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Post by Webster on Sept 13, 2019 14:41:23 GMT
(The Guardian) Frank Lampard has said Chelsea will still be without N’Golo Kanté when they visit Wolves tomorrow. Kanté has missed Chelsea’s last two games with an ankle injury and the trip to Molineux has come too soon for the midfielder, who faces a race against time to be fit for next week’s Champions League game against Valencia at Stamford Bridge. “N’Golo is not fit yet,” Chelsea’s manager said. “He still has issues with his ankle. The medical team are working with him. He is in a transition period and we are trying to get him on the pitch. He is doing some physical work but this game comes too soon for him. “Hopefully he is close. I don’t want to jump the gun because we are waiting for improvements for that final step to get him where we want him to be on the pitch. Hopefully that will be in the next week or so.” The good news for Chelsea is that Mateo Kovacic, Pedro and Antonio Rudiger are fit after shaking off injuries, but Emerson Palmieri is a doubt with the thigh problem he picked up on international duty. Meanwhile Callum Hudson-Odoi, who is close to signing a new deal, and Reece James will make their comebacks from long-term injuries when they play for the Under-23s tonight. “Callum is going to play for the 23s this evening along with Reece James,” Lampard said. “They will get minutes and it’s important now because Callum has been training with us for a while but there are still issues that we need to make sure are OK with the injury itself, in terms of the strength and where the injury is. He’ll need to get match fit, which is why these games are really beneficial for him. It will be great to see that. “Reece James is similar, not such a long time out but he needs games for similar reasons. I’m pleased with that. They are two young players that are going to be big for this club going forward and we’ll all be watching tonight.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 13, 2019 14:42:21 GMT
(The Guardian) Per PA Media: West Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini believes everyone must respect Declan Rice’s decision over his international future.
The Hammers midfielder, 20, revealed his switch from the Republic of Ireland to England led to threats against him and his family in some vitriolic online abuse. Rice made his fifth senior appearance for the Three Lions in the Euro 2020 qualifier against Kosovo, and Pellegrini feels it is time to move on.
“I think Declan delayed his decision and had a think and a talk with the people important to him so I don’t have any doubt that it was the right decision Declan took for his life,” the West Ham manager said at a press conference. Of course, not everybody is happy, but everyone has to respect him for that and he shouldn’t give them too much importance because it doesn’t matter what other people think.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 15, 2019 2:19:28 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 16, 2019 0:29:15 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 16, 2019 0:29:42 GMT
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Post by Ste_Macca on Sept 16, 2019 14:44:49 GMT
Been a good weekend, the Ev got smashed and the Arse drew and Citeh lost
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Post by Webster on Sept 17, 2019 22:26:02 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 20, 2019 15:28:59 GMT
(The Guardian) Jürgen Klopp speaks! The Liverpool manager is up before the media, ahead of Sunday’s trip to Frank Lampard’s Chelsea (TM). Injury-wise, he tells us that Naby Keita’s back in training today, but Alisson is not ready yet, though he is “making good progress”. Divock Origi’s not ruled out. As for converns around Virgil van Dijk’s fitness, the manager replies: “We have four world class centre-halves and they can play together, so that can be enough.” As for the man behind them, Adrian, Klopp hails his progress since his Southampton blunder. “The Southampton thing was exceptional but human beings make mistakes. He was only maybe two or three weeks here when we played Southampton and they know each other much better now and hopefully it can stay like this. It couldn’t be the case in the first few games. It’s pointed out that Liverpool haven’t won at Stamford Bridge since September 2016, and have a poor recent away record against the top six – why? “Because they’re really good, that could be one reason. It’s not good news but I don’t feel it [the pressure]. We go there to get a result, you cannot go to Chelsea and guarantee you win a game, they’re too good for that. We are much more successful winning all the other games. We’ve had some unlucky moments and caught good performances from the opponents, but obviously there’s a job to do.” Asked to assess Frank Lampard’s record so far, he says, “He’s done really well but it’s not my job to talk about other managers. What I can say is they play exciting football, they’ve played last two games in a different system in a busy period, so that’s interesting, they’re an exciting football team, young but good. It’s not a surprise that he’s done well. I said it last year and was not just being polite, it’s the truth. He did an outstanding job at Derby so I’m not surprised he’s doing a really good job at Chelsea. “If there’s one club in the world a transfer ban didn’t hit that bad it’s Chelsea because of their transfer policy of the last few years with a lot high quality players out on loan.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 20, 2019 15:29:39 GMT
(The Guardian) Ole Gunnar Solskjær has aired some thoughts, in the aftermath of that narrow Man Utd win over Astana. Including that he’s not that stressed by Marcus Rashford’s recent lack of goals because the forward has demonstrated hunger and determination to improve. “He’s getting the chances,,of course he could have had three [against Astana]. The keeper made a few fantastic saves. I don’t worry about that, no. We’re working every single day in training with Marcus. He wants to improve, wants to be better.” Talking of forwards, Anthony Martial is expected to miss the trip to West Ham on Sunday along with Paul Pogba and Luke Shaw. United could also be without Dan James, who missed the match against Astana with a knock sustained in the victory against Leicester. “I don’t know,” Solskjaer said. “He’s not trained the last few days. Hopefully, but not sure. We’ll have a recovery day with everyone and we’ll see on Saturday.” Solskjær said the likes of Axel Tuanzebe and Fred could also figure in the line-up on Sunday, as is 17-year-old Mason Greenwood after his display against Astana. “It’s always hard to keep players who perform well out of the team,” the manager said.
