Lionel Messi wants Valverde to STAY at Barcelona

Lionel Messi is currently contracted with Barcelona until 2021 after signing a deal back in 2017 that saw him become one of the best-paid players on the planet.

The Argentina international has spent the entire of his professional career with the La Liga giants, helping them win 10 titles and four Champions League crowns.

Barcelona chief Josep Maria Bartomeu said back in April that he wants to keep Messi for life, saying: “We want him to have a really long career so we can keep on enjoying him.

Barcelona: Neymar’s return is a ‘complex transfer’ says pundit

Barcelona have been linked with moves for Neymar and Griezmann this transfer window as they aim to bounce back from their failure to win the Champions League last season.

Neymar wants to leave PSG for a stunning Nou Camp return, two years after he left for the Parc des Princes in a £200million transfer.

Griezmann, meanwhile, has long had his heart set on a move to Barcelona despite rejecting the Catalan giants a year ago.

Solar Eclipse 2019 Today: Surya Grahan India Timings And Precautions To Take During Eclipse

Solar Eclipse or Surya Grahan 2019 will be visible today, 2 July across parts of South America and the South Pacific. Solar eclipse 2019 is not likely to be visible in India. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon comes between the Sun and the Earth, so that the visible disk of Sun is covered by the Moon. Maximum coverage during the eclipse is likely to occur in the South Pacific, around 1,080 km north of Easter island. Solar Eclipse July 2019 will occur at night time in India and thus it will not be visible here but one can watch a live broadcasting online. This will be the only total solar eclipse of 2019 and the next one will occur on 14 December 2020.  

Solar eclipse 2019: When will it be visible in India?

The partial solar eclipse is likely to begin at India time 10.25 pm IST and the total solar eclipse will begin at 11:54 pm IST. Skywatchers will be able to witness the solar eclipse 2019 in parts of Chile and Argentina.

Cricket World Cup: England’s Moeen Ali wants to follow Virat Kohli’s work ethics

London: England off-spinner Moeen Ali is keen to follow the work ethics of Indian skipper Virat Kohli. The soft-spoken all-rounder is content with what he has achieved, yet he still hopes to improve further.

“When Kohli scores a hundred, I doubt he is satisfied with it,” he said. “I believe he is always thinking about when he would get his next one. That’s the key thing … he is never complacent. He is motivated, and that motivation I am yet to see in anyone else. He is different.”
Ali was candid when he spoke about his bowling. “I always try to bowl tight,” he said. “There is only this much one can do unless it is spinning a huge amount. I try to bowl tight, build pressure and then get wickets. As a finger spinner, you don’t have that mystery. But that one extra fielder (inside) makes a bit of a difference. It’s not like we can bowl a googly or anything like that, but we need to control the middle overs. And so if it is a spinning wicket like it was today, one can look for wickets.”
Ali admitted that it was tough for him to master the carom-ball deliveries like other spinners. “I have been tempted to master that delivery but I don’t have the kind of patience to stick with it,” he said. “Yet I have been practising for a while. While in India for the IPL, I bowled two in the nets, but they were pathetic. Since boundaries are small here and the wickets are good, batsmen don’t care what comes their way. They use their strength and hit the ball hard.”
So does it mean life could get tougher for the spinners in limited overs cricket in the future? “I think spinners are going to be huge,” said Moeen. “You saw Imran (Tahir) bowling really well today. There was spin as well for (Adil) Rashid, and there’s always going to be a chance for getting wickets, especially if it spins like it did today.”

The off-spinner revealed that he enjoys bowling with Rashid. “Both Rashid and Liam Plunkett get wickets in the middle, and when I am bowling with them, I try to bowl tight and build up the pressure so they can then pick up the wickets.”
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