Bournemouth's challenge for the top four shows no sign of petering out as they won 3-1 at bottom club Southampton to move above Chelsea and Newcastle into fifth place.

Omar Marmoush, who had never scored for City, netted a 14-minute hat-trick while Erling Haaland picked up an injury

After all the hand-wringing about Arsenal’s lack of a striker, it turns out Mikel Merino may have been the unexpected solution. Merino eased Arsenal’s attacking concerns with two late goals off the bench to secure a 2-0 win at relegation-threatened Leicester on Saturday that kept the Gunners in the Premier League title race.

Both City and the Premier League claimed a victory after October’s initial ruling that found three aspects of the APTs were unlawful, most notably around the deliberate exclusion of shareholder loans, which is when a club borrows money from its ownership group, usually interest-free.

The Premier League's sponsorship regulations between 2021 and 2024 are "void and unenforceable", a tribunal ruled on Friday. The decision follows a legal challenge by Manchester City against the league's Associated Party Transaction (APT) rules,