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As the Scottish Premiership title race continues to heat up towards a dramatic end, Rangers will be without one star who may have played his last game for the Gers in a devastating blow.

Rangers injury news

Still looking to dethrone their Old Firm rivals and win Scotland's ultimate prize, injury problems have arrived at the worst possible time for Rangers and Philippe Clement, who confirmed that Connor Goldson will miss the rest of the season.

The Gers boss revealed via Ibrox News: "Wednesday in training, Connor hurt his knee bad, he will be out for the rest of the season after a scan. It is a big blow, he has played 48 games this season, one of the leaders. He said to me he wanted to be in the dressing room to support the boys."

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Goldson – a player who knows all about dethroning Celtic having done so in the 2020/21 season – will be a big miss for those at Ibrox at a crucial time, especially with the Scottish Cup final against the Bhoys also coming up at the end of the month. But he's not the only one who will miss the remainder of the season.

Clement continued and provided further injury updates, revealing that Oscar Cortes and Danilo Pereira Da Silva will also be out for the rest of the campaign. This acts as two further blows for the Gers, especially since Cortes has likely played his last game for the club now unless his loan deal from Lens becomes permanent this summer.

The young winger initially suffered a muscle injury at the start of March and has since missed 11 games in an absence that will now extend to the final five games of Rangers' season. If that is to be it for Cortes at Ibrox, those in Scotland will be forced to wonder what might have been.

Youngster Cortes could be worth the gamble for Rangers

Despite missing 11 games through an untimely injury blow, Cortes could earn a permanent opportunity at Rangers this summer. If the Gers can negotiate a feasible price, then it is a deal they would be wise to go for given that Cortes is still just 20 years old.

Cortes grabbed a goal and an assist in just three Scottish Premiership starts, so more game time could easily have raised his stock further. Clement and the rest of Scotland were robbed of seeing the winger at his best due to his absence, but he can make up for lost time with a permanent switch.

It seems as though that permanent switch is certainly possible too, with Clement confirming talks with Lens regarding Cortes via the Glasgow Times, saying: "We are talking with Lens about what the situation is because in this situation it is a different situation from when he was fit. At the moment, he was fit, he was showing the right things, but it was really short-term. Then it needs to be at the right price."

So whilst Cortes has played his last game for Rangers as things stand, the summer transfer window could yet offer the winger a second chance at showing his best form when fit and firing at Ibrox.

Newcastle United are interested in signing an "incredible" Premier League star in the summer transfer window, with his current club valuing him at £60m.

Newcastle in need of new attackers

The Magpies have often been frustrated in attack this season, due to constant injury problems suffered by strike duo Alexander Isak and Callum Wilson. They have been limited to 24 starts between them in the league in 2023/24, highlighting their lack of involvement.

Due in part to that, Isak (11) is the only Newcastle player to have reached double figures for goals in the league this term, and more firepower is needed once the summer transfer window arrives.

Juventus winger Federico Chiesa has been backed to seal move to St James' Park, for example, ahead of a potential from his current club in the summer. A direct and powerful wide man, the Euro 2020 winner with Italy has an overall tally of 51 goal contributions (29 goals and 22 assists) in 117 appearances for Juve, showing the end product he could add to Eddie Howe's team.

Real Sociedad ace Takefusa Kubo has also been linked with a summer switch to Newcastle, with the Japanese primarily a right-sided attacking player, but also capable of thriving in a central role. The 22-year-old has seven goals in 19 La Liga starts this season, and could be considered an upgrade on Miguel Almiron, should he depart at the end of the current campaign.

Newcastle want to sign "incredible" Premier League ace

According to a fresh report from The Daily Mail, Pedro Neto has emerged as a new target for Newcastle this summer, though Wolves are unlikely to let him leave on the cheap as they look to raise funds against their own FFP issues.

In fact, the report states that "a fee of around £60m would be needed to do a deal" at the end of the season, and Liverpool also "hold an interest" in the Portuguese winger. While Chiesa and Kubo represent exciting options, Neto is a player who can be considered a primary target for Newcastle in the summer window. The Wolves man is arguably one of the most sought-after Premier League players outside the traditional big clubs, and his impact this season sums up his brilliance.

