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Pep Guardiola is calm about Manchester City's hopes of signing Aymeric Laporte from Athletic Bilbao in a club record £57million deal.Man City have agreed to Laporte's contract and are expected to land the 23-year-old French defender before the transfer window closes next week.Guardiola was reluctant to be drawn on the issue, saying: 'He's a player for Bilbao. It's the same as other players in the clubs, I didn't speak about previous players. If it happens, it happens, if not then it doesn't.'There are players in the past who are interesting, in the present there will be and in the future. Always we try to do our best for the squad, knowing the players we have.'I said in the past we are trying to do the best for the squad for now, six months, years. If we are going to do something interesti...

Man United fans have been asking questions this week about where should Alexis Sanchez slot into the team.There are different alternatives for Sanchez to play on the right, left, in a number 10 role or even up front.But in his Thursday presser before Friday’s FA Cup tie at Yeovil, Jose Mourinho gave more details on how he will deploy Alexis in his team.Man United seem to have three clear options of how to line up with Alexis. In the first option, Sanchez could be deployed in a wide left role in a 4-2-3-1 formation. The big losers in that formation are the likes of Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford. A second option is to play Sanchez alongside Jesse Lingard in a 4-3-2-1 setup.But again that means there’s no room for Martial or Rashford in Mourinho’s side. The third alternative is for Unit...

Sheffield United have signed Lee Evans Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder and James Wilson, the Manchester United centre-forward. Evans made his club and Football League debut on 3 August 2013 in a goalless draw against Preston North End.[9] He scored his first goal for the club a week later when he netted against Gillingham,[10] as the team went on to win the League One title. While James Wilson made a three league appearances for his team during the 2010–11 season, scoring in the third, a 2–1 home defeat to Everton. After scoring twice in the 2011 Milk Cup, in which Manchester United finished runners-up, Wilson suffered a broken ankle in the second game of the 2011–12 season that kept him out for nearly five months. Evans, who has represented Wales at international level, arrive...