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Football News: Review Of The Day 3rd April 2019

Review Of The Day 3rd April 2019
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Review of the Day

 


Contracts

Young Ajax pair Dani de Wit and Noa Lang have been given new deals which run until 2021.

Tom Hateley (son of Mark and grandson of Tony) has signed a new deal with Polish Ekstaklasa side Piast Gliwice. The midfielder, who was set to be out of contract in the summer, is not contracted until 2020.

Veteran winger Chris Burke has signed a one-year extension to his Kilmarnock contract to take him through next season with the Scottish club.

 

Zizou Wants To Hold On To Varane

Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane wants to keep hold of French centre back Raphael Varane, despite the rumours of him leaving the Spanish capital club. Zidane told a press conference: "I don't want a Madrid without Varane. He's a young player (25), he's been here for eight years, he's doing fine. He didn't say anything to me. He's at the best club in the world and he knows it, he's won a lot of things. There are many things that we are talking about changing next year, but you have to respect all of the players who are here. Talking about cleaning (out the dressing room) seems disrespectful. We're going to have to make changes, but this is not the time to talk about it. The whistles are never good, but they also booed at me and you have to accept it. You have to have personality for that and to accept what people want. Regarding the future of Gareth and other players, we'll see."

 

Leeds Lose Douglas

Left-back Barry Douglas suffered an injury at the weekend against Millwall and has now been ruled out for the rest of the season. The Scottish full-back will miss out on Leeds United's final 7 games as they chase promotion back to the Premier League due to ruptured knee ligaments.

 

Derby Use Chicanery To Make Profit

Derby County have sold their ground to a company owned by their owner, Mel Morris, for £80m (the ground independently valued at £41m) to ensure the club meets FFP regulations by making a profit of £14.6m, despite spending more on wages than the club generates in turnover. According to the BBC, for every £100 brought in through turnover, £137 will be spent on wages alone! The scary thing is that what they have done is fully acceptable within the financial fair play regulations. Both the sale of the ground (for an inflated fee), which they will then have to lease back, and the obscene salary to turnover ratio. While there is no suggestion Morris has done anything for any other reason than to help the club, in the past asset strippers often started by selling a club's ground.

 

Trotters' Fixtures In Doubt

Yet another problem has been added to Bolton Wanderers' plate, as the club faces a future growing more and more perilous by the day. With staff wages still unpaid this month, players have gone on strike. The club is due in the High Court tomorrow over an unpaid tax bill and faces potential administration. Now their fixtures are in doubt after they were issued with an order preventing fans entering the ground by the area's Safety Advisory Group (SAG). Bolton have told the SAG that they will be unable to meet the obligations required by their safety certificate until after tomorrow's court appearance. There is a serious possibility that games may have to be played behind closed doors to allow the club to fulfil its Championship fixtures.

 

Popescu Wants Permanent Saints Stay

On-loan Romanian defender Mihai Popescu wants to make his loan move from Dinamo Bucharest to St Mirren a permanent move. Popescu said: "I want to stay here longer, but they will decide if my performance here is good or not. I have spoken with the coach [Oran Kearney] and I told him that I like it here. I like the atmosphere, the football here, I like everything, so I want to keep going here at St Mirren."

 

Dean Finally Reaches 100 Mark

After 3 long months of speculation over who would be Mike Dean's 100th red card victim, the answer was finally provided last night as Manchester United winger Ashley Young (playing at centre-back for some strange reason while a centre-back sat on the bench) saw red after his second yellow card offence against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Dean has now shown 100 yellow cards and 10 red cards this season, as well as 100 reds in total. Sadly he did not even mark the moment with a celebration, though I am sure he was dying to shout, "Get In!!" as he brandished the card. No one else has shown anything like as many reds in the Premier League, with Phil Dowd second with just 67 total reds, Mike Riley (now busy choosing the worst possible ref for each fixture) on 66 and Graham Poll with 63. Next on the list is still refereeing in the Premier League and is Martin Atkinson with 58. In case you were wondering, Nolberto Solano, then of Newcastle United, was the first recipient of a Dean red card flourish for the cameras.

 

Bond Gets Shrimpers Role

The name's Bond, Kevin Bond, at Southend United, as Harry Redknapp's former assistant has taken charge of Southend United until the end of the season. Southend recently sacked former England full-back Chris Powell and sit just above the relegation places on goal difference in League One.

 

Kent Facing Ban

Rangers' on-loan Liverpool winger Ryan Kent is facing a two-game ban for lashing out at Celtic midfielder Scott Brown in the weekend's fiery Old Firm derby. Rangers have to decide whether to contest the ban, which seems unlikely as it was as clear as day that Kent threw out his arm towards Brown and the youngster was lucky that the ref did not spot it at the time.

 

Gift Leads To Resignation Of President

The hugely unpopular president of the German FA, Reinhard Grindel, has resigned after it was revealed he accepted an expensive watch as a gift from Ukrainian businessman and UEFA vice-president Grigoriy Surkis. Grindel said: "The price of the watch was 6,000 euros (£5,152). I did not know the brand or its value at the time. I apologise for my less-than-exemplary action of accepting the watch. Mr Surkis had no financial interest in the DFB. He never asked me for any support, then or after. It was clear at the time that he would not run again for Uefa's Exco, to which he no longer belongs." Grindel was already under fire with many of his changes being unpopular, especially the introduction of Monday night games in the Bundesliga, and revelations from investigative journal Der Spiegel that he has been recieving an income of 78,000 euros from a German FA subsidiary that had not been made public.

 

VAR To Be Shown On Big Screens

Wembley are to show VAR replays on the big screens if a decision is overturned during the FA Cup semi-finals. The decision comes in an attempt to make it clear for fans inside the ground why a referee's call has been overruled.

 

Kean Suffers More Racist Abuse

Juventus forward Moise Kean found "the best way to respond to racism" as he scored during Juve's win over Cagliari while being racially abused by the Cagliari fans. Bizarrely, his manager Massimiliano Allegri and team-mate Leonardo Bonucci have criticised Kean for his celebration after the goal, when he did nothing provocative, just raised his arms aloft. Allegri said: "He shouldn't have celebrated in that manner. He is a young man and he has to learn, but certain things from the crowd also shouldn't be heard." Bonucci also said: "You celebrate goals with your team-mates. He could have done it differently. I think the blame is 50-50. Moise should not have done that and the Curva [fans] should not have reacted in that way." Allegri and Bonucci seeming to suggest that the increased racially abusive chants were the fault of Kean for celebrating his goal after being racially abused! No wonder racial abuse goes on if that is the reaction from white team-mates to it. At least Blaise Matuidi stood up for Kean and protested to the referee, threatening to walk off the pitch due to the disgusting abuse that the teenager was receiving. Play was stopped after Kean's goal in the 85th minute for 3 minutes and a warning was broadcast to the crowd, but, as usual, nothing more was said. Cagliari president Tommaso Giulini had the cheek to blame Kean's celebration for causing the abuse saying: "I heard mostly boos, if they started making animal noises then we were in the wrong. What happened at the end was because of a celebration which was wrong and it would have happened with any other player." This is not the first time players have suffered racist abuse in Cagliari's stadium, just last year Matuidi complained about it in the equivalent fixture that season.

Written by Tris Burke April 03 2019 06:04:46

 

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