Chelsea have won their fifth straight FA Youth Cup, defeating Arsenal 7-1 on aggregate.

Chelsea entered the match ahead 3-1 after the first leg.

Callum Hudson-Odoi stood out with two goals.

Zeljko Buvac has taken a leave of absence as Liverpool assistant manager for personal reasons.

Jurgen Klopp has described Buvac as “the brain” behind his coaching set-up, is “spending some time away from the first team environment between now and the end of the season” according to Liverpool, who have declined to comment further on what they regard as a private matter.

Buvac may leave Liverpool permanently this summer.

Buvac met Klopp when they were players at Mainz, where they had a gentleman’s agreement that whoever went into management first would take the other as their assistant. 

Buvac has cut a distant figure at Melwood and during first team matches. 

Barcelona clinched their 25th La Liga title after beating Deportivo La Coruna 4-2 behind a Lionel Messi hat-trick.

Barcelona only needed a draw to clinch the title.

Valverde said on marca.com: “When you chase it all season you say finally ‘the league is very long’. It is not decided only in a match. From the beginning we have been in the lead. In the end we were the best. The hard part is winning and winning.”

Valverde added: “I have not invented anything, in the end these players have already won titles and leagues with other coaches. It’s more of them than the coach.

“We have been a competitive, compact team and we have overcome many difficulties, and in moments I know it has lacked brilliance.”

Rangers are increasingly confident of hiring Steven Gerrard as manager.

Gerrard is currently a youth coach at Liverpool.

Rangers are seeking a permanent successor to Pedro Caixinha, who was sacked in October. Graeme Murty has been in charge of first-team affairs on an interim basis.

Andres Iniesta has confirmed he will leave Barcelona at the end of the current season.

“This is my last season here.”

Iniesta’s emotional press conference was witnessed by a number of members of the Barça first team.

“I want to thank my team-mates,” he said. “My only aim was to be a success at this club and I have done that.”

Iniesta is widely expected to join the Chinese Super League.

“There are still things to be sorted,” he said. “I have said I will never play against Barça, so I won’t play in Europe.”

Unai Emery has announced he will leave Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the current season.

Emery has long been expected to leave the club this summer. Emery has been linked to a return to Sevilla.

“I have communicated to the players my departure,” Emery told a news conference. “I thank President Nasser al-Khelaifi, sports director Antero Henrique, supporters and all players for these two seasons.”

Thomas Tuchel is expected to replace Emery as manager.

Jose Mourinho believes he deserves credit for buying Mohamed Salah for Chelsea and not blame for selling him to Roma in 2016.

Mourinho and Chelsea acquired a 21-year-old Salah from Basel for €16.5 million in January of 2014. 

Speaking to ESPN Brazil, Mourinho acknowledged Salah's blossoming at Anfield.

"I think everything has surprised even him. It has been fantastic," Mourinho said of Salah's breakout season.

"But he is a great player that has reached the peak of maturity, he has already lived several other experiences and now has fitted perfectly into the style of play of the team, of the coach and of the club as well. So it doesn't surprise me that much."

Chelsea's decision to sell Salah, similar to the decision to sell Kevin de Bruyne, has been questioned. 

"It is the first time that I am going to say this, but it is another injustice that has been talked about me.

"People say that I was the one that sold Salah and it is the opposite.

"I bought Salah.

"It is the opposite. I was the one that bought Salah. I was the one that told Chelsea to buy Salah. It was with me in charge that Salah came to Chelsea. But he came as a young kid, physically he was not ready, mentally he was not ready, socially and culturally he was lost and everything was tough for him.

"We decided to put him on loan and he asked for that as well. He wanted to play more minutes, to mature, he wanted to go and we sent him on loan to Fiorentina, and at Fiorentina he started to mature.

"Chelsea decided to sell him, OK?

"And when they say that I was the one that sold him it is a lie. I bought him. I agreed to send him on loan, I thought it was necessary, I thought that Chelsea had wingers... Some of them are still there like Willian, [Eden] Hazard and all those players already in a different level. 

"So the decision to send him on loan was a decision we made collectively, but after that, the decision to sell him and to use that money to buy another player wasn't mine. But even if it was, in football we make mistakes a lot of times, so many times some players develop in way we were not expecting, some other don't reach another level like we thought they would, so I don't even think this is a mistake, it is just part of the job.

"But effectively I did buy Salah, I didn't sell Salah, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that he is a fantastic player, and I am really happy for everything that is happening for him and especially because he scores against everyone and he didn't score against us in two games."

Monchi has defended Roma's sale of Mohamed Salah to Liverpool.

Roma sold Salah to Liverpool for an initial £36.9 million and that the club had to do it to comply with Financial Fair Play.

“I sold him for more than €42 million,” Monchi told the Spanish radio station Onda Cero. “We had a need to sell. We had no option but to sell Salah before 30 June. Had we not done that, we probably wouldn’t be here playing the semi-final of the Champions League as we had Uefa closely monitoring us.

“We didn’t want to sell him but we had no choice. We had to take an offer before the end of the month. He wanted to leave, but we would have kept him if the regulations weren’t against us. When I arrived, the offer [from Liverpool] was €30m but we managed to get it up to almost €50m with bonuses. That is what we could do. The market then went crazy with Neymar, Coutinho and Dembélé.”

Christian Pulisic and his Borussia Dortmund teammates testified on Wednesday at the trial of the man who admitted setting off three explosive devices as the team bus headed to a Champions League match in April 2017.

Pulisic appeared alongside teammates Roman Burki, Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Raphael Guerreiro, Shinji Kagawa, Nuri Sahin, Lukasz Piszczek and Julian Weigl.

"It was just a normal game," Pulisic testified, recalling the hours before the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinal against Monaco at the Westfalenstadion.

"As soon as we left the hotel, I heard a loud bang. I didn't know what it was at first. But Roman, who sat next to me, tried to drag me under the table."

When asked about the mental impact of the attack, Pulisic said: "I had problems during the first weeks, yes. But now it's much better."

The suspect, charged with 28 counts of attempted murder, has claimed he did not want to injure anyone but rather create a "terror scenario" that would lead to a drop in the valuation of Dortmund's shares from which he hoped to profit.

What happened in two snapshots in the first legs of the 2018 Champions League Semifinals.