Manchester City are set to assess forward Omar Marmoush before Sunday’s Manchester derby after he suffered a knee injury while on international duty with Egypt.
The 26-year-old was substituted in the ninth minute of his country’s World Cup qualifier with Burkina Faso – which finished in a goalless draw – in Ouagadougou on Tuesday.
Marmoush, who joined City from Eintracht Frankfurt for £59m in January, was hurt following a robust fourth-minute challenge.
He initially played on after receiving treatment on the field before being replaced by Osama Faisal shortly afterwards.
“The player will undergo an X-ray upon his arrival to Cairo [on] Wednesday morning.”
City’s medical staff will also examine Marmoush, who has scored eight goals in 28 games for the club, when he returns to England.
The frontman has started City’s last two top-flight matches – defeats to Tottenham and Brighton – after coming on as a substitute in the 4-0 opening-weekend win at Wolves.
Thomas Tuchel spoke like a man who knew the best night of his England reign was coming from the moment he landed in Belgrade.
The German heard questions about his methods after the dire World Cup qualifier win against Andorra on Saturday – a fourth successive competitive victory, but one that ended with thousands of supporters at Villa Park voting with their feet long before the end.
“I see what I see. I feel what I feel. I am convinced we will improve, then get better and better,” said Tuchel before England’s qualifier against Serbia.
He echoed that message as he basked in the elation of Tuesday night’s 5-0 triumph.
Tuchel’s side delivered on that promise – and then some – with a masterclass that swept Serbia aside in their own Belgrade fortress, the predicted hostile crowd silenced from virtually the first whistle by a performance of total domination.
And, on what was the perfect night for Tuchel, he not only got the emphatic victory that puts England only five points away from World Cup qualification with three games left, he left Belgrade with the most pleasant of selection headaches to resolve.
England finally showed attacking flair, doing it without Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham and Arsenal’s Bukayo Saka – regarded as certain starters by most observers. Chelsea forward Cole Palmer was also missing, as was Phil Foden, hoping to rebuild his international career through his Manchester City performances.
In their absence, Noni Madueke excelled with a goal and a fine individual display. He has now made five goal contributions in nine England appearances.
Elliott Anderson built on the good impression he made on his debut against Andorra, while Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers was an increasing influence, looking at home at this elite level.
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Anderson also received a highly complimentary review from Tuchel, with stats backing up the impact the Nottingham Forest midfielder has had while settling into international football.
He completed 182 passes in his first two England appearances – 107 against Andorra and 75 in Serbia, the most by an England midfielder in his first two caps Opta has on record since August 2008.
England’s line-up had only four players with 25 caps or more, while four more were in single figures.
It is only one game, but this was a huge lift for Tuchel and his approach. His time in charge has been a slow-burner, but England were on fire in Belgrade.
It is something Tuchel’s predecessors struggled with, especially Sven-Goran Eriksson, who picked established stars and shoehorned the biggest names into his team, some like Paul Scholes out of position on the left side, but failing to deliver success.
Tuchel said: “I’ve kept repeating that we have had a brilliant camp. It is now up to me to make some decisions on positions but this is international football. These players proved a point every day in camp, and the team did it again with their performance.”
Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson enthused to BBC Radio 5 Live in Belgrade: “When you have big names missing the team then becomes the star. The team were united and there was a lot of cohesion.
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Tuchel said he used his first two England camps to learn, but from now on in camps three, four and five it would be about increasing competition, then narrowing down his squad.
So no wonder England’s head coach was beaming broadly as he departed his media briefing after the most satisfying display since he succeeded Gareth Southgate.
England became the first side to score five goals in an away competitive match against Serbia.
And they have now won eight competitive games in succession, goalkeeper Jordan Pickford keeping his seventh consecutive clean sheet.
England stifled Serbia and the hosts failed to get any of their three shots on target, leaving Pickford without a save to make.
England had 24 shots and 12 on target while they had 42 touches in the opposition box as Serbia recorded just four.
Madueke and defensive pair Ezri Konsa and Marc Guehi all scored their first England goals on a landmark night.
The good news arrived in bundles for England and Tuchel.
Tuchel could almost gorge himself on the food for thought this game offered him.
England were warned the atmospheric Rajko Mitic Stadium would be hostile territory, with the players making the 240-metre walk down the arena’s famous tunnel.
Instead, England silenced Serbia’s fans from the start, dominating possession, giving those expectant supporters no chance to turn up the volume.
There were some unsavoury incidents.
The game was stopped in the first half when green lasers were shone at Konsa, while there was an outbreak of fighting among the home fans in the second half, with some supporters protesting against Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic.
Serbia and their feverish supporters were beaten from the moment captain Harry Kane put England ahead, the all-time record goalscorer showing there are still no serious contenders for his place with his 74th goal in 109 internationals, a remarkable record.
