Chelsea have ended speculation surrounding Sjoeke Nusken’s future by confirming the Germany international has signed a new contract until 2027. The 24-year-old midfielder, who impressed in her debut season with 12 goals in all competitions, has committed her future to the Blues despite previous hints that she could look to explore options elsewhere.
Hampshire 215 for 3 (Bouchier 92, McCaughan 68) beat Essex 190 for 7 (Winfield-Hill 69, Tyson 3-40) by 25 runsMaia Bouchier and Ella McCaughan pulverised 158 runs together as Hampshire recorded the fifth-highest T20 score in Utilita Bowl history to thrash Essex in the Women’s Vitality Blast.Bouchier hammered 92 off 53 balls, and McCaughan 68 in 39 in a brutal batting display on a stunning batting track.The 215 that Hampshire racked up was only bettered by three Hampshire Men scores and Australia Men at Utilita Bowl, and eclipsed the previous 197-run high in women’s matches at the ground.Lauren Winfield-Hill, on loan from Yorkshire, thumped 69 but couldn’t prevent Essex from falling to a 25-run defeat in front of 4378 spectators – a highest for a non-Hundred or international women’s match at the ground.Having been stuck in by Essex, it took four balls for the first boundary – McCaughan tickling around the corner – and for the following 19.2 overs the ball barely left the perimeter.Hampshire were without overseas Charli Knott due to visa issues, having left the country after the first Metro Bank One-Day Cup block.McCaughan was the initial trailblazer for the innings, with her off-side timing particularly strong, as Bouchier rotated the strike. But Bouchier ended the 78-run powerplay with three fours off both Kate Coppack and Eva Gray. Bouchier and McCaughan had strike-rates over 200 from the first six overs.Maddie Penna and Grace Scrivens slowed things for the two overs out of the powerplay, but only temporarily as the batters prioritised pushing runs over boundaries.Bouchier reached her half-century first in 31 balls, her 11th in T20s, before McCaughan reached the milestone for the second time in 28 deliveries.Bouchier then turned up the power. Boundaries flowed off her bat in 360 degrees, including a rarely seen switch hit. In her innings, she had more fours than dots, before adding to a huge six over the long midwicket rope.The first-wicket reached 158 runs, higher than any partnership during the Charlotte Edwards Cup era, before McCaughan was undone by a slower ball from Esmae MacGregor for a career-best 68.Bouchier fell one shy of her best of 93 when Scrivens bowled her, but the last four overs didn’t see a massive slowdown, as Freya Kemp’s first appearance of the summer returned 20 off 13, with Georgia Adams 22 off 13.Winfield-Hill copied Bouchier and McCaughan’s approach by thrashing a fifty in 26 balls but it couldn’t keep up with the required rate. Wickets fell regularly at the other end. Scrivens skied to mid-on, Lissy MacLeod pinged to long-on and Cordelia Griffiths picked out deep midwicket.Winfield-Hill was starved of boundaries out of the powerplay, and scored just one after reaching her half-century. The frustration caught up with her as she was excellently caught at short fine leg for 69.Australian Penna whacked a quartet of sixes over square in a scintillating 17-ball 38 but it wasn’t enough as she and Jo Gardner fell in the death overs, with Bex Tyson picking up 3 for 40.
da dobrowin： Fabrizio Romano has shared what Man City sensation Rico Lewis is thinking about a move to Nottingham Forest, coming after Nuno Espirito Santo’s side opened negotiations for the talent earlier this week.
da lvbet： Since it was announced by UEFA that Forest will be taking Crystal Palace’s place in the Europa League this season, Evangelos Marinakis and co have seriously started kicking the club’s transfer plans into gear with a late-window flurry.
Nuno lost one of their key attacking stars from last season, Anthony Elanga, to Newcastle United in a deal worth £55 million earlier this summer, and were on the verge of losing star playmaker Morgan Gibbs-White to Tottenham before Marinakis intervened.
The summer didn’t exactly start in rosy fashion for Forest, but in the space of a few days, Marinakis has sealed a triple signing for Nuno worth around £92 million.
