Raphinha’s talks with Leeds United over a new contract are progressing well, according to an update from reliable journalist David Ornstein.
The Lowdown: Raphinha Leeds’ star man
The 25-year-old has enjoyed another hugely impressive season for the Whites, standing out as their star player, especially with other key figures often out injured.
Raphinha has scored eight goals in 19 Premier League starts in 2021/22, consistently producing the goods in a campaign of struggle overall at Elland Road.
The Brazilian’s current deal doesn’t expire until the summer of 2024 but Leeds are keen on tying him down beyond that amid interest from other clubs.
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The Latest: New contract incoming?
According to The Athletic’s Ornstein, publishing a report on the morning of transfer deadline day, talks are going well regarding the situation, with ‘positive steps’ made in recent times.
The journalist revealed: “Contract talks between Leeds and Raphinha have been on-going since the first half of this season and the club are understood to have made positive steps towards extending the deal he signed when he joined from Rennes in October 2020.”
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The Verdict: Huge positive for Whites
Keeping hold of Raphinha would feel like a huge moment for Leeds, considering the quality he possesses, already scoring twice in his first five caps for Brazil.
Not only would extending his stay be huge in terms of on-pitch matters – Danny Murphy has described the 25-year-old as a ‘wonderful’ player – it would also mean that clubs would likely have to submit an enormous bid to prise him away in the future.
In a scenario where Raphinha suddenly wanted to leave, Leeds would at least be safe in the knowledge that they would be financially strong after he exits, allowing top-quality signings to come in.
In other news, Leeds are reportedly ready to trigger one player’s release clause. Find out who it is here.
Sunderland endured a frustrating 3-1 loss at the hands of Lincoln City in League One on Tuesday night, courtesy of a hat-trick from old boy Chris Maguire.
It was a game that saw both Carl Winchester and manager Lee Johnson sent off for the hosts, in what was a damaging defeat for their promotion hopes. Using statistical experts SofaScore, The Transfer Tavern have now analysed who the three worst performers (to have played 45 minutes or more) for the Black Cats were on a disappointing night:
Anthony Patterson
Admittedly joint-second in terms of rating, Patterson was given a 5.9 by SofaScore.
The goalkeeper only managed to make one save all game, and lost possession of the ball twice.
Conceding three goals, he would not have been happy with both himself or his defenders’ performance.
Jack Diamond
Diamond was also given a 5.9 rating by SofaScore, and was taken off on 65 minutes.
The midfielder lost out nine of his duels, and failed to record any shots on goal, while he also made no successful dribbles or key passes.
Diamond also lost possession of the ball 17 times, the joint-fourth most out of his teammates.
Carl Winchester
Unsurprisingly, Winchester was given the worst rating by SofaScore with a 5.5, after he was given a red card before Maguire slotted home the penalty for his second goal.
He lost three duels, and also failed to make a single clearance, blocked shot or key pass, while giving the ball away four times.
It was a night to forget for him, and for SAFC supporters in general.
In other news, find out who was slammed against Lincoln here!
In his 21st year of international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar has been in superb form – runs have flowed in Tests and ODIs and now the Twenty20 format. His innings at the Kotla on Wednesday encompassed all that is brilliant about the man – not just in the manner of his own batting but in how it influenced Mumbai Indians, both necessary traits if they aspire to reach the IPL semi-finals.Mind over body That Tendulkar can score 200 in an ODI and continue to drag a cricket ball from outside off stump and hit it through midwicket at the age of 37 instead of 27, Geoffrey Boycott wrote recently, will continue to astonish many. Yet it should not, he added, come as a surprise: though a player’s fitness starts to slip a bit when he hits the mid-30s, the vast experience gained allows him to play smart cricket. The result, as Tendulkar so aptly showed this evening, was that he can perform just as well as he did at 27 without stretching his body to breaking point.Tendulkar is clearly enjoying his cricket, and it was evident in his body language throughout the game. After losing the toss and being asked to bat, a calm Tendulkar said he would have chosen to do so anyway. You could sense he was eager to get out and bat on what he called “a venue that has never been bouncy and tends to play slow and low”. His mind was running, and the body caught up soon after in a thrilling display of what experience and form can produce.Touch and thwack Tendulkar has often been more of a touch artist than a bludgeoner but today he showed the gamut from subtle to sledgehammer. His first four boundaries were