Author: successsport360
Everton will only need to pay £600k to sign striker who scored 22 goals last season According to a recent report, Everton can sign a prolific striker for just £600,000 this summer transfer window. Sean Dyche will be desperate to bolster his attacking ranks this summer after his side’s goalscoring woes last season. He’s already added Iliman Ndiaye to his forward line – which was announced on Wednesday afternoon – and now it seems club chiefs are lining up a move for a former Barcelona player who has been in fine form on the continent. Everton will only need to…
Everton have signed Senegal forward Iliman Ndiaye from Marseille on a five-year contract for a fee in the region of £15m. The 24-year-old joined Marseille from Sheffield United last summer. Ndiaye scored four goals from 46 games last season, helping the French club reach the Europa League semi-finals. “He is still young but has experience at European and international level and we feel he will be a really positive addition to our squad,” said Everton manager Sean Dyche. Sheffield United “reluctantly accepted” a reported £20m offer for Ndiaye after he claimed 14 goals and 11 assists to help them clinch…
Liverpool still has seven players left at Euro 2024 as the quarter-final stage approaches but there is one standing out above the rest when it comes to his impact on the competition. For the Netherlands, Cody Gakpo has been superb. Signed from PSV around 18 months ago, Gakpo was never given a run of games down the left flank for Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp because the German had the likes of Luis Diaz to play there ahead of him. But Gakpo has looked much more natural on the wing where he has three goals in four games at the European…
Jurgen Klopp has a surprise stance on a potential next managerial role that nobody would have predicted. Klopp left Liverpool at the end of last season after almost nine years in charge at Anfield. The 57-year-old announced his decision to leave Liverpool in January, explaining that he was “running out of energy” after two decades in management. Klopp ruled out an immediate return to management, admitting that he needed a rest. That said, he did insist that he won’t be putting his feet up for to long. “It’s out of the question that I’ll stop working altogether,” Klopp told the…
Novak Djokovic said he was “extremely glad with the way I felt and the way I played” as he won his first match since knee surgery to reach the second round at Wimbledon. Djokovic, seeking to equal Roger Federer’s men’s record of eight singles titles at SW19, beat Vit Kopriva 6-1 6-2 6-2 under the roof on Centre Court. The Serb, 37, had an operation on a torn medial meniscus on 5 June, having aggravated the problem during the French Open. He will next play British wildcard Jacob Fearnley. Wearing a knee support on his right leg, Djokovic showed no…
The Gunners are set to confirm a £27 million piece of transfer business for a familiar face. Arsenal are believed to have activated their option to buy Brentford goalkeeper David Raya from their London Premier League rival on a permanent basis this summer. The Gunners had been expected to make the move after the Catalan star impressed between the sticks last term and the club will fork out £27 million for his services. News that the deal has been activated came from transfer guru Fabrizio Romano on Monday evening. Taking to social media platform X, Romano wrote: “Understand Arsenal have…
“I tried to raise my level at the end of the match,” the Italian said after his four-set, first-round win over Yannick Hanfmann. “Which I’m very happy [I did]” What did Jannik Sinner have to fear more on Monday: His opponent, Yannick Hanfmann; or his own, recently injured hip? That’s what one of the BBC commentators calling their first-round match at Wimbledon wanted to know—“with all due respect to Hanfmann,” of course. The question may have sounded rude, but it wasn’t unreasonable. The German is a tall, strong player who would hit 12 aces and 44 winners, and take a…
Jannik Sinner is an altogether different player from the one who left the All England Club on Friday 14 July, 2023. When the Italian made his exit from Wimbledon after a straight-sets defeat by seven-time champion Novak Djokovic, he was the world No 8 and a grand slam semi-finalist. Fifty weeks on, he entered SW19 as the world No 1, a grand slam winner, and the betting favourite to lift the gentlemen’s singles trophy. In his Wimbledon campaign last year, there were plenty of positives for the 22-year-old: He had reached the final four of a major for the first…
Defending champion and Spanish third seed Carlos Alcaraz defeats Estonian qualifier Mark Lajal to reach the second round; you can watch the Hamburg, Swiss and Palermo Open, exclusively live on Sky Sports Tennis following the conclusion of Wimbledon. Carlos Alcaraz endured an early test in his Wimbledon title defence but the Spaniard quelled the challenge of Estonian qualifier Mark Lajal 7-6 (7-3) 7-5 6-2 to move into the second round on Monday. The 21-year-old Spaniard, seeded third this year, came through in two hours and 22 minutes against Lajal, also 21 but ranked 266 places lower. The Estonian sported dreadlocks…
Emma Raducanu comes through in straight sets against late replacement opponent Renata Zarazua but says: “It was an incredibly difficult match”; you can watch the Hamburg, Swiss and Palermo Open, exclusively live on Sky Sports Tennis following the conclusion of Wimbledon. Emma Raducanu said she had to “win ugly” as she sealed a 7-6 (7-0) 6-3 victory against Mexican lucky loser Renata Zarazua on her Wimbledon comeback. Raducanu took advantage of her slice of good fortune to claim victory on her comeback at the All England Club and book a second-round clash on Wednesday with Belgium’s Elise Mertens. Raducanu had…