Football News: Review Of The Day 9th February 2022

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Review of the Day

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Contracts

Bayern Munich have given teenage forward Yusuf Kabadayi a new deal which runs until 2024.

Transfers

Former Birmingham City and Middlesbrough right-back Emilio Nsue has signed for Bosnian side FK Tuzla City.

Veteran free agent forward Sebastian Giovinco has signed for Sampdoria.

DC United have taken Michael Estrada on loan from Toluca.

Bournemouth have sent defender Zeno Rossi to Dundee on loan. The deal was held up by a technical hitch on deadline day but FIFA have allowed it to be completed.

Morecambe have released veteran goalkeeper Kyle Letheren.

Injury Round-Up

Rangers' midfielder Ryan Jack's ankle injury is not serious according to the club's manager Giovanni van Bronckhorst.

Gillingham will be without forward Danny Lloyd for the rest of the season after he suffered a cruciate and medial ligament injury. The 30-year-old is expected to be out for 9 months.

Leyton Orient defender Dan Happe needs knee surgery after suffering a dislocated right knee.

Managerial Changes

Blackpool have appointed Iain Brunskill as assistant head coach. He was previously Norwich City's senior development coach.

Walsall have sacked their head coach Matt Taylor after losing 7 successive games in League Two. The Sadlers are sat 21st in the table.

Disciplinary Charges

Following the videos on social media of West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma kicking and slapping one of his pet cats, the RSPCA has stepped in and taken his cats away from him. The Hammers fined him 2 weeks wages, the maximum allowable, but manager David Moyes still chose to play him against Watford, to a chorus of boos from both sets of fans.

Derby County manager Wayne Rooney's recent comments that he changed his studs to "long metal ones" while playing for Manchester United against Chelsea in 2006 because he "wanted to try and hurt someone" have led the FA to contact him. United lost 3-0 and John Terry left the stadium on crutches after Rooney left a hole in his foot with those studs. Rooney said in an interview: "We knew if Chelsea won then they had won the league that day. Until my last game for Derby, I always wore the old plastic studs with the metal tip. For that game I changed them to big, long metal ones - the maximum length you could have because I wanted to try and hurt someone, try and injure someone. I knew they were going to win that game. You could feel they were a better team at the time so I changed my studs. The studs were legal but thinking if there's a challenge there I knew I'd want to go in for it properly, basically. I did actually. John Terry left the stadium on crutches. I left a hole in his foot and then I signed my shirt to him after the game... and a few weeks later I sent it to him and asked for my stud back. If you look back when they were celebrating, JT's got his crutches from that tackle."

Ziyech Quits Internationals

Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech has announced that he has quit international football for good. The 28-year-old has been dropped from the Morocco squad by the head coach, Vahid Halilhodzic, since June, not even making the cut for the Africa Cup of Nations. Ziyech said: "I will not return to the national team, and this is my final decision. I am focussing on what I am doing with my club. Everyone has seen what happened in the last period. I am sad but this is my final decision. The coach of the national team made his decision, and in any case I respect it. My focus now, as I said, is only on Chelsea."

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Written by Tris Burke February 09 2022 16:58:52