delicate, tapping the ball lightly with deft wristwork and helping it on its way square of the wicket on both sides. Then, after he scooped a thick edge just over the cover fielder for four, Tendulkar brought out the thump: he stepped out to the legspinner Sarabjit Ladda, made room and produced a big straight hit that bounced just in front of the sightscreen. He repeated the dosage for Amit Mishra. First he played a delicate caress to a fullish ball, hanging back and opening the face of the bat to get four between short third man and point, and next ball smashed it back past the bowler who smartly got out of the way. This trend continued until Tendulkar was dismissed by Mishra for a 32-ball 63.Setting the tone Getting a start is critical in Twenty20 and Tendulkar delivered in the manner that suits him best. He didn’t give the bowlers a chance and made sure to keep the ball along the ground. His aggressive intent and the success it yielded, allowed the remaining batsmen to play around him. Aditya Tare slammed 17 from ten balls before he missed a slog, and the pair that followed built on a run rate that was over 10.50. The platform had been set, and Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu were able to come out and ride on the wave, ultimately setting up a 200-plus total.Big Brother Aside from his role as batsman, what Tendulkar offers as a thinktank is massive. Two days ago, in the build-up to this massive clash, Tendulkar spent extra time with Tiwary in the nets at the Feroz Shah Kotla, feeding him with balls to fine-tune his sweep shots, which were going wayward. Clearly there has been a thought process behind elevating Tiwary to the first-choice playing XI this season. This season, Tiwary has played some sparkling innings for Jharkhand, the state he captains on the domestic front, and it has not been lost on the Mumbai management. Having someone of Tendulkar’s stature give you additional time before a match can work wonders and the result was Tiwary’s second belligerent half-century in a row. Under him the Indian players seem to have found the confidence to do well, and how Tendulkar continues to nurture the likes of Tare, Tiwary and Rayudu could be the decisive chapter in Mumbai’s season.Sachin the strategist Today, Tendulkar held back the star West Indian duo of Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard, who had only reached India late last night, until the innings was almost done. Given the big bucks doled out for Pollard and Bravo, it would have been tempting to throw them in early but Tendulkar resisted and the move paid off richly.During Delhi’s chase he turned to Sanath Jayasuriya after Harbhajan Singh got a wicket in his first over, and the Sri Lankan allrounder struck in successive overs. Again, it would have been easy to keep Bravo and Pollard on but Tendulkar read the track and knew spin was going to be crucial. These are but small instances that allude to how he thinks.Talisman effect A Mumbai victory over Delhi in the Ranji Trophy always merits quite a few columns of newspaper space, and so should this win in the IPL. The playing field is vastly different, but given the form Delhi have been in and the all-round weight they boast of, this certainly qualified as an upset. They had won two in a row, and Mumbai can take fantastic encouragement from the fact that they’ve hit some form themselves.Watching Mumbai’s first two games this season, it is evident that this is a team that has the firepower to do well, but what they need to inspire them is Tendulkar. His injury in 2008 and patchy form in 2009 were undoubtedly factors in Mumbai’s ordinary displays. But after two disappointing seasons the team may just have found the man in the right frame of mind. Captaincy has never been Tendulkar’s strong point, as two disastrous stints in charge of India attest to, but in the Twenty20 format, and in such rich form, he may just be on the right path.
Nobody in their right minds expected this Test series to be competitivebut the chasm that opened up on the first day at Chittagong was thoroughly and abjectly depressing
Andrew Miller in Chittagong12-Mar-2010
Right call, wrong decision: Winning the toss was about as good as it got for Shakib al Hasan today•Getty Images
Nobody in their right minds expected this Test series to be competitive, despite the undoubted strides that Bangladesh have made in recent months, but the chasm that opened up on the first day at Chittagong was thoroughly and abjectly depressing.All tour long, Bangladesh have talked a good talk and they even fought a good fight during the one-dayers, never more impressively than during the second match at Dhaka, when only a super-focussed Eoin Morgan stood between them and an historic result. But today every ounce of bravado deserted them – with the ball, in the field, but most crucially of all, in the demeanours of the two most combative characters in their camp.Jamie Siddons and Shakib Al Hasan have been up and at England since the very start of the tour. It was Siddons who declared that his team intended to “bite England on the bum” after their decision to give Andrew Strauss a sabbatical, and while Shakib has