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Le ménage est-il mauvais pour la santé ? Derrière cette question se cachent les résultats d’une étude pour le moins alarmante. Selon des chercheurs américains, les produits ménagers auraient le même effet sur la santé pulmonaire des femmes que le fait de fumer un paquet de cigarette par jour. Des méfaits qui n’ont pas été retrouvés chez les hommes !

Harvey Elliott’s loan to Aston Villa hasn’t gone as anyone hoped or planed, with the £35M purchase obligation agreed by Villa leading to the club deciding early in the season that maybe Elliott wasn’t for them and proceeding to freeze out the 22-year-old attacking midfielder. The player’s Birmingham nightmare might be coming to a close, though, with reliable reports saying Villa are now working to terminate the agreement and send Elliott back to Liverpool. On the surface it seems best for all parties but it’s clearly something easier said than done. If it was easy, Elliott likely would have already returned. Liverpool, though, will be seeking compensation for taking the player’s wages back on and loosing out on what seemed a certain permanent sale at the end of the season—as well as potentially damage to the player’s value. Even if a termination can be agreed, there will be a question of what comes next for the player. It had become clear last season Elliott likely didn’t have a place at Anfield under manager Arne Slot, but playing for both Villa and Liverpool this season rules out another club in Europe. There has been chatter around MLS side Charlotte FC, for whom Elliott would be eligible to play, but it seems clear they wouldn’t have the ability to pay a significant permanent transfer fee and a loan could be complicated due to MLS being on a different seasonal cycle.

Le président français est apparu avec des lunettes de soleil au sommet de Davos pour dissimuler un œil rouge vif. Si aucun communiqué officiel n’est venu le confirmer, plusieurs sources évoquent une hémorragie sous-conjonctivale. De quoi s’agit-il ?

Results on the pitch haven’t gone to plan this season, but for anyone seeking confirmation that Liverpool have firmly reestablished themselves as one of the financially dominant players in English and European football over the past decade the latest football rich list from Deloitte would seem to put proof to that. Having been a top ten mainstay through the Jürgen Klopp era, for the first time the Reds are listed as the top English club—though on this occasion that’s only good enough for fifth overall. Real Madrid and Barcelona top the list, unsurprisingly and once again, followed by Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain. After Liverpool in fifth, it’s Manchester City next up in sixth, meaning the Reds are sandwiched on the 2026 edition of the rich list by two clubs widely seen as getting creative with their commercial revenues in order to provide a fig leaf of financial fair play plausibility to their consistently big spending ways. Anfield’s redevelopment, and with it the ability by the club to increasingly monetize the venue when the Reds aren’t playing, is key to an uptick to their own commercial revenues that pushes them past City, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham, and Chelsea as English sides get a run to round out the top ten. Aston Villa, Newcastle, and West Ham also make it into the list, meaning the Premier League have nine of the 20 richest clubs in Europe at the moment. Spain and Germany have three, as does Italy—though no Italian side is in the top ten—with one for France and one, Benfica, for Portugal to round out the top twenty.