Romelu Lukaku used his holiday with friend Paul Pogba to do some training ahead of an expected £75-million transfer to Manchester United.

The Everton striker, 24, was subject of an agreement between his current club and United that became public knowledge on Thursday, and it’s hoped that the move can be thrashed out before Jose Mourinho’s squad flies into Los Angeles on Sunday for its American tour.

At United, Lukaku would become a teammate of Pogba’s, who shares the same agent in the controversial Mino Raiola. A video of the pair training at the UCLA campus in California was posted on Pogba’s Instagram, and The Mirror’s Jake Polden speculates that Lukaku underwent his medical at the same destination on Thursday evening.

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Considering Pogba’s relationship with Lukaku, the Frenchman is credited with playing a pivotal part in convincing the marksman to shift to United. Lukaku had previously been linked with a return to Chelsea, the outfit he left permanently in 2014 to seek first-team football on Merseyside.

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The Belgian steadily grew into one of the most potent finishers in the Premier League with Everton, counting 25 goals in the 2016-17 campaign and 85 over the last five seasons.

United fans based in the U.S. may be scrambling for tickets for the side’s upcoming friendly encounters to catch a glimpse of Lukaku in red. The tour takes in stops across four different states to face the LA Galaxy, Real Salt Lake, Manchester City, Real Madrid, and Barcelona.

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BT insists its customers aren’t being squeezed in order to get its business back on track.

On Monday, BT renewed ownership of the United Kingdom’s broadcast rights to the Champions League and Europa League. The contract, which runs from 2018 to 2021, is, according to the Guardian’s Mark Sweney, valued at £1.18 billion and marks a 32 percent increase on the cost of its current three-year deal. Each season will apparently cost £394 million, rising from £299 million.

But the announcement comes after BT introduced its third price hike in only 18 months, and the communications services company is accused of reaching into the pockets of its customers to fund its fight with Sky, which was reportedly not prepared to make a knockout bid to take the rights.

“I don’t think that is true,” John Petter, the consumer CEO at BT, said. “The broadband market is very competitive. Our share of the broadband market has been growing and customers vote with their feet (if they are unhappy). The fact that the market is competitive means our offering has to represent good value for money. Line rental has not increased, for example. I don’t think people should read that this (deal) translates to price increases.”

BT announced the cost of broadband and calls will be raised in January, and also divulged BT Sport will no longer be given away for free as customers of BT TV will instead be charged £3.50 per month, beginning in August.

As Sweney explains, BT needed to secure the rights after a year in which the company suffered “financial and reputational damage” due to an accounting scandal at its Italian operation that triggered one of its biggest-ever falls of its share price in one day. There was also a “battle with the industry watchdog over the future of its broadband division.”

Chapecoense is stepping on foreign soil once again.

On Monday, exactly 98 days after a plane crash killed most of Chapecoense’s squad, the Verdao took its first international flight since the tragedy and arrived in Venezuela for a game against Zulia in the Copa Libertadores. According to ESPN FC, a total of 23 players and personnel travelled from Chapeco, Brazil, with the journey including layovers in Sao Paulo and Panama.

“After everything that has happened we must continue as a club, I think it is what our (deceased) players would have wanted,” Tulio de Melo, a forward for Chapecoense, said. “We know what the other players have done for this club and now we are going to play in our first Copa Libertadores match. For us this is very important.”

Plinio David De Nes, Chapecoense’s president, echoed De Melo’s comments, saying: “We are very happy to be able to return to our normal activities which is the practice of football. And here we are with great satisfaction and great joy. And we have been received with so much human warmth here by the representatives of the governor of Zulia state.

“And to all the local athletes, a great hug from us, of the Chape. The Chape are a team who are very proud to participate, for the first time, in the Copa Libertadores. We are going to face a very tough team which has a lot of courage, Zulia.”

The group-stage match between Zulia and Chapecoense will be the Verdao’s first outside Brazil since LaMia Flight 2933 crashed into the mountains near Medellin, Colombia. The air disaster took the lives of 71 people, including 19 members of the club and 20 journalists joining the team for the first leg of the final of the Copa Sudamericana. Among the six survivors were Neto, who is miraculously walking without crutches, Alan Ruschel, who required surgery on his spine, and Jackson Follman, who had part of his right leg amputated.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Chapecoense signed 22 players, including a number of footballers who were promoted from the Verdao’s youth team. The date with Zulia will be the Brazilian club’s debut in the Copa Libertadores.

Marco Reus is back on the shelf.

The oft-injured German winger will be out of action for four weeks, as Borussia Dortmund confirmed Reus “tore muscle fibres in the back of his thigh” during Saturday’s 6-2 win over Bayer Leverkusen.

“It’s a real blow, because over the last few weeks and in particular in the opening stages today, which I felt were somewhat sluggish, Marco was the one who consistently got us going, who took the responsibility, who was alert. He has been incredibly stable for weeks now, he’s been playing at a high level and is a very important character,” manager Thomas Tuchel said after Saturday’s victory.

“It’s an enormous loss that takes the shine off the win.”

Reus, 27, has seen his career blighted by a collection of ailments; he missed Germany’s victorious World Cup campaign in 2014 after tearing ankle ligaments in a pre-tournament friendly, and was also forced to watch Euro 2016 from afar due to a pelvic problem.

One of the most versatile, exciting attacking players on the planet when fit, Reus has been limited to only 11 Bundesliga appearances this season, and will now miss a crucial run of fixtures as Dortmund looks to make a Champions League run while solidifying a top-four spot domestically.

Tuchel’s side hosts Benfica on Wednesday in the second leg of its Champions League Round of 16 tie. The Bundesliga behemoth is trailing 1-0 on aggregate after a slim defeat in the opening leg in Portugal.