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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot says he expects to have Diogo Jota back fit and available around ‘one or two weeks’ after the international break. Jota, 27, took a boot in the rib from Tosin Adarabioyo during Liverpool’s 2-1 victory over Chelsea, with Darwin Nunez coming on in the forward’s place midway through the first half at Anfield. The Portugal international has missed the club’s last five matches in all competitions as a result and will not return in time for the Premier League leaders’ clash with Aston Villa this weekend. However, it appears Jota has made significant progress with…

Viktor Gyokeres – a top transfer target for Manchester United and Arsenal – would ‘definitely’ be a success at Chelsea, says club icon John Obi Mikel. Gyokeres is one of the most in demand players in the world right now thanks to his remarkable goalscoring record at Sporting Lisbon – 66 goals in 67 appearances in the last two seasons. Chelsea and Arsenal are among the clubs who have long kept tabs on the striker, but it is United who now appear to be leading the race for his signature. Sporting boss Ruben Amorim will become United’s new head coach…

Emmanuel Petit has snubbed Cole Palmer and named the one Chelsea player he’d love to see at Arsenal. The two London rivals clash on Sunday at Stamford Bridge with the Gunners looking to reverse a miserable run of form. Mikel Arteta’s men slipped to a damaging defeat on Wednesday night in Milan after they were beaten 1-0 by Inter thanks to Hakan Calhanoglu’s controversial penalty. The Gunners have also failed to score away from home against Newcastle and Bournemouth in recent weeks but, despite the extra firepower and invention Palmer would bring to their team, Petit feels midfield enforcer Moises…

Kelsey Grammer has teased a possible Only Fools and Horses reunion in an upcoming episode of Frasier, insisting that it ‘makes sense’. Fans went wild last year after it was announced that Nicholas Lyndhurst, who starred as Rodney Trotter in the classic BBC sitcom, had joined the cast of the Paramount+ revival of Frasier. He steals every scene as lazy Harvard professor Alan Cornwall, a colleague and close friend of the stuffy psychiatrist. It’s fair to say that the second the revival was announced, fans began calling out for Sir David Jason to get involved in some way, reuniting Nicholas…

Liam Payne’s friend Rogelio Nores has denied abandoning the late pop star before his death. The former One Direction star died last month aged 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, and now Nores – known as Roger – has spoken out in an emotional statement and denied being a suspect. Three suspects have been arrested and are under formal investigation over Payne’s death, with one of them being an unnamed ‘friend’. Nores had been with the singer in the days before his died, but he has rubbished suggestions he is the individual charged with ‘abandoning a…

X Factor winner Sam Bailey has revealed the tough times her and her family have been going through following her son’s epilepsy diagnosis, saying that the past year has been ‘traumatic’. In a post shared on Instagram, the singer – who won the ITV series in 2013 – emphasised the need to spread more awareness about the condition, which the NHS explains is a ‘common condition that affects the brain and causes frequent seizures’. ‘This month is epilepsy awareness month! So here I am, showing you how traumatic it has been for us the last year!’ wrote the 47-year-old. Sam…

Mark Wahlberg’s new restaurant caught fire just hours before hosting a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The 53-year-old Hollywood star – who also owns the Wahlburgers chain with brothers Paul and Donnie with 90 locations – opened Mexican restaurant Flecha Cantina in Las Vegas, Nevada almost two months ago. On Wednesday evening emergency services rushed to the venue after flames engulfed the outdoor patio, with videos on social media showing the blaze as firetrucks arrived on the scene and quickly reacted to put out the flames. The Clark County Fire Department had responded to reports of the fire at around 5:30pm, with the…

Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie has accused Blur’s bassist Alex James of ‘social climbing’. The frontman, 63, has long been outspoken about his working-class Glaswegian perspective and socialist-leaning views. ‘I find myself in the strange position of being both inside and outside of [class],’ he wrote in an essay alongside the announcement of Come Ahead, Primal Scream’s 12th album, explaining this straddle is something he ‘wrestles with’. When asked about what he meant by this in an interview with The i, Bobby explained that when you’re ‘in a successful band, you get invited to things, know people from different classes, you’ve…

ITV viewers were left shocked after hearing Delia Balmer explain her harrowing experience escaping a serial killer. Over the past week, the four-part series Until I Kill You has told the real-life story of former agency nurse Delia, who in the 1990s discovered her boyfriend of three years, John Sweeney, had a much darker side. Based on her 2017 memoir Living with a Serial Killer, it starred Motherland ‘s Anna Maxwell Martin as Delia and Vigil actor Shaun Evans as serial killer John. It followed the beginning of the pair’s relationship after meeting at a pub in London in 1991…

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