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Klopp says Liverpool Don't Need Extra Motivation to Win Premier League

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp- EPA
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp- EPA
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Klopp says Liverpool Don't Need Extra Motivation to Win Premier League

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp- EPA
Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp- EPA

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said his players are already giving 100% and do not need to take any further motivation from his looming departure to win the Premier League this season.

Last month, the 56-year-old German announced his decision to step down as Liverpool manager at the end of the current campaign after a trophy-laden eight-and-a-half-years at Anfield, citing dwindling energy levels.

His side is currently leading the Premier League table after playing 22 matches while having booked a place in the fifth round of the FA Cup, the final of the League Cup and the last 16 of the Europa League.

But Klopp said nothing has changed.

"If I wouldn't have announced what I announced a week ago, what would be different?" Klopp told reporters. "The only little difference is that now they say: 'For Juergen'. That's the only thing.

"Of course, I want to win the league. Do I know if we have a chance, really? Because it looks like we can be around it, but there are so many games between now and then ... I just cannot think about it. I am not a dreamer," Reuters cited Klopp.

Since moving to Merseyside from Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund in 2015, Klopp has won the Champions League, Premier League, Club World Cup, FA Cup, League Cup and Super Cup, as well as the Community Shield with Liverpool.

"If (my departure) can generate a few extra per cent it would be good, but I'm not sure that's needed because we are already at 100%, and that is fine," Klopp said.

Liverpool next take a trip to north London to face title-rivals Arsenal on Sunday.

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Saudi Broadcasting Authority to Launch Third Sports Channel Highlighting Saudi Sporting History

Saudi Broadcasting Authority to Launch Third Sports Channel Highlighting Saudi Sporting History
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Saudi Broadcasting Authority to Launch Third Sports Channel Highlighting Saudi Sporting History

Saudi Broadcasting Authority to Launch Third Sports Channel Highlighting Saudi Sporting History

The Saudi Broadcasting Authority (SBA) will officially launch its third sports channel on Sunday, October 18, at 4 p.m. The channel will feature archival and documentary sports content, highlighting Saudi Arabia's sporting history, major achievements, and prominent sports figures, the Saudi Press Agency said.

The channel will broadcast archived matches from local, Gulf, Arab, and international competitions in football and other sports, alongside reruns of classic sports programs and past tournaments fans remember.

The launch is part of SBA's efforts to preserve Saudi Arabia's sporting heritage and make archival content accessible to younger generations.

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Vinicius to Miss ‘Clasico’ After Being Hit with a 4-Game Ban for Hair Pull and Angry Protests

Football - LaLiga - Real Madrid v Villarreal - Estadio Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - October 10, 2026 Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior reacts as he leaves the pitch after being shown a red card. (Reuters)
Football - LaLiga - Real Madrid v Villarreal - Estadio Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - October 10, 2026 Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior reacts as he leaves the pitch after being shown a red card. (Reuters)
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Vinicius to Miss ‘Clasico’ After Being Hit with a 4-Game Ban for Hair Pull and Angry Protests

Football - LaLiga - Real Madrid v Villarreal - Estadio Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - October 10, 2026 Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior reacts as he leaves the pitch after being shown a red card. (Reuters)
Football - LaLiga - Real Madrid v Villarreal - Estadio Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - October 10, 2026 Real Madrid's Vinicius Junior reacts as he leaves the pitch after being shown a red card. (Reuters)

Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior has been banned for four league matches, including the “clasico” against Barcelona, after pulling the hair of an opponent in Saturday's 1-0 win over Villarreal.

Vinicius was shown a straight red card in the 73rd minute for having tugged hard on the hair of Villarreal’s Nathan Saliba when they were sprinting down the field, moments before the Madrid player scored a goal. The goal was also ruled out.

The Spanish soccer federation’s disciplinary committee announced the four-match suspension shortly before Madrid’s Champions League match at Roma on Wednesday.

Real Madrid was expected to appeal the suspension. Spanish media said an initial appeal had already been dismissed.

The committee said Vinicius was banned for two matches for the hair pulling and a further two matches for his subsequent aggressive protests to referee Isidro Diaz de Mera.

