Gossip: Sunderland offer contract to Mandava
Sunderland have offered Reinildo Mandava a two-year contract worth £65,000 a week following the 31-year-old Mozambique left-back's release by Atletico Madrid. (Guardian), externalSunderland are among several Premier League clubs interested in Toulouse's 22-year-old England Under-21 centre-back Charlie Cresswell, who has an £18m release clause in his contract. (Sun), externalWant more transfer stories? Read Monday's full gossip columnFollow the gossip column on BBC Sport
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I hope we will continue to show it."Former Chelsea defender Kalidou Koulibaly, who scored in extra time, added: "We knew it would be difficult against one of the best in the world."We wanted to show our talents. We are so happy because we wanted to show Al-Hilal had the talent to be here." 'A real worry' for Man City The group stage had been plain sailing for City, winning all three games, but they fell at the first knockout hurdle following a haphazard defensive Guardiola's side were often opened up on the counter-attack and were made to pay heavily for their sloppiness at both ends of the pitch - failing to take a host of first-half chances."It wasn't a fluke but really worrying signs for Guardiola," former City goalkeeper Shay Given said on Dazn. "They could have scored even more. It is a real worry the chances they gave up."For Guardiola, the task now is to sort out those issues before the Premier League opener at Wolves on 16 said: "It was a difficult game. 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