• NEWCASTLE manager Kevin Keegan has decided to release former Ireland international Stephen Carr at the end of the season.
Carr will join James Troisi and Peter Ramage in leaving St James' Park in the summer as Keegan begins to put his own imprin
t on the squad he inherited from Sam Allardyce earlier this season.
Ramage, 24, was offered the chance to stay with his hometown club but has opted to pursue regular first-team football elsewhere.
Carr arrived in 2004 from Tottenham having earned a reputation as one of the best full-backs in England and had previously been linked with Manchester United. But a series of injuries hampered his progress.
Manchester City approach Scolari • PORTUGAL manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has been approached by Manchester City to replace Sven-Goran Eriksson, the Brazilian's spokesman said last night.
Negotiations are yet to begin while Scolari focuses on preparing Portugal for the European Championship, said spokesman Acaz Fellegger.
Fellegger said it is possible, but unlikely, that the parties could meet before the June tournament in Austria and Switzerland.
Third green light for Stanley Park• LIVERPOOL'S new stadium was approved yesterday – for the third time in five years. The club have twice won permission from the city council but been forced to re-apply after changes were deemed necessary to their new home. Now planning councillors have given the go-ahead to the £350million scheme – which will see a 60,000-seater built across Stanley Park not far from Anfield.
Despite permission being granted, it is still unclear when work will begin on the ground.
The planning committee also met to discuss proposals for a new Everton ground in Kirkby, Merseyside. But the item was withdrawn from the agenda after hearing the plans had been "changed significantly", said a Liverpool Council spokesman.
It is thought the next hearing will be at the end of the month.
Mandaric vows to stay at Foxes • LEICESTER chairman Milan Mandaric has vowed to remain at the club despite their relegation to Coca-Cola League One.
Mandaric, who completed a £25million-plus takeover in February 2007, had hinted that he could walk away from the Walkers Stadium as slipping into the third tier for the first time in the club's history had dealt a major blow to his three-year plan to get the Foxes back into the Premier League.
However, he told BBC Radio Leicester: "I am not going to leave the club. We have to look forward, reorganise and get back into the Championship."
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