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Chelsea Football Club has today completed the signing of goalkeeper Edouard Mendy from Rennes according to a release on their official website.The Senegalese international has penned a five-year deal at Stamford Bridge and will compete with Kepa Arrizabalaga and Willy Caballero for a starting spot between the posts in the season ahead.After signing his long-term contract with the Blues, Mendy said: ‘I am so excited to be joining Chelsea. It’s a dream for me to be a part of this exciting squad and to work with Frank Lampard and all of his coaching staff. I look forward to meeting my team-mates and can’t wait to get started.’On signing Mendy, Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia said: ‘As soon as Petr Cech and our technical team identified Edouard as the most suitable goalkeeper to complement our existing group, there was only one player we wanted to bring in. Edouard arrives following a season of real success with Rennes, he is ambitious for more, and we welcome him to our club.'Men…

Chelsea midfielder Kai Havertz has joined premier League players whose first goal for a club was part of a hat trick.He scored his first hat trick for his club yesterday against championship side Barnsley.  He is joined alongside Wayne Rooney, Fabrizio Ravanelli, Jermaine Pennant and Christian Pulisic.Chelsea won the fourth round of the Carabao cup with 6-0 after a dominating display from the London side.Havertz joins his Chelsea teammate in the history books only 19 days into his Chelsea career.

Arturo Vidal has completed his switch back to Italy, joining Inter Milan in a deal worth €1m.
The Chilean midfielder has joined Inter on a permanent deal from FC Barcelona. From today, Vidal will be on the front line for the Nerazzurri, with the same objectives as ever: fighting, giving it his all, and winning.Also Read: Luis Suarez set to join another Spanish club https://www.aoplite.com.ng/2020/09/luis-suarez-set-to-join-another-spanish.html
"He will become the sixth Chilean to play for Inter. The first was Ivan Zamorano, another born fighter. He was followed by David Pizarro, Luis Jimenez, Gary Medel and Alexis Sanchez."It’s confirmed. He’s arrived in Milan, and he’s a Nerazzurri player. Welcome to Inter, Arturo!"Vidal joined Barcelona in the summer of 2018 from Bayern Munich and has since made a glittering start for the Liga giant after winning titles which they were dethroned by Real Madrid last season.

Luis Suarez has accepted to join Atlético de Madrid. He has parted ways with Barcelona and can join as a free agent.The Uruguayan forward was told by the new coach Ronald Koeman that he won't be part of his plan during his time at the club as since been looking for a suitable club to join.Suarez joined Barca from Liverpool in 2014 in a deal worth around €75 million and has since gone on to become the club's third-highest scorer of all time with 198 goals.During his time at the club, he has won 14 trophies, including four La Liga titles and one Champions League.

By Adigun Olayemi Big Brother Naija season 5 is gradually coming to an end after entering its last week, the fans are of the opinion and view of whom the winner will be, maybe it's very easy for the fans to predict.Narrowing down the housemates to just only five in the house, viewers may have known their winnner through the result of votes casted every week which the whole process seldomly takes a secret phase from the housemates.Ozo and Trickytee were the latest housemates to be evited from the lockdown house after getting the lowest votes by the fans, Laycon tops the result chat by taking half of the votes out of the total votes casted. Does this mean that the winner has been revealed? This will be answered by the fans again next Sunday.Vee, Neo,Dorathy and Nengi will have to be at their best and hope their fans give them the glory by voting massively for them knowing fully well that Laycon who's the favourite and annointed winner by the viewers amaze the large portion of th…

Its the  third week to start of the English Premier League and we've got the results of the matches played so far in the weekend.Chelsea and Manchester were both beaten by Crystal Palace and Liverpool respectively while Jose Mourinho Tottenham cruise to a win.Everton - West Brom 5:2 Leeds - Fulham 4:3Manchester Utd - Crystal Palace 1:3Arsenal - West Ham 2:1Southampton - Tottenham 2:5Newcastle - Brighton 0:3Chelsea - Liverpool 0:2Leicester - Burnley 4:2

Timmy Sinclair "Trikytee" and  Ozoemena Chukwu "Ozo" have both been evicted from the live eviction show this evening.They both had the lowest votes out of the four other housemates up for eviction for the week.Ozo is an Imo State entrepreneur who is currently participating at the ongoing BBNaija Season 5 reality TV show, tagged “Lockdown”. BBNaija Ozo whose full name is Ozoemena Chukwu has worked in several areas of business, including HR, sports administration, business financial management and customer relations.Timmy Sinclair is a 35-year-old creative artist and Lagos resident who hails from Bayelsa State, Nigeria. Tricky Tee as he is also known considers himself a storyteller who uses the media of film, and music to express himself.Other housemates that made it to the finals include Vee, Neo, Nengi, Laycon and Dorathy.

Liverpool have completed the signing of Thiago Alcantara on a four year contract. Thiago who won the last season champions league title with Bayern Munich will wear shirt number 6 at Anfield after completing the deal at a region of £27 million.“I think it’s an amazing feeling. I was waiting for this moment for a long time and I am very, very happy to be here," he said in a statement.“When the years are passing, you are trying to win as much as you can – and when you win, you want to win more. I think this club describes what I am as well; I want to achieve all of the goals, win as many trophies as possible.“It also [has] this kind of family [feeling] that I need because we [like to] have a very close relationship with the club and I think I will feel this, I will have this feeling, with this club as well.”

He added: “I must adapt to the team as fast as I can in the situation and the context that we are living right now.“Everything is more compact and we started a little bit later…

Wolves have unveiled a new Portugal-inspired third kit for 2020/21.The jersey comes after a Mexico-inspired third strip last season and here are some of the Portuguese lads wearing it.