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An update has emerged on River Plate forward Rafael Santos Borre regarding Rangers’ interest in his signature.

What’s the talk?

According to Football Insider, Rangers are plotting a swoop for the River Plate centre-forward this summer. He is out of contract at the end of the month and is not expected to put pen to paper on an extension with the Argentine giants, leaving him free to find a new club ahead of next season.

The report claims that Rangers are hoping to seize this opportunity by snapping him up for nothing to bolster their attacking option. River Plate are said to value Santos at £15m but will now lose him for nothing.

Santos Borre was previously at Atletico Madrid and Diego Simeone praised the forward earlier this year, hailing his development at River Plate and wishing him the best of luck for the rest of his career.

He told ESPN, as transcribed by Archy: “The truth is that we have not talked about the issue of Borré. He is breaking it there in River, I am happy for him. He came very young (to Atlético de Madrid) and the truth is that his growth has been tremendous, phenomenal, and I hope he has the best ways to continue traveling because he is doing very well.”

Wilson masterstroke

Ross Wilson could pull off a masterstroke by bringing Santos Borre to Rangers this summer. He could be about to sign a talented, clinical striker whilst not paying a penny in transfer fees for him.

With Santos Borre out of contract next month, Rangers can sign him without needing to negotiate a huge transfer fee with River Plate, with the report stating that they would value him at £15m under normal circumstances. This suggests that Rangers could be signing an eight-figure rated player for nothing.

Santos Borre enjoyed a terrific campaign for River Plate in Argentina, with 21 goals in 31 starts in all competitions. In the Superliga, Santos Borre scored 12 goals in 18 starts and averaged an impressive WhoScored rating of 7.1 for his performances. He also averaged 1.3 key passes per league game, highlighting his overall centre-forward play rather than limiting himself to being just a goalscorer.

This shows why the River Plate star could be a superb addition to Rangers’ squad. He could offer an added attacking threat to Steven Gerrard’s side, with his performances for River Plate suggesting that he may be ready to make the step to European football with Rangers.

Wilson could strike gold with Santos Borre if he is able to get this deal over the line, and hopefully it will be completed in time for him to link up with Rangers for the start of pre-season to give him the best chance of hitting the ground running.

AND in other news, Wilson must seal bargain Rangers deal for “fantastic” dynamo, Gerrard would love him…

أعلن حمد إبراهيم المدير الفني لنادي الإسماعيلي تشكيل الفريق أمام إيسترن كومباني في المباراة التي ستقام الليلة ضمن منافسات الدوري المصري الممتاز.

ويتواجه الإسماعيلي وإيسترن كومباني على ملعب بتروسبورت، في إطار لقاءات الجولة الخامسة عشر من مسابقة الدوري.

طالع أيضًا.. اتحاد الكرة يستقر على جنسية حكام مباراة الأهلي القادمة بعد بيان انتقاد التحكيم

وأجرى الجهاز الفني للفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الإسماعيلي بقيادة حمد إبراهيم، 3 تغييرات، إذ عاد عبد الرحمن مجدي لتشكيل الفريق بعد غيابه عن مواجهة الاتحاد السكندري الأخيرة للإصابة، كما يتواجد محمد نصر ومحمد بن خماسه بدلًا من باهر المحمدي ومحمود عبد العاطي دونجا، اللذان يغيبان للإيقاف بسبب تراكم الإنذارات. تشكيل الإسماعيلي أمام إيسترن كومباني

حراسة المرمى: محمد فوزي.

خط الدفاع: عصام صبحي ومحمد هاشم ومحمد نصر وعمرو الحلواني.

خط الوسط: عمر الوحش ومحمد عادل وعبد الرحمن مجدي ومحمد بن خماسة وأحمد مدبولي.

خط الهجوم: محمد الشامي. بدلاء الإسماعيلي أمام إيسترن كومباني

ويجلس على مقاعد البدلاء: عمر رضوان فى حراسة المرمى وعماد حمدي ومحمد مخلوف ومحمد بن خماسة ومحمد عبد السميع وحسن ياسين وسايكو كونتيه ووجيه عبد الحكيم ودييجو فرناندو، بينما خرج لأسباب فنية محمد بيومي ومدحت فقوسه.

