The 55-year-old talked about entering Alcoholics Anonymous in the wake of his high profile split from wife Angelina Jolie, during a Wednesday interview with the New York Times .

Celtic have agreed a £3.5million deal to sign Polish under-21 international Patryk Klimala. And the striker will pen a four and a half year contract after flying into Glasgow on Sunday night.

The Canadian outfit are on the lookout for big-name signings following their promotion from the Championship and intend to follow up on their initial approach once his Rugby World Cup is over.

Samoa coach Matt Parish will approach Sonny Bill Williams about representing the nation if he returns to rugby league with Toronto Wolfpack in the English Super League.

The 34-year-old will be officially unveiled at a press conference at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium next Thursday and join up with his new team-mates after a period of rest and recovery.

Bolton's joint administrator has confirmed a 'heads of terms' agreement has been signed with the preferred bidder as the club edges closer to being sold. Wanderers were relegated last season.

Manchester United midfielder Ethan Hamilton is a loan target for Southend United. The 20-year-old box-to-box midfielder impressed on loan at Rochdale last season.

Bolton Wanderers will officially begin liquidation this week after a deal to sell the football club dramatically collapsed, leaving the former Premier League side in a perilous position.

Bolton are now facing extinction unless a deal to buy the club which collapsed can be dramatically resurrected. Sportsmail answers all the questions surrounding Bolton's future.

Former Olympic champion and convicted drugs cheat Justin Gatlin has been handed a new sponsorship deal by Nike, sparking outrage in the Athletics world.

By giving a new sportswear deal to twice-convicted drugs cheat Justin Gatlin, Nike is legitimising the taking of performance-enhancing drugs in sport by making a cheat look cool.

PETE JENSON: Barcelona will need to raise funds this summer if they are to finance a bid for Neymar or Lautaro Martinez against a backdrop of massive losses because of the coronavirus shutdown.

Bayern Munich starlet Alphonso Davies has signed a new contract with the club that is set to run until the summer of 2025. Davies wore a face mask as he posed for photos to celebrate signing the deal.

Manuel Neuer will sign a new deal with Bayern Munich despite his anger at leaked contract information, according to club CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. 

Barcelona are also interested in Juventus midfielder Miralem Pjanic and would be willing to part ways with Brazilian midfielder Arthur Melo in an exchange deal.

The highly-rated French centre-back has a £52m buyout clause at Leipzig, who are keen to sell him this year as opposed to losing him for free upon the expiration of his contract next summer.

Bayern Munich are reportedly confident of signing Celtic attacker Barry Hepburn this summer. As reported by The Sun, the German club are eager to finalise a deal.

Klose, who scored a record 16 World Cup goals and won the trophy with Germany in 2014, has been a youth coach at Bayern for the past two years since retiring as player in 2016.

Atletico Madrid are looking to ward off interest from Manchester United and Arsenal by giving Thomas Partey a new deal with a £93million release clause. 

Barcelona hurried their signing of Gustavo Maia from Sao Paulo in order to beat competition from Liverpool and Atletico Madrid. Barca have reportedly agreed to pay an initial fee of £1million.

The Frenchman only joined last summer from Atletico Madrid for £108million but the Catalan club are ready to let him go to help fund their move for Neymar.

The Manchester City forward, who would become Puma's highest-paid footballer should the deal go through, is also being pursued by rivals Adidas, New Balance and Under Armour.

NIK SIMON FOR THE DAILY MAIL: Danny Care issued a staunch defence of Harlequins team-mate Joe Marler ahead of today's disciplinary hearing in Dublin.

Eddie Jones says he has the hunger to make England great having re-signed until the 2023 World Cup. As Sportsmail revealed on Thursday the Australian has extended his contract by two years.

The British sportswear company will take over the manufacturing rights from Canterbury in September. As reported in October, Umbro outbid adidas to agree a partnership worth more than £5m a season. 

Radamel Falcao is heading to Chelsea this summer after Jose Mourinho vowed to get the former Manchester United flop ‘firing again’. Mourinho is looking to replace Didier Drogba.

Premier League champions Chelsea are close to finalising the signing of Radamel Falcao on a one-season £7million loan deal from Ligue 1 club Monaco.

Mario Pasalic, who joined Chelsea last summer, travelled for his medical on Thursday and will sign for the Ligue 1 club on a temporary basis. He spent last season with La Liga outfit Elche.

Chelsea have signed Radamel Falcao on a season-long loan deal from Monaco, with Blues youngster Mario Pasalic moving in the opposite direction as part of the agreement.

The 31-year-old scored 30 goals in all competitions as Monaco ended Paris Saint-Germain's four-year dominance of French football while also reaching the last four of the Champions League.

Six people in two Australian states are being tested for the deadly new coronavirus spreading from China as the global death toll rose to 26 with 844 confirmed cases.

Vera Zinger was pulled over in Barangaroo on November 29 and police searched her car where they allegedly found two grams of drugs and $2,150 in cash.

Vera Zinger, 23, was pulled over by police in Barangaroo near Sydney's CBD, on November 29 where officers allegedly found four bags containing 2kg worth of drugs and $2,150 in cash.

DOMINIC LAWSON: The founder of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong, invented a term for 'reactionaries' in the West who made threats against his regime. He called them 'paper tigers'.

Southgate's team has promise but it has holes in it, too. The opposition from the best of Europe would have been a little stronger than many of the teams England defeated during their 2018 World Cup run.

Sportsmail reported on March 13 that Neville was considering his future following a disappointing performance at the SheBelieves Cup in the United States.

US boxing promoter Al Haymon has signed a deal with ITV to enter the British market - and he wants to kick-off with a fight between James DeGale and Chris Eubank Jr.

Floyd Mayweather has been out of the boxing ring since a victory over Conor McGregor in August 2017. But the undefeated boxer has signed a deal which could see him face legends of the past.

The accused, identified as Jose Spencer Bilbao Rivers, was apprehended by police while he was sitting reliving himself in a small white bucket by Peruvian police (above).

CHRIS WHEELER IN PERTH: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has confirmed that David De Gea is on the verge of signing a new £375,000-a-week contract at Manchester United.

Borussia Dortmund manager Lucien Favre has extended his contract with the German club until the summer of 2021. 

Caroline Lucas has written to ten female MPs calling for an all-women Cabinet. The Green MP proposes a cross-party female leadership team to deliver a new referendum after winning a confidence vote.

Labour looked set to stop Boris Johnson's plans for an early election last night following talks with the SNP. The parties are thought to have agreed an election can only come after a Brexit extension.

Jeremy Corbyn met Ian Blackford, the Scottish nationalists' Westminster leader, yesterday to agree an election should only be held after Britain has secured another Brexit delay from the EU.

Lord Kerslake said the Labour party would 'need to have conversations' with the Liberal Democrats and SNP if the election produces a hung parliament. Labour played down the comments.

Former Polish PM Mr Tusk suggested the UK would be focused on 'damage control' in the talks and warned Downing Street against planned divergence from continental rules.

Sanches's underwhelming time in the Bundesliga has come to a close after he completed a reported £23m move from German champions Bayern Munich to French side Lille on Friday afternoon.

Leavy lasted only 11 minutes of Saturday's Champions Cup quarter-final victory over Ulster before he was carried from the pitch on a stretcher having replaced Sean O'Brien in the second-half.

Joe Schmidt has suffered a World Cup injury blow with veteran flanker Seán O'Brien ruled out of the tournament in Japan with a hip injury. His set for six months on the sidelines.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: The 77-year-old is very well-connected in racing circles and has good relationships with key figures at ITV, where he was first employed as a pundit in 1971.