Football News: Review Of The Day 18th August 2022

Image from: freelargeimages.com

Review of the Day

Become a Patron!

Contracts

Domenico Berardi has signed a 5-year contract with Sassuolo.

Young Brazilian full-back Vanderson has agreed a deal with AS Monaco which will expire in 2027.

Rangers right-back James Tavernier has extended his deal to run until 2025.

Clermont Foot have given Muhammed Cham a 4 year contract.

Transfers

West Ham United have signed German international defender Thilo Kehrer from Paris Saint-Germain for £10.8m+.

Besiktas are in talks to sign Dele Alli from Everton on loan.

Udinese have sold Destiny Udogie to Tottenham Hotspur for £16.2m and then taken the young left-back on loan.

An undisclosed fee of £16.02m has been paid by Brighton & Hove Albion for Ecuadorian former Watford left-back Pervis Estupinan from Villareal.

Manchester City youngster Liam Delap is set to join his father's former club on loan. The 19-year-old is close to a season-long loan deal with Stoke City, where his father Rory spent 7 years and now works as a coach, as he looks for first-team football.

Carlos Mandes Gomes has signed for Fleetwood Town on loan for the season from Luton Town.

Wolverhampton Wanderers have obviously listened to our summer podcasts and taken the advice given out on there as they have signed Matheus Nunes for £40.5m from Sporting Clube de Portugal. Sporting are also set of a 10% sell-on fee. The Portugese club also revealed that the agent fee for the deal could reach nearly £5m.

Sharjah FC have signed Paco Alcacer on loan from Villareal with an option to buy the Yellow Submarine's record signing.

Alberto Grassi has joined Empoli on loan from Parma.

Bologna have paid £1.53m for Nacional defender Joaquin Sosa.

Sevilla have signed Tanguy Nianzou from Bayern Munich for £14.4m.

Olympique Marseille have borrowed Issa Kabore from Manchester City.

Basel have spent £720,000 on Bradley Fink from Borussia Dortmund.

Merlin Rohl has joined Freiburg from Ingolstadt for a fee of £2.61m.

LOSC Lille have picked up teenage winger Alan Virginius from Sochaux for £3.6m.

Inter Miami of Major League Soccer have released Jairo Quinteros.

Former Birmingham City midfielder Fran Villalba has joined Malaga on loan after they paid Sporting Gijon a loan fee of £135,000.

Watford have sent their former Chelsea youngster Domingos Quina to Elche on loan.

Angers SCO have paid £1.98m for Ousmane Camara from Paris FC.

Lecce winger Francesco Di Mariano has signed for Palermo for £900,000.

FC Lorient have taken Chrislain Matsima on loan from AS Monaco.

Former Watford forward M'Baye Niang has joined AJ Auxerre on a free transfer from Girondins Bordeaux.

Levante have signed Charly Musonda on a free transfer from Chelsea.

Brighton have sent Kjell Scherpen on loan to Vitesse Arnhem.

Tariqe Fosu has joined Stoke City on loan from Brentford.

KAA Gent have signed Jens Petter Hauge on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt.

A £4.05m fee has taken Giulio Maggiore from Spezia to Salernitana.

Manchester City's ongoing quest for more full-backs has seen them splash another £11.7m, this time in RSC Anderlecht's direction for Sergio Gomez.

Napoli are paying a £3.15m loan fee for Giovanni Simeone from Hellas Verona.

Palermo are taking Leo Stulac on loan from Empoli. The deal has an obligation to buy clause if the conditions are met.

Cadiz have signed Antonio Blanco on loan from Real Madrid for the season.

Napoli have given medicals to two potential loan with a view to buy signings. Tottenham Hotspur's Tanguy Ndombele and Sassuolo's Giacomo Raspadori have both undergone tests ahead of the move.

Real Betis are still waiting to register their free signing from Lazio, Luiz Felipe. Similar to Barcelona, Betis are struggling against La Liga's wage bill restrictions and the Brazilian centre-back has been left in limbo since agreeing the move.

Abdenego Nankishi is joining Heracles Almelo on loan from Werder Bremen for the season.

