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West Brom have sanctioned the temporary departure of Rekeem Harper this week…

What’s the word?

The out-of-favour midfielder has joined Championship outfit Birmingham City on loan until the end of the season, following in the footsteps of former Baggies attacker Jonathan Leko, who made a permanent switch in the summer.

Harper signed a new three-year deal upon Slaven Bilic’s arrival at the Hawthorns in the summer of 2019 despite reported interest from European giants Liverpool and Juventus among others.

Last chance saloon

The 20-year-old academy graduate has struggled for game time since making his debut in 2017, which was also the year of his first and only other loan spell away from the Midlands club.

Which means for the past two to three seasons, he’s pretty much been restricted to U23s football, even despite being earmarked as a future star by many former Albion manager – if those transfer links weren’t anything to go by above.

Indeed, Harper has only played 42 times for the first-team, of which only 17 have come since the start of the 2019/20 campaign, per Transfermarkt.

This could well be the last chance saloon for the former England U20 international as it’s hard to envisage him breaking into Sam Allardyce’s plans if firstly, he’s not currently in them despite their ongoing struggles and relegation battle, and secondly, if he fails to hit the ground running at St Andrew’s Stadium.

After Tony Pulis first promoted him into the senior fold, then-academy coach Jimmy Shan likened his ability to Premier League great Patrick Vieira, he told reporters:

“He can be a classic box-to-box midfielder like Patrick Vieira, he can play in a two or a three. He can play holding midfield, number 10 or number eight. He really is a talent who has got a lot of potential and the good thing is he’s working hard at his game.”

Similar thoughts were echoed by ex-boss Darren Moore, who said: “He excites the fans, he’s young, energetic, fresh, he’s enjoying his game, fearless – all the components of a really good player,” and then Bilic too: “I never denied that I love him as a player – I love those kind of players, who are powerhouses but can pass the ball, that’s great.”

Evidently, he now needs to prove that talent otherwise it’s going to be another case of unfulfilled potential at West Brom, another Saido Berahino, perhaps.Aside from all the transfer controversy, the former Baggies striker was clearly an impressive prospect as he bagged 14 goals in 38 appearances during the 2014/15 Premier League season.Though, now still only 27, he finds himself trying to salvage his career over in Belgium, playing for Charleroi on loan from Zulte Waregam.If Harper isn’t careful, then he’s in grave danger of becoming the next Berahino. He must deliver at Birmingham in these next six months. Those links to Liverpool and Juventus are a mere memory for the time being.

AND in other news, Dowling must avoid Rickie Lambert 2.0 in “full-blooded” £9m-rated colossus…

كشف المدير الفني ليوفنتوس، ماسيميليانو أليجري أنه سيفرض عقوبه على لاعبه البرازيلي آرثر ميلو، وأوضح السبب وراء ذلك.

انضم البرازيلي إلى يوفنتوس من برشلونة في صيف 2020 مقابل 76 مليون يورو، ومع ذلك، لم يكن أبدًا لاعبًا أساسيًا للبيانكونيري، حيث لعب 40 مباراة فقط في جميع المسابقات مع السيدة العجوز.

وقع ميلو مع يوفنتوس عندما كان ماوريسيو ساري مسؤولاً عن تدريب الفريق، لكن عندما وصل في أغسطس، كان مدرب لاتسيو الحالي قد رحل بالفعل، وكان أندريا بيرلو قد حل بديلاً له.

لعب آرثر 32 مباراة تحت قيادة بيرلو لكنه غاب عن المباريات القليلة الأولى من الموسم الحالي بعد خضوعه لعملية جراحية في يوليو.

لعب البرازيلي ثماني مباريات فقط في جميع المسابقات تحت قيادة أليجري هذا الموسم وسيغيب عن مباراة الغد ضد فينيسيا لأنه تأخر عن جلسة التدريب هذا الصباح، لذلك قرر أليجري معاقبته.

وقال أليجري في المؤتمر الصحفي الخاص بالمباراة: “كان آرثر سيئ الحظ هذا الصباح، لقد تأخر، لذلك لن يتم استدعائه”.

اقرأ أيضًا.. بونوتشي يقارن بين يوفنتوس وليفربول ويعلق على إمكانية مواجهة باريس سان جيرمان

وأضاف: “التأخر في اليوم السابق للمباراة ليس أمرًا جيدًا، لذلك لن يسافر مع الفريق، هذه الأشياء تحدث، سيعود إلى التدريبات ابتداء من الثلاثاء”.

ليست هذه المرة الأولى التي يثير فيها البرازيلي الجدل، في أبريل، كان أحد اللاعبين الثلاثة الذين أوقفهم يوفنتوس لحضور حفل خاص في منزل ويستون ماكيني وباولو ديبالا.

