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A potential candidate to replace departed transfer chief Edu Gaspar is set for an Arsenal meeting in the USA this week, where he will sit down with manager Mikel Arteta, managing director Richard Garlick, director Tim Lewis and the Kroenkes.

Edu announces Arsenal exit after memorable five-year stay

Last week, supporters were handed some very surprising news that came right out of the blue, with Edu announcing his exit from Arsenal after a productive five years, during which he helped to transform the Gunners back into genuine Premier League title contenders.

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Edu played a major role in the appointment of Arteta whilst also leading the charge for crucial, bargain signings like Martin Odegaard and William Saliba, so news of his departure comes as a bitter blow amid a difficult couple of weeks for Arsenal on the field.

“This was an incredibly hard decision to make,” said Edu on leaving Arsenal.

“Arsenal has given me the opportunity to work with so many amazing people and the chance to be a part of something so special in the club’s history. It has been a special journey and I thank Stan, Josh, Tim and Lord Harris for the support they’ve given me. I’ve loved working with so many great colleagues across our men’s, women’s and academy teams, especially Mikel, who has become a great friend.

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“Now it is time to pursue a different challenge. Arsenal will always remain in my heart. I wish the club and its supporters only good things and all the very best.”

Attention now turns to who could succeed the 46-year-old, and whoever steps into his shoes will take on an enormous responsibility. There have been suggestions that assistant director Jason Ayto is an obvious choice to replace Edu, as he’s worked under him for the past year and knows the current setup better than any other candidate.

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ByRoss Kilvington Nov 5, 2024 Jason Ayto set for Arsenal meeting in USA this week

Reliable Arsenal journalist Charles Watts has shared an update on Ayto’s chances of filling Edu’s position in a detailed report for CaughtOffside this week.

Indeed, it is believed Ayto is set for an Arsenal meeting in the United States this week, where he will sit down with Arteta, Garlick, Lewis and the Kroenkes to discuss next summer’s transfer plans with the club’s owners.

This meeting is scheduled for every November international break, and Ayto is set to take on Edu’s role on an interim basis as he heads the recruitment process. Watts adds that Ayto could be considered for the role full-time, even if there is a suggestion that this job may have come too soon for him.

The club chief is “highly respected” at Arsenal, though, so it appears he is firmly in the running as the north Londoners begin their “thorough” search for a new sporting director – where they will take their time to assess the right man to replace such a crucial figurehead in Edu.

With the MLS season kicking off in just over two weeks, here is a look at where teams stand entering 2025 campaign

Hello, 2025.

This has been a memorable offseason. Genuinely, it has been record-breaking in every sense — incoming and outgoing transfers, record fees for clubs across the league, blockbuster intra-league trades, and more.

It has been a rollercoaster, and we're still over two weeks away from competitive MLS action, too, meaning there is still so much more that could happen ahead of the start of the campaign.

Over the past two months, though, there has been one common trait shared across the league — ambition, at least by most teams.

The San Jose Earthquakes are the perfect example, as are the New England Revolution. Both teams are set to field relatively unrecognizable teams on opening day due to roster turnover. Then, there's a step further as shown with Atlanta United. The smashed the MLS transfer record for $22M striker Emmanuel Latte-Lath while also bringing back former club star Miguel Almiron from Newcastle United.

On the other end, other teams like Toronto FC have yet to even open up their wallet.

With just weeks away from kickoff, it's now time to start seriously evaluating where clubs stand. It's a brand-new season, with lots of new rules, including continental competition participation. The 2024 MLS Cup champions in the LA Galaxy remain on top of the list in preseason at least, while Lionel Messi's Inter Miami are still recovering from their shocking Round 1 Playoff exit last November.

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  30Toronto FC

  Someway, somehow, Lorenzo Insigne is still a TFC player. They haven't used an offseason buyout, and they didn't transfer him away from the club in January. This ultimately has to mean they're planning around him in 2025 — which does not feel like a smart choice.

  Factor in their incredibly poor campaign last season, and their lack of transfer business this offseason, and there is just nothing to be excited about.

  The club brought in Robin Fraser to lead their touchline as their new manager after the departure of John Herdman in November, and even then, it just doesn't move the needle.

