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The result of the tri-series match between Sri Lanka and West Indies could well hinge on how the two inexperienced batting line-ups handle the seam-friendly conditions at the Harare Sports Club

The Preview by Liam Brickhill15-Nov-2016Match FactsWednesday, November 16
Start time 0930 local (0730 GMT)Zimbabwe didn’t test Sri Lanka’s inexperienced batting line-up on Monday, but West Indies’ attack could pose a bigger threat•AFPBig PictureVisiting teams to Zimbabwe often use their time here as a looking glass into the future: which new combinations might be worth exploring? Who are the up-and-coming players? Who’s staking a claim for the next major tour? While West Indies’ circumstances might be a little more tempestuous, both they and Sri Lanka have picked forward-thinking squads for this series, and there is plenty to prove on both sides.This is particularly true of the batsmen. Darren Bravo has been culled from West Indies’ squad for his outburst on Twitter, and they are also missing batsman Marlon Samuels, wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin and allrounder Kieron Pollard, depriving them of a combined 521 ODIs’ worth of experience. With 44 ODIs to his name Johnson Charles is, by some distance, West Indies’ most experienced batsman. Several somewhat unknown entities have a chance to stake a claim.The same goes for Sri Lanka, who already have one eye on their tour of South Africa in the new year. Sri Lanka have captain Upul Tharanga’s 189-match ODI experience to call upon, with Kusal Perera’s international nous to back him up, but not an awful lot beyond that. Their relative familiarity with Zimbabwean conditions and the sparkling form of young batsman Dhananjaya de Silva may give them an advantage, but they will likely find themselves more tested by West Indies’ attack than by anything Zimbabwe have thrown at them in the last few weeks.Sulieman Benn and Sunil Narine have their wiles, and Shannon Gabriel’s improved fitness and balanced action enhances his menace. Captain Jason Holder will be personally buoyed by his recent second innings five-for against Pakistan in Sharjah, but the Bravo imbroglio may dampen the momentum West Indies gained from their historic Test success over Pakistan.Or it may not, given that in recent times West Indies have rarely seemed more than a tweet or two away from controversy, and weathering such storms is all in a day’s work for them. On the field, however, conditions are setting this match up as a middleweight fight that will favour the most sturdy batsmen and most incisive bowlers on either side.Form GuideSri Lanka: WLLLW (Last five completed matches, most recent first)
West Indies: LLLLWIn the SpotlightKraigg Brathwaite’s Herculean efforts in Sharjah helped secure West Indies’ five-wicket win there, but his one-day record remains rather more modest than his Test record. With no Samuels or Bravo to provide the ballast in West Indies’ top order, West Indies will be looking to Brathwaite to step up and glue the top order together.Sri Lanka’s questions around their inexperienced middle order are yet to be answered, given the tiny target and limp bowling attack they faced on Monday. How they stand up to the greater challenge provided by West Indies may be crucial to their overall success.With 44 ODIs, Johnson Charles is the most experienced top-order batsman in West Indies’ tri-series squad•AFPTeam NewsMultiple changes to their squad will have shaken West Indies up somewhat, and despite their long-form success in the UAE, West Indies’ recent 3-0 defeat in the ODIs against Pakistan will be in the back of their minds. All the new names in their batting line-up have a chance to clean the slate, and there are several middle-order slots up for grabs and several all-round options.West Indies (possible): 1 Johnson Charles, 2 Kraigg Brathwaite, 3 Evin Lewis, 4 Jason Mohammed, 5 Shai Hope, 6 Shane Dowrich (wk), 7 Jonathan Carter, 8 Carlos Brathwaite, 9 Jason Holder (c), 10 Sulieman Benn, 11 Shannon GabrielShehan Jayasuriya came in for some tap from Peter Moor on Monday, but there is no urgent reason for Sri Lanka to tinker with their XI. When the tri-series moves to Bulawayo, they will have expanded opportunities to play their spinners, and there should be a similar make-up to their line-up against West Indies.Sri Lanka (probable): 1 Dhananjaya de Silva, 2 Kusal Perera, 3 Niroshan Dickwella (wk), 4 Kusal Mendis, 5 Upul Tharanga (c), 6 Asela Gunaratne, 7 Shehan Jayasuriya, 8 Sachith Pathirana, 9 Nuwan Kulasekara, 10 Suranga Lakmal, 11 Nuwan PradeepPitch and conditionsZimbabwe coach Heath Streak suggested it wasn’t so much the grass on the pitch as the clouds overhead that aided swing and seam on Monday, and both the pitch and weather conditions are expected to be very similar. Much of the day is expected to be cloudy and overcast, with occasional sunny spells, while there may well be thunderstorms in the afternoon.Stats and trivia In 54 ODIs between these countries, West Indies hold the advantage with 27 wins to Sri Lanka’s 24. Yet that is weighted somewhat by West Indies’ yesteryear prowess. Sri Lanka have won six of the last seven matches between the teams Suranga Lakmal is Sri Lanka’s leading wicket-taker this year, with 11 scalps from eight matches at 26.72 West Indies last visited Zimbabwe in 2007-08, when they won a five-match series 3-1, with one game abandonedQuotes”We’ve been facing Carl Mumba who has been bowling very fast, so West Indies’ pace won’t be a problem, rather the ball seaming around will be the challenge for us.”
“It’s obviously a big impact to lose senior guys with experience who bring pedigree to your side. It’s a situation where we have to cope with what we have, and gel together as quickly as possible.”

