Newcastle United are now racing to sign a “splendid” goalscoring midfielder, who could be available for a fee of just £17m this summer, according to a report.
Howe sets sights on new midfielder
Newcastle are well-stocked in central midfield, with Bruno Guimaraes’ and Sandro Tonali’s impressive performances this season attracting the attention of Manchester City ahead of the summer transfer window.
It is unclear whether the Magpies would be willing to strengthen a direct Premier League rival by selling one of their star midfielders, but if they do decide to cash-in, there are a number of possible replacements on the shortlist.
The PIF are said to have joined a tug-of-war for Man City midfielder James McAtee, while Eddie Howe is particularly fond of Lazio midfielder Matteo Guendouzi, with signing a new midfielder deemed to be a priority if Tonali moves on.
Newcastle have strong interest in £25m PL ace who Howe called "magnificent"
The Magpies have set their sights on a Premier League player who Eddie Howe has been left very impressed by.
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Guendouzi specialises in a defensive role, but there are indications that Howe could also be keen on signing a midfielder capable of making an impact in the attacking third of the pitch.
According to a report from Spain, Newcastle are now racing Atletico Madrid and Nottingham Forest for the signature of Girona maestro Yangel Herrera, with Howe looking to complement his current options in midfield.
Girona'sYangelHerrerain action with AC Milan's Tijani Reijnders
Although the rival interest in Herrera may be an issue, there is a sense that a deal could be possible, with the Spanish side willing to sanction his departure for a fee of around €20m (£17m), which would easily be affordable for PIF.
The Venezuelan has been a key player for Girona this season, catching the eye due to his physicality and passing ability, while the central midfielder has also proven himself in front of goal during his time in La Liga…
"Splendid" Herrera impressing on the front foot
The Girona midfielder has been particularly impressive going forward in La Liga this season, picking up four goals and three assists, while ranking in a high percentile across a number of key attacking metrics over the past year.
Statistic
Average per 90
Non-penalty goals
0.17 (88th percentile)
Touches (Attacking penalty area)
2.42 (87th percentile)
Shots total
1.84 (92nd percentile)
The Venezuela international is also a dominant force in the air, placing in the 91st percentile for aerials won, and he received high praise from Opta Jose for his attacking output back in March.
Herrera has limited top-level experience, making just five appearances in the Champions League, but Newcastle will need to increase their squad depth to compete on all fronts next season, and the 27-year-old has proven he could be a solid option.
How will it affect selection for the Border Gavaskar Trophy and why will North India get games earlier?
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Ranji Trophy with timeout
The Ranji Trophy will be played in two phases this time, with the 20-over Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy sandwiched in between. There are quite a few reasons behind the Ranji season being split including minimising weather-related disruptions especially in northern India as well as to look after players’ workloads and manage better the fitness of fast bowlers.Each team will play five league games during a five-week window between October-November before the focus shifts to the two white-ball competitions. Several players, especially fast bowlers, have endorsed the first-class tournament being split into two phases because it could potentially facilitate better recovery.Related
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After going through the grind of five Ranji Trophy league matches, the fast bowlers could attune their bodies to bowl shorter spells in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, which will begin on November 23, and then steadily ramp up their load and prep again for the second phase of the Ranji Trophy, which will commence on January 23, 2025, five days after the final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy. As for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, it will conclude on December 15.Last season, when many teams had just a three-day break between Ranji matches, Mumbai allrounder Shardul Thakur was critical of the schedule, saying “there will be a lot of injuries across the country”. The BCCI has taken the suggestions from the players and coaches on board introducing an extra day’s gap between matches for better workload management in the forthcoming season.While the focus will move quickly to the white-ball tournaments, the initial leg of the Ranji holds a lot of significance for several players on the fringes of national selection. The selectors would be keenly following the initial rounds with an eye on both the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia as well as the shadow red-ball tour by India A which will be played between October 31 to November 10.
