Man United plumb new depths with UCL meltdown in Copenhagen

FA Cup replays will be scrapped from the first round next season as part of a six-year agreement with the Premier League to strengthen the domestic competition, the English Football Association (FA) announced on Thursday.

Trevoh Chalobah and Romelu Lukaku have been frozen out of Chelsea’s first-team squad in clear sign that they are not part of Enzo Maresca’s plans. Transfer Talk has the latest.

Outgoing Barcelona coach Xavi Hernández says his work at the club has never been sufficiently valued and that it will be “impossible” for his successor to enjoy the job.