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The Premier League has terminated its £564m contract with its Chinese licensee with immediate effect.

China was the English top flight's most lucrative overseas television rights territory, with a three-season deal agreed in 2019.

It is understood the reasons for the termination are financial rather than political.

BBC Sport has been told streaming service PPTV withheld its latest payment of £160m, due in March.

In a statement on Thursday, the Premier League said: "The Premier League confirms that it has today terminated its agreements for Premier League coverage in China with its licensee in that territory.

"The Premier League will not be commenting further on the matter at this stage."

PPTV is owned by Suning Holdings, the Chinese group which also has a controlling stake in Serie A side Inter Milan.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport

Tonto30:
Yes Federal University Lokoja.

also happened in F.C.E okene.

tysontim:
Taa I know if you get America citizenship you'll grab it with both hands

who wan give am b4

Kriss216:
He will still end up in Europa league. That's where they belong.

gbam

UDUJ:
First time I am hearing of a DVD drive that only works with generator and not Nepa

walahi. e surprise me. even fake charger no dey select like dis

Iliyasdass:
Nigeria case worse ooo...That's how one of my friend that went for police screening last year narrated a story to me.. They ask them to run 5Km race and he came first..The Oga said to him; " You are disqualified! you are not running like a police officer, you are running like a thief"..

unbelievable ! he was disqualified for coming first

Tonto30:
Reminds me of how they recruited in a school around me here last year, a Federal University. I didn't even know they were recruiting, only to find out later. No advert was made, nothing. Over 500 people were employed. Ever since then I knew nothing good was going to come out of this country.

somwer in kogi state rite?

deltateam:
Yes. I made front page.

The GOAT has finally been made a nice offer.

Man city to win EPL if successful.

dats not y dey need. it's champs league dey crave for n still won't win even with Ronaldo inclusive.

rottennaija:
No US President has been this divisive as trump.

Oga leave America matter, ur country is now a laughing stock under ur very eyes.

do u know how much u guys now owe d Chinese in loans collected?

fourboys:
which kind talk be this?

it's called "parable" boy.
you'll understand me beta in d church

Artwasdcase:
I chose the player based on the pictures available to me and the orientation/posture of the image, the picture of Salah that I had was of him holding liverpool badge, so it was either salah or mane......Mane had the best posture so I dropped salah.

I feel u

Artwasdcase:
Let's go reds.....
Here's what I made for my team

nice work. don't u think salah is miles ahead of xhaq so deserves to be up der instead.

looks too pale for a Nigerian

Samexdx:
What makes you think Lionel Messi will even consider Liverpool as an option?

cos dey have 6 champs league to barcas 5.

and city have ummmmm Z,---E----R----O to der name
and got no chance of winning it in d nearest future.

Lionel Messi called his former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola to tell him he can only win the next two Ballon d'Or awards if he works under him at Manchester City.

That's the verdict of Cristobal Soria, who exclusively revealed the details of the pair's phone call.

"Here's what happened," he said, talking on the 'El Chiringuito de Jugones' programme.

"Last Tuesday, once Messi had decided to leave Barcelona, his first thought was Manchester City and to speak to Guardiola.

"The call happened, and Messi said to Pep: 'I want to win the next two Ballon d'Or awards, and I can only do that with you.'

"This is the killer phrase that Messi used," Soria said, repeating it twice.

https://www.marca.com/en/

HantaVirus:
Happened some years back...

Drove to the club with my car, got really drunk
..Ordered a uber back home while I forgot I brought a car... It was when I got home and couldn't find my car in the compound I came back to my senses

Lol now dats a funny one. something similar happened to a guy who left his bike behind to climb an okada only to wonder why he had his bike keys with him.

guyman drink clear instanta. he quickly returned to d spot n luckily met his bike untouched.

rottennaija:
I don't drink

shouldn't have bothered commenting den

Whobedatte:
Lionel Messi is not on Twitter

whoeva put up dis sh*t on FP probably doesn't know how Twitter works.

Mchenryfreeman:
You're are praying for a killer and a murderer you need weed

You must still be sobbing from the death of that Iranian terrorist.

If u consider Trump a murderer for that then u must be very sympathetic to those ppl.

Only GOD fit help ur matter.

babyfaceafrica:
Pence is as clueless as Trump

Wow. I Neva knew cluelessness had anoda meaning to a black man.

u must be quoting from d black man's dictionary.

smh.

SmartProf:
It appears the real news in Nigeria is whatever you begin to observe and experience and not what you read. There are too many conflicting stories on same issues.

on point

kolade560:
There father....next season go bad!!! we are
proactively preparing, the shameless Arsenal and man utd fans that were competing with us despite not signing players for two years will be panicking now.
We will demolish teams like Bayern this coming season.......
Bar man bar man give me one chilled kainkain abeg ;

careful der Mr.

Wenger n co said similar things wen Bayern first rolled Dem ova.
do not let transfer fees deceive u.


Ben is a good left back but like he said 2 months back " I watch Robertson alot cos I have lots to learn and have nothing but admiration for him"

Oga get OGA.