Journalist Jacque Talbot has claimed that Jadon Sancho is likely to leave Manchester United this summer in a shock summer departure.

What is the latest on Jadon Sancho and Man Utd?

It was only as recently as July 2021 when the Englishman joined the Red Devils in a £73m transfer from German outfit Borussia Dortmund.

At the time of the deal, it was reported that the winger had signed a five-year deal at United, with an option of a further year.

However, things have not gone too well for Sancho since then and it now sounds as though he could be on his way out of the club his summer.

Indeed, while talking on his YouTube channel, Talbot said (36:48): “It will be interesting to see about Sancho. His time is probably up now, isn't it?

Will Sancho leave Man Utd this summer?

After joining for such a high transfer fee, it's not as if Sancho has lived up to expectations since arriving in the Premier League.

Indeed, he has only eight goals and five assists in 51 league games in his first two seasons at Old Trafford – with only six goals and two assists to his name in all competitions this term.

He's come in for some heavy criticism for his performances at times too over the past few months. For instance, United legend Paul Scholes slammed Sancho after he failed to impress in the Europa League defeat to Sevilla.

The BT Pundit said (via Mirror): "During the warm-ups we were eulogising about the crowd and saying how aggressive and hostile it was.

"When the United players see and hear that they need to go into the dressing room and think, 'I need to be ready for this and my first touch has got to be ready'.

"You see Jadon Sancho in the first five minutes tonight, the ball bounced off him three times, terrible weight of pass too. I’m a big fan of the lad but you’ve got to liven up and be ready."

Worryingly, his last three performances in the Premier League have been underwhelming too, delivering 6.6, 6.5 and 6.6 SofaScore ratings against Aston Villa, Brighton and then West Ham most recently.

With all that in mind, it's hard to see where a sudden shift in form is going to come from and Man United may well be best to cut their losses and sell the £350k-p/w flop this summer while they can still make back some money on that £73m originally spent.

Glamorgan would have been in deep trouble had Australian born Nick Selman not scored 101, almost half the team’s total, in an attacking innings

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ScorecardMichael Hogan stood in as Glamorgan captain•Cricket Australia/Getty Images

