Arsenal have reportedly submitted an opening bid for Sporting CP goal machine Viktor Gyokeres amid fears Chelsea could target the striker.

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Arsenal submit opening bid for GyokeresGunners fear Chelsea can outbid them in the transfer raceArsenal want to sign a new striker in the summerFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?

After going trophyless in yet another disappointing campaign this year, Arsenal are in desperate need of a new centre-forward ahead of the 2025-26 season. According to , the Gunners have submitted an offer worth €75 million (£63m/$84m) for Sporting talisman Gyokeres. However, the report adds that the Portuguese side's president Frederico Varandas sees this as an opening bid as he aims to get more money for the prolific hitman.

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While the north London club are desperate to win the transfer battle for the Swedish striker, they are fearful of fellow Premier League side Chelsea as they believe the Blues could place an offer close to the player's release clause of €100m (£85m/$112m).

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Mikel Arteta's side are on the verge of completing their first signing of the new season as they have reportedly agreed personal terms with Real Sociedad midfielder Martin Zubimendi.

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Arsenal will play their penultimate match of the season on Sunday as they visit Anfield to take on newly-crowned English champions Liverpool. They will hope their potential reinforcements can help them close the gap in 2025-26.

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da brwin： O ano de 2022 foi o melhor do Palmeiras no Allianz Parque. A casa palmeirense foi inaugurada no fim de 2014, mas desde o início de 2020 possui gramado sintético. Presidente da Soccer Grass, empresa responsável pela instalação e manutenção do piso do estádio, Alessandro Oliveira não tem dúvidas que o sucesso do Verdão como mandante na última temporada tem a ver com a adaptação do elenco com a grama da arena.

– Conversando com os jogadores, eles dizem que a vantagem é a segurança que têm quando recebem uma bola, lançam, pois não precisam olhar o chão para correr. Correr sem olhar para o chão ganha tempo, porque eles têm certeza que não vão achar buraco, desnível, o que é natural acontecer com a grama natural. O jogador precisa olhar o chão para não ter lesão. Os jogos no Allianz Parque são bonitos, bem jogados, a bola rola, têm estádios que a bola para. Isso eles (jogadores) observam com alguma vantagem, fazendo com que o talento dos jogadores sobressaia. O elenco do Palmeiras é muito bom. Jogar lá dentro (do Allianz Parque) contra eles (Palmeiras) é muito difícil – disse Alessandro, em contato exclusivo com o LANCE!.

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No ano passado, o Palmeiras perdeu apenas duas partidas em casa, contra Ceará e Athletico-PR, pelo Campeonato Brasileiro. A competição de pontos corridos foi conquistada pelo Verdão, com a confirmação do título ocorrendo no estádio do Alviverde, pela 35ª rodada. O Palestra também venceu a Recopa Sul-Americana na sua arena, ainda no primeiro semestre, ao bater o Furacão por 2 a 0 no jogo definitivo.

Além dos 35 jogos do elenco profissional, os palmeirenses receberam confrontos do sub-17, sub-20 e da equipe feminina no Allianz Parque. Juntando as três categorias, foram 15 partidas disputadas na arena palmeirense. No gramado sintético, os garotos da base conquistaram a inédita Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior, enquanto as palestrinas venceram o Paulistão. Em ambas as ocasiões o adversário foi o Santos.

– Essa quantidade de jogos que estamos falando em 2022 não teve na pandemia, mas teremos mais nos próximos anos, e a grama estará lá, linda e maravilhosa. (O gramado) Vai ser testado, como vai ser agora, para entregar a precisão que entregamos. No final, o que a gente quer é que o equipamento funcione. E o que é o equipamento funcionando? Terminar o jogo sem lesões e ninguém vai falar do equipamento. Hoje termina um jogo no Allianz Parque e ninguém fala da grama sintética. Antes, terminava o jogo com grama natural e muito se falava, porque não dava pra suportar – comemorou Alessandro Oliveira.

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Desde que a grama sintética foi inserida no Allianz Parque, em fevereiro de 2020, não houve registro de atletas, seja do Palmeiras ou qualquer adversário, que se lesionaram no estádio.