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• 29D.C. United

  D.C. offloaded Matai Akinmboni to Bournemouth in the Premier League, which is a brilliant move for both the club and the U.S. youth international. However, when the only positive around your club over the offseason is selling a player abroad, that's not great.

  The club also, someway, somehow, managed to offload DP Mateusz Klich to Atlanta United on a season-long loan, but they're still paying his salary in a scenario that does not make any sense whatsoever for them.

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  Reports surfaced earlier this week that they're also moving on from bright homegrown prospect Ted Ku-DiPietro, who was a fan favorite.

  Not the best outlook for a storied franchise.

• 28FC Dallas

  FC Dallas had a selling offseason. They made a lot of money in that sense, which is great from a club standpoint. Offloading Alan Velasco, Jesus Ferreira and Paul Arriola for nearly $15 million is stellar business — however, there's a rule in sports where if you get rid of players, you should probably replace them.

  And, well, FCD have yet to do that.

  They brought in Anderson Julio from RSL, and that's a rather similar body to Arriola, so we can give them that — but not much else has happened. It's going to be incredibly hard to compete if they don't find replacements for Ferreira and Velasco soon, while star forward Petar Musa's production will likely go down too without support as well.

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  27Philadelphia Union

  Getting rid of Jim Curtin still feels like a very, very poor move.

  Since his departure, Philly has appointed former St. Louis CITY SC manager Bradley Carnell, but they've relatively failed to bolster their roster after an incredibly poor 2024.

  They signed Serbian midfielder Jovan Lukic to a multi-year contract and brought in defender Ian Glavinovich on a season-long loan, but other than that, their under-performing XI from 2024 is set to return in a few weeks time.

  Factor in the club also sold U.S. international Jack McGlynn to the Houston Dynamo, and they're down another body. The positive spin, though, is they earned up to $3.4M for his services, which is brilliant considering it's pure profit due to his Homegrown status.

Both teams have shown plenty of spark in the UAE, despite their captains misfiring with the bat

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Should RCB stick to their batting order? Should KKR make Shakib bowl more?

Big pictureAfter two years of missing out due to an inferior net run rate (NRR), Kolkata Knight Riders are back in the playoffs, and have done it in barnstorming fashion in the second half of IPL 2021. When the season was suspended in May, Knight Riders had played seven games and won two. The move to UAE saw them reverse those results, winning five of their next seven games, and in commanding enough fashion to survive a Mumbai Indians’ late NRR charge.Royal Challengers Bangalore have not been too far behind, following their good showing in the first half with solid displays in the second, winning four of their seven matches in UAE.Watch IPL on ESPN+ (US only)

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So, there’s no obvious “form team” between the two, both having shown plenty of spark so far in this leg, both filled with match-winners in their line-ups, both discovering breezy options in the top order in Venkatesh Iyer and KS Bharat – and both having captains who haven’t been piling up the runs as they normally would.Virat Kohli has 168 runs in seven games in the UAE leg, bolstered by two fifties in the first three of those. The last four have yielded only 59 runs. His strike rate’s been 117.48, and not too much higher even during his half-centuries. However, Kohli’s returns look gargantuan when compared to Eoin Morgan’s in the UAE leg this year: a measly 32 runs in six innings, reaching double figures for the first time in Knight Riders’ last league game where he finished unbeaten on 13. He’s also been considerably slower than a run a ball, striking at 82.05.That they have come so far despite these numbers from key batters is a credit to both teams. But for one of them, the journey will end tomorrow.In the newsThe biggest question ahead of this game is Andre Russell’s fitness. As of two days ago, Knight Riders chief mentor David Hussey said Russell would be “pushing hard” to get fit for the playoffs, while Morgan took solace from Russell’s ability to heal quickly from injuries. The last time these two sides met, Russell yorked AB de Villiers first-ball, and his legendary six-hitting ability has often found an extra gear against Royal Challengers. But will Russell be fit? We’ll know only at toss time. Shakib Al Hasan has been a good addition to the XI, but really, there’s no replacing Russell.Related

