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Phil Foden is staying put at the Etihad. Manchester City's mercurial midfielder has agreed in principle to a new four-year deal that runs through two thousand thirty, with an option for a fifth. At twenty-five, Foden's had a rough stretch for form, but City clearly believe the ceiling is still sky-high, and they're not letting him walk.
Across the continent, Serie A's bottom table is an absolute pressure cooker right now. Pisa and Hellas Verona are already heading down to Serie B, but the third relegation spot is still brutally unsettled. Fiorentina, Cremonese, Lecce, and Genoa are all clinging on, separated by razor-thin margins, and someone's season is about to collapse completely.
And in the NBA playoffs, New York and Philadelphia are set to tip off in Game one of what should be a genuinely compelling first-round series. The Knicks enter as favorites, the models like them, but the seventy-sixers are the kind of wounded team that can make things very uncomfortable very fast. Expect a physical, high-stakes Monday night at Madison Square Garden.
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