Pedro Neto vs. Newcastle's wingers this season	Neto	Gordon	Almiron	Barnes
Appearances	18	26	27	11
Starts	17	25	22	3
Goals	2	9	3	2
Assists	9	5	1	1
Key passes per game	2.1	1.1	0.8	0.2
Dribbles per game	1.9	1.3	0.8	0.4

The 23-year-old has registered nine assists in just 17 league starts, with his dribbling ability and final ball a nightmare for defender, according to Gary O'Neil.

Neto already knows the Premier League well, so he wouldn't have an issue taking time to adjust at Newcastle, and given his age, there should still be so much more to come from him. Injuries have been an issue, which does make signing him a slight risk, but the positives comfortably outweigh the negatives.

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Na última quinta-feira (13), Luan foi preservado do duelo contra o Peñarol, no Uruguai, no qual o Timão foi derrotado por 4 a 0 e eliminado da Copa Sul-Americana, ainda na fase de grupo. Como começou jogando contra a Inter de Limeira, na terça-feira (11), pelas quartas de final do Paulistão, em Itaquera, no qual o Alvinegro do Parque São Jorge goleou por 4 a 1, o meia não viajou à Montevidéu para estar em plenas condições físicas para o Dérbi.

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Phil Simmons, West Indies’ coach, has challenged his players to consign the events of the first Test at the Ageas Bowl to “history”, as they look to guard against complacency and close out their first overseas series win against a leading Test nation in more than a quarter of a century.Speaking after his team’s return to Emirates Old Trafford ahead of Thursday’s Test, Simmons praised the resolve of his players in Sunday’s four-wicket win in Southampton – in particular Jermaine Blackwood for his decisive 95 on the final day of the contest, and Shannon Gabriel, whose haul of nine wickets across the two innings demonstrated his return to full fitness following ankle surgery.The result means that West Indies have now won four of last six Tests against England – dating back to their famous run-chase at Headingley in 2017, and encompassing their 2-1 series win in the Caribbean in early 2019. However, they have not won a series in England since 1988, and Simmons acknowledged that it would be their duty to start from scratch in the coming days.”For me it was a great win because I think that it signified a lot of hard work being done by the players over the last four or five weeks,” he said. “But you don’t come to England and just win a Test match. It was a top-class Test match, with good cricket played by both teams, and even coming down to the last hour, it could have gone either way.”To come out on top. It’s been great for us, and it was important because you don’t want to have to chase England in England. So the chasing is from their point of view now. But you guard against complacency by just trying to do the same things you did before the first Test. Right now that Test match is history. We’ve got to be thinking about what we do from Thursday to Monday.”West Indies successfully backed up their first-Test victory in Barbados last year with an equally impressive win in Antigua, but the challenge of replicating that form in an overseas campaign is rather harder.Leaving aside their tours of Bangladesh and Zimbabwe, they have only taken the lead in the first Test of an away series on three occasions since 1995. In that year’s tour of England, they were pegged back to a 2-2 draw after a crushing win at Headingley, and were then overturned 3-1 on their next visit to England in 2000, and 2-1 in South Africa in 2007-08.ALSO READ: ‘When he crosses the line he gives his all’ – Holder on BlackwoodHowever, the circumstances of the current England tour are different in a number of key respects – firstly, the absence of a home crowd, which England arguably noticed during a flat day in the field in West Indies’ first innings, but perhaps more significantly, the extended preparation period, which may have been forced on the tourists by the Covid-19 outbreak, but which Simmons said harked back to his own playing days in the 1980s and 1990s.”I think that has been the biggest influence on the performance,” he said. “I think the fact that we’ve been here for that period of time, we’ve had quality bowling in the nets because we’ve had nearly 11 seamers here, you can’t put a price on that.”I think that’s something that we have to look at. I don’t like to go back into my [playing] days, but we would come to England and play something like three or four proper warm-up games before the first Test, and we would also have three-day or four-day games in between the Test matches. So I think that period of training goes a long way to how we performed in that first Test.”One of the key beneficiaries of the lead-up time was Gabriel, who had not originally been named in West Indies’ first-choice 14, but was added to the squad after proving his fitness in both the nets and the intra-squad contests at Old Trafford. His hostility in both England innings echoed his crucial contributions to the win in the Caribbean last year, and Simmons took particular pleasure in his two-wicket burst on the pivotal fourth evening of the match.”The hardest time for bowlers, after bowling from the morning, is that last session,” Simmons said. “To see him and Alzarri [Joseph] come up trumps in that session is so pleasing to us. With him coming back from that ankle surgery and working as hard he has worked since we’ve been here, it was a joy to see him successful in that period.”Blackwood also proved his mettle, and not for the first time against England, against whom he now averages 55.00 in seven Tests. He withstood intense pressure on the final day – both from the scoreboard, which read 27 for 3 with John Campbell retired hurt, and from England’s fielders, with Ben Stokes in his ear from the outset as they attempted to goad him into a rush of blood.”I think he must be commended because he has worked very hard on trying to get that temperament right for each part of his innings,” Simmons said. “As we saw in the first innings, it was still there a bit, but in the second he controlled it a lot better. And that helped him to bring home the game for us.”Blackwood himself conceded that England’s words were “nothing bad, just cricket” and Simmons accepted that it was all part and parcel of the Test match battle.”It’s what I would have done too,” he said. “Try to get him irrational, but I think he held his own. He looked at the situation and played it as well as he could have. So that shows that his mindset is improving, and that’s all you can ask for.”

