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Pep Guardiola faces his last year as Manchester City manager. At least that is what his contract says, which ends in 2021. By the time the date arrives, the Catalan coach will have spent five seasons in command of the English club, the longest stay in any of the teams he has managed. That is why its continuity is a constant topic of debate.

Will you stay longer? Will you go to another league? Will you seek to be a coach? There are multiple questions surrounding Guardiola, although Manchester City want him to stay. Pep, for his part, has left the door open to a possible renovation: “I would like to stay longer. It is a place that I love, but I have to deserve it”he said in reference to his contract. “You have to maintain the standards that the club has achieved in this decade and to sign a new contract I have to deserve it. We’ll see if I deserve it this season.”

Guardiola arrived in Manchester in the summer of 2016 and signed a three-season relationship, which was later extended for two more years. Along the way, two Premier Leagues, two FA Cups, four League Cups and a currently insurmountable obstacle: the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

It is the great doubt that exists in the U, especially in these days when there is no activity for the National Holidays: this Friday, September 25, the deadline for Carlos Heller to sell his shares in Azul Azul and the management and financial structure of the club change forever.

Or not? The truth is that nobody knows for sure, and in the circle close to the businessman they point out that the business is not completely closed yet.

If it is to bet, the sale is much more likely to occur than not. And that also raises questions about the future of the president Christian Aubert, leaders who arrived and are trusted by Heller, and even historical references who today have managerial positions, like Rodrigo Goldberg and Sergio Vargas.

And also about the fate of the first team led by Hernán Caputto, and that he could be living his last months in charge.

Is not the same…

Heller has been traveling for business between Chile and the United States, and takes advantage of the long flight hours to ponder the offer he has on the table to dispose of 63% of the shares he owns in the U to a private fund with Chilean and American investors .

According to La Tercera, doubts have grown in recent days. “He is no longer so convinced to sell, due to the sports rebound of the institution”they point out.

In fact, when the businessman decided to resign as president of the U and then sell his share package, the team was going through a serious football crisis, which had it on the verge of decline. But now it is second in the championship, just six points from the leading Catholic University. And on two more dates comes the University Classic.

“He considers that it is not the same to sell a team that is fighting not to lose one that is sub-leader of the Chilean championship”, adds the post.

Heller did not want to sell the property of the club of which he has been a fan since childhood to just anyone, and so he asked to know the identity of the buyers. You already know it, and you would be sure that the U will remain in the hands of people interested in the well-being of the team and the institution, and that they would arrive with an ambitious economic and sports plan.

But his doubts go the other way: How to leave now, when the club could end up winning a title?

The javelin talent from Lier threw a full 79.90 meters during the National Championships in athletics in Bergen on Sunday – in cool autumn weather. It is the longest javelin throw by a Norwegian athlete since Andreas Thorkildsen resigned in 2014.

Watch the giant cast in the video window at the top of the case

You have to go 16 years back in time, in 2004, to find another javelin thrower in Norway who has thrown as far as Sagen – apart from Andreas Thorkildsen.

– It was fun. I have struggled a bit with the technique this year, but today it loosened up. 10 inches too short, but it was a lot of fun. 80 meters is a dream limit, but it will be next year, says the newly crowned Norwegian champion to NRK after the competition.

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The case’s throw is thus also a new personal record for the 21-year-old, who represents Bækkelaget’s SK in Oslo.

– It’s fantastic. He has five throws over his old pers, and he moves the pers over five and a half meters. He is doing fantastically well, says coach Åsmund Martinsen to Nettavisen after the NM competition.

His previous personal record was 74.23, but it was improved by more than five and a half meters on Sunday morning.

The case delivered several good throws during Sunday’s NM competition. In the first attempt he threw 77, 40 meters, which at that time was a new personal record.

Then the 21-year-old followed up with 75.45 m, 75.46 m and 73.22 m, before a new personal record of 78, 95 meters. But the spear talent was not finished there. In the last attempt, he threw a full 79, 90 meters, just ten small centimeters away from the magical 80-meter limit.

Compared to Thorkildsen

– He is very young and he started throwing spears quite late. So he has a huge potential. But he still has a lot to learn and a lot to train, says Martinsen, and points out that the most important thing for the development of Sagen is to stay injury-free.

– They are both tall slender boys. Physically, there are some similarities there, and then there is that they are very similar in the shoulder. They get a lot of power from the chest and out into the arm through the shoulder, the coach explains.

Three of the throws he delivered in the competition were the best a Norwegian has delivered since Thorkildsen left.

The 21-year-old is trained by Åsmund Martinsen, the man who trained Andreas Thorkildsen for, among other things, two Olympic golds and one World Cup gold.

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In the other subjects everyone sat nicely with a mouth mask on, but in the spy head they were scarce or they were worn under the chin. Only a small percentage kept the mask on. There was also not much talk of social distancing.

Manchester United did not manage to enter the English league and after Saturday’s home defeat 1: 3 from Crystal Palace, according to coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, they must recover quickly. The Norwegian coach takes the unexpected result as an alarm clock.

The guests took the lead from the seventh minute thanks to Andros Townsend and in the 74th minute, thanks to Wilfried Zaha, they bounced from the penalty to a two-goal difference. After that, Donny van de Beek reduced Amsterdam’s summer reinforcement from Ajax to more than a billion crowns, but Zaha had the final say.

“I’m very disappointed. The defeat shows shortcomings. Lack of playing time, physics, sharpness. We have to improve quickly. We wanted and needed these three points. There are 37 rounds left, but this is an alarm clock.” said for club television Solskjaer.

United started a new year of the Premier League with a week’s delay, as they played in the European League in mid-August, where they were not enough for the later Seville winner in the semifinals. “We knew we would have to face something like this when we got this far in the European League. We had a short time to prepare, but that is the reality, we are not making excuses.” said the 47-year-old Nor.

According to him, the fact that the London team played four preparatory and two competitive duels before the duel, while the “Red Devils” only had one test match, manifested itself. “You saw that they were sharp, strong and practiced the system properly. They played exactly as we expected. I hoped and thought we would be better.” stated Solskjaer.

He was saddened by the second goal. After watching the video, referee Martin Atkinson ordered a penalty for Victor Lindelöf for Crystal Palace. The home goalkeeper David de Gea caught Jordan Ayew, but because he did not have legs on the goal line, the penalty kick was repeated. This time Zaha stood up to him, who did not hesitate.

“It’s very cruel. First David performed a great intervention and then a decision is made against him. If you follow the rules, it’s probably judged correctly, because his foot is a short distance from the goal line, but who knows what would happen. but it’s a verdict that would cost us a fight, “ said Solskjaer, who as a player won six titles with United and in 1999 the Champions League.