Players for whom this season could mean a big deal
As far as India selection is concerned, this Ranji season could be particularly significant for the likes of Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Ruturaj Gaikwad and B Sai Sudharsan.After having lost their central contracts in February earlier this year, both Iyer and Kishan are back in the domestic mix in their quest to return to India’s Test team. While Kishan marked his domestic return with 111 off 126 balls in the Duleep Trophy in Anantapur, Iyer has made three fifties in his last four first-class games, including a first-innings 57 in Mumbai’s Irani Cup win.
Notable player transfers
Mandeep Singh – from Punjab to Tripura
Wriddhiman Saha – from Tripura to Bengal
B Aparajith – from TN to Kerala
Rajneesh Gurbani – from Vidarbha to Maharashtra
Kuldeep Sen – from TN to MP
R Samarth – from Karnataka to Uttarakhand
Meanwhile, Easwaran, Gaikwad and Sudharsan are in a three-way race for the reserve opener’s slot for the tour of Australia. If recent form is anything to go by, Easwaran has pulled ahead with three centuries in his last four innings, including his 191 in the Irani Cup. He will feature in his 100th first-class game, at home, in the second round before he potentially boards the flight for India A’s tour of Australia.
Don’t forget the old horses: Pujara and Rahane
By picking 60 of the “finest players” from the country [as was stated in the BCCI release] for the four Duleep Trophy squads last month, the Ajit Agarkar-led election committee had chalked out the pool of players they were keeping tabs on and grooming for the near future. And even though there is a tour of Australia around the corner, they left out two batters who played massive roles in winning the last two Test series there – Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane. Both are 36, both coming off fairly successful county stints in the UK, and now both will get back to the platform budding players use to vault to the Indian team.Cheteshwar Pujara currently has 20,899 first-class runs•PTI They have barely anything left to prove in domestic cricket with nearly 21,000 first-class runs to Pujara’s name and over 13,500 to Rahane’s, along with Ranji titles in recent years, and all the respect they can earn in the domestic circuit with their feats . Yet, it is their passion for the game that will bring them back in the whites in this October heat. It could also be certain personal goals, perhaps the fading dream of playing 100 Tests for Rahane – like he had said last season – but it is India’s domestic circuit that becomes richer with their presence at the end of the day as it makes the tournament more competitive and worth following for the big names.
Scheduling tweaks – north India first, the rest later
The last Ranji season had commenced on January 5, in the extreme and biting cold of many parts of India, after the white-ball tournaments had concluded. Not surprisingly, many red-ball games were affected by weather interruptions such as fog and bad light. There were a fair few games in the early rounds where not a single ball was bowled on the first day in Meerut, Mohali and Chandigarh which irked the home teams as it poured water on their chances of progressing to the next round. There were several hours of play lost in Lahli, Jammu, Delhi, Kanpur, Mullanpur and other cities as well.When the first leg kicks off this time – October 11 to November 16 – a bulk of the matches will be held in Srinagar, Delhi, Dharamsala, Lucknow, Rohtak, Chandigarh, Shillong, Dehradun and Mullanpur before the winter season kicks in properly, and they’re unlikely to get interrupted by poor weather. That will bring respite to the host teams like Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Services, Uttarakhand and Punjab, and give them a chance to play completed matches instead of seeing out forced draws. For the second leg in January, hardly any matches have been slotted for north India when the race for the knockouts heats up.The knockouts will be played from February 8 to March 2.
