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Former Manchester United and Real Madrid footballer Angel di Maria has been sentenced to a year in jail and given a €2 million (£1.76 million) fine by a court in Spain. Cristiano Ronaldo will not settle his alleged debt with the Spanish taxman ahead of his court hearing on July 31 . It will be up to a judge to decide whether to take Mourinho to court.

JOSE MOURINHO has denied a £2.9million tax fraud during his time at Real Madrid . The statement also said that Mourinho had received a certificate from the authorities confirming that he was "up to date with all his tax obligations". A judge will then decide if they are grounds to charge him with a crime. Prosecutors accuse Ronaldo, who is the world's highest paid athlete according to Forbes magazine, of evading tax via two companies based in the British Virgin Islands and Ireland.

And so it proved once again as Ryan Moore's companion bravely fended off all-comers to score at odds of 9-4. Having tracked the early leader, Scottish , he was sent to the front at the top of the straight and had to resist stern challenges from Decorated Knight and Ulysses , who both edged past him inside the final furlong.

Updating reporters on those negotiations during a visit to President Emmanuel Macron's Elysee Palace to celebrate the club's recent women's Champions League success, he seemed optimistic that a suitably ambitious transfer would be wrapped up shortly.

Minnesota's head coach Tom Thibodeau coached Butler for four seasons in Chicago. And although Butler doesn't have veto power in the traditional sense, telling the Cavaliers "no" is sending a tacit message to the other suitors for his services in the Boston Celtics , Phoenix Suns and possibly the Denver Nuggets, who have inquired about him in the past.

According to John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports, who first reported the Spurs were shopping Aldridge , San Antonio was already rebuffed in its quest for a top-five pick. He was lights out as a junior, hitting for 44.1 percent from 3-point range. Jackson now sits as the third pick in ESPN's Chad Ford's final mock draft, which would project him going to the Celtics after the team traded down, swapping their first overall pick with the 76ers' third pick.

Portugal came out of the traps like a train, and when Ronaldo scored, one suspected this was going to be a cricket score . "We had more opportunities than Russian Federation and we were just winners". The Russians, who beat New Zealand 2-0 in their opening fixture, belatedly launched their push and might have been level just after the hour when Alexander Samedov's teasing cross was only fractionally too high for Smolov in the middle.

And Salah knows he has a point to prove after playing just 19 times for Chelsea and failing to establish himself during his spell at Stamford Bridge, although he feels he does so in search of general improvement at all times rather than to quash doubters.

Fernando Alonso has indicated that he is unenthused with the news that Honda has brought an upgrade for its hapless power unit to Baku. With a 30 place grid penalty, Stoffel Vandoorne's debut season isn't going to get easier anytime soon.

Please Wait while comments are loading. The second game saw fortunes fluctuate as both shuttlers were involved in hard-fought exchanges to gain supremacy. Tai was focusing on making Sindhu move, and she was trying to use the deceptive drop shots but Sindhu kept her guard. Earlier, Kidambi Srikanth defeated fellow Indian shuttler B.Sai Praneeth in a men's singles quarter-final match of the Australia Open Superseries.

Mauricio Pellegrino , the former Valencia and Liverpool defender who excelled at Alaves last season, was also in the frame though it's now thought he will replace Claude Puel at Southampton. Ghana worldwide Jeffery Schlupp is set work under Dutch trainer Frank De Boer as the Eagles draw ever closer to confirming the former Ajax manager.