West Bromwich Albion will go into the next round of Championship fixtures bare in the striker department, with Carlos Corberan having to use Jed Wallace up top against Hull City last time out in the second tier.

The ever-extending injury list at the Hawthorns involving centre-forwards sees Josh Maja, Daryl Dike and Brandon Thomas-Asante all in the treatment room currently, a less-than-ideal situation for the Spanish manager in the Baggies dug-out to resolve.

It's not as if this loaned-out attacker would add much firepower to the striker ranks in the West Midlands if he was recalled either, the once statement £15m buy now on shaky ground when it comes to his West Brom future.

Karlan Grant's time with West Brom

Karlan Grant would join West Brom full of promise, departing Huddersfield Town off the back of a prolific one-season spell at the John Smith's Stadium.

Finding the back of the net 19 times in his final full campaign with the Terriers, the Baggies must have thought they'd struck gold landing a potent Grant when they did.

Yet, it has turned out not to be a smooth sailing move for the former Huddersfield man with the £15m transfer fee above his head now looking rather extortionate.

Grant would be immediately thrown in at the deep end under then Baggies boss Slaven Bilic on his arrival to the Hawthorns, recruited to help West Brom stave off relegation from the Premier League with some important strikes.

The now 26-year-old would bag just one goal during his side's dismal 2018/19 top-flight campaign, however, but bounced back to justify his price tag the season after in the second tier with 18 goals managed from 45 appearances.

Season

Games played

Goals

Assists

2022-23

35

5

1

2022-21

45

18

6

2021-20

21

1

0

Failing to set the world alight last season in the West Midlands – amassing just five strikes from 35 games – Grant found himself on the fringes in Corberan's starting eleven and chucked out on loan to Cardiff City to prove himself.

With Grant further going on to struggle with the Bluebirds this season away from the Baggies, it's no shock to see that Grant's transfer value has taken a significant dent.

Karlan Grant's decreased transfer value in 2024

According to Football Transfers, the misfiring 26-year-old attacker's value has decreased all the way down to a measly €3.6m (£3m) which is a far cry from the excessive millions West Brom once forked out on the 6 foot forward.

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When looking at his £15m transfer fee, Grant is now embarrassingly worth £12m less.

Predominantly playing as a left winger for Cardiff hasn't allowed Grant to fully get into his goalscoring groove in Wales, but there's still no real impetus for Corberan to recall his failing loanee based on these weak numbers anyway to solve his promotion-seeking side's issues.

