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crazy call Jota slips and falls into Norwood, who was not in his path at all, but foul on Norwood

Premier League | Manchester City vs Newcastle United http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2020/premier-league-manchester-city-vs-newcastle-united-s2/ https://www.totalsportek.com/manchester-city/

Premier League | Sheffield United vs Wolverhampton Wanderers http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2020/premier-league-sheffield-united-vs-wolverhampton-wanderers-s1/ https://www.totalsportek.com/wolverhampton/

Or the £199.8m they paid for Neymar. Soon will be over £200m with inflation.

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I am out shopping with wifey. Will check when I get back. Soon.

Success of Fernandes should make it easier for Sancho to see future at United https://theathletic.com/1909219/2020/07/08/manchester-united-jadon-sancho-solskjaer/ It might be a little early to say with absolute authority that the players driving Manchester United’s revival are capable of turning all this upward momentum into something more consistent and meaningful. There is, however, a soaring belief at Old Trafford that their recent improvement offers clear evidence to say, at the very least, they are no longer willing to tolerate the idea that it is only Liverpool and Manchester City having all the fun. How could you come to any other conclusion? Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s players are operating with a new spirit of adventure, racking up a run of freewheeling wins while simultaneously presenting their case to Jadon Sancho that, yes, this is the place where he can achieve his ambitions. Those players appear to have been reminded about what a Manchester United team ought to look like. It has extended their unbeaten stretch, pre- and post-lockdown, to 16 games and, whatever stresses they have had to endure before this point, they also seem to have figured out it is still possible to give their season a happy ending. They might just have heard the penny drop. If this has to be tempered with an element of caution, it is because there have been other periods during the post-Ferguson years when sporadic bursts of optimism have been overtaken by a succession of false dawns, jarring disappointments and more transfer-window trauma than a club with United’s ambitions will probably wish to remember. Even now, there are imperfections, such as the puzzle of David de Gea and the persistent suspicion that Harry Maguire — with his vulnerability to quick, penetrative opponents — remains a notch or two below the level where Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Jaap Stam and United’s other great centre-halves were marked. Maguire was deceived too easily for Bournemouth’s opening goal in United’s 5-2 win at Old Trafford on Saturday and there was a moment during the water break when Solskjaer seemed to forget there were television cameras on them. The manager remembered in time to show a measure of restraint but it was quite something to see the look he gave United’s occasionally accident-prone £80 million man. It was a death stare of which Al Pacino would have been proud. As for De Gea, he has not looked this susceptible since his first season at the club. Back then, at least there was the ready-made excuse of him being raw and inexperienced in English football. It is much harder these days to understand what is wrong, though one suspicion within the club is that he is no longer pushing himself as hard as he once was. De Gea was United’s Player of the Year in four out of five seasons — more than any other player in the club’s history, overtaking Cristiano Ronaldo in 2018 — and the contract he signed last September was initially reported as £350,000 a week until someone very high up at Old Trafford made it clear the true figure was actually a heck of a lot more. Has a once-brilliant performer allowed complacency, the corrosive byproduct of sustained success, to creep in? Solskjaer must find it immensely encouraging otherwise to see the way his team has set about improving their league position. Solskjaer’s own performance has been under scrutiny but that will ease up, too, if United continue to play with the strength of personality and engaging skill that has seen them produce arguably the best football in the country since the Premier League’s resumption. In doing so, they are also sending a clear message to Sancho. Forget the recent reports that United are refusing to go higher than £50 million to persuade Borussia Dortmund to part company with Sancho. Those stories were a surprise to the people involved in the negotiations. If Sancho has been keeping track of United’s improved form, it is easy to understand why the 20-year-old England international might find the idea of a move to Old Trafford increasingly appealing. Sancho has always made it a stipulation that he wants to join a club that is a) free of disruption in the Champions League and c) capable of challenging for multiple trophies. Earlier in the season, it was not certain that United could tick any of those boxes. Then Bruno Fernandes signed from Sporting Lisbon and suddenly every United