Today TALKING POINT, looks at very crucial football and formula one stories occurring around.
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. Ghanian FA has unveiled Avram Grant has their new head coach and the former Chelsea trainer says the door is opened to everyone (player) who is ready to be part. “It’s open for every player that is willing to give everything for his country and to understand that with all the developments in football, money etc, the main competition is for the national team,”

. Mourinho: Didier Drogba will be given a job off the field at Chelsea when he retires (cherish)

. Liverpool’s players have joined forces to plead with captain Steven Gerrard, 34, not to leave at the end of this season.

AC Milan striker Giampaolo Pazzini, 30, is being offered to Premier League clubs – with Queens Park Rangers, Sunderland and Aston Villa all interested.

Tottenham are set to beat Liverpool to the signing of Porto’s Colombian striker Jackson Martinez, 28, by offering Spanish forward Roberto Soldado, 29, in part-exchange.

Liverpool are considering a move for Stromsgodset’s 15-year-old Norway international midfielder Martin Odegaard, who was shown round the club’s training ground on Wednesday. (Daily Mail

. Spanish clubs may be punished for not tackling ‘ultras’The government, soccer authorities and clubs are seeking to crack down on the ultras after a Deportivo La Coruna fan was killed before a La Liga match last weekend in apparently organised fighting near Atletico Madrid’s ground.

. Ex-Toro Rosso driver Jean-Eric Vergne says he cannot understand why Red Bull has decided not to keep him racing in Formula 1 next season.
The Frenchman found out last week that he would lose his Toro Rosso seat to Formula Renault 3.5 champion Carlos Sainz Jr for the 2015 F1 campaign.

. Nigeria are finding it hard to secure a kit sponsor after German manufacturers Adidas decides not to renew its deal.

. Reports have it that Stephen Keshi, the Nigerian national team coach is nin Equatorial Guinea having talks wit its FA. “Keshi is in Malabo and in Hilton Hotel. We’re holding talks to see if he will handle our national team”, one of the FA officials in Equatorial Guinea said on our hotline yesterday.