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StumpsBangladesh recovered from two difficult situations to finish the first day of the one-off Test on 294 for 8 in Harare. Zimbabwe, who dominated the first two sessions by reducing the visitors to 132 for 6, conceded the early advantage by thrusting a slow period upon them in the post-tea session. They took two late wickets, notably removing Liton Das on 95, but couldn’t quite put the finishing touches as the day’s play was called off after 83 overs amid fading light.After Blessing Muzarabani and Victor Nyauchi put them in trouble, the visitors were brought back to life with a 138-run seventh wicket partnership between Das and Mahmudullah. Against Zimbabwe, it was Bangladesh’s first century stand – and the highest by any pair at the Harare Sports Club – for the seventh wicket.Related

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Das would rue playing one too many pull shots against Donald Tiripano shortly before the second new ball was available. He was caught at the fine-leg boundary after crossing his previous Test best score of 94. Tiripano trapped Mehidy Hasan Miraz lbw off the next ball.Zimbabwe gave away much of their momentum in a period they used part-timers Milton Shumba and Roy Kaia for 24 overs. They deployed the duo with a view to giving their four-pronged pace attack a break, as well as recovering their poor over rate. In the first four hours, they had bowled only 49 overs.Das feasted on the tired attack, but some of his shots stood out. Among his 13 fours were two beautiful cover drives, three drives through midwicket and an upper cut through a vacant third-man. A slog sweep off Shumba took him to his half-century and Bangladesh to 200, before another easy glance off Kaia brought up the century stand between them.Mahmudullah, in his first Test after 18 months, played the quintessential second fiddle. Undeterred by his No. 8 batting position, he took stock of Bangladesh’s situation at 132 for 6 and initiated a rebuild with Das. Mahmudullah was mostly conservative, hitting five fours, two of which exquisitely pierced the covers. He also flicked one through midwicket and plundered the fine-leg region at will. He was unbeaten on 54 off 141 balls at stumps.A more energetic Zimbabwe dominated the first two sessions of the opening day, making Bangladesh struggle to justify their decision to bat first after winning the toss. Within the first 30 minutes, the visitors were reduced to 8 for 2. Muzarabani removed both Saif Hassan and Najmul Hossain Shanto in an exhibition of quick, hostile fast bowling.Bangladesh got back on their feet courtesy a 60-run third-wicket partnership between Mominul Haque and Shadman Islam, which was followed up by more recovery work from Haque and Mushfiqur Rahim. Shortly after the lunch break, though, Zimbabwe wrested back the momentum.Muzarabani had Rahim lbw, shouldering arms, for 11. Replays showed the ball may have gone over the stumps but without DRS in this game, the on-field umpire’s decision couldn’t be contested.Nyauchi then struck the big blows: Shakib Al Hasan caught behind for 3 and Mominul Haque caught at gully for 70. Haque, the Bangladesh captain, struck 13 fours in his 92-ball knock, getting most of his boundaries through midwicket. His dismissal put Bangladesh in a precarious 132 for 6 in the second session, leaving much to do for Das and Mahmudullah.

Ireland will celebrate their first home ODI win over a team ranked in the top eight with a “few beers,” but captain Andy Balbirnie wants their focus to be on overturning big teams more often in their own backyard.Their 43-run victory in Dublin is the first time Ireland have beaten South Africa in seven ODIs, and the only the fourth time they have beaten a team in the top five after their victory over Pakistan in the 2007 World Cup and England in 2011 and last year.”We’ve beaten big teams before but we haven’t beaten them consistently. We don’t have the players these teams have, we don’t have the infrastructure or the exposure. A lot of the South African team have played in the IPL. We don’t get that,” Balbirnie said. “So what we do, when we do play these big teams, we get the most of out of these games and we try to put in our best performance. We are thrilled and beating them once off is great but winning a series at the end of the week will be so important, because it shows we’re making strides.”Already, Ireland have some claim on that. They have 15 points towards their World Cup Super League tally from the first two matches in this series, which Balbirnie admitted he would gladly have taken if offered pre-series, and put in what he called as “complete a performance since I have been involved,” in the second match.Related

