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Conor Gallagher could be sold by Chelsea in the final days of the transfer window (Getty Images)The January transfer window enters it’s final days after a slow month but is set to heat up as clubs try to bolster their squads for the second half of the season, ahead of Thursday night’s deadline.Chelsea are willing to sell Conor Gallagher over the next two days to help meet FFP regulations, so long as they get the right offer, and Tottenham are considering a last-ditch bid, according to The Times. The Blues asked for £50m last summer which turned Spurs to other…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the US“On 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of their record-setting journey around the world never to be seen again. Until today.”“Deep Sea Vision found what appears to be Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.”That message was posted on Instagram by the South Carolina-based underwater exploration company on 27 January alongside a series of yellow sonar photographs of a distinctly plane-shaped object lying 16,000 feet below the…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Sammie Szmodics notched a brace as Blackburn Rovers came from behind to see off Sky Bet League Two high-flyers Wrexham 4-1 at Ewood Park and set up an FA Cup fifth-round clash at the same venue with Newcastle.The visitors, who won at Coventry and drew with Sheffield United in last season’s competition, were on for an upset when Andy Cannon put them in front in the 19th minute, bringing a huge roar from the 7,000-plus away fans…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDays before an expected final judgment in a fraud case that could imperil Donald Trump’s sprawling business empire, a court-appointed monitor overseeing his businesses reported financial disclosures that are “either incomplete, present results inconsistently,” or “contain errors.”One of those findings, according to her report, appears to suggest that the former president evaded taxes on millions of dollars in income by hiding money in fake loan transactions.Mr Trump and his associates have been cooperative throughout the months-long monitoring process,…

Street sales thriving as AFCON continuesSign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Ivory Coast’s campaign during the Africa Cup of Nations has certainly not gone to plan so far, but they remain in the tournament and in with a chance – but they’ll have to really raise their game to see off defending champions Senegal in the round of 16.The hosts fired head coach Jean-Louis Gasset after the group stage following two defeats and a single win over Guinea-Bissau, but they qualified for the…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailFormer president Donald Trump is falsely claiming to have stopped all movement between the US and Mexico in a bid to push lawmakers to scuttle a bipartisan proposal to increase President Joe Biden’s power to curb illegal crossings.Mr Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Monday to claim that he had not needed what he described as a “big, complex Democrat-oriented Border Bill” to stop crossings between the US and Mexico during his administration. He also said…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter A young Sheffield Wednesday fan has been praised after he used money he had received for Christmas to buy a hamper of sweets for Coventry midfielder Kasey Palmer.Palmer has alleged he was racially abused during the Sky Bet Championship meeting between the sides at Hillsborough on January 20.Eleven-year-old Wednesday supporter Cole was upset by what happened and felt moved to act. He sought advice from the anti-discrimination educational charity, Show Racism The Red Card, and used Christmas…

French farmers blocked roads around Paris with their tractors on Monday 29 January, as they pushed the government to do more to protect the country’s agricultural sector from foreign competition, rising costs and low pay.Angry farmers have threatened to put the capital under “siege” and in recent days have set up roadblocks on motorways to highlight their cause.France’s new prime minister Gabriel Attal sought but failed to defuse the protest movement last week with a series of pro-agriculture measures, which farmers said fell short of their demands that producing food be more lucrative, easier and fairer. Source link

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter The Uefa hierarchy are confident of passing controversial amendments to its federation statutes next Thursday, in a move that could yet see incumbent president Aleksander Ceferin stay on until 2031. The vote at the Uefa Congress in Paris next week is also set to indicate the early battlelines at the start of a growing civil war in European football. The split has already seen Croatian legend Zvonimar Boban resign as chief of football on principle, and confederation…

Moment Russian plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war appears to crashFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsEmployees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine’s security service reported.The SBU said late Saturday that five people have been charged, with one person detained while trying to cross the Ukrainian border. If found guilty, they face up to 12 years in prison.The investigation comes…