Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has told ESPN FC that defender Kalidou Koulibaly should be valued at £250 million given that Manchester United signed Harry Maguire for £80m.

United spent a world record fee to secure Maguire's signature from Leicester despite manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer also being interested in Koulibaly this summer.

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De Laurentiis said he would have offered significantly less money to sign Maguire and said Koulibaly was worth three times more than the England international.

"He has a clause of £150m," he said in an exclusive interview with ESPN. "But, for example, in England, they paid £85m for a player. In Napoli, I would pay £30-£35m.

"With that in mind, I think Koulibaly's value is £250m if they paid that much for that guy."

Maguire became United's third signing of the summer following the arrivals of Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Daniel James.

De Laurentiis also blamed Premier League clubs for inflated prices in the transfer window and said the league has an unfair advantage over other countries.

"The problem of the super cost of the players is due to England," he added. "In England, they gross more money than in France, Spain, Italy and Germany.

"If a club grosses £800m, they have no problem to offer around £80m, £90m, £100m for one player. There is not a real good and fair competition between England and the other countries."

United start their league campaign against Chelsea at Old Trafford on Sunday while Napoli start Serie A away at Fiorentina on Aug. 24.

Manchester United have let an unprofessional Romelu Lukaku leave because Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is trying to instil a "new culture" at Old Trafford, Gary Neville has told ESPN FC.

Lukaku has joined Inter Milan in a £72 million deal at the end of a week that saw the striker reprimanded for publishing confidential training data on Twitter and earn a fine from United for missing training on Wednesday.

"My view on Romelu Lukaku is that if Manchester United are trying to set a new tone and culture through the club, which Ole is trying to do, any lack of professionalism has got to be stamped upon," said Neville.

"He didn't want to be here anyway."

Lukaku scored 42 goals in 96 games for United following a £75m move from Everton in 2017.

He scored 27 goals in his first season but his form dipped last year and he admitted in December he had been forced to "lose muscle" after bulking up for the World Cup.

"I think he is a really good player -- he'll score a lot of goals and do well at Inter Milan," said Neville, who was speaking at an event to mark TalkTalk's new five-year partnership with Salford City FC.

"But the idea of a player being overweight for me is unforgivable. You can play badly, miss shots on goal, hit a bad cross or give goals away as they're mistakes in football but you can't be overweight.

"We were never overweight, not fit or not prepared. How can you be overweight!?

"There's no excuse. Romelu Lukaku has admitted himself that he was overweight so he has removed all doubt."

Inter Milan have signed Romelu Lukaku from Manchester United for €80 million, bringing an end to their pursuit of the forward, which has lasted the majority of the summer.

Antonio Conte had targeted the Belgium international almost immediately after being appointed as Inter manager and, after a difficult negotiation, the two clubs were able to agree on a deal. Lukaku inked a contract that will keep him at the club until the summer of 2024.

"Inter were the only club I wanted, because Inter is Not For Everyone. I'm here to bring the Nerazzurri back to the top," Lukaku said in a release by the club.

Lukaku, 26, had appeared close to joining Juventus with the Bianconeri agreeing a swap deal which would have seen Paulo Dybala join United.

However, the deal failed to materialise as United pulled out of talks with Dybala due to concerns over the Argentina international's desire to move to Old Trafford.

Following the breakdown in negotiations, Lukaku trained with Anderlecht in Belgium, which led to a fine from United.

Lukaku was a target for Conte's Chelsea in 2017, but he joined United from Everton for an initial £75m rising to £90m instead.

He was the first-choice forward under Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford, but he lost his starting place to Marcus Rashford once the Portuguese manager was replaced by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

Surrey Stars 124 for 2 (Lee 66) beat Lancashire Thunder 120 for 7 (Hamranpreet 58*, van Niekerk 3-20) by eight wickets

Surrey Stars continued their Kia Super League title defence with a second consecutive win, and a comprehensive one at that, restricting Lancashire Thunder to 120 for 7 before chasing down the runs with eight wickets and 34 balls to spare, yielding maximum bonus points.

Stars had lost Bryony Smith early in their chase, caught at long-off attempting to send Emma Lamb over the top, but Lizelle Lee and Sarah Taylor then dominated proceedings with a century partnership. Lee, whose 45-ball 66 was founded on some wonderfully clean hitting and included three sixes, was finally dismissed by Alex Hartley in the 13th over sweeping into the hands of Harmanpreet Kaur at deep square leg, but skipper Nat Sciver and Taylor then finished the job with ease.

