Southampton Appoint Claude Puel as New Manager

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Southampton have ​proven the appointment of Claude Puel as their new manager, following Ronald Koeman's departure to Everton earlier this month.

The Frenchman has signed a three yr contract with Saints, and can start work in his new function instantly. Puel comes in with a stellar reputation having guided fine to fourth position in French Ligue 1 final season, and he will be working alongside Eric Black, who has been appointed Assistant First staff manager.

Pascal Plancque will come to be the membership’s First team Assistant educate, while Dave Watson has signed a new handle the club and Sammy Lee has parted ways.
Saints government Director of football Les Reed mentioned: “The process to appoint a new First group supervisor has been diligent and meticulous. In order to be certain we appointed a supervisor who would meet our wants as a membership, suggestions from the dressing room, as well as taking account of our tradition, imaginative and prescient and values, was central in drawing up our standards for the appointment.

“because the procedure eliminated a quantity of first-rate candidates, Claude obviously got here out on prime of an awfully impressive shortlist. We've got now not most effective acquired the pleasant man, but the proper teaching team to aid him.

“Eric Black has an best pedigree as a coach and huge expertise domestically and internationally. Pascal Plancque has an exceptional report as a technical coach and, like Claude, has been liable for constructing many young French abilities into top nice gamers.
“The progress of our younger Academy gamers and delivering a pathway to the first group is essential to the function. We have been eager to nominate a coaching team who would also work closely with Martin Hunter and Radhi Jaïdi in accelerating the development of our youngsters, as good as setting up our current first-staff squad as participants and as a crew.

“we have an pleasant crew of first-staff avid gamers who're keen to take one other step ahead. There may be already a self assurance and excitement in the constructing as some of the squad has lower back for trying out and they are in nice shape.

“Claude has a outstanding platform to work from and is mindful that our ambition is to repeat and beef up on our performances in the most effective League during the last three seasons.
“Claude has a monitor report of improving the instances he has been offered with and we're constructive he can repeat this at Southampton.

“His Champions League and European experience will be useful in our Europa League task this coming season and with the support of our nice employees at the membership i am sure he will do good.

“we are once once more fascinated with what the new season will carry, and we will proceed to chase files as we've got executed in up to date years.”

Shanghai SIPG have accomplished the signing of Brazil international Hulk from Zenit St Petersburg.

Shanghai SIPG have accomplished the signing of Brazil international Hulk from Zenit St Petersburg.

The chinese language super League (CSL) membership have paid €56 million for the player, which represents a new transfer report for the league. Zenit would be due another €2 million must he ranking greater than 15 targets.

Hulk is said to have agreed an annual earnings of €12.5m earlier than bonuses, which would make him the CSL's first-rate-paid player.

"Hulk has gone through medical examination and the club has simply signed the contract with him," Shanghai SIPG said in a declaration.

The 29-yr-old joined Zenit from Porto in 2012 and gained the 2014-15 Russian ideal League title, when he also finished as prime scorer, and the 2016 Russian Cup. He scored seventy seven objectives in 147 video games for the membership.
CSL clubs are constrained to five international gamers of their squad, with one of the most 5 having to keep a passport belonging to an Asian soccer Confederation nation. They're permitted to discipline three foreigners and one AFC participant on the pitch at any person time.

Shanghai SIPG, managed by way of Sven-Goran Eriksson, presently have five foreigners in the squad, with Asamoah Gyan, Elkeson, Jean Evrard Kouassi, Dario Conca and Kim Ju-Yung on their books. That implies Eriksson will have got to offload one among his international gamers.

The CSL has attracted a couple of significant names in latest months, with Liverpool goal Alex Teixeira opting to maneuver to China from Shakhtar Donetsk in a €50 million deal in February. Roma's Gervinho, Jackson Martinez of Atletico Madrid and Chelsea midfielder Ramires have moved to China too. Demba Ba and Argentina global Ezequiel Lavezzi are additionally now playing in the league.

