Faustino Asprilla has backed Steve Bruce to stay on as Newcastle United boss after the club is taken over by a Saudi consortium, despite links to high profile managers. 

Even if Newcastle's takeover happens, spending restrictions in place at domestic level in the Premier League and at UEFA level will make it difficult for the club to spend high amounts.

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Voiding the Premier League season is not an option that we should even be entertaining. The same applies to all our leagues.

Diego Costa has admitted that he had a massage with horse placenta and electroshocks as he attempted to be fit for the Champions League final in 2014.

UEFA are facing up to the prospect of another huge Champions League headache after the Ligue 1 season was cancelled and all sporting events were banned in France until at least September.

Gary Neville was a shock appointment for the LaLiga side in December 2015, having previously worked as England assistant manager and as a pundit for Sky Sports after retiring.

Fred's personal trainer Julio Horta has given an insight into the work the midfielder has carried out to turnaround his Manchester United career - but believes the star deserves all the credit.

UEFA medical chief Professor Tim Meyer has said it is 'definitely possible' to plan for the suspended 2019-20 season to restart, a day after his counterpart warned against resuming before September.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Manchester United players are taking legal advice about the salaries they can demand next season if the current campaign is scrapped.

As Premier League officials scramble to resume the season amid the coronavirus crisis, the fate of the 2020-21 campaign appears ever more uncertain.

The decision to cancel the Ligue 1 season is threatening to cause chaos in French football, with unhappy clubs considering legal action and a financial crisis looming.

France's Ligue 1 was cancelled earlier this week with Rennes officially being granted third place, meaning they will go into the qualifying round of next season's Champions League.

The midfielder, who will be 29 next month, admitted at the weekend that he might have to consider his future if City's two-year Champions League ban is upheld.

The Champions League came to an abrupt halt in the middle of March following the outbreak of the coronavirus and now UEFA are desperate to get the show back on the road.

Following Ferguson's retirement, United have endured a long slump away from England and Europe's elite but would that still have been the case if Ferguson's bold plans had come to light.

Lindsay Lohan has shot down claims she was trying to flirt with Liam Hemsworth, after leaving several 'thirsty' comments on his Instagram recently.

Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that terrorist Qasem Soleimani deserved death, but insisted Donald Trump does not deserve the credit for taking out the Iranian leader.

Mark Esper said Sunday that he 'didn't see' intelligence that proved Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was planning attacks on four other U.S. embassies in the Middle East.

Joe Biden proclaimed on the Iowa debate stage that he's taken the most heat from President Trump and the Republicans of the 2020 hopefuls - and his poll numbers are only going up.

Hannah Vaughan Jones, 38, from London, appeared on Lorraine today, and said that once she changed her mindset and started to believe she would have a family, it felt like a weight had lifted.

Dustin Hice (left), 39, filed suit against Don Lemon (right), 53, last August alleging that the CNN star assaulted him at a Hamptons bar. Lemon denies the allegations.

The daughter of an American pilot who died while fighting fires in New South Wales has paid tribute to her 'wonderful dad'.

Donald Trump lashed out at CNN host Don Lemon in a tweet on Tuesday after a panel on his show mocked the President and his supporters.

Backlash from a viral panel discussion forced CNN's Don Lemon to apologize on Tuesday for appearing for 'belittle' Trump supporters. He claims 'he didn't catch everything that was said'.

Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii appeared on Wolf Blitzer's CNN newscast, the Situation Room, on Thursday and insisted that the president was not acquitted because the trial was 'rigged.'

Morgan described Avennatti as a 'sleazeball' and blamed the anti-Trump coverage of most cable news networks on what he called 'Trump derangement syndrome.'

The upcoming season of The Real Housewives of Melbourne will introduce three new cast members. 

Now former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a new gig - CNN announced Wednesday that they've picked him to be a political commentator for the network.

Bernie Sanders spokeswoman Briahna Joy Gray says she misspoke when she told CNN rival Michael Bloomberg had experienced a heart attack.

Bernie Sanders said he was surprised that Michael Blooomberg came into the Democratic debate so unprepared to answer questions about his record that had been previewed in media reports.

Elizabeth Warren also has a plan for how Mike Bloomberg can release ex-employees from those non-disclosure agreements he got criticized for during the Democratic debate.

Mike Bloomberg announced that his company would let former female employees out of their NDAs should they want to make public their stories about working for him.

The two sparred verbally when Acosta - who Trump has regularly assailed as 'fake news' was invited to ask a question by the president at his New Delhi press conference wrapping up his India trip.

The White House denied reports that Donald Trump is considering appointing a new individual to head the Coronavirus task force as confusion continues to swarm over the outbreak.

President Trump floated that it was possible the U.S. could ban travel from Italy and other countries that have seen higher rates of coronavirus cases.

The democratic presidential candidates' campaign teams agreed that moving Sunday's event was the 'best path forward'. Both have also canceled rallies due to the virus.

Bill de Blasio said Tuesday morning he is 'absolutely considering' a shelter in place order for New York City - a move that would mark a major escalation in the mayor's coronavirus containment efforts.

The humorous clash between the high-profile siblings took place Monday when Andrew appeared via video link on Chris' CNN program, Cuomo Prime Time.

Mayor London Breed (top right) rebutted comments made by CNN's Jake Tapper (bottom right), who criticized San Francisco residents on Tuesday for being out (left) despite shelter-in-place orders.

In an impassioned plea to President Trump on CNN, de Blasio said New York's hospitals would run out of ventilators and surgical masks in two or three weeks.

Thousands of New York City stores are boarding up their doors as they face indefinite closure amid the coronavirus crisis. The Big Apple is now the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the US.

Donald Trump insisted Sunday that it isn't the federal government's fault that states can't get necessary medical equipment to address the coronavirus outbreak.

Marya Sherron, the sister of Kious Jordan Kelly, told Chris Cuomo of CNN on Thursday that the family was in pain over the shock death of the beloved 48-year-old assistant nursing manager.

'I think what the President was trying to do, he was making an aspirational projection to give people some hope,' Fauci said of the proposed April 12 target date on CNN Thursday night.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city hospitals only have enough supplies to last a week through Sunday April 5 and is pleading with the president to send more equipment and doctors.

Nancy Pelosi accused Donald Trump of fooling around as the cases and deaths from coronavirus in the U.S. continue to skyrocket. 'As the president fiddles, people are dying,' she asserted.

Donald Trump went on a tirade against Nancy Pelosi Monday morning, claiming there's 'something wrong with the woman' and insisting that she's a 'sick puppy' for holding up the stimulus package.

The FBI has reached out to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr to ask him about the series of stock transactions he made in the run-up to the coronavirus crisis.

Chris Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo bantered live on CNN Monday as the governor kidded his brother that he was 'mom's little helper' and wasn't surprised he was working from his basement.

Government experts are considering a recommendation that all Americans begin wearing face coverings while in public - although only once there are enough for medical professionals.