Stars' win came in spite of a brilliant 44-ball half-century from Harmanpreet at the back end of the Thunder innings, the India captain finishing unbeaten on 58.

Thunder had been placed on the back foot from the outset, having been put in to bat by the Stars. Marizanne Kapp led the way with a deadly accurate four-over spell at the start of the innings, which went for just 14 and yielded the wicket of her South African team-mate Sune Luus with a beautiful ball that swung late to take out her off stump, leaving Thunder 7 for 1.

Georgie Boyce attempted to take up where she had left off in Thunder's first match, racking up a run-a-ball 12 which included successive boundaries off Sciver's first outing with the ball. However, when the opener fell in the fifth over to the offspin of Mady Villiers, caught at mid-off trying to drive over the top, the runs quickly dried up for Thunder - no boundaries coming off the bat between the third and the 14th overs.

By that stage Thunder were already four wickets down, having lost both Sophia Dunkley and Tahlia McGrath in quick succession - Dunkley trapped leg-before to Dane van Niekerk's legspin. Van Niekerk later struck again twice in the 17th to remove both Sophie Ecclestone and Ellie Threlkeld, finishing with 3 for 20 off her four overs as the Thunder sank to 75 for 7.

Harmanpreet - who had initially joined the fray in the seventh over - played an innings of two distinct halves: having taken 36 balls to reach 25, she finally freed her arms to take 33 off the last 11 balls she faced; but the effort came too late in the day to set Thunder back on course.

Stars will be hoping for another win when they face Southern Vipers in their next match at the Kia Oval on Monday while Thunder will be desperate to get points on the board in their encounter against Western Storm at Taunton on Saturday.

Australians 266 for 5 dec and 92 for 1 (Harris 62*) lead Worcestershire 201 for 9 dec (Milton 74, Morris 53*, Hazlewood 3-34) by 157 runs

During a pesky lower order stand between Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad that looked to have given England a significant advantage at the midpoint of the Edgbaston Ashes Test, a common refrain throughout was how the pace of Mitchell Starc and perhaps the bounce of Josh Hazlewood might have been handy to clean up the tail.

Certainly both have been known to do the trick at times in the past, but their chances of selection for the Lord's Test next week were not exactly aided by a day on which Worcestershire, having limped to 75 for 8 after a flurry of morning wickets, wriggled their way to 201 for 9 and gave their captain Joe Leach the pleasure of declaring the innings closed.

Starc and Hazlewood's chief frustraters were Worcestershire's second-string wicketkeeper Alex Milton and the right-arm seamer Charlie Morris, who played their shots with steadily increasing ferocity across a stand of 88 that was only ended by the part-time legbreaks of Marnus Labuschagne.

The union may have been ended somewhat earlier, only for Starc to have bowled a no-ball when he sent Morris' off stump cartwheeling out of the ground on 12, before he and Hazlewood were spelled for much of the latter part of the partnership. Starc was back on, however, for the subsequent partnership of 38 between Morris and the last man Adam Finch, concluding an analysis that read 11.5-2-29-1 for the day.

Hazlewood, with 3 for 34 from 15 overs for the innings and 1 for 32 from 11 for the day, took the best innings figures, though he too would have been somewhat nonplussed to have a diminishing impact as the innings went on. Michael Neser (2 for 32 from 12 overs) fulfilled the role he is on tour to perform as a back-up merchant for the frontline.

Whether that is enough to convince the selectors that Australia could do with Starc's speed or Hazlewood's trajectory at Lord's will be more or less up to the selection chairman Trevor Hohns and the captain Tim Paine, with the coach Justin Langer not venturing to Worcester and taking a brief sojourn in London between Tests - likewise Steven Smith, David Warner, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon.

The closure from Leach - who took some time to get the attention of Morris and Finch to actually do so - provided the Australians with the full final session in which to bat. Cameron Bancroft spent 40 halting balls over 7 before edging behind, but Marcus Harris was rather more fluent in gliding to 62 from 78 balls by stumps.