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Royal Challengers have no injury worries, and having won a stirring last league game against the table-topping Delhi Capitals, might not want to change their XI. George Garton hasn’t had the best returns, and there will be the temptation to bring in Dushmantha Chameera or Kyle Jamieson, but Garton’s changes of pace might suit the Sharjah pitch.Likely XIsKolkata Knight Riders: 1 Shubman Gill, 2 Venkatesh Iyer, 3 Nitish Rana, 4 Rahul Tripathi, 5 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 6 Eoin Morgan (capt), 7 Andre Russell/Shakib Al Hasan, 8 Sunil Narine, 9 Lockie Ferguson, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Shivam Mavi.Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Virat Kohli (capt), 2 Devdutt Padikkal, 3 KS Bharat (wk), 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 Dan Christian, 7 Shahbaz Ahmed, 8 George Garton, 9 Harshal Patel, 10 Mohammed Siraj, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal.Strategy punt Bowl spin to Virat Kohli. In the UAE leg of IPL 2021, Kohli has faced 47 balls of spin, and while he’s not been dismissed, he’s scored only 42 runs off these. In Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine and Shakib, if he plays, Knight Riders have the men to tie Kohli down in the powerplay and middle overs. And bowling spin first up might be a smart ploy from another point of view too, because… …Glenn Maxwell has been devastatingly good this IPL, and particularly against spin in the middle overs. In the UAE leg, he’s hit 101 runs off 63 balls of middle-overs spin, and been dismissed just once. In comparison, against pace bowlers he’s made 80 off 74 in this period. That’s not to say Maxwell has struggled against pace – at the death he’s carted them for 87 runs in 43 balls. And if Knight Riders front-load spin against Kohli, Royal Challengers always have the option of sending Maxwell in at No. 3 to disrupt that plan. Stats that matter In games in Sharjah this IPL, the team that has scored more in the powerplay has always won the match. It’s been much easier to score against the hard, new ball with only two fielders out. Maximising that phase will be top priority for both teams. Mohammed Siraj is one wicket away from getting to 100 in T20 games. He’s got 99 wickets in 81 games so far.

