Chelsea right-back Davide Zappacosta is set to join Roma on a season-long loan.
The 27-year-old Italy international arrived in Rome on Tuesday to complete the deal.
Zappacosta joined Chelsea from Torino on a four-year deal for £23m in 2017.
But after 22 appearances in the Premier League in his first season he only played four times in 2018-19. He has not made an appearance for Chelsea this season.
Fellow defenders David Luiz and Gary Cahill have already left Stamford Bridge this summer.
Borussia Dortmund’s England winger Jadon Sancho has agreed a new contract with the Bundesliga club worth about £190,000 a week, including bonuses.
The 19-year-old, who was the subject of summer interest from Manchester United, scored 13 goals last season as Dortmund finished second behind Bayern Munich.
Sancho also scored in their opening league game this term – Saturday’s 5-1 win over Augsburg.
Signed from Manchester City in 2017, his previous deal ran until 2022.
Sancho, who was part of Watford’s academy before joining City, made his England debut against Croatia in October 2018 and has six caps.
Basketball fans have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to reward D’Tigress financially over their victory at 2019 AfroBasket Women’s Nation’s Cup title in Dakar, Senegal.
The fans made the demand while reacting to Buhari’s press statement congratulating the senior national women’s basketball team for retaining their AfroBasket title.
They complained that the basketball team deserved to be celebrated beyond issuing of press releases.
The basketball lovers said they expected the federal government to host D’Tigress and “spray dollars on them like their football counterparts”.
D’Tigress had on Sunday reclaimed the title they won in 2017 by beating hosts Senegal 60-55.
One of them, Adepitan Ayo, said, “It should not just be about issuing press statements in the media, motivate these babes with money. Let them also feel important. They have done us proud.”
Another fan, Uzoma Eke, accused the Federal Government of paying more attention to football and neglecting others sports.
“They have done something historic and I expect that a better reward would be given to them. They also deserve some cash rewards like we did for the Super Eagles,” he said.
“It is high time we held other sports in high esteem too. Not everyone loves football, I am a fan of basketball and I don’t like how our players are treated,” another fan, identified as Ike, added.
AkeIyanu, who identified himself as a basketball player, wondered why Nigeria billionaires preferred to donate to only footballers.
“Where is (Aliko) Dangote, Femi Otedola and even Governor (Babajide) Sanwo-Olu? We need you to motivate us too,” he tweeted.
“I have seen Buhari watching the Super Eagles match. I am waiting to see him being shown watch basketball,” another fan, Chidi, reacted.
Team Nigeria’s athletics team members are expected to arrive Rabat, where the 12th All African Games is holding, today (Wednesday).
Though Big Brother Nigeria’s housemate, Mike Edward, could have been one of Nigeria’s athletes at the competition, his participation in the reality show stopped him.
It was learnt that he could not also participate in the National Trials organised by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria as qualification for Rabat 2019.
However, Nigeria is going to the competition with a future star, Best Ehihire, who recently set a new record of 2.12m in high jump.
Ehihire had in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH said he was going to Rabat with a target to secure qualification for World Championships in Doha and to break Javier Sotomayor’s 2.45m record.
Nigeria’s athletics team go into the competition with the continent’s record holders.
Among them are Blessing Okagbare, Divine Oduduru, Blessing Okagbare, Tobi Amusan, Ese Brume, Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, Edose Ibadin, Dorrn Amata and Chidi Okezie.
The country also present a 4x100m relay team having Seye Ogunlewe with a personal best of 10.11secs, Raymond Ekevwo 10.02secs, Oduduru 9.86secs, Usheoritse Itsekiri 10.07secs, and Enoch Adegoke 10.12secs.
Both Okagbare and Amusan have promised to give their best and make Nigeria proud again.
On her part, Brume said she can’t wait to meet the Nigerian athletics team, uploading an old image of her and other teammates.
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