Barcelona President Confirms New 5-Year Neymar Contract To Be Confirm Very Soon

Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has established that an announcement regarding a new lengthy-time period contract for Brazilian famous person Neymar can be made in the coming days, subsequently ending months of hypothesis concerning the player's future at Camp Nou.

"Neymar does now not want to depart the membership or need to go," Bartomeu defined whilst addressing the media at a press conference at Thursday lunch-time.

"So I have no idea whether or not it'll be in these days, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, however we will affirm the renewal of Neymar's contract for the next 5 seasons.

"He not ever mentioned 'I wish to go away the club'.
The brand new deal will maintain the 24-yrs old at the club except 2021 and springs simply as rumours of Manchester United make one final last ditch try to prise him away were surfacing.

Neymar has been linked with a move away from Barça for the final twelve months, with United, Paris Saint-Germain and even real Madrid all linked with bold strategies at one time or a different.

There were even rumours that his relationships with Lionel Messi and Luis Enrique are poor, prompting additional hypothesis that it was simplest a matter of time before whatever needed to supply.
Suggestions of developing economic predicament had been one of the crucial things put ahead as expertise proof that Barça could ought to  promoting off stars sooner or later on account that of an incapacity to pay competitive salaries.

However, such fears were allayed by the announcement of a renewed beneficial partnership with Nike so that it will hold a significant amount of money making its strategy to the club for a whilst yet.

Having publicly validated last month that a deal had been agreed, Bartomeu has now revealed that initial estimates as to the valued at of the contract, because of run to 2026 were right.
The deal will convey a guaranteed world file sum of €155m through the door every 12 months, some distance surpassing the £75m that Manchester United obtain annually from Adidas from their contract which was once the prior high mark in world football.

Arsene Wenger TO Be Offer England Job

Arsene Wenger could be inclined to discuss the England job with the FA when his contract at Arsenal expires next year, in step with British media reports.

Wenger, 66, has been tipped as one of the crucial candidates to succeed Roy Hodgson as England teach, however the Arsenal boss has continuously mentioned he's going to see out the final season of his present contract before making any decision about his future.

England are without a instruct after Hodgson stepped down following the 2-1 loss to Iceland at the Euro 2016 but FA chief executive Martin Glenn has stated he would be willing to wait for the superb candidate, and The times and daily Telegraph both suggested on Thursday that Wenger can be open to an method.

If the Frenchman is , however, any deal to take the job would in most cases need to wait except next summer time, that means the FA would must to find an meantime manager for the period of the begin of World Cup qualifying.

Gareth Southgate, the england beneath-21 coach, had been acknowledged as a possible brief-term answer however is reportedly no longer enthusiastic about taking charge of the senior team.

Jurgen Klinsmann, currently in charge of u.S., has additionally been linked with the function and his odds have dropped greatly.

Wenger has generally expressed an unwillingness to maneuver into international administration and has rejected the hazard to train France up to now, however his future at Arsenal is uncertain after an unconvincing season where the Gunners did not win a trophy.

Wenger, who will mark his twentieth anniversary on the membership in October, has been adamant that he will not discuss a contract extension unless subsequent summer, however the daily Mail reviews that Arsenal might offer him an extension a lot quicker to preclude any uncertainty.

He came beneath increased criticism from fanatics this spring because the team failed to preserve a title venture within the superior League, and he has recounted that Arsenal's results next season will on the whole impact whether he's going to keep on as manager.

Wenger, who is working as a television pundit in the course of Euro 2016, has already been asked this month in regards to the prospect of changing France boss Didier Deschamps after the 2018 World Cup, when he said: "i am getting just a little historical now to make long-term plans. For the second i'm a membership supervisor. We will see what occurs."

Former Arsenal chairman Peter Hill-timber mentioned Wenger's age may hinder him from taking on a brand new challenge.