Man City’s James McAtee and Ipswich Town’s Omari Hutchinson are on their way to the City Ground, as is Arnaud Kalimuendo, with the striker now sealing a £27 million move to Forest ahead of an imminent medical.
So much is happening at Forest right now, with the club also reaching an agreement on personal terms for Juventus midfielder Douglas Luiz, who could make a swift return to the Premier League just one year after leaving the Midlands from Aston Villa.
Forest are pushing to sign the Brazilian, who bagged 10 goals and 10 assists in all competitions during his final year at Villa, to complement Gibbs-White in the middle of the park.
Forest have also opened talks with Juve over Luiz, so this is certainly one to watch out for, as is a move for Lewis.
Rico Lewis stance on joining Nottingham Forest after opening Man City talks
It’s hard to keep up with all the activity going on under Marinakis’ watch.
On Friday evening, Romano shared news that Forest have submitted an official bid for Lewis – opening talks with City as they push to sign the versatile 20-year-old – who can play at full-back and in midfield.
In a further update, the reliable journalist shared Lewis’ stance on making the move to Forest from Eastlands.
The reporter claims there is real belief at Forest that the player is keen to join them, and this has resulted in Nuno’s side insisting on finding an agreement with City – though it is stressed that Marinakis’ initial bid is currently below Lewis’ asking price.
The starlet has already earned five caps for England as a result of his sky-high potential, with Pep Guardiola even once calling Lewis one of the best players he has ever coached.
Cramped spaces, taped balls and policemen – a youth programme is using all three to make a difference to the lives of urban teens in England’s inner cities
Sharda Ugra23-Nov-2011On a day in August, as the smoke from the urban riots that shook England in the summer began to thin, Farokh Engineer spoke to a group of children sprawled on a synthetic football pitch at the Ferndale Community Sports Centre in Brixton. The district used to be the old heartland of the Afro-Caribbean community in south London, The Oval only a few kilometres away.Engineer asked, “Do you know Clive Lloyd?” There were a few murmurs in response. The kids had just been introduced to Street20: cricket in an unfamiliar form, full of noise, energy, fun and scampering between plastic stumps. Now this? Engineer told the kids a few tales about Super Cat, and a few then launched into an animated discussion about the rare species of cricket that was available free on English terrestrial TV – the IPL. On one side of the group was a long block of housing council architecture, and around the other snaked a string of terraced homes and automobile service shops.English cricket traditionally, and in image, does not belong to this environment. Its more familiar surroundings are manicured outfields, pretty club houses with old photographs, history seeping out of their walls: the pictures of summer. Yet all year around, including in football-suffused winter, cricket is played in some parts of England. A sort of cricket that appears almost instantly South Asian; an improvised version, played in small spaces, with energy and vigour.Street20 is six-a-side, five overs an innings, four balls an over, and can be found in inner-city neighbourhoods in five English cities. It is played in school halls, leisure centres, basketball courts and on indoor athletics tracks. Matches finish in 15 to 20 minutes. Sometimes they even tape the tennis ball over, like in Pakistan, and discover what magic it can do.They once played Street20 in Waterloo Station’s Eurostar Terminal, to get attention for StreetChance – the community-centric youth cricket programme that has opened the sport up to a layer of city life far removed from the pastoral idylls the English game has been associated with. In the long run, who knows, StreetChance may change English cricket’s view of the inner city.Street cred
Street cricket is familiar in South Asia, where kids grow up learning the game in tight, narrow spaces; not so in England.