Somerset Chief Executive Peter Anderson, Cricket Development Oficer Andrew Moulding and two youngsters from the Academy, Daniel Martin and Nat Price met Prince Edward and Sophie the Countess of Wessex this morning

Richard Walsh01-Mar-2002Somerset Chief Executive Peter Anderson, Cricket Development Oficer Andrew Moulding and two youngsters from the Academy, Daniel Martin and Nat Price met Prince Edward and Sophie the Countess of Wessex this morning.The party met the royal couple at the Trinity Foyer in Yeovil earlier today in recognition of Somerset County Cricket Club becoming the first of the eighteen first class county cricket clubs to become an access organisation for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme.Peter Anderson told me, “The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme was a wonderful innovation for young people when it was set up and using sport in general and cricket in particular to develop character building qualities is important for youngsters.”The Chief Executive continued,”Somerset County Cricket Club has a great interest in youth development in all it’s forms and are pleased to be recognised by this official meting with the Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex.”Somerset Cricket Develoment Officer Andrew Moulding concluded, “We are the first county club to become an access organisation for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and it is an honour to recognised in this way.”Anyone who is interested in finding out about how to access the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme through Somerset County Cricket Club should contact Andrew Moulding at the Centre of Excellence at the County Ground in Taunton, telephone 01823 352266.

BAT Sports begin their ECB Southern Electric Premier 1 championship defence with a full-strength line up at Liphook & Ripsley

Mike Vimpany03-May-2002BAT Sports begin their ECB Southern Electric Premier 1 championship defence with a full-strength line up at Liphook & Ripsley.New South Wales University left-hander Michael Watson makes his BAT debut, alongside Andover recruit Kirk Stewart.Even though Luke Ronchi is in their side, Bashley (Rydal) have injury worries on the eve of their visit to Calmore Sports at Loperwood Park.Last year’s leading 35-wicket taker Matt King is ruled out for several weeks with a chest ligament injury, as is Wiltshire’s Kevin Nash, who has recurring hamstring problems."I’ve been playing football all winter without a problem, but just as the cricket started, so it flared up again," Nash explained.To add to skipper Neil Taylor’s problems, veteran seamer John Whiting is also suffering from hamstring trouble.”The worrying aspect is that both Kevin and John still haven’t shaken off the injuries that caused them problems last season,” moaned Taylor.Calmore Sports, who have lost key all-rounder Paul Draper to South Wilts, give a debut to promising Free State medium-pace bowler Christoff Bothma, who was in the South African Academy last year.Last season’s leading SPL runscorer Russell Rowe is optimistic that South Wilts can achieve a top threefinish this time.But the Bemerton side face near rivals Andover minus highly promising left-arm seamer James Tomlinson, who is playing for the British Universities in a three-day game against Sri Lanka at Northampton.Tomlinson, who bagged a nap-hand of Somerset scalps last month, added to an already impressive early-season wicket haul by dismissing Kumar Sangakkara in the pre-lunch session on Thursday.Havant, the 2000 league winners, launch their challenge with a full strength side against Raj Maru’s newly promoted Portsmouth and Burridge entertain much-changed Bournemouth.Havant include three debutants – Lord’s groundstaff wicketkeeper Steve Snell, Yorkshireman Bevis Moynhan and ex-Hambledon all-rounder Mackey Hobson.Portsmouth, though, go into action minus departed Lawrie Prittipaul (who hopes to play his recreational cricket for Southsea), Paul Dew and Pete Hayward, who has a major hockey date in Milton Keynes, where he is in National League play-off action with City of Portsmouth.Burridge parade newcomer Moeen Cheema, from Atlanta Georgia, and left-hander Ben Thane, who spent last season with relegated Old Basing.New look Bournemouth, captained by Matt Swarbrick, include Dorset teenage seamer James Elliott-Square, left-arm spinner Chris Cole and Somerset new boy Tom Webley.

Manchester City ended the Premier League season in superb fashion as they thrashed Everton 5-0 at the Etihad, before lifting the trophy in front of 10,000 fans.

Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring with a typically brilliant finish from outside the box before Gabriel Jesus quickly added a second with a well-taken finish.

Phil Foden added a third for Pep Guardiola’s side after Ederson had saved Gylfi Sigurdsson’s penalty, with Sergio Aguero then coming off the bench to score a brace to sign off a wonderful spell with the Citizens.

Although a lot of the focus after the game will be on the Argentinian, whilst De Bruyne also dazzled on his return, a lot of credit has to go to 36-year-old Fernandinho, who was incredible once again in midfield.

As per SofaScore, the Brazilian would earn an excellent 8.4/10 match rating for his display, which was only bettered by De Bruyne (9.1) and Aguero (8.9).

During the game, Fernandinho would have 84 touches of the ball and would impressively complete 65/69 of his passes, resulting in a 94% success rate, which is a big improvement on the 87.2% he has averaged in the Premier League this season.

