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According to The Daily Mail, West Ham are keen on a swoop for Newcastle’s Jonjo Shelvey, whose value would be approximately £20m, as they look to reinforce an injury-stricken midfield.

The former England-U21 international has made 11 appearances for the Magpies this season and has recorded just one assist so far, although it is surely unlikely that Newcastle would consider selling him if they cannot find a replacement first.

Rafa Benitez looks like receiving minimal backing from owner Mike Ashley once again this window as the 54-year-old fails to get a deal across the line for the sale of the Tyneside club.

Therefore, if Benitez is to get the players he wants this month, he may have to sanction a Shelvey switch first on the premise that he can use the money to dip into the transfer market – it would be a shame for the St James Park outfit to sell their best midfielder by far, but needs must.

Newcastle fans didn’t seem too attached to the former Liverpool man, as they reacted to the West Ham interest on Twitter…

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Football FanCast recently asked Arsenal fans to rank their club’s summer signings. Perhaps unsurprisingly, tenacious midfielder Lucas Torreira topped the poll, whilst exciting young surprise package Matteo Guendouzi has also proved a popular acquisition.

However, new centre-back Sokratis Papastathopoulos has failed to inspire the Gunners faithful so far, coming rock bottom of the poll, beneath veteran free transfer addition Stephan Lichtsteiner. See the full results below.

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Whilst the club’s fans appear unimpressed, new boss Unai Emery ought to be delighted with the 6ft 1in Greece international’s arrival in North London.

For too long, the Gunners have lacked a physical, powerful, uncompromising figure at the back. The 30-year-old’s presence and experience should add a great deal of calm and authority to Arsenal’s rearguard. 

The Emirates Stadium faithful will likely be glad to be proved wrong about the former Borussia Dortmund player this season and will be hoping that he can in fact have a transformative impact upon their club’s defence.

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Jose Mourinho has admitted his team have been struggling during the course of pre-season, something that doesn’t leave the team in good shape with the season just a few weeks away.

Man United have been reasonably quiet compared to usual in the transfer market but that can all swiftly change. Fred, Dalot and Lee Grant are the only additions Jose Mourinho has made to his team thus far but if they’re serious about contending for the Premier League title, more quality will need to be brought in, like someone in the form of German World Cup winner Jerome Boateng – who is valued at £40.5 million on Transfermarkt.

Bayern Munich are reportedly ready to let Boateng leave as he searches for a new challenge in a new league. Manchester United have struggled at the heart of defence for a number of seasons now should they move for the 29-year-old, Boateng will not let them down based on his quality performances in the Bundesliga over the last 7 seasons.

Boateng was limited to just 19 Bundesliga starts last season but obviously, Bayern are a better side with him as the German international kept 11 clean-sheets during those appearances.

Eric Bailly, Chris Smalling and Victor Lindelof are great defenders in their own right but injuries have prohibited each and every one of them from making a real name for themselves at Old Trafford. Should their injury woes be forgotten, Jerome Boateng would prove to be the perfect partner for any of them, providing speed, strength and a winning mentality, having previously lifted a World Cup, 6 Bundesliga titles, the Champions League and even the FA cup during his short time with rivals Man City.

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Manchester United couldn’t have started the English Premier League in finer fashion than on Sunday, thrashing West Ham United 4-0 in front of their own fans at Old Trafford.

It was a day that United’s new signings Romelu Lukaku and Nemanja Matic grabbed the headlines with supreme performances but the truth is Jose Mourinho’s men throughout the team were excellent, with some of the club’s homegrown talent shining just as brightly.

Many of the plaudits went to young Marcus Rashford, the 19-year-old was a constant threat throughout the match until he was eventually replaced by Anthony Martial.

It was Rashford who provided the assist for Lukaku’s opener, his neat little through ball bamboozling the Hammers defence.

The teenager also went mighty close to grabbing a goal for himself after creating space in the box and unleashing a fierce shot that beat Joe Hart before cannoning off the inside of the post.

If he can produce these kind of performances on a consistent basis then he’s going to have quite the season.

Manchester United fans were delighted with his impact and took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the performance…

Former Everton defender Alan Stubbs has told the Liverpool Echo that the club gave up on signing Eric Dier two years before he joined Tottenham Hotspur.

What happened?

Dier has become a regular first-team member of Mauricio Pochettino’s team at Spurs, but before he moved to White Hart Lane he had an opportunity to sign for Everton.

