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Football News: Review Of The Day 24th July 2022

Review Of The Day 24th July 2022
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Review of the Day

 

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Contracts

Former Tottenham Hotspur youngster Jubril Okedina has signed a new 3-year deal with Cambridge United.

AFC Wimbledon forward Zach Robinson has extended his contract until 2024.

Ricky Aguiar has signed a contract extension with Swindon Town which will keep him at the club until 2025.

Mansfield Town's experienced defneder Stephen McLaughlin has signed a new two-year contract.

 


Transfers

West Ham United have agreed a fee with Sassuolo for Gianluca Scamacca.

Dwight Gayle has joined Stoke City from Newcastle United on a free transfer. The Potters have also signed Will Smallbone on loan from Southampton.

Besiktas have confirmed that they are negotiating a deal to sell Turkey left-back Ridvan Yilmaz to Rangers.

Australian international defender Ryan McGowan has returned to Scottish football by signing for St Johnstone on a free transfer from Kuwait SC.

After their loan signing from Middlesbrough, Zach Hemming, picked up an injury that is expected to be long term, Kilmarnock have completed the free transfer signing of Aberdeen goalkeeper Gary Woods on a free transfer.

Aberdeen manager Jim Goodwin has confirmed the Dons have interest in signing Fleetwood Town winger Shayden Morris and Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Connor Ronan.

Middlesbrough have loaned experienced former Tottenham Hotspur defender Grant Hall to Rotherham United for the season.

Hull City have completed the signing of Ghana international forward Benjamin Tetteh on a free transfer from Yeni Malatyaspor.

Burnley have paid an undisclosed fee of £2.65m to Manchester City for Kosovan goalkeeper Arijanet Muric.

Brighton & Hove Albion midfielder Taylor Richards has signed for Queens Park Rangers on a season-long loan deal with a view to a permanent move. The 21-year-old, who arrived at BHA from Manchester City's academy, was a boyhood QPR fan.

Norwich City have loaned winger Christos Tzolis to FC Twente for the season.

Chelsea midfielder Tino Anjorin has returned to Huddersfield Town on loan for the season.

Cheltenham Town have signed four in one day. Ryan Jackson arrives on a free from Gillingham, while three are loanees; Luke Southwood from Reading, Caleb Taylor from West Bromwich Albion and James Taylor from Bristol City. Would that make them the James Taylor Quartet??

Oxford United have paid an undisclosed fee for Yanic Wilschut from CSKA Sofia.

Chelsea youngster Henry Lawrence has joined MK Dons on loan for the season.

Former Liverpool youngster Shamal George has joined Livingston for an undisclosed fee from Colchester United.

Following a successful trial Kyle Hurst has signed for Doncaster Rovers on a free transfer from Birmingham City. Also joining Rovers is free agent veteran midfielder Lee Tomlin, the only footballer that ever made Jan Molby look lithe.

Hartlepool United have signed Mikael Ndjoli from Virginia Beach FC.

Salford City have paid an undisclosed fee to AS Nancy to sign Elliot Simoes.

Brentford winger Lachlan Brook has signed for Crewe Alexandra on a 6-month loan deal.

Brandon Mason has signed for Crawley Town on a free transfer from MK Dons.

Former Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff City winger Kadeem Harris has moved to Samsunspor on a free transfer from Metalist Kharkiv.

Major League Soccer side Austin FC have released Paraguayan winger Cecilio Dominguez.

Olympique Lyonnais have paid £3.78m to sign Nicolas Tagliafico from Ajax.

1.FSV Mainz 05 have sent Ronael Pierre-Gabriel to Racing Strasbourg on loan.

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim have shockingly spent £4.5m on the utterly dreadful former Liverpool loanee Ozan Kabak from Schalke 04. Possibly the worst defender I have ever seen play in the English Premier League, which takes some doing in a league which has featured Grant Hanley and Harry Maguire.

Pierre Lees-Melou has joined Stade Brestois for a fee of £2.07m from Norwich City.

Cremonese have taken Santiago Ascacibar on loan from Hertha Berlin.

Moving across the MLS, from the USA to Canada, is Doneil Henry, who has signed for Toronto on a free transfer from Los Angeles FC.

Ronaldo has moved to Serie C - A side LR Vicenza. The Ronaldo in question is a 32-year-old Brazilian who has moved from fellow Serie C - A team Padova.

Former Liverpool defender Tiago Ilori has signed for Pacos Ferreira on loan from Sporting Clube de Portugal.

James Lea Siliki has moved to Portugese side Estoril Praia on a free transfer from Stade Rennais.

Porto have paid £9.18m for Brazilian teenager Gabriel Veron from Palmeiras.

Lazio have sold Vedat Muriqi to RCD Mallorca for £6.75m.

Stade Reims have sold goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic to RCD Mallorca for £1.8m.

Fiorentina have paid £13.05m to Shakhtar Donetsk for Brazilian full-back Dodo.

Arsenal have completed the signing of versatile Ukrainian international Oleksandr Zinchenko from Manchester City for £31.5m.

Eibar have signed Jon Bautista on a free transfer from Real Sociedad and taken Alvaro Vadilla on loan from Espanyol.

