Football

Without strikers Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie, a toothless United paid the price in stifling heat in front of a sellout crowd of 50,000.

'The Gunners' are considering accepting Atletico Mineiro's 25 million euro price tag for the 20-year-old.

The 21-year-old Romeu, who was born not far from Valencia, joined Chelsea in 2011 after coming up through Barcelona's youth academy.

Real extended their new policy of snapping up promising home-grown talent by paying 38 million euros to buy Asier Illarramendi.

Reports say Napoli has paid 10 million euros to Real Madrid for the 26-year-old Callejon.

Guardiola is upset with the attitude of his former club since he left the club last year.

According to reports in England, Baines has emerged as a top target for the Old Trafford club.

The pacy 19-year-old, a product of Barca's youth academy and a Spain under-20 international, played mostly for the La Liga side's B team.

Manchester United officially joined Twitter on Wednesday and have already got 140,000 followers and counting.

Pallister hailed Moyes as a fantastic manager and thinks he will cope up with the pressure.

The defender is a big money target for Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini, with a 25 million euros offer lodged.

The 29-year-old scored five goals from as many matches in Brazil's triumphant Confederations Cup campaign last month.

Italy's Alessandro Del Piero, former England striker Emile Heskey and Japan star Shinji Ono have withdrawn from the match.

Phil Neville has been appointed as first-team coach by Manchester United following talks with the new manager David Moyes on Thursday.

The former Malmo, Ajax, Juventus, Inter Milan, Barcelona and AC Milan man has scored 92 goals in his past three seasons.

The contract extension translates into Arata's total commitment to Pune FC ever since gaining promotion into the top flight league in 2009.