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John Terry is set to become the latest high-profile name to move to Saudi Arabia – but he isn’t going there to be a manager.

The Chelsea legend, who was previously assistant manager at Leicester and Aston Villa , is close to joining Saudi Pro League side Al-Shabab as their new director of football. Terry held talks with Al-Shabab’s president-in-waiting Muhammad Al-Munjam over the club’s managerial vacancy in August, but has agreed instead to take on more of an upstairs role.

Terry’s job will be to oversee recruitment, player development and the club’s overall strategy while also managing contract negotiations and staff hires. The 42-year-old’s first task will be to help find a new permanent head coach to take over from Juan Brown, who has been managing the first team on a caretaker basis since July.

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Between his brief spell as Leicester assistant under Dean Smith last season and his three-year spell as Aston Villa assistant, also under Smith, Terry has been working part-time at former club Chelsea as a youth coaching consultant. He returned to the role in July after leaving Leicester following the Foxes’ relegation to the Championship.

Al-Shabab aren’t as blessed in the finance department as some of their Saudi Pro League opponents. While teams like Al-Nassr, Al-Hilal and Al-Ittihad, all of whom are bankrolled by the government’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) have bought the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo , Neymar and Karim Benzema, the biggest name Al-Shabab have signed this summer is former Atletico Madrid forward Yannick Carrasco.

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They’re currently 11th (out of 18) in the table, having won just two of their opening seven league matches of the season. The club have had several notable former managers, including Terry’s former Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who was in charge between 1984-1985 (and is one of 14 Brazilians to manage the club, bizarrely), and ex-Liverpool star Luis Garcia, whose infamous ‘ghost goal’ knocked Terry’s Chelsea out of the Champions League at the semi-final stage in 2005.

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Terry has been eying up a move into management ever since hanging up his boots in 2018, and has admitted that managing Chelsea is his dream. But this latest move suggests he’s reconsidered his career path, especially after admitting to being overlooked for a number of managerial positions in the past few years.

After a couple of days in the United States and the United Kingdom, Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar landed in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for a two-day trip.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the premier was received by Madina’s Governor Faisal bin Salman al-Saud upon his arrival.

PM Kakar is expected to pay his respects at the Roza-e-Rasool (PBUH) in Masjid-e-Nabvi and will also perform Umrah tomorrow (Thursday).

It is expected that during the trip the interim prime minister will also meet high-ranking officials of the Saudi government.

PM Kakar left Pakistan to attend the United Nations General Assembly session on September 17.

In his maiden address to the UN, PM Kakar had urged the global powers to convince India to accept Islamabad’s offer of mutually restraining the strategic and conventional weapons, saying that Pakistan seeks peaceful ties with all its neighbours.

“Development depends on peace. Pakistan is situated in the least economically integrated region in the world. Pakistan believes that regions develop together therefore [the country] desires peaceful and productive relations with all neighbours, including India,” he had said.

The premier also stressed that the UN resolutions on the Kashmir issue are “the key to peace” between the two nuclear-armed nations.

He had added that the issue of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) is one of the oldest agendas at the UN Security Council, but India has continued to evade the implementation of the global forum’s resolutions on the dispute.

PM Kakar stayed in the US for six days and then landed in the United Kingdom on September 24. During his stay in the UK, the caretaker premier met British investors and assured them that Pakistan is committed to the $3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme and will undertake reforms as per its commitment with the global lender.

According to the PM’s Office, the prime minister made the assurance during his meeting with “senior leaders of London’s capital and financial market” at the Pakistan House.

The notable investment firms represented at this gathering included Fidelity International Limited (FIL), Wellington Management, Ashmore, Jefferies International, Redwheel Capital, Switex Industrial SA, Oxford Frontier Capital, GuarantCo, JP Morgan, Kalrock Capital, and UBL UK.

The interim PM during the trip also addressed the Oxford Union.

Neymar’s move to Saudi Arabia is turning into a bit of a nightmare amid reports he’s fallen out with his manager.

The Brazilian superstar joined Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal from PSG in a deal worth around £75million just last month, but it looks as if things are already turning sour. According to Spanish outlet Diario Sport , Neymar is very unhappy and has asked club bosses to sack manager Jorge Jesus.

The 31-year-old has failed to score in any of his three appearances for the club so far and Jesus is understood to have criticised the player for having a “bad attitude”. Neymar didn’t react well to the comment and is now looking to use his influence to remove Jesus from his position.

