Football News: Review Of The Day 9th July 2022

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Review of the Day

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Contracts

Liverpool's England international defender Joe Gomez has signed a new 5-year deal.

Rayo Vallecano have given Ivan Balliu a deal which expires in 2025.

Former Hull City winger Kamil Grosicki has signed a 2-year contract with option for a further year with Pogo Szczecin.

VfL Bochum have tied Cristian Gamboa down until 2024.

Veteran Scottish forward Brian Graham has signed a 2-year contract with Partick Thistle.

Veteran defenders Curtis Davies and Richard Stearman have agreed new 1-year deals with the League One side.

Elche have signed up Omar Mascarell until 2025.

Cagliari have given Leonardo Pavoletti a 2-year deal.

Veteran defender Adil Rami has signed a 1-year contract with Troyes.

Sampdoria's young midfielder Leonardo Benedetti has agreed to stay until 2026.

Transfers

Barcelona have finally made an offer for Bayern Munich's wantaway striker Robert Lewandowski. Barca president Joan Laporta has said that he is waiting for a "positive response" from Bayern.

West Ham United have signed Hammers fan Flynn Downes from Swansea City for a fee of just under £10m.

Nottingham Forest have agreed a fee for Liverpool full-back Neco Williams.

Croatian international striker Antonio Colak has signed for Rangers from PAOK for an undisclosed fee of £1.89m. Rangers' head coach has hinted that he will be losing Nigerian international midfielder Joe Aribo to the English Premier League.

Dundee United have signed veteran forward Steven Fletcher on a free from Stoke City and sealed the permanent arrival of former loanee Dylan Levitt from Manchester United.

Sheffield Wednesday have signed Reece James on a season-long loan deal from Blackpool.

Danny Mandroiu has signed for Lincoln City after they paid an undisclosed fee to Shamrock Rovers.

Salernitana have signed Erik Botheim on a free transfer from Krasnodar.

Manchester United youngster Martin Svidersky has joined Almeria on a free transfer.

Vizela have signed Diego Rosa on loan from Manchester City.

Major League Soccer's Red Bull franchise New York Red Bulls have released David Jensen.

Konyaspor have signed Francisco Calvo from MLS side San Jose Earthquakes.

Jeremy Gelin has dropped down from Ligue 1 to Ligue 2 as he makes a free transfer to Amiens from Stade Rennais.

Monza have paid £1.35m for Pisa full-back Samuele Birindelli.

Real Vallodolid have picked up Sergio Asenjo on a free transfer from Villareal.

Rayo Vallecano have sent young defender Jorge Moreno to Cordoba on loan.

Lecce have signed Lorenzo Colombo on loan from fellow Serie A side AC Milan.

Burgos have signed Juan Artola on loan from Athletic Bilbao.

Inter Miami have paid £123,000 for Alejandro Pozuelo from fellow MLS side Toronto.

Atalanta have loaned Simone Mazzocchi to Sudtirol.

Marc Cardona has moved to Las Palmas from Osasuna.

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina has joined Villareal following his release from Lazio.

Ajax have paid £28.13m to sign Steven Bergwijn from Tottenham Hotspur.

Tottenham Hotspur have signed Clement Lenglet on a season-long loan deal from Barcelona. It seems a bizarre choice to me, he looked slow, clumsy and nowhere near good enough whenever I saw him, but if anyone can make a defender out of him it will be Antonio Conte.

Former Manchester United winger Angel di Maria has joined Juventus on a free transfer from Paris Saint-Germain.

Rangers have signed Wales international midfielder/winger from Derby County on a free transfer.

Hull City have picked up Jean Michael Seri on a free transfer from Fulham.

Joe Allen has returned to Swansea City on a free transfer from Stoke City.

Cheltenham Town have signed Torquay United's player of the season Shaun MacDonald on a free transfer.

Jake Taylor has moved to Morecambe from Port Vale.

Brighton & Hove Albion goalkeeper Carl Rushworth has joined Lincoln City on a season-long loan deal.

Birmingham City have sent forward Josh Andrews to Doncaster Rovers on loan until January.

The first Indonesian to play in the English Football League, teenage defender Elkan Baggott, has signed for Gillingham on loan for the season.

Another player moving on loan for a season is Wolverhampton Wanderers defender Lewis Richards, who has joined Harrogate Town for the 2022-23 season.

Former West Bromwich Albion and PSG midfielder Grzegorz Krychowiak has joined Al-Shabab in the Saudi Professional League on loan from Krasnodar of the Russian Premier Liga.

In Major League Soccer Toronto have signed Mark-Anthony Kaye from the Colorado Rapids. Rapids have gained Ralph Priso-Mbongue, Toronto's number one SuperDraft pick and $350,000 in General Allocation Money (GAM) in 2022, $425,000 in 2023 GAM and up to $275,000 in GAM in either 2023 or 2024 depending on the Mbongue's roster status in 2023.

Edoardo Iannoni has joined Perugia on loan from Salernitana.

Sevilla have paid £10.8m for Brazilian centre-back Marcao from Galatasaray.

Fiorentina have completed the free transfer of Luka Jovic from Real Madrid.

Espanyol have taken Vinicius Souza on loan from Lommel SK.

Sergio Santos have moved across the MLS from Philadelphia Union to FC Cincinnati for a fee of £757,000 + a sell-on clause.

