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  • Pedro backtracks on Chelsea exit declaration

    Pedro backtracks on Chelsea exit declaration

    Chelsea forward Pedro has said he was misquoted when being asked about his future at Stamford Bridge.

    Speaking on Spanish radio, the 32-year-old reportedly said he plans to “terminate” his contract at Chelsea this summer.

    But the former Barcelona man insists he was mistranslated, and instead wants to stay at Stamford Bridge beyond this season.

    “As many people know, my contract is up in May,” the winger told Chelsea’s official website. “But I still haven’t spoken to the club about whether or not it will be renewed and whether I’ll carry on.

    “I’ve seen loads of messages from Chelsea fans saying goodbye and thanking me for the time I’ve spent here, which I appreciate, but I’d like to tell all the fans simply that my current contract is coming to an end but I still have to talk to the club.

    “I don’t know whether I’ll keep playing here or not. That conversation is still to come. But I have not signed for any other club. I belong to Chelsea. I have a contract. My wish is to be able to stay here but obviously we don’t know what will happen. I have to speak to the club and let’s see what happens.”

  • Coronavirus: Pedro to terminate Chelsea contract

    Coronavirus: Pedro to terminate Chelsea contract

    Chelsea forward, Pedro, has admitted that he is going to end his contract with the club amid the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe.

    The Spaniard, who joined Chelsea in 2015, also said that the self-isolation is difficult for him because he could not travel to Spain to see his children.

    Pedro’s current contract with Chelsea will end this summer, but the 32-year-old believes his time at Stamford Bridge has come to an end.

    “I’m terminating my contract, but right now, it’s not the most important thing, nor have I stopped to think about it,” Pedro told El Larguero on CADENA SER.

    “From there on, what has to do with my future will come, but right now, it’s not the most important thing when you don’t even know when you’re going to train again [due to the coronavirus situation].”

    “The quarantine is a little difficult and hard on everything,” Pedro added.

    “I have not been able to travel either to see my children. I had a chance to be with them, and I could not travel.

    “It is a situation that is sometimes uncontrollable because there are no means, no resources.”

    Meanwhile, the Premier League is presently on suspension until April ending, due to the coronavirus outbreak across the world.

  • James Milner extends Liverpool contract until 2022

    Liverpool vice-captain James Milner has signed a new contract with the Merseyside club, keeping him at Anfield until the summer of 2022.

    The versatile 33-year-old, who joined on a free transfer from Manchester City in 2015 and has made 198 appearances, follows manager Jurgen Klopp in penning a new deal and is now set to stay at the club until he is 36.

    Milner, who Klopp described as a “role model” in September, helped Liverpool win the Champions League last season and recently urged his team-mates to keep the “pedal down” in their quest for the Premier League title this term, with the club currently topping the table by eight points.

    “I’ve been lucky and privileged to play for this club for four-and-a-half years now, it has been an amazing time seeing how the club is changing and developing,” Milner told Liverpool’s official website.

    “I just enjoy coming into training every day, working with this group of players, this manager and coaching staff, and being part of this football club.

    “We had discussions with the club and this was obviously the ideal for me, this was what I wanted to do – stay and play at the highest level as long as I can.

    “Liverpool is an unbelievable place to be and we’re a very, very good football team and hopefully we can keep improving.

    “Obviously the gaffer waited to sign his dependent on whether I signed mine, so that makes me a feel bit more important!”

  • EPL: Hudson-Odoi extends Chelsea contract until 2024

    EPL: Hudson-Odoi extends Chelsea contract until 2024

    Callum Hudson-Odoi has signed a new five-year contract with Chelsea that will keep him at Stamford Bridge until 2024, the Premier League club said on Thursday.

    Hudson-Odoi’s previous deal was set to expire at the end of the season and he was heavily linked with German champions Bayern Munich, whose interest in the 18-year-old was rejected by Chelsea earlier this year.

    “Callum Hudson-Odoi has committed himself to Chelsea Football Club by signing a new five-year contract,” the club said in a statement.