Another below-par batting performance threatens visitors’ title ambitions

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“Don’t feed the gulls!” urged the sign, a little weather-beaten now, on the landscaped paths above the glinting waters of Scarborough’s North Bay. Somerset’s batters have been feeding the gulls for much of the past week. Hoards of hungry close fielders are pouncing for the prize with excited screeches as they edge deliveries at catchable height, as if tossing chips carelessly into the wind.Beaten by an innings and plenty at Taunton last week, they reshuffled their batting order, but followed up 107 and 181 against Nottinghamshire with 134 against Yorkshire. They were less culpable on this occasion because the pitch was lively in the first session, with pace and bounce, and there was swing to be had, but it still represented calamity. If they lose here – and Yorkshire have a lead of 25 with five wickets remaining – then as far as the Championship is concerned it will be Somerset, rather than the gulls, who have had their chips.One batter played blissfully, though, on a day when 11 of the 15 wickets perished to catches at wicketkeeper or slip. Harry Brook’s reputation is growing apace. Outstanding in white-ball cricket all summer, he is now putting his red-ball season to rights, a fact recognised by the award of his county cap. His unbeaten 79 from 86 balls, with 12 fours and a pulled six against Marchant de Lange was a resplendent affair under pale blue skies on a day when every other player had been forever vulnerable. He drove and cut with aplomb, his shot selection was impeccable – only Tom Abell restrained him – his one mistake, on 74, when the wicketkeeper Steve Davies dropped a comfortable chance off Abell, bringing a miserable end to Somerset’s attempt to right their day.A drive across the Wolds had emphasised that this is a late Championship match by Scarborough’s standards. Hockney would have packed up his easel a couple of weeks ago, although one imagines he would have admired Brook’s refinement: the harvest has been gathered in, bales are stacked high in the fields like tower blocks, and the land is parched and, in some places, could do with a colour filter. Yorkshire has had a strange, straggly kind of summer.The conference format for the Championship this year meant that dates and opposition were not known until about a month ago, with guest houses already near capacity. That contributed to a thin crowd by Scarborough’s standards of about 2500. They were rewarded by a decent pitch, a somewhat frisky pitch at first for sure, with occasional steep bounce from the Trafalgar Square End, but one that invited animated cricket.In their three innings this past week, no Somerset batter has made more than 37 – and even that was Marchant de Lange teeing off at No. 10. Remarkably, though, by the time they were dismissed, four other counties had already been dismissed for lower scores of 76, 89, 97 and 133.The chief beneficiary of Somerset’s batting frailty was Matthew Fisher, who took the last four wickets to fall to finish with 5 for 41, only the second five-for of his Championship career, but heartening for all that.Tail-end wickets or not, Fisher has begun to flourish in recent weeks. He is 23 now, and eight years have elapsed since his debut on this ground, at 15 years 212 days, in a 40-over match at Leicestershire. The youngest post-war county cricketer turned two years later into the sixth-youngest Championship debutant, but he had grown quickly and didn’t his hamstrings know it. He finally appears at ease with his game. Yorkshire have treated him conservatively and the long game may be beginning to pay off.Fisher’s top-order wicket was Abell, a good ball that had him caught behind. Abell had addressed Somerset’s weakness at opener by doing the job himself, and it appears to be Somerset’s best option. Azhar Ali, an overseas batter on a late-season contract, and George Bartlett were also drafted in, but by lunch both were gone and Somerset were 77 for 6.Yorkshire’s attack was insistent enough, although when George Hill became their fifth seamer to be used in 18 overs it did indicate a certain dissatisfaction. Somerset had lost a second wicket by then, Tom Lammonby edging a swing half-volley from David Willey, but it was the loss of four wickets for four runs in 21 balls just before lunch that scuppered them. Up by the Tea Room – TEA ROOM in big capitals on its black-tiled roof – as the wickets tumbled, a Yorkshire spectator was bemoaning changing times. “What’s happened to mi railing?” he asked, oblivious to the mayhem around him. “Ah need a railing to lean on.”James Hildreth is a much-loved senior player who is no longer able to provide the answer with regularity – and, having gained a start, he had a wind-up at wide half-volley from Hill. Of no great pace, but with a high, reliable action, Hill then found a testing line and had Bartlett caught at the wicket. In the next over, from Jordan Thompson, Azhar left one that struck his off stump and Tom Banton, an opener now hidden away at No. 7, got a first-baller, all squared up, partly by the delivery and partly by himself.With Somerset dismissed within 42 overs, there was ample time for Yorkshire to collapse in turn, but Somerset did not possess quite the same threat. The all-action Abell now fulfilled the role of third seamer. Somerset’s batting might right itself as their young players emerge from tough times, but their need for a top-class seamer is hard to ignore.Adam Lyth, who can’t buy a run at the moment, was caught off his forearm; Tom Kohler-Cadmore was struck on the forearm, retired not out, and returned at the fall of the second wicket to nick his third ball back to second slip. Hill played sensibly until essaying a back-foot force not thought to be in his repertoire, and Josh Davey snared Gary Ballance. Then came Brook and the Scarborough crowd relaxed in admiration. Perhaps even the disgruntled spectator had found a railing upon which to rest a while.

Avesh Khan’s tour of England is likely to have come to an end as ESPNcricinfo has learned that the Madhya Pradesh fast bowler has suffered a fracture in his left thumb, which he hurt on the first day of the warm-up match between the Indians and the County Select XI at Chester-le-Street on Tuesday. It is understood that Khan will undergo a couple of scans and tests this week, after which he will return to India to recover in time for the IPL where he represents the Delhi Capitals. Khan was a key part of the Capitals in the first half of IPL 2021, picking up 14 wickets, the joint second-highest in the competition so far.Related

