Kevin De Bruyne has announced that he will be leaving Manchester City at the end of the season.

The Belgium international's contract at the Etihad Stadium expires in the summer, and he said on Friday that will leave the club as a free agent.

In his 10 years at the club, he won 16 trophies including six Premier League titles, five League Cups, two FA Cups, two Community Shields and a Champions League.

"Seeing this, you probably realise where this is heading," he said in a post on social media on Friday.

"So I'll get straight to it and let you all know that these will be my final months as a Manchester City player.

"Nothing about this is easy to write, but as football players, we all know this day eventually comes. That day is here -- and you deserve to hear it from me first.

"Football led me to all of you -- and to this city. Chasing my dream, not knowing this period would change my life. This city. This club. These people... gave me everything. I had no choice but to give everything back! And guess what -- we won everything."

"Whether we like it or not, it's time to say goodbye. Suri, Rome, Mason, Michèle, and I are beyond grateful for what this place has meant to our family. 'Manchester' will forever be on our kids' passports -- and more importantly, in each of our hearts.

"This will always be our home."

De Bruyne joined City as a 24-year-old from Wolfsburg in 2015 and, over the following decade, established himself as one of the Premier League's greatest ever midfielders.

In 413 appearances for the club, he has scored a remarkable 106 goals and assisted a further 174 assists. He is tied with former Arsenal forward Thierry Henry for the most assists (20) in a single Premier League season.

The 33-year-old has been central to City's recent era of success, twice winning the Premier League Player of the Year award.

De Bruyne, who has been linked with moves to the MLS and Saudi Pro League, could end his time at City with yet more silverware, with the club playing Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semifinals later this month.

The PGA Tour wants one premier circuit operating in men's professional golf.

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund wants two -- and that's why the sides' talks to reunify the sport seem to be back at square one.

Sources confirmed to ESPN that the PGA Tour has rejected the PIF's most recent offer to invest $1.5 billion into PGA Tour Enterprises, the tour's for-profit entity, which came with the caveat that the rival LIV Golf League would remain intact.

The PIF, which has funded LIV Golf since its inception in 2022, also wants its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, to serve as co-chairman of PGA Tour Enterprises' board. Former Valero Energy CEO Joe Gorder is chairman of the PGA Tour Enterprises board, and Tiger Woods serves as vice chairman.

The Guardian of London reported that the PGA Tour replied to the PIF in a letter on Monday.

Sources previously told ESPN that the LIV Golf League continuing in its present form was a nonstarter for the PGA Tour, which prefers to have the top golfers in the world competing on one circuit.

Sources said the PIF has dug in its heels in negotiations and wants team golf to be part of the sport's future ecosystem if the sides reach a deal. The PGA Tour has tried to offer solutions to the PIF that would include some sort of iteration of LIV Golf in future schedules, such as having team competitions at international venues in the fall.

"We will not do so in a way that diminishes the strength of our platform or the very real momentum we have with our fans and our partners," PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan said at last month's Players Championship. "So while we've removed some hurdles, others remain. But like our fans, we still share the same sense of urgency to get to a resolution."

The latest correspondence comes on the heels of the sides' four-hour meeting at the White House on Feb. 20, which included Al-Rumayyan, Monahan, Woods and PGA Tour player director Adam Scott. U.S. President Donald Trump had previously met with Monahan and Scott in Washington on Feb. 4.

Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday that he hopes the competing tours can reach a deal. Trump was flying to Miami to meet with LIV Golf officials at Trump National Doral, which he owns.

"Ultimately, hopefully, the two tours are going to merge. That'll be good. I'm involved in that too," Trump told reporters on the flight to Miami, according to the Associated Press. "But hopefully we're going to get the two tours to merge. You have the PGA Tour and the LIV Tour. And I think having them merge would be a great thing."

Published reports indicated the PIF will have injected $5 billion into LIV Golf by the end of this year. The circuit that celebrates 54-hole tournaments, no cuts, shotgun starts and team golf has struggled to gain footing in the U.S. in terms of corporate sponsors and TV ratings.

Before this week's LIV Golf League tournament at Trump National Doral in Miami, LIV Golf League captain Brooks Koepka said that he had hoped the breakaway circuit would be further along in its fourth season.

