The former Mainz shot-stopper is set to complete a two-year loan deal as he looks to resurrect his career following his Champions League nightmare

Besiktas have announced the arrival of Loris Karius from Liverpool in an unconvential way – by changing their Twitter header!

The Turkish club have been in talks with the Reds over a potential two-year loan deal for Karius, and appear to have completed the deal, posting a picture of the goalkeeper in their home shirt on their social media account.

Reds manager Jurgen Klopp claimed over the weekend that he was not aware of interest in the goalkeeper, maintaining that he was not told of a potential transfer.

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However, it appears that Karius is now poised to rubber-stamp his move to the Turkish giants.

Liverpool signed Alisson Becker over the summer in a deal that made him the most expensive goalkeeper in world football, while Simon Mignolet will provide support to the former Roma stopper.

Karius was on the bench in the Reds’ opening game of the season, as they beat West Ham 4-0, but he was not included in the squad for their 2-0 win over Crystal Palace.

He has made a total of 29 appearances for the club, but has also made a number of high-profile errors, most notably in the Champions League final, where he made two major mistakes as Real Madrid beat the Reds 3-1.

He will replace Fabri at Besiktas, who joined newly-promoted Fulham earlier in the transfer window as he aims to resurrect his career away from the prying eyes of the Premier League.

Having started brightly against Tottenham, Manchester United’s heavy defeat at Old Trafford came as a surprise to Paul Pogba.

Paul Pogba admitted he was left shocked and unable to comprehend Manchester United’s “cruel” 3-0 loss to Tottenham on Monday.

Harry Kane’s header and a Lucas Moura brace punished United’s ramshackle defending in what was otherwise an improved performance from Jose Mourinho’s men.

They had started with vigour in response to the previous defeat at Brighton, only to concede three times for the second successive match.

France midfielder Pogba struggled to find answers for the swift collapse that continued his team’s poor start to the Premier League season.

“Even we don’t understand what happened,” the 25-year-old told reporters.

“We started the game really well, we conceded two goals in the second half. The first goal was a real blow. We didn’t understand why because we had the game in hand.

“One goal, two…we kept pushing, we had chances, and we conceded the third.

“It’s bizarre. We were determined, we started well, and in the end we lost 3-0. It’s a shock.

“We have to keep going, we must not worry. We must work. We are still Manchester United and we won’t give up on anything.”

Pogba, who played the full 90 minutes, thanked the club’s supporters for their backing and insisted it was not time to panic.

“The fans kept pushing us, they were really behind us,” he said. “We feel really sorry for them, very disappointed. We wanted to do better.

“I think it was an undeserved defeat for us. In our desire, in everything we put into it. But football can be cruel. We just have to bounce back.

“It won’t be easy, but it’s just the start of the season. I prefer to start badly and end well than start well and finish badly.”

United will attempt to turn their form around in Sunday’s trip to Burnley.

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A two-time German title winner, the Liverpool boss says that the nature of the English top-flight makes it a far more competitive league

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has said that finding Premier League title success is “far harder” than it is with the Bundesliga in Germany.

Klopp has been at the helm of the Reds for three years and has yet to claim the crown in England, yet with Dortmund in the Bundesliga he twice enjoyed title victories.

Although Pep Guardiola, formerly Bayern Munich’s head coach and now at Manchester City, has translated success recently from one country to another, Klopp admits that the challenge is an immense one. 

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Replicating Bayern’s six consecutive titles, for example, is impossible in England, according to the former Mainz boss.

“The Premier League [is tougher] for sure,” he said.

“You have to be ready for all these games. Seven years ago was a completely different time, football has changed. The Premier League is a different challenge for us. 

“I don’t want to compare it but if you could beat Bayern it was good because usually they had won all their other games. That will not happen here. Even City couldn’t do that last year. They got 100 points, but that was a rare thing to do.”

Klopp went on to explain that while Germany is a two-horse race, clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham mean the Premier League is an altogether different beast.

“If City isn’t the number one then there will be others going for it,” he confirmed.

“I really think Tottenham will have a brilliant season. They are together still and have a fantastic manager. 

“A few other teams have a big chance too. Chelsea look really positive, Arsenal not a good start but that will change. 

“Don’t look at the others. It doesn’t help you. You only have a problem with them twice over the course of the year. Just try to beat them in those two games and then beat the others as often as possible. 