E mais do que comemorar o desempenho esportivo, a Soccer Grass exalta a possibilidade que dá para o Palmeiras gerar receitas. Com a grama bem tratada, as chances de reservar o estádio para eventos aumentam. Em 2022, grandes nomes da música internacional se apresentaram no estádio palmeirenses, como Michael Bublé, Harry Styles e a banda Kiss.

– Quando você coloca a grama sintética, você pode ativar em shows, eventos, locações e gera receitas. Isso para o clube é muito interessante. Eu não sei ao certo quanto custa uma locação no Allianz, mas, vamos lá, que seja 400 ou 500 mil reais, você pode alocar quantas vezes no ano, 10, 15, 20 30? Sabe quantas vezes se usa o Morumbi? Se pegar o quanto joga, você tem 40 datas e mais uns 300 dias. Hoje o Allianz Parque vai ativando uma série de outras coisas – exalta Alessandro, que acrescenta.

– Assim, a conta, quando você põe na ponta do lápis, é fabulosa. Você tem economia de manutenção, pode jogar sempre. Antigamente, se você chegava perto da grama natural, se pisasse, ia ter um cara que te daria até tiro (disse em tom de brincadeira). Agora no Allianz fazem até desafio de cobrança de pênaltis com as pessoas que fazem o tour. Quando que você vai conseguir fazer isso com a grama natural? Isso é gerar receita. E, no final, também estamos entregando performance melhor que muitos estádios do Brasil.

Além da possibilidade de gerar receitas com shows e outros eventos, a temporada passada foi importante para que o Palmeiras utilizasse o Allianz Parque para fazer dinheiro com o futebol. O estádio teve a sua melhor média de público desde o ano da fundação, com 34.180 pessoas por partida. No total, 1.196.307 torcedores passaram pela arena.

O ano de 2022 recebeu o recorde de público do Verdão nas categorias profissional, sub-20 e femininio. Foram 41.361 palmeirenses que estiveram na eliminação do clube alviverde na Copa do Brasil, perdendo nos pênaltis para o São Paulo, após vitória por 2 a 1, no tempo normal. No título da Copinha, contra o Santos, 20.814 torcedores palestrinos estiveram no Allianz. E 20.071 pessoas compareceram ao estádio para acompanhar o triunfo palmeirense também sobre o Peixe na decisão do Campeonato Paulista de futebol feminino.

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Unlike the other teams, who have their league matches spread across most of the ten venues for the 2023 ODI World Cup in India, Pakistan will play their nine league matches in only five cities, according to the schedule released by the ICC and BCCI in Mumbai on Tuesday.Pakistan begin their campaign by playing the two qualifiers from the tournament in Zimbabwe in Hyderabad on October 6 and 12, before travelling to Ahmedabad to take on India on October 15. They then travel to Bengaluru to play Australia on October 20, and onward to Chennai, where they play Afghanistan on October 23 and South Africa on October 27.The PCB had requested the ICC to swap venues for their fixtures against Afghanistan and Australia (they wanted to play Afghanistan in Bengaluru and Australia in Chennai) a request that has not been granted.ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Pakistan then head east to Kolkata for their fixture against Bangladesh on October 31 and back to Bengaluru for their match against New Zealand on November 4. Their final league match, which will take place on the last day of the league phase, is against England in Kolkata on November 12. If Pakistan qualify for the semi-finals, they will play the game in Kolkata.They will gear up for the 2023 tournament in India with warm-up games against New Zealand and Australia on September 29 and October 3 in Hyderabad.Related

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The World Cup schedule was finally released at an event in Mumbai just 100 days before the start of the tournament on October 5. In comparison, the fixtures for the 2019 World Cup in England and the 2015 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand were released more than 12 months in advance.The tournament will be played across ten venues in India, with the semi-finals in Mumbai and Kolkata on November 15 and 16, and the final in Ahmedabad on November 19. The knockout games all have a reserve day provisioned. The format will be the same as it was in 2019, with ten teams playing each other once in the league phase and the top four qualifying for the semi-finals.India qualified for the event as hosts, while Afghanistan, Australia, England, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa made it by finishing in the top eight of the 2020-2023 World Cup Super League. The remaining two qualifiers will be identified at the ongoing World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe, which is being played by Sri Lanka, West Indies, Ireland, Nepal, Netherlands, Oman, Scotland, UAE, USA and Zimbabwe.

