SPORT Page 2 FOOTBALL FOCUS Kane Ends City Speculation by PSG Reject Real Confi Rming He Will Remain at Spurs
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TTENNISENNIS | Page 3 FFOOTBALLOOTBALL | Page 4 Serena suff ers Holders Chelsea, more setback Europe’s elite with US Open await CLeague withdrawal draw Thursday, August 26, 2021 CRICKET Muharram 18, 1443 AH England in GULF TIMES charge aft er India collapse on Day 1 SPORT Page 2 FOOTBALL FOCUS Kane ends City speculation by PSG reject Real confi rming he will remain at Spurs AFP off er for Mbappe London, England arry Kane ended spec- ‘If a player wants to leave, he will leave. The club is bigger than any one person’ ulation over a potential move to Manchester City by announcing Hyesterday he will remain at Tot- tenham this season. The 28-year-old is the second top goalscorer in Tottenham’s history with 221, but is yet to win a major trophy at club or inter- national level. Kane had made clear his desire to leave his boyhood club in the quest to end his wait for silver- ware. However, he still has three years left on a six-year deal signed in 2018, allowing Spurs chairman Daniel Levy to de- mand a fee well in excess of the £100mn ($137mn) English record City paid Aston Villa for Jack Grealish earlier this month. Kane missed his side’s 1-0 vic- tino in November 2019 and re- In this May 19, 2021, picture, Paris tory over City on the opening place the Argentine with Jose Saint-Germain’s Kylian Mbappe weekend of the Premier League Mourinho has backfi red on Levy celebrates at the end of the French campaign after returning late to as Spurs have fi nished sixth and Cup final against Monaco at the Stade pre-season training. seventh in the Premier League in de France, in Saint-Denis, on the However, he was warmly wel- the past two seasons. outskirts of Paris in France. (AFP) comed back by the Tottenham Mourinho was also unable to support as he made his fi rst ap- end Tottenham’s trophy drought pearance of the season as a sub- that stretches back to 2008. AFP beu and taken to meet Zinedine six days to go before the sum- anluigi Donnarumma, Georginio Barcelona, who could not keep stitute in a 1-0 win at Wolves last A prolonged search for Mour- Paris, France Zidane at their training ground. mer transfer window in Europe Wijnaldum and Achraf Hakimi Messi due to their debt prob- weekend. inho’s successor upped the pres- The off er has been knocked closes on August 31 and with all arriving before the sensa- lems, Madrid’s fi nancial situa- “It was incredible to see the sure on Levy not to lose Kane this back by PSG, who say it is “not PSG desperate to keep hold of a tional recruitment of Messi. tion is strong. reception from the Spurs fans on summer. aris Saint-Germain enough” for someone who ar- player they still consider their With Neymar and Messi yet According to their latest ac- Sunday and to read some of the Nearly three months after the have rejected a 160 mil- rived from Monaco in 2017 in a crown jewel despite the pres- to play this season, Mbappe has counts published in July, the messages of support I’ve had in former Chelsea manager was lion-euro ($188mn) of- 180 million-euro deal. ence of Neymar and, now, of Li- played a central role as PSG have 13-time European champions the last few weeks,” he posted on sacked, Nuno Espirito Santo was fer from Real Madrid for Real, though, are laying the onel Messi in the French capital. won their opening three Ligue 1 boast net assets of 534mn euros Twitter. appointed as coach on June 30. PKylian Mbappe but the French ground to bring in Mbappe now, The uncertainty over games. He netted his fi rst goal and had 122mn euros cash in the “I will be staying at Tottenham However, Spurs have made club’s sporting director Leon- even though he will be able to Mbappe’s future has gone on of the campaign last weekend bank. this summer and will be 100% light of a disruptive few months ardo yesterday admitted that sign as a free agent next summer for months, and at the end of against Brest. Their total wage bill for focused on helping the team by taking maximum points from they will not be able to keep the if he does not extend his con- last season the striker hinted he “We have done everything for last season was 448mn eu- achieve success.” their opening two league games. World Cup winner “if he wants tract in Paris. would only commit his future Kylian, even this transfer