لقد انتهكوا حظر التجول على الصعيد الوطني الذي كان ساريًا بسبب فيروس كورونا، لذلك تم تغريم اللاعبين الثلاثة واستبعادهم من مباراة الديربي ضد تورينو.

ينتهي عقد آرثر في يونيو 2025، لكن يوفنتوس سيجد صعوبة في بيعه لأن أي بيع أقل من 50 مليون يورو سيعني خسارة رأسمالية للبيانكونيري.

ومن المقرر أن يعقد يوفنتوس اجتماعًا مع وكيل آرثر لمناقشة مستقبله في النادي قريبًا.

A sublime finish from Matheus Pereira wasn’t enough for West Brom to bring any sort of returns back to the Hawthorns on Tuesday night.

Sam Allardyce’s Baggies squad were defeated 2-1 by his former club West Ham, just days after Sam picked up his first victory since he took the helm in mid-December.

Overall, Albion’s performance was satisfactory and gives them some hope towards a brighter future, but they still remain some five points from safety with the worst defensive record in the Premier League – by quite some margin.

There was no return for Grady Diangana either and his absence was really felt on that left flank, especially as he started all four games under Allardyce before injury.

He’d surely have loved to make a point to his boyhood club after they let him leave for £18m in the summer, too.

Instead, Big Sam turned to Kamil Grosicki for a third successive match in all competitions – only this time, it failed to pay dividends.

The Polish veteran has been given a lifeline at West Brom in recent weeks. In the summer, he was seconds away from sealing a move to Nottingham Forest, but as the paperwork was submitted too late, he had to remain at their Midlands rivals.

He’s also been linked with an exit during the current winter transfer window, though for now, he’s still here. But after his display in the capital, the 66-year-old may want to think again.

As per SofaScore, only one other Baggies player was given a worse rating than Grosicki’s 6.4 and he was hugely at fault for the Hammers’ opener, losing his man only for him to serve up a delightful cross for Jarrod Bowen to turn home.

Indeed both Vladimir Coufal and Bowen had the better of the 32-year-old throughout the 70 minutes he was on the pitch – the pair managed 7.2 and 6.6 ratings respectively.

Considering the £50k-per-week ace is supposed to be one of Big Sam’s main attacking outlets, he was wasteful and ineffective at left-wing – per SofaScore, he failed to provide an accurate cross from three attempts, leaving Callum Robinson to feed off very little, and won just one of seven duels (14%).

That only goes to show just how lightweight the winger was against the aforementioned Irons duo and how they constantly thwarted him at either end of the pitch. By comparison, Coufal (six) and Bowen (four) won ten times as many duels.

It now gives Allardyce plenty to think about with an encounter against Man City six days away. If Diangana isn’t fit, then someone else may need to step up to the plate.

Only one other Albion player (who has started two or more games) has recorded a worse average rating for the season than Grosicki’s 6.19 – perhaps the club ought to be looking to move him on after all, even despite once being dubbed “unplayable” by former teammate Jackson Irvine.

If Tuesday’s game is anything to go by, he may well not be cut out for the big time.

AND in other news, Baggies lightweight who lost the ball every 2.8 touches BADLY let West Brom down on Tuesday…

كشف أحمد الشناوي المحلل التحكيمي، مدى أحقية فريق سيراميكا كليوباترا في الحصول على ركلة جزاء أمام الزمالك في المباراة التي أقيمت بينهما اليوم الخميس.

وكان الزمالك قد فاز على سيراميكا كليوباترا بهدف دون رد، في المواجهة التي لعبت ضمن مواجهات الأسبوع السادس من عمر بطولة الدوري.

طالع | فيديو | بهدف مصطفى فتحي.. الزمالك يحقق فوزًا صعبًا على سيراميكا كليوباترا في الدوري

وكان لاعب سيراميكا كليوباترا سقط داخل منطقة الجزاء بعد احتكاك مع طارق حامد، والحكم محمد معروف لم يحتسب شيء، وسط اعتراضات كبيرة من الجهاز الفني لفريق سيراميكا. لقطة سقوط لاعب سيراميكا كليوباترا في مباراة الزمالك

وقال الشناوي في تصريحات عبر قناة “أون تايم سبورتس1”: “الحكم وارد أنه لم يرها، لكن كيف لم يستدعيه حكم الفار؟، هناك دفع واضح أسقط مهاجم سيراميكا، الخطأ موجود وكان لابد من احتساب ركلة جزاء”.

وأتم عن لمسة يد عبد الشافي: “يد لاعب الزمالك في وضعها الطبيعي ولا يُعاقب بلمسة يد، ومن ثم لا توجد ركلة جزاء”.

Earlier this week we spoke about one of Leeds’ worst sales in history in the shape of Kasper Schmeichel, but now it’s time to look at one of the smartest sales the club ever made.

