Transfers
Steven Gerrard 5/2 to be the next Premier League manager to leave
Join our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Having taken just 12 points from the last 45 available, Steven Gerrard and Aston Villa look to be in serious trouble just four weeks into the Premier League season. With a 1-0 defeat to West Ham at home on Sunday the latest blow to the midlands side, could Gerrard’s time nearly be over at Villa Park? Latest Premier League next manager to leave odds at bet365 Could Gerrard be the next to go? It was yet another disappointing showing from Villa on Sunday afternoon as they struggled to deal with a West Ham side desperate for their first goal of the season. Gerrard’s men gifted the visitors the only goal of the game as a Pablo Fornals effort took a huge deflection to loop into the Villa net and sink the Claret and Blues. Alt...
West Ham Agree Club-Record Deal for Lyon’s Lucas Paqueta
Join our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage West Ham United have agreed a deal with Lyon to sign highly rated midfielder Lucas Paqueta, with deal in the region of £50M. West Ham United have agreed a deal with Lyon to sign midfielder Lucas Paqueta. #WHUFC #OlympiqueLyonnais https://t.co/RYAZfHri1t — Dharmesh Sheth (@skysports_sheth) August 26, 2022 The Brazilian has been linked with the likes of Arsenal and Newcastle United this summer. Many thought he’d be set for a big money move to Tyneside to link back up with former teammate Bruno Guimarães. With the Hammers ready to break their transfer record, this £50m fee will eclipse the current club-record of £45m that they paid to land Sebastian Haller from Eintracht Frankfurt back in 2019. French outfit Lyon hav...
Manchester United agree deal with Juventus for Adrien Rabiot
Manchester United have agreed a deal with Juventus to sign French midfielder Adrien Rabiot for £15m to become Erik ten Hag’s fourth signing as manager, according to reports. Rabiot, 27, has played for Paris Saint-Germain, Toulouse, and Juventus throughout his 10-year senior career and has 29 caps for France with two goals. The news breaks after Manchester United’s 2-1 loss to Brighton on Sunday in Ten Hag’s first Premier League outing thanks to a double from Pascal Gross. 🚨 BREAKING 🚨 ✅ Manchester United have agreed a deal with Juventus to sign midfielder Adrien Rabiot 📝 Personal terms still need to be negotiated with his agent and mother Veronique pic.twitter.com/jN5b0czF58 — Football Daily (@footballdaily) August 8, 2022 Current midfield pairing Scott McTom...
PSG steals Georginio Wijnaldum from Barca’s grips with better offer
Liverpool’s Dutch midfielder, Georginio Wijnaldum, who had been a long-time target to firm up the Catalan midfield for Barcelona, made a sudden volte face by deciding for former French Ligue champions Paris Saint-Germain instead. Just when the details of his move from former English Premier League champions Liverpool were almost fully sorted with arrangements on course for Wijnaldum’s medicals at Camp Nou, PSG jumped ahead to challenge for the midfielder’s interest with a juicier offer which appears to have worked in their favour. The Ligue 1 side has now won the race to sign 30-year-old central midfielder on a free transfer from Liverpool. PSG found their way around advanced talks between Wijnaldum and Barca by showing the defender their determination to attract him to Paris by improving ...
Nigeria to benefit as G-20 approves extension of debt relief
Finance ministers of G-20 countries have approved an extension of debt relief for the world’s poorest nations till December 2021. David Malpass, World Bank president, made the announcement at the virtual spring meeting, on Wednesday. TheCable had earlier reported that the G-20 countries will meet this week to consider an extension of the debt freeze. The G-20, is a group of finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 of the world’s largest economies, including those of many developing nations, along with the European Union. G-20 countries had established a debt service suspension initiative (DSSI) which took effect in May 2020. Nigeria had benefited from the initiative which delivered about $5 billion in relief to more than 40 eligible countries. The suspension period which was or...
Namibian president caught in new fishing corruption allegations
Informante The president of Namibia has been implicated in new allegations of corruption involving the country’s lucrative fishing industry by an investigation released by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and The Namibian newspaper. According to a lawyer who allegedly arranged the deal, President Hage Geingob instructed his close associates to embezzle millions of dollars from a state-run fishing enterprise in order to bribe electors at the 2017 congress of the ruling SWAPO (South West Africa People’s Organization) party, reports the new investigation released on Friday. The lawyer, who is not named by the OCCRP, claims that Hage Geingob – elected as President of Namibia in 2014 and re-elected in 2019 – allegedly asked James Hatuikulipi, then chairman of the sta...