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Anybody who has had to train for an endurance event – or is even vaguely familiar with buzzwords of the corporate world – will know about the concept of getting comfortable being uncomfortable.
For athletes, it represents the process of learning to cope with long, draining physical exertions, while in business terms it might be the exposure to new and challenging experiences.
Craig Bellamy might have had both iterations in mind when he used the phrase as part of his explanation for choosing Canada as friendly opponents for his Wales side on Tuesday.
The head coach got what he asked for – and then some – as his youthful, much-changed team were beaten by next year’s World Cup co-hosts.
“This has been the toughest week, but it’s been really enjoyable because you have to be flexible and you have to be able to adapt. It’s been different,” Bellamy said after the 1-0 defeat in Swansea.
“We need to play top teams. We need to play them because of the speed, the transition, all these moments, the physicality. We have to move the ball quicker, we have to make decisions quicker and that’s what we need to be exposed to.
“That’s what I believe top players are able to do and on a consistent basis. And surely playing at the top level allows you to expose our players to that. And this was the opportunity of being able to do that today.
This was Bellamy’s first friendly in charge of Wales, and he picked Canada – three places higher than his side in the world rankings – because he wanted to expose his fringe players to a standard they may not have previously encountered.
There were three debuts in Swansea – Ronan Kpakio from the start, midfielders Joel Colwill and Kai Andrews as substitutes – to go with Dylan Lawlor’s impressive first international appearance in Kazakhstan the previous Thursday.
Given Wales’ limited resources, it is essential their player pool is expanded.
But while they were having to turn to their inexperienced players, some from League One clubs, Canada were able to pick a strong line-up with only two enforced changes from their 3-0 win in Romania last Friday.
“I don’t do excuses. I don’t talk about process and this and that. I’m in the here and now, I want to win,” said Bellamy.
“But also it was Charlie Crew’s first start, Ronan Kpakio’s debut, Kai Andrews’ debut, Joel Colwill’s debut, and we had one or two fringe players. It was nice for me to give them the opportunity because they haven’t had that opportunity to play because every game I’ve had there has been points on it.
“I needed to see the squad as well and I needed to see what they picked up with us. Can they play in our way? And I have to be honest, I was very impressed with that.
“But that speed of securing balls and seeing pressure, coming up with the ball, some of our boys have never been exposed to that. The league they’re in, they’re not going to get exposed to that. This is a jump.
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‘See you at the World Cup!’
Bellamy says he does not believe there is such thing as a friendly, in the sense that there is a significance to every fixture.
Canada appeared to be of the same belief. As joint hosts of next year’s World Cup, Jesse Marsch’s side do not need to qualify so they are using friendlies like these as preparation instead of officially competitive matches.
The result was this encounter was played with much more of an edge than a typical friendly, with seven yellow cards – including one for former Leeds United boss Marsch – as tempers flared on and off the field.
Bellamy and his staff were irked that their Canadian counterparts were celebrating before the final whistle and, although the mutual respect from both camps was clear, the Wales head coach hopes to renew that rivalry at next summer’s World Cup.
“I see them celebrating at the end, I’m like: ‘I hope I see you at the World Cup. I hope I see you again,'” Bellamy said.
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The United States Supreme Court has granted an unusually quick hearing on whether President Donald Trump has the power to impose sweeping tariffs under federal law.
The justices said on Tuesday that they will hear arguments in November, which is lightning fast by the typical standards of the nation’s highest court.
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The small businesses and states that challenged the tariffs in court also agreed to the accelerated timetable. They say Trump illegally used emergency powers to set import taxes on goods from almost every country in the world, nearly driving their businesses to bankruptcy.
The justices also agreed to hear a separate challenge to Trump’s tariffs brought by a family-owned toy company, Learning Resources.
Two lower courts have found that most of the tariffs were illegally imposed, though a 7-4 appeals court has left them in place for now.
The levies are part of a trade war instigated by Trump since he returned to the presidency in January, which has alienated trading partners, increased volatility in financial markets and driven global economic uncertainty.
Trump has made tariffs a key foreign policy tool, using them to renegotiate trade deals, extract concessions and exert political pressure on countries. Revenue from tariffs totalled $159bn by late August, more than double what it was at the same point a year earlier.
The Trump administration asked the justices to intervene quickly, arguing the law gives him the power to regulate imports and that the country would be on “the brink of economic catastrophe” if the president were barred from exercising unilateral tariff authority.
The case will come before a court that has been reluctant to check Trump’s extraordinary flex of executive power. One big question is whether the justices’ own expansive view of presidential authority allows for Trump’s tariffs without the explicit approval of Congress, which the US Constitution endows with the power to levy tariffs.
Three of the justices on the conservative-majority court were nominated by Trump in his first term.