Back in 2014, Ross McCormack was the hottest property outside of the Premier League, he’d just won the Championship Golden Boot and was scoring all types of goals including long-range screamers and picture-perfect free-kicks.

All in all, McCormack scored 58 times for Leeds, and that made him a highly-coveted player at that level.

Unfortunately, Leeds weren’t the force they are today, and the Scot was ripe for the picking for any club with bigger ambitions, and eventually, newly-relegated Fulham signed him for £11m as they tried to navigate their way out of the Championship at the first time of asking.

Unfortunately, it didn’t quite go that way for Fulham or McCormack. The Scot was the London club’s top scorer, netting 17 in the league, but the team was too reliant on him, finishing 17th at the end of the season.

It was more of the same next season, McCormack bagged 21 times as Fulham finished 20th, and his good goal return earned him another big-money move, joining Aston Villa for £12m.

Meanwhile, Leeds were busy unearthing a striker better than McCormack with Chris Wood winning a Championship Golden Boot of his own before getting a Premier League move.

McCormack’s move to Aston Villa signalled the start of a huge decline. He would only score three goals for the Villans before being slammed for his fitness and becoming a forgotten man at Villa Park.

What followed was a litany of unprofessional behaviour, he missed training because his gate at his house wouldn’t open and was pictured looking out of shape asleep on a sofa in Magaluf just weeks after his Villa contract was terminated.

Nowadays he turns out for National League outfit Aldershot Town, and while transfermarkt value him at £1.08m, it’s hard to imagine that any club will pay a fee for him ever again.

Leeds got out at the perfect time, they cashed in and unearthed a better striker just a couple of years before his career went off the rails.

McCormack is undoubtedly one of the most talented players to have turned out at Elland Road in the 2010s, but Leeds can be happy with the fact that they didn’t hold onto him for any longer than they needed to.

The Rafa Benitez to Newcastle rumours just won’t seem to go away, will they?

The Spaniard left St James’ Park back in the summer of 2019, with the club releasing a statement that despite working hard to extend his contract, they couldn’t reach an agreement with him.

And despite it being well over a year since he made his exit, his name still continues to be a major talking point on Tyneside, and his latest interview during the week once again opened up a tonne of speculation over a potential return.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Euro Leagues Show, Benitez said: “When I left Newcastle I was waiting until the last minute for a takeover but obviously it didn’t happen. I have a very clear idea that in the situation it was impossible to stay, even if I was really pleased and really happy there.

“So with all of these things in your head, if I decided to stay when we had no money, imagine with a takeover. At the moment I have a lot of respect because I have a job and I am very grateful to Dalian and Wanda but the Premier League is a target for me.”

As the former Magpies boss says himself, he worked under a set of very strict financial restrictions at St James’ Park, and it really is a case of ‘what if?’ in terms of just what he could have achieved had he been given some extra backing.

Newcastle’s outlay after Steve Bruce’s arrival, both last summer and the one just got by, shows that Mike Ashley may be loosening the purse strings ever so slightly, whilst a takeover is still also on the cards.

Many of the players at the club have already worked with him before, with Matt Ritchie admitting that his work was “unbelievable”, particularly tactically.

Described as someone who did miracles in his first stint as Newcastle boss by Ian Wright, just imagine what Benitez could do with the whole club pushing in the same direction as him.

حقق بايرن ميونخ فوزًا هامًا على نظيره هوفنهايم في المباراة التي جمعت بينهما ضمن الجولة التاسعة من الدوري الألماني للدرجة الأولى.

سجل سيرجي جنابري في الدقيقة 16 هدف بايرن ميونخ الأول بتسديدة من الجبهة اليمنى، بعد عدد من التمريرات الرائعة بين نجوم العملاق البافاري.

روبرت ليفاندوفسكي تمكن من تعزيز النتيجة بهدف ثانٍ في الدقيقة 30 بتسديدة صاروخية من خارج منطقة الجزاء، بعد تمريرة توماس مولر الذي حصل على الكرة بقوة من المدافع.

طالع أيضًا.. بايرن ميونخ يصارع ريال مدريد على ضم لاعب نابولي

في الدقائق الـ10 الأخيرة، قتل بايرن ميونخ المباراة بهدفي تشوبو موتينج وكينجسلي كومان.

وبهذه النتيجة يصبح رصيد بايرن ميونخ 22 نقطة في المركز الأول بينما هوفنهايم يتوقف رصيده عند 11 نقطة في المركز العاشر. أهداف مباراة بايرن ميونخ ضد هوفنهايم

ولإطار نفس الجولة فاز بوروسيا دورتموند على أرمينيا بثلاثية مقابل هدف، بعدما تقدم إيمري تشان من ركلة جزاء، ثم ماتيس هوميلز في الدقيقة 45، وجودي بيلنجهام سجل هدف قتل المباراة في الدقيقة 72.