But will Pakistan travel to India at all?

Despite the World Cup schedule being announced, there is still no official confirmation from Pakistan that they will travel to India. Due to strained political relations between the two countries, Pakistan have not toured India since the 2016 men’s T20 World Cup. The latest word on the matter was that Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs was evaluating the team’s participation in the World Cup and would convey its view to the PCB in due course.”The PCB requires the Government of Pakistan’s clearance for any tour to India, including the match venues. We are liaising with our government for guidance, and as soon as we hear something from them, we will update the Event Authority (ICC),” PCB communications director Sami Ul Hasan said. “This position is consistent to what we had told the ICC a couple of weeks ago when they shared with us the draft schedule and sought our feedback.”It is understood that with the term of the ruling government in Pakistan ending in August, the decision on whether the team will travel to India will be deferred until the next government takes charge. This being an election year, the government will not make a formal announcement at this stage, though tentative permission has been given. The final decision will be taken closer to the departure date, like it was when India hosted the 2016 World Cup.Back then, Nawaz Sharif’s government gave the team last-hour clearance to travel after sending a delegation to India for security reconnaissance. The PCB had threatened to pull out of the T20 World Cup in India unless they had assurance from the Indian government regarding the security of the Pakistan team, which eventually resulted in the India-Pakistan match moving from Dharamsala to Kolkata.

Incoming MCC president believes club needs to make better use of soft power to retain relevance

Andrew Miller02-Oct-20231:26

Nicholas: ODIs should only be played in World Cups

Mark Nicholas, the incoming president of MCC, has called for 50-over cricket to be played exclusively at World Cups, in a bid to preserve the ODI format from what he describes as the “supernatural” power of T20.Nicholas, who succeeded Stephen Fry this weekend as president of cricket’s oldest and most prestigious members’ club, added that his views echoed those of MCC’s World Cricket Committee, which met in July to call for ODI cricket to be “significantly reduced” outside of World Cup years.”We believe strongly that ODIs should be World Cups only,” Nicholas told ESPNcricinfo. “We think it’s difficult bilaterally now to justify them. They’re not filling grounds in a lot of countries. And there is a power at the moment to T20 cricket that is almost supernatural.”It’s more than just ticket sales. It’s the amount of people that want to own franchises, the amount of countries that want to run tournaments, it’s the amount of players that want to be in a market all around the world.”In a free market, the most money wins. And that’s just the end-game. The players can see that bubbling away and they want to be a part of it. So, it is an extraordinary power that T20 has, and I think scheduling 50-over cricket alongside it just continues the story of the death knell of the ODI game.”Nicholas concedes that his comments, on the eve of the 2023 World Cup, are unlikely to hold much sway with the ICC unless they can be crafted into a properly structured proposal, but he believes that the issue could be one of the ways in which MCC makes better use of the “soft power” that the club is still capable of wielding, even if its days of direct involvement in the sport’s administration are long gone.Mark Nicholas, the incoming president of MCC, pictured ringing the five-minute bell during a Test at Lord’s•Getty Images

“How much more relevant can MCC be?” Nicholas added. “Is there a danger we’re losing our relevance in global cricket thinking? Can we use our World Cricket Committee better? Can we use our massive list of Honorary Life members, [which has] the outstanding players of the modern era and the era before on it.”The problem at the moment is that the ICC see us a bit of a threat,” he said. “When we put our head above the parapet, they’re like ‘whoa, settle down, we run the game’. So we need to integrate better with ICC, we need to understand each other better. We need to develop thinking that comes together.”Nicholas’ tenure as president comes at a tricky juncture for the club, particularly in the wake of the recent Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC) report, which castigated MCC for its elitist tendencies; accusing Lord’s of being a place “predominantly for men”, and calling for an end to its hosting of the traditional Eton-Harrow and Oxford-Cambridge matches to make way for more women’s and state-school cricket at the venue.However, as the founder of Chance to Shine, the charity that has introduced cricket to more than 6 million state-school children in the 18 years since it was established in 2005, Nicholas comes to his MCC role with a proven track record for community engagement, and hopes that his year as president – which coincides with the MCC Foundation being granted a further £1 million to double its number of community hubs from 77 to 150 – can help to highlight the club’s enduring relevance to the grassroots game.Related

