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Post by Webster on Sept 22, 2019 1:46:53 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 23, 2019 3:50:00 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 27, 2019 14:53:50 GMT
(The Guardian) Steve Bruce has been wheeled out early at Newcastle to talk about Sunday’s game against Leicester. He says he knows little about the possible £300m takeover by a Peter Kenyon-led consortium. “It’s news to me,” are his exact quotes. As for Sunday’s match, Newcastle will be without Jonjo Shelvey. “[He] has a grade two hamstring so he’ll be missing for a few weeks. Sean Longstaff will be OK. It will be good to see him again. Shelvey picked it up in the game last week. I think he has been hampered by a thigh injury. It’s still not 100% right.” He also spoke to BBC Radio 5 earlier about Andy Carroll’s ongoing battle to get fit. It’s been a long one hasn’t it? “Of his type there isn’t anybody better,” he said, begging the question what is “his type”? “We just hope he has a bit of luck in terms of injuries. We know he’s a very good player. Our aim now is; how can we get him on the pitch frequently and regularly? Obviously you need some luck along the way. But a fit and firing Andy Carroll would help more teams.” Maybe Carroll should just be a 20-minute impact sub these days. An incredible jumping man who is just thrown into the fray towards the end of games.
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Post by Webster on Sept 27, 2019 14:54:42 GMT
(The Guardian) Eddie Howe is another manager who has risen early and got his press conference out of the way. Sixth-placed Bournemouth host fifth-placed West Ham tomorrow. Both sides had disappointing League Cup exits in midweek. The Cherries were beaten by Burton and the Hammers lost at Oxford but Howe is not too concerned having beaten Everton and Southampton in his last two Premier League games by the same scoreline, 3-1. The Cherries and the Hammers in a top-six clash? What a time to be alive! Our early season form with the Everton and Southampton wins, in my mind it’s very positive as we approach West Ham and it’s important we put on a good show on Saturday. Our early game against West Ham last season was very early in the manager’s reign there and he was still implementing his ideas. I think they have very good players and they’ve had a good start to the season so it promises to be a good game. Their general performances have been very strong and it’s two teams who have been strong at the start of the season. We’d like to win three in a row, the first time we’ve done that in a while, and that’s a huge incentive for us.”Howe has his captain, Simon Francis, available again on Saturday too. He played an hour at Burton without any worrying setbacks. “[It’s] great to have our captain Simon Francis back after a long time out. With the stoppages and the flood-light failures we felt we had to bring him off to make sure he wouldn’t stiffen up.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 27, 2019 14:58:15 GMT
(The Guardian) Xhaka confirmed as Arsenal skipperUnai Emery confirms Granit Xhaka is the new permanent Arsenal captain, adding the palyers voted for the midfielder to assume the armband. Emery has also outlined his five-man leadership group, which sounds very David Brent but is genuine. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is vice-captain, followed by Héctor Bellerín, Alexandre Lacazette and then, er, Mesut Özil. Xhaka is mature. He has experience. In the dressing room, the players vote him as first. I trust and believe in him. His challenge is to change opinion, improve and give us help each time.
More from Emery on naming Xhaka skipper. I gave them [the squad] some values, some qualities and attributes to decide the captain and then I used a vote,” he says. He is a good man, a good professional, a good player. Sometimes he made a mistake – yes – but he can learn and correct that mistake. His challenge is to change that opinion and, above all, show his personality and give help every time.”
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Post by Webster on Sept 29, 2019 2:51:07 GMT
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Post by Webster on Sept 30, 2019 14:19:33 GMT
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Post by Webster on Oct 1, 2019 3:08:03 GMT
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Post by Webster on Oct 4, 2019 14:12:43 GMT
(The Guardian) Steve Bruce speaksAlready under pressure before his side’s humiliation at the hands of Leicester City last weekend, Steve Bruce was even less popular with Newcastle fans afterwards. While his team were dreadful at the King Power Stadium, they may fancy their chances against a similarly out-of-sorts Manchester United at St James’s Park on Sunday. “Mud has been thrown my way since I walked through the door,” said Bruce at his pre-match press conference. “That isn’t going to change. The only thing that can change it for me is results and I’m determined to make it, if I possibly can, to turn it around and take the club forward. That’s been my remit since I walked through the door. Since I arrived here two or three months ago, that’s been the case, so it only heightens it.”
