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Neymar looks just as he could leave Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain this mid-year, yet why is he going to swap one of the world's best clubs for a group that completed Will Neymar be leaving Barcelona? second in Ligue 1 last season and has never won the Champions League? We investigate... Following quite a while of theory, Gerard Pique seemed to ease Barcelona fears when he presented a photo next on Neymar with the subtitle, "He Stays". Was that the last word? Had Pique heard that straightforwardly from Neymar? Not exactly. He has since backtracked, saying: "It's not official. Also, it's not for me to state. It's a sincere belief from the discussion I had with him and my instinct." The transfer saga of the summer rolls on. With an effort to end the hypothesis, Sky Sports Spanish football master Guillem Balague has said Barcelona asked the 25-year-old to message the club's fans via web-based networking media to make...

Roger Federer scaled new heights of greatness at Wimbledon when he duly collected a record breaking win to put him further ahead of other legends, living and dead. The 35-year-old Swiss took an eighth All England Club title by hammering a troubled Marin Cilic with ruthless ease, winning 6-3 6-1 6-4 in an hour and 41 minutes. It was his nineteenth Grand Slam victory and in achieving it he became the first player to win the title without dropping a set since Bjorn Borg in 1976. Cilic began brightly, but by the middle of the second set, he was sobbing into his towel at the changeover. It was not immediately clear if that was due to emotional distress or a blistered foot or both. Either way, he ultimately had no answer to the rasping groundstrokes of Federer or a serve that functioned beautifully, pinging in more than seven out of 10 first serves. Ultimately it was a disappointing final, purely in terms of a contest, but those present would be consoled by...

Arsene Wenger remains confident that Alexis Sanchez will stay at Arsenal for the forthcoming season - despite the player's comments that he wants to play in the Champions League. Sanchez has a year remaining on his contract and is wanted by Manchester City. His manager has repeatedly spoken of his desire to keep the playmaker at the Emirates. However, during a radio interview in his native Chile, Sanchez declared that he wanted to play in the Champions League – a competition the Gunners failed to qualify for with last season's fifth-placed finish. The player's comments are the clearest suggestion yet that he will leave Arsenal. But Wenger is still of the opinion that Sanchez will stay at the club and is not ruling out the possibility of him signing an extension should things go according to plan this season. The view at Arsenal is that the player enjoys living in London and can be persuaded to stay. They are determine...

Manchester United won comfortably 5-2 at the StubHub Center in the opening game of their summer tour as Marcus Rashford scored twice in the opening 20 minutes. But Lukaku, who replaced the young England striker at halftime when United changed their entire starting lineup, missed a wonderful chance to get off the mark within four minutes of coming on and scuffed another opportunity wide. Mourinho still made a point of praising the Belgian, saying: 'He didn't score goals, but he played better than the ones who did score goals. 'A good thing for me today is he's a team player and was not worried about himself. He was worried about the improvement of the team.' Asked to compare Lukaku with Rooney, who has moved in the other direction to Everton, Mourinho added: 'They are incomparable. Rooney, for us, was not a striker. Lukaku is more of a target man with his back to the opponents. It's a point of attack to everyone who has the ball in defen...

Barcelona football star, Lionel Messi has been condemned to a 21-month jail sentence for imposing misrepresentation has been changed to a fine by the Spanish courts. Messi must pay €252,000 ($288,000, £223,000), likening to €400 for each day of the sentence, according to the court announcement. Messi, alongside his dad Jorge, was discovered blameworthy of defrauding Spain of €4.1m in the vicinity of 2007 and 2009. His dad's 15-month sentence was supplanted with a €180,000 fine. Both of them had been discovered blameworthy of utilising assessment asylums in Belize and Uruguay to disguise income from picture rights. And also, the suspended correctional facility terms(jail), the Argentina worldwide was fined about €2m and his dad €1.5m. They made a deliberate €5m "remedial instalment", equivalent to the charged unpaid assessment in addition to interest rate, in August 2013. Messi's allure against the sentence was dismissed...

Lionel Messi will extend his agreement with Barcelona until June 30, 2021, the Spanish club reported Wednesday. Barcelona in an announcement, stated: "the club is extremely content with both the renewal and the dedication of Messi, the best player ever, who has played his full proficient vocation at Barca and has driven the club to a time of uncommon achievement, any semblance of which has never been found in world football." "The Argentinian is in one of the best snapshots of his profession and still has significantly more left to give, which is music to the ears of all Barça fans who will get the chance to keep wondering about his enormity for in any event an additional four years." Messi is relied upon to sign the new contract after he comes back from season breaks for the begin of pre-season preparing. He wedded his adolescence sweetheart Antonella Roccuzzo on June 30 in the place where he grew up in Rosario. Barcelona advanced ...