AC Milan ready to pay €30 million for Real Madrid’s Brahim Diaz
AC Milan are willing to pay as much as €30 million (£26m/$36m) to land Real Madrid forward Brahim Diaz, with the 21-year-old having made a positive impact during his loan spell with the Serie A side. Goal can reveal that Milan bosses are keen to make the loan move permanent and, although they do not have a purchase option, they are keen to discuss a transfer with Madrid. While Brahim has always wanted to succeed at the Bernabeu, Madrid will now weigh up whether to keep him beyond the end of the 2020-21 campaign or sell for what would be a significant amount amid the coronavirus crisis. Following his loan switch to Milan in September 2020, Brahim immediately took to life in Italy and has become an important member of Stefano Pioli’s first-team squad. He has made 25 appearances in all compet...
Scout Report: Signing Ben Davies could prove to be a smart piece of business for Liverpool
Preston North End’s Ben Davies (not to be confused with the man who had a defensive shocker against Brighton & Hove Albion) is set to join Liverpool on deadline day, with the Reds’ under-23 defender Sepp van den Berg moving in the other direction on loan. The Premier League’s defending champions are only going to be paying £500,000 initially, with an additional £1.1 million included in performance-related clauses and Preston securing a 20% sell-on fee. Ben Davies currently undergoing the medical tests with Liverpool are reported by @JamesPearceLFC. — Francesco Porzio (@fraporzio95) February 1, 2021 Davies climbed up the ranks of the Preston academy, which he joined aged 11. Aged 17, he made his senior debut for the Lilywhites in League One. He was loaned out to York City for ...
Scout Report: Ozan Kabak is not just a short-term stopgap – he could prove to be a stellar long-term signing for Liverpool
The second deadline day defender that Liverpool are set to sign is Ozan Kabak, with Preston’s Ben Davies being the first. The Reds are reportedly set to pay Schalke a £2.5 million loan fee with an option to buy for £20m in the summer, with the Royal Blues looking to recruit Arsenal defender Shkodran Mustafi as his replacement. Liverpool have reached an agreement over personal terms with Ozan Kabak. Agents fee agreed too. 🔴 #LFC Negotiations on with Schalke – #S04 want to include the obligation-to-buy and still working for the replacement [Mustafi talks on].#LFC also have a plan B. ⏳ #DeadlineDay https://t.co/Ng7nulrSiR — Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) February 1, 2021 The 20-year-old Schalke defender joined Galatasaray’s youth academy aged 11, signing his first profession...
Can Arsenal help Martin Ødegaard revive his career?
Martin Ødegaard has joined Arsenal on a loan deal that runs to the end of this season, with no option to buy included. Our newest Gunner! 😄🇳🇴 pic.twitter.com/tYc9w0g6N3 — Arsenal (@Arsenal) January 27, 2021 The hope is that he will help Arsenal solve their lack of creativity with his outstanding playmaking skills, while this opportunity in England will help him revitalise his career. Odegaard has stagnated since he cut short his two-year loan at Real Sociedad after being recalled by Real Madrid prior to the start of the 2020/21 season. However, he has only made five starts and four substitute appearances for Los Blancos this term, clearly failing to impress Zinedine Zidane enough to get a regular starting spot. He will be hoping to be a more integral ...
Cash-strapped Barcelona wants Sergio Aguero, David Alaba for free
Barcelona are hoping they can land Sergio Aguero and David Alaba on free transfers this summer after their contracts expire at Manchester City and Bayern Munich respectively. Aguero is expected to depart the Etihad Stadium after 10 years which have seen him become the club’s all-time top goal scorer with 256 goals and lift four Premier League titles in a glittering career. However, injuries have since caught up with the 32-year-old and he has now gone a full year without scoring a Premier League goal at the Etihad. According to Mundo Deportivo, Barca see the striker as the ideal No 9 replacement for Luis Suarez, who departed for Atletico Madrid in the summer, in providing a big name signing for supporters. Barca are in desperate financial struggles following the coronavirus outbreak, and t...
Luka Jović’s torrid time in Madrid
Luka Jović was hot property after the 2018/19 season when he had scored 27 times in 46 games for Eintracht Frankfurt, including 10 in 14 Europa League outings as his side reached the semi-finals. With many top clubs including the likes of Liverpool and Barcelona showing an interest in the striker at some point, it was almost certain that he was going to leave Germany in the summer of 2019. He did just that by signing for Real Madrid for a reported €60 million on a six-year-contract, with the plan being that he would compete with Karim Benzema for a starting spot. That plan clearly did not work. Fast forward a-year-and-a-half, and now Jović has returned to Frankfurt on a loan till the end of the season after absolutely flopping in Spain. A number of things went wrong for him, and ...
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