• Rashford has rejected teams including Tottenham
• Manchester United keen on Mathys Tel as replacement

Marcus Rashford has his heart set on a loan move to Barcelona before Monday’s transfer deadline but a deal will go through only if the Catalan club can offload up to two players.

Rashford has rejected offers from several other clubs including Tottenham because of his determination to join Barcelona. Under La Liga’s squad cost limit rules Barcelona will have to generate funds to be able to spend the money required to sign Rashford from Manchester United. They are prepared in principle to cover most or all of Rashford’s £375,000-a-week salary.

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There’s a huge game at Bournemouth, a huge game at Arsenal and … er, a huge game at Portman Road

• Premier League top scorers: latest Golden Boot race

Nuno Espírito Santo said that at Bournemouth last weekend, where they were humbled 5-0, his Nottingham Forest side had been “not accurate and missed a lot of passes”. It is interesting that four of Forest’s last five – and five of their last eight – Premier League games rank in their bottom eight of the season on pass completion. “We have to perform much better,” he said. “We have to be more solid and play better football. We have so many things to improve.” Though results in that period, at least until last week, continued to be good they have relied on statistically unlikely displays of finishing prowess. Before their trip to Bournemouth, Forest had scored with nine of their previous 12 shots on target in all competitions and the last time a Chris Wood shot on target failed to go in was before Christmas. Both Nuno and Fabian Hürzeler were sent off for misconduct during a rancorous conclusion to the fixture between these sides at the Amex Stadium last September. Simon Burnton

Nottingham Forest v Brighton, Saturday 12.30pm (all times GMT)

Bournemouth v Liverpool, Saturday 3pm

Everton v Leicester, Saturday 3pm

Ipswich v Southampton, Saturday 3pm

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A good salesman can sell any product. It’s a real skill. The only problem is, after you’ve bought the pitch, you could be stuck with a lousy product. Read More

Yes he’s about to be Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, but a YouTube series featuring the Hollywood star being grumpy in Scotland is the best thing he’s done for years

In the next few weeks, Harrison Ford will officially join the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring in Captain America: Brave New World as both the president of the United States and Red Hulk. However, the film is shaping up to be a critical and commercial flop – maybe even the biggest Marvel flop yet – and so it makes sense that Ford would want to quickly move on to his next project.

And now we know what that project is. This week a number of videos appeared on the YouTube channel of the Scottish whisky brand Glenmorangie, taking the form of a semi-fictional six-part series about the adventures of Harrison Ford in Scotland. Joel Edgerton directed the adverts. They’re set in the Traitors castle. It’s all quite hard to comprehend.

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Détecter des exoplanètes, c’est presque devenu le quotidien des astronomes. Désormais, il est temps de passer à l’étape supérieure : étudier leurs caractéristiques. C’est ce qu’ils ont fait pour cette planète de notre voisinage cosmique. Et leurs résultats laissent espérer qu’elle puisse abriter...

Détecter des exoplanètes, c’est presque devenu le quotidien des astronomes. Désormais, il est temps de passer à l’étape supérieure : étudier leurs caractéristiques. C’est ce qu’ils ont fait pour cette planète de notre voisinage cosmique. Et leurs résultats laissent espérer qu’elle puisse abriter...

The involvement of Sullivan & Cromwell in the appeal of President Trump’s criminal conviction underscored how New York’s legal power players have moved toward Mr. Trump.

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Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford pitched himself Wednesday as the best steward of the economy in the face of looming tariffs, but the other party leaders say his record from the last seven years suggests otherwise. Read More

Ontario voters are set to head to the polls in a rare winter election. Read More

Vote Tory to stop Trump’s tariffs: that’s the basic message Ontario Premier Doug Ford was sending voters as he prepared to trigger the province’s 44th general election, dissolving the legislature on Tuesday just two-and-a-half years into his second majority government. Ford said he needs “the largest mandate in Ontario’s history” to stand up to the president’s threats, and if those threats come good, to “invest tens of billions of dollars in unplanned spending and make tough choices.” Read More

TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford officially set a provincial election in motion Tuesday for Feb. 27, more than a year before the next fixed election date. Read More

The Ontario Liberals will need to catch a few breaks if they are to climb out of the political basement in next month’s provincial election. They got one Monday, or so it seems at first glance. Read More

The move removed three of the four sitting members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, leaving it unable to act as the Trump administration begins reshaping intelligence agencies.

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Premier Doug Ford’s decision to speed up the rollout of alcohol sales in corner stores — which first sparked early election speculation last spring — will cost the province more than $600 million, Ontario’s budget watchdog said Monday. Read More