The Argentine star has impressed Maurizio Sarri this season - scoring 13 goals in 34 games and providing 12 assists - and is once again becoming a key player for the current Serie A leaders.

Mikel Arteta had identified Partey as a transfer target earlier in the season, with the Gunners boss hoping to convince the board to strike a deal for the 26-year-old when football returns to normality.

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Barcelona coach Quique Setien is in favour of the club recalling Coutinho who he believes can get back to his best. Barca will owe Liverpool more money if he plays 24 more games.

Former Manchester United defender Patrice Evra revealed that Ferguson was also trying to bring Gareth Bale from Tottenham along with Ronaldo to United just weeks before he retired.

After the shock revelation on Tuesday afternoon that the Ligue 1 season would not be restarting, clubs have been left to count the cost of the decision. That could leave some open to losing their top talents.

Manchester United have agreed a £250,000 deal with Sunderland for teenage striker Joe Hugill. The 16-year old is an old fashioned style centre forward.

The winger has been a long-term target for the German giants and they were keen to bring him to the Allianz Arena last summer only for him to suffer a horror injury in the Community Shield.

United were in the hunt to sign the Mexican foward while he was at PSV last summer, but Napoli won the race for his signature and broke the transfer record in doing so.

United want to keep him for longer after he scored four goals in eight games, but the issue has been complicated by the global football shutdown as Ighalo's loan enters its final three weeks.

Jurgen Klopp's side could snap up the 23-year-old in a cut-price deal if the imminent return of the Bundesliga means Rashica and Bremen are relegated before the middle of June.

Arturo Vidal has struggled to make Quique Setien's starting team for the majority of Barcelona's 2019-2020 campaign and it said the club are looking to offload several players to afford Lautaro Martinez

Kamara has been one of Marseille's stars under Andre Villas-Boas, with the French side emerging as best of the rest in France behind runaway leaders Paris Saint-Germain.

The Gunners captain has little over a year remaining on his contract at the Emirates, and the north London club could be forced to sell him rather than risk losing him for nothing in 12 months.

Borussia Dortmund are not in a position where they have to sell the winger at the end of the season and will not be lowering their asking price in spite of the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: JP Fitzgerald took two years off after being fired as Rory McIlroy's caddie in the summer of 2017.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: As if there were not enough big sporting beasts in Japan right now, Tiger Woods has flown in for his first tournament since August.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: Next week the game's big guns return and another campaign gets under way. Here are eight talking points sure to fill the season with intrigue…

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: When the idea of a world golf tour surfaced once more last week, the mind wandered back to Greg Norman's original concept 25 years ago.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: Six weeks into the new year, McIlroy has already achieved his first goal for this season. On Monday, he will be on top of the world.

WORLD OF GOLF - DEREK LAWRENSON: You have to go all the way back to August last year to find the last time Woods, Koepka and McIlroy were all in the same place at the same time.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: The walk from the 18th to the Riviera clubhouse involves negotiating a formidable incline for a man in good health, let alone one just back from heart surgery.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: At what point do we officially start to worry about the form of Justin Rose? In a year he has dropped from world No 1 to 13th, his worst position since 2017.

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: The first time Tyrrell Hatton played pro golf in Orlando he was sharing a room each night with several fellow wannabes,

DEREK LAWRENSON - WORLD OF GOLF: you are loath to argue with a 20-strong selection committee containing players like Nick Price, Curtis Strange and Annika Sorenstam.

Ellie Young and Sam Chaloner may have finally overcome their obstacles to reality show romance as they end up in a passionate embrace on tonight's episode of the show.

The two housemates were given the boot during Thursday's episode - just one day before the end of the series in a brutal back door eviction.

Sharing her first ultrasound, the dancer gushed that she and Tony are 'ridiculously happy' and joked that she will have to call the baby 'Vegas'.

The 37-year-old Geordie is now happily married to therapist Steve McKeown and spends most of her days looking after their two children.

Sixteen fresh faces are going to move into the Big Brother house where they'll have to compete to stay in the game and win a $500,000 prize. CBS announced the cast on Monday, June 18, 2018.

A brand new season of Big Brother is underway and the first nominations of season 20 have arrived. Fans can't stop speculating about who will be Head of Household and who will get evicted.

The 39-year-old reality star has tragically suffered three miscarriages and a stillborn in her bid to have a child, with doctors confirming she suffers from rhesus negative, a rare blood disease.

After Ryan Thomas was named the winner Celebrity Big Brother, fans of the Channel 5 show will be excited to hear Big Brother will be returning to our screens just days after the celeb version ended.

When Big Brother first hit screens in 2000, the entire country was captivated by the ins and outs of a group of strangers locked in a bolthole while watched at all hours by cameras and given tasks

Ellis Hillon, 19, from Cambuslang, Scotland, posted tweets about the 9/11 tragedy and used the n-word on an account that has since been deleted.

The former Big Brother star, 31, looked happy and confident as she soaked up the sun while showcasing her weight loss during a girly break to Tenerife, Spain on Friday.

The Radio 1 DJ, 40, who is one of ten stars on the 2019 series of I'm A Celebrity, added that she 'let herself down' on the controversial TV show and wishes she had been a 'nicer person'.

JONATHAN McEVOY IN AUSTIN: Mobbed at a fan zone in the city on Saturday night, Lewis Hamilton is the only vaguely famous Formula One star in America.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Jolyon Palmer was the driver of the Australian Grand Prix. He raced tenaciously but scrupulously fairly to finish 11th on his debut.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Whether it is meant as such or not, Formula One's extraordinary squabbling over qualifying is a PR masterstroke.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Christian Horner has long claimed that his Red Bull team possess the best driver line-up on the grid. And Daniel Ricciardo stuck to his side of the equation with a brilliant China win.

JONATHAN McEVOY: Jean Todt, usually reluctant to tell you the time, was quite right to upbraid drivers for moaning that they are not consulted over technical changes.

JONATHAN McEVOY: McLaren should not broaden their activities at this point. They are struggling to find form in F1. I do not see how IndyCar could be anything other than a distraction.

From smashing England 5-0 in the Ashes to the Socceroos going down fighting in the 2006 World Cup, there is no doubt we're a great sporting nation.

With the Commonwealth Games soon to offer another stage on which the green and gold will shine, it's time to pick your favourite sporting moment of all time.

71-year-old Frenchman Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of the prestigious luxury empire LVMH Moët Hennessy and the third-richest billionaire in the world, according to Forbes.

The NSW government said the Streets as Shared Spaces program would help councils provide more space for people to walk, cycle and exercise safely. 

Chrissie Beales, then 24, was on a yearlong holiday with her husband in Vatican City when she decided to send her Catholic father a postcard in 1977.

Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman opened up on his unlikely friendship with the Supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un ever since he visited the country in 2013.

Margaret Hallford, who lives in Derbyshire, enjoyed a double celebration after recovering from coronavirus in time to celebrate her 100th birthday.

Danielle, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, struggled with her weight for years. She was cruelly bullied during her childhood, which caused her to become incredibly introverted - and she sought comfort in food.