Koepka was one of several PGA Tour stars lured to LIV Golf with guaranteed contracts worth more than $100 million. Past major champions Bryson DeChambeau, Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm and Cameron Smith are among the others who left the PGA Tour and were suspended by Monahan.

Financial records filed by LIV Golf's United Kingdom-based company, which operates its tournaments outside the U.S., indicated it had nearly $400 million in operating losses in 2023. Financial records for events in the U.S. weren't available.

New LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil told reporters on Tuesday that his league didn't have to make a deal with the PGA Tour to survive.

"If the deal can help grow the game of golf, I'll jump in with two feet," O'Neil said. "Do we have to do a deal? No. It would be nice to do a deal, so long as we're all focused on the same things.

"So do we have to do a deal or need a deal, whatever word you use, leave that to somebody smarter than me. I will say I love what we're doing, I love our prospects. I love the growth in three months. I know what's coming in the next three months. And I love where we are."

O'Neil isn't involved in the PIF's negotiations with the PGA Tour.

"The reality of the way I see the world is I see the LIV Golf League with a lot of hope and a lot of future," O'Neil told ESPN. "I hope that we find a way to get more opportunities to have the best players in the world playing together. It might not be in a nice, neat bow, or it might be. We'll see."

The PGA Tour and the PIF sued each other in federal court, but the lawsuits were dropped when they signed a framework agreement on June 6, 2023, to form an alliance that would reunify the sport. That deal expired at the end of 2023, but the sides have continued to try to hammer out a deal the past two years.

In January 2024, the PGA Tour and Strategic Sports Group, a consortium of U.S. pro sports teams and others, reached a deal to have SSG invest as much as $1.5 billion into PGA Tour Enterprises.

LOS ANGELES -- Golden State Warriors star forward Jimmy Butler suffered what appeared to be a left forearm injury in the third quarter of Thursday night's 123-116 win over the Los Angeles Lakers and was uncertain about his status for Friday's game against the Denver Nuggets.

Butler said he might have to undergo further testing on his forearm and see how he feels on Friday to determine if he can play at Chase Center in the second game of a back-to-back. He was able to return and play the entire fourth quarter.

"Part of the game [is] getting nicked up a little bit," Butler said after also having three steals in 36 minutes. "I hope that I'm going to be all right though, so we'll see tomorrow."

Butler said he did not undergo an MRI or X-ray on his forearm after the game. Asked if he would need to do so, he said, "Maybe. Probably. I hope not."

Butler's return in the fourth quarter helped the Warriors close out their fourth consecutive win, as he scored seven of his 11 points in the final 12 minutes.

"Jimmy's tough as hell, and we needed him to come back in to close that game up," Golden State power forward Draymond Green said. "He came back and he was exactly who he's been and who we needed him to be."

Stephen Curry, who has been playing with a pelvic contusion that cost him two games recently, took a fall on his tailbone Thursday night but shook off the injury and finished with 37 points.

Curry said he should be fine and that the bigger issue is wearing a protective pad on his back, which he expects he'll have to do for the remainder of the Warriors' season.

When asked if he knows if he will play in the second of a back-to-back Friday, Curry said, "I'm not sure." Head coach Steve Kerr said he thinks Green and Curry will play against Denver.

The Warriors (45-31) are in fifth place in the Western Conference standings with six games remaining in the season.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou bemoaned the time-consuming VAR process that saw Pape Sarr's goal chopped off in their 1-0 defeat at Chelsea on Thursday and said football was heading towards being refereed by artificial intelligence.

Referee Craig Pawson was advised by VAR to check Sarr's 69th-minute equaliser on the monitor and eventually chalked off the goal for a foul by the Spurs player in the build-up.

"It's going to be refereed by AI soon," Postecoglou told reporters after Thursday's Premier League match.

"We might as well dispense with the players when some genius comes up with a game with no participants at some point. As referees aren't refereeing.

"Whether I think its a foul or not, does not matter. VAR was called in for clear and obvious errors. How long did it take tonight? Six minutes. For a clear and obvious error.

"I don't see how it's benefiting our game. I don't think anyone would have complained tonight if we just went with referees' decisions."