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Ireland posted their highest score against South Africa – 290 – built on Balbirnie’s century, and decorated by Harry Tector’s 68-ball 79. Balbirnie promoted himself to open in the absence of injured William Porterfield and described it as “something different” and it continued his impressive returns against South Africa. Balbirnie has three fifty-plus scores from three innings against them, and this was one is his favourite. “It’s nice to get runs but they are a lot sweeter when you come out with a win,” he said.Tector was playing in his 12th ODI and could prove to be the kind of player that will help Ireland accelerate their innings. “Harry is a quick learner and a very impressive person. A lot of our guys have been thrown into the deep end, playing big teams but these are the players we need to invest in and put time into,” Balbirnie said. “The last series in Holland, Harry has shown promise. He is looking really impressive in that No.4 position. That was probably the innings of the day.”On a pitch that seemed to become easier for batting as the match went on, South Africa would have fancied their chances of chasing a tall total but “we managed to squeeze them and we took our chances,” Balbirnie said.South Africa’s captain Temba Bavuma described the difference between the fielding displays as being “like chalk and cheese” after South Africa dropped two catches and gave away 95 runs in the last 10 overs. Ireland held on to all their chances, effected a run-out and forced a collapse of 8 for 88 to leave Bavuma frustrated.He indicated that South Africa would make changes for the decider but insisted they had not taken Ireland lightly by resting star batter Quinton de Kock and fast bowler Lungi Ngidi.”With Quinny, we are trying to manage his workload and get Janneman [Malan] into the side – he has done very well in white-ball cricket,” Bavuma said. “With Lungi, from a workload point of view, in the last game, his speeds were lower than normal. That was the thinking behind those decisions.”Balbirnie expects South Africa to go back to what they think their strongest XI is for Friday’s finale and wants his own team to keep the foot on their gas as they hunt a series win. “We’ve played really good cricket over the last two games so it will be disappointing if we drop our standards for the last game. They have just come off a tour of West Indies so they are looking to rest people and rotate people but when we get opportunities to play these teams we want to come out all guns blazing and hopefully turn them over.”

Wolves boss Gary O'Neil has confirmed that Mario Lemina has been stripped of captaincy after the midfielder's meltdown during their loss to West Ham.

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O'Neil's side have had a terrible start to the season as the Wolves sit all the way down in 19th place in the Premier League standings with just nine points after fifteen games. The Wolverhampton-based side fell to a 2-1 loss at London Stadium against West Ham. Wolves captain Lemina got into an altercation with West Ham captain Jarrod Bowen after the final whistle. He then shoved his teammates as they attempted to cool down the situation before Lemina also clashed with Wolves assistant coach Shaun Derry.

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O'Neil's position at Wolves is under a ton of scrutiny after the bad start, however, the English coach has been granted some more time to get the side clicking again as they face fellow relegation battlers, Ipswich Town next. Ahead of the clash, O'Neil confirmed that Lemina had been stripped of his role as the captain of Wolves and has been replaced by Portuguese full-back Nelson Semedo, as the 41-year-old explained his discussions with the Gabonese midfielder after the decision was made by the Wolves' top brass.

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Speaking to the media, O'Neil said: "Mario's fine. It was a conversation, it was nothing more than that. The most important thing to come out of it is that we need to get the best out of everybody.

"Of course, the other night sparked the conversation, but it was an important conversation that had to be had. Myself and Mario have a good understanding now of how we move forward and what it looks like. We dealt with it earlier in the week, so the focus since that moment has been firmly on Ipswich.

"These things, sometimes they can be tough to deal with and sometimes you can come out of them in a good spot, and I feel like we have. I have a lot of respect for Mario and what he's still going to be able to do for us. When we get the best out of him on the pitch, his level is so high that he's still going to play a big part for us.

"He'll still be around that group of senior players that lead the team, but at this moment we feel it's best for Nelson to lead the group."

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The Gabonese midfielder has since apologized for his outburst after the West Ham clash and O'Neil has confirmed that the former captain will not lose his place in the side when Wolves take on Ipswich Town on Saturday, December 14 at Molineux Stadium.

Tom Brady has been saluted for bringing “razzmatazz” to English soccer alongside Ryan Reynolds and Co, but the “only concern” has also been raised.

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NFL legend Brady became a minority investor at St Andrew’s in August 2023, with an advisory role being taken up in the West Midlands. He has attended the odd game since then, with David Beckham joining him in the stands for a so-called ‘Hollywood Derby’ date with Wrexham in September 2024.

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Brady is a proven winner, with seven Super Bowl rings to his name, but questions have been asked of what he brings to the party at Birmingham. When Emile Heskey was asked for his take on that debate, the former Blues striker – speaking in association with – told GOAL: “It’s exposure, know-how business-wise when it comes to owning clubs. It’s American football and a completely different thing, but they know the razzmatazz.

