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Chelsea Signs Jadon Sancho From Manchester United—-Chelsea has now confirm Jadon Sancho move from Manchester United on an initial season-long loan deal with an obligation to buy for a £20m plus £5m in add-ons.

Jadon Sancho has completed a season-long loan move to Chelsea from Manchester United.

The 24-year-old winger has moved to Stamford Bridge on an initial loan deal, The Blues have an obligation to buy Sancho next summer. Late on Friday evening, within the final hour of the deadline, Thecloudngr reported that Chelsea were on the verge of signing Sancho.

A deal sheet, giving Chelsea an extra two hours to wrap up the signing, was submitted before the 11pm deadline. Now, Sancho has completed a move to SW6 – but has not registered in time to take on Crystal Palace at the weekend. Instead, his debut could come against AFC Bournemouth after the two-week international break.

Speaking about his move, Sancho said: “I’m really excited to be here. London is where I grew up and I’m happy to be back. The manager spoke to me about the project and, for a young player, it’s exciting. Hopefully I can bring goals and assists to the Bridge.”

Sancho has yet to play in the Premier League this season having missed United’s opening win over Fulham due to an ear infection before being left out of last weekend’s 2-1 defeat to Brighton. The attacker played in last season’s Champions League final after securing a short-term loan at former club Borussia Dortmund in January amid a fall out with Erik ten Hag.

The pair had been at loggerheads after Sancho publicly rebutted Ten Hag’s reason of training levels being behind why the player was omitted from his squad versus Arsenal a year ago. The duo agreed to draw a line under their feud earlier this summer but Sancho was only afforded seven minutes in the Community Shield final.

Explaining more about his switch to Stamford Bridge, Manchester City academy graduate Sancho said it was a chat with Enzo Maresca that sealed his decision. “I think it’s the manager who really drew me to the project,” he said.

“I knew him from his time with Pep Guardiola in Manchester City. He spoke to me on the phone about this project and what he was building here, and for a young player like myself it’s exciting and I can’t wait to get started.

“They’re signing me for a reason and to contribute to the team, and I’m ready to do that. I enjoy his style of play. The wingers when they get on the ball, he loves them to go one versus one and be direct.

“We play a lot of one-twos with the 10s and the striker combination plays. It’s very attractive and it’s a style that I play.”

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Fire Razes Ajah Market Destroys Goods Worth Millions Of Naira

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Fire Razes Ajah Market Destroys Goods Worth Millions Of Naira—-A devastating fire broke out on Sunday evening at Ajah Market near Alesh Bus Stop in Lekki, Lagos, causing extensive damage to shops and goods worth millions of naira.

The blaze, which began around 9 p.m., tore through several stores containing highly flammable materials, intensifying the destruction.

Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), confirmed that LASEMA, alongside the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Services, responded promptly to contain the fire.

Fortunately, no casualties or injuries were reported, as the market was closed for the day, and traders were absent.

While the cause of the fire is still under investigation, authorities are assessing the extent of the losses.

“The LASEMA Response Team, along with the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, managed to prevent the fire from spreading to neighboring buildings,” Oke-Osanyintolu reported. “Efforts are ongoing to completely extinguish the fire and salvage remaining valuables.”

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American Music Heavyweight Quincy Jones Dies Aged 91—-QUINCY Jones, the man known simply as “Q,“ was a huge influence on American music in his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and reshaped pop music in his collaborations with Michael Jackson.

Jones died on Sunday at the age of 91, his publicist said.

There was very little Jones did not do in a music career of more than 65 years. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, arranger, composer, producer and winner of 27 Grammy Awards.

A studio workaholic and a virtuoso at handling delicate egos, he shaped recordings by jazz greats such as Miles Davis, produced Sinatra, and put together the superstar ensemble that recorded the 1985 fund-raiser “We Are the World,“ the biggest hit song of its time.

Jones also was a prolific writer of movie scores and co-produced the film “The Color Purple,“ as well as the 1990s television show “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,“ which launched the career of Will Smith.

Jones’ circle of friends included some of the best known figures of the 20th century. He dined with Pablo Picasso, met Pope John Paul II, helped Nelson Mandela celebrate his 90th birthday and once retreated to Marlon Brando’s South Pacific island to recover from a breakdown.

Everything he did was stamped with his universal and undeniable hipness. U2 frontman Bono called Jones “the coolest person I’ve ever met”.

Jones’ most lasting achievements were in collaboration with Jackson. They made three landmark albums – “Off the Wall” in 1979, “Thriller” in 1982, and “Bad” in 1987 – that changed the landscape of American popular music. “Thriller” sold as many as 70 million copies, with six of the nine songs on the album becoming top 10 singles.

MUSICAL BREAK-IN

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was born March 14, 1933, in Chicago. As a boy, he aspired to be a gangster like those he saw in his rough neighborhood. He was 7 when his mother was taken to a mental institution. His father, a carpenter, remarried and moved the family to Bremerton in Washington state, where young Quincy pursued a life of petty crime.