FYI Robertson plays for liverpool fc.

englishmart:
Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, etc fans troll Chelsea at every chance, and then when Chelsea fans reply in some more creative ways they call them irresponsible noisemakers. You can't troll me and go free.
Next season, Chelsea will kill and bury every opponent. Engrave this in your hearts

careful wat u wish for.

Bayern did a double on d londoners 0-3, 4-0

wen dey did it to arsenal back den, Wenger rushed and got Ozil n Oda players. Bayern still did d double on Dem.

history is indeed an interesting thing ey

uunwanaobong3:
Imagine;

Sterling--------- Aguero ------------- Messi


B. Silva-------- Fernandinho ------ De-bruyne


Alaba --- Laporte ---- Koulibaly ------ Walka


Ederson




Now imagine this mancity team and tell me just one reason why they cannot win champions league?

oh pleaaaase!

similar attack has been spearheading Argentina's Frontline for ages yet no single international trophy for ova 2 decades.

Higuain---Dybala----Messi----Aguero

do d maths.

city can afford him nonetheless.
dey don't abide by FFP after all.
#cheaters

Harry Maguire's lack of apology for his offences on the Greek island of Mykonos is "shocking" and "unsportsmanlike", says one of the prosecution lawyers.

On Tuesday, the Manchester United captain was
found guilty of repeated bodily harm, attempted bribery, violence against public employees and insult following his arrest last week.
He was sentenced to 21 months, 10 days in prison, suspended for three years.
Lawyer Dr Ioannis Paradissis said there was still time "to say sorry".

England defender Maguire, 27, was arrested along with brother Joe, 28, and family friend Christopher Sharman, 29, on Thursday after an altercation with police. Both Joe Maguire and Sharman were sentenced to 13 months in prison, also suspended for three years.

Dr Paradissis, who represented two of the six Greek police officers involved in the case, told the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4: "The appeal process in Greece is a retrial. So obviously there is still time for the three defendants to say they are sorry and then I believe that the outcome might be different.
"It would be different because under Greek law you can withdraw some accusations - non-aggravated bodily harm and the verbal assaults that were shouted at the policeman.

"I don't know if my clients would accept that but they told me they are still waiting for an apology and they haven't heard any and this is what I find quite shocking and quite unsportsmanlike, because fair play means when I've done something wrong, I apologise."

Maguire said after Tuesday's verdict that he had instructed his legal team "with immediate effect to inform the courts we will be appealing".
"I remain strong and confident regarding our innocence in this matter - if anything myself, family and friends are the victims," he added.
Leading sports lawyer Dr Gregory Ioannidis has told BBC Sport it could take up to a year before any hearing and the case will likely go to the Piraeus Court of Appeal. He added it could be delayed even further, if there are requests for further adjournments.


Dr Paradissis said: "I'm representing some policemen that have been hit, they have injuries and the three defendants say they are not guilty but on the other side they don't explain how these injuries were made.
"We don't have the same definition of what a victim is then because how can you be a victim and the policeman that have been assaulted, hit, that were just doing their job, they went home with injuries - how can they not be a victim?"
Maguire's lawyer, Alexis Anagnostakis - one of Greece's top human rights lawyers - told the court the events stemmed from Maguire's sister Daisy being injected by a substance by a group of Albanians and she immediately fainted.
The defendants called for transport and asked to be driven to a hospital, but were instead taken to a police station.

The prosecution said Maguire, his brother and friend then physically and verbally attacked police officers.
"Obviously that [Maguire's sister being injected] is irrelevant concerning the assault committed against the police officers," said Dr Paradissis.
"And in any case what is strange about this case about the sister is that the sister was interviewed by police and she said nothing about that to the police. This is a new line of defence that we heard recently."

Coldie:
are u team Trump cause u have a reasonable reason to be or because ur supreme leader told u trump will give you biafla?

y do u think anybody who associates with Trump is igbo by tribe.

day only means dose who don't are Terrorist or wannabees.


Have a good day amigo.

chioma8:
she's still more better than you Cardi B...... meanwhile, it won't stop Trump from winning this election come November


Team Trump......

unstoppable victory.

Twinkie1000:
The aggrement on his release clause is that he can leave on free transfer at the end this season if he wants to which normally should've expired around July, but seeing that the season was over extended to august due to the pandemic, he can still leave before September. This is still open to debate though. Bartomeu leaves? Or Messi leaves? Make I carry popcorn dey watch

plenty drama yet to unfold

Sanchez01:
Messi leaving the club will be the end of Bartomeu's political career and the move will cause a major shake up at the Camp Nou, from the board down to the players and possibly janitors and ball boys.

The Camp Nou politics runs very deep and it is riddled with corruption the size of our own government. Messi, seeking to play away from Barcelona is probably the best for him but it won't solve the issue at the club.

Anyways, I have to be thankful... I can't wait to see a Messiless Barcelona run around the field while Eibar and Osasuna show them.

and Celta Vigo especially

and has been withdrawn from the England squad by Southgate.

bad Capitan
Terrible defender
Mediocre transfer fee.

average bloke playing for an average club.

According to BBC that clause which allows him leave on free has expired and will have to wait till 2021 unless 700 million euros buy-out clause is met by suitors.

Man City have displayed series of madness with transfers in d past but I think dey could go d extra mile by bidding for him. after all der owner is f**king rich to d core.