SPORTS UPDATE WITH Mark Ngumba stay online for more apdates across the world sports news Arsene Venger says Arsenals performance against Manchester City will show they have not given up on winning the Premier League. Arsenal go into this weekends Saturday Night Football game now 100 over 1 outsiders for the title in the wake of a 6-0 hammering at Chelsea and Tuesdays failure to beat Swansea. Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has refused to comment on reports linking him with a move for Arsenal full-back Bacary Sagna. The France internationals contract is set to expire at the end of the season, with rumors suggesting he has been offered a three-year deal at the Etihad Stadium. Tom Cleverley is up for sale at Manchester United. Reports say United manager David Moyes plans a massive clearout of senior players. He so far has a list of players he wishes to move out of the club and they include midfielders Anderson, Nani , Wilfried Zaha and defenderAlexander Buttner. Moyes will also listen to good offers for Darren Fletcher, Tom Cleverley,Shinji Kagawa and Javier Hernandez. Meanwhile, Nemanja Vidic is leaving for Inter Milan and Moyes expects to lose Patrice Evra to Serie A and Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs to retirement. Meantime, Under-pressure Manchester United manager, David Moyes insists his players know the standards that are expected of them. Heavy home defeats against rivals Liverpool and Manchester City in recent weeks have seen the Scots position come into question, with United sitting seventh and 18 points adrift of leaders Chelsea. However, Moyes has stressed that these are still early days in his tenure and, given time, he will turn the reigning Premier League champions form around, beginning against Aston Villa tomorrow. It has emerged that Chelsea have no plans to sell star duo Oscar and Eden Hazard. PSG are chasing both midfield youngsters - who would cost a combined 100 million Euros. However, reports say Chelsea are adamant that any bids for the duo, from PSG or anywhere else, will be rejected. Pep Guardiola is determined to maintain Bayern Munichs winning habit ahead of next weeks UEFA Champions League tie with Manchester United. Bayern have already wrapped up the Bundesliga title in record time thanks to their 3-1 win over Hertha Berlin in midweek. With Saturdays visit of Hoffenheim coming four days prior to their European quarter-final first-leg trip to Old Trafford, Guardiola is extremely keen to ensure his players performance does not suffer a single dip. Striker Emmanuel Adebayor is a doubt for Tottenhams trip to Liverpool,but manager Tim Sherwood says the striker has told him he confident of being fit. Spurs, who are sixth, start the weekend seven points behind fourth-placed Arsenal. Norwich manager Chris Hughton remains confident club-record signing Ricky van Wolfswinkel will soon break his goal drought. The 25-year-old, an£8.5m signing from Sporting Lisbon, has not scored since August. The Football Association has requested further TV footage to establish whether Marouane Fellaini spat at Pablo Zabaleta during the Manchester derby.Footage on the internet showed Uniteds Fellaini standing over Zabaleta during the 3-0 loss at Old Trafford. Barcelona coach Gerardo Martino is confident the Spanish champions will come out even stronger from the loss of goalkeeper Victor Valdes. Spain international Valdes is out for the rest of the season with anterior cruciate ligament damage in his knee. The battle for the titans is on tomorrow as Rwenzori big league leaders, Lweza (with 34 points) face 3rd placed The Saints in a match that would determine the final tide of the race for Super Division qualification. IN THE OTHER GAMES ON THE MENU: Wandegeya vs Gulu University - Kiteezi grounds Soroti Garage vs Sadolin Paints - Soroti Kirinya – Jinja SS vs Ngora Freda Carr - Jinja VCC vs Artland K - Masindi Stadium Mutundwe Lions vs Baza Holdings - Lubiri SS TENNIS; World number one Rafael Nadal reached the Sony Open semi-finals after recovering from a set down to beat 12th seed Milos Raonic. Nadal, 27, needed two hours and 35 minutes to overcome the big-hitting Canadian in a 4-6 6-2 6-4 win in Miami. The 13-time Grand Slam winner meets Tomas Berdych, who beat quarter-final opponent Alexandr Dolgopolov in straight sets, in the last four. The world number seven, 28, overpowered his Ukrainian opponent 6-4 7-6 (7-3).
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