“But I’m not interested too much in the difficulties of our challenge. I’m really working on the solutions and to ensure we are ready for all these games.”

Liverpool tackle Brighton in the Premier League’s late kick-off on Saturday.

The La Liga side have announced the signing of the Ivory Coast striker, who most recently played for Sporting CP

Seydou Doumbia will play for his sixth team in four years after joining Girona.

The La Liga club have signed the nomadic Ivory Coast striker on a three-year deal.

Former CSKA Moscow attacker Doumbia leaves Roma after a series of loan spells, most recently with Sporting CP in 2017-18, where he failed to score a league goal in 14 total appearances.

The 30-year-old also had an unproductive loan spell in the Premier League with Newcastle United during his time with the Serie A outfit.

But Doumbia’s loan to Basel was far more successful, his 20 goals firing the team to the 2016-17 Swiss Super League title.

Doumbia also hit 50 league goals across two seasons in Switzerland with Young Boys before joining CSKA.

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NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · NINTH CIRCUIT · Confidentiality/Privilege · Sep. 22, 2006

Judge orders reporters jailed in BALCO subpoena case

A federal judge orders two San Francisco Chronicle reporters to be jailed for refusing to reveal confidential sources, but the journalists remain free while the case is appealed.

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San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada talk to the media before Thursday’s court hearing.

Sep. 22, 2006 · Two San Francisco Chronicle reporters will go to prison on contempt of court charges for their refusal to tell a grand jury who leaked them the secret testimony of several professional athletes, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday.

Under the judge’s order, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada will remain out of prison until the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco (9th Cir.) can hear their appeal.

The reporters could spend up to 18 months in jail — the maximum term of confinement for civil contempt under federal rules — for refusing to tell investigators who leaked secret grand jury testimony of several athletes, including Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants and Jason Giambi of the New York Yankees. The athletes were being questioned about steroid use in connection with a federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, known as BALCO.

Williams and Fainaru-Wada reported the testimony in newspaper articles and in their book, Game of Shadows. A federal grand jury proceeding is typically conducted in secret and revealing the testimony is a crime, although witnesses can discuss their own testimony.

The reporters were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in May but have refused to testify. They have asserted a reporter’s privilege under the First Amendment, saying that the interests of a free press outweigh the grand jury’s interest in the information.

Although California has a strong shield law that would allow them to refuse to testify in a state court, there is currently no federal shield law that grants such a privilege.

In August, a court ruled that the government’s interest in the identity of the leaker outweighed the reporters’ First Amendment rights. Last month, federal prosecutors asked that the court order Willams and Fainaru-Wada to prison until they agreed to testify or until the grand jury’s term expires. Attorneys for the reporters asked that the judge impose small fines instead, according to news reports.

In separate statements to the court Thursday, Williams and Fainaru-Wada expressed respect for the justice system but said they simply could not comply with the court’s order to testify.

“I cannot — and will not — betray the promises I have made over the past three years,” Fainaru-Wada said in the statement, reprinted in the Chronicle. “If I were to break those promises, I would be tossing aside everything that I believe as a journalist and a person of integrity.”

Williams told the judge that subpoenaing reporters and sending them to jail could have dangerous consequences in the media.

“I despair for our free press if we go very far down this road,” he said. “Whistleblowers won’t come forward. Injustices will never see the light of day. Our people will be less informed and worse off.”

The Reporters Committee for Freedom in the Press joined in a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of Fainaru-Wada and Williams.

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(In re Grand Jury Subpoenas; Media Counsel: Eve Burton, Hearst Communications, New York; Amicus Counsel: Nathan Siegel, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schultz, Washington, D.C.) — ES

Related stories:

Judge orders San Francisco reporters to testify or face jail (08/16/2006)

Reporters who uncovered alleged steroid abuse subpoenaed (05/10/2006)

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Supreme Court declines review of reporter’s privilege case

A decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals protecting two reporters from testifying in a civil rights case is allowed to stand.

March 21, 2005 — The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to review a case involving the reporter’s privilege, letting stand a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver (10th Cir.) that the subpoenas of two journalists in a civil rights case were properly quashed by the trial court.