Glamorgan would have been in deep trouble had Australian born Nick Selman not scored 101, almost half the team’s total, in an attacking innings.Selman, who last month carried his bat for an undefeated hundred against Northants, looked as if would emulate that performance until he was bowled the delivery after reaching his century. He will hope that this innings will not start a run of poor form- following his first century he suffered a run of four ducks.After an uncontested toss, Mark Wallace – in the absence of Jacques Rudolph, who had a sore neck – opened the innings with Selman, but Wallace was out in the seventh over, leg before to David Payne, which prompted a spectator to shout behind the arm” that was a poor decision umpire”.Selman had started with a flurry of boundaries, and although Will Bragg and David Lloyd were both out cheaply, Glamorgan had reached 130 for 3 at lunch, with Selman and Aneurin Donald in full flow.The fourth wicket pair had put on 65, before Donald, who was only four runs short of his 1,000 first-class runs for the season, top-edged an intended pull to mid-on. Kieran Carlson, playing his second championship game, was out with scoring, and after Selman was dismissed, Craig Meschede was also dismissed by Matt Taylor.Graham Wagg, meanwhile, played a watchful innings on a pitch that was seamer friendly, and had to contend with some accurate bowling from the Gloucestershire seam quartet. Wagg and Timm Van Der Gugten added a useful 38 for the ninth wicket, enabling Glamorgan to gain a batting point, before they were both dismissed by Craig Miles who, with Taylor, took four wickets.Gloucestershire had to face 31 overs after tea, but soon lost Gareth Roderick who edged Van Der Gugten’s fifth ball to second slip. The Glamorgan seamers also bowled a tight line, but it was a short delivery that undid Chris Dent, who tamely guided the ball to square leg.Will Tavare, who had laboured 67 balls for his 18, was the next to go when he was lbw to Michael Hogan, who was leading Glamorgan in Rudolph’s absence. Hamish Marshall and George Hankin, who was the Player of the Tournament in the recent Under-19 series against Sri Lanka, guided Gloucestershire to the close at 62 for3, a deficit of 158.

Offspinner Nathan Lyon has been preparing himself for a more attacking role with the Australian side. Though his three wickets to dismantle West Indies for 116 came during the middle overs, Lyon’s captain Steven Smith has been eying a greater role for him during the Powerplay and slog overs.”Smithy and I spoke a couple of times at a few different net sessions about playing a different role potentially with the new ball, potentially at the death,” Lyon said after the game. “So I’ve just got to be able to work with what Smithy wants.”With a robust assembly line of fast bowlers and seam-bowling allrounders coming through, the role of a spinner in an Australian one-day outfit has often been limited. Lyon himself hinted that his primary objective had often been keeping the runs down and, if as a byproduct he ended up with a rich haul, all the better.Against West Indies, the 28-year old came on as first change in the seventh over, maintained an economy rate of 3.90 and dismissed Marlon Samuels and Kieron Pollard off successive deliveries in the 17th to establish Australia’s dominance.”Always good to be on a hat-trick,” Lyon said, “but at the end of the day I was more worried about trying to stop the runs and if a wicket came around, [then good]. It’s just about trying to create some chances.”The slow pitches in Guyana enabled the spinners to dictate terms. Legspinner Adam Zampa picked up 3 for 16 in 5.3 overs, part-time offspinner Glenn Maxwell chipped in with 1 for 3 off two overs and Lyon was quite pleased to have the support.”About time, I reckon,” he joked. “No, it’s good. I get along with Zamps and Maxi really well. We work really well together and we seem to bowl really well in tandem. So it was exciting to, firstly play the first game with Zamps, and hopefully there’s a big future for both of us.”Lyon, Zampa and Maxwell bowled nine overs between the 17th and the 25th, took four wickets and gave away only 20 runs. That left West Indies at 90 for 7, with nowhere to go.”Our communication is one of our biggest weapons,” Lyon said. “As I said, we’re all really good mates, we all want to see each other do well. So if we can have that open communication with each other and try and help each other to better the team and get the right result for Australia, then we’re heading the right way.”There was one area of concern, though. Australia were playing their first ODI since February, and their first international since March, and Lyon admitted there was “a bit of rust floating around.””But it was a good workout. All over, we’re pretty happy with the win, but we know there’s a lot more work to do in this tri-series.”

As Tottenham Hotspur sporting director Fabio Paratici's plots potential replacements for compatriot Antonio Conte at N17, one name that has cropped up in recent times is Sporting CP boss, Ruben Amorim.

Reports in Portugal earlier this month suggested that the Lilywhites are 'at the head' of the list of suitors in the race to secure the 38-year-old's signature, with Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain also believed to be in the running.

The up-and-coming coach – who has been in charge of the Primeira Liga side since 2020 – is said to now be "ready" to make the move to English football, according to Football Insider, despite having a contract in his current post that runs until 2026.

