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Arsenal prepare contract offers to make Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil highest-paid players in club's history

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 Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil are yet to sign new deals Arsenal are preparing fresh contract offers to cement Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil as the highest paid players in their history following Saturday’s FA Cup final victory against Chelsea. Although Tuesday’s board meeting will be shaped by agreeing the future of manager Arsene Wenger and the club's wider structure, the other big issue is how to approach negotiations with a large group of players who are entering either the last 12 months or two years of their contracts. Wenger has told the board that he thinks he can win the Premier League if this group stays together and is supplemented by no more than two or three key additions. Ozil is understood already to have been offered more than £250,000 a week and the club are ready to go to around £280,000 for both him and Sanchez. There has been some frustration that the Ozil deal was not completed last year. Both Ozil and Sanchez then appeared particularly badly affec...

Richard Levi hospitalized after being hit on head

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South African  cricketer Richard Levi who scored the fastest ever T20I century in 2012, was taken to hospital after being hit by a delivery from bowler Josh Tongue in the Championship match at Wantage Road, on Sunday. After Levi’s sudden injury, an early lunch was called and the injured player was sent to hospital in an ambulance. “Levi on his way to hospital in ambulance,” tweeted Worcestershire after he had received treatment in the middle of the pitch and the umpires opted to call an early lunch However, the stricken 29- year-old batsman was discharged from the hospital later in the day. “Given the all clear after my blow this afternoon. Thankfully no fracture just a concussion and observation. Thanks to all those who helped,” Levi tweeted. But unfortunately he will now have to be out of cricket for mandatory six days as part of the  England  and Wales Cricket Board’s concussion protocols as cricket tightened up its procedures after the death of Phillip Hug...

​​​​​​​Arsenal kept their Champions League hopes alive with their 2-0 win over Manchester United at the Emirate Stadium

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It had to take a Granit Xhaka effort and a former Man U player, Danny Welbeck's shock header for coaching veteran, Arsene Wenger to register his first career win over rival, Jose Mourinho in the premier league on Sunday evening. Jose Mourinho, started with Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, players that have been injured for almost two months to start in the center of the defence while Wayne Rooney was brought back into the fold alongside Juan Mata and young debutant Axel Tuanzebe. Wenger started with Danny Welbeck, Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez upfront while the likes of Alex Iwobi, Giroud and Theo Walcott had to settle for a spot on the bench. Swiss international, Granit Xhaka fired from 30 yards out in the second half and a nasty deflection by Ander Herrera saw the ball overtake De Gea- whose future as each second passes by, seems to lie more in Madrid than in Manchester. And shockingly within two minutes, Mancunian, Danny Welbeck headed home from a Alex Oxlade-Chamberla...

Silva shines as five-star City turn on the style to shoot down Eagles

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Manchester City 5 Crystal Palace 0 If the season had gone according to Pep Guardiola's master plan then there would have been more days at the Etihad Stadium that would have looked like this, with David Silva pulling the strings and an opponent beaten with an avalanche of goals. Silva left to a standing ovation after 67 minutes having scored the first and run the show on his return from two games away with an ankle injury. He breezed back into the side to show everyone how it was done, and the scale of the victory enabled Guardiola to make a point about the problems that have plagued his side until now. It has been his team's finishing that had let him down so far, Guardiola said. "I can remember just one game when the other team created more chances, that was away to Tottenham," he said. "We created more chances but in the box we are not good . . . in football, basketball, tennis, the most important thing is to do it [score]. Against Everton we lo...