MAVHARIVHARI (Rumours) & INTERNATIONAL UPDATES • Neymar has admitted that he is still not 100 per cent match fit after playing the full 90 minutes in Brazils 4-0 win over Panama. • Former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard says he is considering a move to Major League Soccer after departing Stamford Bridge. • Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari says there is still room for his side to improve ahead of their World Cup opener against Croatia on June 12. • Manchester City are closing in on Fernando from Porto. The 26-year-old midfielder will cost the Premier League champions £15m. • Arsenal midfielder Santi Cazorla has urged fellow Spaniard Cesc Fabregas to rejoin the Gunners. Midfielder Fabregas, 27, looks set to leave Barcelona this summer. • Paris Saint-Germain are ready to offer an a £61m to prise away Eden Hazard from Chelsea. But the 23-year-old winger says he is happy after being given the number 10 shirt at Stamford Bridge. • Only a medical stands between Diego Costa and Chelsea. The 25-year-old striker is set to join the Blues for £32m. • Wales midfielder Jonny Williams says Swansea City want to sign him. The 20-year-old is currently with Crystal Palace but said: I spoke to my agent who said Swansea were interested. • Louis van Gaal believes Holland could have David Moyes to thank for turning Robin van Persie back into their World Cup lethal weapon. • Roy Keane has pulled out of his role as a pundit for the World Cup so he can take the assistant managers job at Aston Villa. • Former Swansea boss Michael Laudrup has ruled himself out of the Southampton and West Brom jobs by revealing he will only consider an offer from a big club. • Thirteen British football matches are among those thought to have been fixed last season, according to a leading organisation of betting companies. • Former Liverpool defender Sami Hyypia is in talks with Brighton over the vacant managers job at the Amex Stadium. • Edy Reja is to have talks with president Claudio Lotito to discuss whether he will remain as manager of Lazio. • Real Madrid have launched a new pink away kit featuring a granddad collar. • Manchester City defender Martin Demichelis celebrated making Argentinas World Cup squad by getting his ponytail chopped off. WORLD CUP 1986 GOSSIP • BBC Sport will be showing Englands 1986 World Cup quarter-final match against Argentina on Wednesday. The match will be available to watch across four screens - PC, tablet, mobile and connected TV. (Sunday, 22 June 1986) • The Sunday Times reveals evidence which shows that Argentina won the 1978 World Cup by bribing Peru to lose in an earlier game. The match was fixed on the orders of the military junta in Buenos Aires. • The Observer reports that 3,000 riot police are gathered in Mexico City in preparation for the quarter-final, drawing special attention to Englands hulligans. • The Observer also says England are At the mercy of the prima Maradona, comparing him to Pele, George Best and Johan Cruyff and saying he can make a balanced team into world champions. • The Sun leads with Its War Senor and Bring on the Argies!, evoking memories of its infamous Gotcha headline from 1982. • The Times says former president of the Argentine Football Federation, Admiral Lacoste, has been saying how much he welcomes the Anglo-Argentine confrontation, on the grounds that it would mean a serious match between the two countries, and a chance to heal old wounds. • The Guardian are reporting that Diego Maradona and Argentina are focused entirely on football and that politics will not affect their game with England. • The Express reports that the Argentina FA is pleading for silence from both sets of supporters during the war tribute before the World Cup quarter-final with England.
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