The Baggies must curse their luck when it comes to paying way over the odds for exciting stars in attack, with lightning unfortunately striking twice now with Daryl Dike who has seen his value fall dramatically all the way down to €2.7m (£2.3m).

Grant could prove to be useful again in the future for West Brom as a utility figure – with football pundit Carlton Palmer once praising the 26-year-old for being "versatile" owing to his ability to switch between playing down the wing and up top – but he's nowhere near being the hero in attack the West Midlands outfit crave currently.

If anything, the major fee next to his name has been his undoing with Grant never being able to reach the heights expected of him.

For the time being, Corberan will have to keep his faith in the limited strikers he has at his disposal while praying no more injuries are forthcoming.

The Three Lions are still alive in Germany, but their last-16 victory over Slovakia only raised more questions over the manager's decision-making

Gareth Southgate is the luckiest man in football. The England manager was one minute away from losing his job, after another truly horrendous performance from his toothless, unimaginative team at Euro 2024.

Memories of the Three Lions' painful exit at the hands of Iceland at the same stage eight years ago came flooding back, but defeat against Slovakia would have been unforgivable. Southgate was presiding over the biggest failure in the country's entire footballing history, because England have never had a squad as talented as this one.

But in the fifth minute of stoppage time, his team finally registered their first shot on target of the match, and Southgate's prayers were answered. "Who else?," asked Jude Bellingham after finding the back of the net with an overhead-kick of the highest quality. The Real Madrid man conjured up the most important goal of Southgate's reign out of nowhere, forcing extra-time in the process.

Harry Kane then nodded home the winner for England, who can still dream of a first piece of silverware since 1966. Southgate doesn't deserve it, but he's got another chance to carve out a lasting legacy.

That will soon evaporate if England play the same way in their quarter-final tie against Switzerland, though. The Three Lions will come up against elite opposition for the first time in the tournament on Saturday, and Southgate has to wise up if they're to get over the line; individual brilliance won't be enough to save him this time.

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"With 15 minutes to go you wonder if he is out on his feet," Southgate told when quizzed on Bellingham's last-gasp equaliser. "Him and Harry Kane produce those moments and that is why you don't makes changes when people are clamouring for more changes. We had enough attacking players on the pitch."

That statement does not bode well for England's hopes of going beyond the last eight. Southgate felt vindicated after the final whistle in Gelsenkirchen, having stressed the importance of not "losing continuity" by making too many tweaks to his team before the Slovakia tie. As was the case in all three group games, Southgate waited too long to start ringing the changes.

For the first time since 1986, England failed to register a shot on target in the first half of a major tournament fixture. Kane, Bellingham and Phil Foden were all poor, and England didn't show nearly enough creativity to beat Slovakia's high press. But the same set of players emerged for the second half, and England continued to toil in vain until the 66th minute, when Southgate finally reacted.

Cole Palmer came on for the abysmal Kieran Trippier and went out on the right wing, with Bukayo Saka moved to an unnatural left-back role due to the continued absence of Luke Shaw. The next substitution wasn't made until six minutes from the end of regulation time, as Kobbie Mainoo made way for Eberechi Eze, despite the Manchester United teenager having easily been England's standout player on the night. And then in the final minute of stoppage time, Southgate threw on Ivan Toney, who actually offered the Three Lions something different.

Toney's intelligent movement helped cause chaos in the Slovakia defence from the long throw that led to Bellingham's goal, and he then provided the assist for Kane in extra-time. Southgate admitted that the Brentford striker was "disgusted" by his cameo role, which was the overriding emotion for England fans for so long too, before relief took over.

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Even after England got their noses in front, there was no improvement in their general play. Southgate thought only of how to protect that lead, and instructed his team to sit deep in a 5-4-1 formation that invited Slovakia to come onto them.