    “His new deal commits him to the club he has trained at since the age of eight until at least 2024.”

    Hudson-Odoi, who made his senior England debut in a Euro 2020 qualifier March, is recovering from an Achilles injury he suffered in April.

    “It’s been a long wait but it’s done now and I’m really happy about that. I’ve been a Chelsea player since I was eight and this is the right club for me to be,” he said.

  • Marcus Rashford signs new Man Utd contract

    Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has signed a contract extension to commit him at the club until June 2023, with the option to extend for a further year.

    The England forward, 21, joined United as a seven-year-old and rose through the youth ranks, making his senior debut in February 2016, aged 18.
    “This club has shaped me, both as a player and as a person,” Rashford said.
    “So it is such a privilege every time I get the opportunity to wear the shirt.”
    “Manchester United has been everything in my life since I arrived here at the age of seven.
    “I will be giving everything I have to help get this club back to where it belongs and deliver the success that our fans deserve.”
    Wythenshawe-born Rashford has made 170 appearances for the Reds and won 32 caps for England.
    United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, who was appointed permanent boss at his former club in March, said Rashford is “one of the most talented English players of his generation”.
    “He is an outstanding player; blessed with natural pace and energy,” Solskjaer added.

  • Ajax extend coach Ten Hag’s contract till June 2022

    Ajax extend coach Ten Hag’s contract till June 2022

    Ajax Amsterdam have extended coach Erik ten Hag’s contract till the end of June 2022 after he guided the Dutch side to a league and cup double as well as the semi-finals of the Champions League.

    “I’m really happy. We had a good season and I want to build on that,” he told the club’s website (www.ajax.nl)

    “The results we have achieved so far were fantastic and it will be a hell of a job to repeat them.

    “But we will set ourselves goals and seek to achieve them,” the 49-year-old added.

    Ten Hag’s original contract was due to end in mid 2020.

    “We are looking forward to the next years with a lot of confidence,” added club director Marc Overmars.

    “We think it’s important that after such a successful season the coach stays to work on building on the success.

    “That will not be easy, of course, as certain players will leave, but we hope to temper that well. Erik has to create another team to watch out for and we have the confidence he will do so,” he said.

    The Dutchman’s young team won a lot of plaudits during their unexpected run to the Champions League semi-finals. En route, they knocked out holders Real Madrid and Serie A champions Juventus.

    Ten Hag took charge of Ajax in December 2017 after the club fired Marcel Keizer.

    Ten Hag worked alongside Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich, where he coached the club’s reserve team, before returning to the Netherlands to take charge at Utrecht in 2015.

    During his first two seasons with Utrecht, he guided them to fifth and fourth-place finishes.

  • FG threatens to revoke Mubi-Michka-Madagali highway contract in 14 days if…

    Disturbed by the slow pace and poor quality of work on Mubi-Michika-Madagali highway, the Federal Government has served a 14-day revocation ultimatum to the construction firm handling the project.

    The Federal Controller of Works in Adamawa, Mr Salihu Abubakar, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola on Friday.

    Abubakar said two other construction firms currently carrying out road projects in the state were also recommended to be served with the revocation notice.

    ” Due to slow pace and low quality of the ongoing Maraba Mubi-Michika -Madagali Federal Highway construction being carried out by Ras Construction Company Nigeria Limited, the Federal Government on March 10, 2019, served the company with 14-day notice for the termination of the contract ,” Abubakar said.

    He said the road project was awarded in the first quarter of 2017 and has a total of 90 kilometers.

    In addition, he said contract for two other road projects may also be terminated due to poor performance.

    The controller listed the roads as Numan-Jalingo and Mubi-Maiha -Sarau with a distance of 103 and 38km respectively.

    He explained that there were six ongoing federal road projects in the state awarded in 2017, excluding Mubi-Maiha-Sarau road, which was awarded in 2015.

    Abubakar stated that about N90 billion was earmarked for the six road projects.