“When kids come to play cricket, they bring with them issues. You can start talking about the weather and soon they begin to tell you more. Cricket can fill in some of the gaps”Policeman John Markham about interacting with kids during StreetChance events
Richard Joyce, StreetChance’s national operations manager, described what cricket looked like in England outside the tight circle of its faithful. “It is thought of as boring, about wearing white clothes and standing around all day doing nothing, and then crossing over now and then. We are trying to change perceptions a little.”The sport of the streets in England is football, but it requires kids to be both reasonably adept and fit to belong even at a casual level. In neighbourhoods without resources or access to formal clubs, those that are left out can find themselves isolated. StreetChance aims to reach into those neighbourhoods and fill the empty spaces in young teenagers’ lives. Its cricket is not that of perfection, technique, orthodoxy; it is cricket for access, enjoyment, and the ripple effect that an inclusive sport can have on a community. “Cricket is an important tool, but for us it’s a tool,” Joyce says. “It’s not the endgame.”StreetChance is the result of a five-way partnership between the charities Cricket Foundation and Cricket for Change, the British Home Office’s Positive Futures national crime prevention programme, the Metropolitan Police Service, and principal sponsor Barclays Spaces for Sport. StreetChance began three years ago, taking community cricket projects into 10 of London’s less affluent boroughs. It has now grown to involve four other cities – Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, and Dewsbury (south-west of Leeds). By 2012 it will extend to include Hull and Liverpool. It turns up in the rougher neighbourhoods, where conventional cricket clubs are distant or appear inaccessible, where there is time to kill and no leisure to kill it with. It is played in enclosed areas, aiming to break boundaries of class, race and also, authority.Every StreetChance project, says Joyce, runs all year round, once a week, for three hours after school hours. It is open to children 8 to 18, and the core group is between 12 and 15.A member of the local Metropolitan Police is present at every StreetChance event, almost always in uniform. It is the policeman’s chance to communicate with an age group that tends to steer clear of the police, and the teenagers’ opportunity to get used to the idea of the men in uniform being approachable. John Markham, a project manager of the Metropolitan Police’s youth engagement programme, who has been a policeman for nearly three decades, says, “When kids come to play cricket, they bring with them issues. You can start talking about the weather and soon they begin to tell you more. Cricket can transgress differences, fill in some of the gaps.”At the Brixton event, several members of the England women’s team turned up, including the captain, Charlotte Edwards, Caroline Atkins and Beth Morgan. Edwards said she had been apprehensive about coming to Brixton but had enjoyed the energy with which the teenagers took to the sport in its most basic, fun form. When a rifled throw from her toppled the plastic stumps, her team ran shrieking towards her for high-fives. In the course of a single afternoon, StreetChance had shrunk some entrenched distances that may exist in English cricket.Postcode revelry
A few days after Brixton, StreetChance turned up in another form: in a council estate in Islington, Arsenal country in North London. Crouch Hall Estate staged a four-estates Street20 event in an attempt to dilute the completely peculiar “postcode rivalry” that exists in London’s more dispossessed areas.Wasim Akram talks to kids during a StreetChance launch in Manchester•StreetChance/Bowles AssociatesPoliceman Tosun Gulakdeniz, who was at the event, says, “It is purely territorial gang mentality between young guys – where you see someone from another neighbourhood, another postcode, you want to chase them out.” At the very least, postcode gangs turn into street bullies of young people. At worst, the rivalry leads to knife crime, and communities and neighbourhoods close in. “Parents don’t want their teenagers travelling in the school breaks, don’t want them out of the house,” Gulakdeniz said. To get four council estate teams from varying and “rival” postcodes to play cricket together in Crouch Hall was significant.The playing area – a basketball court-sized, caged area – had no banners. There was a DJ, loud music playing out of speakers, cricket on in the enclosed space, with high-pitched voices and shouting, activity and movement around it, and food for all competitors. The lack of banners or logos was deliberate, says Tim Mathias, StreetChance project officer for London. It was intended to prove that what was happening was not a commercial venture. The sound system was powered by electricity through a length of cables plugged into the nearest ground-floor apartment, whose owners were warmly thanked for their help at the end of the evening.Perry Sophocleous, a StreetChance community coach, is one of the project’s mascots. He came to it by accident when he was looking for a chance to develop work experience, after having held a series of directionless jobs largely for “short-term financial gain”. The StreetChance coaching apprenticeship drew on his natural skill for communicating with young people and gave him a purpose. He now works the estates projects and says a competition of the kind found in Crouch Hall can change a “mentality”. “Priory Court estate kids going out for a game of cricket at Crouch Hall and playing cricket together sends out a very different message,” he said.Priory Court is where StreetChance went first. Not the sort of place that generates the best of news, it has a gang problem. Sophocleous tells of a teenager from there, a heavy smoker, who came to StreetChance on a lark. When the session finished the boy was astonished that he had not smoked for two hours. He kept returning to StreetChance, cut down to one cigarette a day. “If it’s not smoking, it would have been drugs, or worse,” Sophocleous said.These are small stories, but significantly each project has them. Each project makes a difference to someone involved in it. There are 20 mixed community projects, seven (council) estate projects and four specialist projects for girls. The multi-estate competitions have encouraged teenagers to travel beyond their estates, increased their self-confidence and encouraged them to mix with young people from other areas.