Inter Milan have loaned young full-back Tibo Persyn to FC Eindhoven.

Former Arsenal youngster James Lawrence has moved to 1.FC Nuremberg on a free transfer from St Pauli.

Barcelona are paying a £450,000 loan fee for their B team to take Roberto Fernandez on loan from Malaga.

Andorra have signed Jandro Orellana from Barcelona on a free transfer.

Feyenoord have paid a £1.8m loan fee to Dynamo Moscow for Sebastian Szymanski.

PSV Eindhoven have taken teenage Brazilian winger Savio on loan from Troyes.

Norrkoping have signed Andri Gudjohnsen from Real Madrid.

VfB Stuttgart have sent Mohamed Sankoh to Vitesse Arnhem on loan. Also heading out on loan from the German Bundesliga club is Roberto Massimo, who has joined Academico Viseu.

Vicenza have paid £405,000 to sign Franco Ferrari from Napoli.

Gaetan Robail has moved to Atromitos Athen from Racing Lens on a free transfer.

Hellas Verona have signed Alessandro Cortinovis on loan from Atalanta.

Cremonese have paid £3.42m to sign Charles Pickel from Famalicao.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has suggested they will be keeping Frenkie De Jong at the club, despite interest from Manchester United and a need to raise funds: "Frenkie de Jong is our player, we really like him. We received some offers for Frenkie but we didn't accept as of now, as we want to talk with him and know exactly what he wants. We need to clarify some aspects of his situation."

Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has revealed that a move to Barca was never an option for Kalidou Koulibaly before joining Chelsea, despite the rumours: "I let Koulibaly go because he asked me to. Barcelona had come in, but they didn't have the money because they are in debt. Then Chelsea came forward and we couldn't say no to someone like Koulibaly, despite the fact I tried in every possible way to keep him, offering €6m per season net. But if a player wants a new experience at a prestigious club, in the biggest league in the world, you have to recognise what he's given you and not put up walls." De Laurentiis was not so happy about former Arsenal goalkeeper David Ospina's move away from Napoli to join Al-Nassr: "The Napoli jersey has to be considered the same as your skin. Instead there are those who talk about getting a raise, despite already being privileged, and then go into a totally unknown league just for pure, hard cash then it's upsetting because they showed a lack of attachment to the club."

 


Injury Round Up

New Leeds United signing Luis Sinisterra has picked up a hamstring injury in pre-season, but the club are hopeful it is not a long term issue and he should be back playing soon.

Arsenal expect Takehiro Tomiyasu to return to full training this week but Mikel Arteta revealed that new signing Fabio Vieira is still a bit away from beginning full training. Kieran Tierney is, unsurprisingly, still not fit.



Job Changes

Former Manchester United player and cult hero John O'Shea has joined Stoke City as a first-team coach.

The PGMOL have promoted four new match officials to the Premier League ranks. Tom Bramall is a new referee, while Natalie Aspinall, Nick Greenhalgh and Steve Meredith are joining Select Group 1 as assistant referees. They have also announced the new roles for a trio of referees that retired (thankfully) at the end of last season. Mike Dean, like Lee Mason, will become a dedicated VAR (video assistant referee). Kevin Friend is the manager of the Select Group 2 officials, while Jon Moss will manage Select Group 1, with Martin Atkinson working as the referee coach of Select Group 1. Even when the useless gimps retire we are not rid of them! Instead they are put into positions to damage the whole future of refereeing in the English game and ensure it continues to deteriorate. It does beggar belief.

 


Disciplinary Charges

Cameroon's Football Federation (Fecafoot) has been ordered to pay their former national team head coach Toni Conceicao $1.63m in compensation after sacking him on the orders of the country's president. Portugese coach Conceicao had led Cameroon to third place in the AFCON and into the World Cup play-offs when the president ordered he be replaced by former Liverpool defender Rigobert Song. He is the 4th European coach to have had a public dispute with Fecafoot over money, including Winfried Schafer, who had led the nation to win AFCON in 2002 and then the final of the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup. A FIFA tribunal decided Fecafoot had breached their contract with Conceicao without just cause and had to compensate him for that and pay his outstanding salary and bonuses.

Reports in Spain are claiming that Barcelona's sale of 15% more of their La Liga TV rights will not be enough to enable them to register all their new signings after all. That is why they are still considering selling as much as 49% of BLM, their production company also known as Barca Studios, and players such as Frenkie De Jong may be forced out.

 


Spurs And Bayern Battle Over Kane

Tottenham Hotspur's head coach Antonio Conte has taken exception to comments made by his opposite number at Bayern Munich Julian Nagelsmann regarding Spurs striker Harry Kane. Nagelsmann said of the England international: "[Kane] would score a lot of goals in the Bundesliga. But I don't know the price. It is difficult at the moment." Kane was unsettled last summer by the attempts of Manchester City to sign him but eventually agreed a new contract which runs until 2024. Conte is upset by Bayern's public interest in Kane, which he clearly feels is an attempt to unsettle his star man once more: "I'd never speak about players of other teams. I don't know why Nagelsmann did that - I think it's maybe bit disrespectful. The situation is very clear for Harry here at Tottenham: Kane's important part of our project."

 


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Written by Tris Burke July 24 2022 14:01:01

 

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