"i would like him to stay at Arsenal. He isn't a younger bird," Hill-timber mentioned within the day-to-day replicate. "he's 66 and he would be 67 when his contract is up and turn sixty nine a number of months after the next World Cup. It's quite senior to be in that type of position."

Watford sign Jerome Sinclair from Liverpool

Watford have  announced the signing of former Liverpool forward Jerome Sinclair, following the expiration of his contract at Anfield.

The 19-yrold has been expected to maneuver to Vicarage avenue for a number of months after developing annoyed with a scarcity of opportunities at Liverpool, though his new part will need to pay a compensation price for his signing. The determine is often made up our minds via a tribunal, nevertheless it has been reported that the sum could reach as so much as £4m.
Sinclair has grow to be Watford's first summer signing and has signed a 5-year contract, and he is set to come to be a member of the membership's first staff squad under new supervisor Walter Mazzarri.

The player has been at Liverpool given that the age of 15 after presenting in the youth teams at West Bromwich Albion, and he grew to be the youngest participant to ever play for Liverpool at the age of sixteen and six days when he performed in a League Cup tie against West Brom in September 2012.

He had only featured in 5 Liverpool first staff games however, and scored his most effective first workforce intention towards Exeter in the FA Cup this yr. Sinclair can be hoping for more possibilities at his new membership.

Arsenal Set to Bid For Japen Striker Takuma Asano

Arsenal truly do appear to have made an initial strategy for little recognized Japan striker Takuma Asano, with the participant himself admitting that he was once certainly surprised to hear of curiosity from the ultimate League significant.

Experiences of the Gunners' curiosity in the Sanfrecce Hiroshima ahead surfaced previous this week. But as a substitute than a different base-much less rumour, it seems there used to be truth and substance to this one.
"I used to be a little surprised," Asano is quoted as pronouncing by way of the London evening general when he was quizzed on the discipline following Japan's Olympic warm-up over South Africa.

But regardless of having simply three years of J-League expertise to his name, the player is ready for the challenge of a move to north London and is prepared to take the whole lot in his stride if he isn't involved with the first-workforce right away.

"I feel like i've the boldness to prevail anywhere i go. If i'm loaned elsewhere, my take on it's that I give it 100%," the 21-yr-old stated.
Asano, who would emerge as the 1/3 japanese participant to signal for Arsenal after Junichi Inamoto and Roy Miyaichi, scored 9 targets in 34 appearances in the course of the 2015 season to support Sanfrecce earn a third J-League crown in four years.

He made his senior worldwide debut in 2015 and has one intention from four appearances up to now.

He was once referred to as into the underneath-23 squad final month forward of the upcoming Olympics in Brazil and competed on the Toulon match where he encountered expertise future Arsenal team-mate Calum Chambers in the England workforce.

Real Madrid set to Offer Chelsea Alvaro Morata for Eden Hazard

Real Madrid are reportedly plotting an bold summer deal to land Eden Hazard worth a whole of £75m, one that may see Spanish international striker Alvaro Morata head to Stamford Bridge in the opposite path.

A report from  Daily Mirror, real are in a position to offer Chelsea a cash sum of £40m furthermore to £35m-rated Morata in an try and prise Hazard faraway from the previous English champions.
Rumours of a feasible move for the Belgian have emerged this week after his lovely performance for his country against Hungary at Euro 2016. He is known to be a giant fan of Los Blancos train Zinedine Zidane, and the feeling is believed to be mutual.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho Promise to Bring More attackers to Old Trafford

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho stated that an attacking style of football in the mould of Sir Alex Ferguson will return to old Trafford this coming season when he finally will get all the way down to the everyday work after his appointment final month.

A report from  Daily Mirror, stated that Mourinho has held talks with senior trio Michael Carrick, Wayne Rooney and David de Gea, the latter two now eradicated from Euro 2016, to set out his plans.