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Post by Webster on Oct 4, 2019 14:13:50 GMT
(The Guardian) Some rare good news for Spurs fans: Tottenham duo Giovani Lo Celso and Ryan Sessegnon are “entering the final stages of rehabilitation” from their injuries. The pair, who both arrived on transfer deadline day, have been sidelined with respective hip and hamstring injuries, but they are on the mend and likely to be fit after the international break. Serge Aurier is the only other player missing for this weekend’s game against Brighton. He serves a one-match ban following his dismissal for two bookable offences against Southampton last weekend.
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Post by Webster on Oct 4, 2019 14:15:05 GMT
(The Guardian) Kieran Tierney speaks: Now recovered from injury, Arsenal’s young summer acquisition was chatting following his side’s emphatic Europa League win over Standard Liege last night. As well as the usual bland platitudes about how difficult a decision it was to leave Celtic, what a “massive” club Arsenal are and how he wants to win trophies with them, the 22-year-old spoke about the adjustments he has had to make since moving out of his parents’ house and heading to “down the road” – as they say in Scotland – to the Big Smoke. “It is a massive change for me,” he said. “I was a home boy, I always stayed with my parents, and I’ve come down here to a different country, a massive city. But so far everybody at the club has helped me settle and I am very grateful for that. I need to cook every night so I am learning. I will get there. People say what’s the city like? I have no idea, I’ve never been in. “I train, I work hard, I go home and recover and train the next day. It is just a simple life and I just put everything into football and all I can to just try and reap the rewards.”
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Post by Webster on Oct 4, 2019 14:16:19 GMT
(The Guardian) Bournemouth news: Eddie Howe has said he will not entertain “pointless” transfer speculation over England striker Callum Wilson, who has scored five goals in his past five games for Bournemouth. The striker is one of many players reported to be on Manchester United’s January shopping list and has previously been linked with a move to Chelsea. “I take with a pinch of salt, to be honest, at this stage of the season,” said Howe, when asked about rumours regarding the 27-year-old’s future. “There is nothing that we can do, that Callum can do, other than perform well. That influences rumours and things like that at this stage of the season. “He has just got to focus on his next game and give his best for this club. To hear transfer links and rumours at this stage when the window is shut and a long way from being open, for me, it is pointless talking about it.” Bournemouth travel to the Emirates this weekend for a Sunday afternoon game against Arsenal. Their defender, Chris Mepham, has withdrawn from the Wales squad because of an unspecified injury.
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Post by Webster on Oct 4, 2019 14:18:09 GMT
(The Guardian) Manchester City news: Pep Guardiola has confirmed Kevin De Bruyne will not be fit to face Wolves on Sunday. The Belgium international missed the midweek Champions League clash with Dinamo Zagreb due to a groin injury. “He is not fit,” said Guardiola. “After the international break he will be ready. It is not a big problem.” Asked for his reaction to the Football Association’s decision to charge Bernardo Silva with misconduct over his social media post about team-mate Benjamin Mendy, Guardiola said: “No comments anymore.” If only he’d said that the first time he was asked for his thoughts on the matter, eh?
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Post by Webster on Oct 4, 2019 14:19:17 GMT
(The Guardian) Crystal Palace news: Roy Hodgson has defended his striker Christian Benteke, who looks utterly bereft of confidence, has yet to get off the mark this season and has scored just four times in his past 58 games for Crystal Palace. Responding to comments made by former Palace midfielder John Salako, who claimed Benteke has “been awful” in his time at Selhurst Park, Hodgson went on the offensive. “I am always disappointed when professionals criticise fellow professionals, even if they are ex-professionals,” he said. “I think that you do need to be careful in terms of abusing your profession in a way, by criticising other professionals without properly knowing all the details you would need to know. “We here see Christian trying his level best every week to get back to goalscoring form. We do our level best to help him, and let’s hope that day will come soon.”
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Post by Webster on Oct 5, 2019 13:26:50 GMT
Its' not a good time down Spurs way right now.... (The Guardian) Back at the Amex Stadium: Brighton have been quite outstanding in all departments and lead Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 as the game moves into added time. Without wanting to take anything away from Graham Potter and his men, Tottenham have stunk the place out. AS if it were not already painfully obvious to Spurs fans, theirs is not a happy camp.
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