Impact on trade negotiations
US Solicitor General D John Sauer has argued that the lower court rulings are already impacting those trade negotiations. Treasury might take a hit by having to refund some of the import taxes it has collected, Trump administration officials have said. A ruling against the tariffs could even hamper the nation’s ability to reduce the flow of fentanyl and efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, Sauer argued.
The administration did win over four appeals court judges who found the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA, lets the president regulate importation during emergencies without explicit limitations. In recent decades, Congress has ceded some tariff authority to the president, and Trump has made the most of the power vacuum.
The case involves two sets of import taxes, both of which Trump justified by declaring a national emergency: the tariffs first announced in April and the ones from February on imports from Canada, China and Mexico.
It does not include his levies on foreign steel, aluminium and autos, or the tariffs Trump imposed on China in his first term that were kept by former President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Married At First Sight UK star JJ Slater revealed that he had planned a “his and hers” surgery in Turkey with Katie Price but it was canceled after his recent diagnosis which has prompted major lifestyle changes
JJ Slater reveals plans for ‘his and hers surgery’ with Katie Price(Image: @katieprice/Instagram)
Katie Price’s boyfriend, JJ Slater, has opened up about the couple’s planned joint cosmetic surgery in Turkey and has revealed the reason why it didn’t go ahead for him. The former Married At First Sight UK star, 32, was set to have a “his and hers” procedure with the 47-year-old glamour model, but his Type 1 diabetes prevented him from going under the knife.
“I went to Turkey to have the bags under my eyes done, but I couldn’t have it done,” JJ said. “I was all in the gown, wearing the knee-high socks, ready to go down. But my blood sugars were flagged. I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes after the show, actually.
“So yeah, my blood sugars, there was a reading in my blood that they weren’t happy with, so they didn’t do the procedure. So recovery was fine, as it didn’t happen,” he told The Sun.
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He also reflected on how the diagnosis has reshaped his life as he admitted: “That’s another major thing that has happened since the show: being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. That diagnosis was definitely one of the biggest life-changing things since the show.
“Type 1 is an autoimmune disease, so I’ve done a lot of research into it. One of the potential triggers can be stress. It’s not scientifically proven, but it does make you wonder, given everything going on around that time.”
JJ described the onset of his symptoms as he explained: “I was 31, had never had any issues before, and suddenly I was really ill for about two months. But being a typical bloke, I just ignored it, thinking it would go away.
JJ has revealed his plans for a his and hers surgery with Katie(Image: BACKGRID)
Katie and JJ have been together since February 2024(Image: Alan Chapman/Dave Benett/Getty Images)
“But then, when I did get really ill, my dad was like, mate, you’ve got to get yourself to the hospital. I went down to the hospital and was diagnosed.
“So that was a huge change. I lost nearly two stone, and I was really thirsty. It’s a bit disgusting, but I was also passing blood in my urine. That was the biggest trigger for me. That was when I told myself I had to get checked out.”
Last month, Katie revealed JJ had a hair transplant in Turkey, sharing footage of him undergoing a PRP treatment on Snapchat and it was something that the couple didn’t fully plan or anticipate.
Their joint procedures come after split rumours earlier this year. The former glamour model fell for Married At First Sight UK star JJ following her bitter split from fiancé Carl Woods in early 2024.
Despite the 16-year age gap between Katie and JJ, the pair have appear to have gone from strength to strength throughout the duration of their relationship.
Katie has previously said that JJ is the most positive light in her life(Image: PA)
However, in recent weeks, the couple have sparked split rumours and fans had been left convinced that they had gone their separate ways. In her most recent podcast episode of The Katie Price Show, the mum-of-five has finally explained why she and JJ do not currently live together.
Katie, who hosts the popular podcast alongside her younger sister Sophie, revealed that she is moving into a new house that she is designing herself before confirming that reality TV star JJ is not involved in any way.
“People have to realise JJ owns his own house and he owns his flat. He rents his flat out and his house is like a new build, like a show home. I can’t remember the last time I went there. He actually has got a good eye.”
Katie has been dogged by controversy in recent weeks and apparently feels that JJ is one of the few people who has her back.
Katie Price and JJ Slater are both getting new surgery abroad(Image: PA)
Katie is no stranger to going under the knife(Image: Getty Images)
“It’s been a really difficult time for Katie, and she’s been telling people she won’t let JJ betray her too,” a source told The Mirror.
“The last thing she needs is a break-up, with everything else that’s going on. JJ has always been dependable, and she’s realised that a good relationship doesn’t have all the arguing and drama, so she needs him now more than ever.”
Katie and Married At First Sight UK star JJ started dating in February 2024, and she once called him “my absolute everything” on social media.
She also told Paul C Brunson on his We Need To Talk podcast in May that “JJ is the most kind, genuine, easy-going, chilled person”.