Karim Janat hits 58 not out off 28 to maintain new franchise’s perfect start
Aadam Patel27-Nov-2022Three wins out of three and it all seems nice and easy for Morrisville Samp Army on their first showing at the Abu Dhabi T10. They have taken to the format like ducks to water and they will go into the second week of the tournament as the only unbeaten side left in Season 6 of the competition.Set a target of 106 by Chennai Braves after captain Moeen Ali chose to bowl first, Samp Army timed their chase to perfection with Karim Janat taking centre stage with a quite superb unbeaten 58 off 28 deliveries.With 11 required off the final over, Janat gave Carlos Brathwaite a taste of his own medicine by sending him for two consecutive sixes to finish the job off in style. For all the might of David Miller at the other end, who combined with Janat to put on 76, it was the experienced South African who allowed the man from Afghanistan to take centre stage.Miller faced just 10 of the 35 deliveries during their partnership as Janat cashed in with six sixes during his match-winning knock. The pair came together at 31 for 2 in the fourth over and Braves simply had no answers for the power and timing of Janat.His first six came at the end of the fifth over as he smashed Sikander Raza over long-off and he took down Sabir Rao in the next over with two more maximums. In the penultimate over, Sam Cook began well, varying his pace, but Janat was equal to the task as he picked off Cook’s slower ball and pulled it over deep square leg for six. Miller then seized on Cook’s full toss to lower the equation to 11 off seven but he missed the final ball which meant that Janat was on strike.Perhaps it was seeing Brathwaite handed the final over that inspired Janat to wrap things up in boundaries and there was no sign of him delegating the duty to Miller. Janat heaved Brathwaite’s first ball over deep midwicket for six to bring up his half century, before dispatching the next ball down the ground and over the ropes to seal victory.Lance Klusener, head coach of Samp Army echoed his praises for Janat after the game, who has now scored 80 runs off 42 balls in the tournament at a strike rate of 190.47 without getting dismissed.”It’s not a surprise for me because that’s what he does. The talent has always been there and I’m just thrilled that he’s been able to deliver on that stage,” Klusener, his former Afghanistan coach, said. “There’s not many I know who try harder and work harder than him.”Janat himself insisted that Miller backed him to take on the bowlers during their conversations in between overs. “David’s experience was helpful and he told me to go for it,” he said.Go for it, he did. Samp Army’s run chase was the fifth successive target chased down in the tournament after the first eight games of the season were won by the side batting first and judging by initial impressions, they look like the side to beat.With a shrewd bowling attack containing the likes of Anrich Nortje, Sheldon Cottrell, Dwayne Pretorius and George Garton, combined with the leadership of Moeen, they have raced out of the blocks and got off to the dream start in their first campaign at the Abu Dhabi T10.In the first game of Sunday’s triple-header, skipper Rovman Powell smashed 76* off 28 balls to take his Northern Warriors side to their first win of the competition as they beat Bangla Tigers by six wickets.The final game saw a rematch of last year’s final as Deccan Gladiators came up against Delhi Bulls. Tom Kohler-Cadmore’s brutal 82* off 33 deliveries fired Gladiators to a total of 140 for 2 off their ten overs and despite Rilee Rossouw (28 off 15) and Tim David’s (48 off 24) best efforts in a partnership of 79, Bulls ultimately fell 18 runs short.
The New York Mets lost at home to the Cleveland Guardians, 7-6, on Monday night and now sit 1.5 games back of the Philadelphia Phillies in the NL East.
The Mets had Mark Vientos at first base against the Guardians, which was just the second time this season he has played that position. He was immediately tested in the first inning when Cleveland's Angel Martines hit a lazy foul pop up between home and first.
This looked like it should have been an easy out but Vientos overran it and could only watch as the ball fell to the ground behind him.
Mets announcer Ron Darling didn't hold back, saying: "I don't know what to say. I mean, c'mon. It's a pop up. Let's go!"
Here's how that played out:
That mistake didn't end up costing the Mets, as Martinez ended up fouling out to the catcher but it was a tough look for Vientos. And it's safe to say Darling wasn't too impressed by it.
Leila Pereira, presidente do Palmeiras, falou publicamente pela primeira vez sobre o suposto pré-contrato assinado por Abel Ferreira para deixar o Verdão e acertar com o Al-Sadd, do Qatar. Em tom irônico, a mandatária afirmou que não houve quebra de confiança do lado do treinador.
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– Al Sadd? Eu nem lembro desse clube, eu nem lembro, vocês que me lembram. O importante é que o Abel está no Palmeiras, ele ama estar no Palmeiras e tenho certeza que o torcedor palmeirense também. De jeito nenhum [abala a confiança que temos no Abel], o Abel tem a nossa profunda consideração. Ele é um treinador sério e focado, tem credibilidade conosco – disse Leila durante Conselho Técnico da CBF.
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Leila voltou a manifestar que, se for reeleita, deseja que Abel Ferreira cumpra seu contrato com o Palmeiras até o final de 2025.