The former Braga boss has been hailed as a "special manager" by writer Zach Lowy as a result of the early success he has enjoyed in his managerial career to date, notably winning the league and cup double during the 2020/21 campaign with Sporting.

With the Lisbon native likely to have decades ahead of him in the dugout, it is no surprise that Paratici and co are seemingly looking closely at him as a potential successor to Conte, as the highly-coveted coach only recently laid bare his credentials after knocking out Arsenal in the Europa League.

That recent triumph has already put Amorim in the good books of Tottenham supporters, with that positive feeling only set to be enhanced if he can also aid the club in bringing current Sporting starlet Marcus Edwards back to north London.

Will Spurs sign Edwards?

The diminutive forward – who left the Premier League side back in 2019 after rising up through the youth ranks – has been touted for a Spurs homecoming in recent times, with the Daily Mail previously suggesting that Paratici was eyeing a double January swoop involving the Englishman and Pedro Porro.

Despite the latter man eventually making his way to London, in the case of Edwards – who is said to have a £52m release clause in his contract – the 24-year-old stayed put at the Jose Alvalade Stadium, having been in sparkling form of late in Portugal.

Once likened to Lionel Messi by former Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino, the 5 foot 6 dynamo has left his previous employers ruing their decision to allow him to depart, having scored 13 goals and registered 14 assists in just 55 games for his current side.

The former Vitoria Guimaraes ace has proven himself a truly "dangerous" attacking presence, as per Statman Dave, with it no surprise that there is such a clamour to see him return to his former home, as even the player himself would "give serious consideration" to the move – according to journalist Pete O'Rourke.

The hope will be that Edwards' connection to Amorim can help to spark that long-awaited switch, provided the exciting coach does himself agree to a move, with the Portuguese visionary having hailed the former England youth gem as a "very talented player", while also tipping him for senior international recognition from the Three Lions in the future.

Although at the moment that double move does appear someway off, it would represent a notable coup as far as Spurs are concerned if the top-four hopefuls can pull it off.

Southampton defender Armel Bella-Kotchap needs to see a specialist to learn the extent of the shoulder injury he suffered against Tottenham Hotspur, according to a report from The Daily Echo.

The Lowdown: Injury blow

Bella-Kotchap had to be withdrawn after just seven minutes against Tottenham at the weekend, leading to concern about a fresh injury blow for the centre-back, who has already missed 14 games this season due to shoulder and knee problems.

To make matters worse for Ruben Selles, that was not the only injury suffered by one of his players, with Jan Bednarek also hobbling off in the first half, being replaced by Ainsley Maitland-Niles, who was forced to play in a makeshift role.

As such, the last thing the Southampton boss needs is for the German defender to be ruled out on a long-term basis, however the latest injury news does not appear to be good news…

The Latest: Waiting on a specialist

According to a report from The Daily Echo, the 21-year-old is waiting on a specialist to determine the extent of the shoulder injury, and he has been forced to withdraw from the Germany national squad as a result.

It is not the first time the youngster has encountered issues with his shoulder, opting against surgery after suffering a dislocation last year, in order to be selected for his national side’s World Cup squad.

People close to the Germany international are said to be gutted with the latest injury blow, as they believe he was just getting back to maximum sharpness.

The Verdict: Potential blow for Selles

It is, as yet, unclear how long the 6 foot 3 colossus could be ruled out for, however it cannot be a good sign that a specialist is required to assess the extent of the injury, and it will now be an anxious wait for Saints fans.

Football scout Jacek Kulig has hailed the former Bochum man as having ‘absolutely fantastic defensive skills’, and he has been a vital player for Southampton whenever fully fit, featuring for the full 90 minutes in the five Premier League games prior to Tottenham.

That said, the silver lining for Selles is that the back-up options impressed when called upon at the weekend, with both Mohammed Salisu being hailed as ‘excellent’ by journalist Jacob Tanswell.

Not only that, but as we are now entering an international break, Bella-Kotchap will have an extended amount of time to recover from the issue.

Arsenal are currently flying high in the Premier League, and despite the recent home defeat to title rivals Manchester City knocking the Gunners off top spot, avoiding victory in their game in hand would re-establish their lead.

