تسبب لاعب وسط الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي آرسنال، محمد النني، في حيرة لمدربه الحالي في الجانرز، ميكل أرتيتا، قبل مباراة وست هام يونايتد في الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.
ويستعد آرسنال لخوض ثاني لقاءاته الرسمية في البطولة مساء اليوم، السبت، في تمام الساعة التاسعة مساءًا بتوقيت “القاهرة” على ملعب “الآمارات”.
وأفادت صحيفة “ديلي إكسبريس” البريطانية بأن تألق النني كان مفاجئًا للجميع أمام فولهام في المباراة الأولى في الدوري الإنجليزي وعلى رأسهم أرتيتا.
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وقدم النني مباراة فنية رائعة في وسط الملعب بجانب جرانيت شاكا، وهو ما يضع أرتيتا في حيرة لأن في الموسم الماضي كان الإسباني يعتمد بشكل كبير على، داني سيبايوس، بجانب السويسري.
وتشير الصحيفة إلى أن وجود سيبايوس سيمنح وسط نادي آرسنال لمسة إبداعية أكثر من النني في حالة مشاركته، وربما يكون ميزة إضافية لكتيبة أرتيتا في مواجهة ديفيد مويس.
فهل يستغنى أرتيتا عن النني أم سيبايوس في مواجهة اليوم؟، خاصة بعد نجاح آرسنال في التوصل لاتفاق مع ريال مدريد لاستمرار الأخير على سبيل الإعارة لمدة موسم آخر.
Tottenham fans will absolutely love the latest transfer rumour out of Spain, as reports claim Gareth Bale could be open to a return to north London.
What’s the story?
According to Marca, via Sport Witness, Real Madrid are once again considering selling Bale.
The Welsh wing wizard was the source of plenty of speculation after last season’s Champions League final, but of course it was Cristiano Ronaldo who departed, with Bale supposedly set to take the helm in Madrid.
That hasn’t happened though, and the report from Marca claims Bale “doesn’t rule out” a return to Spurs, while also including the Lilywhites as one of the interested parties.
According to the report, Bale has been overshadowed by Karim Benzema and Brazilian youngster Vinicius, and he could be used as part of a swap deal to land Christian Eriksen.
Is he worth losing Eriksen?
Real Madrid paid around £90m for Bale back in 2013, and that was before the transfer market exploded due to players like Paul Pogba and Neymar, so they will be looking for a hefty fee even as the Welshman approaches his 30th birthday.
That said, it is likely that the Lilywhites would have to sacrifice Eriksen to land Bale just like Marca claims, with the Danish international yet to show any signs of penning a new deal at the club.
Eriksen will be out of contract in the summer of 2020, but Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino should be doing everything in their power to stop him from leaving, as the fan favourite playmaker is far younger and less injury-prone than Bale.
Bale may be a world-renowned superstar, but he has suffered countless muscle injuries in his five-and-a-half years in Madrid, and Eriksen is a more proven fit in Pochettino’s system.
Eriksen must be the club’s priority, but all things considered Bale isn’t exactly a bad contingency plan.
Despite a good deal of early encouragement the experiment in importing Sarri-ball to the Premier League is now a big dead duck bobbing in the water.
Over a period of many months the players have tried to master their new coach’s highly exacting demands and for reasons that warrant an essay in itself they have substantially failed to do so.
Maurizio Sarri himself has publicly admitted on several occasions that he is struggling to motivate his squad into replicating the ferocious and exhilarating football we all marvelled at in Naples.
To expect everything to click into shape anytime soon is to expect a miracle and frankly we are at the point where either the system goes or at least five or six very expensive players are allowed to leave for a fraction of their true value so that the club can recruit personnel who might – might – better execute it. At any club we know which of the two is sacrificed in this situation. At Chelsea we really know.
There is a third option of course. Sarri could compromise on his beliefs. But Sarri will absolutely and unquestionably not compromise on his beliefs. All of this leaves us with a big dead duck bobbing in the water.
