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Dalglish hopeful over Pepe Reina’s Liverpool future” plus 4 more- Kenny Dalglish hopeful over Pepe Reina’s Liverpool future - Real Madrid 1 Barcelona 1: Race not over, says Guardiola - Nadal wins battle of wills over Murray in Monte Carlo semis - Chinese Grand Prix: Vettel storms to third pole of 2011 - LeBron James secures minority share in Liverpool Kenny Dalglish hopeful over Pepe Reina’s Liverpool future Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:54 PM PDT Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is remaining upbeat over the future of goalkeeper Pepe Reina despite speculation linking the Spaniard with a move away from Anfield. Reina, 28, has been linked with a summer transfer away from the Merseyside club, with Arsenal and Manchester United touted as possible destinations – but Dalglish has rebutted suggestions that the stopper is not happy at the club. “I can't speak for how he believes it is going. I can only tell you about how I personally, and the club as a whole, feels about him,” Dalglish told The Mirror. “Whatever he feels about us going in the right direction or not is up to him, but he does not look too unhappy to me.” “I have always believed he is one of the best in the Premier League, if not the best, and maybe even in [world] football.” Meanwhile, Dalglish insists he is not thinking about his long-term future at Liverpool. The 60-year-old is yet to be offered a long-term contract by the club’s owners despite the remarkable impact he has had on the club’s fortunes following Roy Hodgson's disastrous reign. La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian sports daily, last week reported that current FC Porto manager André Villas-Boas had agreed to become Liverpool's new manager in the summer. But Dalglish insists he is unconcerned by the rumours and is concentrating on the immediate future of the club. “There is the outstanding issue with myself, but that is the least important one,” said Dalglish. “Everything will be sorted out. I am perfectly relaxed about my position. “It is not my decision about my future, but I am just happy to be here.” Real Madrid 1 Barcelona 1: Race not over, says Guardiola Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:35 PM PDT Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola insists the La Liga title race is not yet over despite his side preserving their eight-point lead with a 1-1 draw in Saturday night’s El Clásico. He said: “A draw at the Bernabéu is a good result and I am happy with how we played, although maybe we could have done better at 1-0. “I don’t think we are league champions [yet] as we have to play against teams that are still fighting for their lives.” Cristiano Ronaldo’s late penalty cancelled out Lionel Messi’s 53rd-minute spot-kick as the two sides shared the spoils in what was the first of four El Clásico clashes in the space of 17 days. Messi coolly converted his spot-kick to put his side in front and net his 49th goal of the season after Madrid defender Raul Albiol was sent off hauling down David Villa. But Madrid drew level eight minutes from time when Ronaldo fired home his penalty after Marcelo was adjudged to have been fouled by Victor Valdés. Real Manager José Mourinho paid tribute to Barcelona and admitted a difficult task was made “impossible” after his side were reduced to 10 men. “It was very even with 11 players against 11,” said Mourinho. “It was two teams that respect each other and know how powerful the other one is. “It was mission impossible to play with 10 men for so long against a team that are, without doubt, the best team in the world in possession.” The two Spanish giants next face each other in the Copa del Rey final at the Mestalla on Wednesday. La Liga table snapshot Nadal wins battle of wills over Murray in Monte Carlo semis Posted: 16 Apr 2011 04:48 PM PDT Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer: friends, compatriots and clearly determined to make the Monte Carlo Masters final an all-Spanish affair. Nadal may have spent time practising with Andy Murray at the start of the week, but the semi-final of a Masters is no time to be exchanging pleasantries with the man across the net. So there were Nadal and Ferrer, enjoying a relaxed, lightweight knock-up together on the morning they would each take on two men from altogether cooler climes. Ferrer, a first-time semi-finalist at the Australian Open earlier this year, has recently climbed to a 30-month high of No6 in the rankings. He is on an 8-0 win rate this season on clay—and won the Acapulco title—and lost just 12 games and no sets to reach the semis. Ferrer was first up against Jurgen Melzer, who must really have fancied his own chances. Although the Austrian was in his first Masters semi-final, he too is enjoyed a personal high in the rankings at No9—up to No8 next week. And he had more good reasons to be confident. In the last 12 months, he had beaten Ferrer in both their meetings, including a straight sets win at Roland Garros. He had also beaten Novak Djokovic at the French Open and Nadal in Shanghai. He had won his home tournament in Vienna and been named Austrian sportsman of 2010. But best of all, he was the shock winner, for the first time, over Roger Federer in this week's quarter-finals. Ferrer got off to a slow start. Melzer threatened the Spaniard's opening service game and broke his second. At 