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Many Southampton reacted in their droves to Danny Ings picking up an injury during his side’s Premier League clash against top flight strugglers Sheffield United.

After just 12 minutes, the 28-year-old went down holding his ankle and was unable to continue at Bramall Lane, making way for Che Adams during the first period.

Ings has scored eight goals and provided three assists from 21 appearances for Southampton during the 2020/21 campaign (Whoscored) – there is no doubting the Englishman is the club’s most prolific striker.

Despite this, Ings has struggled with injuries over the years which spans back from his days at Liverpool, where he picked up back-to-back serious knee injuries. However, his most common setback has been related to his hamstring since his move to St Mary’s (Transfermarkt).

With this in mind, supporters were incensed by his latest issue, which will now be his fourth of the season, with some suggesting that he may have played his last game for the South Coast outfit.

Fans flock to Twitter after Ings injury

“Ings going off is bad, bad news. Don’t look like anyone else can score apart from Minamino and a JWP free-kick. Gulp.”

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“Ings injured already………. Please find who has cursed a dark spell upon my club. This is ridiculous”

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“I swear Ings is made of glass”

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“Danny Ings is done here. This is not good at all.”

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“Ings off again. Time to sell”

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“Ings injured. Imagine my shock”

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In other news, Southampton enquire about services of £120k-per-week Premier League star.

As the midpoint of the Premier League season approaches, it’s important that clubs across the division look forward to the summer as the biggest transfer window of the season opens. As time has passed, player recruitment has become integral to a club’s success and it’s in this area where Arsenal have appeared to struggle for the last few seasons. The backroom staff have undergone several changes, even more so than the on-pitch personnel, which has left the club in a poor place. Here’s what’s needed to take the club forward in the midfield areas.

The likes of Xhaka and Partey are good defensively but there’s a distinct lack of a creative spark to get the ball rolling from counter-attacks. Welsh maestro Aaron Ramsey was the key to unlocking defences for most of his tenure before leaving on a free to do the exact same at Italian giants Juventus. Since then, the club has looked stale when handling the ball in those central areas, apart from the odd fancy flicks and runs from the on-loan Spaniard Dani Ceballos. Mesut Özil would have been the man to help with this if Arteta hadn’t have frozen him out and just let him run his mega-contract down from afar.

Julian Brandt would be an interesting option to sort this crisis out; with years of Bundesliga and European football under his belt for the likes of Dortmund and Leverkusen, it could be said that Brandt is a natural fit into the Arsenal mould. He’s quick, mobile and can certainly dribble and finish, and is thought of as a young heir to the Marco Reus throne by some.

The Gunners were, of course, in for Lyon’s midfield orchestrator Houssem Aouar and the move in the last summer transfer window looked promising. Aouar has all the Ramsey-like qualities that Arsenal would need in a midfielder; he’s a true box-to-box with good stamina and real technical quality, as has been stated by the likes of Pep Guardiola. Given that the last Lyon to Arsenal transfer was Alexandre Lacazette who was, at the time, another French superstar, the move for Aouar certainly has great potential.

Signings such as Brandt and Aouar could help Arsenal push up the table and take the team back to where they once were for several consecutive years, namely within the Champions League places. Currently, they are 14/1 in the football betting on Space Casino to finish in the top four, so major signings are needed if they want to bridge that significant gap. However, they may find it tough to attract top talents without the incentive of Champions League football, so a significant improvement is needed to make sure they are at least pushing for those places. The Europa League could be key for them this season due to the Champions League spot it provides for the winner.

For Arsenal, the summer transfer window is going to be the most integral time to do some worthwhile business. If the board and Arteta can get their act together and spend wisely, then the right business could propel the club into the Champions League for the first time in several years. The positions and usefulness of some personnel such as Willian does need to be considered and if a fire sale occurs in order to fund some big moves, then it could be the best thing they do all season.

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Informado de que o Corinthians teve a defesa menos vazada em 14 dos 27 torneios que disputou desde 2008, como publicou o LANCE! em sua edição desta sexta-feira, o novo rosto da zaga do clube se animou com as perspectivas que se apresentam. Aos 24 anos, Fabián Balbuena, foi apresentado para ser mais um concorrente à titularidade, condição hoje ocupada por Yago e Felipe. Ao lado de Vilson e também do garoto Pedro Henrique, o jovem paraguaio terá o desafio de manter as médias positivas dos últimos anos e também o nível de atuação que consagrou a filosofia implantada no clube há tantas temporadas.