Having failed to qualify for Champions League football in each of the past six campaigns, Mikel Arteta must be praised for the manner in which he has maintained an upward trajectory since his arrival at the helm, having previously starred for the club during his playing career.

After winning the FA Cup in 2019/20, his debut managerial campaign, the 40-year-old has made steady improvements at the Emirates Stadium, with the current campaign leaving the club firmly on course for a return to Europe’s premier club competition, 11 points above fifth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and with a game in hand.

Arteta can indeed take pride in the job he is doing at Arsenal, but he might have never had the foundation to build upon had the club succeeded in a past bid for Thomas Lemar…

Were Arsenal right to reject Thomas Lemar?

In 2017, AS Monaco seismically triumphed in Ligue 1, defeating overwhelming favourites Paris-Saint Germain to the crown and enjoying a memorable Champions League run to the semi-finals.

Winger Lemar, who was then 21, was integral in these endeavours with £92m bid for the pacy Frenchman, which the player rejected following concerns over the club’s failure to clinch Champions League football that year.

Last year, L’Equipe reported that the Gunners turned down the opportunity to dive back in for the now 27-year-old, who has succumbed to a significant plummet from the prominence of his early feats in his homeland.

In hindsight, Arsenal can be glad with that decision, with his fall from grace laid bare since moving to Atletico Madrid for £53m in 2018, one year after Arsenal’s exorbitant attempt to land him from Monaco.

As evidenced by the graphic displayed above, Lemar’s decline has been stark, and those close to the 27-cap dud must be somewhat incredulous as to quite how it happened.

At Diego Simeone’s Atletico, he has only scored nine goals and provided 19 assists from 163 appearances, and his current market value of just £11m (via Football Transfers) is indeed an illustration of the player’s bitter woes.

Once heralded as “lethal” by compatriot Hugo Lloris, Lemar now offers little more than a toothless bite, having failed to score from 20 appearances this season, setting up a mere two goals.

While his transitional play remains impressive – the 27-year-old ranks among the top 8% of positional peers over the past year for progressive carries and successful take-ons – his lack of dynamism would not knock Arsenal’s established wingers Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka off their respective perches.

The club did sign Nicolas Pepe in a £72m deal two years after their failed Lemar bud, a transfer which was widely acknowledged as a failure, with former Gunners boss Unai Emery saying of the Ivorian: “He didn’t give me the performances.”

Arsenal dodged a bullet, and despite the club being grazed by the expensive and lacklustre deal for Pepe in 2019, Arteta will count his lucky stars that both deals were not completed.

It’s hard to imagine that the club’s meteoric rise of late would have been quite so fluid had they blundered on Lemar too.

It must have been a heady feeling being the Indian captain on Friday at the Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein