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“I’ve always felt that MCC could do a better job with the development game and could make more of a point of supporting kids who aren’t as lucky as lots of us who have been to a private school,” Nicholas said. “There is an element of the club that might be elitist but a lot of members involved in the grassroots of the game just get on with their business. I feel that that we’re quite a long way down the road in many of the areas that the ICEC report hammered us for.”But it’s difficult. The bricks and mortar of the club matter too. If you sell out the first two days of a Test here, you can’t then give tickets to 500 kids, because there’s nowhere to sit. We sell out our matches … so do The Oval and Old Trafford too, but MCC always get blamed because of the tag. So, I would love to work away at the tag.”On the specifics of the Eton-Harrow fixture, which will continue to be played at Lord’s for a further five years after an uneasy compromise was agreed with the membership earlier this year, Nicholas predicts that the schools themselves will probably end up making the decision to move the fixture away from Lord’s, where it has been staged since 1805.”You’ve got to remember that tradition has mattered, but it’s not so relevant now,” he said. “The founding fathers of this club came from those schools and wanted to play their matches here. It was a cool thing to do. It’s a different world now. So don’t blame the past.”My guess is that the game will move away from here, probably that the two headmasters won’t want the publicity around it, because attitudes are changing. The world is changing so fast at the moment that it might not suit them to have this issue rear its head all the time. I hope the club can embrace the idea that, in time, common sense will bring change, and crack on in the meantime with really useful things.”We will never solve the problem of ‘what are you?’ Are we a private members’ club, or are we a cricket ground that wants to lead the international game? We’re both. It’s just what it is. So we must sustain both, and we must be the best we can be at both. We need our membership to be as one, united, believing in this place, and actually believing in a lot of the traditions of the club which is a togetherness and a community in the love of the game.”

Duo share unbroken sixth-wicket stand worth 91 after wobbly start for tourists on day two