Mitchell Marsh was promoted to No. 3 to be given the chance for some time at the crease. In being beaten numerous times outside the off stump he showed himself still to be more of a lower-middle order player on a pitch that had, by the evidence of Worcestershire's tail, eased considerably on the seam it offered on day one.

What happens next in this match will be largely determined by the forecast for Worcester over the next 24 hours, with heavy overnight rain predicted, almost to the level of the storms that forced Australia A's earlier fixture here to be shifted to Kidderminster.

The ICC is considering cutting into the annual revenue it will give to the BCCI as it continues to find ways to recoup the money it lost as a result of the tax paid during the 2016 World T20 held in India. The 10% tax paid by the ICC to Indian tax authorities has resulted in a revenue loss of $20-30 million. The minutes of a Committee of Administrators (CoA) meeting held on July 6 state that while these events were previously tax exempt, the Indian government's stance changed in 2016, which forced the BCCI to withhold 10% of the amount payable by the broadcaster, Star Sports, to the ICC.

Early last year it had emerged that India could be in danger of losing out on hosting the 2021 Champions Trophy (since replaced by the T20 World Cup) as well as the 2023 World Cup. The ICC management had been directed to seek alternative venues if the issue wasn't resolved.

"The Board agreed that ICC management, supported by the BCCI will continue the dialogue with the Indian Government but in the meantime directed ICC management to explore alternative host countries in a similar time zone for the ICC Champions Trophy 2021," the ICC had said in a release in February 2018.

The minutes of the CoA meeting held last month state that the BCCI "made all efforts" with the government to try and ensure a tax exemption but three years on, the tax authorities have not budged. In the last decade alone, the Indian government allowed tax exemptions for the 2006 Champions Trophy as well as the 2011 World Cup.

For the 2006 event, Ehsan Mani and the late Jagmohan Dalmiya, had directly negotiated an exemption with the Indian government. On the basis of that negotiation, the government had passed a legislation in the tax act which allowed international sporting events to be exempted. This applied as recently as 2017, when the FIFA Under-17 World Cup got a tax break for broadcast equipment imported by FIFA host broadcasters.

The BCCI will now seek the opinion of an English law firm about their legal options, since the 2016 event agreement between the board and the ICC was governed by English law.

Southern Vipers 136 for 8 (Wyatt 40) beat Loughborough Lightning 135 for 5 (Elwiss 37) by two wickets

Southern Vipers made it two wins from two in the Kia Super League after narrowly prevailing over Loughborough Lightning at the Haslegrave Ground.

Needing just 24 more with six wickets in hand in the 17th over, Vipers contrived to lose four wickets in the space of 16 deliveries as Lightning mounted a determined to deny them. But wicketkeeper Carla Rudd got them over the line by hitting offspiner Hayley Matthews for two on the leg side to complete a two-wicket win with just three balls to spare, chasing 136.

England's Dani Wyatt had earlier hit 40 off 33 balls with seven fours and West Indies star Stafanie Taylor 38 from 29.

Lightning, for whom skipper Georgia Elwiss top scored with 37, gave themselves a chance when England left-arm spinner Kirstie Gordon removed Suzie Bates and Tammy Beaumont in her first three deliveries after coming on in the eighth over with Vipers 48 without loss. But seven boundaries in the next three overs put Vipers back on track with 57 runs needed off the final nine overs.

Openers Hayley Matthews and Amy Jones had given the Lightning innings a solid platform after Elwiss had won the toss and opted to bat first.

With Jones in confident form after launching her KSL campaign with a half-century against Western Storm on Tuesday, and Matthews showing off her powerful hitting on the off side, the two put on 42 in the Powerplay overs before they were parted in the seventh over when Matthews was bowled behind her legs by Australian legspinner Amanda-Jade Wellington for 21.

Thereafter Lightning lost some momentum, Jones was bowled off a bottom edge by Paige Scholfield for 24 and five overs passed without a boundary.

Sri Lankan batsman Chamari Atapattu struggled to find gaps in the field and was leg before to Taylor's offspin for 9 and the innings did not pick up again until the final six overs, as Mignon du Preez - dropped twice - helped Elwiss put on 29 in four overs and some lusty hitting from Jenny Gunn saw the total swelled by 27 off the final 13 deliveries, Gunn pulling Taylor for six over wide long-on.

With a required run rate of 6.8, Vipers knew they had no need to force the pace and at 48 without loss after seven overs they were firmly on track.