Jones said his interest in music bloomed in Bremerton, when he and some friends found a piano after sneaking into the community center in the segregated wartime housing project where they lived.

He experimented with different instruments in the school band before settling on the trumpet and by 13 was playing jazz, popular music and rhythm-and-blues in nightclubs. In Seattle at age 14, Jones met 16-year-old Ray Charles, not yet famous, who taught him to arrange and compose music.

Basie and trumpeter Clark Terry also would be mentors to the young Jones and he won a scholarship to what would become the Berklee School of Music in Boston. He gave it up, however, to go on the road with Lionel Hampton’s band as a teenage trumpet player in the early 1950s.

“Music was the one thing I could control,“ Jones wrote in his autobiography. “It was the one world that offered me freedom … I didn’t have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, penciled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.”

In the late 1950s he went on U.S. government-sponsored tours around the world with a band organized by bebop jazz pioneer Dizzy Gillespie. Jones then led his own band through Europe. He was deeply in debt in the early 1960s when he took a job at Mercury Records in New York, becoming one of the first Black executives at a white-owned record company.

There, Jones ventured out of the jazz genre and produced his first hit single, “It’s My Party,“ a Lesley Gore song that topped the U.S. pop chart in 1964.

Jazz purists called him a sell-out for making pop music but Jones later told Rolling Stone: “The underlying motivation for any artist, be it Stravinsky or Miles Davis, is to make the kind of music they want and still have everyone buy it.”

At Mercury, Jones got his first movie-scoring job, Sidney Lumet’s “The Pawnbroker.” He went on to score nearly 40 films, including “In the Heat of the Night,“ “In Cold Blood,“ “Mackenna’s Gold,“ “The Wiz” and part of the television mini-series “Roots”.

The people Jones worked with would populate a jazz or R&B hall of fame – Basie, Gillespie, Tommy Dorsey, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin. But he also produced in other genres with, among others, Paul Simon, Amy Winehouse, Barbra Streisand, and Donna Summer.

He arranged Sinatra’s hit “Fly Me to the Moon” that astronaut Buzz Aldrin played a cassette recording of during the first moon landing in 1969. Years later, Jones told GQ magazine that Sinatra “called me up, and he was like a little kid: ‘We got the first music on the moon, man!’”

His own recordings were just as eclectic, veering from jazz to soul, African to Brazilian. In 1991 his “Back on the Block” record won the Grammy for album of the year and also Grammys in the rap, rhythm and blues, jazz fusion and instrumental categories.

Jones’ work with Jackson was historic, although Jackson’s record company initially thought Jones was too jazzy to be his producer. They started in 1979 with “Off the Wall,“ after the singer had split from his brothers in the Jackson 5 and put together a mix of dance tracks and ballads. The album featured four songs that became top 10 hits.

Their 1982 collaboration, “Thriller,“ became a cultural touchstone of the 1980s. Jones and Jackson wanted to broaden Jackson’s fan base so they added rock elements, getting guitarist Eddie Van Halen to play a blistering solo on “Beat It,“ which became one of Jackon’s biggest hits ever. Complemented by dazzling videos featuring Jackson’s mesmerizing dancing just as MTV was coming of age, “Thriller” made the entertainer one of the biggest stars in the world.

DIVINE COLLABORATION

Hits like “Beat It,“ “Billie Jean” and the title song made “Thriller” the biggest selling album of all time. It won three Grammys for Jones and seven for Jackson.

They followed that in 1987 with “Bad,“ which had five No. 1 hits, including “Smooth Criminal” and “Man in the Mirror.”

In 1985, Jones, Jackson and singer Lionel Richie organized “We Are the World,“ a record to raise money for fighting famine in Ethiopia. The huge all-star chorus featured Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, Bruce Springsteen and Smokey Robinson. Jones set the tone for the recording session with a sign that said: “Leave your ego at the door.”

Jackson died in 2009, and Jones later sued the estate, testifying that he was “cheated out of a lot of money” in royalties. In July 2017, a Los Angeles jury awarded Jones $9.4 million.

Jones started his own record label, Qwest, as well as Vibe, a magazine that covered the hip-hop world, and had various foundations and humanitarian projects.

He kept launching new projects well past the traditional retirement age. In 2018, Jones, then 84, told GQ magazine: “I never been this busy in my life.”

Jones was married three times. His first wife was his high school sweetheart Jeri Caldwell with whom he had one daughter; his second wife was Swedish model Ulla Andersson with whom he had two children, including Quincy III, who became a hip-hop producer.

His third wife was “Mod Squad” actress Peggy Lipton, with whom he had two daughters, including actress Rashida Jones. He had two other children outside his marriages, including one with actress Nastassja Kinski.

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