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Pep Guardiola: Manchester City manager challenges critics over club's spending

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has challenged the club's critics to come up with the evidence if they believe the Blues are breaking Financial Fair Play rules.  Thirteen months after the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned City's two-year ban from European competition for breaching Uefa's FFP rules, questions about the club's spending are again being raised. Guardiola defended City's British record £100m signing of England midfielder Jack Grealish. The Spanish manager insists the deal was only possible because of the £60m-worth of sales by the club over the past 12 months, including the £11m received from Borussia Dortmund following Jadon Sancho's move to Manchester United. 'If we are wrong, prove it' However, with City understood to be preparing an offer in excess of the sum they spent on Grealish to try to persuade Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy to let Harry Kane join them, Guardiola responded to a fresh broadside from Jurgen K...

Gerd Muller: Bayern Munich's German legend dies aged 75

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Bayern Munich and Germany legend Gerd Muller has died at the age of 75. One of the best strikers in history, Muller scored 68 goals in 62 appearances for West Germany, including the winning goal in the 1974 World Cup final against the Netherlands. He also scored 547 goals in 594 competitive games during 15 years at Bundesliga giants Bayern. "Today is a sad, black day for FC Bayern and all of its fans," Bayern president Herbert Hainer said. "Gerd Muller was the greatest striker there has ever been - and a fine person, a personality in world football. We are united in deep sorrow with his wife Uschi and his family. "Without Gerd Muller, FC Bayern would not be the club we all love today. His name and the memory of him will live on forever." 'One of the greatest legends in history' Muller, a two times German footballer of the year, won the Golden Boot for netting 10 goals at the 1970 World Cup and also won the Ballon d'Or that year. He helped West Germa...