let his cricket do most of the talking, he hasn’t been afraid to sound off when prompted, such as his declaration after Dhaka that Bangladesh were more interested in taking on the big guns of one-day cricket, rather than fret about England’s mediocre middle-rankers.It’s been refreshing, to be honest, to hear the small fry talking big, even when what they’ve been saying hasn’t quite stacked up in the final analysis. After all, confidence begets confidence, as Kevin Pietersen knows only too well. But today Bangladesh’s words and deeds were completely polarised by the reality that slipped in between them, and nothing reeked more of surrender than their decision to pack their team with spinners, and then bowl first on a shirt-front.”We thought we knew a bit about the Chittagong wicket, and we thought that it would spin on day one, and get flatter and flatter like it has in the past,” said Siddons. “In hindsight it was probably a bad decision.” But seeing as England had taken their gift-horse at face value and clattered along to 374 for 3 at the close, hindsight wasn’t really the most pressing of their problems.Of far greater importance would have been a bit of foresight, a bit of conventional wisdom, and a nod to the small matters of pride and body language – all of these factors surely demanded that Bangladesh front up and play the game according to Siddons’ often-mentioned “team rules”. As they showed at times during the one-dayers, the team has the ability to bat calmly and assuredly against an England attack that, in the coach’s own words, had not penetrated them to any great effect. By doing so, they could have set a platform for their spinners to attack.Of course that policy could easily have gone wrong – it goes without saying, this is Bangladesh and they have a record of L55, W3. But at least by doing so, they might have spared themselves the “what ifs”. Instead, the impression was of a team that had pulled its punches (just as they did in this same city when England last visited six years ago) and Siddons looked like the public the face of a broken dressing-room when he fronted up on behalf of his players in the post-match press conference.On the one hand Siddons blamed the pitch for failing to meet his ambitious expectations – and while it is true that, back in January, India were skittled here for 243 after being asked to bat first (with Shakib claiming 5 for 62), the X-factor in that performance had been Virender Sehwag’s dismissal of Bangladesh as “ordinary” and the righteous indignation that his comments had fuelled.There was no such whiff of cordite in the air today, only the vaguest ripple of interest in a disappointingly sparse crowd, and the team reacted to the atmosphere accordingly, with Shakib’s own return a mute 21-2-80-0. That said, it was hardly necessary for Siddons to trot out quite such a list of disclaimers afterwards, as he managed to shrug every ounce of blame onto the shoulders of the boys he professes to be nurturing.His fast bowlers, he said, “had let the team down”; his left-arm-spinning captain, he said, had been the one who wanted to bowl first (“and I’ll be supportive of [him]”), and suddenly his “world-class” four-man spin attack had been downgraded to “two genuine spinners and two part-time offies”. As support acts go, it was about as comforting as Duncan Fletcher’s declaration that he “wasn’t the only selector” on England’s disastrous Ashes campaign in 2006-07, except in Siddons’ case he didn’t bother to couch his criticisms in code.”Our strength is our spin, so it didn’t matter whether we bowled first or second,” he added, incongruously. “Our quicks weren’t going to be the answer on that pitch, and won’t be throughout the game, they won’t play a massive part.” A statement which begs the question, did they even try to exploit the moisture in the first half-an-hour, or wasn’t that even taken into consideration?”We’ve probably put ourselves out of the game, which we tend to do a lot on the first day or the first session of a game, unless we bowl terrifically in the morning, and even then we’ll have to bat the house down,” Siddons concluded. “I expect them to make somewhere around 500, and that’s if we bowl well. It’s been a difficult day, and only one team can win.”In all honesty, only one team has ever been likely to win this match and this series from the moment the tour began. But as Siddons himself has declared at length all month, his tenure is not about victories, it’s about making visible signs of progress. Today, however, Bangladesh were in full retreat before the match referee had retrieved his coin.
عاد فريق بايرن ميونخ إلى سكة الانتصارات في بطولة الدوري الألماني، بعدما فاز اليوم على باير ليفركوزن.
وتلاقى الفريقان في إطار منافسات الجولة الثامنة من بطولة الدوري الألماني، حيث فاز بايرن ميونخ بأربعة أهداف دون رد. أهداف مباراة بايرن ميونخ وباير ليفركوزن
كانت البداية مبكرة حيث سجل ليروي ساني الهدف الأول لصالح بايرن ميونخ، في الدقيقة الثالثة من عمر الشوط الأول، بعد أسيست من جمال موسيالا.
وفي الدقيقة 17 نجح موسيالا في تسجيل الهدف الثاني لأصحاب الأرض، قبل أن يعود ويصنع الهدف الثالث الذي سجله السنغالي ساديو ماني في الدقيقة 39، وهو هدفه الأول في ملعب الأليانز آرينا.
