Football News: Review Of The Day 6th February 2022

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Review of the Day

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Contracts

Athletic Bilbao defender Dani Vivian is now contracted until 2026.

FC Dallas winger Paul Arriola has signed a new contract until 2025 with a club option for another year.

Joao Paulo has signed a new deal with MLS side Seattle Sounders which runs until 2023 and has a club option for a further year. Sounders have also given Xavier Arreage a similar deal but with a two-year option.

Real Betis midfielder Yassin Fekir has extended his contract until 2026.

Las Vegas Lights have given Danny Trejo a 1-year deal.

AC Milan's defender Matteo Gabbia has a new contract which runs until 2026.

Vancouver Whitecaps forward Brian White is now tied down until 2025.

Joseph Mora has a new 1-year contract with Charlotte.

Columbus Crew forward Erik Hurtado has a deal for the forthcoming MLS season with a 1-year club option.

Transfers

In Major League Soccer, Vancouver Whitecaps have paid £82,000 for Sebastian Berhalter from Columbus Crew.

Young goalkeeper Stefan Bajic has joined Pau FC on a free transfer from Saint-Etienne.

Eastleigh of the National League have signed Brett Pitman on loan from Bristol Rovers.

FC Lorient have sent Taofeek Ismaheel to Valerenga in Norway on loan.

Cherno More of the Bulgarian league have signed Mathias Coureur on a free transfer from Indian Super League side NorthEast United.

Olympique Lyonnais have confirmed that they are in talks with Chicago Fire over a move for former Liverpool midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri to Major League Soccer. The Swiss international was left out of Friday's squad to face AS Monaco in order to work on the deal.

Antonio Conte has warned Tottenham Hotspur that the club must pay "more attention" in the transfer market to avoid the "mistakes in the past". Conte said: "Usually you buy players to reinforce your team. But if you send on loan after two or three years it is strange. It means that maybe in the past you have to see what you did and maybe to understand that there were some mistakes in the past. We have to pay more attention in the future when we go into the market. It becomes a fundamental importance if we want to enforce the team, otherwise you drop the quality of your team." Spurs moved on 4 players in the January transfer window, but got unfortunately got stuck with Harry Winks and Eric Dier. The club's managing director of football, Fabio Paratici, has said that the club were in for top players, including Luis Diaz, who ended up joining Liverpool instead, and Adama Traore, who chose a loan move to Barcelona and a pay cut over joining Spurs.

Liverpool are retaining their interest in Fulham's Fabio Carvalho, despite a late January bid falling through on deadline day.

David Moyes has warned interested parties that Declan Rice would cost more than £100m to prise him from West Ham United.

Free agent forward Sam Baldock has signed for Oxford United.

Tope Obadeyi has returned to former club Oldham Athletic. The 32-year-old has been a free agent since June 2020.

Aramide Oteh, who was released by Salford City in January, has signed for Crawley Town.

Envigado have taken Yaser Asprilla on loan from Watford.

Injury Round-Up

Nottingham Forest's captain and top scorer Lewis Grabban has been ruled out for 2 months with an ankle problem.

Managerial Changes

West Bromwich Albion have appointed Steve Bruce as their new head coach. Bruce has been out of work since being sacked by Newcastle United's new owners in October.

Disciplinary Charges

West Ham United forward Andriy Yarmolenko has been charged with misconduct over a betting commercial for a Ukrainian betting company.

Mel Morris, the former Derby County owner whose financial doping has left the Rams in admin, has told Wycombe Wanderers and Middlesbrough to pursue their compensation claims against him personally. Morris's time in charge of Derby saw them break numerous financial rules on a repeated basis and Boro and Wycombe are now pursuing compensation claims based on losing out on the play-offs, in Middlesbrough's case, and being relegated due to Derby's cheating. The pending court action has made it difficult to sell the club to interested parties and the EFL has told Derby it cannot resort to insolvency laws to settle their debts.

Egypt Request Delay

Egypt have asked for the final of the AFCON to be delayed by a day. The Egyptian coaching staff are worried that Senegal have had an extra day's rest, while they have been forced to go to extra-time in their last three games in the tournament.

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Written by Tris Burke February 06 2022 07:08:02