Matt Roller17-Jun-2023Usman Khawaja walked up the dressing-room stairs unbeaten for the second straight evening at Edgbaston, 122 runs better off than he had been the night before. England hoped four overs would be enough to dislodge Khawaja on Friday, declaring in time for a crack at him with the new ball; 24 hours later, he had proved himself immovable.Khawaja was the nearly man of Australian cricket for much of his career, playing 93 times for his country before his 34th birthday without ever feeling like a permanent fixture in the side. His technique and temperament were called into question, and after three years out of international cricket, it seemed he had served his time.But in the Birmingham sunshine, Khawaja cut Ben Stokes for four and raced down the pitch to celebrate his seventh Test hundred since his recall 18 months ago. Since the start of 2023, he has scored hundreds in Australia, India and now, for the first time in his career, England.On a slow, dry pitch, Khawaja and Australia scored at a different tempo to the one England had set on the first day. They scored at barely two-thirds of the rate of England’s first innings, yet with Khawaja’s innings – littered with crisp pulls and handsome drives – ensured that they trailed by only 82 at stumps.It took Australia 24 balls to add to their overnight 14 for 0, absorbing more maidens in the first three overs of the day than England had done in their entire first innings. Khawaja pulled and flicked Stuart Broad and James Anderson for boundaries – he pulled and flicked his way through the day – but it was Broad who brought the morning to life.The first ball of his sixth over was a wide inswinger dangled outside off stump, but David Warner took the bait. He threw his hands at the ball, then his head back: his back leg collapsed as he shaped to thump Broad through the covers, and a thick inside edge deflected the ball into the top of his leg stump.It was the 15th time that Broad had dismissed Warner, but he celebrated as though it was the first, racing away towards the Hollies Stand with his fists clenched so hard that the veins in his neck throbbed. As Marnus Labuschagne asked a policeman to move from his perch next to the sightscreen, Broad sensed something was brewing.Raising his hand and whirling his finger, he geed up the crowd at the top of his mark. Coming from wide on the crease, he angled an outswinger into him, and Labuschagne could not resist driving away from his body. Jonny Bairstow tumbled low to his right, taking the catch one-handed, and Australia were 29 for 2.The hat-trick ball flew harmlessly past Steven Smith’s thigh pad as he shouldered arms with a flourish, and Smith dug in resolutely against whatever Ben Stokes threw at him – including an over of gentle medium pace from Harry Brook inside the first hour. And so, Stokes took matters into his own hands, bringing himself on for only his second over in a match since mid-February, and his first since early April.His first delivery was a front-foot no-ball, perhaps striving to prove his fitness despite a chronic knee issue, but the last ball of his second over skidded into Smith’s pad. Marais Erasmus eventually gave Smith out after Stokes pleaded for the decision, and the DRS could not save him: ball-tracking predicted the ball would have hit the top of the stumps.Travis Head joined Khawaja and counter-punched either side of lunch in characteristic manner. He survived a short-ball barrage after the interval and both left-handers took on Moeen Ali, who bowled as well as could be hoped for a man who came out of Test retirement last week. Moeen started to leak runs, but Stokes stubbornly refused to take him off, or to push the field back.Khawaja took 106 balls to reach his half-century, while Head got there in 60, cutting an out-of-sorts Ollie Robinson away behind square. He didn’t score another run, skipping down the pitch and miscuing Moeen to short midwicket; Moeen pointed to Stokes at mid-off as he turned away in celebration.Moeen should have had two wickets in three balls, beating Cameron Green as he charged out of his crease. Instead, an unsighted Bairstow missed the stumping chance and Green added 72 with Khawaja for the fifth wicket in a stand that spanned the tea interval.The best ball of the day accounted for Green on 38, as Moeen flighted an offbreak wide outside off. It drifted away a touch, then spun back sharply from a good length to beat Green – lunging forwards as though stepping on an insect – on the inside edge and peg back his leg stump.Yet England failed to take another wicket, Khawaja and Alex Carey adding an unbroken 91 for the sixth wicket. Carey had a life on 26, prodding forwards to Joe Root only for Bairstow to put the chance down, an edge past Root at slip off Moeen brought him to 50. Khawaja, too, enjoyed a reprieve. Broad took the second new ball and found some nip off the seam to knock off stump back.But the third umpire noticed that Broad had overstepped, and he survived until the close once again. The crowd had started to filter out by the time he walked off with a beaming smile, at the end of a day that will be remembered as Usman Khawaja’s.

Everything you need to know about Justin Bijlow's salary details playing for Feyenoord

Dutch goalkeeper Justin Bijlow has been a Feyenoord loyalist since his youth days. He spent ten years in the club’s youth academy before making his first-team debut in 2017.

Despite struggling with recurring injuries and limited playing time early in his senior career, Bijlow chose to stay at the club and fight for his place in the starting XI, earning widespread praise from Feyenoord supporters.

Now, eight years after his debut, the Dutchman has become an indispensable figure and the club’s first-choice goalkeeper – when fit.

Bijlow has been rewarded generously for his loyalty, currently standing as Feyenoord’s highest-paid player under a contract that runs until 2026.

So, exactly how much does the Dutch star earn?

GOAL delved into the numbers with Capology and found out!

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Justin Bijlow's wages at Feyenoord in numbers

As per the terms of Justin Bijlow’s existing contract with Feyenoord, the Dutch player receives a remarkable weekly salary of €56,538, positioning him as the top-earning player within the current team lineup. His yearly earnings total to an estimated €3 million.

Player

Nationality

Weekly wages in Euros

Annual wages in Euros

Justin Bijlow

Dutch

€56,538

€2,940,000

AdvertisementAFPTop earners at Feyenoord

As previously mentioned, Justin Bijlow is currently recognized as the highest-paid player at Feyenoord, with Calvin Stengs and David Hancko following closely in second and third positions, respectively.

In the meantime, Algerian international Ramiz Zerrouki and Igor Paixao round out the top five, holding the fourth and fifth spots, respectively.