Two wickets in her first three balls by Gordon after drawing a blank in the opening match then dealt the Vipers a setback. She broke the Wyatt-Suzie Bates opening partnership via a catch at deep midwicket to remove the New Zealander and then combined brilliantly with wicketkeeper Jones to have England's always-dangerous Beaumont out stumped without scoring.

But Wyatt and West Indies allrounder Taylor then added 31 in four overs to keep the scoreboard moving.

Atapattu had Wyatt well caught by Sarah Glenn and deep backward square and Glenn herself trapped Taylor leg before with her legspin.

Excellent ground fielding by Lucy Higham and Elwiss saw Thea Brookes and Scholfield run out as Vipers made things difficult for themselves towards the end before two more wickets fell in the penultimate over. But a six by Scholfield over long-on at the start of that over had swung the balance back in Vipers' favour and Wellington began the final over, with seven needed, by sweeping Matthews for four.

Ashfaq Ahmed smashed a career-best 75 while Ghulam Shabber hit 58* - his first T20I half-century - to lead United Arab Emirates to a seven-wicket win against Netherlands in the fourth match, completing a 4-0 series sweep.

Ashfaq ended the series with scores of 54, 25, 26 and 75 - having never got into double figures in six previous T20Is.

Netherlands captain Pieter Seelaar won the toss and chose to bat, but while there were several useful contributions by the home side's batsmen, nobody carried on to get a big score. Netherlands ended up with 150 for 6 in their 20 overs. Each of the top six got into double figures, and four crossed 25, but none made higher than 28.

Opener Max O'Dowd got the game off to a brisk start, and by the time he fell for a 21-ball 28, Netherlands had 46 in five overs. However, that would remain the highest stand of the innings. Stephan Myburgh and Seelaar both made 25, and Antonius Staal's unbeaten 28 off 16 gave the innings fillip at the death, but Netherlands couldn't really kick on in the middle.

Ashfaq had a good first half too, giving up just 20 runs in four overs and castling Myburgh, to be the most economical among the UAE bowlers. Sultan Ahmed bagged 2 for 29, the best figures of the innings.

In UAE's chase, Zawar Farid fell in the second over, but thereafter Ashfaq and Shabber got together in a partnership that put the match beyond Netherlands. The two put on 111 runs in just 14.3 overs, with both men scoring freely. Ashfaq's wicket broke the partnership, but not before he had hit 11 fours and two sixes in a 53-ball innings. Muhammad Usman fell three balls later, but Shabber stayed the course to steer his team home in 19.4 overs.

For Netherlands, the wicket-takers were Vivian Kingma, Hidde Overdijk, and Phillippe Boissevain.

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Tiger Woods' back appeared to be fine Thursday, but the same could not be said for his golf game.

Looking like someone who had competed in just 12 rounds over the past four months and perhaps with a corresponding amount of limited practice, Woods made numerous mistakes on his way to shooting a 4-over-par 75 at Liberty National in the first round of the Northern Trust.

"I just didn't play well," said Woods, who was outside of the top 80 players in the 125-man field when his round was completed. "Just one of those things where I just didn't hit any good shots and didn't make any putts. Other than that, added up to a round that broke 80."

Woods' self-deprecating assessment left little room for the good stuff, which was plenty of solid tee shots and the chance to play from the fairway most of the time.

But his wedge game was poor -- a common issue when he's been off this year -- and he didn't putt well, including a botched 3-footer for par on the third hole (his 12th) followed by a missed birdie putt from 5 feet at No. 4.

He took 30 putts for the round after hitting 10 greens in regulation.

Playing for the first time since missing the cut at The Open last month, Woods also began the tournament after taking a cautious approach to the pro-am Wednesday, when he hit a limited number of shots due to lower-back stiffness.

For the most part, those issues seemed to be missing Thursday, but on a benign golf course made soft by rain, with no wind and warm temperatures, Woods was unable to take advantage and found himself a whopping 13 shots behind early leader Troy Merritt, who shot a 62.

"It was just off," Woods said. "I was just trying to feel it, trying to find it, and then could never get it. Then I got on a bad run there, a couple of bogeys and a double. I had a couple of opportunities to make a couple birdies and a three-putt the third hole. ... I had my opportunities to turn it around, and I didn't do it."

