Manchester United paid Ajax €100m for a player who has more bookings than goals or assists in the Premier League

By Ben McAleer for WhoScored

“We are the worst team maybe in the history of Manchester United​,” said Ruben Amorim after Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at home to Brighton. The manager ​had paced up and down the touchline as his side managed just one shot on target in the match – and that was a Bruno Fernandes penalty.

United were always going to need time to adapt to the manager’s ideas but even he knows that a return of 11 points from 11 games is not good enough. “Imagine what this is for a fan of Manchester United, imagine what this is for me,” said Amorim. “We are getting a new coach who is losing more than the last coach.”

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© Photograph: Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Getty Images

For the children of the Nigerian diaspora, displaced by war and split between two worlds, footballers from John Fashanu to Jay-Jay Okocha were a first glimpse of themselves in Britain’s mainstream

They arrived in 80s London with small intentions: to study, to work, to outrun what they had come from, and then maybe, one day, return back home. A people who came en masse from Nigeria, working the dark hours, balancing two jobs with part-time education, rolling in a ceaseless loop of morning shifts into lectures into night work again, until maybe a qualification came good, and they could move into some kind of steady career or profession.

Many of us grew up with these stories, parents who worked quiet jobs for decades, who cleaned offices in the glass Canary Wharf skyscrapers before first light and then, in the summer evenings, waited on tables at Soho and Knightsbridge restaurants. Aunts and uncles and elders who earned their first wages in London at local bowling alleys and bingo halls, at cinemas and hospitals and care homes, moving anonymously through a looming city.

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© Composite: Alamy / Guardian Design

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© Composite: Alamy / Guardian Design

Dans une interview au média australien Optus Sport, Emmanuel Adebayor a assuré ne pas regretter sa célébration devant les supporters d'Arsenal, son ancien club, alors qu'il portait les couleurs de Manchester City lors d'un match contre les Gunners lors de la saison 2009-2010.