Player

Nationality

Weekly wages in Euros

Annual wages in Euros

Justin Bijlow

Dutch

€56,538

€2,940,000

Calvin Stengs

Dutch

€47,115

€2,450,000

David Hancko

Slovak

€45,192

€2,350,000

Ramiz Zerrouki

Algerian

€33,846

€1,760,000

Igor Paixao

Brazilian

€33,846

€1,760,000

Top earners in Eredivisie

Jordan Henderson, who was formerly with Liverpool, now earns the highest salary in the Eredivisie. Following him is Sergino Dest from PSV. Daniele Rugani, an Italian player, holds the third position, while Ajax's Brian Brobbey and Steven Berghuis are in fourth and fifth places respectively.

Player

Club

Weekly wages in Euros

Annual wages in Euros

Jordan Henderson

Ajax

€90,000

€4,680,000

Sergino Dest

PSV

€75,385

€3,920,000

Daniele Rugani

Ajax

€75,385

€3,920,000

Brian Brobbey

Ajax

€57,692

€3,000,000

Steven Berghuis

Ajax

€56,731

€2,950,000

AFPHighest paid players in the world

Salaries of Eredivisie players are significant, yet they remain lower compared to those of the world's top footballers, with none reaching the highest echelons.

The highest-paid players are found in the Saudi Pro League, where Cristiano Ronaldo at Al Nassr holds the top salary position.

Karim Benzema, who previously played for Real Madrid, ranks second, followed by Riyad Mahrez, who moved from Manchester City to Al-Ahli, in third place.

Sadio Mane and Kalidou Koulibaly, both hailing from Senegal, occupy the fourth and fifth spots, respectively.

Player

Club

Weekly wages Euros

Annual wages Euros

Cristiano Ronaldo

Al Nassr

€3,846,154

€200,000,000

Karim Benzema

Al Ittihad

€1,923,077

€100,000,000

Riyad Mahrez

Al Ahli

€1,003,846

€52,200,000

Sadio Mane

Al Nassr

€769,231

€40,000,000

Kalidou Koulibaly

Al Hilal

€667,308

€34,700,000

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da betsson： O lateral-direito Pablo Toscano espera ansiosamente pelo início do Paraense 2023 para conquistar o principal objetivo do Paragominas na temporada: o retorno a uma disputa nacional.

Além disso, o clube aguarda na Justiça a decisão se vai disputar a elite do estadual. Em 2022, Bragantino-PA e Águia escalaram jogadores irregulares, sendo punidos, e colocando o Paragominas na Série A do Parazão. No entanto, o caso coube recurso. O julgamento ocorrerá no dia 8 de janeiro, no Rio de Janeiro.

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da pinup bet： – Espero muito ajudar o Paragominas neste ano e colocar o clube onde ele nunca deveria ter saído, que é uma competição nacional. Vamos brigar forte por isso – prometeu Pablo.

Enquanto não há decisão na Justiça, o defensor segue em Goiás aprimorando sua forma física, mas confiante na vitória fora de campo.

– É ruim ficar esperando, tive um convite para jogar no futebol goiano, mas recusei, pois a diretoria do Paragominas está confiante na vitória. Estou treinando e mantendo minha forma física para chegar bem no Estadual – finalizou o atleta.

Wolverhampton Wanderers supporters will have renewed optimism now that their lowly side can beat the Premier League drop with Vitor Pereira picking up some standout results since taking on the reins.

Indeed, the Portuguese manager has inspired his relegation-threatened troops to pick up some big victories against the likes of Manchester United and Aston Villa since replacing Gary O’Neil, with the Old Gold now up to 17th after looking doomed to be heading for the Championship under the previous regime.

Whilst Pereira will be happy with the fight on display for the most part, he will perhaps want a little more from the attackers at his disposal, away from Matheus Cunha continuing to dominate the spotlight.

The numbers behind Wolves' attack this season

The ex-Al Shabab boss has had to deal with some bad luck in the striker department when it comes to unfortunate injuries, with one of his stars up top – alongside Cunha – in Jorgen Strand Larsen now sidelined with a hamstring injury.

Before this unwanted development, the Nordic sharpshooter was up to a sizeable seven goals in the Premier League for the season, with Cunha only boasting more top-flight strikes in the Old Gold camp at 11.

