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Report: Leeds consider Rangers boss as top contender to replace Bielsa
Report: Leeds consider Rangers boss as top contender to replace Bielsa – originally posted on Sportslens.com Rangers boss Steven Gerrard has emerged as a prime contender to replace Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds United, according to reports from Football Insider. If you’ve seen the Leeds United documentary ‘Take Us Home’ on Amazon Prime, you will have a fair idea of what Bielsa’s appointment has meant for the club, the fans and the city. Leeds fans feared the worst about whether Bielsa would commit his future at the club after losing in the play-offs (against Derby County) and failing to secure promotion in 2019. In the end, Bielsa decided to stay and next year guided the club to the Premier League for the first time in 16 years. Bielsa has signed a one-year contrac...
Eriksen could be the missing link in Arteta’s Arsenal puzzle
Eriksen could be the missing link in Arteta's Arsenal puzzle – originally posted on Sportslens.com According to Corriere dello Sport, Arsenal have been linked with a move for the Inter Milan midfielder Christian Eriksen. The Danish international joined Inter from Tottenham Hotspur in January this year and it would be fair to say that the move has not worked out for the player or the club so far. Eriksen has started just 11 games in the league for Inter and he seems to have fallen out of favour with manager Antonio Conte. As per CdS, the Serie A giants are prepared to cut their losses and are plotting a swap deal involving Granit Xhaka. Although this seems to be an unrealistic proposition, Eriksen’s move to North London could be ideal for all parties involved. The 28-year-o...
Video: Man City’s £20m bargain signing scores hat-trick vs Germany
Video: Man City's £20m bargain signing scores hat-trick vs Germany – originally posted on Sportslens.com Manchester City winger Ferran Torres scored his first career hat-trick as Spain thrashed Germany 6-0 to reach the Nations League finals on Tuesday night. Former Chelsea forward Alvaro Morata scored the first goal for Spain, while Torres’ club teammates Rodri and Mikel Oyarzabal scored the other goals to inflict a heavy defeat for Germany. However, the night belongs to the former Valencia winger Torres, who has once again reminded everyone what a special talent he is. Here’s his first goal (Twitter – @RankSquad) Ferran Torres with a beautiful finish on the half-volley for Spain’s second. Germany at sixes and sevens but this front three of Morata, Ferran and D...
Report: Liverpool hit by another injury scare ahead of PL clash v Leicester
Report: Liverpool hit by another injury scare ahead of PL clash v Leicester – originally posted on Sportslens.com Liverpool youngster Rhys Williams was sent back to the club from the England U21s with a minor ‘hip problem’, as the Reds’ injury woes further deepen. The youngster was left out of England’s Under 21 squad against Albania, a game the U21s won 5-0 on Tuesday night, with manager Aidy Boothroyd deciding to send him back to Liverpool for the best interest of the player. “He had a very minor stiff hip,’ Boothroyd said, as quoted by the Daily Mail. “It was in his best interests to get him back to Liverpool. Rhys wasn’t actually on the bench (anyway) so I thought the best thing was to get him back to Liverpool.” Liverpool’s i...
Report: Liverpool looking to sign key midfielder to new deal
Report: Liverpool looking to sign key midfielder to new deal – originally posted on Sportslens.com Liverpool midfielder Gini Wijnaldum will be a free agent at the end of this season and the Dutch international will be allowed to discuss a pre-contract agreement with foreign clubs when the transfer window re-opens in January. As per Calciomercato (h/t Mirror), the Premier League champions have now made their move to keep the 30-year-old midfielder at the club. Liverpool have offered him a pay raise and a three-year extension. Wijnaldum currently earns £75,000 per week at Anfield and the new deal will take his wages up to £115,000 per week. The Reds are hoping that the pay hike will tempt the midfielder to commit his future to the club. Gini Wijnaldum is thought to be keen on a four-ye...