Also moving to the Dutch league on loan from a Bundesliga side is goalkeeper Moritz Nicolas who has joined Roda Kerkrade until the end of the season from Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Nottingham Forest have agreed a deal to sign Morgan Gibbs-White from Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Injury Round Up

Sevilla's Mexican international Jesus 'Tecatito' Corona is set to miss out on the World Cup after picking up a serious injury in training. The 29-year-old broke his fibula and ruptured ankle ligaments, meaning a spell of four to five months on the sidelines.

Sassuolo's Turkish international defender Mert Muldur has undergone surgery to repair the ankle he fractured against Juventus. Muldur had a fractured medial malleolus in his right ankle and is likely to be out for several months.

Job Changes

MLS side San Jose Earthquakes have appointed Luchi Gonzalez as their new head coach. Gonzalez is currently working as an assistant coach with the USA national team and will join up with the Quakes after the World Cup in Qatar.

Valencia's majority owner Peter Lim has reappointed his financial advisor as club president. Layhoon Chan is a Singaporean financial advisor who oversees Peter Lim's investments and was previously an extremely unpopular club president between 2015 and 2017, before being driven out by fan protests. Joey Lim is also stepping down as executive director to be replaced by Pang Liang Ong, who is a merchant banker (that is not necessarily rhyming slang). Sean Bai and Teo Swee Wei were also removed from their positions on the board, with Bai another of the executive directors and in charge of the club's transfers. As usual Peter Lim is acting like a knob who just seems to want to annoy everyone by making changes for a laugh. Oh and his son Wee Kiat Lim has been appointed to the board as well.

Disciplinary Charges

Cristiano Ronaldo has been cautioned by Merseyside Police over the incident last season after Manchester United had played Everton. On the way off the pitch the Portugese star knocked a phone out of a young fan's hand, with the clip widely circulating on social media, while the child's mother made all sorts of claims about the damage done. The police have now confirmed that the incident has been "concluded". He will now face a separate inquiry from the FA.

Crystal Palace defender Joachim Andersen has reported hundreds of abusive messages he received on social media after he was headbutted by Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez, which saw the forward get sent off. Andersen posted a number of examples, which included death threats on his Instagram feed. I really do not understand why morons think this is a good idea.

Djibouti international striker Sabri Ali Mohamed has been banned from football for 4 years following a positive dope test. The 21-year-old plays for FC Dikhil at club level but was handed the FIFA ban after testing positive for "exogenously administered testosterone" after playing for his country against Algeria in November last year. The player admitted taking steroid injections to strengthen his body and said he was not aware of doping rules.

Another international forward to be hit with a four-year ban is El Salvador's Erick Alejandro Rivera, who tested positive for the steroid clostebol after his country lost to Canada in September 2021. The 32-year-old striker has been without a club since being released by Santa Tecla in January.

Bolton Wanderers head coach Ian Evatt has been given a 1-match touchline ban and fine of £1,000 for "using abusive, insulting and improper language".

The president of the Danish Players Association, Michael Sahl Hansen, has accused Barcelona of harrassing Martin Braithwaite: "The treatment that Braithwaite is experiencing is completely unreasonable. Something that falls somewhere between intimidation and harassment. It's shameful how Barcelona is trying to get him out of his contract. Barcelona want to kick out a player that came to rescue them. Where is their decency? Unfortunately, we can't do anything to help Martin because Barça have not broken any rule. A contract is a contract and FC Barcelona and Martin committed themselves for two more years. Martin must continue to fulfill his part of the agreement. And so must FC Barcelona. And besides, it would correspond to one of the biggest clubs in the world treat their players with greater respect." Former Netherlands international Rafael van der Vaart likened Barca's recent behaviour to that of the Mafia. At the very least it is distasteful the way they are trying to force players out or to take large pay cuts so they can spend large sums on new players. It amazes me anyone would choose to join such a club any more when they act like this. It is not like the players they are signing do not have other options, so why choose scumbags like Barca, who will try any means to get out of a legally agreed contract with you the moment it suits them?

La Liga's legal challenge to Kylian Mbappe's new Paris Saint-Germain has been thrown out by the Adminstrative Court of Paris. La Liga claimed breaches of Financial Fair Play and other contract regulations but the court found no proof of any rulebreaking existed and declined the request to have Mbappe's contract terminated.

