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Jude Bellingham moved to Real Madrid in the summer of 2023 for a fee of £88.5m Real Madrid were crowned La Liga champions on Saturday, wrapping up the title by beating relegation candidates Cadiz 3-0 at the Bernabeu before watching Barcelona lose 4-2 at Girona. It has been an impressively dominant campaign for Carlo Ancelotti’s

When Roy Keane called Erling Haaland “almost League Two level” after Manchester City drew 0-0 with Arsenal, the forward had not scored in five matches and City had failed to score in a Premier League game at Etihad Stadium for the first time since October 2021. The Premier League title remained out of City’s grasp

Dutch cycling star Demi Vollering won La Vuelta Femenina on Sunday as she soloed to victory in the eighth and final stage. The 27-year-old, who won the Tour de France last year, earned her first triumph of the season by winning the race for the first time, lifting her bike in celebration. Vollering came second

The Bulls Daisies prop, who turns 33 on Monday and has 21 test caps, replaces Aliyah Tchogna-Njamen, who along with Samantha Els (flanker) sustained fractures in Saturday’s opening match against Cameroon at Stade Makis. Both Els and Tchogna-Njamen, who made starting debuts for the Springbok Women in the victory over Cameroon, are returning to South

1n accused of a “fraudulent scheme” by a lender in a civil court filing in New York. London-based Leadenhall Capital Partners LLP and Leadenhall Life Insurance Linked Investments Fund PLC claim Wander and 777 ‘pledged’ over $350m (£279m) in assets as collateral for a credit facility agreement, but knew they “did not exist” or were