-É um desafio grande chegar ao Corinthians, que tem uma grande defesa. Estou grato por chegar até aqui, mas agora vou tratar de jogar, treinar e fazer com que não sintam falta de um ou outro zagueiro quando houver necessidade de trocar. Minha missão é fazer um bom trabalho e retribuir a confiança de todos – afirmou o novo camisa 4, contratado por R$ 6 milhões junto aos paraguaios do Libertad.

Entre o fim de 2015 e o início de 2016, o Corinthians perdeu seis titulares, entre eles o zagueiro Gil, negociado com o Shandong Luneng, da China. Além dele, Edu Dracena também deixou o clube em comum acordo para ter mais oportunidades no rival Palmeiras. Em contrapartida, chegou Vilson, que defendia a Chapecoense e até já estreou como titular, e agora Balbuena, que lutará por espaço na equipe. À vontade entre os companheiros, o paraguaio acredita que os quatro postulantes à titularidade estão preparados para cumprir as ordens de Tite e manter a defesa bem no Paulistão e na Libertadores.

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-Me senti muito bem desde que cheguei ao Corinthians, me senti em casa. A comissão técnica incentiva e deixa à vontade para treinar bem e dar o melhor de mim. Agora somos quatro zagueiros com as mesmas condições de jogar, e todos precisamos fazer o melhor a favor da equipe. Estamos aqui para somar e conseguir coisas importantes para o Corinthians – resume o novo zagueiro.

Balbuena é o décimo reforço contratado pelo Corinthians em 2016 e tem chances de ser relacionado para o confronto deste domingo, às 19h30, contra a Ferroviária. Ele ficou fora diante do São Paulo e também contra o Cobresal, quando já estava regularizado, para recuperar o melhor de sua condição física.

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In an exclusive interview with Football FanCast, former England international Carlton Palmer has claimed that one Wolves man has “really surprised” in recent years.

The Midlands outfit have established themselves amongst the elite in the Premier League already since their promotion from the Championship in 2018, finishing in seventh place in back-to-back campaigns.

They also enjoyed a run to the Europa League quarter-finals where they lost to eventual winners, Sevilla.

And the ex-West Brom and Leeds United midfielder believes it’s all down to Old Gold manager Nuno Santo.

He told FFC:

“The one that I would say has really surprised me is the manager of Wolves.”I think he’s built a terrific team. I know that in the Championship he had an awful lot of money to spend. I come back to having the tools to do the job. They’ve given him the tools to do the job, and he’s delivered.”He’s also delivered in the Premier League.”

Once again, the Molineux side are in the hunt for a place in Europe once again as they find themselves sat in ninth place, ahead of Man City and Arsenal, after the opening eight league matches.

Nuno has steered his side to four wins, one draw and three defeats but are the lowest scorers inside the top ten.

The Athletic’s Tim Spiers echoed these thoughts on his podcast, ‘The Molineux View’ back in August, as he claimed the Portuguese boss had done “special things” with this group of players, adding that it had been an “unbelievable” miracle.

The 46-year-old was appointed in May 2017, his fourth managerial job of his career having held a similar position at Rio Ave, Valencia and Porto, the club at which he was twice a goalkeeper.

Although not everyone has been a fan of the Wolf Pack leader, former Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock described him as a “total disgrace” who showed a “lack of class” in one foul-mouthed rant back in 2018.

Either way, Nuno has been Wolves’ best manager in a very long time, recording a win percentage of 51.8%.

AND in other news, Nuno disasterclass: Wolves missed perfect creative solution in £25m “fantastic talent”…

Leeds United’s striker problems seem to be solved with Patrick Bamford finally finding his shooting boots after two years of being one of the country’s most wasteful strikers.

Indeed, Bamford underperformed his xG by over 18 goals last term, but this season he has been banging them in on a regular basis.

However, that may not be the end of Marcelo Bielsa’s striker selection headache as Ryan Edmondson is looking set to stake his claim while out on loan at Aberdeen.

Leeds fans should be familiar with how good Edmondson is, he netted 20 goals for the U23s outfit during the 2018/19 season despite being 17 years old for the majority of that campaign.