The now 23-year-old spent 18 months at Goodison Park on a loan deal from Sporting Lisbon in the 2011-12 season, and according to Stubbs, who was Under-21 coach at the time, the Toffees were keen to land him permanently.

It has been claimed by Stubbs that Everton were unwilling to pay a fee upwards of £1m for Dier.

While speaking to the Liverpool Echo, Stubbs said:

“We wanted to sign Eric and, at one point, thought we were going to get him. It took us the best part of eight months to get him up to speed but you could see his game coming on 10-fold and that was when we decided we wanted to sign him and we were in negotiations to do it but, at the time, it was going upwards of £1m, which wasn’t where Everton were at the time.

“Now they wouldn’t blink at two, three or four million for him, so for Eric at that time it would’ve been a case of right place, wrong time.”

Have Everton missed out?

This season Dier has not been as effective as he has been in recent campaigns.

After joining the North London outfit in 2014 he became an integral part of the team in a defensive midfield role, but he has since been shifted about.

Victor Wanyama’s performances in the middle of the park have forced Dier to play as a central defender at times, and that is where he has struggled on occasion this season.

Nonetheless, the former Sporting man is a top talent and a fully-fledged England international at his young age.

Dier would have provided plenty to Ronald Koeman’s lineup at Everton had he stayed and progressed at Goodison Park.

Given that the Merseyside outfit could have nabbed him for around £1m proves that they missed out on a great bit of business.

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Few would believe a few seasons ago that Troy Deeney would be a Premier League player.

He has scored eight goals this season, and as a result is being linked with an England call up, further helped by Wayne Rooney’s standard pre-tournament injury. With Deeney playing so well for Watford right now, should he be considered by Roy Hodgson this summer?

With recent call ups for Jamie Vardy, Danny Ings and Charlie Austin, strikers who have come up through the Championship and performed in the top-flight, it perhaps suggests Deeney is going the right way about earning himself a call up.

With the Euro’s in France this summer, Hodgson may decide to call up players that other teams won’t know how to handle. That is partly why players like Kane, Deeney and Vardy are successful in the Premier League, because the opposition don’t know how to handle them yet.

With Dnny Welbeck seemingly being kept off the plane, and Sturridge being wrapped in cotton wool, this could be the best chance other strikers have to get on the plane.

As long as they continue to perform, then it could be a direct battle between Vardy and Deeney. Both are very different players, and should Leicester win the league with Vardy, then you feel he would have the edge. Vardy’s pace is too much for defenders, and his eye for goal means that he could easily fit alongside any strike partner.

But Deeney still has an outside chance. At the age of 27, he is about to enter the peak of his career. He has constantly worked hard to get to the top, and at least one England cap would be well deserved.

This is really down to Ighalo and Deeney, who have provided most of Watford’s goals this term. If one of the pair isn’t scoring, they will be setting up or creating the play. England have not had such a good pool of strikers in years, and if Roy does not utilise all the different options, then he will be making a big mistake.

Deeney is very much the kind of striker who can not only hold up play and set up goals, but can easily be spotted to get on the end of balls and score. Though it may have taken him 10 games to score his first goal in the Premier League rhis term, he deserves at least one cap for England.

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Leeds CEO Angus Kinnear admits that Tyler Adams’ behaviour during the summer transfer window means he is “not on our Christmas card list”.

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• Midfielder missed end of season through injury
• Watched on as Whites were relegated
• Jumped ship in summer window

• WHAT HAPPENED?

  The United States international midfielder was among those at Elland Road to push for a move elsewhere after suffering relegation out of the Premier League. Adams missed the end of the 2022-23 campaign through injury, but he was not prepared to hang around and help to put things right.

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  Adams eventually completed a £23 million ($29m) transfer to Bournemouth, and has since been joined at the Vitality Stadium by Whites colleague Luis Sinisterra after his loan switch to the south coast. Leeds were reluctant to part with either player, but saw their hand forced.

• WHAT THEY SAID

  Kinnear has told when asked if he would have preferred to keep Adams and Sinisterra and why they were moved on: “No, based on their desire to leave. I think you can voice your desire to leave, but you need to be professional in the interim. You need to remember who you’re contracted to and the value of that contract. I think you need to approach that through discussion and mutual agreement, rather than the avenues that they pursued. Ultimately I have to respect their decisions, but I don’t think it’s the way to behave to a club that has really looked after you and continues to look after you and was offering you fantastic alternatives to remain at the club. There were players who were perhaps led by their agents to employ tactics which will mean they’re not on our Christmas card list.”

