The Barcelona legend, who now plies his trade with Vissel Kobe in Japan, called Neymar 'one of the best forwards out there' and said he would be a great addition to the team.

Neymar insists there is 'immense affection and great respect' between him and Paris Saint-Germain fans despite beeing booed by supporters earlier this season after trying to force a return to Barcelona.

Nick Kyrgios has taken issue with comments made by tennis greats about his on-court antics and the state of his mental health ahead of his first round US Open match.

Kyrgios will still be on his six-month ATP probation at the season-opening grand slam as part of the punishment from his meltdown during a match in Cincinnati in September.

Great Britain took their first steps towards the next Winter Olympics when they emerged from the opening game of their qualifying tournament in Nottingham with a hard-fought 4-3 victory.

Great Britain set up a winner takes all encounter against old rivals Hungary in Nottingham on Sunday when they took another step on the road to the Beijing Winter Olympics by beating Estonia 7-1.

Great Britain's hopes of reaching the next Winter Olympics were dashed on Sunday when they were defeated 4-1 by their old rivals Hungary in a winner takes all clash.

Former Great Britain captain Alex Danson-Bennett has retired from hockey after failing to fully recover from a 'life-changing' head injury.

It was left to Jason Kenny to add to the family's cycling silver after wife Laura defied doctor's orders but could not defy the odds.

Borussia Dortmund star Erling Braut Haaland believes the Norwegian national team have their best years ahead of them due to the young talent they have at their disposal.

Louis Smith will represent Great Britain for the first time since his double Olympic medal-winning performance at London 2012 after being named in the squad for the European Championships.

MARTHA KELNER IN RIO: It is a sign of how far gymnastics in Britain has advanced that an Olympic medal was expected when the men's team took to the competition floor in Rio on Monday night.

Griezmann opened the scoring after 13 minutes as the Catalan club were put under severe pressure during the first half before the trio combined in the second period to seal a 3-0 victory

Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde has hailed Lautaro Martinez as a 'great player', with the Inter Milan striker reportedly a transfer target for the club.

Rising heptathlon star Katarina Johnson-Thompson is relishing the prospect of a future showdown with Olympic champion and Great Britain team-mate Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Phillips Idowu and Shara Proctor have withdrawn from the Great Britain team for the European Championships in Zurich.

European Indoor pentathlon gold medallist Katarina Johnson-Thompson will compete in the 200metres hurdles and long jump at the Great CityGames Manchester in May.

If athletics wants Jessica Ennis-Hill and Katarina Johnson-Thompson to become the Coe and Ovett of their day, one can only hope that a bit of good old competition spices things up.

With just 198 days to go until the Rio Oympics, Katarina Johnson-Thompson has gold in her sights after being revealed as the face of paint company Dulux's Colour of the Year for 2016.

The Scottish runner has been in fine form and she leads a team packed with medal prospects. Performance director Neil Black said he is 'pleased with the blend of the team' for the championships.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT THE LONDON STADIUM: Johnson-Thompson, there was a degree of redemption, considering it was this discipline that wrecked her chances in the heptathlon.

The actress, 93, confirmed she no longer wished to play the gossiping laundress, after first arriving on Albert Square in 1985.

Stahly Quality Foods, based in Fife, has come under fire following the launch of the new product (pictured) with some describing it as a 'betrayal' and others labelling it 'wrong, very wrong'.

DEREK LAWRENSON AT LE GOLF NATIONAL: Victorious Ryder Cup captain Thomas Bjorn hailed his magnificent team as the greatest European side of all on Sunday night.

Great Britain suffered a third straight defeat on their tour of New Zealand after they were beaten 23-8 in Christchurch. The series whitewash increases the pressure on Wayne Bennett.

Great Britain's underwhelming tour of the southern hemisphere came to a humiliating end when they were condemned to a 28-10 defeat by Papua New Guinea.

Tributes have been paid to Widnes legend and former Great Britain captain Frank Myler, who has died aged 81.

President Donald Trump has tweeted his thanks to Jon Voight after the actor declared Trump 'the greatest president of this century' and derided the 'radical left' in a social media video.

Mavis Torrance, from Bishopbriggs, told STV she displayed a high temperature days after her daughter Angela Grubb and son-in-law Gus started to show symptoms of Covid-19.

Gold medal favourites New Zealand suffered a shock defeat to Japan in their opening rugby sevens match of this summer's Olympics.

Novak Djokovic retained his Wimbledon title on Sunday with an excellent display against Roger Federer. Sportsmail 's Kieran Gill takes a look at Djokovic's best grand slam successes.

It was 1am on Monday morning when Novak Djokovic took to the stage at London's Guildhall to receive polite acclaim from All England Club members at the Champions' Dinner.

MIKE DICKSON IN GENEVA: Roger Federer admitted on Thursday that he and Rafael Nadal have not discussed the Spaniard breathing down his neck in the Grand Slam race.

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Five years ago, when I was already plenty old enough to know better, I went to Orlando to chronicle the end of Tiger Woods' career.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY NIK SIMON: World Rugby has found itself at a revolutionary crossroads after Agustin Pichot launched a late bid to challenge Bill Beaumont in the presidential elections.

IAN LADYMAN: People at City have moved mountains to give Guardiola the environment he demanded at the Etihad. If he walks as soon as the wind changes, it would not say great things.

Thibaut Courtois has encouraged Jose Mourinho to complete his move for Radamel Falcao on loan from Monaco, with the keeper keen to reunite with the 29-year-old Colombian striker.

The former Manchester United man has returned to England ahead of Tuesday night's game after failed loan spells with the Old Trafford side and Chelsea over the last two seasons.

Ronaldo scored the 700th goal of his career from the penalty spot in Portugal's 2-1 defeat against Ukraine on Monday - the sixth player in the history of football to reach that incredible landmark.

Floyd Mayweather paid tribute to late Hall of Fame boxer and American great Pernell Whitaker after he was killed aged 55 after being hit by a car in Virginia Beach.  

Khabib Nurmagomedov has walked to the cage 28 times and left it as the victor on every occasion. The UFC lightweight champion seems to be cut from a different cloth and the folklore is growing.

MIKE DICKSON IN NEW YORK: Jo Konta emerged again as the last surviving British player when she powered into the last 16 of the US Open with a 6-2, 6-3 win over China's Shuai Zhang.

The Wombles, who found fame on TV in the Seventies, have come out of retirement to back the Spring Clean. They joined nearly 200 MPs including Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers.

Cristiano Ronaldo led Portugal to glory in 2016 despite injury and is one of a number of greats to write his name into the glittering history of the Euros since they were introduced in 1960.

Sir Stirling Moss knew the first of his several brilliant lifetimes was ending when he could no longer keep 'one eye on the track, another on the gauges and still be able to spot a pretty girl in the crowd'.

SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: This game will be massive. So far in Anglo-Australian encounters at World Cups we have one victory apiece in the final, two England quarter-final wins and two Aussie pool wins.

Some of Britain's biggest Flat meetings, headed by the June jewels of Royal Ascot and the Epsom Derby, are shrouded in uncertainty after racing was shut down until the end of April.

In a new map from St Louis University in Missouri, countries along the Mississippi Delta were found to pose the highest risk for Zika transmission as well as some on the Atlantic coast.

Jen Atkin, 26, from Ulceby, Lincolnshire, won the longest-running pageant in the UK at a glittering national final in Leicester, after ditching takeaways and hitting the gym regularly to lose 8st.

'I wanted to do something for this city and for him that would be the ultimate homage,' he said of his Super Bowl tribute. 'He’s always been the pinnacle of musicianship for me,' he added.