Former Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas has joined Italian club Como on a two-year deal.
The 35-year-old arrives at the Serie B side on a free transfer after his contract with Monaco expired in June.
Fabregas joined Monaco from Chelsea in January 2019 when his former Arsenal team-mate Thierry Henry was manager.
The chief executive of Como, former England and Chelsea midfielder Dennis Wise, welcomed the 2010 World Cup winner to the second-division club.
Fabregas made 68 appearances in three and a half years with Monaco but his playing time was limited by injuries last season.
He played 212 Premier League matches with Arsenal between 2004 and 2011 before moving to Barcelona, where he had joined the club’s La Masia academy aged 10 in 1997.
Following three years with Barcelona, he returned to the Premier League in 2014 with Chelsea where he played just under 200 games.
19-year-old Islamiyat Adebukola Yusuf has taken Nigeria’s medal haul to four at the ongoing Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Yusuf lifted a total of 212kg to finish third to claim the bronze medal for Nigeria.
Canadian Mauda Charron and Australia’s Sarah Maureen Cochrane placed first and second respectively.
Nigeria has so far won four medals two gold and two bronze medals in weightlifting in Birmingham.
Female weightlifter, Adijat Olarinoye won Nigeria her first medal, a gold at the Games.
Olarinoye lifted a total of 203kg to win the gold medal ahead of her Indian counterpart, Bindayareni, who lifted 202kg to win the silver medal in the 55kg category.
Twenty-five years old, Rafiatu Folashade Lawal won Nigeria her second gold medal. Lawal lifted 206kg to strike the gold ahead of England’s Jessica Gordon Brown (197kg) and Talu Darsigny of Canada (196kg).
Umoafia Edidiong on Sunday took bronze with an effort of 290kg (130kg+160kg) also in weightlifting.
Chelsea are in advanced talks to sign Brighton left-back Marc Cucurella and are willing to pay the £50m asking price for the Manchester City target.
The Spaniard handed in a transfer request on Friday in a bid to push through a move to City but the Premier League champions will not pay Brighton's asking price, with Chelsea now in pole position to sign the 24-year-old.
The Seagulls had previously rejected a £30m bid for the full-back from Pep Guardiola's side, who are looking for a replacement for Oleksandr Zinchenko after he joined Arsenal.
Cucurella enjoyed a hugely successful first Premier League season after joining from Getafe in a deal worth around £15m last summer and was named Brighton's player of the season.
Chelsea have now moved for Cucurella with doubts surrounding the future of left-back Marcos Alonso, with Barcelona reportedly wanting to sign the 31-year-old this summer. Blues captain Cesar Azpilicueta is also wanted by the Spanish giants with the defender having one year left on his deal.
Thomas Tuchel's side have made two signings this summer with the arrivals of Raheem Sterling for £47.5m from City and defender Khalidou koulibaly from Napoli in a £33m deal.
With the Celtics, Bill Russell won the NBA Championship 11 times. He also won two championships while serving as a player-coach.
Bill Russell, who played for the Boston Celtics and won 11 NBA titles during his Hall of Fame career, passed away on Sunday at the age of 88.
The 12-time NBA All-Star died away with his wife by his side, according to a statement Russell issued on his Twitter account.
The statement read:
"It is with a heavy heart we would like to pass along to all of Bill's friends, fans and followers:
"Bill Russell, the most prolific winner in American sports history, passed away peacefully today aged 88, with his wife, Jeannine, by his side.
"Arrangements for his memorial will be announced soon.
"Bill's two state championships in high school offered a glimmer of the incomparable run of pure team accomplishment to come: twice an NCAA champion; captain of a gold-meal-winning US Olympic team; 11 times an NBA champion; and at the helm for two NBA championships as the first black head coach of any North American professional sports team.
"Along the way, Bill earned a string of individual awards that stands unprecedented as it went unmentioned by him.
"In 2009, the award for the NBA Finals most valuable player was renamed after two-time Hall of Famer as the 'Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award.
NBA Great Bill Russell Dies Aged 88
"But for all the winning, Bill's understanding of the struggle is what illuminated his life.
"From boycotting a 1961 exhibition game to unmask too-long-tolerates discrimination, to leading Mississippi's first integrated basketball camp in the combustible wake of Medgar Evans' assassination, to decades of activism ultimately recognised by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010, Bill called out injustice with an unforgiving candor that he intended would disrupt the status quo, and with a powerful example that, though never his humble intention, will forever inspire teamwork selflessness and thoughtful change.
"Bill's wife, Jeannine, and his many friends and family thank you for keeping Bill in your prayers. Perhaps you'll relive one or two of the golden moments he gave us, or recall his trademark laugh as he delighted in explaining the real story behind how those moments unfolded.
"And we hope each of us can find a new way to act or speak up with Bill's uncompromising, dignified and always constructive commitment to principle.
"That would be one last, and lasting, win for our beloved #6."
Russell, widely regarded as the best defensive center in basketball history, transformed the Celtics into a force that won eight straight championships from 1959 through 1966.
Russell served as the cornerstone of a Boston Celtics dynasty that amassed 11 championships in 13 years, two of which he won as the first Black head coach in a major American sport.
He battled Wilt Chamberlain and is a member of the Hall of Fame. He was a five-time MVP and 12-time All-Star. Along with Martin Luther King Jr., Russell participated in civil rights marches and supported boxer Muhammad Ali when he objected to being drafted into the military.
