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This news has been backed up by reporter Mohamed Toubache-Ter who was first to break the story on Matteo Guendouzi's arrival to the Emirates last summer, also from Lorient. He ​tweeted on 30 May: "Arsenal will redo a second offer at the beginning of the week." The versatile attacker, who can play anywhere across the front line, scored 14 goals in Ligue 2 last term and is of interest to a host of European clubs. His arrival at the Emirates would provide well needed back-up for ​Alexandre Lacazette and ​Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, with the departure of Danny Welbeck imminent and the loan spell of Denis Suarez seen as a failure. Eintracht Frankfurt have also had a bid in the same region knocked back, and Stade Rennais have made a formal inquiry about the 21-year-old. Other teams known to be keeping tabs on the youngster include Monaco, Lille, Mainz and Borussia Mönchengladbach. Arsenal are likely to make another bid for Lorient forward Alexis Claude-Maurice after see

After a second successive season without the regular services of Benjamin Mendy, Manchester City has reportedly found a new fullback to increase the club’s depth in that position. According to reports out of Italy, Manchester City is set to make a $56 million offer to Juventus for Portuguese defender Joao Cancelo. Cancelo has spent the last two seasons in Italy, first playing with Inter Milan and this past season with Juventus, and he’s also broken into the Portugal National Team as a regular, marauding right back. He’s certainly known for his attacking prowess down the wings, and even though he’s a right back, he could play left back in a pinch if needed. This past season he recorded eight assists in 34 games for Juventus, and he’ll have plenty of targets to aim for if he joins Man City. Here are some more transfer rumors from around the Premier League: Arsenal target Sampdoria’s Anderson, Praet Arsenal’s offseason is underway, and the club is now taking a bigger step to

 Netherlands celebrate Quincy Promes' goal against England Kyle Walker's own goal and Ross Barkley's mistake in extra time saw Netherlands earn a 3-1 win against England that books a place in the inaugural Nations League final for Ronald Koeman's men. Marcus Rashford's first-half penalty opened the scoring in a low-quality affair in Guimaraes, the striker converting a penalty he won when clumsily brought down by Matthijs de Ligt. The Ajax captain made amends in the second half with a towering header to level the scores before England substitute Jesse Lingard had what seemed a winner ruled out for offside with seven minutes to go. In the added period Netherlands won the game in farcical fashion, Walker diverting the ball into his own goal after an awful error by his Manchester City team-mate John Stones, before Barkley's poor pass allowed Quincy Promes to seal a final date with Portugal on Sunday. Steven Bergwijn and Depay fired efforts straight at Jo

BRASILIA, Brazil — Soccer star Neymar testified for almost two hours in the Rio de Janeiro police headquarters Thursday in a cybercrimes investigation linked to a woman's rape allegation against him. Brazilian soccer confederation reported earlier that Neymar had received a subpoena to speak with authorities about his posting on social media of images and messages of the accuser without her authorization in possible violation of her online privacy. Neymar arrived to testify shortly after 7 p.m. local time and left shortly before 9 p.m. He spoke to journalists afterward at the police headquarters but didn't provide any details about his testimony in the alleged cybercrime case. "I only want to thank the support and messages that everybody sent," said the player, who was using crutches because of his injured right ankle. Neymar is expected to speak to authorities in the next few days about the rape allegation, which is being investigated separately in Sao Pau

Neymar facing an uncertain future Forced out of the Copa America by injury, star striker Neymar faces an uncertain playing future in Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil where he is engulfed in an alleged rape scandal. Neymar vehemently denies the accusation, which has dominated headlines and dogged Brazil's preparations for the Latin American tournament starting June 14. Here's what could happen next for the world's most expensive footballer. - Image tarnished - Beyond the potential sporting consequences of missing Copa America, Neymar's image has taken a serious blow. Shortly before the 27-year-old player was injured in the Brazil-Qatar friendly in Brasilia on Wednesday, his accuser told a Brazilian broadcaster that she had been the victim of "aggression together with rape." Hours later a video circulated on social media showing the young woman hitting Neymar in a hotel room and accusing him of assaulting her the day before. Sponsors are clearly

File: Super Eagles players in training Three–time champions Nigeria have a full house in Asaba, Delta State ahead of Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations send-forth friendly against the Warriors of Zimbabwe. Since qualifying for this year’s AFCON finals following a 1-1 draw with South Africa’s Bafana Bafana in Johannebsurg in November 2018, the Super Eagles have played two friendlies. This was a 0-0 draw with the Cranes of Uganda in Asaba on 20 th  Nov. 20, 2018 and a 1-0 defeat of seven-time African champions Egypt also in Asaba on March 26, 2019. Both teams are expected to offer a sneak preview of how prepared they are for the AFCON, with Nigeria seeded in Group B and rated to go far in the finals and Zimbabwe believing it can punch above its weight in a pool also having host nation Egypt, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. While Egypt 2019 will be Nigeria’s 18 th  appearance at the AFCON, Zimbabwe’s Warriors are making only their fourth appearance, followin

FILE: Super Falcons Following the settlement of their outstanding entitlements by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the Super Falcons say they are motivated o take all three points off the Grasshoppers of Norway in their first match of the 8 th  FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Reims on Saturday. One of only seven teams to have made it to every edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup finals since the inaugural competition in 1991, the Falcons have made it out of the group stage only once previously, and that was 20 years ago. A 2-1 defeat of North Korea and 2-0 win over Denmark, on either side of a 7-1 roasting by Team USA, steered the African champions to the quarter finals, where they came back from three goals down to draw with Brazil before losing by the golden goal in extra time. Nigeria’s closest walk to the knockout rounds since then was Germany 2011, where they lost by the odd goal to both France and Germany and then defeated Canada by the odd goal. Midfie