TUCHEL ISN’T REVEALING MUCH ABOUT NEYMAR

SINGAPORE: Paris Saint-germain coach Thomas Tuchel pledged to keep his conversations with Neymar behind closed doors on Sunday as he weighs up how best to deal with the combustible star.

Neymar, the world’s most expensive player, was widely lampooned for his play-acting at the World Cup, but Tuchel refused to reveal if he would raise it with the Brazilian.

“I’m young — well, not so young — but I know when I speak about Neymar there’s a lot of potential to every word that I say,” said the 44-year-old.

“So the best thing when I speak to him about something that we do this in closed rooms.”

‘QATAR’S BID USED BLACK OPERATIONS’

LONDON: Qatar’s controversyplagued bid to host the 2022 World Cup has been hit by further allegations that they used a secret ‘black operations’ propaganda campaign to undermine rival bids in violation of FIFA rules, according to The Sunday Times. The newspaper — which also made allegations in 2014 about Qatar buying the vote but of which they were subsequently cleared after a two-year long FIFA investigation led by American lawyer Michael Garcia — says emails leaked to them by a whistleblower from the bid team show they paid a Us-based office of a public relations firm as well as former CIA agents to disseminate “fake propaganda” concerning main rivals Australia and the US during their campaign to host the 2022 competition.