“The stuff they are talking about bringing to Birmingham – the stadium, entertainment and making it a hub for the Midlands – I think that has been needed for a long time. Being from the Midlands, it’s something that has been needed. Everything goes down to London and you’re like ‘give us something here’. Or it goes to Manchester, so give us something in the Midlands. Having that hub where you can say there is a top quality stadium, top quality place to have concerts etc, that’s the main thing. It’s not just about the football, it’s about everything else that they bring as well.”

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Heskey added on the rivalry that has been struck up between Birmingham and Wrexham, with Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney calling the shots in North Wales: “It’s really nice to see. When you think about it, no-one would have thought that Wrexham would have been in that at all. Now they are looking to have another kick on and go again. It’s nice. You like to see these things where it’s not just the top clubs that can have that razzmatazz and have all the news about them.”

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There have been plenty of rumours to suggest that more celebrity funding could be pumped into British football, with Heskey saying of that trend – which is expected to steer clear of the Premier League billionaire’s playground: “I think it’s going to be more with the League One and League Two clubs. It’s going to be more with the smaller teams and see where they can get them. When you look at the attention that Wrexham get, there is going to be more and more of it.

“They are going to be looking at smaller clubs. ASAP Rocky has been connected to a team [Tranmere]. You are going to get more and more because they look at it as a business venture and with the connections that they have, they can really have a go at getting into the Premier League – or just climbing those divisions and having fun!”

R Ashwin was one of the star performers for India in the back-to-back Test series wins in Australia and against England at home. But, even as he picked up 44 wickets at 18.56 in seven Test matches, his expertise (or lack of it) with DRS did raise an eyebrow or two. He knows it, and – tongue firmly in cheek, wide smile in place – shifts the blame to Rishabh Pant for the poor success rate with reviews of late.”I think we need to change the lens with which people are looking at me with the DRS,” Ashwin, a guest at the , said. “Sometimes what people are telling us might not be true, because before this series against England, my DRS was extremely good. Because when you take DRS, you need to rely on the keeper’s resources.Related

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“Because I ask valid questions in terms of saying… I know whether the ball has struck in line or not, but with respect to the line from the angle that I am bowling and the bounce, the keeper really needs to help.”And then came the light-hearted blame game: “And Rishabh is actually letting me down on a lot of occasions. I took him aside and I said, ‘we need to sit together on a crash course with DRS, because Ravi (Shastri) has a few complaints with me going for DRS’.”Cue a lot of laughs, as expected. Jokes aside, Ashwin does want to fix the issue. “So, honestly, yeah, if there is one improvement I would like to make it’s go for better DRS in the future series, I will hold myself in check.”Since the start of 2018 till the start of the England series, in the 19 Test matches Ashwin played, 20 reviews were asked for by the Indians when he was bowling. Of those, four were overturned upon appeal, five were deemed to be umpires’ calls, and 11 reviews were squandered. In the four Tests against England, India got one review right when Ashwin was bowling, while nine were lost and one was an umpire’s call.Next up for Ashwin, who is not a part of India’s white-ball teams, is the IPL, where he will be a part of the Delhi Capitals again, with Pant as well. There’s something for the two of them to chat about.

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Faz o M! Matheus Nascimento, do Botafogo, foi lembrado na tradicional lista do jornal inglês “The Guardian” que apontou, nesta quinta-feira, os 60 jogadores nascidos em 2004 mais promissores do mundo. O atacante do Alvinegro é um dos quatro representantes brasileiros.

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O conteúdo feito pelo portal inglês já é tradicional no mundo do futebol. O jornal faz essa lista, chamada de “Next Generation” – Próxima geração, na tradução para português – sempre chamando por jogadores nascidos em um ano específico. O conteúdo é publicado desde 2014.

“O talentoso atacante é conhecido como “Pequeno Cavani” ou Cavaninho por conta do estilo de jogo e longos cabelos. Ele é o atacante mais promissor há anos em um país que teve problemas na linha ofensiva nas últimas duas Copas do Mundo. Ele está no Botafogo desde 2015, quando chamou a atenção dos treinadores do clube que viram o seu potencial. ‘Eu era o treinador do time sub-13 e precisava de um atacante’, lembra Vinícius Durante, atual técnico do sub-15 do Btafogo. ‘Alguns amigos me falaram sobre esse jogador na equipe sub-12. Então eu resolvi testá-lo. Na primeira ação, ele virou sobre um oponente e chutou. Ele não fez gol mas foi incrível. Tem alguns jogadores que você não precisa assistir muito para saber o quão bom são’. Ele (Matheus) fez a estreia como profissional em setembro de 2020 e é apenas questão de tempo antes dele ir para a Europa”, definiu o jornal.

