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It has been an astonishing few days in regards to the rumours surrounding Leeds, with Gianluigi Buffon and Francesco Totti to name but two linked to Elland Road. Today’s Whites transfer roundup includes an update on the exit of an 18-year-old, interest from a Championship club in two youngsters and a development in regards to that Buffon story.

Clarke medical

Jack Clarke underwent a medical at Tottenham on Wednesday, according to Football Insider. The Sun reported three days ago that the two clubs had agreed an £8.5m fee for the player, and the deal has now taken another step closer to completion.

Barnsley after Leeds duo

Football Insider is also reporting that Barnsley are looking to bring in Leeds pair Mallik Wilks and Aapo Halme. And Leeds could be willing to let the two leave if they are able to bring in their priority summer targets.

Buffon set for Juve return

Gianluigi Buffon was previously linked with Leeds United (Corriere Della Sera), but it now appears that the Yorkshire-based outfit are set to miss out on the 2006 World Cup winner. According to Sky Italia, Buffon is set to make a sensational return to Juventus during this transfer window.

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Tottenham Hotspur boss Mauricio Pochettino has broken the habit of a career by sending Leeds United academy product Jack Clarke back to Yorkshire on loan.

The winger became the club’s first signing in over a year on Tuesday after Spurs agreed a reported fee of £10m with Leeds United.

He has signed a contract until 2023 but will immediately return to the Championship club on loan for the duration of the 2019/20 campaign, as the Whites once again attempt to win promotion to the Premier League.

Yet this feels out of character for Pochettino.

Indeed, it must be noted that Marcelo Bielsa, a coach revered by Pochettino, manages Leeds; the pair have a storied connection. A fabled tale goes that before Bielsa signed Pochettino at Newell’s Old Boys when the Spurs boss was 13, he asked to see his legs while he was sleeping, to see if he was likely to be good enough to play for the club. He thought they were and signed him.

And yet, loans are not often utilised by Spurs. The likes of Oliver Skipp, Kyle Walker-Peters and Harry Winks could all have gone out on loan in recent seasons, as could Juan Foyth, with all four players having played through periods when they were deemed good enough to be around the first-team but not quite at the point of featuring regularly.

At most top clubs, that is when a loan is arranged, and the player will join either a mid-table Premier League club or a Championship side, as they look to gain minutes and experience – Derby’s decision to loan Liverpool’s Harry Wilson and Chelsea’s Mason Mount last season attests to that.

At Spurs, though, it’s more a case of loans being for those players who will eventually be discarded, when there isn’t actually a buyer to be found.

Look at the list of players who spent the 2018/19 season out on loan: Cameron Carter-Vickers, Samuel Shashoua, Marcus Edwards, Connor Ogilvie, Joshua Onomah, Georges-Kevin N’Koudou, Anthony Georgiou, Shayon Harrison, Kazaiah Sterling and Tom Glover.

Ogilvie has already been allowed to join Gillingham permanently, while Glover has been released. Carter-Vickers is 21 and has played four times for the club at centre-back; Shashoua is 20 and has never had a sniff of the first-team; Edwards is talented but his attitude has been questioned; Onomah has already been tipped to join Sheffield Wednesday permanently; N’Koudou does not have the required ability to play for the club; Georgiou, Harrison and Sterling are all 20 or over and have played a combined 18 minutes at the top level.

That Clarke is going out on loan, then, is a ceding of control from Pochettino.

He usually nurtures the young players who are coming through, slowly exposing them to first-team action before eventually being able to bed them in when they are ready.

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Perhaps he does not deem Clarke to be in the same category as the likes of Skipp or Walker-Peters yet; perhaps this deal was merely done to get a jump on the competition and ensure that a talented player is on the books at Spurs before he becomes a star in the Championship.

That, of course, is the hope for him next season, that he can thrive at Elland Road and return to Spurs ready to make a breakthrough.

Pochettino has broken his habit with this deal. He had better hope it pays off.

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Tottenham Hotspur fans have backed Kyle Walker-Peters to enjoy a breakthrough season in 2019/20.