I am not sure why it has taken so long to come to this decision but the FA have charged Manchester City over their final day pitch invasion from last season when Aston Villa keeper Robin Olsen was attacked. Two people have already been charged by police in May, yet the FA are only now putting in charges. Unreal. Chocolate watches are more use and work quicker.

Chelsea are investigating reports that Tottenham Hotspur forward Son Heung-Min was racially abused at Stamford Bridge.

Pointless List Of The Day

The Golden Boy award 'short'list has been cut from a gargantuan 80 youngsters to a mammoth 60 as someone at Tuttosport fails to understand what a shortlist actually is. Just to be confusing, they decided to remove 30 and add 10 others in as nominees instead. As you do. The list is to be cut down by 20 players each month until it reaches just 20 in October, though whether that list will have any of these players on it is anyone's guess. The way Tuttosport are running it, I would not want to bet against it being 20 of the 30 they just removed in the final version!
Jude Bellingham - Borussia Dortmund
Pedri - Barcelona
Jamal Musiala - Bayern Munich
Gavi - Barcelona
Ansu Fati - Barcelona
Eduardo Camavinga - Real Madrid
Yeremy Pino - Villareal
Nuno Mendes - Sporting Clube de Portugal/Paris Saint-Germain
Giovanni Reyna - Borussia Dortmund
Karim Adeyemi - RB Salzburg/Borussia Dortmund
Ryan Gravenberch - Ajax/Bayern Munich
Josko Gvardiol - RB Leipzig
Hugo Ekitike - Stade Reims/Paris Saint-Germain
Harvey Elliott - Liverpool
Nico Gonzalez - Barcelona/Valencia
Castello Lukeba - Olympique Lyonnais
Anthony Elanga - Manchester United
Adam Hlozek - Sparta Prague/Bayer Leverkusen
Aaron Hickey - Bologna/Brentford
Noni Madueke - PSV Eindhoven
Arnaud Kalimuendo - Racing Lens/Paris Saint-Germain/Stade Rennais
Destiny Udogie - Hellas Verona/Udinese/Tottenham Hotspur
Piero Hincapie - Bayer Leverkusen
Youssoufa Moukoko - Borussia Dortmund
Pape Matar Sarr - Metz/Tottenham Hotspur
Mohamd-Ali Cho - Angers/Real Sociedad
Yunus Musah - Valencia
Fabio Silva - Wolverhampton Wanderers/Anderlecht
Fabio Carvalho - Fulham/Liverpool
Nicola Zalewski - AS Roma
Nico Williams - Athletic Bilbao
Giorgio Scalvini - Atalanta
Benjamin Sesko - RB Salzburg
Ansgar Knauff - Eintracht Frankfurt/Borussia Dortmund
Wilfried Gnonto - Zurich
Kristjan Asllani - Empoli/Inter Milan
Brian Bobbey - Ajax
Reinier - Borussia Dortmund/Real Madrid
Eliot Matazo - AS Monaco
Francisco Conceicao - Porto/Ajax
Jan Thielmann - 1.FC Koln
Lucien Agoume - Stade Brestois/Inter Milan
Mattia Viti - Empoli/OGC Nice
Cole Palmer - Manchester City
Carney Chukwuemeka - Aston Villa/Chelsea
Ki-Jana Hoever - Wolverhampton Wanderers/PSV Eindhoven
Paulo Bernardo - Benfica
Sebastiano Esposito - Basle/Anderlecht/Inter Milan
Henrique Araujo - Benfica
Fabio Miretti - Juventus
Stipe Biuk - Hajduk Split
Alex Balde - Barcelona
Matteo Cancellieri - Hellas Verona/Lazio
Bjorn Meijer - Groningen/Club Brugge
Matias Soule - Juventus
Alejandro Garnacho - Manchester United
Mathys Tel - Stade Rennais/Bayern Munich
Karamoko Dembele - Celtic/Stade Brestois 29
Diego Moreira - Benfica
Kenan Yildiz - Bayern Munich/Juventus
Unfortunately the player who probably most deserves the award, Gvardiol, has absolutely zero chance of winning it, as defenders never win these popularity contests.

Become a Patron!

Written by Tris Burke August 18 2022 19:19:27