Fifa has been threatened with legal action by organisations representing the Premier League and Professional Footballers’ Association unless it scraps plans to launch a 32-team Club World Cup next summer.
Thomas Frank keen to keep a hold of midfielder despite injuries
On the training pitches of Clayton Wood some nine years ago, there would be the sight of a Spanish striker putting in extra sessions of finishing after other Stoke City players had gone in for lunch. Joselu, their £5.75 million signing from Hannover 96, could not get in the team but as one team-mate says “he was happy to be a footballer”.