At the Brixton event, several members of the England women’s team turned up, including the captain, Charlotte Edwards, who said she had been apprehensive about coming to Brixton. When a rifled throw from her toppled the plastic stumps, her team ran shrieking towards her for high-fives
Among the kids gambolling around at Crouch Hall is a group of three siblings from Priory Court. The youngest, eight-year-old Oliver Vaughan, says he likes StreetChance “because you don’t just stand around, you can get to run about. If you get out, then soon enough you get another chance.”Joyce says cricket went into the estates because it was “less combustible” than football. When a StreetChance event begins in an estate, the coaches say, within minutes it gets everyone’s attention. To parents it seems like fun for the kids. Better than them hanging around street corners. In Tottenham, StreetChance works alongside the Kickz programme with Tottenham FC Foundation, which involves three nights of football and one night with another activity, which in this instance happens to be cricket.Going the distance
During the urban violence witnessed in some parts of England in the summer, the reactions from the StreetChance community were, Joyce says, “a bit of a mix”. Some of the children in the boroughs that witnessed vandalism and arson had even being invited to take part in the looting. “Some said to us that in the past maybe they would have,” Joyce said. Their rootedness now was elsewhere. Among the kids who turned up to play, the StreetChance coaches found “anger and disappointment”. “The kids felt [they were] just being tarred with the same brush.” A six-week focus project was drawn up, which would involve two hours of coaching and an hour of “outreach” time to talk to the StreetChance players about their reactions to the events of the summer.The total number of StreetChance participants, says Cricket Foundation chief executive Wasim Khan, will reach 20,000 within the year. The project will by then have created 1500 young leaders in training and development. “We want to give kids the opportunity to make the right choices in life,” Khan said, at the national StreetChance launch in Manchester, which brought together six StreetChance teams for a day-long competition. The Greenwich Gladiators, Manchester Lightning, Dewsbury Tangoes, Birmingham Bashers, Lewisham Lions and Tower Hamlets Tigers were given tips by Wasim Akram and Graeme Swann. Mark Nicholas was master of ceremonies.Shahidul Alam watched the rapidly moving matches, waiting for his Tower Hamlets Tigers to step into their games. Tower Hamlets, in East London, is now the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi community. Alam runs two StreetChance sessions and knows just how far cricket in the inner cities can go. He has driven the growth of the Tower Hamlets Cricket Club, now in its third year, and says lots of the StreetChance participants move on to signing up with real clubs, which participate in the junior leagues. Tower Hamlets CC is made up of mostly Bangladeshi members with a few players of Afro-Caribbean descent, and plays out of Victoria Park, which now suddenly rubs shoulders with London 2012 venues. It competes in Under-13, Under-15 and Under-17 competitions, and last year finished runners up in the Middlesex Colts Under-17s competition.Another centre for StreetChance has been the Feltham Young Offenders Institute, which has hosted sessions for three hours every Wednesday for more than a year. The Young Offenders Institute was famous for housing Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Amir for two nights, before he was moved out, after he was sentenced in the spot-fixing case. Feltham houses offenders between 17 and 25 for minor offences.Winners Priory Court at the Crouch Hall Estates tournament•StreetChance/Bowles AssociatesWhen StreetChance coach Alex Bassan went there for the first time, he said: “I was nervous myself. After the first three-four weeks I was struggling.” The young offenders offended Bassan, a cheery 20-year-old, with their indifference, and he threw it back at them. He laughs now. “I told them, I’m getting up at 6am to get to them every week, and [you] can’t be bothered? I’m off, see you around, you handle this.”Giving the inmates responsibility in an environment where they were mostly ordered about did the trick. There was the basic framework of rules, but the inmates could alter the degrees of difficulty involved in scoring runs or taking wickets. They learnt how to umpire and keep score. “Now I have to turn up on Wednesday – and it runs itself,” Bassan says. The next step, he believes, is to give any of those in the remand prison, a StreetChance “Level 1 opportunity” – to become an assistant at any of the StreetChance projects, and work with the Level 2s like Bassan. He has seen several inmates serve time and then return to Feltham but believes someone will come out of a cycle of petty crime and turn to cricket, and the project, for an anchor.Cricket – and StreetChance – gives everyone second chances.