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  Adams, who captained the USMNT at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, took in 26 appearances for Leeds on the back of his £20m ($25m) transfer from RB Leipzig – with no goals recorded prior to picking up an untimely hamstring injury in March.

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O Campeonato Paulista recomeça para São Paulo e Red Bull Bragantino nesta quinta-feira, às 20h, no Morumbi. Devido à pandemia do coronavírus, não haverá presença de público, embora o Tricolor tenha preparado o sistema de som para emitir cantos de sua torcida.

As duas equipes já estão classificadas para as quartas de final. O São Paulo com 18 pontos e o Red Bull Bragantino com 17. O jogo desta quinta, válido pela penúltima rodada da fase de grupos, valerá como um teste de forças e pela busca do ritmo de competição perdido após cerca de quatro meses de paralisação.

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Veja todas as informações da partida:

Data/Horário: 23/7/2020, às 20h
Local: Morumbi, em São Paulo (SP)
Árbitra: Edina Alves Batista
Auxiliares: Danilo Ricardo Simon Manis e Evandro de Melo Lima
Onde acompanhar: Premiere e em tempo real no site do LANCE!

SÃO PAULO: Tiago Volpi, Juanfran, Arboleda, Bruno Alves e Reinaldo; Tchê Tchê, Daniel Alves e Igor Gomes; Pablo, Vitor Bueno e Pato. Técnico: Fernando Diniz.
Pendurados: Daniel Alves, Vitor Bueno, Bruno Alves e Tchê Tchê.
Machucados: Walce e Rojas.
Suspensos: –
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RED BULL BRAGANTINO: Julio Cesar, Weverton, Léo Ortiz, Ligger e Edimar; Barreto, Matheus Jesus e Vitinho; Artur, Morato e Ytalo. Técnico: Felipe Conceição.
Pendurados: Ligger, Barreto, Morato e Matheus Jesus.
Suspenso: Aderlan.

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O Corinthians repatriou a atacante Millene, destaque da última temporada do próprio Timão nas campanhas dos títulos do Paulistão, da Copa Libertadores e do vice-campeonato do Brasileirão. Emprestado pelo Wuhan Xinjiyuan, da China, por seis meses, a atacante comentou a dificuldade que passou na Ásia justamente no epicentro do coronavírus.

-Foram dias de pesadelo. Tive chance de ir para a China e fui em decisão conjunta com a minha família. Medo, preocupação… Tudo isso junto. No começo, a gente não tinha muita noção do que estava acontecendo – disse a jogadora, que tem contrato de dois anos com o clube chinês – afirmou a atacante, que apenas acertou seu retorno ao Brasil por conta da paralisação do futebol local até que a epidemia do vírus seja controlada.

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A jogadora ficou em observação em um hospital da China e depois confinada em seu apartamento na cidade de Wuhan até acertar seu retorno ao Corinthians. A atacante comentou sobre a dificuldade de viver alguns meses por lá e também sobre a felicidade de estar de volta ao seu país-natal e no clube onde se sente bem.

-O sentimento é de alívio. Não foi fácil, mas estou muito grata. Estar em campo treinando é o que eu mais quero. Grata por estar com saúde. Não aconteceu nada de ruim comigo. Isso tudo só vai me deixar mais forte. Confesso que na época fiquei bem preocupada. O último dia de quarentena, quando falaram que estávamos livres, foi um alívio enorme. Sentir o cheirinho da rua, do lado de fora – afirmou a jogadora do Timão.

De volta ao Timão, onde foi artilheira do Campeonato Brasileiro da última temporada com 19 gols, Millene vestirá a camisa 14 e ajudará o técnico Arthur Elias ao longo deste ano. Vale lembrar que o Corinthians perdeu uma invencibilidade de 48 jogos no último fim de semana ao ser derrotado para o São Paulo, por 2 a 0, em Cotia.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2016
Start time 2000 local (1430 GMT)4:05