Many of Woods' issues seemed to be due to rust, which raises the question of whether he has been able -- or willing -- to practice much in the two-plus weeks since he left Northern Ireland.

His first bogey, on the 12th hole, came when he missed the green with a wedge from under 140 yards, finding a bunker and then blasting through the green. After a two-putt birdie at the 13th hole, Woods misfired from short range at the par-3 14th, pulling a short iron shot into a hazard and making a double-bogey. A missed fairway led to a bogey at the 15th, and he added another at the 17th for a first-nine 39.

After finally hitting a wedge shot close for a birdie at No. 1, Woods couldn't get a birdie to drop at No. 2 then three-putted the third. He made a birdie at the par-5 sixth, and with a chance to get the round back to a respectable 2 over, he only managed to par the par-5 eighth and bogeyed the ninth after a perfect drive.

"It just feels frustrating to shoot anything high, no matter how I feel," Woods said. "I knew today with an early tee time, we had the perfect greens and had to go out there and shoot something under par and get it going. Had to be 4-, 5-, 6-under par today. I went the other way with it."

And he may be headed home as early as Friday. Woods is in danger of missing a cut for the third time this year. The top 70 and ties will advance to the weekend, and he will need to make up a lot of ground Friday.

If he doesn't, Woods could fall outside the top 30 in the FedEx Cup standings. He entered the week 28th and will make it to next week's BMW Championship for the top 70. But getting back to East Lake, where he posted his 80th career PGA Tour title last year at the Tour Championship, becomes more problematic.

There is no cut at the BMW, but Woods will need to have a decent week to assure himself a trip to Atlanta.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa has a "significant" ankle sprain and will not play in the preseason, general manager John Lynch said Thursday morning.

Lynch told KNBR Radio in San Francisco that Bosa, the No. 2 overall pick in the 2019 draft, does not have a "full-blown" high-ankle sprain, but there are "components" of that injury.

"It's a significant ankle sprain, and there's that dreaded high ankle sprain -- he doesn't have a full-blown one -- but it has some components of that," Lynch told KNBR. "As for timing, I think what we're comfortable saying -- and a lot is going to happen here with kind of the follow-up today, they've got the scans -- it's safe to say we won't see him in the preseason and then we're going to be very prudent."

Coach Kyle Shanahan and Lynch both said that the hope is for Bosa to be ready for the start of the regular season against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sept. 8. The Niners, however, won't push Bosa if he's not ready.

"We want him right," Lynch said. "We're gonna do what's in the best interest and trust the medical staff on that. And trust Nick. We'll see where that goes."

Lynch said the Niners "got a little sloppy" in Wednesday's practice and that "a big human being" fell on Bosa's leg on a running play off the right side. Bosa stayed down on the field after the play as members of the team's medical staff rushed to his side and examined the lower part of his right leg and ankle.

After a few minutes, Bosa was able to stand and walk off the field with two trainers. He slowly headed into Levi's Stadium, without assistance, for further examination.

Bosa has had a long injury history. He missed most of last season at Ohio State because of a core muscle injury suffered in the team's third game. After being drafted in April, Bosa missed most of the 49ers' offseason program with a hamstring issue. He also suffered a torn ACL as a senior in high school.

"We don't feel he is injury prone," Lynch said. "Yesterday, he had a big human being fall on his legs while he was engaged with someone else. So, some of those things, that's football, you can't prevent that. We're thrilled with what we have in Nick Bosa. We're gonna get him right and he'll be a great player for a long time in this league."

In his first NFL training camp, Bosa had made it through nine practices without issue and has made a strong first impression on teammates and coaches. He has worked with the starting defense and the second unit and was with the starters Wednesday before he was injured.

"The great thing I can tell you about Nick Bosa is he's been dominating practice out here on a daily basis," Lynch said. "He's a game-changing type player -- everything we hoped and expected -- and we have to get him right for this season."

Lynch said he hopes defensive end Dee Ford, who has been out with knee tendinitis, can return to practice prior to the third preseason game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Aug. 24.

"Dee is fine," Lynch said. "He's kind of done his week down, and now it's back to ramping him back up. He should be ready, I believe, that Kansas City Week 3 of preseason. Whether we'll put him out there or not, I'm not sure, but he'll be back practicing then."