He was spoken very highly of from a young age, with current Leeds U23s manager giving him a rave review back when he was playing for the U18s.

“I’m pleased for Ryan. He scored his first goals for the club two weeks ago and it had been a bit of a burden off his shoulders after scoring two against Birmingham,” Mark Jackson said.

“His work rate is fantastic and you can see what it means to him when he scores a goal, we’re obviously delighted for him, although he has cost me another match ball.”

The 19-year-old has two goals and two assists in just 244 minutes of action in the SPFL this term, and if he keeps that up he will be an intriguing option for Bielsa to consider next season.

It’s easy to write off the Scottish Premiership as being a poor league where scoring goals doesn’t really mean that much, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that one of Leeds’ best strikers ever came from north of the border.

Indeed, United took a punt on a Celtic striker by the name of Mark Viduka back in 2000, and they didn’t live to regret it.

The Australian would hit double figures in each of the four Premier League seasons he spent at Elland Road, hitting a high of 20 in the 2002/03 campaign.

Edmondson may be the next Leeds hero to follow that same path by ripping it up in Scotland before coming to Elland Road and continuing that fine form.

The teenager is very much in the same mould as Viduka as well with LeedsLive describing him as tall, strong and powerful, three words that are synonymous with Viduka’s style of play.

According to Football Insider, Aston Villa rejected multiple loan bids for starlet Jacob Ramsey on deadline day.

What’s the word?

The 19-year-old has made four first-team appearances this season, including coming on as a substitute in the Premier League against Fulham.

But with there being significant competition for places in the central positions in midfield, there may have been questions about whether Ramsey would be better off getting consistent game-time elsewhere.

However, Football Insider have revealed that Dean Smith’s side put a block on him leaving amid several Championship clubs’ bid to take him on a season-long loan, with the same outlet later claiming that the Villa boss had told the teenager that he will have a key first-team role this campaign.

Huge call by Dean Smith

When it comes to young talents, the biggest call a manager will have to make is whether their development is best served by slowly embedding them into the first-team, or sending them out on loan to get regular game-time.

In Villa’s case with Ramsey, Smith may have just made a shrewd call. The club are flying high near the summit of the Premier League table, and all the positivity that comes with it will rub off on players, both old and young.

In the likes of Jack Grealish and Ross Barkley, Ramsey has a couple of England internationals who can play a leading role in his development both on and off the pitch, and help him realise his full potential.

Football Insider suggested that Smith sees the starlet as a special talent, and if he can continue to get some minutes in the Premier League over the next few weeks and months, then he will be all the better for it.

Villa have already seen what trusting in a homegrown talent can do in Grealish. Now is the time to do the same with Ramsey.

And in other news, this Aston Villa star could wreak havoc amid Leicester’s injury crisis.

A seven-figure transfer fee, a relegation to his name and now a surprise omission from Slaven Bilic’s matchday squad.

Things aren’t going to plan for Kieran Gibbs at West Brom.

The 31-year-old was sent off against Everton last month and despite being eligible to return against Burnley on Monday night, the Albion boss instead started Conor Townsend and named Dara O’Shea on the bench.

“It was selection. With Dara, we can cover both positions as a full-back. With Kieran, of course, he is a quality player and I expect him to prove in training like every other guy in the squad and only the performance in training will get players closer to the starting XI or the bench,” said Bilic after the 0-0 draw.

The Baggies recorded their first clean sheet of the season, so the veteran left-back may find it even more difficult to break back into the lineup, so perhaps there’s more to this than meets the eye.

Gibbs cost the Midlands outfit £7m back in the summer of 2017, which took Tony Pulis’ brash spending to a total of £38m following the arrivals of Jay Rodriguez, Ahmed Hegazi and Oliver Burke.

He is thought to also be on a whopping £55k-per-week contract, though fortunately that is set to expire at the current campaign.

It means West Brom have thrown around £16m down the drain to this day and that’ll increase by the time the season draws to a close in 2021.

During his three years at the Hawthorns, Gibbs has racked up 91 appearances but could only start 14 league matches during their promotion-winning run due to injuries and not being selected.

His latest snub could well be the last straw with Townsend and O’Shea both impressing Bilic in recent times.

That move by Pulis is certainly now looking like a catastrophically bad decision. In return for that £18m, Albion have received a relegation and a plethora of injuries.