Agarkar: Will be tough for Punjab to get past Bangalore

Big Picture

With a top four that would be the envy of any Twenty20 team in the world, how Royal Challengers Bangalore find themselves second from bottom of the points table is a question that the team management would be asking itself.Batting has been Royal Challengers’ stronger suit, and unlike the previous seasons, they haven’t relied on a few individuals. Virat Kohli has already struck two centuries this season and AB de Villiers has three half-centuries. Shane Watson has played some vital knocks, like the 13-ball 36 against Rising Pune Supergiants on Saturday. Sarfaraz Khan and Sachin Baby have caught the eye with scoops and reverse-scoops, while KL Rahul has been successful at the top with orthodox shots.Royal Challengers’ weak link has been the bowling. Thrice they have allowed teams to chase down totals in excess of 180. On an average, Royal Challengers have conceded 9.45 runs an over – the worst among all teams – and Watson, at 8.26, is the team’s most economical bowler.By contrast, Kings XI Punjab have thrived with the ball. Sandeep Sharma and Mohit Sharma have nailed inch-perfect yorkers in the end overs, playing key roles in each of Punjab’s three wins this season. That Mohit has added the offcutter to his back-of-the-hand legcutter augurs well for the hosts. Axar Patel’s quick fizzers and Marcus Stoinis’ slower balls add more variety to the attack. M Vijay, the captain, has multiplied the efficiency of the attack with smart field placements. He is also Kings XI’s highest run-getter this season with 229 runs in nine matches at an average and strike rate of 25.44 and 118.04, including two fifties.The form of David Miller and Glenn Maxwell, however, continues to be a cause for concern. The two have a combined tally of 310 runs in nine matches.

Form guide

Kings XI Punjab WLWLL (last five matches, most recent first)
Royal Challengers Bangalore WLLLW

In the spotlight

Stoinis has proved a valuable addition to Kings XI. He has crunched 112 runs in four innings, striking at 130.23, to add to four wickets. Besides, he has shown the ability to hold his own in the slog overs with yorkers and cutters.Chris Jordan had an ordinary IPL debut, for Royal Challengers, giving away 43 runs for the wicket of Thisara Perera. Having come in as a replacement for the injured Mitchell Starc, he has big shoes to fill. Can Jordan match the Sharmas on Monday?

Team news

Kings XI may stick to the same team that toppled Delhi Daredevils.Kings XI Punjab (probable): 1 M Vijay (capt), 2 Marcus Stoinis, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Wriddhiman Saha (wk), 5 Glenn Maxwell, 6 David Miller, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Gurkeerat Singh, 9 Mohit Sharma, 10 Sandeep Sharma, 11 KC CariappaRoyal Challengers have already paid the price for using an occasional wicketkeeper in Rahul. He has fluffed stumping chances and allowed the ball to sneak through. It was one such missed stumping, of Andre Russell, which might have cost Royal Challengers their match against Kolkata Knight Riders. Will they pass the keeping gloves to Kedar Jadhav? Rahul, though, has come good with the bat, which means that Sachin Baby may have to be left out to accommodate Jadhav. Royal Challengers also made the bold move of dropping Chris Gayle against Supergiants. Will they be tempted to give him another go? If Gayle makes the cut, Travis Head is likely to miss out.Royal Challengers Bangalore (probable): 1 Virat Kohli (capt), 2 Chris Gayle/Travis Head, 3 KL Rahul, 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Shane Watson, 6 Sachin Baby/Kedar Jadhav (wk), 7 Stuart Binny, 8 Parvez Rasool, 9 Chris Jordan, 10 Varun Aaron, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal

Pitch and conditions

The Mohali surface has helped the spinners this season. Teams have enjoyed chasing at the venue, although the last two matches have suggested otherwise. Cloud cover is expected, but there is no rain forecast.

Stats and trivia

• Wriddhiman Saha’s 52 against Daredevils was his first fifty-plus score in the IPL after 19 innings. The last time he passed 50 was in the 2014 final, when he scored an unbeaten 115 against Knight Riders.
• Virat Kohli went past 500 runs for the season during the course of his unbeaten 108 against Supergiants. Kohli did so in his eighth innings, making it the fastest by any batsman in a season. The record previously belonged to Kohli’s team-mate, Chris Gayle, who took nine innings in 2011.

Quotes

“Sarfaraz Khan isn’t going to get more than 10-15 balls to play. You can’t afford to have too many in the field who aren’t up to the mark with their speed. You need guys who are fit, and can get to the ball quickly to save you 5-6 runs in the field. Sachin Baby is committed and works on those things. I’d be committed to anyone who gives me 120 per cent in the field.”