Archives for May 2022

MANCHESTER UNITED and Arsenal have reportedly been dealt a major blow in their pursuit of Wolves star Ruben Neves.

The Red Devils have tried to sign the Portuguese international in the last two windows with the Midlands club holding firm so far.

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Ruben Neves allegedly has his heart set on joining Barcelona[/caption]

Neves, 25, has been on United’s radar for some time with ex-boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wanting to snap him up last summer before other acquisitions got in the way.

United then attempted to sound out a £35million deal for him in January but Wolves played hard-ball and would only accept offers of upwards of £40m.

But they remain keen with incoming boss Erik ten Hag planning to make another move.

Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal are also keen on bringing him to North London.

And with a potential transfer warchest to play with should the Gunners secure Champions League qualification, they were plotting a summer swoop.

However, now Spanish publication Sport states that Neves is only “crazy about joining Barcelona” and hopes to move to the Nou Camp.

His agent, Jorge Mendes, enjoys a good relationship with the LaLiga side’s top brass and helped finalise Adama Traore’s switch from Molineux to Barca in January.

Now he is allegedly working to make Neves’ dream a reality and take him to Spain.

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Neves has been at Wolves since 2017 and helped them rise from the Championship to the Premier League.

He still has two years left on his current deal with the club.

However, he has made it no secret that he wants to play in the Champions League sooner rather than later and is stalling over signing an extension.

Wolves accept they may have to cash in on Neves in the next few months if contract negotiations continue to stutter and instead rebuild under Bruno Lage.

Dave Chappelle continues to court controversy, even when he’s clearly the victim of a shocking attack. That’s what happened during his appearance at the Hollywood Bowl for the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival.

According to ABC News and social media shares, the comedian was rushed while on stage finishing up his set and tackled to the ground by an unidentified man. The outlet reports that the duo “appeared to tussle on the stage floor,” before the man ran off.

He didn’t get very far though, as Chappelle’s security — and possibly others — reportedly overcame the individual in the rear corner of the stage, surrounding and tackling him in response. No explanation or precipitating situation has been revealed immediately preceding the attack.

As this was happening, Chappelle reportedly ran toward the on-stage altercation, saying that the person was being “stomped,” while repeatedly asking security to remove him. Video footage shared online afterward appeared to show the man’s shoulder dislocated and his arm possibly broken.

After the man was removed, Chappelle could be heard on shared video joking to the audience that it was “a trans man,” a clear allusion to the controversy that has surrounded him since his recent Netflix comedy special “Closer.”

The Netflix Is a Joke Fest is an 11-day festival, scheduled to run until May 8. It takes place at different venues throughout the Los Angeles area and is purported to feature more than 130 different performers.

After the alleged attacker was subdued, removed and taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance, per ABC News, Chris Rock came up on the stage with Chappelle. Rock, who had already performed earlier in the night, quipped, “Was that Will Smith?” Jamie Foxx also purportedly came to the stage to check on Chappelle.

Fans continue to wait for Rock to speak more openly about the shocking attack that rocked the Oscars telecast when Smith walked up to him on the stage and smacked him across the face before returning to his seat and screaming for Rock to keep his wife’s name out of his mouth.

This came after Rock made a “G.I. Jane” joke about Jada Pinkett-Smith’s short hairstyle, referencing the Demi Moore film. He subsequently said that he was unaware she suffered from alopecia, a condition that causes hair loss.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did nothing at the time, allowing Smith to win a Best Actor Oscar later in the night and offer an awkward apology. He was subsequently banned from any Academy event or program for ten years. Smith accepted this decision.

You can check out footage of the altercation and its aftermath below, as shared by fans on-site through social media (warning: some footage may be graphic and NSFW).

Far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) warned her supporters Wednesday that the January 6 Capitol riot was “a trial run,” adding ominously that “they” are “going to come back.”

The leader of the so-called “Squad” of socialist House Democrats, who holed up in her office during the rioting and later claimed the mob left her in fear for her life, made the claim at a town hall meeting for constituents.

“This is no joke,” AOC said, according to Yahoo! News. “Jan. 6 was a trial run, and a lot of people don’t seem to understand that. It was a trial run.”

“They’re going to come back,” she added, without giving any details into the offered conspiracy.

Ocasio-Cortez then hit the GOP, claiming the breach would have been “worse” if Republicans controlled the House and could have prevented Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

“And if [Republicans] take the House, then they have the votes to not authorize and legitimize the presidential election,” she said. “The only reason it wasn’t worse was because Democrats had the House, and [Republicans] didn’t have the votes in the House.”

Ocasio-Cortez was inside her office in the Cannon Building at the time of the breach, which is inside the Capitol complex but some distance from the Capitol Rotunda and House Chambers.

“As for myself, I had a pretty traumatizing event happen to me and I do not know if I can even disclose the full details of that event due to security concerns, but I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die and you have all of those thoughts where, you know, at the end of your life, and all of these thoughts come rushing to you, and that’s what happened to a lot of us on Wednesday,” she said on Instagram Live, The Daily Wire reported. “I did not think, I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive, and not just in a general sense, but also in a very, very specific sense and, you know, I think it’s an opportunity for a lot of us to talk about trauma as well.”

In August of 2021, CNN reported that AOC told them she feared she was going to be raped and killed.

“I didn’t think that I was just going to be killed,” the Democrat told CNN’s Dana Bash. “I thought other things were going to happen to me as well.”

Earlier this month, a federal judge acquitted a man named Matthew Martin, a former government contractor at a nuclear weapons laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, on all charges related to the Capitol breach. The interesting part about the acquittal was that Martin argued police let him enter the Capitol and was waved into the building, The Daily Wire reported.

Lawyer Alan Dershowitz later told The Daily Wire the acquittal was “enormously important” and sets a legal precedent.

Related: ‘If That’s The Rule, We Will Win’: January 6 Acquittal ‘Enormously Important,’ Dershowitz Says

Related: AOC Says She Almost Died During Riot, Declines To Give Details; Suggests Conspiracy Involving Police

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