So why is it then that pundits and journalists alike are queuing up at present to insist that what is needed in west London is time and patience? Give Sarri time, they state. Chelsea can’t keep chopping and changing managers.
It is a vacuous proposition with very little substance to back it up beside a much-parroted comparison to Pep Guardiola’s first season at Manchester City; an analogy that was lazy to begin with and is positively comatose now.
Granted the current title holders initially struggled to adapt to a new and complicated style of play but crucially there the players collectively bought into the ethos from the get-go. And at this stage of their baptising campaign they had ironed out the kinks, on route to losing only once more – ironically away to Chelsea, where the visitors were the better side throughout – until the season’s end.
Can anybody imagine Sarri’s Chelsea doing likewise, while blasting fives past multiple opponents as City did in the latter half of 2016/17? Seriously, does any single person reading this now consider a transformation of Chelsea’s fortunes to be even a remotely realistic scenario?
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Heading north to Goodison Park leads us to another manager who is walking the green mile. It is not working out for Marco Silva at Everton and it’s not going to work out. I know it. You know it. We all know it. The fans are dispirited and disillusioned. The football is stolid and predictable.
In the past year the 41-year-old has had his reputation widely reassessed and most of us now acknowledge that perhaps we were premature in elevating him as an elite coach. All that will play out from this point until Silva is inevitably sacked is the gradual atrophy of the Toffees’ season.
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You wouldn’t know any of this though by switching on the telly, reading a paper, or trawling half of the internet.
Give him time, say the pundits. Patience is needed, insist people on Twitter in response to anything that could be deemed critical of his ways. Everton can’t keep chopping and changing managers, is the hoary old trope. Some stability is needed.
It could be argued that stability for stability’s sake is akin to lying on a very uncomfortable bed each and every night because you’ve gone through a few beds of late. It could be argued that only stability with the right person makes sense, and if that person doesn’t even have a fighting chance of taking a club forward, then staying with them is completely and utterly counter-productive.
It could be reasoned too that sometimes in football – and I appreciate how highly contentious this suggestion is – the stars do not align and on occasion it is better for both club and manger to go their separate ways. And it really doesn’t matter if that happens six months in or six years in. Indeed it’s probably beneficial to all concerned if it’s the former.
Sadly, that perfectly logical truth now resides on the margins of discourse. Because what takes centre stage are two warring factions, one being the knee-jerkers who call for a manager’s head after a singular defeat and judge a new signing a flop a mere fortnight in. They’re loud. They’re quick to fury and quicker to condemn. They’ve reduced social media to a coliseum of juvenile boos, chorused for the slightest of slights.
And on the other side you have those who really, really don’t want to be mistaken for that lot. That’s why you have pundits espousing status quo at the Bridge. That’s why you have journalists looking down their noses at rightfully disgruntled Evertonians. By trying to distance themselves from the hysteria around them they seek out the higher ground believing that is where sense is occupied.
Plus, let’s be honest, they probably think too that it makes them sound really intelligent in comparison to the snap calls for change.
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This week I wrote for another publication on Riyad Mahrez and queried aloud why it was proving so difficult for Manchester City’s record signing to establish himself as a starter. After all, it couldn’t be about adapting to English football because the Algerian has excelled in the Premier League for several years now. Surely then he is experiencing problems integrating himself into Pep Guardiola’s intricate system.
Unlike Sarri or Silva further up this piece at no juncture did I suggest there was a best-by date on the situation. I did however point out that Mahrez has played over a thousand minutes in a sky blue shirt and still hopelessly looks like an individual within a team structure: that after countless training sessions with the world’s best coach he remains a square peg in a round hole. In short, I was saying that enough time has passed to adamantly state there is an issue that warranted discussion.
Give him time, came the angry response. He’s only been here half a season.
The knee-jerkers have a lot to answer for. A sensible time to assess and act upon decisions made has now become forever lost. It is either an instant judgement call or extreme caution due to a fear of being regarded by a stranger as an idiot. Regrettably, in the case of Sarri, Silva, Mahrez and countless other coaches and players, the answer usually lies somewhere in between.