The right-back played just six times in the Premier League last season, completing the 90 minutes on four occasions; against AFC Bournemouth, Southampton, Huddersfield Town and Everton on the final day.

The game against Bournemouth saw Walker-Peters register three assists in total as he gave an example of the quality he possesses, but he did not play his first game for the club in 2018/19 until December, featuring for 12 minutes in the 2-0 win over Leicester City.

Walker-Peters also played 61 minutes against Barcelona in the Champions League as Spurs drew 1-1 at the Camp Nou to seal their progression into the knockout stages.

And fans are confident that the 22-year-old could enjoy a standout season in 2019/20, as he looks to jump ahead of both Kieran Trippier and Serge Aurier in manager Mauricio Pochettino’s pecking order in north London.

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Instagram is a funny place. Professional football players use it to show off their fancy new cars, clothes and other holiday and personal life adventures.

Sometimes, they do end up posting serious business and football-related content but those are pretty much a rarity. Jayden Bogle used his social media account to post a fancy new Instagram snap, but it ended up making him a prime target for banter from his Championship rivals and friends.

Even though most of the comments were complimenting his fashion choices, the likes of Kasey Palmer and Fikayo Tomori, Bogle’s teammate at Derby last season, were quick to throw banter his way.

Palmer even asked for a discount but how much of it was actually serious and how much was in fact banter we’ll probably never know. Judging by the rest of the comments and the series of emojis all of them used, the latter seems more probable.

Still, some were not hiding the laughter and went straight for the head with the jokes.

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Rangers manager Steven Gerrard has rejected the chance to speak to Derby County about replacing Frank Lampard at the club, as reported by The Times.

What’s the story?

After a solid, if unspectacular, year of progress at Rangers, Gerrard is apparently attracting interest from teams in England.

The paper say that in the event of Lampard taking the vacant post at Chelsea, Gerrard is viewed as a potential successor at Pride Park.

However, the Gers boss has rejected advances from the Rams before discussions could even begin, according to the report. He is entirely focused on adding players to his first-team squad ahead of a pre-season training camp next week.

Given Derby are promotion contenders in the English Championship next season, Gerrard’s refusal to even entertain the notion of a switch could be seen by some as something of a surprise, but he clearly values the project he is building at Ibrox.

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Statement of intent

The last thing Rangers will want this summer is uncertainty surrounding the manager’s position at the club. There could be enough reports of big player exits over the next couple of months to add that kind of instability to their hugely important summer.

With UEFA Europa League qualifiers on the immediate horizon Rangers’ season will begin very soon and they don’t have the luxury of indulging in off-season transfer merry-go-rounds down south that could potentially derail their summer.

By rejecting discussions outright, Gerrard is telling any interested parties that he is determined to see his current spell at Rangers through until the club either win trophies or his position becomes untenable.

That kind of statement of intent should obviously delight supporters, who have really taken to the Liverpool icon as a trusted leader, even if the club came up short in all competitions last season.

Fans haven’t seen the necessary stability to progressively build for years and the next 12 months is a serious opportunity to finally get some sort of silverware on the board.

Gerrard will know that kind of success will boost his stock as a manager as much as anything he does in the Championship.

يبدو أنّ نادي سانت إيتيان الفرنسي، عازم على الحصول على خدمات مُهاجم الزمالك ومنتخب مصر، مصطفى محمد في سوق الانتقالات الشتوية الجارية.

مصطفى محمد يرغب في الرحيل عن صفوف القلعة البيضاء من أجل الاحتراف في أوروبا، ويتواجد مُهاجم الأبيض على رادار فريقي سانت إيتيان الفرنسي وجالطة سراي التركي.

سانت إيتيان كان قد توصل إلى اتفاق مع الزمالك بشأن ضم مصطفى، ولكن بعد تصريحات رئيس النادي، رولاند رومير، قرر الزمالك إنهاء المفاوضات مع سانت إيتيان، والذي زعم أن بعض المسؤولين في الأبيض طلبوا عمولة لتسهيل الصفقة، ثم اعتذر عقب ذلك مؤكدًا أنّ الأمر خطأ في الترجمة ليس أكثر؛ لكن الزمالك بالأمس، شدد عبر نائبه، هشام إبراهيم، أنّ المفاوضات مع سانت إيتيان لن تستمر بالإضافة لاتخاذ إجراءً قانوني (طالع تصريحاته).

