Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds is co-owner of Wrexham, while NFL great Tom Brady was involved in a takeover of Birmingham City in 2023.

Wayne Rooney said it would "take some time to get over this setback" after he was sacked as manager of Championship side Birmingham City.

Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour has bought the first piece of silverware won by the club -- the Football Association Challenge Cup used from 1896 to 1910.

The 17-year-old Jude Bellingham has signed a "long-term contract" and is to join the first team squad from July 30, Borussia Dortmund said in a statement.

Che Adams scored one of the goals of the Premier League season as Southampton stunned Manchester City.

Dortmund have fended off interest from Tottenham, Arsenal, Napoli and Valencia for Thomas Meunier, according to reports in German media.

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The sense of unfamiliarity will be nowhere more apparent than at Swansea City's Liberty Stadium, where champions Manchester United will play a league game with a manager other than Ferguson in the dug-out for the first time since November 1, 1986. "I think it's the hardest start for 20 years that Manchester United have had," Moyes complained to BBC Sport.

Benitez, who was top scorer in the Mexican league last season with Club America, had just signed for Qatari outfit El-Jaish.

More than 95,000 fans turned out to watch Liverpool's friendly in Melbourne, the second biggest for a football match ever seen in Australia. In Bangkok, motorbike taxi riders showed loyalty to Manchester United by charging 200 baht ($6.40) for passengers headed to watch the Red Devils.

The 62-year-old, the first non-American to own a NFL franchise, already has ties to London, with the Jaguars scheduled to play one regular season game a season at Wembley for the next four years. In 1967, at the age of 16, Khan left his native Pakistan for the United States and the opportunity to study engineering at the University of Illinois.

Manchester United secured the Premier League title on the same day as the 2011 FA Cup final between Manchester City and Stoke. Wigan won this year's FA Cup.

Pellegrini, meanwhile, has already admitted having a verbal agreement with City to take over for next season. Navas was believed to be one of his main transfer targets as he tries to rejuvenate the 2011/12 English champions after a disappointing campaign in which they finished without a major trophy.

Mourinho refused to confirm that he will still be in charge of the Spanish champions next season.

Meanwhile, Wigan's survival hopes suffered a further blow after Tottenham's late equaliser when boss Roberto Martinez revealed that defender Maynor Figueroa is set to miss the rest of the season, including the FA Cup final against Manchester City on May 11, after sustaining a groin problem that forced him to be stretched off in the first half.

The Football Association claimed that the standard suspension of three matches was insufficient for Suarez's bit on Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic during a Premier League match at Anfield.

Suarez is followed by Van Persie, Gareth Bale, Michu, Demba Ba, Christian Benteke, Rickie Lambert, Dimitar Berbatov, Romelu Lukaku and Santi Cazorla to round off the top-10.

The English Premier League title is tantalizingly in reach for Manchester United, yet the jitters could begin to set in if the team fails to beat relegation-haunted Stoke on Sunday.