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Everton owners the Friedkin Group are exploring the sale of the club less than two years after taking control.

⚽ All the latest football news heading into the weekend ⚽ Ten things to look out for | Read Football Daily | Mail Billy Before facing the national media for the first time since Manchester City’s guilty verdict this morning, Enzo Maresca has given an in-house interview with the club’s media. There are plenty of references to “the noise” following City at the moment but Maresca was keen to insist his players will not be distracted by it. “The feeling is fantastic, to be honest,” said Maresca. “The players are excited for the next two games. But especially they are excited because in this moment we are top of the league. The players are just focused on that. They know what we can control is the football side – they are not worried at all about different things. Continue reading...

Northern Ireland striker Simone Magill tells BBC Sport NI about balancing motherhood with her return to football and how her life has changed since giving birth to daughter Skye earlier this year.

As the Premier League returns, we dive into the signing who could boost United’s midfield – or confuse things further Carlos Baleba cost Manchester United $88.7m (£65m) plus $6.8m (£5m) in add-ons when they signed him from Brighton in August. He may be worth even more now despite the fact that the Cameroonian has yet to debut for his new club. Many United fans are counting on Baleba to be a one-man solution to their early-season problems. No pressure. An ankle injury kept Baleba on the sidelines as Michael Carrick’s side struggled against Everton, Manchester City and Fulham. The 22-year-old joined United just a few days after the opening-weekend defeat to Hull City, so he’d already had a preview of his new team’s troubles to come. The scale of Baleba’s task has grown since then. Continue reading...

Manchester United's £70m summer signing Carlos Baleba is expected to make his debut against Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford

Owner looking at investment options including sale ‘Time is right to consider the next chapter for Everton’ Everton’s owner, The Friedkin Group, is exploring the “sale of a controlling interest” in the club. A statement on Friday said new investment options were being looked into, including a sale. The group completed its takeover in December 2024, ending the turbulent era of Farhad Moshiri, and oversaw the move to a new stadium. Continue reading...

After a three-week international break, Tottenham Hotspur return to Premier League action having won none of their opening five matches and sitting bottom of the table. BBC Sport looks back at their poor start to the season and asks if another relegation battle is looming?

After three weeks off because of the international break, BBC Sport looks back at Manchester United's indifferent start to the new Premier League season, which saw Michael Carrick's side win just one of their opening five matches.

Real Madrid are reportedly keeping a watch on Scott McTominay as Scottish winger Danny Armstrong is close to signing a new contract with Dinamo Bucharest.

On Sunday, Austrian returns to Crystal Palace, the club he left in the summer after leading them to unprecedented success, but accepts there could be ‘booing’ Oliver Glasner puffs his cheeks and starts the search for the right words to explain his emotions as he prepares to return to Crystal Palace for the first time since leaving. There is the small matter of heading back on Sunday with Nottingham Forest to Selhurst Park, where bitterness runs deep over the club seizing Palace’s place in the Europa League last season. Forest’s owner, Evangelos Marinakis, is suing Palace for defamation relating to a banner unfurled by their supporters and the rivalry heightened when Glasner joined Forest in the summer, 40 days after winning the Conference League with Palace. “I know I will be, but I don’t want to be in the middle of all the comments and the stories about this game,” he says in the boardroom at Forest’s training base. By which point Glasner, a charismatic and intelligent individual who studied for an economics degree while a player in Austria, has turned to Faust, by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to explain how he feels about facing his previous club. “Two hearts are beating in my chest,” he says, tapping his torso, alluding to a line in the classic play. “Here is a little bit similar, because we had a little bit more than two great years [at Palace].” Continue reading...

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