Atualmente, Matheus Nascimento alterna entre as rotinas do profissional e do time sub-20 do Botafogo. Apesar de ser jogador já com contrato com a equipe principal do clube, o atacante, eventualmente, desce para ter mais tempo de jogo. Ele é um dos destaques da equipe de base na temporada – pela categoria definitiva, marcou um gol no Campeonato Carioca.

A lista do The Guardian também conta com Savinho, do Atlético-MG, Ângelo, do Santos e Vinícius Tobias, do Internacional. A nível mundial, destacam-se Youssoufa Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund-ALE), Gavi (Barcelona-ESP) e Luka Romero (Lazio-ITA)

India have handed Navdeep Saini a Test debut and brought Rohit Sharma back as opener and vice-captain for the Sydney Test starting Thursday. Saini replaced the injured Umesh Yadav, and Rohit took the place of Mayank Agarwal. There were no other changes to the XI that won the MCG Test and levelled the series 1-1.Rohit last played a Test for India in November 2019, in a season where he made the transition from the middle order to the top. His last Test away from home was the Boxing Day game in Melbourne in 2018 following which he left the tour early for the birth of his child. Later next year, he came back as an opener, scoring three quick hundreds in five home Tests before injuries ruled him out of the Test series in New Zealand and the first two matches of the ongoing series.With regular captain Virat Kohli missing, the Indian selectors named Rohit as the vice-captain of the team, replacing Cheteshwar Pujara. R Ashwin was the other experienced member in the side who might have had claims to the post.”We all are really excited to have him back,” captain Ajinkya Rahane said of Rohit. “His experience at the highest level matters a lot. He is batting really well in the nets. He has had seven nets sessions. He came to Melbourne, and started his practice straightaway after the Test got over. He has been batting really well. The last couple of series he has batted as an opener, so you will definitely see Rohit at the top [of the order].”The man Rohit replaced, Agarwal, debuted at a time of crisis, in the Boxing Day Test of 2018-19. He averages 47.85 in a 13-Test career, but his last few scores – in Australia and new Zealand – have been 34, 58, 7, 3, 17, 9, 0, 5. He has averaged 7.75 in this series.That India would have to hand out a debut to another fast bowler was apparent the moment it was ascertained Umesh Yadav wouldn’t be available for the last two Tests after hobbling off in the second innings of the MCG Test. The 28-year-old debutant Saini has played 46 first-class games for 128 wickets at an average of 28.46. He plays domestic cricket for Delhi, but 14 of his 46 matches have been played for India A, for whom he has taken 34 wickets at 34.35.India XI for Sydney Test: 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill, 3 Cheteshwar Pujara, 4 Ajinkya Rahane (capt), 5 Hanuma Vihari, 6 Rishabh Pant (wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Jasprit Bumrah, 10 Navdeep Saini, 11 Mohammed Siraj

La Liga president Javier Tebas admitted that he's "worried about the racists" ruining the Clasico as Real Madrid host Barcelona on Saturday.

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With Madrid set to host Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu, Tebas’ worries stem from recent incidents involving intolerant fan behaviour, raising questions over crowd conduct during the iconic rivalry. And his concerns over potential disturbances are not unfounded. Recently, videos circulated widely on social media, showing some Barcelona fans chanting hostile slogans targeting Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr., including a disturbing “Vinicius Die” chant ahead of Barcelona’s Champions League fixture against Bayern Munich at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys.

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In response to these rising concerns, La Liga has joined forces with the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security, and Migration to combat racial intolerance within the sport. The newly signed agreement, witnessed by Tebas, aims to reinforce cooperation to reduce racist incidents in football, including the Clasico. A vital component of the agreement is the introduction of the MOOD tool, a digital program designed to track and manage hate speech online. This tool, backed by La Liga, will identify, report, and remove threatening or insulting messages directed at players, thereby providing a proactive approach to combating social media abuse.

