Manchester United have confirmed the signing of Lille defender Leny Yoro as Mason Greenwood completes a transfer to Marseille.

The Red Devils have beaten Real Madrid to the signing of 18-year-old Yoro, who joins for a reported £52million on a five-year contract with the option to extend by a further year.

Upon signing for the Premier League giants, Yoro said: “I know about the history of young players at Manchester United and feel it can be the perfect place to reach my potential and achieve my ambitions, together with my new team-mates. I cannot wait to get started.

“Since my first conversations with the club, they set out a clear plan for how I can develop in Manchester as part of this exciting project, and showed a lot of care for me and my family.

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Stan Collymore believes Emile Smith Rowe has the potential to be playing for England by the first international break of the season, and he ll stick two fingers up to Arteta to show him what he s missing.

Smith Rowe has struggled for minutes at the Emirates over the last two seasons. Injuries to himself and the squad quality generally improving has meant he has played around 500 Premier League minutes in the two previous campaigns.

It was reported after the last season ended that he had asked to move on from Arsenal.

A move to Fulham now looks essentially complete, with transfer insider Fabrizio Romano having suggested he was signing his contract with the club, after the Gunners accepted a total package of £34million for his services.

And after the move…

La Liga club Valencia have rejected an opening offer from Liverpool for Georgian goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, according to reports.

Mamardashvili was one of the standout players at this summer s European Championship, helping Georgia reach the last 16 in Germany.

Despite having Alisson, are reportedly interested in signing the 23-year-old from Valencia.

Fabrizio Romano has reported this week that the Reds are weighing up making the signing to then loan him out.

He said: Liverpool are seriously considering opportunity to sign Giorgi Mamardashvili for fee in excess of €30m for Valencia and then loan him out.

One more meeting has already been scheduled for Liverpool to discuss Giorgi Mamardashvili deal with Valencia.

Up to the Reds …

Following his comments on social media, Chelsea star Noni Madueke has caused some controversy ahead of Chelsea s clash with Wolves at Molineux.

The 22-year-old was an unused substitute in and his comments on social media probably haven’t gone down well behind the scenes.

Madueke claimed everything about  Wolverhampton was s***  before swiftly deleting the Instagram post. The post itself was intended for his private account and wasn’t supposed to be made public.

However, despite causing a stir on social media, the 22-year-old has been included in Enzo Maresca s starting XI and is set to start on the right-hand side.

, he still seems to be part of Maresca s plans going forward.

Chelsea certainly aren’t short of options in his position, b…

Man Utd would have required a £55m sale of Casemiro to make the same £25m profit gained from selling Scott McTominay to Napoli.

The Red Devils were busy during the summer transfer market with Leny Yoro, Matthijs de Ligt, Joshua Zirkzee, Noussair Mazraoui and Manuel Ugarte all completing moves to Old Trafford.

But also had to balance their books over the summer with the Premier League s profit and sustainability rules being taken seriously after Everton and Nottingham Forest were given points deductions last season.

Selling a homegrown academy product counts as pure profit under the rules, giving the selling club more benefits in the transfer market.

Many Man Utd supporters would have preferred to see McTominay stay over the summer but The Athletic ha…

Liverpool and Arsenal are reportedly among the Premier League clubs in the race to sign England international Angel Gomes from Ligue Un outfit Lille.

The 24-year-old progressed through the ranks at Man Utd and made ten appearances across all competitions before leaving in 2021.

After impressing on loan at Boavista in 2020/21, joined Ligue Un side Lille in 2021 and has already made 119 appearances for the French outfit.

The talented midfielder shone last season as he contributed with eight assists in Ligue Un and he made his senior debut for England during the international break.

Gomes was one of England s best performers during the international break and he is being heavily linked with several Premier League clubs ahead of January and next summer.

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Carragher said on The Overlap: Chelsea’s strong results have calmed the off-the-field talk because it just felt like Chelsea were a topic every time we were on TV. [Enzo] Maresca’s spoke quite well in the press conferences at times – he’s had difficult situations with Raheem Sterling, with how many players they had and who is going to play in each position.

There was a game recently, against Bournemouth – Chelsea were lucky to win it – but the players they were bringing on as sub, they were players who should be starting. I don’t know if further down the line that is going to be a problem, because that quality of player on the bench, can be a problem. [João] Félix, [Pedro] Neto came on, you’re thinking, ‘Wow’.

But fellow pundit Paul Scholes still …

After months of planning, is set to launch at retail locations tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the Commonwealth.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) announced two weeks ago it will launch retail sports betting on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m. Final approvals will be discussed today by the commission and certificates of operation will likely be awarded this afternoon.

Sports Betting Starts Before Super Bowl

The state’s three casinos, Plainridge Park Casino, Encore Boston Harbor, and MGM Springfield, will  open their retail sportsbooks tomorrow,  two weeks ahead of Super Bowl LVII.

The MGC has issued Category 1 retail sports betting licenses to all three casinos in the last month. Plainridge Park Casino has partnered with  to run its retail facility, Encore Bos…

West Flagler is looking to the highest court in the country to settle the issue of once and for all.

West Flagler Associates applied for a stay with the Supreme Court of the United States for the D.C. Circuit Court s recent to restore the state s gaming compact. The stay will be pending submission of a writ of certiorari to hear the case in SCOTUS, which West Flagler intends to submit by Nov. 20.

The gaming compact, approved in 2021, allows the Seminole Tribe to offer retail and online sports betting, as well as roulette and craps, in its Florida casinos.

BREAKING: Temporary Stay Granted by SCOTUS

This afternoon, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts granted a temporary stay of the D.C. Circuit Court s mandate to restore the state s gaming compact.

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may be one of the next states to take a stand on individual college player prop bets.

Sen. Kristin M. Corrado (R-40) introduced , a bill to prohibit sports betting operators from offering player-specific proposition bets on college sports.

Several state have prohibited these types of bets in the last few months after a request from NCAA President Charlie Baker.

Preserving Integrity of College Sports

Corrado introduced S3080 to the Senate last week and the bill was referred to the Senate State Government, Wagering, Tourism Historic Preservation Committee.

According to the legislation, the new law would require the following:

A sports wagering licensee shall not offer or accept any wager on a player-specific proposition bet on any collegiate spo…