Spurs, who are 14th, host Southampton on Sunday before welcoming Eintracht Frankfurt for the first leg of their Europa League quarterfinal on Thursday.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- NHL leading goal scorer Leon Draisaitl left the Edmonton Oilers' game against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night in the second period because of an undisclosed injury and didn't return.

Draisaitl appeared to be injured midway through the second period and skated gingerly to the bench before leaving for the dressing room. Coach Kris Knoblauch said after the game that he had no update on the severity of the injury.

Jeff Skinner scored the tiebreaking goal shortly after Draisaitl left the game, giving the Oilers a 3-2 victory that kept them within two points of the Los Angeles Kings in the race for second place in the Pacific Division and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

"Obviously we've had some injuries to key guys," Skinner said. "It's a lot of opportunity for other guys to step up and I think guys have done a good job so far. We're going to have to continue that and keep working together to get the results we want."

Draisaitl had an assist earlier in the second period. He leads the NHL with 52 goals and is third in the league with 106 points.

Draisaitl sat out four games last month because of an undisclosed injury.

The Oilers are already without star center Connor McDavid, who has been sidelined since colliding with Winnipeg's Josh Morrissey on March 20. McDavid has resumed skating with the team in a noncontact jersey but there is no timetable for his return.

The playoffs begin in just over two weeks.

"You never want to miss those guys," Knoblauch said. "You never want your top players not to play because every time they're not in, it decreases your chances of winning because they are good players, obviously. But what happens is other guys have some opportunities to play, get some confidence, hopefully score some goals, because we're going to need them."

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Angel City FC sporting director Mark Parsons said forward Alyssa Thompson has set the standard in the opening weeks of the 2025 National Women's Soccer League season.

"In the first three games, Alyssa's been the best player in the league," Parsons told ESPN at the team's new training facility on Thursday.

Thompson scored in two of the team's first three games, putting her one goal behind the league leaders. Her 8th-minute tally on Sunday against Seattle Reign FC helped propel Angel City to a 2-1 victory. Thompson beat two defenders with her movements and fired a shot into the upper corner.

Thompson, 20, tallied five goals and seven assists in 2024. She missed out on the United States' Olympic roster but went on a scoring run in the back half of the 2024 NWSL season and earned a recall to the USWNT. The 20-year-old is

She scored her first senior international goal on her return to the USWNT, in a 3-1 win over Iceland in October.

"I know she's committed to looking for the next level in her play, and I think you see just how threatening and dangerous she is," USWNT head coach Emma Hayes said of Thompson after that match.

Thompson has been part of every USWNT training camp since and is on the roster that will take on Brazil at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Saturday before facing the same opposition three days later in San Jose.

Angel City is unbeaten through three games for the first time in franchise history, largely thanks to a new, young core of players. Interim head coach Sam Laity started one of the youngest lineups in NWSL history -- six players were age 23 or younger -- in the team's opening-weekend draw with San Diego Wave FC.

Thompson, along with her sister, Gisele, is one of the anchors of that youth movement. Thompson was the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NWSL Draft as an 18- year-old who was finishing high school. She played for the USWNT at the World Cup later that year.

Eighteen-year-old Kennedy Fuller has been the team's playmaker in midfield, while 22-year-old forward Riley Tiernan has started all three games as Angel City's striker after joining the team in preseason as a non-roster invitee.

Tiernan scored the game-winning goal against Seattle on Sunday, her first professional tally.

With her goal on Sunday, Thompson's 11 regular-season goals already leave her tied for second in Angel City's young history.

"They've got a lot of learning to do, but Sam and the team have done a tremendous job on having clear identity," Parsons said about the young group of players. "I believe when you have that, individuals have the chance to perform. And I think we've had great individual performances so far. It's been fun."

Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca said he could have blown his side's chances of hanging on for a 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday by making defensive changes for the dying moments, only to realise that a full 12 minutes had been added on.

"We created chances enough in the first half, and then, to be honest, it has been my mistake because I did the change before I saw the extra time," a relieved-looking Maresca told reporters.

"When I saw 12 minutes, I saw that probably was too early to make that kind of change. But fortunately, we won the game, and we are happy."

With the clock ticking down, and Chelsea ahead through Enzo Fernández's 50th-minute header, Maresca replaced attacker Cole Palmer and Fernandez with defender Tosin Adarabioyo and midfield anchor Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, packing his back line.