كشف آلان إرفين، مساعد مدرب وست هام، ديفيد مويس، تفاصيل إصابة الأخير واثنين من اللاعبين بفيروس كورونا، قبل انطلاق مباراة الأمس أمام هال سيتي.
وتواجه الفريقان في دور الـ 32 من كأس رابطة الأندية الإنجليزية، حيث فاز وست هام بخمسة أهداف مقابل هدف.
وقبل المباراة، تم إعلان إصابة المدرب ديفيد مويس والثنائي عيسى ديوب وجوش كولين بفيروس كورونا، ولكن تم خوض اللقاء بشكل طبيعي.
وقال آلان إرفين، الذي قاد وست هام في تلك المباراة، في تصريحات نشرتها شبكة “فوتبول لندن” الإنجليزية: “في الساعة السادسة وعشرين دقيقة مساء أمس، حصلنا فجأة على بعض المعلومات من طبيبنا ورئيس فريقنا الطبي بشأن وجود ثلاث حالات كورونا إيجابية في الفريق، المدرب واللاعبين عيسى ديوب وكولين”.
وأضاف: “على الفور في تلك المرحلة كان التفكير منصب على فكرة أننا سنخوض مباراة في غضون ساعة وعشر دقائق فقط، لذلك كان علينا التركيز على هذا الأمر، وهو ما فعلناه، كان علينا اختيار فريق مختلف وإجراء تغيير في التشكيل، ومحادثة اللاعبين فيما حدث”.
وواصل: “كان من الأهمية بمكان أن يكون اللاعبون مستعدين نفسيًا، وأن يكونوا مستعدين لخوض المباراة وتقديم أداء جيد، وقد فعلوا ذلك بالتأكيد، لقد سررت بذلك، لم يناقشني اللاعبين في شيء ولم يبحثوا عن أي نوع من الأعذار حول ما حدث، لم يفكر في أي لاعب في مسألة تأجيل المباراة، كان الأمر إيجابي حقًا”.
واستكمل: “لم نكن نجلس بجوار ديفيد مويس، كانت غرفة الملابس كبيرة، ولكن تكن هذه مشكلة بالنسبة لأي منا، كنا في الملعب آنذاك، عادة ما نصل هناك من ساعة و45 دقيقة إلى ساعتين قبل المباراة، لقد صدمتنا الأخبار بالطبع لأننا أجرينا العديد من الاختبارات ولم يكن لدينا أي نتائج إيجابية، نحن نعلم أن الاختبارات ليست دقيقة تمامًا لذلك سننتظر ونرى ما سيحدث”.
وكان آرسنال قد واجه وست هام يوم السبت الماضي، في الجولة الثانية من الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.
وعندما سُئل عما إذا كان قد حدث تواصل مع آرسنال عقب ثبوت حالات الإصابة لتحذيرهم، أجاب: “لم أفعل ذلك، ولا أعرف ما إذا كان أي شخص آخر فعل ذلك، لقد كنا ملتزمين للغاية بشأن البروتوكول منذ بداية الوباء”.
واختتم: “يدرك فريقنا الطبي جيدًا ما يحدث، كما أن هناك لدينا مختص في هذا الشأن، وقد اتبعنا البروتوكولات المحددة طوال الوقت”.
أكد هشام عبد ربه محامي النادي الأهلي أن السويسري رينيه فايلر المدير الفني للفريق الأول استفاد كثيرًا من تواجده في الأحمر، مشيرًا إلى أن المدربين الأجانب ليس لديهم انتماء.
وقال عبد ربه في تصريحات إذاعية عبر أثير راديو مصر: “الأهلي أفاد فايلر وأضاف إليه الكثير، ولو فاز ببطولة دوري أبطال إفريقيا ستضاف قيمة كبيرة في تاريخه”.
وتابع: “المدربون الأجانب ليس لديهم انتماء، والمال هو المتحكم الوحيد في الوقت الحالي”.