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Goiás x América-MG – 38ª rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro
Data e horário: quarta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2023, às 19h (de Brasília)
Local: Estádio da Serrinha, em Goiânia (GO)
Onde assistir: Premiere
Arbitragem: Davi de Oliveira Lacerda (árbitro); Fabiano da Silva Ramires e Vanderson Antonio Zanotti (assistentes); Marcos Sousa (quarto árbitro); Gilberto Rodrigues Castro Junior e Clovis Amaral da Silva (VAR)
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Goiás (Técnico: Mário Henrique)
Tadeu; Maguinho, Lucas Halter, Sidimar e Diego; Willian Oliveira, Morelli, Luís Oyama e Guilherme; Vinícius e Matheus Babi (Palacios)
Desfalques: Diego e Alesson (suspensos); João Magno, Higor Meritão, Hugo, Vinícius e Sander (lesões)
América-MG (Técnico: Diogo Giacomini)
Jori; Rodriguinho, Éder, Júlio e Danilo Avelar; Lucas Kal, Benítez (Breno), Martinez (Alê) e Juninho; Adyson e Renato Marques
Desfalques: Marlon e Matheus Henrique (suspensos); Aloísio, Felipe Azevedo, Iago Maidana, Mastriani, Mateus Pasinato, Matheusinho, Nicolas, Rodrigo Varanda e Wanderson (lesões)
da bet7： Chelsea could be very busy in these final few weeks of the transfer window.
Chelsea plan offer for "world-class" new target in bid to hijack AC Milan
The west Londoners are not done this summer.
ByEmilio Galantini Aug 1, 2025
da dobrowin： Earlier this week, Enzo Maresca was backed with the signing of Ajax left-back/centre-back Jorrel Hato, who will provide cover for Marc Cucurella whilst also bolstering the heart of Chelsea’s defence.
Chelsea’s best performers in the Premier League last season
Average match rating
Cole Palmer
7.33
Moises Caicedo
7.02
Enzo Fernández
6.95
Nicolas Jackson
6.88
Noni Madueke
6.82
via WhoScored
In traditional Chelsea fashion, the Netherlands international has agreed a long-term seven-year contract and is undergoing a medical today, before the club announce him as their next major signing of the summer.
Meanwhile, talks remain ongoing for RB Leipzig playmaker Xavi Simons, which is taking longer than initially thought.
A report from The Sun, via GOAL, claims that Chelsea have offered multiple players to Leipzig, including Carney Chukwuemeka and Armando Broja, in an attempt to sweeten negotiations, offload players and lower the Dutchman’s overall asking price.
Super agent Ali Barat is heavily involved in these discussions as he tries to facilitate Simons’ potential move to Stamford Bridge, and according to other reports, Chelsea could still move for Man United winger Alejandro Garnacho.
A swoop for the Argentine, who Ruben Amorim’s side are actively trying to sell, is believed to be independent of the Simons deal, with Chelsea in the market for another left-winger after Jamie Gittens (talkSPORT).
This is backed up by The Telegraph’s Matt Law, who’s shared a detailed update on Garnacho to Chelsea this week.
