The Premier League returns to action and there are few talking points to observe.

• Neil Warnock Sacked!!! The successor of Tony Pulis has been asked to go after a 3-1 home defeat by Southampton on Boxing Day.
Assistant manager Keith Millen will be in charge for the trip to Queens Park Rangers on Sunday.
Warnock won just
three of his 16
Premier League
games in his second
spell in charge, giving
a win percentage of
18.8% compared to
Pulis’s 42.3%.

• Mou: According to facts, Chelsea manager, Jose Mourinho has never failed to win a League title whenever he tops on Christmas day.

• AC Millan signs Fernando Torres on a permanent two-year deal having being on loan from Chelsea this season. The £50 million record signing is to join AC Milan on a permanent basis,” a statement released via Chelsea’s official
website reads.
“Chelsea Football Club
thanks Fernando for
his service during
the past four seasons
and wishes him the very
best for the future.”
Reports also have it that he might move to Athletico Madrid on a loan deal.

• John Obi Mikel has been reported to have turned down a move to German clubside Schalke04. According to SL10, The Super Eagles star has admitted that he would have severed ties with the Londoners in the January transfer window if his circumstances had not improved.
”Mikel is remaining
in Chelsea until June,
he has started playing.
Before he was not happy,
now he is playing and
happy.
”Inter Milan and
Schalke 04 had
approached him,
but he is not moving,”
a representative of
Mikel told SL10.ng.

• Ogenyi Onazi could make a move to join Liverpool from Lazio in a talk surrounding him swap with Fabio Borini
According to La Repubblica,
the Biancocelesti have
spotted Borini as the
player they want in
exchange for Onazi.

• This Day reported on Sunday that, the Nigeria Football Federation has appointed Shehu Dikko as the new Chairman of the League Management Company.
According to a statement
made available by the
general secretary of the
club owners,
Alloy Chukwuemaka,
the new leadership
has been unanimously
adopted by various
stakeholders of the
country’s football
including the NFF
general congress,
club representatives
and LMC as well as the
Corporate Affairs Commission.