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Khan was representing the County Select XI, and immediately after lunch on Tuesday, he successfully intercepted a punched drive from Hanuma Vihari, but winced in pain. Minutes later he walked off, alongside the Indian physiotherapist, with a strapped left thumb.The Indians ended the first day’s play on 306 for 9, with KL Rahul having cracked a century (101), and Ravindra Jadeja making 75.On Wednesday, the BCCI’s media team sent an update on Khan, saying he would “not be taking any further part” in the warm-up match and that he “remains under observation”. Khan and Washington Sundar had both been permitted by the Indian team management to turn up for the County Select XI, which had two vacant slots since the pair of James Bracey and Zak Chappell were not available. Bracey had been identified as contact of a Covid-19 positive case and had to be pulled out of the squad, while Chappell suffered an injury on Tuesday morning.Khan had been named as one of the five reserves by the Indian selectors in the 25-man squad which was announced in May. He becomes the second player, after Shubman Gill, to be ruled out of the series. The details of Gill’s injury have not yet been put out by the BCCI, but it is learned that the opening batter had been hampered by a niggle in the lower half of his left leg, which surfaced post the World Test Championship final in June.Virat Kohli bats in the netsA day after the BCCI said that Virat Kohli was being rested for the three-day warm-up match due to a stiff back, the Indian captain turned up to bat in the nets. At lunch on Day 2 in Durham, Kohli took throwdowns from Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour, with India head coach Ravi Shastri observing from a distance. The development is a welcome one for the Indians, who also are concerned by the fitness of vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has a swollen hamstring. Also part of the nets was India’s seniormost fast bowler Ishant Sharma, who has bounced back from the hand injury he picked on the final day of the World Test Championshp final. Sharma had received stitches on his bowling hand.

Gary Lineker has opened up on his exit from BBC's Sports Personality of the Year ceremony, insisting he "never really enjoyed" presenting the show.

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  Lineker was the host of the SPOTY ceremony for 23 years until his final appearance last year. The departing Match of the Day presenter didn't even watch this week's ceremony, in which England star Jude Bellingham missed out on the main prize, and admitted it's the TV role that he "never really enjoyed".

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  During a live show of The Rest is Football podcast, Lineker expressed his disillusionment with the ceremony, citing recent changes such as a new production company and the restriction against going off script during interviews.

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  “People are starting to assume that it was part of my kind of termination or forthcoming termination with the BBC,” Lineker said. “But, just to make it clear, what happened with Sports Personality of the Year is that it went to an independent production company and it was granted at the start of the year. Now, I saw that as an opportunity to get out of presenting Sports Personality. It’s a great show, but it’s the one TV gig that I never really enjoyed.

  “I think I share that with Des Lynam, who did it for many years as well. It’s a very strange show to do. Also, it’s the one thing where every single word that you say on it has to be agreed by all parties at the BBC. Every single interview you do, you have to say what questions you’re going to ask. I mean, I like to ad lib, I like to go off piste. You can’t do it [on] Sports Personality, not in recent times. Every nominee had to have exactly the same time of interviewing, so as to be impartial and fair.

  “It was purely that. So, it was February, and it’s nothing to do with my recent announcement. There were four presenters, and four presenters is too many for that show anyway. There you have it.”

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  Lineker will also stand down from Match of the Day at the end of the season, but he needn't worry; his Goalhanger Podcasts empire is dominating the charts.

Young spinner shows vital all-round ability to withstand Northants onslaught

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The sight of fans at Hove for the first time in 20 months had done little to distract from a familiar story for Sussex when their top order succumbed to Ben Sanderson for the third time this month: they slid to 67 for 7 at lunch after opting to bat in the sunshine, and lost an eighth wicket two balls into the afternoon session. One returning punter put in his order at Greig’s Café during the interval by asking for “a cup of tea, please – and do you know anyone who can bat?”As luck would have it, the catering staff managed to pull some strings. Jack Carson and Henry Crocombe, Sussex’s No. 9 and 10 with a combined age of 39, are part of the Covid generation whose first-class careers had been played entirely behind closed doors, with both making debuts in the Bob Willis Trophy last summer. Sussex’s members had turned up just to make sure they existed in the third dimension, rather than being hermetically sealed in the club’s online streaming service; a 99-run stand provided confirmation that they were indeed flesh and bones, and ensured a first-innings total that kept them in the game.Crocombe, a tall right-arm seamer who removed Ben Curran with the new ball, played with a wristy flourish and was dropped twice as he chanced his arm, but it was Carson who looked like he had the potential to become a genuine allrounder. A 20-year-old offspinner from County Armagh, Carson first came to Sussex’s attention eight years ago when Kyle McCallan, the former Ireland international, rang Ed Joyce to recommend a young batter at Waringstown CC in Belfast, whom he insisted was “pretty special”.”It’s pretty hazy, but I think I said to the club that there was a young kid who wanted to have a look at playing for them, though spin was his secondary thing,” Joyce, Sussex’s captain at the time, recalls. “I didn’t realise he was going to go over to England and go to school there but he’s clearly done really well.” Thanks to a sports scholarship at Hurstpierpoint College, Carson moved across the Irish Sea permanently for sixth form, and opportunities for the academy and the seconds were increasingly regular.”We knew he could bowl a bit of offspin but he got his opportunity in the second team because he was scoring hundreds in the academy,” James Kirtley, the club’s T20 head coach and Ian Salisbury’s assistant in other formats, explains. “And since then, Sals has worked his magic – and Sals really is a wizard. It’s a wonderful partnership and double-act.”Related

