Manchester United

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have released the following statement before tonight's game at Old Trafford:

"Specialised officers will be out and about across Trafford and Manchester city centre on Thursday (23 January 2025) to support the Rangers-Manchester United football fixture.

"In the run up to the match, we have worked closely with both clubs, supporter groups, partner agencies and members of the public to build on the work we have already done at previous football events to work with organisers and the local authority to ensure everyone has a safe and enjoyable time.

"In Manchester we police many high-profile football matches each year and our response to this is no different to any other fixture. Our main priority is to keep people safe and to minimise disruption for the wider public.

"You will likely notice an increased policing presence across Manchester City Centre and around Old Trafford football stadium involving officers from our Specialist Operations branch. You may also see officers also patrolling key routes to Old Trafford stadium on our road, train and tram networks."

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Around 4,000 Rangers supporters will be inside Old Trafford, while thousands more are arriving in Manchester without tickets. Around 2,000 will watch the game on big screens in Manchester's BEC Arena.

Rangers fans saw their team earn a 1-1 draw with Tottenham in the Europa League on 12 December.

Will they see their team beat United at Old Trafford?

Tottenham Hotspur

Before that, Tottenham are in Germany to take on Hoffenheim at 17:45 GMT.

We're going to start building up to tonight's Europa League games, which include a mouth-watering encounter between Manchester United and Rangers at Old Trafford at 20:00 GMT.

Some great shouts in the Premier League right-back debate this morning and afternoon so far.

You can still have your say in the poll at the top of this page about whether or not you feel that Kyle Walker is the best we've seen.

Maybe the below stats will sway your opinion?

SATURDAY

Bournemouth v Nott'm Forest (15:00)

Brighton v Everton (15:00)

Liverpool v Ipswich (15:00)

Southampton v Newcastle (15:00)

Wolves v Arsenal (15:00)

Man City v Chelsea (17:30)

SUNDAY

Crystal Palace v Brentford (14:00)

Tottenham v Leicester (14:00)

Aston Villa v West Ham (16:30)

Fulham v Man Utd (19:00)

* all times GMT

Just to let you know...there are four Premier League news conferences coming up within the next hour or so.

13:00 - Brighton

13:30 - Nottingham Forest, Southampton and Ipswich.

All times GMT.

BBC Radio 4

Deloitte's Jennifer Haskell, speaking on Radio 4 about the growth of the women's game: "It's really exciting to see the pace of the growth in the women's game.

"I think as we continue to recognise how global this game is, just outside of the top clubs analysed in this group were clubs from Japan as well. Recognising the globalisation of women's football is really exciting."

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Deloitte's analysis of 15 of the leading revenue-generating women's clubs showed total revenue of more than 100m euros for the first time.

Barcelona remain top for the third successive year, with revenue climbing 26% to £15.1m.

Arsenal move from fifth to second with £15.1m overall, including a 64% increase in matchday revenue to £4.3m, helped by hosting six Women's Super League (WSL) games at Emirates Stadium.

Chelsea are third (£11.3m), Manchester United fourth (£9m) and Real Madrid fifth (£8.9m), with eight WSL clubs in the top 15.

With the exception of Spain's Liga F, leagues in each of the big five European football markets have a title sponsor.

"It is clear that the women's game is growing rapidly across metrics including and beyond revenue," said Jennifer Haskel, knowledge and insight lead in Deloitte's sports business group.

Real Madrid have become the first football club to generate more than 1bn euros in annual revenue, according to analysis by Deloitte.

The Spanish club retain top spot in Deloitte's Money League study with revenue of 1.05bn euros (£883m) from a 2023-24 season in which they won La Liga and the Champions League.

Manchester City are again second with revenue of £708m.

Paris St-Germain (£681m), Manchester United (£651m) and Bayern Munich (£646m) complete the top five.

Aston Villa enter the top 20 after competing in Europe last season for the first time since 2011.

Nine Premier League clubs are in the top 20, with Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea, Newcastle and West Ham retaining their places.

Lyon are the only other new club, with Napoli and Eintracht Frankfurt dropping out.

Revenues for the top 20 clubs rose by 6% to a record £9.47bn.

*Figures converted from euros may differ from previously reported figures because of a change in currency exchange rates

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• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - Arsenal, £56m
• Virgil van Dijk - Liverpool, £75m
• Aymeric Laporte - Man City, £58m
• Christian Pulisic - Chelsea, £60m
• Bruno Fernandes - Man Utd, £48m
• Amad Diallo - Man Utd, £37m
• Luis Diaz - Liverpool, £49m
• Bruno Guimaraes - Newcastle, £40m
• Enzo Fernandez - Chelsea, £105m
• Mykalo Mudryk - Chelsea, £88.5m
• Anthony Gordon - Newcastle, £45m
• Cody Gakpo - Liverpool, £45m

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Aston Villa

• Donyell Malen - Borussia Dortmund, £20m
• Andres Garcia - Levante

Bournemouth

• Matai Akinmboni - DC United, £1.5m
• Kai Crampton - Chelsea
• Julio Soler - Lanus, £6.6m
• Zain Silcott-Duberry - Chelsea

Brighton

• Diego Gomez - Inter Miami, £11m

Crystal Palace

• Romain Esse - Millwall, undisclosed

Ipswich Town

• Ben Godfrey - Atalanta, loan
• Jaden Philogene - Aston Villa, £20m
• Julio Enciso - Brighton, loan

Leicester City

• Woyo Coulibaly - Parma, £1.9m

Manchester City

• Abdukodi Khusanov - Lens, £33.5m
• Vitor Reis - Palmeiras, £29.6m
• Omar Marmoush - Eintracht Frankfurt, £59m

Nottingham Forest

• Wayne Hennessey - free

Southampton

• Welington - Sao Paulo, undisclosed
• Joachim Kayi Sanda - Valenciennes, undisclosed
• Albert Gronbaek - Rennes, (option to buy included)

Tottenham

• Antonin Kinsky - Slavia Prague, £12.5m
• Min-Hyeok Yang - Gangwon FC, undisclosed

Wolves

• Emmanuel Agbadou - Reims, £16.6m

Not long now until the transfer window closes on 3 February.

There's been a couple Premier League deals confirmed today, with Manchester City signing Egypt forward Omar Marmoush from Eintracht Frankfurt for 70m euros (£59m) and Ipswich signing Brighton midfielder Julio Enciso on loan.

Who has signed who so far? And which clubs have been inactive?