Eze ended up at left-wing back as Saka moved to the opposite flank, while Ezri Konsa and Conor Gallagher came on for the second half of extra-time as Kane and Bellingham were taken out of the firing line. England clung on, but it wasn't pretty, which has been the story of their tournament so far.

"We know we will do whatever it takes. If we have another game like this in the quarter-final, then so be it," Kane said after the final whistle. "This team knows how to dig deep and that is exactly what we have done today. Of course we could have been better, we could have played better, but ultimately, it’s a results business. That is what we care about."

There is no lack of team spirit in the England camp, that much is true. But if Slovakia can neutralise Southgate's side, Switzerland have the potential to annihilate them.

They will be happy to let Trippier have the ball, knowing full well he will just cut inside onto his right foot and instantly slow down England's build-up play, and the Swiss will also target the space Kyle Walker leaves when he bombs forward. The difference is, Murat Yakin's team is full of quality players that can make the Three Lions pay for their mistakes.

England are still not pressing as a team either, which is creating huge gaps for the opposition to exploit. The likes of Breel Embolo, Ruben Vargas, Dan Ndoye and Granit Xhaka could have a field day if Southgate doesn't realise that his blueprint for success is deeply flawed.

Getty ImagesToney makes his case

One way to ensure that England do at least carry a far greater threat going forward against Switzerland would be to play with two upfront. Whether or not Southgate has the courage to drop Foden or Bellingham remains to be seen, but there is a real case for Toney coming in as the lead centre-forward, thereby giving Kane licence to tuck in and put his superb passing range to good use.

Toney likes to play on the last defender and will constantly make runs in behind. Too often England's best players have been forced to play backwards or sideways because of a lack of options ahead of them, but the Brentford star is capable of stretching the opposition.

Ideally, Anthony Gordon would also come in on the left flank to give the the Three Lions some proper width. Foden's unique talents have completely gone to waste in that position, and if Southgate isn't going to use him as a No.10, the Manchester City playmaker might as well not be on the pitch.

Saka has also overstayed his welcome in the starting XI, at least on the right wing, because he's offered none of the penetration in the final third that we saw at Arsenal last season. There is an argument for trying him at left-back again in the quarter-finals, but Palmer deserves a full 90 minutes in attack.

There are plenty of ways Southgate can turn things around; England have more strength in depth than any other other nation in Germany summer; he just cannot afford to do . "We've been very lucky and we should thank our lucky stars," former England full-back Gary Neville said on. "We were woeful and we've been woeful now for four games. We've got to change something dramatically now."

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Getty ImagesCoping with Guehi blow

The biggest bright spot of England's Euro 2024 campaign to date has been Marc Guehi, who has proven to be far more than just a competent deputy for the injured Harry Maguire in the heart of the defence. But unfortunately, the Crystal Palace talisman will only be present at Dusseldorf Arena next weekend in a spectator capacity.

Guehi picked up his second yellow card of the tournament in the early stages of the Slovakia game, and will now serve a one-match suspension. He has Trippier to thank for that blow, as he was left with little choice but to take out David Strelec after being sold short by a hospital pass from the Newcastle defender.

John Stones had built up an excellent rapport with Guehi that gave England a solid foundation, but he will need a new centre-back partner against the Swiss. That job is set to go to Konsa or Lewis Dunk, assuming Southgate sticks to his usual 4-2-3-1 formation.

However, there was a time when the Three Lions boss regularly opted for a 3-4-3 system, which he should at least consider reviving for the quarter-finals. After all, the best win of Southgate's entire tenure came when he went with three at the back, in the 2-0 last-16 victory over Germany at Euro 2020.

On that day, England had the luxury of using Shaw and Trippier in their favoured wing-back slots, and their relentless pressing prevented Germany from building up any kind of rhythm. This time around, Saka could do Shaw's job, with Trent Alexander-Arnold drafted in on the right, back in the position he excels in for Liverpool after his failed foray into central midfield, and Stones, Walker and Konsa or Joe Gomez could then form the last line of defence.

Taking this approach would be even riskier than the 4-4-2 option with Toney, and completely against Southgate's character, but the rewards could be great.