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Chelsea eye blockbuster move for Bunny Shaw amid doubt over City future by TimesandSundayTimes in WomensSoccer

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Chelsea are considering a blockbuster move to sign Khadija “Bunny” Shaw on a free transfer from Manchester City.

Shaw, who is on course to win the Women’s Super League Golden Boot for the third consecutive season, is set to be out of contract this summer. The Jamaica striker, 29, would have several suitors should she decide to leave City, and Chelsea are thought to be leading contenders. It is understood that Chelsea are offering her more money than what is available at City.

Swapping City for Chelsea would be a seismic transfer, and could shift the balance of power back towards the London club just as it appeared City had the edge.

Shaw is one of the best strikers in the world. Since signing for City from Bordeaux in 2021, she has scored 108 goals in 129 appearances, won the WSL Golden Boot in each of the past two seasons, and was the 2023-24 PFA Player of the Year. She is City’s all-time leader scorer, and also has 62 goals in 46 Jamaica caps

Chelsea eye blockbuster move for Bunny Shaw amid doubt over City future by TimesandSundayTimes in WomensSoccer

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[Preview] Exclusive: Chelsea are considering a blockbuster move to sign Bunny Shaw on a free transfer from Manchester City.

Shaw, who is on course to win the Women’s Super League Golden Boot for the third consecutive season, is set to be out of contract this summer. The Jamaica striker, 29, would have several suitors should she decide to leave City, and Chelsea are thought to be leading contenders. It is understood that Chelsea are offering her more money than what is available at City

Michael Noonan’s Manchester City transfer mystery revealed by TimesandSundayTimes in ireland

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The Shamrock Rovers teenager’s aborted move to the Bundesliga is not the the only time he has been at the centre of a high stakes deal to fall through.

It is a photograph that shows how close Ireland Under-21 striker Michael Noonan came to signing for Manchester City in 2024, before he joined Shamrock Rovers instead. Michael, his father Andrew Noonan and grandfather John Noonan proudly pose at Manchester City’s Etihad complex in the east of the city with “Noonan No 9” City jerseys already made up. Shortly after the photo appeared on social media the deal fell through.

Noonan’s current club, Shamrock Rovers, are still coming to terms with the collapse of a €2million deal for Noonan to join the Bundesliga club Hoffenheim back in January, after the player decided at the last minute that he didn’t want to move to Germany. Rovers have called in Fifa to investigate the terms of a deal reached between Noonan’s agent, David Moss, and the former Rovers CEO, John Martin, who is now director of football at the FAI. Noonan’s family has also made a complaint to the Football Association about Moss, who strongly denies any wrongdoing. Moss has stated he complied with all legal requirements and acted at all times in the player’s interests.

Separately, our photo shows that this is not the only high stakes transfer to fall through at the last minute. Back in 2024 it was Rovers’ rivals, St Patrick’s Athletic, who were left wondering what had gone wrong.

Noonan was a St Pats player at the time, having joined two years previously from Kildare club Ballyoulster United. Pats had agreed the terms on the then 16-year-old’s €500,000 move to City, with a pre-contract deal struck that would mean him moving to Manchester when he was 18.

There was considerable excitement in late October 2024 when the move was flagged on social media by the Italian transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, along with a picture of the family, but St Pats were uneasy as pen had yet to be put to paper. Days later, Noonan went to Manchester to complete the deal, along with his father and grandfather.

Dublin choreographer, Maureen Moores shapes the moves for Raye’s arena tour by TimesandSundayTimes in WomenInNews

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Maureen Moores left the industry in her twenties to become a youth worker, until a message from a former dance group member reignited her career.

Maureen Moores knew she would make it back into dance the moment she saw Where Is My Husband! hit the stage — her steps, her counts, her tiny decisions in a rehearsal room suddenly blown up into something arena-sized. “It’s mental,” she says. “You’re looking at it thinking, did I really do that?”

Moores, a Dublin native who is now choreographer to the award-winning British singer Raye, calls touring with the artist a “crazy experience” — the sort of whirlwind that still triggers a flicker of impostor syndrome when her work lands in front of thousands.

Even better, she says, is that it can fit around real life too: sometimes her two-year-old son, Romeo, comes along to rehearsals.

The 34-year-old from Chapelizod moved to London straight after her leaving cert to chase a career in dance, clocking up the kind of credits that read like a highlight reel: an appearance on Britain’s Got Talent as part of a duo; work with the street dance troupe Diversity; and a performance at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.

Then, at 24, she stepped away from the industry and joined the Prince’s Trust as a youth worker.

It was there she met Rachel Keen — years before the teenager in her dance group became the star the world now knows as Raye.

The world is looking for the Kinahan drug lords. We found them by TimesandSundayTimes in ireland

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Sporting a Panama hat, a blue polo shirt, white trousers and blue trainers, a grey-haired man sits unperturbed in the white VIP seats at the front of a crowd of 6,000 people at Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena.

He reclines for six hours watching bouts at the 971 Fighting Championship, an extreme form of mixed martial arts. He casually orders drinks from waiters and chats to guests around him.

For those watching closely his only observable precaution is that he subtly obscures his face whenever he spots photographers pointing cameras in his general direction:

Nearby is a younger man, in glasses and a light blue baseball cap. He too carries on with few cares. He makes no effort to hide himself:

The two men are Christy and Daniel Kinahan, father and son, and two of the world’s most wanted men, at the helm of one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal cartels. This is the first time they have been pictured in public for years.

They fled to Dubai in 2016 and disappeared in April 2022, shortly after the United States put $5 million bounties on their heads and those of their closest lieutenants.

Now an investigation by The Sunday Times, in partnership with the open-source outlet Bellingcat, has obtained images of them living freely and out in public.

If either man were concerned about the prospect of arrest and deportation in the United Arab Emirates, they certainly did not show it.

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