1-3, Ferrer headed to another deuce but this time he produced a string of ripping backhands to hold and, with his rhythm and confidence in place, he seized control and reeled off the set 6-3. Melzer came back with some aggressive tennis but Ferrer was hitting wide and deep, finding the lines, and moving Melzer like a yo-yo. Ferrer broke to love in the fifth game, and never looked back. It was a near error-free master-class, mixing up precision ground strokes, drop shots and passes as clean as a whistle. Melzer had one tiny window of opportunity with a break point at 2-5, but it was soon slammed shut, and a beaming Ferrer took the match, 6-2, in just an hour and a quarter. It was, though, the second match of the day that had the taste buds watering: Nadal against an Andy Murray at last shaking off the demons of three first-found losses in as many tournaments. In Monte Carlo, he had not dropped a set on his way to the semis and was looking and sounding relaxed and confident. His many fans, though, were rather less relaxed when the match was delayed by an injury problem before it had begun. In training, Murray found himself unable to serve and needed a cortisone injection and local anaesthetic in his right elbow before play could get under way, 20 minutes late. It was not the most auspicious of signs against a six-time Monte Carlo champion on a 35 win streak in the tournament. However, Murray burst from the gates in the opening game to take a 15-40 lead on Nadal's serve, and fears of a walkover were quickly allayed. Nadal held, but the gruelling pattern of the match was set and the Spaniard forced a break from Murray to go 2-0 with the match already 10 minutes old. Four games in and the clock stood at 25 minutes, with neither player giving an inch. Games came only from the best of shotmaking, tactics and pace. Despite falling 1-4 behind, Murray continued to attack and began to use his big double-handed backhand—much as Ferrer had—across the full width of the court for some great winners. Murray's reward was a break back to draw level at 4-4 but, as is so often the case with Nadal, the champion held serve and found his greatest intensity to break Murray for the set, 6-4. The serve stats showed the difference: 70 per cent for Nadal, just 48 for Murray. But the time on the clock also told a story: one hour 10 minutes. This was close. The second set started where the first left off, with both men stretching the other to the extreme margins, but Murray started to use a few extra strategies—more drop shots, angled volleys, and attacks deep to the Nadal backhand—and Nadal began to miss a few lines. Murray broke but was then pushed hard on serve in a fourth game of 18 minutes and eight deuces. Finally, Murray consolidated a 3-1 lead with the set already at 45 minutes. The fifth game also went to deuce and Murray, in yet another marathon game of 10 minutes, held. The momentum was now marginally with the Scot and the crowds—who had jeered his brilliant drop shots against the injured Simon in the third round—now chanted Murray's name in their enthusiasm for his expansive and varied shot-making and stamina. He broke Nadal again to lead 5-2 and, after an hour and 11 minutes, closed out the set, 6-2, with a deft drop shot. Nadal had managed only three winners to Murray's 13 and looked the more pressured of the two. But that was about to change. All square after two and a half hours of pulsating competition, Nadal won his opening serve and looked across at his opponent. What he saw was a Murray holding his elbow and calling for the trainer. The cogwheels in the Spaniard's brain went, almost visibly, into overdrive as he assessed the Murray body language, which got considerably worse when he was prevented from receiving treatment until the standard change of ends. By then, a burgeoning Nadal had broken Murray to lead 3-0. Nadal broke again and, although Murray pulled one game back, Nadal served out the match 6-1. For two sets and more than two hours, Murray held his own against the best clay-court player in the world. Had he not suffered from an elbow injury, he may well have gone on to take a famous victory. But has he also tactically managed his injury better—perhaps got treatment after taking the second set to allow Nadal time to ponder his 6-2 loss—maybe the psychological advantage would not have swung so firmly towards the Spaniard. However, Murray now knows that—injury aside—he has a game capable of beating the very best on what is the Scot's worst surface, and that must surely boost his confidence as he heads into two Masters and a Grand Slam on the red stuff. Chinese Grand Prix: Vettel storms to third pole of 2011 Posted: 16 Apr 2011 02:03 PM PDT World champion Sebastian Vettel again showed he is the man to beat this season as he secured his third pole position in three races in 2011 at the Chinese Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver left it late in Shanghai but delivered a stunning lap time of 1m33.706s to trump the McLarens of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton who were seven tenths slower. "We have done it again, but every single time is tough," Vettel said. "I think today wasn't as straightforward as we planned, especially in Q2; I made a bit of a mistake in the run I did then. "In Q3 I was confident that we were able to improve quite a lot. Obviously today we did a good job, but it's just eight metres on the