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Roma have made a £20m offer to sign England winger Jadon Sancho from Manchester United, where he remains excluded from training with the first-team squad.

The 25-year-old, who has been told to find a new club before the transfer window closes on 1 September, joined United for £73m four years ago.

Juventus, who unlike Roma have qualified for this season’s Champions League, are also known to be interested in Sancho.

The former Borussia Dortmund wide man returned to United in the summer after Chelsea paid a £5m penalty to get out of an obligation to buy him, having spent last season on loan at Stamford Bridge.

There have also been suggestions that Roma would be interested in a loan, containing clauses that could be triggered at the end of the season.

However, that issue is complicated by the fact that Sancho’s United contract expires next summer. The club does have an option to extend it by an additional year, although given Sancho’s salary, it is debatable whether they would be willing to do that.

United are determined to sell Sancho. However, the closer to September they get without a deal in place, the more likely they are to consider a potential loan move, given it would at least take a significant sum off their wage bill.

Roma have made an offer to sign England winger Jadon Sancho from Manchester United, where he remains excluded from training with the first-team squad.

United sources have not revealed the size of the bid from the Serie A club, nor whether it has been accepted.

However, the offer in itself underlines that there is interest in the 25-year-old, who has been told to find a new club before the transfer window closes on 1 September.

Juventus, who unlike Roma have qualified for this season’s Champions League, are also known to be interested in Sancho.

The former Borussia Dortmund wide man returned to United in the summer after Chelsea paid a £5m penalty to get out of an obligation to buy him, having spent last season on loan at Stamford Bridge.

There have also been suggestions that Roma would be interested in a loan, containing clauses that could be triggered at the end of the season.

However, that issue is complicated by the fact that Sancho’s United contract expires next summer. The club does have an option to extend it by an additional year, although given Sancho’s salary, it is debatable whether they would be willing to do that.

United are determined to sell Sancho. However, the closer to September they get without a deal in place, the more likely they are to consider a potential loan move, given it would at least take a significant sum off their wage bill.

England men’s and women’s hockey teams both failed to reach the semi-finals of the 2025 EuroHockey Championships after disappointing defeats in Germany.

The women’s side were beaten 2-1 by Spain in Pool B, while the men’s team suffered a shock 3-2 loss to France in Pool C.

It was Spain’s first victory over England in normal time of the women’s Euros for 30 years, and secured qualification for the Hockey World Cup in 2026.

France have reached their first men’s Euros semi-final since 1970 thanks to a last-gasp winner against England.

Spain opened the scoring against England through Luciana Molino in the first quarter, before Tessa Howard equalised with a field goal two minutes later.

Lucia Jimenez scored the decisive goal for Spain in the second half, sending them through to the semi-finals at the expense of England, who had beaten Scotland 3-0 in their opening game.

England’s men, meanwhile, who defeated Poland 5-0 in their opening game, followed by a 1-1 draw with Germany, took the lead on 10 minutes against France through Stuart Rushmore, before an Amaury Bellenger equaliser in the third quarter.

The Premier League allows members of playing and support staff at its clubs to play Fantasy Premier League (FPL).

FPL is a globally popular game played by over 10 million people worldwide in which participants select squads of 15 players and earn points based on their Premier League performances.

The Premier League does not prohibit players or its own staff members from participating in FPL, but clubs can have their own rules on playing the game.

Arsenal, Bournemouth and West Ham all allow footballers and staff to play. Fulham players and staff can also participate, but staff are advised that they should avoid picking players from Fulham in their teams.

All other Premier League clubs have been approached for comment by BBC Sport.

Current Newcastle players Aaron Ramsdale, Anthony Gordon, Harvey Barnes, Fabian Schar and Kieran Trippier have been known to be FPL players in previous seasons.

During the 2020-21 season, an Aston Villa fan from Norway was behind a string of leaked team news information.

Based on knowing the identities of certain FPL accounts of staff members, Henning was able to work out that then Villa winger Jack Grealish was injured before their 2021 match against Leicester City after he was transferred out of their teams.

Villa lost the game 2-1 and later, then Villa manager Dean Smith launched an internal investigation over who leaked the information of Grealish’s injury.

Brendan Rodgers, who was the Leicester manager at the time, said he had heard the rumours of Grealish’s injury before the game.

The Premier League kicks off on Friday and so does fantasy football.

You can join the BBC Sport League on the official Fantasy Premier League game using the code bbcfpl – or by clicking this link.

Alistair Bruce-Ball, Statman Dave and Chris Sutton from the FPL Podcast from BBC Sport will be among the BBC experts taking part – can you beat them?

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The WBC have made Galal Yafai the mandatory challenger to unified flyweight world champion Ricardo Sandoval amid an ongoing anti-doping scandal.

Birmingham’s Yafai was beaten by Francisco Rodriguez Jr in June in Birmingham before the Mexican failed a drug test on fight night.

The WBC initially stated Rodriguez was not guilty of intentionally doping and ordered an immediate rematch with Yafai.

It then emerged Rodriguez had also failed a drug test in December in Texas, testing positive for THC, the primary compound in cannabis.

He was given a 90-day suspension and neither the WBC or Yafai’s team were aware of the incident before the fight in June.

Yafai’s promoter Eddie Hearn publicly lobbied for the WBC to change its ruling as the fight was ruled a no-contest.

WBC president Mauricio Suliaman on Thursday confirmed to the Ring Magazine the sanctioning body had changed its mind and installed Yafai as the mandatory challenger.

The test was conducted on fight night and administered by the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (Vada), as part of the WBC’s Clean Boxing Program.

Any fighter in the top 15 of the WBC’s rankings must register for drug testing and Yafai v Rodriguez was for the sanctioning body’s interim flyweight title.

Manchester has long been labelled as the rainy city.

Embracing this legacy, Manchester City have now used the wet weather as inspiration for their new third kit for the 2025-26 season.

City’s latest jersey features a raindrop graphic over a grey background, with neon green accents on the neck, shoulders and sides.

“This kit is for the City that plays in the rain,” the club said.

“The shirt is designed for those who carry City in their hearts, rain or shine.”

Manchester gets an average of 86.71cm of rain per year, while there are 152 days per year on average with rain, according to Visit Manchester.

And, despite the city’s reputation, the Manchester Evening News reported in 2017 that it ranked 15th in a table of the wettest towns and cities in the UK.

Manufactured by Puma, the shirt retails online for between £65 – for the kids’ jersey – and £152 for an “authentic jersey” with a name and number printed on the back.

“Grey skies may often be seen overhead in Manchester, but this City brings electrifying football to the pitch whatever the weather,” the club added.

“The kit carries a message from Manchester: even when it rains, we shine.”