وفي الدقيقة 57 أحرز ماني الهدف الثاني له والرابع لكتيبة البافاري، ولكن تم إلغاؤه من قِبل تقنية الفيديو لوجود خطأ على ماتياس دي ليخت.
وأنهى توماس مولر رباعية بايرن ميونخ بتسجيله هدف في الدقيقة 84، بعد خطأ من حارس باير ليفركوزن.
بتلك النتيجة، ارتفع رصيد بايرن ميونخ إلى 15 نقطة في المركز الثاني، بينما تجمد رصيد باير ليفركوزن عند 5 نقاط في المركز السادس عشر.
A transfer claim has been made on Chelsea midfielder Ross Barkley, regarding a potential move to Newcastle United.
What’s the talk?
Journalist Pete O’Rourke has claimed that his name has been mentioned to him several times, with the midfielder currently out of the picture at Stamford Bridge. The reporter has said that he could be a player the Magpies, who have been linked with the Englishman, are set to target in January.
He told GIVEMESPORT:
“Ross Barkley’s a name that keeps getting mentioned to me. Obviously he’s pretty much surplus to requirements at Chelsea, he’s well down the pecking order. He was out on loan at Villa last year. Other clubs are interested also in Barkley but he might be somebody that Newcastle could possibly move for.”
Exciting
This update will surely be exciting for Newcastle fans as it indicates that there is a chance the midfielder will be pursued by the club in January. Barkley could be a great signing for Eddie Howe’s side and be a player the supporters can get excited about watching due to his experience in England.
The 28-year-old is a proven Premier League performer but has only made one start in the division this season under Thomas Tuchel. This could, as O’Rourke suggests, open the door for the Magpies to swoop in and secure a deal for his services.
Toon legend Alan Shearer lauded the £100k-per-week gem last season and claimed that he can be a ‘match-winner. He told The BBC:
“Ross seems to have found a system that suits him and a manager who wants to play him. This is exactly what he needs.
“He now needs to find the consistency that has been lacking in his game because this is a crucial stage of his career. Ross has been spoken about in glowing terms since he was very young but he is 27 now and needs to deliver on that potential.
“At his best he is match-winner and Villa is a great platform for him.”
This is high praise from a man who knows what he is talking about when it comes to the Premier League, further highlighting Barkley’s ability at this level. He could come in and be able to hit the ground running with his pre-existing knowledge of the English top-flight.
The ex-Everton man has over 200 appearances in the division under his belt. He has 28 goals and 31 assists to date, showing that he has the quality to arrive at St. James’ Park and make an impact in midfield, which is why fans will be excited by this update from O’Rourke.
AND in other news, Howe could solve key NUFC issue by landing “tough-minded” beast who always “delivers”…
ScorecardEd Cowan has enjoyed the move to Tasmania•Getty Images
Ed Cowan scored his maiden first-class double-century in a mammoth day’s batting that gave Tasmania the honours against South Australia. Cowan finished the day unbeaten on 204 with James Faulkner on 14 as the Tigers recovered from a shaky start to reach 5 for 333.Having been sent in by South Australia on the first day of Sheffield Shield cricket at Bellerive Oval this summer, Tasmania wobbled to 3 for 28 as the fast bowler Peter George caused serious top-order problems. But Cowan, who is in his first season at Tasmania, combined with the state’s most experienced player, Daniel Marsh, to rescue the team.The pair put on 240 for the fourth wicket before Marsh was denied his second hundred in as many games when he was bowled by George for 90. But there was no denying Cowan, who reached his double-century in the second-last over of the day having opened the innings.The previous best first-class score for Cowan, who moved from New South Wales during the off-season, was an unbeaten 137. So lopsided was the Tasmania scorecard that apart from Cowan and Marsh, no other player passed 14 on the opening day, while George was the best of the Redbacks bowlers with 4 for 59.
In their latest attempt at escaping League One and making a return to the Championship, Sunderland probably haven’t had the start to their campaign that most at the club would have hoped for.
With the January transfer window on the horizon, it seems as though Sunderland could make an addition to their squad during the next window with someone that will be pretty familiar to a lot of fans at the Stadium of Light.
What’s the news?
It has recently been reported by Chronicle Live that Sunderland will review Jack Diamond’s loan spell at Harrogate Town in January and the possibility of recalling him back to the Wearside club.
Since joining Harrogate back in August in what is his second loan spell with the club, Diamond has started all of the 12 League Two games he’s appeared in prior to their midweek match against Carlisle United, scoring three goals and providing two assists in the process.