With Larsen now out, it has exposed the lack of attacking quality in the striker positions, with Hwang Hee-Chan way off the boil so far this campaign.

From 21 appearances across 2024/25 to date, the out-of-sorts South Korean only has two strikes next to his name, which is a disappointing return so far considering he managed to bag 12 top-flight strikes during a far more successful 2023/24 campaign.

Whilst Pereira laments his striker options, there is a former Old Gold hero who is currently outscoring both Hwang and Larsen at his current employers.

Where Are They Now

Your star player or biggest flop has left the club but what are they doing in the present day? This article is part of Football FanCast's Where Are They Now series.

The former Wolves striker who is now outscoring Larsen & Hwang

Wolves have had their fair share of modern-day legends in recent years as the club rose from the doldrums of EFL obscurity to Premier League glory.

One of those faces that is definitely well-liked to this day is Raul Jimenez, with the Mexican a long-standing servant of the club over many seasons before his departure in 2023.

Across five celebrated campaigns in the West Midlands, Jimenez would help himself to a hefty 57 goals and 22 assists, with the now 33-year-old even having to battle back from a serious injury during his goal-laden spell at Molineux to continue to prove his worth.

Whilst he is now firmly in the twilight years of his career, the goals haven’t dried up for the Mexican donning his new Fulham colours, with Jimenez bettering both Larsen and Hwang this season in terms of output.

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24

9

2

23/24

24

7

0

22/23

15

0

1

21/22

34

6

4

20/21

10

4

0

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38

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Amazingly, Jimenez is close to eclipsing his Premier League best at Molineux strutting his stuff now at Craven Cottage, with the veteran attacker boasting 11 goal contributions this season in the top-flight to beat Larsen and Hwang’s weaker numbers consequently.

Marco Silva would even describe Jimenez as “incredible” this season when he became Mexico’s highest-ever goalscorer in the elite division, with the ex-Everton boss thankful that Wolves decided to offload the towering 6 foot 3 striker when they did. On the flip side, the Old Gold must regret letting him go.

In an alternate reality, Pereira wouldn’t turn his nose up at having Jimenez in his Old Gold camp, but the popular Wolves boss will just hope the goals keep flowing in big games to come near the foot of the division away from looking back at past attackers.

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“We’re open and honest to say that we’re not getting what we would like out of the powerplay as yet, but we’re certainly very happy with other phases of our game”

Shashank Kishore09-Oct-2023Grant Bradburn, the Pakistan head coach, acknowledged their powerplay batting hasn’t clicked yet in India, but it’s something the team isn’t losing sleep over just yet.Much of those top order questions stem from Fakhar Zaman’s indifferent form. He has a highest of 33 in 11 innings since the unbeaten 180 he made against New Zealand in April. The team management insists they’re keeping all options open for the Sri Lanka match without giving away much.At training, Abdullah Shafique was among the first to stride out to the nets with Babar Azam a few kilometres down the road from Rajiv Gandhi Stadium. Whether that’s a hint of them already looking at a change, only time will tell.”We’re well aware that the first phase of our batting is not clicking as yet, which we think is a good thing, in a way, because we have full trust in all of the guys who are capable at batting within the powerplay,” Bradburn said. “And they’ve done it before. Over perhaps the last period between World Cups, the top three have scored the majority of our runs, which maybe is detrimental to other parts of our game.Related