ويرفض فايلر تجديد تعاقده مع الأهلي ويرغب في العودة إلي موطنه في سويسرا، ومن المقرر أن يتم حسم مصيره الخميس المقبل.
وعن قضية اللاعب البرازيلي هيندريك مع النادي الأهلي أوضح: “القضية تم إغلاقها بالتصالح وكان ذلك في شهر مايو الماضي، ووقعنا عقد اتفاق مع اللاعب بعد تفاوضنا مع محاميه”.
وتطرق للحديث عن عقد علي معلول قائلا: “عقد معلول لا يوجد به شروط جزائية، وحصل الصفاقسى على 700 ألف يورو”.
وأكمل: “وذلك بزيادة 200 ألف إضافة على الشرط الجزائي الذي كان في عقد معلول مع النادي التونسي”.
وعن قضية نادي القرن وسعي الزمالك للحصول على اللقب، قال:”الجميع يعلم أن الأهلي نادي القرن، عندما يوجد شئ رسمي سنتحدث حينها لأنه لا توجد أي قضية من الأساس”.
Tottenham Hotspur are lining up a move for FC Copenhagen midfielder Robert Skov, according to Sky Sports News.
Spurs are one of a number of Premier League clubs currently watching the 22-year-old, along with the likes of Wolves, West Ham and Watford.
What’s the word?
Skov, a Denmark Under-21 international, has enjoyed a remarkably prolific campaign in his native country thus far this season.
Playing as a right winger, he has scored 24 goals in 38 appearances in all competitions and has also laid on six assists.
That tally includes the winner in Copenhagen’s only Europa League victory this season, a 2-1 success over Bordeaux.
Sky Sports News report that Spurs are keen to recruit a versatile attacking player who can support Harry Kane from the flank, and have subsequently identified Skov as a potential target.
The 22-year-old, who is yet to make his senior debut for Denmark, has only been with his current club for a season, having cost them just under £1million last summer, per the aforementioned report.
A gamble
Spurs definitely need a right winger this summer but recruiting Skov would be a gamble.
Copenhagen are almost guaranteed to turn a tidy profit on the player, with Premier League clubs circling.
It would mark a significant show of faith, however, if Spurs were to secure a player from the Danish top-flight.
Vincent Janssen is perhaps the example. Having scored 32 goals and laid on seven assists in just 49 appearances for Dutch side AZ Alkmaar, the north London outfit identified him as the perfect man to offer support to Kane.
Instead, he has scored just six times for the club and is almost certain to leave in the summer.
Spurs had better tread carefully around Skov, then.
Celtic have been thrown into disarray following the premature departure of Brendan Rodgers, and with their next manager the hottest topic, fans will surely be relieved to hear that Alex Neil is not in the running.
Former Celtic man Chris Sutton has blown a fuse since Rodgers exit, and probably for good reason.
The Hoops were on course for their eighth domestic title when Rodgers made the hurried decision to make his way back over to the Premier League, leaving his former team well and truly in the lurch.
We do not doubt that at some point he was going to leave: commentators have been discussing the move for some time, after all.
Former Scotland forward Kris Boyd, for example, told Talksport: “There is potential to create something there with Leicester,” (via Leicester Mercury).
“Brendan likes a project there is no doubt about that – you can see what he’s done at other clubs,
“It might be the start of something again for Leicester to stay at the top end of English football.
“In terms of the size of the club, the history then it’s a step down,
“but if you ask any manager where they want to manage then it’s the English Premier League.
“I think Brendan Rodgers would want to finish the season up here and finish it on a high as Celtic manager.”
Unfortunately Boyd and the majority of us were wrong, Rodgers has left, and with that he has created a mammoth void to be filled.
David Moyes was the first nightmare Hoops fans had to overcome, with the ex-Celtic player reportedly interested in returning to the club where his footballing career began (via Express). Considering how rotten his record has become since being sacked by Manchester United, his appointment would be most unwelcome.
Current Preston North End coach Alex Neil was the next man to be briefly linked, but, according to The Scottish Sun, the former Hamilton boss has recently ruled himself out. To the relief of many, we are sure.