The change allowed Spurs to pour forward in their search for an equaliser during the long period of stoppage time, which came after two long VAR checks in the second half which ruled out goals for both sides.

Maresca was full of praise for the way his players soaked up the pressure to seal the win which gave Chelsea some fresh momentum in their hunt for a top four finish and a place in next season's Champions League.

"If you want to become a team, I think you need also to learn and to play in the way we played in the last 10 minutes: win a game in a dirty way," the Italian said.

Maresca said the return of Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson from injury had given his side more shape, thanks to his incessant pressing of the Spurs defence. "For sure, with Nico we are a different team," the manager added.

Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou said poor defending was to blame for Chelsea's goal and he was critical of how VAR ruled out what he thought was an equaliser when substitute Pape Sarr beat Robert Sánchez with a low drive, only for it to be ruled out for a foul by Sarr moments earlier.

The Australian downplayed suggestions from reporters that he had shown frustration at Spurs fans -- some of whom had booed his substitution decisions -- by cupping his ear to them when Sarr found the back of the net.

"It's incredible how things get interpreted. We'd just scored. I wanted to hear them cheer. We've been through a tough time and I thought it was a cracking goal. I wanted them to get really excited," he said.

"It doesn't bother me. It's not the first time that they've booed my substitutions. That's fine. They're allowed to do that," said Postecoglou, whose side are 14th in the table.

NEW YORK -- Brooklyn coach Jordi Fernandez took the blame for Minnesota star Anthony Edwards' injury scare in the Nets' 105-90 loss to the Timberwolves on Thursday night.

Edwards briefly left the game after he stepped backward onto Fernandez's foot while making a 3-pointer late in the second quarter. He was helped off the court but returned for the start of the second half.

"I was out of bounds trying to move out of the way," Fernandez said. "I definitely have to be faster than that. Players' health is the most important thing in the game, so next time I just have to move faster."

Edwards finished with 28 points and five rebounds as the Timberwolves won their fourth straight game.

The Timberwolves are part of a crowd trying to finish among the top six in the Western Conference and avoid the play-in tournament. They can't afford to lose Edwards.

The three-time All-Star has carried the Timberwolves this season after they traded Karl-Anthony Towns to the New York Knicks in the offseason. Edwards was averaging a career-best 27.3 points before Thursday's game.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

LOS ANGELES -- Luka Doncic hit his first shot Thursday night, scoring on a running finger roll in the opening minutes of his baptism into the Golden State Warriors-Lakers rivalry.

But there weren't many highlights for Doncic after that, as he finished with 19 points on 6-for-17 shooting in L.A.'s 123-116 loss to the Warriors.

"That performance from me was unacceptable," Doncic said after the defeat dropped L.A. to No. 4 in the Western Conference standings with six games remaining in the regular season. "When I play like that, that makes [it] harder [for the team] to win, so just got to figure that out."

Doncic's shooting woes extended to the 3-point range, where he went 0-for-6, snapping a 114-game streak of making at least one 3 dating nearly two years to April 7, 2023. It was the fifth longest such streak in NBA history.

The Lakers guard's left elbow was heavily wrapped in kinesiology tape and iced, but he did not blame the injury for his off night.

"It's fine," Doncic said. "That's my left [arm], so it's fine. I was shooting with the right. It [just] looked like [the] left."

The Warriors used a switch everything brand of defense, which rattled L.A. in the first half, as it shot just 35.7% and trailed 60-47.

"It was not what they were doing," Lakers coach JJ Redick said of Golden State's defensive impact early on. "It was what we were doing. And we showed them at halftime. The spacing alignments [were incorrect] and having the wrong guy in the dunker spot, the wrong guy in the corner."

The Lakers rallied to score 69 points in the second half, with LeBron James, who was playing in his seventh game since returning from a two-week absence because of a strained left groin, scoring 25 of his 33 points and Austin Reaves producing 20 of his 31 points after the break.

"That was the best I've felt since before the injury, for sure," James said. "I just tried to press, get downhill. My rhythm, as far as my jump shot, felt pretty good today. I have been shooting it from the free throw line extremely well as of late. But that was probably the best physically I've felt so hopefully I can build off of that."

The Lakers were able to cut the Warriors' fourth-quarter lead from 14 to five with 4:37 remaining and again with 34.6 seconds left, but did not get any closer.