game has started to feel like a grand occasion again. In analysing their unbeaten run since February, even a casual observer could see that the mid-season arrival from Portugal has been at the heart of it all. What Sancho can see at United now is a more settled club where Paul Pogba, free of injuries and transfer talk, seems to be playing with renewed purpose and Anthony Martial is demonstrating that maybe he does have it in him to make the leap from being a talented, occasionally brilliant footballer into one who touches those heights consistently. There are some reputable managers — Didier Deschamps, Jose Mourinho and Claudio Ranieri among them — who have grown exasperated by Martial’s apparent inability to grasp this subtle yet important difference. However, it seems United are seeing the benefits of not allowing Mourinho to get his way when their previous manager wanted to sell Martial. Mourinho, who was not accustomed to being overruled, always suspected the decision was taken by Joel Glazer, one of the club’s American directors, because Martial was his favourite player and — you can imagine the mix of disdain and sarcasm in Mourinho’s voice — because the feeling in Florida was that this was United’s Pele. Well, Martial is a fair bit off that level, but he has now accumulated 20 goals in 39 games this season. It is the first time Martial has reached the 20-goal mark in his five years in Manchester and, given his present form, it will be intriguing to see whether Deschamps recalls him for France’s games against Sweden and Croatia in early September. Martial’s international career has been restricted so far to 18 caps — nine coming as a substitute — and just a solitary goal. His last cap was a friendly against Russia in March 2018 and he was substituted after 58 minutes. Nor has it helped that on the two occasions France have called him up since the last World Cup, he has withdrawn with injury, only to start for his club the following weekend. The more important detail for United is that, on recent evidence, Solskjaer’s players turned a corner. Perhaps as a result of the upturn in form, the bond between the players and their current manager appears to be considerably stronger than it was with the previous one. Just look at the key players. Pogba has hopefully gone past the stage whereby Solskjaer, like Mourinho, might have felt entitled to ask the question: what am I going to get from you today? In his recent performances, Martial cannot be accused of the alleged lack of effort that saw him lampooned in United’s Red News fanzine and has meant his two-year-plus absence from Deschamps’ France squad has generated very little controversy. Marcus Rashford is getting better and better, season by season, and Mason Greenwood’s acceleration towards superstar status indicates that, if a deal does happen for Sancho, we should not just assume the new recruit would be a mandatory first-team pick. Solskjaer says that Greenwood, who has been operating on the right side of attack, is possibly the best finisher he has ever worked with and that is some statement at a club where they usually go to strenuous efforts not to hype up their young players. The context here is that Solskjaer has played with, among others, Eric Cantona, Dwight Yorke, Andy Cole, Teddy Sheringham, Wayne Rooney, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo. Yet there has been absolutely nothing to suggest United’s latest prodigy will let the manager’s acclaim go to his head. This is one of Solskjaer’s criteria to be a first-team player at Old Trafford: humility off the pitch, arrogance on it. Arrogance means to want the ball and to stand tall after pulling on that red shirt, which shows you are representing one of the greatest football clubs in the world. Rashford is the prime example. Greenwood, thrillingly, seems to be, too. What Solskjaer will also realise is that it is futile taking too much encouragement from the statistic that tells us Martial, Rashford and Greenwood have accumulated more goals for United this season (55) than Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino have for Liverpool (51). It is a nice, quirky statistic but nothing more and, ultimately, what does it matter when Liverpool are finishing the season as a tiny speck in the distance? The two clubs are separated by a gap of 34 points. Gap? It is more of a chasm, even if Solskjaer could be forgiven for wondering what difference it would have made to United’s season if they had gone for Fernandes last summer rather than waiting, for reasons never fully explained, until January. Fernandes, unable to find a buyer, signed a new contract at Sporting Lisbon in November and that was the point when United decided that he was, after all, worth going after. He would have been cheaper last summer and, boy, the team needed him during those long, difficult periods when they were grubbing around for points outside the top six and, in the worst moments, dreadfully short of wit and creativity. Can anybody be surprised that people find United’s recruitment so bewildering? To their credit, £47 million for Fernandes still looks a very good deal. Not least when he is showing Sancho the fun that could be had with this team.

