the first team squad.

"I'm looking forward to the next stage in my career," Stones said.

Inter Milan have parted company with coach Roberto Mancini "by mutual agreement", less than two weeks before the start of the Serie A season, the Italian club said on Monday.

The Indian women's hockey team showed tremendous fighting spirit as it came back from a two-goal deficit to hold Japan 2-2 in its opening pool encounter of the Olympics here on Sunday.

The women's team had beaten the same opponents in a classification match in June last year to finish fifth in the World League semifinals and qualify for the Olympics, for the first time after Moscow 1980.

Jose Mourinho has dropped a heavy hint that Paul Pogba's protracted transfer from Juventus to Manchester United is close to completion.

"It was found that no violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE) had been committed by Mr Infantino," the ethics committee said in a statement.

West Bromwich Albion have agreed to sell the club to Yunyi Guokai (Shanghai) Sports Development Ltd, controlled by businessman Guochuan Lai, in the latest instance of China's growing interest in football worldwide.

England Under-21 striker Akpom pounced three minutes from time at the Avaya Stadium as the Premier League side snatched victory in an entertaining game.

Manchester United's International Champions Cup match against rivals Manchester City has been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions here in China, it was announced on Monday.

Juventus have signed Dinamo Zagreb's Croatian forward Marko Pjaca for a fee of 23 million euros ($25.32 million), the Italian club said in a statement.

United manager Jose Mourinho has made Pogba his top transfer target as he bids to make a big impact in his first season at Old Trafford and a record-breaking £100 million ($130 million, 119 million euros) deal looks to have moved closer on Wednesday.

"Maine hockey ke liye apni beti kurbaan kar di, Digvijay." The last heart-felt conversation of India's hockey legend, who succumbed to a liver ailment on Wednesday.

The Premier League has launched a bid to eradicate bad behavior which it believes is preventing the world's richest soccer competition from becoming universally popular.

The 23-year-old, who joined Arsenal in May, captained Borussia Moenchengladbach to fourth place last season and also helped Switzerland reach the last 16 of the Euro 2016.

Belgium sacked national team coach Marc Wilmots after the "intended goals had not been reached," the Royal Belgian Football Association, or URBSFA has announced.