– O Abel tem contrato conosco até dezembro de 2025. É isso que nos interessa. Ele está onde quer estar e meu grande desafio seria que se o associado continuar confiando no meu trabalho, me reeleger presidente do Palmeiras, eu gostaria que o Abel ficasse conosco até o último dia do meu mandato. Seria histórico, acho que nenhum presidente esteve com um único treinador e comissão técnica em todo mandato – concluiu.
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وجه ماجد سامي، رئيس نادي وادي دجلة، رسالة إلى رئيس الجمهورية عبد الفتاح السيسي، بشأن أزمة رمضان صبحي لاعب فريق الكرة بنادي بيراميدز.
وكانت المحكمة قد قررت حبس رمضان صبحي، على ذمة قضية “تزوير محرر رسمي”، خلال الأيام الماضية، وسبق أن تم القبض على اللاعب عقب عودة بعثة فريق بيراميدز من المعسكر الخارجي من تركيا في بداية الموسم الحالي.
طالع|السيسي: لماذا لا تمتلك مصر 6 آلاف لاعب مثل محمد صلاح؟
وتقرر تأجيل محاكمة رمضان صبحي في القضية إلى يوم 30 ديسمبر المقبل، مع استمرار حبس اللاعب.
وقال “سامي”، عبر صفحته بموقع “فيسبوك”: “رمضان صبحي والـ6000 محمد صلاح، طالعت منذ أيام تساؤل الرئيس عما إن كانت مصر تستطيع تخريج 6000 لاعب كرة محترف مثل محمد صلاح”.
كان الرئيس السيسي قد قال في تصريحات خلال تواجده في أكاديمية الشرطة منذ أيام: “”تريدون أن تقولوا لي إن مصر التي يوجد فيها 60 مليون شاب، لا نستطيع أن نُخرِج منها 6 آلاف لاعب مثل محمد صلاح؟”.
وتابع ماجد سامي: “وبما إن لي خبرات في هذا الموضوع فإنني أناشد الرئيس أن يصدر قراراً بصفته القائد الأعلى للقوات المسلحة بإعفاء اللاعبين الذين ينضمون للمنتخبات الوطنية بدءًا من مراحل الناشئين في كافة الرياضات، من التجنيد، حتى لا يلجأوا لطرق ملتوية للإعفاء من التجنيد”.
واختتم ماجد سامي تصريحاته: “كما أتمنى من فخامته إصدار أمر بإعفاء اللاعب رمضان صبحي وحفظ قضيته بدلاً من الزج به في السجن”.
تعادل فريق الزمالك مع فريق كايزر تشيفز الجنوب إفريقي، في إطار منافسات دور المجموعات من بطولة الكونفدرالية الإفريقية.
وواجه فريق الزمالك نظيره فريق كايزر تشيفز، في الثالثة من عصر اليوم السبت، في الجولة الثانية من دور المجموعات من بطولة كأس الكونفدرالية الإفريقية.
طالع.. فيديو | سيف الجزيري يسجل هدف الزمالك الأول أمام كايزر تشيفز
وتعادل فريق الزمالك مع فريق كايزر تشيفز بهدف لكل فريق، تقدم للفارس الأبيض لاعبه سيف الجزيري في الدقيقة الثالثة من الشوط الأول بعد عرضية من بيزيرا من ركلة حرة مباشرة لينجح في متابعتها وإحرازها هدف.
وفي الدقيقة 93 وفي الوقت بدل الضائع، نجح فريق كايزر تشيفز في إدراك التعادل بخطأ كارثي من محمد صبحي حارس مرمى الزمالك بعد عرصية من لاعب كايزر تشيفز ليفشل صبحي في اللحاق بها.
وفي الدقيقة 20 من الشوط الأول، كاد أن يسجل فريق كايزر تشيفز هدف التعادل من تسديدة من سيرينو من منتصف الملعب ولكن القائم يتعاطف مع الأبيض.