Interim boss Neil Lennon is surely the preference now. Lennon has been at the club before and done great things, winning three Scottish titles and two Scottish Cups. To consider anyone else during this vital point of transition would be negligent on the club’s part. They need someone who knows Celtic inside and out, and their current man is the best candidate for the job.
Every failed link with be music to the ears of fans.
Celtic fans, who do you want as your club’s next manager? Join the discussion by commenting below…
تواجد ظهير أيمن الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بنادي أياكس أمستردام، سيرجينيو ديست، صباح اليوم في العيادة الطبية لنادي برشلونة من أجل إجراء الكشف الطبي.
ووصل ديست مساء أمس، الثلاثاء، إلى المدينة الكتالونية من أجل إتمام التعاقد مع برشلونة لتكون أولى صفقات النادي في عهد المدرب، رونالد كومان. (طالع التفاصيل)
وأفادت صحيفة “ماركا” الإسبانية بأن اللاعب الشاب قد اجتاز بنجاح الفحوصات الطبية قبل الإعلان الرسمي عن الصفقة من قبل برشلونة في الساعات القليلة المقبلة.
بينما كشفت صحيفة “دي تيليجراف” الهولندية عن مدة عقد الأمريكي الدولي مع برشلونة وسيكون ٥ سنوات، حتى يونيو ٢٠٢٥.
الجدير بالذكر أن الصفقة ستكلف برشلونة ٢٠ مليون يورو بالإضافة إلى ٥ ملايين يورو كمتغيرات لصالح أياكس أمستردام تدفع بالتقسيط.
Alexandre Lacazette is eligible to play in the second leg of Arsenal’s last-16 Europa League tie against Rennes on Thursday, per Sky Sports.
UEFA have reduced the three-match ban he was handed for his red card against BATE Borisov in February to just two games.
Lacazette missed the second leg against BATE and the first leg against Rennes, which Arsenal lost 3-1 in France.
The Gunners need to record a 2-0 win, at least, to guarantee qualification for the quarter-finals of the competition.
Lacazette has been in productive form for Unai Emery’s side this season, scoring a total of 14 goals in 37 games in all competitions, while also providing 11 assists, so his availability is a massive boost for the Gunners.
He has played just four games in Europe, however, though he scored in the 1-0 win over Qarabag in December.
Nevertheless, Gunners supporters are delighted with the news that the striker will be available for selection on Thursday as Arsenal attempt to mount a stirring comeback at the Emirates Stadium.
Take a look at the best of the reaction on Twitter below!
قرر الجهاز الفني للنادي الأهلي، بقيادة بيتسو موسيماني، الدخول في معسكر مغلق، استعدادا لمواجهة إنبي في الدوري.
ومن المقرر أن يلتقي الأهلي مع إنبي، مساء بعد غد الأربعاء، ضمن منافسات الجولة 32 من عمر مسابقة الدوري المصري الممتاز.
وحدد موسيماني، غدا الثلاثاء موعد المعسكر المغلق، وذلك من أجل التركيز لمواجهة إنبي.
كما أجرى لاعبو الأهلي والجهاز الفني والإداري، تحليل رابيد تيست وفقا للبروتوكول الطبي الذي تم تعديله مؤخرا للكشف عن فيروس كورونا المستجد قبل المباريات الرسمية، وذلك قبل انطلاق المران الصباحي، اليوم الإثنين.
طالع | محسن صالح يكشف حقيقة تراجع الأهلي عن التعاقد مع بلايلي وسيرينو
وكان الأهلي قد حقق الفوز على المقاولون العرب بهدف دون مقابل، أمس الأحد، في أول مباراة تحت قيادة الجنوب إفريقي بيتسو موسيماني، المدير الفني الجديد للفريق.
يذكر أن الأهلي المتوج ببطولة الدوري هذا الموسم، في الصدارة برصيد 82 نقطة، فيما يتواجد إنبي، في المركز الخامس بـ 45 نقطة.