Archive November 13, 2025

England and Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane is a leading target for Barcelona, Crystal Palace midfielder Adam Wharton tops Chelsea’s transfer list and Juventus halt contract talks with Kenan Yildiz.

Barcelona have made Bayern Munich and England forward Harry Kane, 32, their first-choice target to replace Poland international Robert Lewandowski, 37, next summer and may trigger a £57m release clause in his contract with the German club. (Guardian)

Crystal Palace and England midfielder Adam Wharton, 21, is top of Chelsea’s wishlist for the January transfer window. (Teamtalk)

Former Tottenham forward Son Heung-min, 33, says he will not leave Los Angeles FC on loan in January following the end of the Major League Soccer season. (Evening Standard)

Juventus are hoping they can convince France keeper Mike Maignan to join them when his contract at AC Milan runs out in the summer, with the 30-year-old also linked with Chelsea. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian)

Chelsea have not made a move for Real Madrid and Brazil forward Rodrygo, 24, who is interesting Manchester City and Tottenham. (Fabrizio Romano)

Juventus have failed to reach an agreement with 20-year-old Turkey forward Kenan Yildiz – who has been linked with Arsenal, Chelsea and Real Madrid – over a new deal and contract talks between the two parties have been halted. (Gazzetta dello Sport – in Italian)

Real Madrid are finalising a deal with Lyon for 19-year-old Brazil striker Endrick to join the French club on loan in January. (Globo Esporte – in Portuguese)

England midfielder Kobbie Mainoo, 20, remains a target for Napoli and Leeds United, although Manchester United will only let him leave on loan if they can secure a replacement. (Teamtalk)

Denmark defender Andreas Christensen, 29, wants to stay at Barcelona but says he has “no plan B” if the La Liga champions do not renew his contract beyond next summer. (Tipsbladet – in Danish)

World number one Luke Humphries was in clinical form as he earned a comfortable win against Jurjen van der Velde in the last 16 of the Grand Slam of Darts.

The 2023 champion averaged 108.55, hit seven 180s and had a checkout percentage of 76.9% as he won 10-3 in Wolverhampton.

His quarter-final opponent will be Michael Smith, who beat Chris Dobey 10-9 in a dramatic encounter.

Smith was 5-2 down but levelled at 5-5 with a 164 finish, before he went on to take a 9-8 lead.

Gerwyn Price led 5-1 against Martin Schindler, only for the German to reduce the Welshman’s deficit to 7-6.

However, three-time Grand Slam of Darts winner Price, who hit a 170 checkout in the match, took the last three legs for victory.

Ricky Evans 10-9 Luke Woodhouse

Gerwyn Price 10-6 Martin Schindler

Luke Humphries 10-3 Jurjen van der Velde

Jannik Sinner drove Alexander Zverev to distraction with a composed performance to reach the knockout stages of the ATP Finals.

The Italian second seed maintained his bid for the year-end world number one ranking with a 6-4 6-3 win over third seed Zverev.

Sinner saved all seven break points he faced with his immense serve, with one ace leaving his 28-year-old German opponent biting his racquet in frustration.

The four-time major champion, 24, is the first player to reach the semi-finals in Turin.

Earlier, Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime kept his campaign alive with a 4-6 7-6 (9-7) 7-5 success over big-serving American Ben Shelton, who is now eliminated.

In many ways, this match was the epitome of the gap between world’s best Sinner, Alcaraz and the rest.

Zverev served well, created multiple opportunities and hung with Sinner for much of the match – and still ended up losing in straight sets.

Every time he had a break point, the Italian would simply slam down an ace or a service winner. The German would have the upper hand in a rally and immediately become too passive, allowing Sinner to unleash and take control of the point.

Zverev had two break points in the first game of the match and an opportunity in three of Sinner’s five second-set service games, and each one was saved.

There were moments when he used his forehand to outpace Sinner, but they were few and far between.

Sinner finished with 28 winners to 14 unforced errors, having dropped just eight points behind his first serve.

“I felt like I was serving very well in the important moments. I tried to play the best tennis possible when it mattered,” he said.

Canada’s Auger-Aliassime said he had a “weird start” to his match with Shelton and quickly found himself 4-1 down.

The American put the serve and volley to good use, but was broken as he served for the set. However, a poor service game from Auger-Aliassime handed the initiative – and the opener – to the fifth seed.

Shelton had the only break point of the second set but an increasingly confident Auger-Aliassime saved it, before clinching the tie-breaker on a wild double fault from his opponent.

A tight third set was also decided on the Shelton serve, with Auger-Aliassime converting his third match point.

“He was playing much better than me at the start,” said the 25-year-old.

In the doubles, Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski qualified for the semi-finals as they bid to become the first all-British pair to win the title.

They overcame Britain’s Henry Patten and his Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara 7-6 (9-7) 3-6 10-7 to make it two wins from two.