    He listed the projects to include Cham-Numan on Gombe-Yola federal highway and Numan-Jalingo road with a total of 103 and 46 kilometers respectively, being handled by CGC Nigeria Ltd.

    Others are Yola-Hong-Mubi and Mayo Belwa-Jada-Ganye-Toungo federal highways being handled by AG Vision and Triacta Nigeria limited with a total of 185 and 102 kilometres, respectively.

    Others are the Maraban Mubi-Michika-Madagali and Mubi-Maiha-Sarau highways handled by Ras and Pacific Construction companies.

    He warned that the federal government would no longer tolerate any unnecessary delay from construction firms in the execution of its projects.

  • Oyo gov elect, Makinde vows to review Ajimobi’s ‘last minute contracts’

    Oyo gov elect, Makinde vows to review Ajimobi’s ‘last minute contracts’

    The Oyo State Governor-elect, Mr Seyi Makinde, has promised to review all contracts awarded by the state government after the March 9 governorship election.

    Makinde made the promise in a statement made available to journalists on Sunday by his spokesman, Mr Dotun Oyelade.

    He said, “Events of the past two weeks have shown characteristics of targeted contract awards that were compiled in a haste and randomly awarded to empty government purse before the May 29 swearing-in date.

    “While the government remains in place till May 28, awarding a N30bn new set of contracts in one day as was the case during last Wednesday’s executive meeting was curious and an aberration, especially when debts, as old as 2011 are left unpaid.”

    The governor-elect pointed out that information from civil servants who have the interest of the state at heart suggested a grand plan to disrupt the smooth take-off of the incoming administration by mopping up all available funds.

    He said though he had promised not to probe the outgoing administration, civil servants who connived with the government on illegal and strange contract awards would have themselves to blame in the next few weeks.

     

  • Casillas extends contract, wants to retire at FC Porto

    Casillas extends contract, wants to retire at FC Porto

    Spanish goalkeeper Iker Casillas says his desire to retire at FC Porto led to his extending his contract with the Portuguese club on Wednesday.

    The 37-year-old Casillas has made 149 appearances for Porto since his move from Real Madrid in 2015 and he also won the Primeira Liga title last season.

    Porto did not, however, reveal the length of his new contract.

    “Today is a very special day. I feel at home in this club,” the 2010 FIFA World Cup winner for Spain told reporters. “I want to stay here until I finish my career as a footballer.

    “When they gave me the chance to renew I didn’t have any doubts. My head is solely in FC Porto, in finishing my career here and representing the values of the club and the values of the Porto fans.

    “After that, frankly, I don’t know, but I hope I’m always tied to football.”

    Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa said Casillas, who has made over 870 club appearances in his career, was among the best goalkeepers the club had.

    “Iker Casillas is among the extraordinary goalkeepers that FC Porto always had,” Da Costa said. “And we’re sure that we will always continue with excellent goalkeepers.”

    Porto are currently second in the league standings, tied with Benfica on 63 points.

    They are also in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals where they will take on last year’s runners-up Liverpool in April.

  • EPL: Anthony Martial close to new Man Utd deal

    EPL: Anthony Martial close to new Man Utd deal

    Manchester United are close to agreeing a new long-term contract with winger Anthony Martial.

    Martial, 23, has been in talks for a few months and reports in France say the deal could be confirmed by Friday.

    In June, Martial’s agent said his player wanted to leave Old Trafford and it was known former boss Jose Mourinho was happy to sanction his departure.

    But United’s hierarchy instead opened fresh negotiations and triggered a one-year option on his present deal.

    The former Monaco player is currently under contract until 2020.

    He has started five times under Mourinho’s successor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and scored after coming on as a substitute in the FA Cup win at Arsenal on Friday.

    Martial missed Tuesday night’s home draw with Burnley after picking up “a slight injury” in training but has managed 10 goals in 25 matches in all competitions this season.

    He has 46 goals in 161 outings since joining the club for £36m in 2015.

    BBC