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Chelsea owner, ​Roman Abramovich​, has ​​​sanction​ed ​£70m bid f​or​ Manchester United​ target, Alvaro Morata. Morata, 24, has been heavily linked with a move to Old Trafford​ after ​Jose Mourinho identified him as his ​replacement for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. United have already had a £52.4m approach knocked back by Real Madrid.

Alan Shearer has slammed yesterday’s painful defeat to Premier League leaders Chelsea, describing Arsenal’s display as ’embarrassing’. The Gunners succumbed to a 3-1 loss to the Blues, with only a late equalizer denying the home side a clean sheet. The scoreline could easily have been much worse however, and the manner in which some of the goals were conceded were literally hurtful to watch.

Arsenal fans will be hoping that the Gunners invest in a new striker come the summer, with our current crop of players still quite not at the right level to take the Premier League by storm. Arsenal have looked to have found a strong striker in Alexis Sanchez, but with the Chilean’s future up in the air, a bid for a new striker could well be on the cards. Sadly, it seems that the biggest issue here is Arsene Wenger’s reluctance towards investing major money in a top class player.

The Frenchman offered the perfect response to questions about his form during a Europa League drubbing of Fenerbahce. Jose Mourinho quipped back at those questioning Paul Pogba's recent form as he playfully suggested that the Frenchman's starring role in Manchester United's 4-1 win over Fenerbahce saw him shake off his "worst player of the Premier League" tag.

The Red Devils midfielder netted a rare brace against Fenerbahce on Thursday night, while Jesse Lingard recorded a career first. Paul Pogba led the way for Manchester United in Europa League competition on Thursday night, with the Frenchman bagging a brace in a comfortable 4-1 victory over Fenerbahce.

Nigerian international Mikel Obi has revealed how he was able to spend over $30,000 just to organize logistics at the Rio Olympics 2016. The Dream team captain speaking with Goal.com revealed how he was able to assist the team's welfare throw out the tournament. Speaking with goal.com the Chelsea midfielder said: "I think if we talk about the money that I put into the team I think it was more than [£30,000] but we just had to do it.

Real Madrid attacker Cristiano Ronaldo has hit back at Barcelona icon Xavi following his latest comments about the forward. Cristiano Ronaldo has taken aim at Xavi following the former Barcelona mid fielder's comments claiming Lionel Messi is superior to the Real Madrid star.

I woke up early today just to read a sadden news of the death of Nigerian's icon and one of the best coaches from the country Nigeria. The former coach of Nigerian national football team Stephen Okechukwu Keshi was reported death early hours of today in his home town in Benin, Edo state of Nigeria. The sudden death of the former Eagles international was confirmed by his relatives and closed friends.

Nigeria home based eagles international Nanen Imenger has vowed to rediscover his form and lift his current club Lobi Stars to achieve its set target for the season. The former Kwara United forward is currently working hard under coach Godwin Uwua’s guidance to regain his full fitness. Imenger Junior who appealed to Lobi Stars supporters for patience and understanding, said after darkness comes light.

As Real Madrid suffered a painful 0-1 defeat to arch rivals Atletico Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu, all didn't went down well with the players as criticisms were thrown from their fans including Cristiano Ronaldo. After the bitter encounter which they lost at home to city rivals, the Real Madrid top scorer lash out at his team-mates and accused them of not giving their best. Meanwhile, Real Madrid captain decided to back Cristiano Ronaldo after he criticized his team mates but went ahead to say nevertheless, he was proud of his team-mates after another loss against their city rivals.

Few hours after Sunday Oliseh tweeted his resignation as Super Eagles head coach, some Nigerians took to twitter to express their bitterness and disappointments while other lauded him for his decision. Read few of their comments below after the cut.

Nigerian Super Eagles head coach Sunday Oliseh has tender his resignation much to the surprise of everybody. The former Nigerian skipper who was hired just seven months ago, announced his resignation on Twitter few hours ago said he took the decision due to the inability of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, to honour the terms of his contract. “Due to contract violations, lack of support, unpaid wages, benefits to my players, assistant coaches and myself, I resign as Super Eagles Chief Coach,” he tweeted. See his tweet below.

Former Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho could be heading to Old Trafford at the end of the season. According to Daily Mail, the former Real Madrid coach has told close friends that his move to Manchester United this summer is a "done deal." This at the initial stage seems to be mere rumor but the circumstances now looks like, the fans are already tired of Van Gaal's coaching tactics which has been criticized for lack of balancing.

The Cristiano Ronaldo's fans out there in Portugal can't even protect their icon's statue? See what Messi's fans did to Ronaldo's Statue in Medeira Portugal. See the picture below after Messi was announced the winner of 2015 Ballon d'Or.

The Super Eagles new Captain under coach Sunday Oliseh cast his Ballon d'Or vote wisely. And according to his votes, Yaya Toure also deserve to on the top list of Ballon d'Or winners. The Super Eagles coach Oliseh also selected his own players who deserve the award which Messi eventually won. See the players the coach and his captain voted for the 2015 world best player.

Coaches and Captains of National teams with one media representative from each country are those eligible each to vote for their favorite Ballon d'Or. So for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala, these are the votes of players from Barcelona and Real Madrid.

On Monday, Barcelona star player Lionel Messi made history as he was named winner of the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or for the 5th time. Now when examining the votes, we discovered so many absurd votes other star players got which we least expected. The FIFA Ballon d’Or award is conducted among national teams coaches and captains together with journalists from these countries.

The Goal Nigeria Player Of The Year (NPOTY) for 2015 has been announced and guess who the winner is? Benue Born football star Fanen Adi popularly known as Fanendo Adi. The 25-year-old Nigerian who hails from Benue State plays in the Major League Soccer for Portland Timbers who are currently winners of MLS Cup Trophy. The giant strong Portland frontman Fanendo Adi who stand 6ft 4 inches, has 18 goals to boot and is been nominated as the Goal Nigeria Player Of The Year (NPOTY) 2015.

Chelsea has now consider holding talks with Guus Hiddink as Carlo Ancelotti will be taking charge at Bayern Munich at the end of the season as a German website announced that the ex-Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola will leave the German side next year. Reports reaching us state that, Guus Hiddink has been offered Chelsea job as interim coach till the end of the season.

Spanish giants and holders of UEFA Champions League are world Champions again for the third time after beating Argentine's side River Plate 3-0 in the FIFA Club World Cup 2015 finals. Goals from Lionel Messi and a brace from Luis Suarez gave Barcelona the title they deserved.