Neuer to stay

BERLIN: Manchester United and Bayern Munich target Manuel Neuer said on Sunday he will stay at Bundesliga title-condenders Schalke 04, providing the Royal Blues qualify for the Champions League next season. Neuer is battling Leverkusen’s Rene Adler and Bremen’s Tim Wiese for the Germany goalkeeping shirt at this June’s World Cup with Schalke fourth in the Bundesliga. Both United and Bayern have been reported to be tracking Neuer, but with a contract at Schalke until 2012, the shot-stopper says he will stay in Gelsenkirchen providing they reach the Champions League next season.

Pompey’s legal letter

LONDON: Portsmouth have sent a legal letter to the English Premier League over their transfer embargo and withholding of TV rights revenues, the club’s chief executive Peter Storrie said. Pompey’s seven million pound share of the latest payment of television income is being diverted by the EPL to clubs they owe money to over unpaid transfer deals. “I can confirm we have issued a legal letter to the Premier League to demand that the transfer embargo should be lifted,” Storrie said.