وفي الدقيقة 70 من الشوط الثاني، أهدر عدي الدباغ إنفرادا بعد تمريرة من أحمد فتوح، لتمر الكرة خارج مرمى فريق كايزر تشيفز.
وبهذا التعادل رفع فريق الزمالك رصيده إلى 4 نقاط، في المركز الثاني في ترتيب المجموعة خلف المتصدر فريق المصري البورسعيدي الذي يمتلك 6 نقاط، بينما رفع فريق كايزر تشيفز إلى نقطة في المركز الثالث في ترتيب المجموعة.
يذكر أن الزمالك يقع في المجموعة الرابعة في كأس الكونفدرالية رفقة أندية المصري البورسعيدي وكايزر تشيفز وزيسكو يونايتد الزامبي. أهداف مباراة الزمالك وكايزر تشيفز الجنوب إفريقي
Hall of Famer and Major League Baseball's career steals leader Rickey Henderson has died at the age of 65, according to multiple reports, and confirmed by the
Henderson, who is widely considered to be one of the greatest leadoff hitters and base stealers in the history of the sport, played for nine different teams in his 25-year career, compiling 3,055 hits, 297 home runs and 1,115 RBI. His 2,295 career runs and 1,406 stolen bases remain Major League records.
Henderson was a 10-time All-Star, and won the league MVP in 1990 with the Oakland Athletics, when he hit .325 with 28 home runs, 61 RBI and 65 stolen bases. He also boasted a 1.016 OPS (on-base plus slugging) that season and a .439 OBP. He won two World Series titles in his Hall of Fame career, one with the Athletics in 1989 and another with the Toronto Blue Jays in '93.
He was inducted into Cooperstown as a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 2009.
Left-arm spinner Zanden Jeh produced a tidy spell in his first professional game of cricket
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Matt Renshaw capped an impressive one-day series•Getty Images
Matt Renshaw has well and truly put his hat in the ring for an ODI call-up after producing yet another big knock for Australia A in their series-deciding one-day win over Sri Lanka A.Sri Lanka A recovered from 8 for 2 to reach 213 for 9 in Darwin, with Sahan Arachchige (47 off 65), Nuwanidu Fernando (40 off 69) and Sonal Dinusha (36 off 40) leading the way.Jack Nisbet, Bryce Jackson and Henry Thornton all chimed in with two wickets apiece in an even bowling display for the home side. Left-arm spinner Zanden Jeh, who has not played a professional game of state cricket, snared 1 for 27 off seven overs on his Australia A debut.In reply, Australia A cruised to 215 for 3 with a whopping 105 balls to spare.Jason Sangha top scored for the home side with an unbeaten 79 off 76 deliveries, while Renshaw blasted his way to 62 off 36 balls, his blistering knock including eight fours and two sixes. Opener Campbell Kellaway set up the run chase with 56 off 62 balls.The seven-wicket win secured a 2-1 series victory in the one-day component of the clashes between Australia A and Sri Lanka A, with the teams now to face off in two four-day matches.Renshaw produced scores of 80, 106 and 62 across the three one-dayers, putting him at the front of the queue for an ODI call-up. The 29-year-old has already played 14 Tests for Australia, but is yet to feature at international level in any form of white-ball cricket.The ODI retirements of Glenn Maxwell and Steve Smith have opened the door for Renshaw to cement a spot in the one-day side and his performances for Australia A will further boost his case.Sangha, who posted two half-centuries across the three games, also gave his hopes a big lift.
Liverpool won the Premier League last season and then underwent major surgery throughout the summer transfer window.
Perhaps you could frame the Reds as a team in transition. This could be asserted for the 2024/25 campaign, when Liverpool pranced their way through the term and, yes, won the league title in Arne Slot’s first year at the helm.
Maybe it could also be argued that this is a transitional year for Liverpool. After all, many ins and outs occurred down Anfield Road this summer.
Regardless of which side of the fence you stand on, none can argue that Slot’s Liverpool are not title contenders once again, having won all five of their opening Premier League fixtures to establish a five-point lead at the summit. It took them until November to achieve that last year.
It is early days, of course, but the Merseysiders are shaping into quite the force, having signed Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz and many more.
