🚨 Osimhen fall-out continues, Hannibal's new Man United deal, Musiala wants the Ballon d'Or, Arsenal love Smith Rowe and more
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Ajax
Understand Ajax scouts are monitoring Orlando City winger Facundo Torres for the future. Uruguayan talent in the list among the players appreciated by the scouting department, now waiting to clarify internal position to decide next steps.
Arsenal
Arteta on Emile Smith Rowe: “He is incredibly popular. We all love him. It’s no different from what the people feel to what we feel about him. There's been many reasons why he hasn't started a match. He was out for a long, long time. Now he’s gonna have his chance.”
Bayern Munich
Jamal Musiala to SportBILD: “In 1 or 2 years, I want to be at the highest possible level. I want to be one of the best players in the world, it’s my plan and ambition. That's my idea, I hope to compete for the Ballon d’Or.”
Bayern director, Christoph Freund, confirms club will be active in January to ZDF: “We are in daily contact and have a lot of quality. We’re discussing January, where we can still improve and we will find the right solutions.”
Carabao Cup Fourth Round Draw
Mansfield Town v Port Vale
Ipswich Town v Fulham
Man United v Newcastle United
Bournemouth v Liverpool
Chelsea v Blackburn
West Ham United v Arsenal
Everton v Burnley
Exeter City v Middlesbrough
Ties to be played w/c 30th October
Chelsea
Nicolas Jackson scored the vital winner against Brighton in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night to set up a Fourth Round tie at home to Blackburn (pictures from Viaplay)
Mauricio Pochettino: “Madueke injured (against Brighton)? No, he was just not selected. It’s about choice.”
Pochettino: “Mudryk said to me: I don’t want to play crossbar challenge with you anymore because you always win. I said: yes, because I had the belief, I know the balance very well because I am 50 years old. You are still young, you need to still know yourself.”
Pochettino on the Chelsea job: “It’s less hard than it was at Southampton and Tottenham, trust me, believe me. The only thing we are missing is to score goals.”
Epic Sports agency owner Ali Barat on Moisés Caicedo deal (to Tuttosport): “Chelsea made an excellent investment by signing Moisés. The player will receive £150k per week, he was on £60k per week at Brighton. He’s a mix between Bellingham and N’Golo Kanté.”
Find out why Moises Caicedo was a bullet dodged for Liverpool - here.
Chelsea’s Reece James has been charged by the FA for ‘using abusive language towards the referee.’
Inter Milan
Inter CEO Marotta: “We will not sign any free agent player to replace Arnautović. No chance.”
Leicester City
Hamza Choudhury has signed a new deal at Leicester valid until 2027. His current contract was due to expire at the end of the season.
Liverpool
Is Liverpool’s transfer policy stopping them from landing West Ham hit-man, Jarrod Bowen? Neil Jones has more exclusive insight here.
It’s goals like this one against Liverpool last weekend which highlight why Jarrod Bowen is so highly sought after (pictures from LFCTV):
Major Liverpool deal could be done "by the end of the year" says Neil Jones. Read more.
Could Liverpool be Man City’s strongest title challengers? The next two games could be crucial. More here.
Trent Alexander Arnold’s contract renewal isn’t likely to present any problems. Get up to date insight and the latest here.
Find out why Moises Caicedo was a bullet dodged for Liverpool - here.
Man City
Guardiola on Kalvin Phillips: “He decided to stay, the club spoke with him about the fact that maybe he hadn’t had too many minutes, and he wanted to stay. He will be a father soon, so he wanted to stay here. It’s okay, it’s perfect. He’s a lovely person.”
Guardiola on Man City getting knocked out of the Carabao Cup: “You think the target was the quadruple? We are more than happy with the treble... Congratulations to Newcastle. They were very good tonight, credit to them.”
Man United
Sofyan Amrabat: “This is what I dreamed of as a kid! I’ll play where I can help them, even in goal… I play for the badge. Since I was a child, I worked for this. I worked very hard my whole career, my whole life for this. To play here is amazing, the stadium is full on a Tuesday…”
Manchester United plan to offer Hannibal a new contract and talks could start soon. Current deal expires June 2024 + option until 2025. Hannibal focused on games now, open to discuss things later this year. Understand Sevilla wanted him in July and keep tracking him.
Marseille
Gennaro Gattuso and his staff arrived in Marseille on Wednesday in order for the Italian to complete an agreement to become the Ligue Un club’s new coach.
Napoli
Victor Osimhen arrived at Napoli’s team hotel ahead of the Udinese game and after the public statement considering legal action against the club for their social media post mocking him. He didn’t greet his team-mates, Diego Demme and Piotr Zielinski, but did shake hands with team manager, Giuseppe Santoro. The incredible footage can be seen here:
Napoli coach Garcia on Osimhen case: “We were frustrated after the draw vs Bologna, then some awkward things on social media didn’t help us in the last two days. I spoke to Victor, it’s key to have him focused on the game — he’s gonna do his best for Napoli.”
Newcastle
In the Carabao Cup, Alexander Isak scored the goal for Newcastle that destroyed any dreams Man City may have had of winning the quadruple (Pictures from Viaplay).
Paris Saint-Germain
Paris Saint-Germain left back Nuno Mendes will be out for the next four months. PSG’s medical department has decided he should undergo surgery in Finland — after new medical tests and a new in-depth study of his situation.
Real Madrid
Brahim Díaz scores his first goal after returning to Real Madrid from AC Milan. “I know this has always been your big dream,” president Florentino Pérez said.
Tottenham
Sassuolo CEO Carnevali on Tottenham rumours regarding their winger Armand Laurienté: "We did not receive any formal proposal for Laurienté in the summer. In any case, we were not intentioned to discuss or entertain any proposal for him."
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I don't understand why you put this note, followed by this heading:
Epic Sports agency owner Ali Barat on Moisés Caicedo deal (to Tuttosport): “Chelsea made an excellent investment by signing Moisés. The player will receive £150k per week, he was on £60k per week at Brighton. He’s a mix between Bellingham and N’Golo Kanté.”
Find out why Moises Caicedo was a bullet dodged for Liverpool .
Just as I don't understand how you are able to transcribe this interview with Pep:
Guardiola on Man City getting knocked out of the Carabao Cup: “You think the target was the quadruple? We are more than happy with the treble... Congratulations to Newcastle. They were very good tonight, credit to them.”
To write this later in the Newcastle section:
In the Carabao Cup, Alexander Isak scored the goal for Newcastle that destroyed any dreams Man City may have had of winning the quadruple.
I'm telling you this without any intention of offending, but it seems strange to me.