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While his classical action and hard-spun offbreaks have caught the eye since last summer – in Rory Burns, Zak Crawley and Joe Root, he has dismissed three of England’s top four – Carson’s returns with the bat had been a disappointment, with a top score of 21 in his first 17 innings. Here, he was dropped early on, but an organised half-century which featured several compact back-foot punches through point for four dragged Sussex towards respectability and hinted at his potential to balance the side at No. 7 in years to come.A first ovation from his home crowd – which included a recuperating Jofra Archer – made things even sweeter. “I’ve definitely been frustrated with how I’ve batted before today,” he admitted. “Fans have just seen scorecards or live streams so having a crowd in was a great chance to show people in the flesh that I’m here to hang around with the bat.” Unsurprisingly, it didn’t take his team-mates long to suggest he only turns up when fans are in. “That line was pretty swift when I came off – if that’s my lucky charm, so be it.”Carson has made clear that his ultimate ambition is to play Test cricket for England, even if Joyce holds out some hope that he may one day be an Ireland player. Kirtley suggests that a Lions call-up might not be too far away: “His skills are very good for a 20-year-old and I’m sure he will be recognised at an international level shortly, and rightfully. He’s a very fine young prospect.”Ben Sanderson foiled Sussex’s top order – again•Getty Images

But his innings meant that the real star of the day had slipped – perhaps characteristically – under the radar. When Carson steered to third slip shortly before tea, it meant Sanderson had completed his third five-for in as many innings against Sussex, following his 10-wicket haul in the demolition job at Wantage Road. A late developer who had taken a solitary Championship wicket when Northants offered him a trial aged 26, Sanderson has been the image of consistency over the last five seasons and a first-class average of 20.47 demonstrates his skill with the new ball in particular.”They’d rather go to Lord’s than watch Northants for four days,” Sanderson grumbled to last year when asked why he thought England’s selectors had never been in touch despite his record, and while his age (32) and lack of pace mean international honours are unlikely to arrive, there are no county batters who relish the prospect of facing him early on.Defying clear blue skies, Sanderson was devastating against Sussex’s string of left-handers, coming round the wicket from the Cromwell Road End to angle the ball into the bat and then nip it away off the seam. Stiaan van Zyl and Travis Head, the two overseas players, both edged into the cordon, while Aaron Thomason was trapped lbw offering no shot and George Garton was smashed on the knee roll. Gareth Berg, Wayne Parnell and Tom Taylor shared the other five between them, benefitting from both the variable bounce on offer and some injudicious shot selection.A wicket apiece for Sussex’s young seamers and one late in the day for Carson – Rob Keogh, clipping a low catch to short midwicket – pegged Northants back, but they have an opportunity to secure a significant first-innings lead in the morning. Victory this week may be enough to nudge them ahead of Yorkshire and into second place in Group Three; after their promotion-that-wasn’t in 2019, qualification for Division One would be another impressive feat.

Liverpool FC legend Jamie Carragher has suggested that his former club will look to 'move on' under-performing forward Darwin Nunez next summer.

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  Darwin joined Liverpool in the summer of 2022 for a reported fee of £64m plus add-ons, but in a recent conversation with Ian Wright on The Overlap, Carragher indicated that "there is no way he has got the add-ons" due to his inconsistent performances. According to the retired England defender, Liverpool are likely to try and sell the Uruguayan next summer while he is still able to command a high transfer fee.