Cremonese have signed Vlad Chiriches and Leonardo Sernicola from Sassuolo.

Everton have sent their young Portugese keeper Joao Virginia to SC Cambuur on loan.

SD Huesca have signed Jeremy Blasco on a free transfer from Alcorcon.

Jairo Izquierdo has signed for Cartagena on a free transfer from Girona.

Celta de Vigo have paid £1.8m to sign Luca de la Torre from Heracles Almelo. Celta have also signed Oscar Rodriguez on loan from Sevilla.

Freiburg have picked up Michael Gregoritsch on a free from Augsburg. Moving the other way, also on a free, is Ermedin Demirovic.

Hellas Verona have sold Nicolo Casale to Lazio for £6.3m.

VfB Stuttgart have paid £2.16m for Juan Jose Pera from PAS Giannina of the Greek Super League 1.

Moving to the Greek Super League 1 is Moses Adubajo on a free transfer from QPR to sign for Aris Salonika.

Brazilian winger Samuel Lino has joined Atletico Madrid for £5.85m from Gil Vicente.

AC Milan have sold Leo Duarte to Baseksehir for £1.8m.

Cremonese have added Inter Milan goalkeeper Ionut Radu to their ranks on loan.

Former Manchester United winger Nani has been released by Serie B's Venezia.

Brighton chairman Tony Bloom has revealed there have been no bids for their star left-sided player Marc Cucurella, but admits they have to be "realistic" with offers for their players. Spanish full-back Cucurella is their players' player of the season and fans' player of the season.

Brentford have completed the signing of Aaron Hickey from Bologna for an undisclosed fee.

Former Rangers defender Kirk Broadfoot has signed for Lowland League side Open Goal Broomhill FC on a free transfer from Inverness Caledonian Thistle. The egg-stravagant signing for a team that plays against Rangers B team is a bit of a publicity stunt by the team backed by the Open Goal podcast.

Injury Round Up

Cristiano Ronaldo is missing the first part of Manchester United's pre-season tour for "family reasons".

Former Arsenal physio table occupant Jack 'Wheelchair' Wilshere has retired about 5 years after everyone else believed he had done so. How on earth did he manage to win 34 England caps? It is not just that he was such an average overrated player, but shocking to think he managed to stay fit for that many games!

Speaking of injury prone players, Kieran 'Biscuit Hips' Tierney was taken off early against Nurnberg in a pre-season friendly, sparking fears of yet another injury. Head coach Mikel Arteta has revealed that it was a planned substitution, with Tierney only being fit enough to manage 30 minutes at this stage of preparations.

Rangers boss Giovanni van Bronckhorst has revealed that he does not expect to have Ianis Hagi available to him until after the World Cup break.



Job Changes

Huddersfield Town head coach Carlos Corberan and his assistant Jorge Alarcon have quit the club. The Terriers finished 3rd last season under Corberan but lost out on promotion in the play-off final to Nottingham Forest. Danny Schofield has stepped up from the coaching staff to take charge of the first team.

Burnley head coach Vincent Kompany has brought in his former Manchester City team-mate Craig Bellamy as his assistant. Bellamy also worked with Kompany at Anderlecht and is joined by Jelle ten Rouwelaar, Bram Geers, Floribert Ngalula and Richard Bredice as the first-team coaching group. Ten Rouwelaar is the new goalkeeping coach, while Bredice is the lead first team performance analyst and set-piece coach. All the new guys have worked with Kompany before at Anderlecht.

Disciplinary Charges

Premier League clubs have delayed their decision on a voluntary ban on gambling sponsorships after the threat of government action, in the form of a blanket ban, receded due to the resignation of gambling minister Chris Philp.

Somehow former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his former vice-president Michel Platini have both been cleared following their fraud trial. In essence, the word of two corrupt men has been accepted as proof they are not corrupt. Unbelievable.

Falkirk are taking legal action after one of their major sponsors, Clarke ePOS UK Ltd failed to pay despite having a season's worth of advertising. Livingston, Partick Thistle and St Mirren are also victims of Hugh Clarke's welching on sponsorship deals.

Atletico Madrid fan Daniel Del Saz Garcia has been fined for making monkey gestures towards Asian Manchester United fans at Old Trafford during a Champions League match against Manchester United on 15th March. He admitted the charge and was fined £325.

Rowett Hits Out At Rangers Signing

Millwall manager Gary Rowett has hit out at Zak Lovelace, after the London club's 16-year-old chose to join Rangers academy set-up, rather than be in the Lions' first team squad. Rowett said: "People make decisions for reasons only they know. My opinion is that if you're at a Championship club that value you so highly that they are prepared to put you on the bench - because they trust you, think you're a good player and work on a plan to get you into the first-team this very season - it seems strange you take what looks a backward step for the next 18 months to two years. Rangers are a massive club. It's not for me to judge why someone wants to join a club. I am disappointed with that one. I don't have any grudges. It's a disappointing system where you can work so hard with a player in the academy for so many years - put so much time and effort in - and it's far easier to take a player from an English club to Scotland, and vice versa. Probably that needs to be looked at so the rules apply the same whether you are a Premier League club or an SPL club. Otherwise big clubs from each division are going to be pinching kids from cross border all the time. I don't blame Rangers for doing that, or any other of the English clubs because they are seizing the opportunity. I don't think it is healthy for academies, that's what I would say."

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Written by Tris Burke July 09 2022 12:57:07