Chelsea expected to bid for Alejandro Garnacho
Accordong to Law, Chelsea have completed extensive background checks into the 21-year-old’s personality profile, and they have zero concerns over his attitude, despite Garnacho’s questionable conduct at Old Trafford.
Chelsea are expected to make a bid for Garnacho too, and Simons’ potential arrival won’t shut the door on him as BlueCo look to tempt the former Atlético Madrid academy ace with a move to London.
Personal terms shouldn’t be an issue either, with Chelsea believed to be Garnacho’s “first choice” destination should he leave Manchester.
United are under some pressure to sell the winger as we enter the final weeks of this transfer window, with reports suggesting that they’ve slashed his asking price from £70 million to £40 million.
Garnacho racked up 11 goals and 10 assists in 58 appearances for United last season, and won the 2024 Puskas award for a stunning overhead kick against Everton at Goodision Park the year prior.
“He has a lot of personality, he doesn’t give up, and he’s always on the ball. He never gives up in one-on-one situations,” said former Argentina international Javier Saviola at the end of 2024/2025.
“Now he’s adding goals to his game, something he was lacking a bit before, and he’s appearing closer to the box.”
Neser followed a five-wicket haul with a century while Agar backed up a hundred with a five-wicket bag
Andrew McGlashan12-Oct-2020Within the space of about an hour on adjacent grounds in Adelaide, Michael Neser and Ashton Agar completed a feat that had not been achieved in the Sheffield Shield for 10 years by scoring a century and taking five-wickets in an innings during the same match.Neser, the Queensland seam-bowling allrounder, was the first to the landmark at Gladys Elphick Park when he brought up his maiden first-class century with consecutive boundaries thrashed through the leg side off Riley Meredith. It followed his opening-day figures of 5 for 32 to help bowl out Tasmania for 250.On the next-door ground at Karen Rolton Oval, Agar was working his way through the Western Australia lower-order and completed his five-wicket haul when he claimed a return catch offered by his brother, Wes. That haul followed Agar’s century which he completed yesterday as part of a 266-run stand with Josh Inglis.Before today, the last player to complete this double in the Sheffield Shield was Mitchell Johnson when he scored 121 not out and claimed 5 for 35 against Victoria at the MCG in November 2010. Before that, Steven Smith bagged the doubled when he made 100 against South Australia then took 7 for 64.Overall, they were the 33rd and 34th occasions of the double happening in Sheffield Shield cricket. Garry Sobers did it four times during the 1960s.Neser is still waiting to earn a Test debut having been a regular part of Australia’s Test squad over the last 18 months while Agar, an established part of the limited-overs squad, played the most recent of his four Tests – which included the famous 98 on debut against England – in 2017.
da realsbet： This week has been somewhat of a whirlwind at Chelsea football club, with Mauricio Pochettino’s exit kickstarting the mayhem.
da aposte e ganhe： After finishing sixth in the Premier League and losing in the EFL Cup final, the Argentine failed to impress Todd Boehly.
The Blues are now in a position where they will look to appoint a new boss rather swiftly, with over ten managers already linked with the club.
However, it seems that they’ve now finally decreased their shortlist as they look to sign a boss who could make Enzo Fernandes world-class.
Chelsea’s search for a Pochettino replacement
The list of potential Chelsea managers seems to be getting longer as the days pass, but there are clearly two targets who have been mentioned the most.
Kieran McKenna of Ipswich Town is one of them, and he’s set to be at the centre of a three-way battle between Manchester United, the Blues, and Brighton & Hove Albion.
But it’s the boss who went unbeaten against him this season – the teams drawing twice – and pipped him to the Championship title that’s emerging as the favourite, Enzo Maresca.
According to The Guardian, Chelsea are currently in talks to begin contact with the Italian, who has an £8.5m release clause and is interested in the role at Stamford Bridge.
How Maresca could transform Enzo Fernandez
Leicester City’s return to the Premier League was a fantastic achievement after losing plenty of key players, but to do it in the fashion that they did is simply unbelievable.
The players deserve plenty of credit for their role in the success, but the majority of the plaudits must go to Maresca, who truly transformed the club and has been dubbed as "incredible" by midfielder Harry Winks.
