Striker Ferguson is to stay for three months but Everton decided to take midfielder Durrant, who was out for three years after a cruciate ligament operation in 1988, for one month to assess his fitness.
Ferguson, who has a court appearance and a 12-month Scottish F.A. ban hanging over him after an alleged head-butting incident involving Raith defender John McStay, is set to form an Everton strike partnership with Nigerian Daniel Amokachi.
The moves were announced Monday.
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Retired soccer star Diego Maradona will begin working this week as co-coach of the Argentine league team Deportivo Mandiyu, the club's president said Monday.
Maradona, 33, is going to a team with a small following struggling near the bottom of the league standings. Since he is not certified by the Argentine Soccer Association to be a head coach, he will not be allowed on the sidelines during games. He can, however, work with players during practices and communicate by walkie-talkie at games. Terms of his contract were not revealed.
The Argentine star was suspended by FIFA, world soccer's governing body, for 15 months after testing positive for banned stimulants during this year's World Cup. He said he would not play competitive soccer again.
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Tony Adams will take over as national team captain for the injured David Platt when England hosts Romania in an international exhibition game next week.
Platt injured a knee while playing in a Cup Winners Cup game with his Italian club Sampdoria on Thursday night, giving Arsenal defender Adams, who turns 28 next Monday, a chance to wear the England captain's arm band for the first time in the Oct. 12 match at Wembley.
There was once again no place for Andy Cole on the 19-man squad announced Monday by coach Terry Venables. Venables, who has resisted selecting the prolific goalscorer from Newcastle, said a leg injury of Cole's made the decision for him.
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Colombian prosecutors have been unable to uncover sufficient evidence to keep two men in prison on suspicion of ordering the murder of World Cup team defender Andres Escobar.
The men have been released on bail, but Umberto Munoz Castre, the man accused of committing the murder, remains behind bars in Bogota awaiting trial.
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It had to end sometime. The University of North Carolina women's soccer team, which had won 92 consecutive games, finally met its match, drawing 0-0 after overtime with Notre Dame on Sunday to snap the longest winning streak in college sports history.
(AP, Reuters, LAT)
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