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Speaking about the agreement, Tebas underlined the necessity of involving “the greatest number of agents possible” in the effort to eliminate racism from Spanish football, stressing that this partnership aligns with La Liga’s longstanding commitment to fighting discrimination both on and off the field. However, he voiced his fears and said, "I am worried about the Clásico and I am worried about the rest of the matches because of the racists and the intolerant. I don't think there are more acts of violence, but there is a much greater sensitivity to reporting this type of behaviour. (I hope) it is a tolerant match, as the last Clasicos have been."

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Spanish football has faced several troubling incidents over the past year, but initiatives such as this agreement represent a renewed effort to secure a safer, more inclusive environment for players and fans alike. With Real Madrid and Barcelona’s upcoming clash in El Clasico, the stakes extend beyond the pitch, symbolizing a commitment to progress against the longstanding issue of racism in football.

Greg Barclay, the new ICC chairman, has declared the “unsustainable” global cricket calendar needs to be fundamentally examined and effectively rejected the suite of global events put to market by the governing body’s chief executive Manu Sawhney earlier this year.In a strong initial statement of intent, Barclay told ESPNcricinfo that the proposed return of a Champions Trophy style event in addition to men’s and women’s ODI and T20I World Cups was not on his agenda, and also indicated that cricket had to consider awarding major events to nations such as the USA in order to grow the game beyond its established base.After winning a run-off with the incumbent Imran Khwaja over two rounds of voting, Barclay also said he would quit as chairman of the International Rugby League in order to concentrate on the many governance, strategy and cricket development issues piling up for the ICC in the time of coronavirus.”We haven’t really built the calendar of events. There’s a lot of conjecture around whether it should be eight events, seven events, six events or whatever. I honestly don’t have a preference,” Barclay said. “What I want to ensure is that whatever we do end up with gives us optimum cricketing outcomes. I know a lot of the emphasis has appeared to be on commercial outcomes and this view that eight events will give the ICC more money.”I don’t think we’ve put enough thought into cricket and cricketing outcomes, particularly from the players’ point of view. The players can’t play all this cricket, just from a health, safety and welfare point of view, it’s just not sustainable. So we’ve got to work around that so we’ve got our best athletes in positions where they’re able to give their best for their countries in world events, and also make a living out of the game.”So there is a heck of a lot to balance, and we’ve got to be really careful as to how we construct our annual calendar, so all these issues are taken into account. So it’s not just a case of building a world events program and saying ‘hey there it is, everything needs to fit’, we need to get it all together into a dynamic model so that we get optimum cricketing outcomes.”Coming from New Zealand, Barclay suggested he would offer empathetic leadership while also striving for strategic cohesion after some years of dysfunction at the ICC. “The first thing we need to do is get the ICC strategy very clear, so we understand what it is we’re trying to achieve, how that helps global cricket, how it supports members’ interests,” he said. “We’re through a strategic planning exercise, but it’s been two or three years and we need to get that closed out so it is quite clear what we’re doing. Then we can make some decisions based on our strategy.Protesters take to the streets in Karachi over the Big Three takeover at the ICC•AFP

“That can be as simple as if we have more money, do we want to invest more to grow the game, and if we do that what does it look like. Are we looking to grow cricket in the USA, what does that look like. That might mean we need to accept some of our world events need to be hosted in places like that, where it can be showcased and used as a platform to grow the game. But that will mean the revenue generated off that might be less than what the members ideally would want. So a lot of decisions, but it needs to be driven by a strategic approach.”The possibility of wresting global events away from India, England and Australia, the most concrete remaining legacy of the “big three” governance resolutions in 2014, would be a major change in direction.”A major reason for doing that is if we want to grow the game, whether it’s in Asia or the Americas, but the USA being the logical place to start,” Barclay said. “Maybe we need to look at hosting a world event, maybe a co-host between the West Indies and the USA. but we do need to have a good look at the outcomes we’re trying to drive here. Those world events are an integral part of decision making.”The second thing is while from a revenue point of view we need to accept those countries have to be there or thereabouts in hosting a certain event, maybe the way that events are funded and the way revenue is dealt with can be done differently as well. So it doesn’t necessarily stand to reason that a country hosting an event keeps the amount of revenue they do. Maybe there’s different ways of approaching the commercial properties that emanate from an event. I just think we need to be open-minded, look strategically at what we want to do, and move forward to see what’s workable.”Noting the lengthy and often chaotic process by which he ultimately took the chair, Barclay said it was fair to suggest the major differences in worldview around ICC events and bilateral series had played a part. But he also stated firmly that he was not in the job to work merely at the behest of cricket’s richest nations.”I think it would be fair to say that there was a clash of agendas, which meant that it suited some directors not to get a decision,” Barclay said. “To give it some context and be fair to them, we are trying to undertake a governance review at the moment, so a lot of them felt we should just leave things until such time as we had an outcome of that review process. The difficulty with that is we didn’t know how long that would take, and of course whatever recommendations came to the board from that process may not have been adopted. So it was fraught to leave it totally reliant on the outcome of the review.”A lot of the media has touted the “big three” concept, but I don’t subscribe to it at all. There is no big three to me, they’re just members of the ICC. Sure they’re really important members, they help drive a lot of cricketing outcomes, and to have them as hosts of events or as cricketing opponents is hugely beneficial. But they are individual members of the ICC, so they’re just as important but no more so than anyone else. I wasn’t at the ICC when the big three resolutions were put in place, but while that changed the funding model, there were also some good things that came out of that like the FTP, so members got certainty around their playing arrangements and certainty around their funding.Fort Lauderdale in Florida has regularly hosted T20 internationals and CPL games•CPL T20/ Getty Images