اقرأ أيضًا.. جالطة سراي يعلن عبر بطولات موعد وصول مصطفى محمد إلى تركيا.. وتطورات سريعة في الصفقة

مصطفى محمد يغيب عن قائمة الزمالك لمباراة مصر المقاصة في الدوري 🏆⚽ pic.twitter.com/WFnWXFyBkz — Btolat.com (@Btolat) January 27, 2021

ويبدو أنّ مصطفى يرغب هو الآخر في الانتقال إلى سانت إيتيان، بعدما غرد مُهاجم الأبيض عبر حسابه الرسمي في موقع التواصل الاجتماعي “تويتر”، أنّ بأنه فعل كل ما أرداه الزمالك منه، فلماذا يقف البعض أمام رغبته (طالع ماذا قال؟)، ثم أكدت شبكة “يورو سبورت” في نسختها الفرنسية أنّ اللاعب يرغب في الانتقال لـ سانت إيتيان.

“btolat.com”، تواصل مع أحد المسؤولين داخل النادي الأخضر، وهو جان لوك بويزين، مدير التعاقدات ورئيس الكشافة، والذي أوضح لنا أنّ إدارة النادي اتخذت خطوة جديدة من أجل إنهاء الصفقة مع الزمالك قبل نهاية الشهر الجاري إذ ينتهي الميركاتو الشتوي يوم 31 يناير.

وقال جان لـ”btolat.com”: “لا زلنا نرغب في التعاقد مع مصطفى محمد، ونحاول التوصل إلى اتفاق مع الزمالك”.

وأتم تصريحاته: “لم أعد المسؤول الآن عن التفاوض مع الزمالك، والنادي كلف جان سوكاس وهو المدير الرياضي الجديد باستكمال المفاوضات مع مسؤولي الزمالك”.

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Leeds United fans on Twitter are getting worked up at the prospect of signing Brighton and Hove Albion centre-back Ben White after an eagle-eyed supporter spotted that he had followed the club on Instagram.

This comes less than a week after United supporters had the exact same reaction to Helder Costa following the club on the social media platform.

The young Seagulls defender has been previously named as one of the Whites’ priorities in this summer transfer window.

Leeds could do with a fresh face at centre-half after their injury problems in that position last term.

There has been no official word from either the player of the club that a deal is imminent, but fans have read into his Instagram activity as a sign that he is about to join the Yorkshire outfit.

Whether or not the Whites sign the 21-year-old remains to be seen, but that hasn’t stopped fans speculating that it is only a matter of time before he joins the club.

Here’s what the Elland Road faithful have been saying on Twitter…

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Hector Bellerin, part-time footballer, full-time fashion model. Every time this 24-year-old Arsenal ace posts something on social media, everyone knows it’s going to be an absolute hit.

And the Spaniard’s latest

/By79vLnlBjV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link” data-lasso->Instagram snap was no different as it depicted Bellerin in a daring pink suit, doing a catwalk at the Louis Vuitton show in Paris Fashion Week.

This latest fashion extravaganza in the French capital provoked a number of different reactions on social media and many of his fellow teammates and rivals replied with their messages of support and love for Bellerin, stating how bold and adventurous he actually is.

Alexandre Lacazette was one of the first people there and his series of heart emojis were quite a clear statement for Bellerin.

But he wasn’t the only one, not nearly so. The likes of Nathaniel Chalobah, Jordon Ibe and Adama Traore were also impressed by the Spaniard’s snap.

Soon enough, his comment section was littered with replies of support and love. Some were of course banter, but people were mostly in unison about it – it was bold and it was totally Bellerin-like.

As for his footballing campaign, Bellerin is still recovering from a serious ligament rupture that sidelined him from 20 January until the end of the season. His expected return is still unknown and will depend on how well he responds to treatment and training.

Last season, however, he managed 19 appearances, netting five assists in the process.

