Mikel Arteta, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp will be speaking today as the Premier League returns this weekend
Bayer Leverkusen are confident Alonso will stay at the club this summer, forcing Liverpool to look elsewhere for Jurgen Klopp’s replacement
Lu Miaoyi jumped to the 2400 international master level at Reykjavik, while Alice Lee defeated the US No 1 Irina Krush in St Louis
A decorated and highly popular former player who looks likely to wrest the Bundesliga title from Bayern Munich with a club from a town the size of Harrogate. Alonso may have been looking at his Leverkusen squad and, assuming the club - funded by pharmaceutical giant Bayer - assure him it will stay together, fancy a crack at the Champions League. Indeed, another of his former clubs in Real Madrid may well be looking for a new manager in 2025 and they quietly seem on the brink of creating a young squad for the ages.