The big news: Messi to stay?

Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi has began talks about a new contract with Barcelona and striker Luis Suarez is set to sign a new deal which will see him stay at the club till 2022.

Messi is already contracted to the club until June 2018 while Suarez, in all likelihood, will extend his stay at the Nou Camp. The former Liverpool player has won two La Liga titles and the Champions League since moving to Barcelona in July 2014 in a £75 million deal. Suarez also won last season’s European Golden Shoe after netting 40 league goals.

Along with Messi and Neymar, they have scored a combined 131 goals in all competitions last year as they won the La Liga and the Copa del Rey.

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  1. Real Madrid’s Toni Kroos said that the team is taking the 2016 Club World Cup seriously this time around. Madrid fly to Japan for FIFA’s annual competition between the champions of six continental confederations after Saturday’s game with Deportivo La Coruna. Kroos said the team is eager to secure the Club World Cup. Real will play the winners of Sunday’s tie between Japan’s Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors and Mexican side America in the semi-finals in Yokohama on December 15.
  2. Brighton topped the Championship charts and extended their unbeaten league run to 14 games with a win over 10-man Leeds United. Glenn Murray put the Seagulls in front from the penalty spot after Kalvin Phillips was sent off in the first half. Tomer Hemed doubled the lead when he scored from the spot in the second half. 
  3. Everton manager Ronald Koeman backed Romelu Lukaku as he underwent a terrible run with the club. Koeman said that he is adapting to Everton’s pressing game but needs more chances to rectify their fortunes. The side have won just one match in their last 10 games.   
  4. In a shocking development, around 83 potential suspects and 98 clubs are involved in child abuse in British football, police chiefs have said. The investigations stated that every club, “from premier clubs through to amateur”, are a part of it said the National Police Chiefs’ Council said. A total of 639 referrals had been received from the helpline set up by the NSPCC.