“While it was an inequitable split, New Zealand and other members were still better off than what we had been previously. But I think what was done under Shashank [Manohar] once he got there and they rolled back the resolutions and lessened the influence of those three countries was absolutely the right thing. Now there has been no concept of “big three” for the last four years or so, and I know for a fact that England and Australia are very much of that view.”They get the same amount of [ICC events] money as everyone else and that’s never really been an issue. India are a slightly different case, they’re a huge cricketing force, we need to have them in the tent and with 1.3 billion people and the stuff they do around cricket, I think we just need to address some of their issues differently. There are a lot of positives to come out of what they do as well as any perceived negatives.”

Arsenal are prepared to bid for a Real Madrid player this summer, as the La Liga side's president Florentino Perez eyes a potential replacement.

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As reported by reliable journalist Simon Collings, sporting director Edu Gaspar and the Gunners wish to make four key signings across Mikel Arteta's team.

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Indeed, it is believed Arsenal want to bring in a new goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and forward over the coming weeks – as Arteta looks to challenge Man City for another Premier League title next season.

Despite the fine form of Kai Havertz, who shone in a makeshift central forward role under Arteta last campaign, Arsenal want to bring in a partner or competitor for the Germany international.

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A midfielder could come in to replace Thomas Partey, with the Ghanaian's future uncertain. He's entered the final 12 months of his contract at Hale End, and Partey is reported to have held talks over a move to Saudi Arabia.

Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba have shone at the heart of Arteta's backline, but the Spaniard is apparently keen to bring in an alternative to the pair, as Takehiro Tomiyasu, Jakub Kiwior and Ben White are all used in the full-back areas much more often than centrally.

A new shot-stopper, and back up to current number one David Raya, will be required if England's Aaron Ramsdale does in fact depart north London. Ramsdale has been heavily linked with an exit after losing his spot to Raya, and journalist Charles Watts believes it is inevitable he'll depart.

"It’s a matter of when Ramsdale leaves, not if," said Watts to CaughtOffside.

“The key thing for Arsenal is getting value for money. I saw an initial fee of £15 million mentioned in reports last week and that is quite frankly ridiculous. Arsenal signed Ramsdale for nearly £30m two years ago and he has developed into a far better keeper since then.

“He’s still young, he’s homegrown, an established England international and has a long-term contract. Yes, interested clubs will know that Arsenal’s stance in any negotiations will be weakened somewhat given he is now clearly behind David Raya in the pecking order, but that shouldn’t mean the club should basically give him away."

Arsenal prepared to bid £21 million for Andriy Lunin

Now, as per reports in Spain, an update has come to light on Arsenal's links to Madrid keeper Andriy Lunin.

The Ukraine international, who had an afternoon to forget at Euro 2024 on Monday, conceding three to Romania, is actually highly rated at the Bernabeu. The Galacticos want to tie him down with a new deal, but there is friction between Lunin and Madrid due to his non-guaranteed place as a regular starter.

In the event they can't extend Lunin's contract, Madrid president Perez is looking at new goalkeeping options, and Arsenal are closely watching this situation. It is claimed that Arsenal are willing to bid £21 million for Lunin this summer, and with the 25-year-old's contract expiring next year, perhaps Perez may be forced to entertain it.