سجل فابيان كروس هدف حفظ ماء الوجه لـ أرمينيا في الدقيقة 87 عن طريق ركلة جزاء.

بهذه النتيجة يصبح رصيد بوروسيا دورتموند 21 نقطة في المركز الثاني خلف بايرن ميونخ بنقطة واحدة، بينما أرمينيا في المركز السابع عشر برصيد 5 نقاط.

It wouldn’t be a deadline day without some drama at Leeds United.

The Whites have been linked to a plethora of players including Todd Cantwell and Louie Sibley, but now it seems as though they’re in the market for a new young star in the shape of Michael Olise.

The French U18 international has already made a big impact on the senior game despite only being a teenager. He has appeared 32 times for Reading, including four outings this season that have seen him rack up three goal contributions as the Royals got off to the perfect start to the season, picking up 12 points from a possible 12.

Olise certainly looks to be a talented player, and the fact that he has France U18 caps shows just how highly-rated he is, but aside from his talent, he has another quality that will make potentially make him a Bielsa favourite.

Olise is incredibly versatile being able to play as either an attacking or defensive midfielder as well as on either flank, and that is a trait that Bielsa values extremely highly.

Just look at how much Bielsa loves Stuart Dallas, the Northern Irishman can play in so many positions, anywhere across the midfield and at either full-back spot, and that versatility aided him towards starting 45 out of 46 games last season.

The £4.05m-rated ace is like an attacking version of Dallas, he’s a swiss army knife of a footballer who can be deployed in almost any attacking role as well as in the midfield.

At just 18 he’s a player that Bielsa could mould into anything he wants, and his offensive output so far this season certainly suggests that he has what it takes to become a Premier League player, with his one goal and two assists in four games helping Reading into the automatic promotion spots in the early knockings of the season.

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Jorginho, de tantos méritos neste reconstruído Vasco, já começou o jogo perdendo para Eduardo Baptista. Wellington Silva, lateral-direito de origem, foi escalado na esquerda, onde marcaria melhor as investidas de Madson. O técnico cruz-maltino, então, prontamente deslocou Nenê, articulador central do Vasco, para a ponta-direita, onde em momento algum, desde que chegou, ele conseguiu render.

Assim, o esquema tático que vinha funcionando, sumiu. Durante todo o primeiro tempo, o que se viu no Estádio Nilton Santos pareceu apenas um remendo da equipe que tanto havia melhorado. Raras investidas, Jorge Henrique e Leandrão isolados, e Andrezinho, tanto quanto Julio dos Santos, não tinha jogada para fazer.

E Jorginho mexeu no intervalo. Além das trocas dos atacantes titulares (citados acima) por Rafael Silva e Riascos, o treinador ainda fez mais uma logo depois. Saiu a preocupação tática e entrou o desespero. Com Eder Luis, a equipe ganhou mais um velocista, mesmo sem ter armadores jogando bem – apesar de a falta de meias ser um problema de montagem do elenco.

A pressão final foi o que se esperava, até pelo jogador a mais. Porém, é preciso melhorar. É preciso acertar sempre para escapar do rebaixamento. As rodadas estão favoráveis (pelo menos nas três últimas, a maioria dos resultados tem ajudado). Assim como chamou atenção, recentemente, a imprecisão na pontaria dos jogadores, a do técnico não pode ser desprezada.

O Vasco não está rebaixado. Mas quase todos os jogadores caíram no gramado abatidos, ontem. De todo modo, são estes mesmos atletas que precisam dar resposta técnica antes que seja tarde. A situação piorou? Naturalmente. O problema maior é a carga de pressão com a qual o Gigante da Colina vai encarar os poderosos ataques de Palmeiras e Corinthians na sequência do campeonato.

تُقام مساء اليوم السبت مباراة بين فريقي ليفربول بقيادة يورجن كلوب، وبرينتفورد بقيادة توماس فرانك، في إطار منافسات بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز.

طالع | تشكيل ليفربول الرسمي أمام برينتفورد.. محمد صلاح وماني في الهجوم وفيرمينو بديلًا

ويستضيف ملعب “جريفين بارك”، معقل برينتفورد، مباراة الفريقين التي تأتي في إطار منافسات الجولة السابعة من الدوري الإنجليزي.

وفاز ليفربول في الجولة الماضية على كريستال بالاس بثلاثة أهداف دون رد، بينما فاز برينتفورد على ولفرهامبتون بهدفين بلا مقابل. تشكيل ليفربول المتوقع أمام برينتفورد

حراسة المرمى: أليسون بيكر.

خط الدفاع: فيرجيل فان دايك، جويل ماتيب، ترينت ألكسندر أرنولد، أندي روبرتسون.

خط الوسط: فابينيو، كورتيس جونز، جوردان هندرسون.

خط الهجوم: محمد صلاح، جوتا، ساديو ماني.

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