Talks to be held over Jorginho future as he finds himself on the outside https://theathletic.com/1915926/2020/07/08/jorginho-chelsea-lampard-frank-gilmour-sarri/ Jorginho’s first appearance of Project Restart was only 15 minutes long, but it encompassed pretty much everything that has defined his Chelsea career to date – as well as where it might be going. Three of his first seven touches at Selhurst Park on Tuesday night were passes. Only the opener gave any hint of rustiness; sent low out to the right, far enough ahead of Reece James that it tempted Patrick van Aanholt into a slide for the ball that conceded a free kick. The second, a sharp redirection of play into the feet of Kurt Zouma, got Chelsea on the front foot. The third, floated 30 yards perfectly on to Willian’s chest on the right flank, was the proof this bushy-haired and heavily bearded man sent on to replace Billy Gilmour around 90 seconds earlier was indeed Jorginho in form as well as name. A match that had been chaotic and disjointed for long stretches immediately fell under his metronomic spell; Chelsea had 80 per cent of possession for the five minutes that followed his introduction, without Crystal Palace mustering a single shot. Jorginho ended up completing 26 of 29 attempted passes, touching the ball more times (33) as an 80th-minute substitute than Ross Barkley (32) did as a starter brought off after 65 minutes. Chelsea coach Frank Lampard admitted the Italy international had succeeded in “calming the team” when he came on. Yet the storm still arrived in added time as Palace pushed hard for an equaliser, and when it did, the man with his hand on the tiller very nearly got swept away with the ship. Jorginho pass map vs Crystal Palace This has been the story of Jorginho’s career at Chelsea. His mere presence at the base of midfield conditions the entire team’s style of play, but his rare ability to dictate football matches with his technical quality and tactical intelligence is in constant peril – at times due to his athletic limitations, at times because of the mistakes of those around him, and occasionally just because in the Premier League, five minutes of high-tempo anarchy is never off the table. If he has felt any frustration about his sudden plummet down Chelsea’s midfield pecking order, Jorginho has kept it to himself. He flashed a smile as he jogged up and down the Stamford Bridge pitch with the other substitutes after Saturday’s 3-0 win over Watford, and offered encouragement to Gilmour as the 19-year-old trotted towards him in the 80th minute at Selhurst Park. “He has been very professional about it,” Lampard said prior to the Palace game. “He wants to play as every player does. It is one of the hardest parts of the job is telling a player who is not playing, or picking a squad and leaving out players — particularly when they are not training well, and Jorginho always trains well. But he has handled it professionally and that’s what I would expect.” Jorginho is keeping an open mind about his future too. Sources have told The Athletic that talks between his agent and Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia will be held soon after the end of the season to assess the situation. He has three years to run on the contract he signed in the summer of 2018 and is settled in London, but personal happiness and professional fulfilment are linked. Juventus have always been seen as his likeliest suitors, but a potential reunion with Maurizio Sarri has been complicated by the Serie A champions’ success in trading away Miralem Pjanic for Barcelona midfielder Arthur. Even if the Brazilian is not tasked with adapting to the Jorginho role, Rodrigo Bentancur played the position with notable success prior to the pandemic shutdown. Chelsea were never interested in Pjanic, and there has been nothing yet from Juventus to suggest they are prepared to pay the kind of money Granovskaia is entitled to believe Jorginho should still command; part of the mutual appeal of the Pjanic-Arthur swap was that it allowed Juventus and Barcelona to enact a favourable restructuring of their stretched financial accounts. That is not to say that a move to Juventus is out of the question. Much like Chelsea, they pride themselves on being opportunistic as well as strategic in the transfer market, adapting their plans depending on the options that arise and the messages that are sent out, subtly or otherwise, by other clubs. The message being sent by Lampard in this case is clear: Jorginho is free to leave if a deal can be struck that works for player and club. “He does not have to do anything different,” Lampard said of Jorginho ahead of the Palace game. “He trains well, he shows me that he’s good for the group, on and off the pitch, he’s vice-captain of the club. It’s purely my choice with what I see from the games, how I want the make-up of my midfield to be.” On the surface it reads as a compliment; Jorginho’s absence is nothing to do with his attitude or application. But the implication is more ominous: if the fault is not with him, then it is something beyond his power to fix. What can he possibly do to change Lampard’s mind? “I do like midfield players who can play high, can play on the side, can do the defensive duties and Mason (Mount) really has that,” Lampard said when asked about his midfielders prior to the Palace game. “His work off the ball is fantastic and if I feel like getting him high up the pitch to put more pressure on the other team if they want to play out, that can help us off the ball. “Sometimes I’ll ask him to do a slightly different role where he comes deeper to make sure he’s not missing out on the ball. Ross can perform that kind of role. (Mateo) Kovacic can perform that kind of role. Ruben Loftus-Cheek can perform that kind of role. (N’Golo) Kante can perform that kind of role. Gilmour can. Jorginho also can but his role predominantly in his career has been from a deeper position. I like to work on the midfield, making it as fluid as it possibly can be.” Sarri saw the singular nature of Jorginho’s skill set as a positive; once Chelsea allowed Cesc Fabregas to depart for Monaco in January 2019, he insisted no-one else in the squad was technically equipped to back up his passing hub. Lampard wants a different kind of midfield, consisting of generalists capable of contributing to all aspects of play. Jorginho, the archetypal specialist, is the odd man out. Yet even if he now finds himself on the wrong side of a manager’s ideology, Jorginho’s cameo at Selhurst Park underlined the value he can still provide in what remains of this season. Lampard must also be pragmatic if he wants to make sure of guiding Chelsea to Champions League qualification. Kante’s “low-level” hamstring problem is very likely to rule him out of Saturday’s clash with Sheffield United, and his recent injury history suggests a swift return cannot be counted on. Gilmour showed flashes of his prodigious talent against Palace, completing 62 of his 68 attempted passes, but never quite reached the level of influence of the man who replaced him. As he waits to find out what his future holds, Jorginho’s distinctive brand of midfield control might be Chelsea’s best hope of keeping their rivals – and their own flaws – at bay for now.

