Author: Raimond Broussard

Chelsea have signed Lyon right-back Malo Gusto for £26.3m, with the 19-year-old spending the rest of the season back in France on loan. Gusto becomes the latest Chelsea arrival, on a seven-and-a-half-year deal at Stamford Bridge, and will end 2022/23 with his former club, for whom he has made 15 Ligue 1 appearances this season. His signing takes Chelsea’s January spending past the £200m mark, following on from Noni Madueke’s arrival in West London last week. Lyon head coach Laurent Blanc had previously said that the board had guaranteed to him that Gusto would stay at the club for the…

Some environmental groups have taken legal action against French bottled water and dairy group Danone over its plastic use, accusing it on Monday of failing to sufficiently account for all the plastic used along its production cycles. Danone, the world’s biggest yoghurt maker which also produces infant formula and the popular mineral water brand Evian, said in a statement emailed to Reuters that it was “very surprised by this accusation which we firmly refute”. The case, brought at a Paris civil court on Monday, comes as a growing number of non-governmental organisations are acting against large companies by using a…