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Aston Villa have been amongst the busier sides in the Premier League during this transfer window with five signings made already, and there could be more names on the way to Villa Park before the start of next season. Today’s Villa transfer roundup includes interest in an Egyptian winger, the departure of an 18-year-old and news on Wesley’s work permit.

Villa eye Trezeguet

The Sun is reporting that Aston Villa are interested in signing winger Mahmoud Trezeguet from Turkish side Kasimpasa due to his performances at the African Cup of Nations. It is reported that the player could be on his way to the Midlands club in a deal worth £8m.

Wesley arrives in UK

Wesley has arrived in the UK after being granted a work permit and has now completed the final step of his move to Villa. The striker is the club’s record signing and scored 17 goals in 48 games in all competitions for former side Club Brugge last season.

Ige joins Colchester

Colchester United have confirmed the signing of released Aston Villa 18-year-old Luke Ige. The defender played for Villa’s U18s and U23s over the last two seasons before leaving the club.

يستعد الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي لمواجهة نظيره الدحيل القطري في بطولة كأس العالم للأندية.

واستأنف الأهلي تدريباته اليوم دون الحصول على راحة عقب خوض مباراة بيراميدز أمس، والتي انتهت بالتعادل السلبي بين الفريقين.

ومن المقرر أن تغادر بعثة الفريق الأول لكرة القدم بالنادي الأهلي القاهرة بعد غد الجمعة ،في طريقها إلى العاصمة القطرية الدوحة استعدادا لخوض منافسات كأس العالم للأندية التي يستهل مشواره بها بمواجهة الدحيل القطري يوم 4 فبراير المقبل. موسيماني يحاضر اللاعبين:

عقد بيتسو موسيماني، المدير الفني بالنادي الأهلي، محاضرة مع اللاعبين قبل انطلاق مران صباح اليوم الأربعاء على ملعب التتش بالجزيرة.

شهدت المحاضرة الحديث عن بعض الأمور الفنية الخاصة بمباراة بيراميدز أمس ، بالإضافة إلى الحديث عن المرحلة المقبلة التي تشهد الاستعداد لمنافسات كأس العالم للأندية. موسيماني يجتمع مع بيكهام:

حرص بيتسو موسيماني، على عقد جلسة مع أحمد رمضان بيكهام لاعب الفريق من أجل الحديث معه عن بعض الأمور الفنية الخاصة بتجهيزه وتحفيزه للمرحلة المقبلة.

وشارك أحمد رمضان بيكهام أمس بديلا أمام بيراميدز في الشوط الأول بعد تعرض محمد هاني الظهير الأيمن للفريق للإصابة بشد في العضلة الخلفية بعد دقائق من انطلاق المباراة. موسيماني يجتمع مع بواليا:

عقد بيتسو موسيماني، جلسة مع والتر بواليا مهاجم الفريق على هامش مران الأهلي صباح اليوم.

وحرص المدير الفني خلال الجلسة، على دعم  وتحفيز والتر بواليا؛  من أجل تقديم أفضل المستويات خلال الفترة المقبلة التي تشهد خوض الفريق الأول منافسات كأس العالم للأندية في العاصمة القطرية الدوحة. وليد سليمان ونيدفيد يواصلان التأهيل:

استكمل الثنائي وليد سليمان وكريم نيدفيد تنفيذ برنامجهما التأهيلي للتعافي من الإصابة.

ويعاني وليد سليمان من الإصابة في العضلة الخلفية، في حين يعاني كريم نيدفيد من الإصابة في الركبة.

وخاض وليد سليمان تدريبات قوية تحت إشراف طارق عبد العزيز إخصائي التأهيل في حين أدى كريم نيدفيد جلسة في الجيم أعقبها تدريبات الجري حول الملعب في إطار تجهيزه للمرحلة المقبلة. مشاركة أكرم توفيق:

شارك كرم توفيق، لاعب الفريق الأول، في مران الأهلي الجماعي صباح اليوم الأربعاء بعد سلبية المسحة الطبية التي خضع لها مؤخرًا.

مسحة طبية:

أجرى الفريق الأول مسحة طبية صباح اليوم الأربعاء استعدادا لرحلة قطر المنتظرة بعد غدٍ الجمعة.