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  "We said we don’t know what he is going to do, so how will the defenders?" said Carragher. "Nobody ever says that about a good player, do they? I’m not sure he will be here next season, I think Liverpool will move him on." Fellow pundit Ian Wright concurred: "I never know what is going to happen with Nunez when he goes through. I would’ve thought for that price we would have seen a lot more from him by now. It is not going to be any different to what he is now."

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  Darwin Nunez has repeatedly shown flashes of brilliance at Liverpool, which is partly what makes him such a frustrating player for the likes of Wright and Carragher. In 76 Premier League games he's scored 22 goals and registered 12 assists, a decent return but hardly prolific, and his failure to consistently produce top performances has led to him spending significant time on the sidelines this season. It doesn't seem as though Arne Slot has full faith in his Uruguayan striker, despite his evident potential.

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  Nunez led the line for Liverpool against Newcastle but had a disappointing night, receiving a 4/10 rating for his individual performance. If Slot decides to give him a chance again this weekend — when the league leaders make the short trip to Everton for Saturday's Merseyside derby — he'll be determined to prove his worth.

After guiding Southampton back to the Premier League at the first time of asking, Russell Martin looks set to be rewarded with a slew of fresh faces this summer.

The Saints mean business this summer

Following their dramatic playoff final victory back in May, Southampton have wasted no time using their newfound windfall to get numerous players through the door at St Mary's.

Southampton to make new offer for "phenomenal" £14k-a-week star this week

Russell Martin isn’t messing around.

ByHenry Jackson Jul 30, 2024

Whilst a dozen players have made the move to the South Coast so far this summer, the standout pieces of business have seen the Saints tie down a number of last season's loan stars on permanent deals. The first day of the transfer window saw Southampton sign Taylor Harwood-Bellis in a £20 million move from Premier League champions Manchester City.

The 22-year-old was a pivotal part of the Saints' promotion story, featuring for Martin's side on 46 occasions in all competitions last term. Another loanee that Southampton have managed to seal a permanent transfer for is Flynn Downes. Like Harwood-Bellis, the midfielder was the backbone of the Saints' side last season and will no doubt have a part to play in the coming campaign.

Southampton have also now completed the signing of Ben Brereton Diaz from Villarreal – a rumoured £7 million fee has been agreed for the Chilean attacker. With the Saints' summer business showing no signs of slowing down, it appears that the club are now interesting in signing a highly-rated young talent eager for a move away during the transfer window.

Southampton keen on Dortmund youngster

As first reported on the X account of Sky Sports journalist Patrick Berger and later relayed by Sport Witness, Southampton are chasing a deal for Borussia Dortmund’s Youssoufa Moukoko. The outlet claims that the striker is eager to move away from Germany this summer with Girona, Real Betis, Sevilla, Real Sociedad and Stade Rennais joining the Saints in the race for the 19-year-old.

After playing just 613 minutes at Dortmund last term, Moukoko wants to move somewhere that can offer him more regular game time going forward. Whilst it is not yet known as to whether a deal for the striker will materialise as a permanent move or a loan, it appears almost certain that the German will be plying his trade away from the Signal Iduna Park next season.

Despite his recent struggles at club level, Moukoko was once regarded as one of the game's brightest talents owing to his exploits at youth level. With 137 goals in 81 games for Dortmund's under 17s and under 19s sides, the player quickly become one of the hottest prospects in Europe.

Whilst his career has not yet lived up to this initial hype, Moukoko is still highly regarded, with his former Dortmund teammate Jude Bellingham waxing lyrical about the player: "I think he's a really good talent, really promising talent. I think if you meet the boy as well, an excellent boy – very humble, he's got his feet firmly on the ground, which is the most important thing for a young player."

With Martin and Co still on the lookout for attacking talents, bringing Moukoko to St Mary's could be a major coup for the Premier League new-boys.

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‘Estávamos com muitas dificuldades, perdemos jogadores importantes e tínhamos que somar pontos. Quero ganhar, mas empatar fora não é ruim. Com tantas dificuldades, jogadores ausentes e desfalques, tínhamos que voltar para Porto Alegre com pelo menos um empate. Não comemoro empates, mas é melhor do que perder’, afirmou.

Agora, o Internacional retoma sua força e volta a campo no domingo, quando recebe a Chapecoense, no Beira-Rio.

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