The Supreme Court has not reviewed a case involving the reporter’s privilege since its 1972 ruling in Branzburg v. Hayes. Following the Court’s fractured decision in Branzburg, lower federal courts are split on the existence and scope of journalists’ First Amendment privilege to withhold the identity of confidential sources from criminal and civil courts.

The recent Court of Appeals decision stems from the unsolved 1993 murder of Buffy Rice Donohue of Montrose, Colorado. Donohue’s parents sued Montrose officials in 1996, including former police chief Gerald Hoey, for violating their civil rights by failing to conduct an adequate investigation.

The Donohues subpoenaed two reporters who had covered the murder and investigation, Robert Weller of the Associated Press and Stacie Oulton, but the trial court quashed the subpoenas, concluding that the reporters were protected by the reporter’s privilege. The Court of Appeals affirmed Sept. 21, 2004, holding that the Donohues had failed to explain how the trial court erred in quashing the subpoenas.

After the subpoenas were quashed, the reporters were not notified that the issue was being appealed and were not represented before the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court. The Court of Appeals ruled that because it was affirming the order protecting the reporters, their appearance was not necessary.

(Donohue v. Hoey) — GP

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Government need not raise Privacy Protection Act in warrant application

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MISSOURI–In mid-July, the U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis (8th Cir.) ruled that a county prosecutor had been improperly prevented by a District Court from arguing that the seizure of a videotape from a Kansas City television station fell within an exemption of the federal Privacy Protection Act.

The appeals court ordered the lower court in Kansas City to re- consider whether prosecutor Claire McCaskill should be fined $1000 because the police used a search warrant — instead of a less- intrusive subpoena, as the law requires in most instances — to obtain a tape that recorded the abduction of a woman who was later murdered.

WDAF-TV purchased the tape from a tourist and televised it on August 5, 1994. Later that day, police armed with a search warrant seized the tape. The Privacy Protection Act requires that, with limited exemptions, government officials can obtain documentary materials intended for dissemination to the public only by a subpoena.

The District Court ruled that McCaskill was liable for $1000 in damages.

She argued that the seizure was justified. The act permits an immediate seizure if there is reason to believe that a death or serious injury is imminent, she said, or that the issuing of a subpoena might lead to the destruction, alteration, or concealment of materials. But the court ruled that McCaskill was not entitled to raise these exemptions in her defense because they had not been addressed in the initial application for a search warrant.

The appeals court overruled this decision, holding that neither the text of the Privacy Protection Act nor its legislative history suggest that any exemptions to it must be cited in an application for a search warrant. Congress chose not to include any such requirement in the act, and courts should not “embellish [Congress’s] legislative scheme with additional procedural requirements,” according to the court.

A dissenting judge noted that the law was enacted in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Zurcher v. Stanford Daily, which anticipated that a warrant to search a news agency would establish “special circumstances.” “The logical conclusion is that Congress envisioned the procedural framework to remain intact,” he wrote; Congress anticipated that exemption claims would be considered by a judge before a search warrant was issued. (Citicasters v. McCaskill; Media Counsel: Sam Colville, Kansas City)

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Police in Phoenix searched and confiscated items from the home of a blogger who runs a Web site that is critical of the police department.

According to blogger Jeff Pataky, who runs the site BadPhoenixCops.com, the police confiscated his laptop,wireless router, and paper files includingtax documents and bills, when they searched his home in mid-March.Those items have not been returned. Pataky said the officers had a search warrant.

Pataky was out of town on a business trip when the authorities arrived, but he said his roommate was home andwaited in handcuffs for three hours while thepolicesearched the house. Her laptop was confiscated as well.

Pataky thinks the raid was in response to both his critical writing on the policeand to a civil rights lawsuit he filed against thedepartment after hefacedassault charges in an unrelated domestic case; those charges wereultimately dismissed last spring.

Since the raid, he’s been talking to his lawyer about adding to the suit another claim for the confiscation of his computer and files to the pending lawsuit. Searches and seizures of journalists’ work productviolatethefederalPrivacy Protection Act.

In the meantime, the ordeal hasn’tdissuaded Pataky fromworking on his blog.

“For about a day I was down,” he said. “Then I got a computer and was back up and running.”

Pataky has run the police site for about a year. He said it focuses on the chief, Jack Harris, and his management of the officers. Though Pataky is not connected to the police department, he says he has many confidential sources with whom he speaks on a regular basis. Despite the name, he sayshis blog offers a balanced perspective on the agency and its staff.