It's said that the new boss is keen to maneuver on from the laboured possession situated soccer that characterised Louis van Gaal's old Trafford reign, and return to the form of football that Ferguson would were proud of - person who speaks to the membership's traditions.

Van Gaal, at the same time vitally most important within the context of rebuilding the foundations with the intention to now aid Mourinho prosper, oversaw the club's worst goalscoring season within the finest League era.

Mourinho himself had a fame for protecting soccer and grinding out result in his most up to date spell at Chelsea, even as he encouraged Inter to Champions League glory making use of an identical approaches.

That had many supporters concerned about what he would do at old Trafford, but it surely shows the pragmatism and the adaptability of the person that he's willing and equipped to alter his technique relying on what his surroundings demand.
It's principal to do not forget that with a real Madrid squad blessed with the attacking exceptional of Cristiano Ronaldo, Angel Di Maria, Mesut Ozil and others his staff set a brand new La Liga ambitions record in 2011/12.

Mourinho has already accomplished plenty to allay the fears about his management in other respects as well. It's broadly believed that Zlatan Ibrahimovic is the only striker he needs to bring in this summer, with the emergence of Marcus Rashford and a want to not crush the child the important thing motive for that.

Michy Batshuayi undergo chelsea medical

Marc Wilmots has validated that Michy Batshuayi left Belgium's Euro 2016 base this week to undergo amedical forward of his expected move to Chelsea.

The Marseille striker, who scored in Belgium's 4-0 final-16 demolition of Hungary on Sunday, is greatly stated to be edging towards a switch to Stamford Bridge after netting 17 Ligue 1 pursuits last season.

And the 22-yr-historical was once given specific dispensation to attend a clinical.

"He did not ask for my recommendation," said Wilmots. "Marseille just asked me to unlock him for two hours for a clinical visit between 10am and noon. That is all."

Full-again Thomas Meunier is also mentioned to be on the verge of a transfer from club Brugge to Paris Saint-Germain.

"I believe it is high-quality that the gamers are busy with transfers," brought Belgium teach Wilmots. "This indicates that they have got labored good.

"They got a free afternoon yesterday and a few took the possibility to move ahead on the switch obstacle. It's essential resolve these problems.

"If a membership like PSG is excited about Meunier it's considering that they have got noticeable his features. They aren't blind."

Belgium face Wales of their Euro 2016 quarter-final on Friday.

Manchester city have signed Australia midfielder Aaron Mooy from A-League

Manchester city have signed Australia midfielder Aaron Mooy from A-League part Melbourne metropolis, with the prime League outfit loaning Anthony Caceres and Luke Brattan to their associate club.

Mooy, 25, has signed a 3-year deal with Manchester City whilst Caceres and Brattan transfer on loan for the 2016-17 season.

Mooy was named Melbourne city's player of the yr in each and every of his two seasons at AAMI PArk and set the A-League alight last season creating a document 21 assists.

I Prefer to Join Real Madrid Than Manchester United by Paul Pogba

Manchester United's pursuit of Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba has been dealt a blow, as it has been published that the player would prefer to join Real Madrid.

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​Manchester Evening News  familiar that Pogba would not fancy a return to old Trafford, and would choose closing at his current club if a Madrid switch cannot be labored out.
His agent, Mino Raiola, thinks in a different way, and has advised the player to leave for United and work with Jose Mourinho for 3 years earlier than going to Madrid. But the 23-yr-old would alternatively become a member of Los Blancos this summer season, and not in 2019 when he would be 26.

Barcelona have reached an agreement to sign Samuel Umtiti from Olympique Lyonnaise.

Barcelona have reached an agreement to sign centre-again Samuel Umtiti from Olympique Lyonnaise.

a report from ​RMC Sport stated that Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has verified the defender's departure.
Barcelona are watching to bolster their protecting options forward of next season, and have targeted Umtiti, as well as Paris Saint-Germain's Marquinhos.