Bayern makes final offer to Davies
Bayern Munich sports director Max Eberl says the club has made its final offer to Canada left back Alphonso Davies to extend his contract amid reported interest from Real Madrid.
“I can say we made Alphonso a very concrete, appreciative offer,” Eberl told the Sport Bild magazine on Wednesday. “At some point in life you have to say yes or no.”
Davies's contract with Bayern expires at the end of next season, meaning the Bavarian powerhouse could lose the 23-year-old player in 2025 without receiving a fee if he decides not to extend.
Spanish media reports suggest Davies has already reached an agreement with Real Madrid about a move, but Eberl said the Spanish league leader had not been in touch. Bayern could ask for a fee if Davies were to leave the club at the end of this season.
Davies, who has 15 goals in 45 games for Canada, has made 127 Bundesliga appearances for Bayern.
Davies, a naturalized Canadian born in Ghana, joined Bayern in January 2019 after the Bavarian club agreed a transfer worth up to US$22 million with the Vancouver Whitecaps the year before for the then17-year-old. It was a record for a Major League Soccer player at the time.
After stints in the UFC and PFL, and with four wins in his five Bellator outings, Canadian featherweight Jeremy (JBC) Kennedy is finally getting his title shot.
The 31-year-old from Surrey last fought in February 2023, defeating Portugal's Pedro (The Game) Carvalho in what was billed as a title challenger eliminator. But champion Patricio (Pitbull) Freire's dance card was full, until now.
“It's my opportunity ... And it's a changing of the guard, I feel like,” Kennedy said. “I feel like I'm just younger, more athletic, more physical than him. I think I'm going to be better than him everywhere.”
Kennedy (19-3-0 with one no-contest) gets his chance to show it Friday when he takes on Freire (35-7-0) on the Bellator Champion Series card in Belfast.
Denis Shapovalov downed Italy's Luciano Darderiin three sets Wednesday to advance to the second round of the Miami Open. Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., fired 16 aces and won 77 per cent of first serves en route to a 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-4 win in the ATP 1000 tournament.
Shapovalov next meets fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia in the Round of 64.
Fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, of Montreal, will play his first match today against Australia's Adam Walton.
Auger-Aliassime, currently ranked No. 36 in the ATP rankings, enters the tournament unseeded.
Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and partner, Erin Routliffe of New Zealand, are seeded second in women's doubles. They'll also be in action today against Hanyu Guo of China and Ulrikke Eikeri of Norway.