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The veteran midfielder would also complete four key passes during the game, which is far more than the 0.7 he has averaged per game in the top-flight this campaign, which helped him to pick up two assists for Aguero’s goals, as he robbed Tom Davies for the first, before putting in a superb cross for him to head home a second.

He was also solid from a defensive perspective, managing three interceptions and two tackles, which again is more than the 1.1 interceptions and 1.5 tackles he has averaged this season.

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Therefore, the “magnificent” midfielder has emphasised just how much quality he still has, and should have nailed down a starting spot for the Champions League final against Chelsea later this month.

And, in other news… Imagine him and KDB: Txiki should seal Man City swoop for “spectacular” £39.6m-rated beast

Scott Parker could well be in talks with one of Fulham’s Championship rivals ahead of a potential summer switch.

What’s the talk?

That’s according to The Sun journalist Alan Nixon, who has hinted in a post on Twitter that Parker is already in talks with the Bournemouth hierarchy regarding a move to the Vitality Stadium this summer.

A recent report by talkSPORT claimed that the 40-year-old would be tempted to quit Fulham in favour of a switch to the Cherries, who are thought to be willing to part company with Jonathan Woodgate after his failure to secure promotion to the Premier League via the Championship play-offs last season.

Fans will be distraught

Considering the marvellous job Parker has done at Craven Cottage since taking over at the club back in February of 2019, the fact that there appears to be a very real chance of the former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder leaving the club this summer is sure to leave fans of Fulham distraught.

Indeed, despite suffering relegation in his first term at the club, in Fulham’s first full season under the 40-year-old, the Cottagers went on to secure an immediate return to the top flight, beating Brentford 2-1 AET in the 2019/20 play-off final.

And, while Fulham went on to suffer relegation from the top flight for the second time in three seasons under Parker in their subsequent campaign, the west London side earned plaudits from the likes of Pep Guardiola, Marcelo Bielsa and Jurgen Klopp for their “exceptional” style of attacking and exciting football.

As such, if the Cottagers were to lose the services of the young manager this summer, not only would they be without a coach who has a proven track record of getting them out of the second tier, but also one who very much seems to play football in the right way as well as appearing to have an extremely bright future in the game.

In other news: Fulham confirm transfer news on “valuable” £24k-p/w flop which will leave fans furious

Newcastle boss Steve Bruce is heading for a major howler as some eye-opening news emerges from Darsley Park.

What’s the story?

In what has been another difficult Premier League season for the Magpies, one of the big eyebrow raisers of Bruce’s tenure has been the real lack of first-team minutes given to some of the club’s brightest young academy talents.

Barring the Longstaff brothers – even Matty has fallen out of favour this season after his breakthrough Manchester United performance – the Tyneside club haven’t really seen anyone else come through, with Elliot Anderson surely deserving of more opportunities.

And now, some more bad news on the academy front has emerged.

According to Football Insider, fellow Premier League side Spurs have been offered the chance to sign the 16-year-old Bobby Clark, son of former Magpies hero Lee.

The report adds that a Spurs source has revealed “they have been offered the chance in recent weeks via intermediaries to take Clark to London”, and that “the Premier League giants are expected to run the rule over the teenager before making a decision”.

Newcastle fans would be fuming

Called up to the club’s U18s side when he was just 14, Clark has long been touted as one of Newcastle’s best academy players, so news that he’s been offered to Spurs is particularly damaging.

What makes it even worse is the claim that the teenager’s “progress has seemingly stalled”, and that the “youngster has struggled for game time this season after being handed a scholarship deal by the north-east giants”.

While Bruce may not be running the club’s academy, he should have a keen eye over what’s going on, and really should have been on top of something like this, well before these suggestions that a promising young player could just leave.

Magpies fans have already made it clear before, when Clark was linked with Spurs a couple of years ago, that they would want him to stay, so fresh news that he could be set for an exit would surely have them fuming at seeing one of their most highly-rated starlets leave.

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It would be a real howler from Bruce and the Magpies to see the 16-year-old go without first having seen him make an impression on the first-team at St James’ Park.

Meanwhile, this Newcastle man was Bruce’s unsung hero vs Leicester…

This has been somewhat of a topsy-turvy campaign for Everton and Carlo Ancelotti.

Although the Toffees are on the verge of securing European football, they’ve been incredibly inconsistent.

On the chalkboard

Speaking of inconsistency, Andre Gomes is a man who has demonstrated that in abundance this season.

The Portuguese ace was a dynamic presence in the middle of the park during his first campaign at Goodison Park.

The midfielder oozed class during his loan spell with theclub and consequently, they spent £22m to secure his services. Unfortunately, this term he has been particularly disappointing.