With this in mind, it’s easy to see why the possibility of Sunderland recalling him from his latest loan early has been raised recently.
As a product of Sunderland’s youth academy, the 21-year-old winger has a total of 78 appearances under his belt for the U18 and U23 sides combined with ten goals and ten assists to his name.
For the senior side, Diamond has made 40 appearances across all competitions where he has managed to score two goals and provide six assists, showing that he can be a fairly useful attacking option.
With this in mind and the fact that Diamond, who has been described as a “dynamic” by Johnson in the past, could offer the Black Cats boss an extra attacking option to his side for the second half of the season, one that could sway Kyril Louis-Dreyfus and co from spending money on new players in the winter.
His return could end up being crucial for Sunderland should they lose any of their current attacking options to injury, that could well help push the side to a promotion place and revive their campaign having lost a fair amount of games already this season.
However, given how many minutes Diamond has got under his belt so far this season at Harrogate, it seems like his potential playing time back at Sunderland would be a big factor in whether he will return to his boyhood club in January or not.
In other news: Johnson must ruthlessly axe “unique” lightweight tonight, he could cost SAFC dearly – opinion
O humorista e vice-presidente de comunicação do Flamengo, Antonio Tabet, foi desligado do jornal ‘O Globo’, no qual escrevia colunas. O dirigente rubro-negro fez críticas ao que ele considera como mau jornalismo, citando o jornal ‘Extra’ no texto, ainda que indiretamente. Na sexta-feira, o repórter Diogo Dantas, do ‘Extra’, que pertence ao Grupo Globo, foi proibido de fazer perguntas na entrevista coletiva do técnico Reinaldo Rueda, no Ninho do Urubu.
Ao final da coluna de Tabet, publicada neste domingo, o jornal ‘O Globo’ explicou o desligamento do dirigente rubro-negro.
-O humorista Antonio Tabet, vice-presidente de comunicação do Flamengo, levou a sério (as brincadeiras feitas com Muralha). Mas, no dia em que o jornal retratou críticas da torcida a Tabet, o clube, em retaliação, decidiu impedir que um repórter do Extra e também do Globo fizesse perguntas durante uma entrevista coletiva, num ato de cerceamento de acesso à informação. Tabet usou a coluna publicada acima, na editoria de Política, para tratar de assunto relacionado à sua atividade no clube, como já fizera em outra oportunidade. Por essa razão, O Globo decidiu interromper sua participação neste espaço – publicou o jornal.
Em comunicado enviado aos jornalistas, na sexta-feira, o Flamengo informou que a decisão de proibir perguntas do jornal ‘Extra’ foi institucional e não pessoal. No entanto, inicialmente, a informação era de que a medida partiu de uma ordem de Tabet. O presidente rubro-negro, Eduardo Bandeira de Mello, e o diretor geral, Fred Luz, estavam na sala de imprensa quando ocorreu o episódio.
O Flamengo afirma que o jornal ‘Extra’ vem ‘difamando o clube de maneira ininterrupta, num tom jocoso’. O clube comunicou ainda que os jornalistas deste veículo poderão fazer perguntas novamente.
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تفوق نادي آرسنال على منافسه ليفربول في بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز من أجل الفوز بصفقة جديدة لتدعيم خط وسط الفريق الأول لكرة القدم قبل نهاية الميركاتو الصيفي الحالي.
وكان ميكل أرتيتا مدرب آرسنال يبحث عن التعاقد مع لاعب وسط بعد إصابة نجم منتخب مصر، محمد النني، في أوتار الركبة والتوقع بغيابه لفترة طويلة عن الجانرز.
اقرأ أيضًا.. وكيل جروس يرد عبر بطولات على أنباء مفاوضات الأهلي لخلافة سواريش
وبحسب التقرير أن آرسنال قد وضع أعينه على لاعب خط وسط أستون فيلا، دوجلاس لويز، الذي تألق في مباراة الفريقين بالأمس، الأربعاء، وسجل هدف الفيلانز الوحيد بعد خسارتهم 1-2.
أستون فيلا حتى الآن، يحاول الحفاظ على لويز ولكن اقتراب انتهاء عقد اللاعب في يونيو 2023 قد يجبرهم على بيعه في الساعات المقبلة للاستفادة المادية.
الجدير بالذكر أن مدرب أستون فيلا، ستيفن جيرارد، يوم أمس بعد نهاية مباراة آرسنال قد صرح بأن لويز قد يرحل رغم أهميته بالنسبة لفريقه الإنجليزي.