track tomorrow. It will be a long race, but I think we can be happy with the car." Button, who enjoyed his best qualifying of the season, was happy with second but conceded that he had no chance of beating Vettel for pole. "After Q2, I thought we'd have a shot at pole today, but, looking at Sebastian's final lap time, second place was realistically all we could do," he said. "Still, it's great that we got two cars into the top three, we really extracted the maximum from the package today. "Overnight, we made some improvements to the car; I think there are still areas where we need to improve to challenge Red Bull, but I want to say a big thank-you to the guys in the garage and back at the factory, they've been working really hard and have given us a car that we can really build on over the next couple of races. "For tomorrow, I think our race pace will be a little bit closer to Red Bull than our qualifying pace. We can have a good race from this grid position." Nico Rosberg was finally able to harness the pace of the W02 to take fourth for Mercedes GP, half a second ahead of the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. Both Toro Rosso cars made it into Q3, taking advantage of the misfortune of others. Jaime Alguersuari took seventh, while team-mate Sébastien Buemi was ninth as the Red Bull sister team sandwiched birthday boy Paul di Resta, who again outpaced experienced Force India team-mate Adrian Sutil to secure a stunning eighth place. Russian Vitaly Petrov took 10th for Renault, but was unable to take part in Q3 after his car came to a stop on track just two minutes before the end of Q2 causing the session to be red flagged. With a number of drivers close to dropping out, it triggered a frantic battle as 11 drivers took to the pit lane to line-up their final push when the track reopened. Such was the competitive nature of qualifying, Massa even dared to overtake Sauber's Sergio Pérez on the outside of the hairpin in a bid to get some clear air and be the first to get a lap in. Sutil led the drivers who missed out on Q3, closely followed by Pérez, Kamui Kobayashi, Michael Schumacher and Williams duo Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado, who were 15th and 17th. At the back of the grid, Mark Webber will start from 18th on the grid after a continuing KERS-related electronics issue. "It's a very frustrating day. We didn't have a smooth P3 or Q1 and we paid the ultimate price at end of the day," Webber said. "We thought we had enough to get through on the prime tyres, we have the pace, but I couldn't get the tyre working on my second run. “I can't remember the last time I was out in Q1. It was a long, long time ago, so it was a bad day for us." Heikki Kovalainen again won the battle of the Lotus drivers by half a second to Jarno Trulli, but was 1.7 seconds slower than the nearest midfield team. Virgin Racing, meanwhile, found pace to get both drivers ahead of a resurgent Hispania, with Belgian rookie Jérôme d'Ambrosio six tenths quicker than Timo Glock. Hispania managed to qualify for their second consecutive race and were unlucky not to mix it up with Virgin, with Tonio Liuzzi just half a second slower than Glock. Narain Karthikeyan was a further two tenths behind. LeBron James secures minority share in Liverpool Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:26 AM PDT Basketball star LeBron James secured a minority stake in Liverpool this week after striking a deal with the club's owner, Fenway Sports Group. It marks a growing trend amongst sport stars, who are increasingly investing part of their fortunes back into sport. 1) LeBron James – Liverpool James currently earns $30m a year through Miami Heat and other endorsements, and is known for his business acumen off the court with his sports-marketing firm, LRMR Branding & Marketing. The 26-year-old says he is "excited to be affiliated with this incredible organisation", and is eager to visit Anfield. “There are very few athletes who can match his global reach, appeal and iconic status,” said Liverpool chairman Tom Werner. "We feel the business opportunities for both working and being identified together in emerging international markets will result in unforeseen opportunities that neither would have been able to realise alone." 2) Michael Jordan – Charlotte Bobcats Michael Jordan realised a long-term dream in March 2010 when he took control of the Charlotte Bobcats. The 48-year-old had been desperate to become a NBA owner and purchased the club in a deal worth $275m, making him the first former NBA player to own a NBA team. 3) The Williams sisters – Miami Doplhins Tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams secured a minority stake in NFL outfit Miami Dolphins in August 2009. The sisters, who live within an hour's drive from the Dolphin stadium, became limited partners in their local football team. 4 & 5) Gary Lineker and Emile Heskey – Leicester City Former England international Lineker, who began his prestigious football career at Leicester City in 1978, headed a consortium which paid £5m to administrators to purchase Leicester City in 2003. Both Lineker and Aston Villa striker Emile Heskey both invested six figure sums to aid the consortium’s buy-out of cash strapped Leicester. You are subscribed to email updates from The Sport Review To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. 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