Barcelona manager Luis Enrique has revealed plans to take a year-long sabbatical from football at the end of the season.

The 46-year-old announced earlier this term that it would be his last at the Nou Camp and he has no intention of taking on a new challenge just yet.

“If I’m leaving Barcelona, my home, where I have a great relationship with the club and the players, it’s purely for tiredness,” he said at a press conference to preview Wednesday’s clash with Sevilla.

“I need to recover. I’m not thinking about other teams.

“It will be a year to recover, but now what’s left to do is to end the season with all our objectives achieved.”

FA chairman criticises Moyes

English FA chairman Greg Clarke has lambasted David Moyes after the Sunderland manager told a female reporter that she “might get a slap even though you’re a woman” for questions asked in an interview last month.

Moyes  has come under fierce criticism after the conversation, filmed on a mobile phone following Sunderland’s 0-0 home draw against Burnley.

“It was regrettable, it was distasteful, and I think it showed a complete lack of respect. And we in the game stand for respect,” he said.

“There’s a professional woman trying to do a job – and not an easy job – and she’s asking appropriate questions in a respectful manner, and I think she deserves respectful responses, not responses like that.”

‘Shaw must develop football brain’

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said full back Luke Shaw used “his body with my brain” during his side’s 1-1 draw with Everton on Tuesday and has urged the England international to develop a better understanding of the game.

“He (Shaw) had a good performance but it was his body with my brain,” Mourinho told the British media. “He was in front of me and I was making every decision for him.

“He must accelerate the process because he is 21 years old and that is old enough to have a better understanding of the game.”

Chapecoense take Supercup lead

Chapecoense beat Atletico Nacional 2-1 in the first leg of their South American Supercup final on Tuesday as the game was marked by memorials to those killed in an air crash before the teams’ scheduled Copa Sudamericana final last November.

The match was the first between the sides since all but three of the Brazilian team and their staff perished as their plane crashed on approach to Medellin last year. Only six of the 77 on board survived the crash.

Fans launched one minute’s applause in the 71st minute of the game to commemorate those who died.

’Pool handed two-year transfer ban

Liverpool have been given a two-year ban from signing academy players and fined 100,000 pounds ($124,820) for breaching rules governing the transfer of youth players, the Premier League said yesterday.

The second year of the ban, which prevents the club from signing any academy players who have been registered with other Premier League or English Football League clubs in the previous 18 months, is suspended for three years.

A league investigation found Liverpool guilty of offering prohibited inducements in an attempt to recruit a schoolboy from Stoke City.

Ballack warning to Hazard

Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack has warned Eden Hazard that he might be making a huge mistake if tries to engineer a move to Real Madrid this summer.

Ex-Germany international Ballack believes Hazard will be “giving up a lot” if he swaps Stamford Bridge for the Santiago Bernabeu.

“Hazard has a decision to make and he needs to consider what he would be walking away from at Chelsea if he moves to Real Madrid now,” Ballack said.

“Right now, Hazard is the top player at one of the biggest clubs in Europe, living in a fantastic city. Does he want to give all that up and then try to be a success at Real Madrid?”