Emmanuel Adebayor is still on Barcelona’s shopping list. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
Barcelona’s manager, Pep Guardiola, refused to rule out making offers for Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and the Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor after last night’s 6-0 rout of Hibernian.
Both players have been strongly linked with a summer move to Camp Nou and Adebayor has spoken publicly [...]

Des O’Connor waves goodbye to Countdown. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty Images
The Mill is more than happy to take any rumours going on a day when Salomon Kalou’s assertion that Chelsea will score some goals next season demands a double page spread in two of the tabloids. So, it is with joy in our heart that we [...]

The new Liverpool capture David N’Gog, who signed from Paris Saint Germain. Photograph Barry Coombs/PA
Liverpool have made their sixth signing of the summer with the capture of the French striker David N’Gog from Paris St Germain. The 19-year-old has signed a four-year deal at Anfield and follows Philipp Degen, Andrea Dossena, Diego Cavalieri, Vincent Weijl [...]

Max Mosley: accused the News of the World of a gross invasion of privacy. Photograph: Carl Court/PA
Formula one boss Max Mosley today won £60,000 in his privacy action against the News of the World after the Sunday tabloid had falsely accused him of taking part in a “sick Nazi orgy”.
Mosley, 68, the son of the [...]

New West Ham signing Valon Behrami has won 15 caps for Switzerland. Photograph: Ruben Sprich/Reuters
West Ham United have signed the Swiss international utility player Valon Behrami from Lazio for £5m. Behrami, who can play at right-back or across midfield, has agreed a five-year contract. He joined Lazio in 2005 and made 69 appearances for the [...]

Ajantha Mendis bowlng during the Asia Cup final against India. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
At first glance, this clash of Asian cricket’s titans is a mismatch. On the one side, you have Sri Lanka, second only to Australia in their mastery of home conditions. On the other is an Indian team that increasingly saves its best [...]

The Portsmouth midfielder Niko Kranjcar (Paul Childs/Action Images)
Monaco have had a £12million bid for him turned down; his father has blithely been talking up his chances of a move to Arsenal; after an impressive European Championship, further offers between now and the end of August seems certain. Niko Kranjcar must be loving it – not [...]

Amr Zaki has score 27 goals in 48 games for Egypt. Photogtaph: Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters
Wigan have finally concluded the loan signing of Egypt striker Amr Zaki, currently ranked by Fifa as the best striker in the world. Though the 25-year-old completed a medical last week, his transfer remained in doubt until Wigan officials flew to Egypt [...]

And now a word from our sponsor … Joe Calzaghe wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2007. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA
The BBC Sports Personality of the Year show will no longer carry a sponsor after a damning report found the “editorial integrity” of the corporation had been “compromised” by a commercial relationship with drinks brand [...]

Alastair Cook: time for a career-defining innings? No, no apparently not. Photograph: Scott Heavey/Action Images
66th over: England 156-6 (Ambrose 1 Flintoff 2)Kallis takes a spell and Steyn is on. “Only Flintoff’s beard stands between South Africa and victory now” comments Keith Flett, lost somewhere in world of his own. A maiden, Flintoff picking out [...]