“The Web site provides a voice and outlet for the good cops to talk about what they want to talk about,” he said, while at the same time, “it exposes corruption and lets the public know about it.”

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NEWS MEDIA UPDATE · FIFTH CIRCUIT · Confidentiality/Privilege · June 15, 2007

Magistrate upholds subpoena over Hamas interview

A reporter at The Dallas Morning News had sought to avoid testifying about his interview with one of the founders of Hamas.

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June 15, 2007 · A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday refused to quash a subpoena for a Dallas journalist in a criminal case in which a Texas-based foundation is accused of providing funding for Hamas.

Steve McGonigle, a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, was subpoenaed to testify about a December 1999 interview with one of the founders of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, according to McGonigle’s motion. Yassin has since died.

McGonigle’s work produced two stories in June 2000 in which Yassin denied any relationship with the Holy Land Foundation. McGonigle also anonymously quoted a “senior Israeli official” who said the United States was reluctant to “act too close to the HLF” in the late 1990s.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney did not explain the denial in his one-page order.

In his motion, McGonigle argued that testimony about his interview with Yassin would be “irrelevant and immaterial.”

“Specifically, McGonigle was not an eye witness to any events or overt act alleged in the Superseding Indictment and has no personal knowledge of any such events,” the motion states.

Statements by Yassin to McGonigle would be “inadmissible hearsay,” the reporter’s attorneys argued in the motion.

McGonigle also argued that his conversations with and the identity of his confidential source are protected by a qualified reporter’s privilege recognized by the federal appeals court in Houston (5th Cir.), whose decisions are binding on the lower court in Dallas. That privilege prevents the “forced disclosure of confidential sources,” according to the motion.

Additionally, journalists who appear to have “acted as an agent for the U.S. Government will almost inevitably be placed at a substantially greater risk when on assignment in the Middle East,” McGonigle argued. He said this could result in less news for readers.

“To avoid this increased risk to McGonigle, news organizations such as The News may decide not to send him on future assignments to the Middle East, which may result in less news being available to report to U.S. readers,” the motion says.

At a minimum, McGonigle argued, his testimony should be limited to “his authentication of Sheikh Yassin’s quoted statements.”

(U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation, Media Counsel: Russell F. Coleman, Belo Corp., Dallas) — SH

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A judge has ruled that University of California police illegally obtained photographs from a journalist covering a campus protest.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Yolanda Northridge on Friday ordered police to return all copies of the photos taken during the December protest at the Berkeley campus, according to the Oakland, Calif.-based First Amendment Project. The judge also ordered university officials to declare under oath what agencies, if any, received copies of the photos.

“Everything we asked for, we got,” said David Greene, the First Amendment Project’s executive director.

Photojournalist David Morse was covering the demonstration for the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, known as Indybay, when he was arrested by campus police who obtained a search warrant to view his photos.

In requesting the warrant, police never informed a judge that Morse was a journalist, Greene said. A California shield law protects journalists from subpoenas that seek unpublished information gathered while covering the news.

Though Morse repeatedly identified himself as a journalist before he was arrested, the university argued that police had reason to believe Morse was not a journalist because he was carrying an expired press pass.

Morse frequently carries his old press pass as a backup and left his current pass behind as he rushed to get to the scene, Greene said. Regardless, the attorney noted, police ignored Morse when he tried to explain that he was a journalist.

University police Capt. Margo Bennett said Tuesday that she had not yet reviewed the court’s ruling and was unable to discuss its impact.

Police arrested eight people Dec. 11, when dozens of protesters marched on the home of university Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to protest budget cuts and a fee increase. Protesters – some carrying torches – broke lights and windows and overturned planters at the chancellor’s home.

The university obtained Morse’s photos to aid its investigation. In a court motion supporting its actions, the university argued that the public’s interest in prosecuting the protesters outweighed a First Amendment right to preserve the confidentiality of unpublished information.

Meanwhile, in another case that could involve California’s shield law, the owners of the Gizmodo technology blog have asked authorities to return computers and other equipment taken from a blogger who posted pictures of a missing iPhone prototype. Gawker Media argues the state’s shield law should also protect the blogger’s property.

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