Manchester City’s poor run has raised concerns about club manager Pep Guardiola’s future: Is he leaving  or staying?  

Manchester City’s poor run has raised concerns about club manager Pep Guardiola’s future: Is he leaving  or staying?  

Sources also believe that Pep Guardiola would be more likely to stay if Manchester City were found guilty and did receive a harsh punishment; as he has said, he wants the best for the club in every aspect, whether that comes to how much they spend on players or whether he considers himself to ever become a burden. By the same token, he would not want to leave them in a vulnerable position if they were, for argument’s sake, relegated or docked points.

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Reporter’s diary: Tossed between wars, South Sudanese are soothed by hope amidst misery

Reporter’s diary: Tossed between wars, South Sudanese are soothed by hope amidst misery

Over the past 18 months, I have interviewed dozens of returnees like Gatdet who have fled the bruising battle between Sudan’s army and the South Sudanese returnee from Sudan speaks with a medical worker at a transit centre in the town of Malakal. More than 600,000 South Sudanese have returned home since Sudan’s conflict erupted last year.

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Democratic staffers: Harris campaign had hoped economic recovery would be a winning issue, instead it became her achilles heel

Democratic staffers: Harris campaign had hoped economic recovery would be a winning issue, instead it became her achilles heel

Kamala Harris sought to reassure voters about the cost of living. Trump’s proposals to raise tariffs would amount to “a 20 per cent national sales tax” on imported goods, she said. She vowed to “protect hard-working Americans who aren’t always seen or heard.” In the end, not enough of those Americans believed her.

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Harris’ failure to halt Trump’s return to White House bears testimony to democracy and politics as strange bedfellows  

Harris’ failure to halt Trump’s return to White House bears testimony to democracy and politics as strange bedfellows  

Following Biden’s dramatic withdrawal just months before Election Day, Harris threw her campaign together as if it were an airplane being built while in flight, her advisers told reporters. The 60-year-old former prosecutor and US senator pressed a case that Trump was a threat to democracy and women’s rights, while promoting a populist economic platform and reproductive freedoms.

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Rot in Man United goes beyond manager, INEOS’ underwhelming track record in football demands critical look

Rot in Man United goes beyond manager, INEOS’ underwhelming track record in football demands critical look

There is so much work to be done. United will hope that a new coach can unlock something in those players the same way Klopp, Arteta and Emery – all of them mid-season appointments – got so much more out of the squads they inherited at Liverpool, Arsenal and Villa.

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Detail in the Devil: Manchester United spent far too much of past decade drifting, going nowhere

Detail in the Devil: Manchester United spent far too much of past decade drifting, going nowhere

Ten Hag was in some ways the quintessential modern-United managerial tenure: a challenging first transfer window, early struggles, a call to arms, back-to-basics football, an improved work ethic, a significant upturn, a trophy success, an upbeat declaration that “this is only the start”… and then looking helpless as the whole thing unravelled, a dysfunctional group of players reverted to type and another would-be saviour was quietly ushered away.

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How world’s richest man Elon Musk became US’ top security risk, tests role of money in US politics

How world’s richest man Elon Musk became US’ top security risk, tests role of money in US politics

Over the summer, America PAC struggled to reach its voter contact goals. Musk brought in a new team of political consultants, Generra Peck and Phil Cox, who worked on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ’ losing Republican presidential primary bid.

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Elon Musk’s US citizenship hangs in balance after 1,300 posts on X about immigration and voter fraud, bribing voters

Elon Musk’s US citizenship hangs in balance after 1,300 posts on X about immigration and voter fraud, bribing voters

Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell Law School and faculty director of its Immigration Law and Policy Program, says that it’s not clear that if Musk worked in the US without authorisation and attested he hadn’t, that would be considered important enough to denaturalise him.

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Revealed: Man United’s lack of cutting edge in front of goal led to sacking of manager Ten Hag, hiring of Amorim

Revealed: Man United’s lack of cutting edge in front of goal led to sacking of manager Ten Hag, hiring of Amorim

Manchester United executives began assessing candidates afresh, with Ruben Amorim high in their thoughts. They had already looked at the Sporting Lisbon head coach in the summer but after conversations both parties decided the time wasn’t right then. His release clause was higher and United directors wanted to see how Ten Hag fared in a new structure.

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Man United considers Sporting Club manager Amorim to cast bad spell from Red Devils

Man United considers Sporting Club manager Amorim to cast bad spell from Red Devils

Ruben Amorim has shown his desire to bring young talent into the first team – including Goncalo Inacio, Matheus Nunes, Nuno Mendes and Ousmane Diomande – and has improved the team’s quality with the resources at his disposal.

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