AND in other news, West Brom lightweight who LOST possession 30 TIMES badly let Bilic down…

West Ham United’s transfer window brimmed with failed swoops for defensive targets is unlikely to end with a successful bid to bring Olympique de Marseille’s Duje Caleta-Car to the London Stadium.

What’s the word?

According to The Sun, the Irons are readying a £25million bid for Croatia international Caleta-Car as boss David Moyes strives to end the window with the arrival of a towering centre-half in east London.

Moyes believes Caleta-Car would be the ideal man to strengthen the Hammers’ backline and could award the defender a £150,000-per-week contract in the hopes of convincing the 24-year-old of the move.

Middle-men for both sides are thought to be thrashing out negotiations in London as Marseille are inclined to sell at the right price as this summer may be their best opportunity to cash-in, despite drawing Manchester City and FC Porto as their Champions League Group Stage opponents.

West Ham’s interest in Caleta-Car has also been supported by the Daily Mail, who proposed that talks with Marseille were opened over a £20m deal after seeing a string of offers rejected by clubs from around Europe.

It is also put forward that Marseille are likely to sell the 6 ft 4 colossal in order to meet Financial Fair Play regulations, but West Ham remain attentive to Craig Dawson’s situation with Watford in case negotiations peter out.

Football.london tally the number of defenders targeted in the two weeks before bidding for Caleta-Car to be as high as 16, having courted the likes of Daniele Rugani, Guillermo Maripan, Nikola Milenkovic, Jonathan Tah and Antonio Rudiger among many others.

Will West Ham finally sign a centre-back?

The summer of 2020 has been a window of untold failure for West Ham in terms of their search for a new centre-half, and things may yet go astray with Caleta-Car with a deal still unlikely at this stage.

The Sun include in their report that the 6-cap defender is due to connect with the Croatian national side for their upcoming Nations League fixtures, making West Ham’s plans for a medical a sizable challenge.

The Daily Mail also mention that the former Red Bull Salzburg ace would prefer to remain with Marseille for at least the next year, as he’s been reluctant to leave the Stade Velodrome all summer through wishes of competing in the Champions League this season.

If West Ham are to get a deal done, it would appear heavily dependent on the Irons’ contract offer appealing more to the 24-year-old than of competing in UEFA’s top club competition – with a £150k-p/w contract enough to make him by far the Hammers’ top-earner.

AND in other news, West Ham have been dealt a setback in the club’s efforts to land the missing spark of David Moyes’ midfield.

Former Sunderland striker Kevin Phillips has predicted big things for the club’s newly-signed under-23 player Will Harris.

The Black Cats’ academy teams had a disastrous 2019/20 season which saw both the under-18 and under-23 sides fail to record a single victory in their respective league campaigns.

Following such poor performances, Paul Reid left his role as academy manager, prompting concern and mounting speculation over the future of the Wearside club’s Tier 1 academy status.

Numerous player exits amplified such concerns, but three new faces have bolstered the underage ranks since in Sam Wilding, Bobby Beaumont and Vinnie Steels, whilst Kenton Richardson has also signed.

Following those additions to Sunderland’s youth ranks, a fifth arrival was also confirmed as Harris put pen to paper on a one-year deal with Sunderland after leaving Burnley last month when his contract expired.

The 19-year-old striker joins the Black Cats after a three-year spell with the Clarets which included loan spells with non-league sides Colne FC and Warrington Town.

Touching on his arrival at the Stadium of Light, Phillips has predicted big things for the youngster, telling Football Insider: “There is definitely a chance for him to make an impact on that first team next season.

“If that was me I would be looking to get him involved with the first team straight away, maybe get him into training a couple of times a week and bleed him in gently.

“You do not want to put too much pressure on him but he could turn out to be one of these young players who is eager to impress, especially if he is a local lad. He will work hard and know better than anyone that if you start doing well at that football club you become a bit of a hero.

“He could go under the radar, a bit like when I first went there. Anything is possible and he might be a good back up option for Phil Parkinson.” 

These are big words from Phillips and could hand Sunderland first team manager Phil Parkinson some food for thought.

With a lack of consistent scorers in the senior Black Cats squad, Harris could well take his chance at that level if he is given it, and that would be a delight for Parkinson and the club’s fans who may be crying out for a reliable source of goals.

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