The Lakers host the undermanned New Orleans Pelicans on Friday on the second night of a back-to-back before going on the road to play a two-game set against the Oklahoma City Thunder, followed by a game Wednesday against the Dallas Mavericks in Doncic's first return trip to face his former franchise.

The Lakers are one game up on the No. 5 Warriors but hold the tiebreaker from winning the season series 3-1. And L.A. is a half-game behind No. 3 Denver but the Nuggets hold the tiebreaker.

"It obviously felt like a playoff game," Doncic said. Obviously, the Warriors, since they acquired Jimmy [Butler], they've been playing unbelievably. So it was kind of playoff game and now we see what kind of team they are. Maybe we can meet them, maybe not, in the playoffs. So, we just need to be more ready."

James, who said he is "hopeful" to play against New Orleans, also kept the focus on L.A. when asked about Draymond Green's bullishness about the Warriors' championship chances this season.

"I have no idea, I can't answer that question," James said when asked how legitimate Green's claim is when it comes to Golden State's contender status. "I got to worry about us. I can't be worrying about other teams. That ain't my job."

NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge smiled and perhaps blushed when informed of Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s praise.

"We all tell him every day: 'Hey, we want to be you when we grow up,'" Chisholm said after Judge became the third-fastest New York Yankees player to reach 500 extra-base hits with a three-run homer in the first inning of Thursday night's 9-7 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

And the two players who reached the mark in fewer games than Judge? Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig.

"When I'm an old man coming to Old-Timers Day, I can look back and we can joke about it and laugh about it," Judge said.

Coming off his second American League MVP award, Judge fell a triple short of the cycle and is hitting .417 with five homers and 15 RBIs in the first six games this season. He has 320 homers, 175 doubles and five triples in 999 games, and only DiMaggio (853) and Gehrig (869) reached 500 extra-base hits in fewer games among Yankees.

"I feel like he's still getting there, which is remarkable," Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. "It's that part of me that takes him for granted a little bit. I just feel like he should get an extra-base hit every time. I kind of say it out loud just to try and remind myself what we're watching every day."

Judge lined a 1-1 fastball from Merrill Kelly at 112.1 mph to the opposite field and into the Yankees' bullpen for a 3-0 lead. He added a run-scoring single in the fourth inning as the Yankees moved ahead 7-3 and hit a 111.3 mph double in the sixth. He also flied out and hit a 109.5 mph groundout.

"I'm like, did you miss that one?" Boone recalled, laughing. "I catch myself having these ridiculous conversations with him sometimes, just because he keeps setting the bar so darn high."

Judge knows he's in for ribbing when he singles or doubles.

"He gives me a little smirk when I get on base like that," he said.

Judge also stole his first base of the season, as did Chisholm. Judge swiped 10 last year to Chisholm's 40.

"I told him I was going to catch him in stolen bases this year," Judge said playfully.

"He's starting to steal bags now. It's just getting ridiculous out of him, man," Chisholm said.

Chisholm and Trent Grisham hit two-run homers off Kelly (1-1), who allowed a career-high nine runs, nine hits and three walks in 3 2/3 innings. Chisholm is hitting .292 with four homers and eight RBIs.

"I'm OK compared to him. I'm trying to get to his level right now," Chisholm said of Judge. "I told him I'm not going to try to fall behind him too far. I got to keep up with him."

New York had 22 homers on a 4-2 opening homestand, five more than any other team ever hit in its first six games. Even though it was game No. 6, the Yankees felt an urgency after losing the Tuesday and Wednesday.

"Big G said a couple words before the game, just about this was our home turf. We got to go out there and we don't get swept at home," he said of Giancarlo Stanton. "Guys took that to heart."

Carlos Carrasco (1-0) got his first Yankees win, giving up three runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings. After New York opened a 9-3 lead, Geraldo Perdomo hit a seventh-inning grand slam off Ryan Yarbrough. Luke Weaver got four outs for his first save this season, ending Arizona's three-game winning streak.

Judge repeatedly refers to last year's World Series loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. It weighs on him far more than historical accomplishments.

"Especially after last season where we weren't able to finish the job, guys are motivated to go out and do something special," he said. "It starts every game you play."