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Leicester reject £12m Musa bid

Leicester have rejected a £12m bid from Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr for striker Ahmed Musa.

Musa, 25, joined from CSKA Moscow in July 2016 for a then club-record £16.6m but has only made 21 Premier League appearances, scoring two goals.

Leicester would want to recoup the majority of that outlay if Musa were to leave this summer.

The Nigeria international spent the second half of last season back on loan at CSKA and his second goal against Iceland has been nominated for goal of the tournament at the FIFA World Cup.

Newspaper reports have also credited Turkish club Galatasaray with an interest in signing the 25-year-old.

AC Milan European ban overturned

Italian side AC Milan have had their one-year ban from European football overturned.

Uefa had issued the punishment after deciding Milan had breached a Financial Fair Play requirement to break even after spending £200m on transfers.

But the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) partially upheld the club's appeal and asked Uefa to issue a more "proportionate disciplinary measure".

The Italians are now free to play in this season's Europa League.

Milan had qualified for the group stages of the competition after finishing sixth in Serie A.

Cas said that, while Uefa was correct in ruling that Milan had failed to meet the break-even requirement, "some important elements have not been properly assessed or could not be properly assessed" when the decision was made.

It said that the club's financial situation was now better.

Uefa's Financial Fair Play rules were brought in to stop clubs running up debts, and they can be punished if they spend more money than they earn.

Sanctions for breaching the rules range from warnings and reprimands to points deductions and transfer embargoes.

Vettel desperate for home win

A jubilant Sebastian Vettel has set his sights on his first victory at the Hockenheimring after taking a stunning German GP pole position.

The four-time world champion was at his very best on his final lap in Q3 as he outpaced Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas by two tenths of a second, to the delight of his home crowd.

"I felt in Q1 that the car could do it and sometimes you just know," said Vettel, who will start 13 places ahead of Lewis Hamilton after his title rival's hydraulic failure.

Though Vettel has won a German GP before, at the Nurburgring, he has never triumphed at a Hockenheim track he grew up near - and wants to put that right on Sunday.

Historic gold for joint Korea team

A table tennis mixed doubles pairing with one player from North Korea and one from South Korea has become the first inter-Korea sports team to win a gold medal for almost three decades.

Jang Woo-jin from the South and Cha Hyo Sim from the North beat a Chinese team 3-1 at the Korea Open in Daejon.

The last gold medal also came in table tennis, with a women's joint team crowned world champions in 1991.

"The cheers from the crowd gave me goosebumps," said Jang.

"I saw Hyo Sim crying during the ceremony and it broke my heart that we have to say goodbye soon."

Four joint teams competed at the Korea Open, with the men's doubles team winning bronze on Friday.

It is the latest show of unity between the two nations after they entered under the same flag at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February, following months of tension in the Korean peninsula.

In April, the South's President Moon Jae-in held a summit with the North's leader Kim Jong Un, during which they vowed to increase their co-operation in sport.

The countries announced recently they will field joint teams in canoeing, rowing and women's basketball at the Asian Games in August.

from Bola Esho's Blog