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Arsenal are set to spend £200m in the summer to fix their squad - and under-fire manager Arsene Wenger will be staying. Wenger's relationship with Gunners chief executive Ivan Gazidis is becoming strained as the 67-year-old Frenchman delays a decision over his future. Arsenal should sack Wenger and appoint Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri, 49, as his replacement, says former Gunners midfielder Stewart Robson. Chelsea want to sign Monaco's French left-back Benjamin Mendy, 22, while Manchester City and Liverpool are also keen on the former Marseille player. The Blues' Belgium international forward Eden Hazard, 26, is not yet ready to join an elite club like Real Madrid, says former Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly, 48. Chelsea and Netherlands midfielder Marco van Ginkel, 24, is wanted by Fenerbahce and PSV Eindhoven, where he is on loan, this summer. Manchester City's Spain winger Jesus Navas, 31, is expected to rejoin Sevilla when hi...

Three explosions have hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team to their home Champions League quarter-final match against Monaco. In a press conference, the head of Dortmund police said it was a targeted attack on the team. Spain international Marc Bartra was taken to hospital with an injury to his hand. No other players were hurt. The first indications were that this was an "attack with serious explosives", Dortmund police said. The match was postponed until 18:45 local time (16:45 GMT) on Wednesday. Pictures from the scene showed the bus's windows broken and tyres burst in the blasts. The state prosecutor said that a letter found near the scene was being examined as part of the investigation. Bartra broke a bone in his wrist and had to undergo an operation. Police said that "three explosive charges had detonated" at Hoechsten outside the city at about 19:00 local time. Fans at the 80,000-capacity Signal Iduna Park were told to stay ...

FT Juventus 3-0 Barcelona Juventus have one foot in the Champions League semi-finals Here is how Statistics: Juventus are unbeaten in their last 18 Champions League home games (W11 D7 L0), their longest ever run without a defeat in the competition on home soil. Their last home defeat in the competition was versus Bayern Munich in April 2013 (0-2). Juventus have now won 16 successive home matches in all competitions and are unbeaten in 48 games there (W42 D6 L0). Their last home defeat in all comps came against Udinese in August 2015. Massimiliano Allegri has equalled Juventus’ longest winning streak in the Champions League (five games – previously done by Fabio Capello in 2004/05 and Antonio Conte in 2012/13). Paulo Dybala has scored more goals in his last two Champions League appearances (3) than he did in his previous 12 games in the competition (2). Barcelona have lost four of their last five Champions League away games in the KO stages (W1 D0 L4), conced...

labama Gov. Robert Bentley resigned on Monday rather than face impeachment and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor campaign violations that arose during an investigation of his alleged affair with a top aide. In a remarkable fall, the mild-mannered 74-year-old Republican and one-time Baptist deacon stepped down as the sex-tinged scandal gathered force over the past few days. Legislators turned up the pressure by opening impeachment hearings on Monday. Last week, the Alabama Ethics Commission cited evidence that Bentley broke state ethics and campaign laws and referred the matter to prosecutors.

Contrary to its promise that it would pass the 2017 Budget on or before the end of March, the Senate, on Tuesday, again, failed to pass the Appropriation Bill, before embarking on a two-weeks Easter break. Recall, that Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had in January, promised that the budget which was submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari before a joint session of the National Assembly, on the 15th of December, 2016, would be passed early, in order to enable Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, commence early implementation. However, it was gathered that about eight Committees were yet to submit their reports to Sen. Danjuma Goje-led Appropriations Committee, despite an ultimatum issued by Saraki to that effect. The 2016 Appropriation Act was signed into law on the 6th of May, 2016, by President Buhari. The lifespan of the budget is expected to expire on the 5th of May, 2017. As at the time the Senate will resume from its Easter break on April 25, the 2016 budget will ...

German police confirm that there were three explosions near Borussia Dortmund bus. #BVBASM will now be played at 5.45pm tomorrow.