ENGLISH LEAGUE CUP results;
NEWCASTLE vs BARNSLEY ***
2-0 (0-0)
Spain international Antonio Puerta has died after suffering a heart attack in his club side Sevilla's 4-1 win against Getafe on Saturday.
Defender Puerta, 22, collapsed in the first-half and medics prevented him from swallowing his tongue. But he collapsed again after going off and was given cardiac resuscitation before being taken to hospital.
He was placed in intensive care and doctors said on Tuesday his condition had deteriorated before his death.
Hospital director Gimeno Guerrero said Puerta died of "multiple organ failure, stemming from prolonged cardiac arrest."
Sevilla were due to play AEK Athens in the second leg of a third round Champions League qualifier on Tuesday but the match has been postponed until Monday 3 September.
As a consequence, the league match against Osasuna that was scheduled for next Monday has been postponed.
There will also be a minute's silence in tribute of Puerta before every La Liga match next weekend.
Everton have completed a club record £11.25m deal for Middlesbrough's Yakubu after he was granted a work permit.
Yakubu, 24, was initially refused a permit because he failed to play 75% of Nigeria's games in the last two years.
But Everton won an appeal and the striker has signed a five-year deal at Goodison Park after agreeing terms and passing a medical.
He is second only to Thierry Henry in the Premier League goal charts over the last four seasons.
Portsmouth were also said to be interested in re-signing Yakubu, who they bought from Maccabi Haifa in 2003, before selling him to Boro two years later for £7.5m.
He clocked up 29 goals in 65 Premier League games at the Riverside.
Yakubu featured in Boro's opening two Premier League games of the season but missed the next two games against Fulham and Newcastle.Michael Owen scored his first goal of the season to help Newcastle see off Barnsley in the Carling Cup.
The England striker ended a 20-month wait since his last competitive goal for his club when he met Shola Ameobi's pass and fired home.
Barnsley were second-best throughout and Nicky Butt and Ameobi both had chances to extend Newcastle's lead.
Obafemi Martins came on for Owen with seven minutes left and sealed victory with an acrobatic volley.
West Ham manager Alan Curbishley played down talk of a move for Inter Milan's Adriano even though the club said they were interested in signing the striker.
Adriano, 25, has also been linked with Manchester City, while Serie A side Lazio have also stated their interest in landing the Brazilian.
Adriano has slipped down the pecking order at Inter and fellow Serie A side Lazio would take him depending on his attitude.
The Brazilian has scored 25 goals in 37 games for his country but has suffered a loss of form amid a succession of injuries and doubts over his commitment.
Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas has signed a new five-year contract that will keep him at the club until 2012.
Jenas, who cost £7m when he signed from Newcastle in 2005, enjoyed a good campaign last year, scoring eight goals despite two months out through injury.
The 24-year-old told the club website: "Spurs have the calibre of squad that any player would want to be part of.
Jenas, capped 17 times by England, added: "I feel I still have a lot of potential to develop further and playing alongside team-mates of this quality will help me do that.
"I am very happy here and would love to stay at Tottenham for the rest of my career."
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer brings the curtain down on 11 years at Old Trafford with one simple statement of fact proving his worth.
No-one - inside or outside Old Trafford - can muster up a single bad word to say about the Norwegian whose boyish appearance won him the nick-name "The Baby-Faced Assassin."
Solskjaer has caused many a curse from opposing teams and supporters with his unerring eye for the target, or his uncanny habit of scoring the goals that win matches, and on occasion trophies.
But once partisanship is removed from the equation, Solskjaer will receive nothing other than praise or respect from every football fan.
In an era of big-spending and even bigger egoes, has there ever been a better value-for-money deal than the £1.5m Sir Alex Ferguson paid Molde for Solskjaer's services in 1996?;
366 appearances and 126 goals later, it is difficult to come up with a better transfer concluded by Ferguson.
His ability to flourish in a right-flank role that helped persuade Ferguson it was time to sell David Beckham to Real Madrid in 2003.
Sadly, persistent injury problems meant Ferguson's theory was never fully put to the test.
Solskjaer the player has been suitably decorated, his career well-chronicled.
But admiration is just as great for Solskjaer the professional.
Solskjaer has never put a foot out of place at Old Trafford, never caused Ferguson a moment's trouble.
He has taken his place on the bench when he may have felt he deserved to be in the starting line-up.
The striker made his point emphatically, but not with words or threats.
He responded by turning games too numerous to mention after emerging as a substitute, on one memorable occasion, he scored four times in the last 20 minutes after coming on in an 8-1 win at Nottingham Forest.
In a time when foreigners infiltrating our game are often portrayed as money-grasping mercenaries, Solskjaer has displayed nothing but unswerving loyalty to Old Trafford. It was loyalty repaid by Ferguson when he handed him a new contract despite constant injury problems.
Solskjaer's retirement will sadden Ferguson both professionally and personally, but he may yet return in a coaching or ambassador role.
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