Football News: Review Of The Day 25th March 2022

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Review of the Day

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Contracts

1.FC Koln have given Austrian winger Florian Kainz a new contract which will expire in 2024.

Sampdoria goalkeeper Wladimiro Falcone has signed up until 2025.

Veteran Mexican midfielder Andres Guardado has extended his deal with Real Betis by a year to run until the end of next season.

Anthony Forde has signed a new deal with Oxford United which will end in 2023.

Experienced goalkeeper James Belshaw has a new contract with Bristol Rovers, tying him to the club until 2024.

Transfers

Chris Durkin has returned to Major League Soccer franchise DC United, where he was an academy graduate, from Belgian club Sint-Truidense for around $700,000, plus an an $325,000 in General Allocation Money to Houston Dynamo, who owned the player's rights in MLS.

Georgian winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has become the latest player to use the special transfer window for foreign players in the Russian league to exit. The 21-year-old has signed for Georgian side Dinamo Batumi on loan from Rubin Kazan, where he is valued by Transfermarkt as worth more than double the rest of their entire squad!

Also leaving Rubin Kazan is defender Filip Uremovic, who has joined Sheffield United on loan.

Free agent defender Terell Thomas has signed for Reading on a free transfer.

Injury Round Up

Exeter City midfielder Kyle Taylor has suffered a ruptured cruciate knee ligament, damaged his cartilage on both side, damaged his medial ligament and damaged the bone. It is unlikely the 22-year-old will play again in 2022 as he will require a number of operations to repair the damage done against Oldham Athletic.

Managerial Changes

Disciplinary Charges

West Ham United have donated the fine Kurt Zouma paid following the video of him kicking and slapping one of his pet cats to animal welfare charities. The fine of two weeks wages, believed to amount to around £250,000, was split between nine different charities.

Former Arsenal midfielder Mesut Oezil and Ozan Tufan have been excluded from the Fenerbahce squad. No reason or period of time for the exclusion was given.

Ukraine Invasion

Wait Ages For One And A Hundred Come Along At Once

The Football Association has announced that they are providing 100 free buses to get Manchester City and Liverpool fans to Wembley for their FA Cup semi-final clash. The game has been scheduled for the London stadium, despite the FA knowing that there are no trains running on that weekend from either Manchester or Liverpool to London. There has been pressure applied from both fanbases to change the game to somewhere closer to the north-west region to aid the fans, but the FA have refused to accept the loss of revenue that would come from playing it away from Wembley.

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Written by Tris Burke March 25 2022 21:53:51