PREMIER SHORTS
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he is ready to do everything he can to help Steven Gerrard become a successful manager.
The Liverpool great will resume his relationship with his hometown club next month when he joins the academy coaching staff, 18 months since he left for LA Galaxy after 17 years as a player.
Gerrard’s long-term ambition is to become a manager, and the 36-year-old will find a willing mentor in the current Reds boss.
West Ham have rejected a third offer from Marseille for Dimitri Payet worth around £22.5 million (R377.7 million), according to Sky sources.
A source close to the club’s president claims the bid, which Marseille believe is significant, was made in pounds sterling.
West Ham, who value the player at £30m and have turned down two previous offers, consider the latest approach unacceptable.
Yaya Toure has dismissed the idea of going to the Chinese Super League and says he has plenty of years in him at the top in Europe.
The Manchester City midfielder has fought his way back into Pep Guardiola’s plans after apologising for comments made about the Catalan coach by his agent Dimitri Seluk.
Toure, 33, who has started City’s last eight matches, is out of contract at the end of the summer and reportedly turned down an offer worth £520 000-a-week from Jiangsu Suning.