Vinicius screamed at Diaz de Mera while his teammates tried to calm him down as he left the field.

Diaz de Mera wrote in his match report that after being shown the red card Vinicius “protested my decision, raising his voice, toward where I was standing in an aggressive manner, and being held back by teammates.”

Vinicius will miss Sunday’s home match against Sevilla and the following week’s trip to Barcelona. He will also miss away matches at Racing Santander and Valencia.

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PSG Outgun Embattled Man City in Six-Goal Champions League Thriller

UEFA Champions League - Manchester City v Paris St Germain - Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Britain - October 14, 2026 Paris St Germain's Ousmane Dembele celebrates after Vitinha scores their third goal. (Reuters)
UEFA Champions League - Manchester City v Paris St Germain - Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Britain - October 14, 2026 Paris St Germain's Ousmane Dembele celebrates after Vitinha scores their third goal. (Reuters)
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PSG Outgun Embattled Man City in Six-Goal Champions League Thriller

UEFA Champions League - Manchester City v Paris St Germain - Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Britain - October 14, 2026 Paris St Germain's Ousmane Dembele celebrates after Vitinha scores their third goal. (Reuters)
UEFA Champions League - Manchester City v Paris St Germain - Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Britain - October 14, 2026 Paris St Germain's Ousmane Dembele celebrates after Vitinha scores their third goal. (Reuters)

Paris Saint-Germain further soured the mood at the Etihad Stadium as Manchester City's first home game since the guilty verdict on widespread flouting of Premier League financial rules ended in a 4-2 Champions League defeat on Wednesday.

The European champions turned on the style to strike three times inside the opening 35 minutes through Desire Doue, Ousmane Dembele and Vitinha.

But City stormed back in the second half as Erling Haaland scored twice either side of Maghnes Akliouche's strike that briefly restored PSG's three-goal cushion.

The 10-time English champions face swingeing sanctions unless they can successfully appeal the ruling of an independent commission last month, which found the club guilty on over 100 charges of financial impropriety.

City shrugged off the uncertainty over their future to win 3-0 at Liverpool on Sunday and remain top of the Premier League, but PSG showed why they are the favorites to win this competition for a third consecutive season.

Former City manager Pep Guardiola returned to the Etihad for the first time since his departure in May, sat behind the club's embattled chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak and CEO Ferran Soriano in a show of solidarity.

City made passing reference to the guilty verdict with a lengthy pre-match video detailing the club's historic moments of celebration both before and after an Abu Dhabi-backed takeover in 2008 that transformed their fortunes.

Behind one end supporters unraveled a giant banner reading: "I'm City till I die."

Yet the fighting talk in the stands was not matched on the field as City were blown away by a scintillating first 45 minutes from the visitors.

Luis Enrique's decision to leave Khvicha Kvaratskhelia on the bench proved to be inspired as it meant Doue started wide on the left.

Gianluigi Donnarumma had a point to prove after the Italian goalkeeper was let go by the PSG coach just months after helping deliver the club's first Champions League title in 2025.

However, it turned out to be a night to forget for the giant Italian.

Donnarumma was caught out at his near post by Doue's effort from outside the box after a lightning counter-attack to open the scoring.

The move for the second goal two minutes later was even more impressive as Doue and Dembele exchanged an elaborate one-two before the latter headed in at the far post.

Achraf Hakimi hit the post before Vitinha rattled in PSG's third from the edge of the box.

Maresca responded with a triple substitution at half-time and managed to salvage some pride, even if the deficit proved too much to overturn.

Antoine Semenyo and Enzo Fernandez missed glaring chances to pull a goal back even before Haaland glanced home a header from Iliman Ndiaye's cross.

Yet, City were hit by a sucker punch when Donnarumma got a hand to Akliouche's effort but the ball looped high into the air and spun back into the net.

Nuno Mendes made a brilliant clearance off his own line and Haaland hit the bar before the Norwegian slotted home his second of the night.

Donnarumma saved a late Ferran Torres penalty to deny the French champions a fifth goal.