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The supposed falling out came after Al-Hilal’s disappointing draw with Uzbekistani outfit Navbahor Namangan in the AFC Champions League last week. Neymar was seen shoving an opponent and booting the ball at him following an on-field altercation.

Football fans on social media lashed out at the former Barcelona man, branding him “petulant”, “toxic” and “unprofessional”. Some even suggested he’d mentally checked out of the sport and would better off hanging up his boots.

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Jesus, meanwhile, is a managerial veteran with over 25 years of experience managing in top flight European football. English fans will perhaps best remember him for stints at Benfica, Sporting Lisbon and Fenerbahce. He joined Al-Hilal in July, having previously managed the club between June 2018 and January 2019.

Despite the tension between Jesus and Neymar, Al-Hilal, who also signed the likes of Kalidou Koulibaly, Ruben Neves, Aleksandar Mitrovic and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic over the summer, have made a positive start to the new season. They’re the only undefeated side left in the Saudi Pro League, having won five of their opening seven matches, and are just a point behind league-leaders Al-Ittihad.

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They’re by some distance the most successful club in the division, with a record 18 league titles to their name. Their closest challengers are Al-Ittihad and Al-Nassr who both have nine league title wins each.

The schedule had already been announced to begin on 10 March with the Qatar Grand Prix, which returns to the season-opening slot having been moved to November in 2023 due to track updates earlier this year.

MotoGP will then head to Europe for the Portuguese GP – which opened the 2022 calendar – before the Argentina GP on 7 April.

As was the case this season, Argentina is back-to-back with the Americas GP at COTA on 14 April, before the championship heads back to Europe for the Spanish GP on 28 April.

Next year will see the return of all four Spanish venues, after Aragon was benched for the 2022 season, and so no rotation of the Iberian events will take place.

The French GP is on 12 May followed by the Catalan GP on 26 May, which is back-to-back with the Italian GP at Mugello on 2 June.

The European run is interrupted by the second attempt to stage the inaugural Kazakhstan GP at the Sokol circuit.

MotoGP had hoped to race in the country in July of this year, but cancelled the event as the circuit would not be ready on time.

The Dutch GP will take place on 30 June followed by the German GP on 7 July, before a three-week summer.

The second half of the season resumes on 4 August with the British GP at Silverstone, with the Austrian GP taking place on 18 August.

The next back-to-back of the year starts on 1 September with the return of the Aragon GP, which was taken off the schedule this year, and the San Marino GP on 8 September.

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Despite suggestions the Indian GP would be pushed back to October following this year’s inaugural running of the event, the second edition will take place on 22 September.

It forms the first of a triple-header with Indonesia (29 September) and Japan (6 October).

A week off is followed by the next triple-header of Australia (20 October), Thailand (27 October) and Malaysia (3 November).

The championship concludes on 17 November with the Valencia GP. Pre-season testing in 2024 begins on 6-8 February in Malaysia, followed by two days in Qatar on 19-20 February.

Disappointingly, 11 MotoGP rounds will clash with Formula 1 events next season – with timezone clashes for F1 Monaco and MotoGP Barcelona; F1 Austria and MotoGP Assen and F1 Italy and MotoGP Aragon.

MotoGP has also confirmed that the new Balaton Park track in Hungary has been added to the reserve list, subject to the venue receiving homologation.

Full 2024 MotoGP calendar:

10 March – Qatar GP

24 March – Portugal GP

07 April – Argentina GP

14 April – Americas GP

28 April – Spanish GP

12 May – French GP

26 May – Catalan GP

2 June – Italian GP

16 June – Kazakhstan GP

30 June – Dutch GP

7 July – German GP

4 August – British GP

18 August – Austrian GP

1 September – Aragon GP

8 September – San Marino GP

22 September – India GP

29 September – Indonesia GP

6 October – Japanese GP

20 October – Australian GP

27 October – Thailand GP

3 November – Malaysian GP

17 November – Valencia GP

F1 and MotoGP 2024 date clashes

9 March – F1 Saudi Arabia (Saturday race) and Qatar MotoGP

24 March – F1 Australia and MotoGP Portugal

7 April – F1 Japan and MotoGP Argentina

26 May – F1 Monaco and MotoGP Catalunya

30 June – F1 Austria and MotoGP Assen

7 July – F1 UK and MotoGP Germany

1 September – F1 Italy and MotoGP Aragon

22 September – F1 Singapore and MotoGP India

20 October – F1 Austin and MotoGP Australia

27 October – F1 Mexico and MotoGP Thailand

3 November – F1 Brazil and MotoGP Malaysia