win- ros, slightly below the limit of According to reports, Totten- to leave”. “If a player wants to leave, he to his hometown team if they dow has been built around him,” 473.3mn euros set by La Liga. ham turned down a City bid of ‘AMAZING CLUB, GOOD TEAM’ “Our position has always been will leave. The club, the project showed suffi cient ambition in insisted Leonardo. Since then they have got Ra- £125mn for their star striker. “Great news. Fantastic news,” the same, to keep Kylian and ex- is bigger than any one person,” the transfer market. However, he admitted it mos’s enormous salary off the Levy will be hoping his gam- said Nuno, who hinted Kane tend his contract,” Leonardo said Leonardo, the Brazilian, as “seems clear” that Mbappe — wage bill and sold Raphael Var- ble in turning that fee down will could return to the starting line- told several media including he slammed the Spanish giants IMPROVED BID TO COME? who was born and brought up in ane, another high earner, to be rewarded by Kane fi ring Tot- up for today’s Europa Confer- AFP as he discussed the future for being “disrespectful” in their PSG fi nished second in Ligue 1 the Paris suburbs — wants to go Manchester United for a report- tenham back into the Champions ence League playoff against Pa- of Mbappe, whose current con- approach of the 22-year-old. last season to Lille and lost to and said the player had “always ed 40mn euros, while raising a League next season. cos de Ferreira. tract expires at the end of this “It is a strategy, to get a no Manchester City in the semi- promised that he would not go similar amount from the sale of Under former manager Mau- “I think since Harry joined us season. from us so they can say they fi nals of the Champions League, for free”. Martin Odegaard to Arsenal. ricio Pochettino, Spurs reached he has been working hard so this It emerged on Tuesday that tried everything. the trophy they covet more than Those comments suggest “Real Madrid could sign the Champions League in four is what we value. His attitude in Real had made a bid for Mbappe, “They have been behaving anything. Mbappe is therefore likely to Mbappe,” said La Liga president consecutive seasons between training has been excellent. a player they have courted ever like this for two years. It’s disre- They responded by going out leave this month, at least as long Javier Tebas in June, adding the 2016/17 and 2019/20, includ- “It’s fi nished, Harry is going since he was a young boy, was spectful, inappropriate, illegal, and signing some of the world’s as Real come back with an im- arrival of the Frenchman “would ing reaching the fi nal for the fi rst to be with us. He is an option for invited with his parents to take and for us it is unacceptable.” biggest and most exciting proved off er. be very good” for the Spanish time in the club’s history in 2018. tomorrow. It is great news for in a game at the Santiago Berna- The off er comes with just names, with Sergio Ramos, Gi- In contrast to their great rivals game. The decision to sack Pochet- everybody.” TOKYO PARALYMPICS Britain’s Storey shines, records tumble on fi rst day AFP Greco was in record-breaking alympic medals, will have sev- sible, but thanks to the eff orts of Tokyo, Japan form as she beat China’s Wang eral more chances to add to his many, the most transformative Xiaomei in the gold medal race in 14 golds starting Thursday in the sports event on Earth is about to C1-C3 class 3,000 metre individ- 100m freestyle. begin,” he said. ritish cyclist Sarah Sto- ual pursuit at the Izu Velodrome. Defending gold medallists Notably missing were Af- rey added to her glori- She smashed her own world Australia suff ered a setback in ghanistan’s team, who had been ous golden history as record by nearly eight seconds in their bid to become the fi rst team trapped in the country after the wheelchair rugby pow- the heats and lowered it by an- to top the wheelchair rugby podi- Taliban takeover. The IPC con- Berhouses Australia suff ered a other second and a half to 3min um at three consecutive Games, fi rmed yesterday that the team, shock defeat on day one of the 50.815sec in the fi nal. edged out 54-53 by Denmark. comprising two athletes, had left delayed Tokyo 2020 Paralympics “I still can’t believe it. I keep “I’m pretty devastated, to be Afghanistan, but declined to say yesterday. looking down and seeing (the honest — I had never lost a game where they had gone.