Right, thanks for your company today and now it's goodbye from me and goodbye from him. Have a lovely weekend.

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Newcastle fans might want Ajax boss Frank De Boer as their new manager but that doesn't seem likely judging by comments from the Dutchman's brother.

Ronald De Boer, who works closely with his twin as youth coach at Ajax, says: "Of course you read it and you see fans of Newcastle asking Frank to go there but that's up to Frank. He's happy at Ajax and he will finish the season there, for sure.

"Next year, we'll see. One thing I know for sure, he's very happy at Ajax. He sees a lot of growth in the team and has no need or hurry to go."

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger rules out a move for Paris St-Germain striker Edinson Cavani and will instead switch his attentions to trying to bring in Atletico Madrid forward Mario Mandzukic, reports the Daily Express., external

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The signing could be made possible by the Spanish club bringing in Fernando torres and Manchester City opting to make a move for Swansea's Wilfried Bony.

Lukas Podolski reveals that Germany boss Joachim Low has given his seal of approval to the forward's loan move to Inter Milan.

The Arsenal forward has joined the Serie A side for the remainder of the 2014-15 season, and insists his international prospects will benefit as a result of the switch.

The 29-year-old told the Deutscher Fussball-Bund's official website: "Playing here will see my situation with the Germany national team improve.

"I spoke about it with Joachim Low ahead of the move and he thinks that it was a good decision."

Manchester City have admitted making mistakes in their communication of Frank Lampard's move to the club.

The former Chelsea midfielder was reported to have joined City on loan until the start of January after penning a deal with Major League Soccer side New York City FC during the summer.

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He's now staying until the end of the season, with the player himself releasing a statement earlier today to try and clear up the situation.

Quoted in the Guardian, external, City said: "The statement on the NYCFC website in July saying Lampard's two-year contract took effect from Aug 1, 2014 was a mistake. The initial statement on City's website that it was a loan was also an error.

"Any contract with NYCFC will now take effect from July 1, 2015."

Carlisle manager Keith Curle says he has made a signing and others are in the pipeline, but will not reveal the identity of any potential arrivals.

The Cumbrians face Cambridge United on Saturday and Curle is determined to keep them guessing about the possibility of new faces in his line-up.

"One has already been done," Curle told the club website., external "But we're not saying anything about his name, position or parent club until 2pm on Saturday."

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Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman has dismisses talk of a transfer to Manchester United, insisting it would be 'disrespectful' to be discussing a move at this time.

According to the Daily Mail, external, the 24-year-old - who has been linked with a move to the Reds, said: "If I spoke about other clubs that would be disrespectful, and I don't want to do that."

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Tottenham enjoyed a 5-3 win over Chelsea in their last league outing and Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino challenges his players to maintain that sort of level when they play Crystal Palace on Saturday.

"Why not keep that level in all games? We know it is not easy but if we are capable of that performance against Chelsea we need to keep those performances in the future," says the Argentine.

"We are very happy, the 5-3 against Chelsea means more than just one victory.

"It is a belief in our skill and in our mentality, but now we need to show again against Crystal Palace the same mentality to show we are strong - if not there is no good thing."

Accrington Stanley's game with Bury tonight has been called off because of a waterlogged pitch.

Journalist Dan Jewell has tweeted, external the below picture with the message: "This is the actual form submitted to the League stating the reason for the postponement."

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Referees get plenty of stick but Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has come out in defence of the men in black.

Former referees' boss Keith Hackett said officiating in the Premier League was "bordering on appalling" over Christmas, but Pellegrini disagrees.

"No-one can win or lose the title on one refereeing decision," he says.

"Maybe they can lose one game but in another they can give you a penalty or a foul that is not a foul."

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Olympic skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold finished second on her return to racing on the World Cup circuit in Germany.

The 26-year-old Brit experienced dizziness while winning the season opener in the United States and missed the next event in Canada.

Yarnold, the overall defending champion, finished 0.04 seconds behind Russia's Maria Orlova, who won a first World Cup race at the Altenberg track.

Toulon full-back Delon Armitage has had his 12-week ban for using abusive language reduced to eight on appeal.

The Toulon player, 31, was found guilty of using abusive language towards Leicester fans after the European Rugby Champions Cup match on 7 December.

A European Club Rugby statement read: "The appeal committee found that the independent disciplinary committee had made an error in how they determined the period of the appropriate sanction for the misconduct and moved to impose a suspension of eight weeks on the player."

Mark Schwarzer says the chance to play regularly tempted him to leave his role as back-up to Thibaut Courtois and Petr Cech at Chelsea and join Leicester.

The 42-year-old keeper did not feature for the Blues this term and has signed an 18-month contract with the Foxes.

"It was the draw of being able to be more involved and hopefully being able to play in the Premier League," Schwarzer told BBC East Midlands Today.

"It is a new challenge in my career and a very exciting one."

Borussia Dortmund midfielder Sven Bender will be sidelined for four weeks after undergoing surgery on his right knee.

Bender suffered the injury during training and it is another blow for Dortmund, who are second from bottom of Germany's top flight.

The Bundesliga is currently in its winter break and Dortmund's next game is against Bayer Leverkusen on 31 January.

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The future of West Brom striker Saido Berahino has been the subject of plenty of debate with the 21-year-old being linked with Liverpool and Tottenham.

Baggies boss Tony Pulis only took over at The Hawthorns recently and he says: "For everyone here we'd like to keep him," he said.

"If you're asking me whether I want to sell him now, not at all because he has been absolutely first class."

But he adds: "Everyone is available in every shape and form and there's no difference about that."

Arsenal have been linked with a move for Legia Warsaw midfielder Krystian Bielik but Gunners boss Arsene Wenger does not believe any move is imminent.

"He is a young boy that we follow, yes. We are not very close at the moment," says Wenger.

Chesterfield boss Paul Cook is unhappy with clubs talking publicly about their interest in striker Eoin Doyle.

The 26-year-old is the top scorer in the Football League with 22 goals from 27 games in all competitions.

Rotherham United assistant Paul Raynor revealed on Friday that the Millers had held talks about Doyle, who has also been linked with Celtic, Cardiff, Derby and Millwall.

"At any club today, a player has a price. So if you want to meet a price to buy a player, then go and do it and do it properly and then announce it to the media," Cook told BBC Radio Sheffield.

Who is your fantasy signing, we asked. Here's what you're telling us...

Srikanth:, external Dream signing? Easy. I'd get Brian Clough! Let him take care of things. Miss the man.

Colin Peacocke:, external Harry Kane, Danny Welbeck and James Milner mentioned as 'Fantasy' transfers. Really???

RedIsaac:, external Neuer, Hummels, Khedira, Suarez. That would also solve all of LFCs problems.

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Three-time champion Martin Adams and fourth seed Scott Mitchell are through to the BDO World Championship semi-finals at Lakeside.

Adams, 58, is into the last four at Lakeside for the 10th time after beating Scotland's Ross Montgomery 5-1.

"The one thing I'm pleased about today is that I hit some doubles without mucking about," he told BBC Sport.

Mitchell, 44, hit six ton-plus checkouts in a 5-2 win over fellow Englishman Brian Dawson.

Arsene Wenger has revealed why he decided to allow German international Lukas Podolski to leave on loan join Inter Milan on loan for the rest of the season.

"He didn't get enough opportunities to play - because I knew that, I gave him a chance to go," the Arsenal boss said.

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"Why? Because we have many players who can play in these positions and at the end of the day only 11 can start.

"When a player of his quality doesn't get enough games, at some stage too much competition is detrimental to the confidence of the players and their positivity."