Krishnamachari Srikkanth22-Jul-2009It must have been a heady feeling being the Indian captain on Friday at the Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein. Sourav Ganguly’s men hardly broke a sweat while pounding a hapless and pathetic Kenyan side. The contest might have been farcical but, believe me, all cricket teams desire such comprehensive wins every time they take the field.It went like a dream for India from the moment Maurice Odumbe won the toss and elected to bat. Ajit Agarkar, in particular, bowled a beautiful line and length. It is always thrilling for a bowler when he rattles a batsman’s stumps as Agarkar did Ravindu Shah’s and David Obuyo’s in the space of three overs. And then he broke Kenya’s residual resolve by dismissing their best batsman, Steve Tikolo, a classy stroke-player on his day.Agarkar’s initial breakthroughs have laid the ground for India’s win in the last two matches. The Mumbai lad bowls a fuller length than all his other fast bowling partners and also has the ability to move the ball away from the batsman. He has built up a nice rhythm in this tour backing it up with some useful pace.The 22-year-old never lacked attitude. Now there is the added fire provided by his raging hunger to do well. If he continues in this vein , he will surely prove his captain right once again.Let me use this column to commend Sourav Ganguly for backing the men whom he believes in and for taking up cudgels on their behalf even when it meant he had to be a lone ranger on occasions. What has been impressive is the way in which he has proved right on most occasions. The famous instance that comes to mind is his backing Harbhajan Singh ahead of the series against Australia. And how the young man repaid his captain’s faith…No wonder then that Ganguly has won the respect of his players. It is a good sign for Indian cricket that we have a positive captain who is not afraid to speak his mind. I firmly believe that only confident leaders can breed a confident team.The match would also have done our two senior bowlers – Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble – a world of good. Srinath had been rather erratic in the first two matches. Though he was patchy on Friday, two no-balls and three wides in seven overs do no justice to a bowler of his stature, he returned very economical figures. Sri has been India’s premier fast bowler for long and it is in India’s best interests to see him back at his best. Hope the figures and the bowling award help him on his way.Kumble was impressive again. It sure helped him to have umpire Dave Orchard at his end. Orchard is one of those umpires who frown upon batsmen who use their pads as the first line of defence. This fact and his wicket-to-wicket line helped Kumble claim three wickets through leg-before decisions. Harbhajan Singh, his young spinning partner, meanwhile, had a rather mundane Friday after a super Wednesday at the Centurion.It was good to see Virender Sehwag and Deep Dasgupta walk out to open the innings after the bowlers had cleaned out the Kenyans. I felt it was a powerful statement that the team management was sending out – telling the Kenyans in no uncertain terms that any of our batsmen are good enough to do the job.Dasgupta, who has played as an opener for Bengal in the Ranji matches, had a good essay in the middle and this would have helped him feel more at home on the international stage.Sehwag, returning to the top of the order for the first time in South Africa, blazed away at the other end. He is, as Ganguly later said, one of India’s most promising batsmen, and a match-winner on his day.The young man looked good while playing both off the front foot and the back foot. The only time he seemed to be in some discomfort was while handling the short stuff. But that shouldn’t cause him much unease in the one-dayers where bowlers can only bowl one bouncer an over.The Kenyans bowlers were, like their batsmen, very, very ordinary. The performance of the side did no justice to an international-level team. Their coach Sandeep Patil and Bob Woolmer, set to join them as an expert, would have to work a minor miracle to turn them into a competitive outfit on Sunday. You can trust the South Africans to come at their neighbours with all the firepower they have got. Kenyans would do well to avoid it from turning into yet another massacre of the innocents.

وجهت إدارة نادي الفتح السعودي صدمة قوية للمدرب البرتغالي جوزيه جوميز، المدير الفني للفريق، برفض طلباته المتعلقة بتدعيم صفوف الفريق خلال فترة الانتقالات الشتوية الحالية.

يأتي هذا الرفض بسبب الوضع المالي للنادي وصعوبة الحصول على شهادة الكفاءة المالية.

وبحسب ما نشرته صحيفة “الشرق الأوسط”، أبلغت إدارة نادي الفتح المدرب جوميز بعدم قدرتها على إجراء تغييرات في قائمة اللاعبين الأجانب خلال فترة الانتقالات الشتوية الحالية، وذلك بسبب الحاجة إلى توفير سيولة مالية كبيرة، بالإضافة إلى ضرورة الحصول على شهادة الكفاءة المالية التي تُشترط لتسجيل اللاعبين الجدد.

وأكدت أن جوميز طلب من الإدارة تغيير أربعة لاعبين على الأقل في كل مركز من مراكز الفريق، بهدف تعزيز قوة الفريق وانتشاله من وضعه الحالي في جدول الترتيب، إلا أن الإدارة أكدت للمدرب حرصها على تلبية طلباته، لكنها أوضحت أن الأمر يتوقف على توفر السيولة المالية وموافقة عدة لجان، من بينها لجنة الاستدامة المالية، بالإضافة إلى الحصول على شهادة الكفاءة، وموافقة برنامج الاستقطاب في رابطة دوري المحترفين على فسخ عقود بعض اللاعبين الحاليين.

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في وقت لاحق، قلّص المدرب جوميز مطالبه واكتفى بطلب تدعيم خط الهجوم فقط، من خلال البحث عن بديل للمهاجم جانييني الذي يعاني من إصابات متكررة.

ومع ذلك، لا يزال تنفيذ هذا الطلب مرتبطًا بنفس الأسباب المالية التي تمنع الإدارة من تلبية متطلبات المدرب الفنية.