To put into perspective just how dominant the Foxes were, they scored the second most goals in the division, conceded the fewest, and boasted an average possession of 62%.
Leicester vs Chelsea 23/24 League Stats
Stats
Leicester
Chelsea
Wins
31
18
Defeats
11
11
Goals scored
89
77
Goals conceded
41
63
Clean sheets
15
8
Possession
62%
58.9%
Via Sofascore
Each individual flourished in the Italian’s setup, but one player who truly starred was Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, the driving force in the middle of the park.
The England international excelled as the left-sided central midfielder, scoring 12 goals and providing 14 assists, and Boehly will hope that Maresca can inspire Fernandez to follow a similar trajectory.
The Argentine joined Chelsea for a huge £107m fee in January last year, and unfortunately, he’s not really lived up to expectations this season.
Fernandez started 26 matches during the campaign, scoring three goals and providing two assists, but in a new role that promises attacking freedom, he could finally reach his potential.
The former Benfica ace is the definition of a technical ace, boasting 1.1 key passes, 79.2 touches, and 55.7 passes per game, while he’s also a threat in the final third, taking 1.7 shots per match.
Those statistics indicate that he would be best suited to a role similar to Dewsbury-Hall's; their profile is rather alike in regards to the fact that they can influence the game at both ends of the field. The clip below shows the kind of position that Fernandez would find himself in far more often under the Foxes coach.
Additionally, Maresca's extreme possession-based style would highlight Fernandez's strengths while also hiding his weaknesses, which is a sign of a top manager.
Overall, the Italian would be a great choice as the next Chelsea boss, and if he can transform the Blues players like he did at Leicester, he could quickly become a favourite amongst the fans and the squad.
Chelsea offered "incredible" manager who'd transform Caicedo
Former Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel isn’t a fan of the manager target.
ByTom Lever May 24, 2024
da betsson： Aston Villa have been handed a boost as it has emerged that one of their transfer targets has a much cheaper release clause than first reported, presenting even better value for money for the Midlands club should they opt to pull the trigger on a deal.
Villa setting up for Europe
da cassino online： Semi-finalists in the UEFA Conference League this season, Unai Emery's Villa side will be playing Champions League football next season after fourth spot in the Premier League was ensured on Tuesday, courtesy of Tottenham falling to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Manchester City.
The Villans have enjoyed an excellent campaign, and will be hoping that it is just the start of a dynasty being built under the former Arsenal and PSG boss, who has dragged them from 17th to 4th in his 18 months in charge.
Unai Emery personally phones £80k-p/w midfielder Aston Villa lead race for
The Spanish coach is looking to improve his side quickly following Champions League qualification.
ByBen Browning May 16, 2024
But there are still holes in the squad that need filling ahead of the new season; as per Football Insider, Villa are targeting three positions to strengthen this summer. "Unai Emery wants to bring in a new full-back, who can play at both left and right-back, as well as a striker and a box-to-box midfielder", they claim.
There is also the expectation that they will add another centre-back to replace the on-loan Clement Lenglet, with Mario Hermoso reportedly set to arrive as a free agent with Villa having beaten Inter Milan to his signature. Now, they have been handed a boost in pursuit of one of their other targets.
Striker available for bargain fee
Of course, Villa have already got one of the Premier League's best strikers in Ollie Watkins, but they are also reportedly keen on adding Joshua Zirkzee to their ranks, with reports claiming that Sporting Director Monchi is particularly keen on a move for the Bologna man.
Zirkzee has starred for Bologna this season, with the 22-year-old grabbing 11 goals and 5 assists, leading to interest in his services from across the continent. However, it was thought that he would cost around 60m euros (£51m) to sign permanently.
Now though, a new update has claimed he will be free to go for much less. That is according to Corriere dello Sport, who report that the 40m euro buyback option for Bayern Munich in fact applies to all interested clubs, meaning that Zirkzee is likely to depart Emilio-Romagna for £34m, with AC Milan, Arsenal and Aston Villa all credited with a strong interest.