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Post by Webster on Sept 20, 2019 15:30:32 GMT
(The Guardian) Some Spurs news: Daniel Levy has announced that the club will be refinancing their new-stadium loans but insisted that he will continue to run Tottenham on the relatively frugal business plan that has characterised his chairmanship. The full story on that from our man David Hytner will be up shortly. As for the team, Mauricio Pochettino has been speaking before tomorrow lunchtime’s match at Leicester, and he thinks it’s too early to tell how the season’s going to pan out. “It’s too early to talk about contenders and what will happen in the future. Still all the teams are finding their best,” he said. “We only play five games in the Premier League. Until you play between 10 and 15 games, it’s difficult to see what will happen and the real contenders, teams who are going to be serious contenders. It is still so early.” “Leicester is a very good team with a lot of unbelievable players. After winning the Premier League they rebuild their squad and are doing fantastic with a great manager like Brendan Rodgers, who I know very well. They are doing a fantastic job.” Reflecting on the 2-2 draw at Olympiakos, and the criticism levelled at Christian Eriksen’s performance in particular, Pochettino admitted: “The collective performance wasn’t the best from us. I am happy with the commitment of Christian, he ran a lot and was very committed with the team, the effort but I think I am not concerned about him.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 20, 2019 15:31:17 GMT
(The Guardian) Southampton v Bournemouth chat: Saints manager, Ralph Hasenhüttl, is feeling pretty chipper about his side. “You can feel that these players are believing in what they’re doing,” he says, “It’ll be a tough and tactically demanding game against Bouremouth but an interesting one for the players and the crowd. It can be a very open game but hope we get the right result Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe adds: “We’re looking for back to back wins in the Premier League, which is a very difficult thing to do, but there should be a good atmosphere, the rivalry [between Bournemouth and Southampton] is gaining in everybody’s focus the more games we have, and the more rivalry will become more intense.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 20, 2019 15:37:57 GMT
(The Guardian) Brighton’s manager, Graham Potter, has been chin-wagging about the long trip to Newcastle tomorrow evening. He says his team must be flexible as they look to shackle the “different option” of the fit-again Newcastle striker Andy Carroll, reports PA Media. Steve Bruce feels the former Liverpool player offers his team an “old-fashioned centre-forward” with which to target the opposition defence. Potter accepts keeping Carroll quiet will be a tough task, but is also aware that his players have to keep guard against a frontline that caused Tottenham so many problems a few weeks ago. “I would imagine it is a big boost having someone of his quality,” Potter said when asked on the prospect of facing a fully-fit Carroll on Saturday evening. “It is a different option, there is not too many like for like players as Andy Carroll around. “I have been impressed with how their front three have combined anyway and played. They went away to Tottenham and won. They were competitive at Liverpool before a couple of errors made the scoreline go away (from them) a little bit. “Newcastle away is a difficult game, just like all the games we have played, but we will just focus on what we need to do well to get a positive result. We know we are going to have to play well and be lucky, that type of stuff, but we will try.” Potter will have full-back Martin Montoya available again following illness. “The boys are open-minded to being flexible and adaptable and they all want to take that challenge on,” Potter said. “We lost three players after the international break, as an example, and you have to be able to adapt and do something different to before - those that needed to went out and demonstrated that.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 20, 2019 15:39:02 GMT
(The Guardian) It’s the Phil Jagielka derby at Goodison on Saturday. The England defender made 350 appearances for Everton and returns there with Sheffield United, the place where he launched his career. The Blades are currently 15th with five points from five games and two-club man Jagielka sees plenty of encouraging signs. “Because we’ve not got massive household names who have played a lot of Premier League football and we didn’t spend a tremendous amount of money in the summer, people have knocked us,” he said. “But in among the squad and the staff the belief has always been there and I think, when you’ve done what these lads have done over the last few years, you can’t do that without great determination and self-belief.” “It’s too easy to lose confidence in this division because you do play against some fantastic players week in, week out. But as it stands, as you can tell from the previous couple of years, the momentum is still there and that’s key for us at the moment.” Meanwhile, Sheffield United’s new owner, Prince Abdullah bin Musaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, has been keen to offer his support to boss Chris Wilder in the wake of the acrimonious high court battle to wrest full control from Kevin McCabe – previously the holder of a 50% stake. He stressed: “We are blessed to have him. The results and the way we play our beautiful football speaks for itself. I have good harmony with Chris.” Interesting to note that Prince Abdullah made his wealth from paper production. And he’s not the first. Look at Jeff Lamp, 42 years old, got his own Porsche. That’s from paper.
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Post by Webster on Sept 20, 2019 21:13:31 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 22, 2019 1:44:53 GMT
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