Football Manager 2021 Wonderkids – a bargain (future) starting XI
Football Manager 2021 Wonderkids – a bargain (future) starting XI – originally posted on Sportslens.com Marquee signings and star players are the hallmark of any top club in Football Manager, but you can’t spend £90 million on every player. However, most top clubs (and many mid-level clubs, thanks to creative player sales) are able to spend £100m or so in a summer transfer window (especially in the Premier League), so we dug into the best FM 2021 Wonderkids list from FM Stories and put together a playing XI that costs just £90m. Quite often, wonderkids in FM will cost less than the so-called stars; Chelsea’s Mendy over Kepa is one example. Cheap prospects can also be flipped for a profit which is quite handy for lower-level clubs looking to climb up the ladder, which is why we ...
Southampton FC’s crest for a new era
Southampton FC’s crest for a new era – originally posted on Sportslens.com There are football clubs, all around the world, who have strived to make their crest’s simpler, limiting it to 2 or 3 colours at the most. Think Juventus’ clean black and white, or Manchester United’s bright red and yellow, or how about Celtic FC with just green and white. And then there is Southampton FC, which just rebelliously ignored all those unspoken rules and included all the colours mentioned above, plus more! Southampton FC formed in 1885, as a church football club named St. Mary’s Church of England Young Men’s Association. Fortunately, they never decided to put their full name on the crest. In fact, they hardly put any text at all. Like many clubs did after their inception they used...
Reimagining a crest for Sheffield United
Reimagining a crest for Sheffield United – originally posted on Sportslens.com Every English football club has nicknames for its fans or the team itself. Some are okay, like Chelsea’s “Pensioners” and then there are the really cool ones, Like Manchester United’s “Red Devils”. Probably up there in the upper echelons of cool nicknames are “The Blades”. The nickname might be great, but it didn’t always belong to Sheffield United exclusively. They had to share the nickname “Blades” and “Cutlers” with their fierce rivals Sheffield Wednesday. Sheffield United FC was founded in 1889 as an offspring of the Sheffield United Cricket Club. They fought for the ownership of the nicknames for years until 1907 when a newspaper cartoonist depicted Sheffield Wednesday from Owlerton as an owl and Shef...
Leicester City’s crest history and a new crest
Leicester City’s crest history and a new crest – originally posted on Sportslens.com 5000:1. Those were the odds of Leicester winning the 2015/16 season, after just being promoted to the Premier League. What we all witnessed was not just one of the greatest moments in football history, but sports history in general. This is one of those stories I’ll be telling my grandkids about. One for the history books. Leicester City was formed in 1884. Initially, they were called Leicester Fosse FC., since they played on a field near Fosse Road. After the Leicester borough was given a city status officially, the club reformed as “Leicester City FC” in 1919. The image of a fox was first incorporated in Leicester City’s crest in 1948 as Leicestershire is known for its foxes and fox hunting. ...
Premier League Club Crests – Reimagined for 2020
Premier League Club Crests – Reimagined for 2020 – originally posted on Sportslens.com Most of us here are die-hard supporters of football clubs. Every aspect of those clubs brings pride to us. We love the nicknames, the chants, the colours, the kits, the stadium, all of it. One such aspect is the club crest. For some, the club crest is even more recognisable and iconic than the name of the club itself. It adorns the kit, the flags and the banners. We have all tried sketching it on our schoolbooks, had them on our phone wallpapers or worn it on our shirts. Click here to jump straight to the list of reimagined Premier League crests. This is not the case in just football, but all brands or groups in general. From the local pubs to ruling government parties, from Instagram influen...
Jack Grealish is a Fantastic Player – But He’s Not England’s Saviour
Jack Grealish is a Fantastic Player – But He’s Not England’s Saviour – originally posted on Sportslens.com Finding a replacement for the dazzling Paul Gascoigne has been one of the toughest tasks for the English national team. There have been so many youngsters who showed potential, so many false dawns, from your Ross Barkleys to your Dele Allis. Even Wayne Rooney, a man who was an absolute superstar for Manchester United and became England’s all-time top goalscorer, struggled to consistently produce at major tournaments. Finding ‘the next Gazza’ has proved to be nearly impossible over the last two decades. And now a new challenger has arrived on the scene, ready to rescue the Three Lions from the jaws of mediocrity and carry them to glory. That ch...
Senator Kalu: I’ll buy 35% stake in Arsenal FC
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