Zirkzee's fantastic Serie A season
Appearances
34
Goals
11
Assists
5
Minutes per goal contribution
173
That is thanks to the work of super agent Kia Joorabchian, who inserted the clause into the deal when he moved from Bayern to Serie A. The Dutch forward has two years left to run on his £18,000 a week deal at Bologna, making a departure or renewal this summer likely as they look to protect his value.
With strikers few and far between and value for money even less so, this could be a perfect opportunity to snatch up another young star for Aston Villa.
That Australia would conclude a domineering home series against New Zealand with their second highest ever ODI total on home shores, on the way to a record-setting 21st consecutive ODI victory, was startling enough. That they would achieve those feats with a 232-run win, without their captain Meg Lanning as well as their famed allrounder Ellyse Perry in the XI, was downright unnerving for the rest of the world.Lanning’s absence, due to a right hamstring strain sustained during her unbeaten century in the second of three ODIs on Monday, was the talk of Allan Border Field on Wednesday morning, giving New Zealand a chance to pressure a batting order shorn of its most vaunted name. Certainly it was enough to encourage Sophie Devine to send the hosts in upon winning the toss despite a slowing and ageing surface.But the response was that of a team far more enthused than overawed by such challenges. The acting captain Rachael Haynes and Alyssa Healy combined for a commanding opening stand worth 144 in a little more than half the available overs, before Haynes and the middle order accelerated fearfully to take the Australians to 325 – only a gargantuan 397 against Pakistan in the amateur days of 1997 surpassed it among matches at home.ALSO READ: How Australia made it 21 wins in a rowIn the midst of the punishment, including 104 from the final 10 overs as Ashleigh Gardner, Beth Mooney and Lanning’s replacement Tahlia McGrath made merry, there was also room for development: an occasionally halting but equally promising stay at No. 3 from the 18-year-old allrounder Annabel Sutherland, as she added 78 in 87 balls with Haynes. Asked to chase a distant 326, the touring side were in trouble virtually from the start, as Devine was cramped into pulling Megan Schutt into the trap of two midwickets placed for her, departing the scene for a disconsolate first-ball duck. There onwards, the Australian bowlers did not relent, as Jess Jonassen and Georgia Wareham particularly enjoyed the expansive spin occasionally on offer.There had been far more optimism for New Zealand early on, as an overcast morning offered the chance for swing, and the knowledge that Healy and Haynes were to be followed by the callow Sutherland rather than the hamstrung Lanning.ALSO READ: Meg Lanning interview – On leading superstars, legacyBut they were unable to find a way through, allowing Healy and Haynes to punish any errors in line and length, and build with something approaching impunity as both passed 50 and Healy reached the outskirts of a century. Thirteen short of a century, she skied wristspinner Amelia Kerr, clearing the way for Sutherland’s entry.The next period saw New Zealand regain some control of the scoreboard as Sutherland struggled to rotate strike with her correct and upright technique, only for Haynes to intervene with some aggressive blows to get the run rate going again. With time, Sutherland began to join in, but was bowled behind her pads attempting to sweep Kerr just as the final 10 overs began.Haynes’ steadfast display merited a century, but was ended on 96 by a marginal lbw call when she, too, knelt to sweep Kerr. Mooney might also easily have followed lbw, saved only by a little doubt over whether the ball had pitched outside leg stump before looking likely to crash into middle. Kerr’s wristspin skills had again been very evident, but upon the conclusion of her spell, having seen Gardner wretchedly dropped by Natalie Dodd, the Australians freed their arms. Eight sixes for the innings were the joint-most for Australia in a women’s ODI.New Zealand’s pursuit was never more than a cursory one, save for Amy Satterthwaite’s 41. On a slow and spinning surface, against bowling options ideally suited to the conditions, they were completely overwhelmed. The evenness of Australia’s display was underlined by the fact that wickets were shared among every member of the attack, rounding off a massive victory without their two biggest names.Twenty-one ODI wins in a row equalled the record set by the Australian men’s team in the 2000s; seldom if ever were Ricky Ponting’s side quite as dominant as this.