MOUR OF THE SAME

TOTTENHAM Jose feels heat after derby loss 0 1 CHELSEA

JOSE MOURINHO is coming under pressure after his Tottenham side slumped to a third successive Premier League defeat.

A first-half Jorginho penalty gave Thomas Tuchel his second win in three games as Chelsea manager. But after

MANCHESTER CITY believe winning the Premier League this season will help them beat Chelsea to a £100million deal for Erling Haaland.

Pep Guardiola’s side are three points clear at the top with a game in hand – and face defending champions Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.

Jurgen Klopp’s Reds are seven points adrift in fourth place after another poor Spurs performance, BT Sport pundit Rio Ferdinand said: “The team and Jose were lucky there were no fans in the stadium.

“They’d have been booed off.”

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City banking on title to lure £100m Haaland

their 1-0 midweek defeat by Brighton.

Guardiola has made Haaland his No1 choice to replace record scorer Sergio Aguero and City chairman Khaldoon Al-Mubarak is willing to sanction a move for the Borussia Dortmund striker this summer. Haaland, right, has a £68m release clause in his contract that is due to come into effect in 2022. But City are confident of signing the Norway international earlier.

City believe winning the title will be the deal-breaker when it comes to negotiations with the 20-year-old. If Haaland agrees to join, he would become one of the highest paid stars in Europe in a deal worth close to £400,000 a week. Haaland has scored 38 goals in 33 starts for Dortmund since moving from RB Salzburg in January 2020.

Guardiola signed a contract extension earlier this season on the condition that he would be given whoever he wanted to make City the dominant force in English football once again – as well as win the Champions League.