واستبعدت المصادر إمكانية التعاقد مع أي لاعب أجنبي جديد خلال فترة الانتقالات الشتوية الحالية، إلا في حالة توفر سيولة مالية، وذلك من خلال تحصيل مستحقات متأخرة للنادي من أندية أخرى عليها مستحقات لصالح الفتح نتيجة بيع عقود لاعبين سابقين.

وردت المصادر ذاتها على ما تردد بشأن اهتمام نادي الفتح بالتعاقد مع اللاعب أحمد سيد زيزو لاعب الزمالك، ونفت ذلك، وأكدت أن “زيزو” ليس من بين الأسماء التي أوصى بها جوميز.

كما أكدت أن جوميز تعهد منذ رحيله عن الزمالك بعدم التعاقد مع أي لاعب من النادي المصري احترامًا للعلاقة التي تربطه بناديه السابق.

يُذكر أن جوميز كان قد رحل عن تدريب الزمالك من أجل خوض تجربة جديدة توفر له جميع الإمكانيات لتحقيق النجاح، ولكنه يبدو أنه قد تعرض لصدمة نتيجة عدم تنفيذ مطالبه من قبل إدارة الفتح.

Tottenham Hotspur look set to lose one of their first-team stars sooner rather than later as Ange Postecoglou looks to trim his squad, according to a fresh report.

Tottenham Hotspur's fine start in the Premier League

Despite Manchester City's victory over Bournemouth on Saturday, Spurs will have the chance to regain top spot in the Premier League table on Monday when they host London rivals Chelsea in N17.

Tottenham vs Chelsea match preview

So far, Tottenham have been in fine fettle domestically, winning eight and drawing two of their opening ten league matches; however, tough encounters are on the horizon for Postecoglou's men as they aim to prove their mettle as title contenders.

Nevertheless, the initial signs emanating from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium are very positive indeed, especially when factoring in how the goal burden has been shared around the Lilywhites' squad.

Son Heung-min leads the scoring charts with eight strikes for Spurs, while James Maddison has three goals, and Richarlison, Dejan Kulusevski and Cristian Romero are all tied on two apiece this term across all competitions (Tottenham squad statistics – Transfermarkt).

Destiny Udogie and Ben Davies are doubts for the visit of Chelsea and will undergo fitness tests before a decision on their availability is determined.

Manor Solomon, Ivan Perisic and Ryan Sessegnon are all unavailable for selection as Postecoglou looks to become only the third manager in Premier League history to go unbeaten in their first 11 games in charge, which would see him join Nottingham Forest's Frank Clark and former Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri in achieving this feat.

Of course, Chelsea's visit will also mark the return of Mauricio Pochettino to his old stomping ground for the first time since he was sacked by Tottenham in 2019. Speaking before the London derby, as per BBC Sport, Pochettino stated: "It's really special to go back to a place where we created amazing memories together. It's special, I'm not going to lie. That is true."

Even though Spurs are seemingly entering a new era on the field, another one of the old guard could now be set to depart, according to latest reports.

Tottenham Hotspur's next five fixtures – all competitions

Competition

Opponent

Venue

Premier League

Chelsea (H)

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Premier League

Wolverhampton Wanderers (A)

Molineux

Premier League

Aston Villa (H)

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Premier League

Manchester City (A)

Etihad Stadium

Premier League

West Ham United (H)

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Eric Dier now set to leave Tottenham Hotspur

According to a transfer update from Football Insider, Tottenham star Eric Dier is set to leave the club in 2024. Dier is keen to run down his contract and leave as a free agent rather than be sold in January. Spurs will listen to offers in January for the former Sporting CP man, who has not featured at all under Postecoglou's stewardship.

The England international reportedly believes more options to continue his career trajectory would become apparent if he is available as a free agent, after talks collapsed between Dier and Tottenham over a contract extension in north London.

Dier, who has previously been hailed as a "reliable player" by Antonio Conte, has made 360 appearances for Tottenham across all competitions during his time at the club, notching 13 goals and 12 assists (Dier statistics – Transfermarkt).

Now, it looks as if the experienced defender could be set to embark on a new venture as his time at Tottenham slowly draws to a close.