many were and it was not the ONLY reason he was signed, but is was a factor I am just glad to see him playing off the charts The reason Chelsea sealed Christian Pulisic transfer deal revealed by Bruce Buck CHELSEA secured the services of Christian Pulisic for next season and club chairman Bruce Buck has revealed why they were interested in the midfielder. https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1115262/Chelsea-Christian-Pulisic-transfer-US-tour-2019-Bruce-Buck snip And it is the player’s nationality that was a factor in the deal revealed Buck, who was also born in the United States. Chelsea are hoping Pulisic will help expand their fan base in the US and Buck has his sights set on “middle America” as he claims the club are strong on both coasts. "He's a personable boy. He's well-liked in this country," Buck said about Pulisic to The Associated Press. "So of course I would expect him when we come here and play some friendly matches, which is what our objective is in the summer of 2020. “I think he will be helpful." Manchester United are the most watched Premier League club this season, followed by Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea in fourth place.

wait till Eden is 42 lolol

A Said Benrahma-inspired Brentford came from a goal down with 16 minutes to go to beat a dogged Charlton side at Griffin Park and keep their hopes of an automatic promotion place alive. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/52145414 The hosts went behind early on to Macauley Bonne's header - which ended Brentford's five-game run of clean sheets - but dominated much of the proceedings, with Benrahma at the heart of it. Having scored a hat-trick against Wigan on Saturday, he again showed his class with half-a-dozen efforts and won a 74th-minute penalty which he converted to level. Benrahma's deflected shot with six minutes left brought a fantastic reaction save from Dillon Phillips, but Ethan Pinnock rose to head Brentford's winner from the resulting corner. The victory sees the third-placed Bees close the gap on second-placed West Bromwich Albion to two points, having played a game more, while Charlton slip to 20th place, two points above the relegation places. snip Benrahma gives Bees their sting Since the Championship restarted after the Covid-19 outbreak, Benrahma has been at the centre of Brentford's charge for a top-two place. Having scored one and made the other in their win over then-third-placed Fulham, the Algerian scored all three on Saturday as they beat Wigan and at times Charlton found him unplayable. Twice in the first half he curled efforts just wide of the far post, and he should have scored with two further chances before the hour. Josh Cullen, though, was unable to stop himself fouling Benrahma for the penalty after a good ball into the box and he sent Phillips the wrong way from the spot. Josh Dasilva hit the post for the Bees a couple of minutes after the equaliser in a move that began when Benrahma's shot from the edge of the box was saved. And it was another save from a Benrahma effort which caused the corner that saw centre-back Pinnock rise highest to head in.

his new nickname is GoT because every time I think of him in goal I think

lol 4 2 now

sarriball!

woot, we are 3rd

damn 1 1 VAR cleared it

might be offside

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Nikola Milenkovic is also 6 feet 5, versus Romagnoli 6 feet 2 and I never said we should not move for both all 6 of our CB's are not good enough I would not shed a tear of all 6 were sold down the road one good game from Zouma doesn't change a damn thing for me he is horrid on the ball and still makes errors too much we need to start cashing in (not just the CB's) and sort the GK and back 4 plus grab Havertz if we want to win the league and CL, it HAS to be done we are not remotely there yet at all anyone who thinks this group will grow into that level is delusional IMHO and I really do mean delusional it is not going to happen they are what they are

have you watched him play? I have for years and years he is the real deal and he is plenty strong either you or someone else said this same thing before smdh

Schmeichel: ‘Shocking’ player ‘does not belong’ at Man Utd https://www.football365.com/news/peter-schmeichel-man-utd-shocking-jesse-lingard-does-not-belong Former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel claims that one “shocking” Man Utd player does “not belong in the dressing room”. The Red Devils are currently on a 16-match unbeaten run in all competitions as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has led them on an improved run of form since the turn of the year. I am sure you all will guess who

watching Schmeichel versus Kepa makes me sob