After returning from injury, he’s struggled to resume the same control he usually plays with and has been particularly feeble from a physical point of view.

During Everton’s 1-0 win over Arsenal, he was taken off shortly after the hour mark having made just the two tackles. Those types of performances have summed up the last few months for the 27-year-old, especially against some of the best teams in the Premier League.

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Gomes won just one of his 12 ground duels against Liverpool back in February and then won only three of 14 duels against Chelsea in March and Manchester City a few weeks later.

As Carlo Ancelotti’s men slumped to a 2-1 defeat against Aston Villa on Saturday evening, the midfielder was again rather lightweight, prevailed in only two of his nine defensive duels.

The solution

As Gomes struggles to get up to speed in Ancelotti’s midfield, the Italian manager should consider some investment in the summer transfer window.

Of course, the return of Abdoulaye Doucoure will be vital once he’s back to full fitness but an added dose of quality in the shape of Adrien Rabiot would go down nicely.

Reports from Italy in March stated that Ancelotti was an admirer of the Juventus midfielder but Everton have now been joined in the £17m race to sign him by Chelsea and Barcelona.

It won’t be a straightforward chase but they could land a huge upgrade on Gomes by luring him to Merseyside this summer.

Rabiot is a defensive midfielder by trade and would offer plenty of physical qualities to an Everton side that lacks a sense of robustness with Gomes in the starting XI.

Speaking about the Frenchman back in November, Juventus boss Andrea Pirlo said: “He is a complete player, I have rarely seen someone so strong both physically and technically.”

Gianluigi Buffon is also a huge fan, commenting: “He is a fantastic mix, he has the physical strength of Pogba, who is like a wardrobe, has the personality of Vidal and potentially the dynamism of Marchisio. He is incredible, extremely strong.”

A quick look at the stats supplements their opinions. In 2020/21, Rabiot has won 2.3 tackles per game and has made 1.4 interceptions a match.

Compare that to Gomes and the differences are stark. The Everton midfielder has only performed 1.4 tackles and 0.4 interceptions per outing. Of course, he is a different player to Rabiot but the Juve midfielder also knows how to get forward and pass.

He’d offer extra security in front of the backline and would add a layer of strength and power that Gomes doesn’t possess.

AND in other news, Everton must swoop for “absolutely crazy” £27k-p/w maestro, he’s got “brutal dynamism”…

In an exclusive interview with Football FanCast, Rob Lee, who made 280 Premier League appearances, has claimed that Declan Rice is currently one of the best players in the Premier League.

Prior to his injury which he picked up on international duty with England, Rice had not missed a single minute of Premier League football for West Ham, which was a big factor behind their push for the top four.

Lee has previously spoken to The Transfer Tavern about Rice, giving the 22-year old huge praise, and it’s not just pundits who have noticed his performances with Manchester United reportedly interested in signing him this summer.

Speaking on how the longer Rice is out injured the more apparent it will become that West Ham depend on him and where he ranks amongst other players in the league, Lee told FFC:

“I think the longer that he is out injured, the more West Ham will start to miss him but they have been okay without him for a couple of games.

“I think he’s certainly been one of the best players in the Premier League and if he’s not on the shortlist for the PFA player of the year I’ll be amazed.”

David Moyes has previously admitted that the club will have to listen to offers for both Rice and Tomas Soucek this season, even if they succeed in their attempts to secure a top four finish.

In the last round of international fixtures, Rice earned two Man of the Match awards, which highlights how important he will be for the Three Lions this summer.

Former Sheffield United man Keith Gillespie insists that Rhian Brewster is not a flop at Bramall Lane, telling Football FanCast that he feels sorry for the former Liverpool youngster.

The Blades paid £23.5m to sign Brewster in the summer in a club-record deal but he has failed to score a single goal this season.

In 25 appearances in all competitions, the 21-year-old has repeatedly drawn a blank and he has completed the 90 minutes in just two games.

Gillespie played for the club between 2005 and 2009 and he does not believe that the youngster can be held wholly accountable for his own struggles.

Indeed, he has maintained that he simply isn’t being given the service that he requires, with the Blades scoring just 17 goals in 30 games, which is comfortably the lowest number of the 20 clubs in the table.

Indeed, Brewster went on loan to Swansea last season in the Championship and scored 11 goals in 22 games.

He told FFC: “You do feel sorry for him, when you come as a goalscorer, you’re paid to score goals.

“If you don’t do that, you’re deemed a flop. I wouldn’t call him a flop because Sheffield United haven’t performed this season.

“If you’re the marksman, and you’re not getting the service that maybe he was getting at Swansea, playing in the Championship, you’re not going to be scoring goals.”