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“So, look, we’ve got full faith in our top order. They will click at some stage. And we’re open and honest to say that we’re not getting what we would like out of the powerplay as yet. But we’re certainly very happy with other phases of our game which have kicked into gear and did enough the other night to get over the line and create a W, create two points for us coming out of that dressing room which was the ultimate goal.”Bradburn is big on team culture. Having already been a part of this group as a fielding coach under Mickey Arthur until June 2020, he’s had a bird’s eye view of the dynamics within the team. It also helped that he worked with a lot of the younger players during his short stint as head of at PCB’s High-Performance Coaching until 2021.One of the areas Bradburn touched upon was giving players what they want at training instead of laying down a set of rules for the group to follow. It’s perhaps a sign of them putting this into practice that a few key players like Imam-ul-Haq, Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan opted to rest at the hotel instead of pushing themselves at training on match eve.”Our full trust is with our players in terms of understanding exactly what they need,” Bradburn said. “Especially the day before a game, to top off their training, to top up their training rather, and just prepare themselves mentally and physically to put in what we want on the park, which is commanding performances.”We want our players to produce impact performances. It’s not about them individually anymore. It’s about us as a team. It’s about us extracting another two points. And that’s our sole mission. We put full faith in the players to know exactly what they need to do to prepare. And some have chosen to prepare in other ways other than taking more energy out of their bodies today. From a coaching point of view, I’m very, very happy with that.”That said, Bradburn also emphasised on the need to move away from “comfort training” – essentially long net sessions involving bowling or hitting balls as against working on specific areas. Like Saud Shakeel did prior to their opening game, of working on shortening his backswing to give himself a split-second more against fast bowling (LINK Saud Shakeel post-match piece).Bradburn believes team director Mickey Arthur, who was with Sri Lanka as recent as November 2021, is Pakistan’s “secret weapon”•Getty Images

“Early on, from our training point of view there was lots of energy and excitement to get the pads on, to get into the nets and to get into action on Indian soil,” Bradburn said. “The facilities here are excellent so everyone’s been wanting to train. But as a coaching group of course we’ve got to balance that because number one – we want our tanks full of energy for game day. And we’re trying to wean our players off from comfort training and we want them really to have all aspects of their training to be done with purpose in relation to their clear individual roles and our clear game roles.”On the strategy front, Bradburn talked up team director Mickey Arthur’s intel on the Sri Lankan team, having worked with them until as recently as November 2021. Bradburn was all about the markers they’d taken from their most-recent experience of having lost an agonisingly tight game off the last ball that cost them a berth in the Asia Cup final.There was no talk of revenge; just simple acknowledgement of what they needed to do better. “Yeah, look, we’re really looking forward to playing Sri Lanka,” he said. “They’re a team that we’ve become familiar with over recent times, obviously with the Asia Cup, and we know well that they have had the upper hand on us over the last year in white-ball cricket.”But we know their players very, very well. We have a secret weapon, if you like, in Mickey Arthur, who has coached them before. So, in our scouting meetings this morning and our video meetings this morning, Mickey was a very, very handy addition to those meetings to be able to add in some intricate points around their batters and bowlers.”We’ve worked hard on gaining some absolute crystal clarity around what we’re trying to do as a unit to win games of cricket, what the process of that is, what the little battles are along the way to win. And together with that, we’ve also worked very, very hard on giving each of our players absolute clarity of their individual roles within that. So, it’s now not about individuals, it’s now about the group and I’m really excited just sensing that this group is starting to come together really nicely, not only on the park, not only in training, but just as a group.”

حقق فريق زد الفوز على نظيره المقاولون العرب، اليوم الجمعة، في المباراة التي جمعتهما ضمن منافسات مسابقة الدوري المصري الممتاز بهدفين مقابل لا شيء.

والتقى المقاولون العرب مع زد، ضمن منافسات الجولة الأولى من مسابقة الدوري المصري الممتاز على ملعب عثمان أحمد عثمان.

ويقود زد فنيًا محمد شوقي كمدير فني بعد توليه المسئولية بعد رحيله عن منصب نائب المدير الرياضي للنادي الأهلي.

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وافتتح زد التسجيل في الدقيقة الثامنة من عمر المباراة عن طريق علي جمال من ركلة جزاء، بينما جاء الهدف الثاني بواسطة أحمد عاطف في الدقيقة 61.

ورفع زد رصيده إلى 3 نقاط، بعد الفوز على المقاولون العرب الذي تجمد رصيده عند صفر بعد الخسارة.

وانطلقت النسخة الجديدة من مسابقة الدوري المصري الممتاز أمس الجمعة 8 أغسطس، بمشاركة 21 فريقًا بعد إلغاء الهبوط وصعود 3 فرق.

وتخوض الفرق دوري من دور واحد كمرحلة أولى، ثم تتنافس 7 فرق في مجموعة تحديد البطل، و14 في مجموعة تحديد الهابطين، ومن ثم يهبط 4 فرق ويصعد 3. أهداف مباراة زد والمقاولون العرب اليوم