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Mbappe confirms he will leave PSG at the end of this seasonWard returns to Liverpool as FSG technical director, Marques named director of football developmentGetty Images

He has one year left on his contract with the option for another 12 months, but the Chelsea hierarchy have yet to confirm privately or publicly whether he will still be at Stamford Bridge for 2024-25. “It’s true that in the last few months that question is always coming. You need to kill the rumours if that’s not true, if not the rumour is there for a different strategy. If you ask is it affecting me? It is not affecting me. Is it affecting the people working with us? I think yes because in the end you can kill the rumour, sack me and that’s not a problem. It happens in a lot of clubs.

Bayern have been mocked for their inability to make a successful appointment, but none of those options were truly perfect. That Erik ten Hag was briefly a candidate, despite enduring such a torrid time at Manchester United, makes that point clearly.When the pain of defeat eventually subsides, the first question Paris Saint-Germain will ask is how they failed to score a single goal in this Champions League semi-final.

When talking about the extraordinary rise of a young athlete, from humble beginnings to the biggest stages in world sport, we are almost duty-bound to suggest there is no way he could have imagined what lay ahead back then. Since he signed for Monaco in the summer of 2017, initially on loan and then made permanent for an eye-watering €180million , PSG have transformed as a club.

Richarlison was surprisingly not included in Brazil’s 23-man squad for the Copa America, with manager Dorival Junior explaining on Friday afternoon to Brazilian media that he has a fresh injury which has “not yet been made official by the club”. Edwards, who took on the role of FSG’s CEO of football in March to oversee the post Jurgen Klopp era, has also appointed Benfica’s Pedro Marques as director of football development.777 Partners’ eight-month attempt to buy Everton appears to be effectively over after the Miami-based investment firm called in restructuring experts in attempt to save the crisis-hit business.

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