However, they are hardly impregnable, with Liverpool’s defensive issues made worse by the ACL injury sustained by Giovanni Leoni against Southampton on Tuesday evening in the Carabao Cup.
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Leoni must be gutted. Impressive on his Liverpool debut after leaving Parma in the summer, the 18-year-old will now recover across his first campaign in England, unlikely to be match fit until the business end.
Liverpool centre-back Giovanni Leoni
He had looked calm and assured and confident on the ball. Sadly, this is a significant setback for one so young. It’s about now that sporting director Richard Hughes might lament Crystal Palace’s failure to sign a Guehi replacement at the end of the transfer window, thus ending a move that looked all but complete and a summer in the making.
Such is football, but there’s no question the Premier League champions are now one Virgil van Dijk injury away from alarm bells to start ringing, with a four-front charge for silverware currently underway.
Guehi, too, may be frustrated at how things have panned out, with his chances of regular football at Liverpool almost certain had he indeed finalised that last-minute move.
Crystal Palace'sMarcGuehilooks dejected.
Hughes and Slot may also be tacitly frustrated that they sold Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen for £35m, with the hierarchy unable to promise the homegrown talent regularity of minutes for the club.
But then there will also be much confidence in Liverpool’s capacity to pull through. The backline has been refashioned over the past few months.
However, Quansah’s isn’t the only signature that may have left with an air of ruefulness. In fact, far more regret could be attributed to the mood when Trent Alexander-Arnold left for Real Madrid in June.
Alexander-Arnold's value after leaving
Liverpool were hamstrung. Noise coming from the concerning contract situations of Van Dijk, Mohamed Salah and Alexander-Arnold dominated the 2024/25 campaign, Slot’s first at the helm.
It’s small wonder that many felt the Reds would fall apart following Jurgen Klopp’s departure, with the ‘big three’ all slated to follow him out the gates.
That wasn’t the case. The skipper and the attacking talisman both renewed their Liverpool vows, but Alexander-Arnold, 26, left for pastures new and is now a member of Xabi Alonso’s Real Madrid team.
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Hailed as a “generational” talent by content creator Asim Mahmood, Trent’s range of passing and his vision and inventions on the ball have
He might not be the answer to Liverpool’s central defensive issues right now, but it’s an underpinning of the upheaval that has beset Slot’s backline in recent months.
Having refused FSG’s offers, the England international was set to sign for Real Madrid on a free transfer before Florentino Perez decided to bring him over for the Club World Cup, paying the English outfit an £8m fee to release him from his contract several weeks early.
This is some distance below the figure Liverpool recouped from Quansah’s sale, and does at least highlight the club’s expertise at the negotiating table, spending heavily this summer but banking a pretty penny too.
Alas, what’s done is done, but Alexander-Arnold is one of the world’s best, even if he is struggling to click from the off with Los Blancos, in and out of the starting line-up before a cruel injury that has ruled him out of action for the foreseeable.
For Liverpool to have got anything from a player imminently out of contract is a testament to Hughes’ prowess behind the desk, but, as Transfermarkt record it, his market value has already shot back up to £66m, which stands taller than the £35m figure the Reds were willing to pay for Guehi.
Moreover, when Alexander-Arnold brings it all together in Spain – and he will – this value will only skyrocket further.
In spite of the signing of Frimpong, the continued development of Conor Bradley and Dominik Szoboszlai’s interesting rebrand into a right-back, when called upon, none of them is Trent.
Dominik Szoboszlai in action for Liverpool
He was truly one-of-a-kind, and the most painful part of all is that all of a red persuasion across Merseyside and beyond felt that he was on the pathway to immortality at Liverpool, sure to replace Van Dijk as club captain and then take his seat, one day, on a plinth beside Steven Gerrard.
“He’s been a superstar,” Alan Shearer said, acknowledging the Three Lions man at the end of his Premier League career.
Alexander-Arnold must always be treasured for his contribution toward a sustained period of success, but he sadly joins a different category now, and it’s one the fans will look back at regretfully for many years.
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Liverpool may have found their new version of Daniel Sturridge in this Reds star.