Man U sacks Louis Van Gaal, to appoint Jose Mourinho in coming days

The club officially announced the news this afternoon after private meetings between club Chief Executive Ed Woodward and Louis Van Gaal and both parties agreed that he had to go after missing out on the season's target of Champions League qualification, despite winning the FA Cup on Saturday.




Albert Stuivenberg, Franz Hoek, Max Reckers and other Dutch members of his backroom team have also been dismissed with Jose Mourinho and his own backroom team set to assume duties this week.



Van Gaal arrived at Carrington training complex at around 8.45am this morning with his entire coaching staff present as they learned of their fate.


Mourinho expects to have more talks on Tuesday ahead of signing a three-year deal with his long-term assistant Rui Faria and goalkeeping coach Silvino Louro expected to follow.


Ryan Giggs' future at United is up in the air despite Mourinho's wish to keep the Welshman at the club.


Executive vice chairman Ed Woodward said on the club's official website manutd.com : "I would like to thank Louis and his staff for their excellent work in the past two years culminating in winning a record-equalling 12th FA Cup for the club (and securing him a title in four different countries). He has behaved with great professionalism and dignity throughout his time here. He leaves us with a legacy of having given several young players the confidence to show their ability on the highest stage. Everyone at the club wishes him all the best in the future.

Kim Kardashian shows off her curves in see-through dress

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Could Kris Jenner be making plans to change her last name back to Kardashian?

Might just be so! In a deleted scene from Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kris told her surprised daughter Khloe, that she might change back to the name which she dropped when she divorced the late Rob Kardashian Snr.


While riding in a car together, Khloe asks her mom who she calls to get reservations at their favorite Mexican restaurant. Kris said, "I call the manager usually and I say, Hey! It's Kris Kardashian." Khloe reminded her that that wasn't her last name anymore, to which she responded, "I'm going to change my name back to Kardashian. I was that before you were that. I was the original Kardashian."


When Khloé tried to suggest she go back to her maiden name and that it would be insulting for Kendall and Kylie, Kris responded back saying, "It just doesn't sound right. If Bruce can change his name to Caitlyn, I think I'm good."

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Nigeria is headed for a 'full-blown economic crisis- Business Insider reports

Business Insider, an American Business magazine, reports that Nigeria is heading for a full blown economic crisis due to lower oil prices and the government's Foreign exchange and Price Control policies. Read the report below...

Nigeria's economic crisis is getting worse. On Friday the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics revealed that the country's economy shrank by 0.4% year-over-year in the first quarter — way worse than expected.
Economists were expecting the country to grow by 1.8% year-over-year, according to the Bloomberg consensus. And now analysts aren't feeling too good about the situation going forward. "We have long warned of a slow-burning crisis in Nigeria," Capital Economics' Africa economist John Ashbourne said. "It now seems that this view was too optimistic: the country is headed into a full-blown economic crisis." Nigeria continues to suffer from numerous economic headaches, (which analysts have more or less deemed a failure). The biggest drop in growth was in Nigeria's manufacturing sector, which Ashbourne wrote was crushed by the country's FX policies.
"This is very bad news for Nigeria's government, which has justified the current FX system as a method of promoting non-oil industries," Ashbourne said. "It is now clear that these policies have — as we'd long argued — made a bad situation worse."
Still, the scariest thing about this latest gross-domestic-product number is that it doesn't factor in any of the debilitating problems Nigeria has seen in the second quarter, including but not limited to the fuel-shortage crisis and some of the oil-production disruptions by theNiger Delta Avengers. In short, Ashbourne concluded grimly, "the worst is yet to come."