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According to a report by The Telegraph, Fabio Paratici and co have made Southampton striker Danny Ings Tottenham’s new transfer priority this summer.

The Lowdown: New striker incoming?

Tottenham did not take up the option to make Carlos Vinicius’ 2020/2021 season-long loan a permanent move, with Sky Sports recently detailing that the club will be on the look out for a new forward.

Ings has been loosely linked to Spurs this summer but now The Telegraph have taken that one step further.

The Latest: Spurs make Ings priority…

As per the outlet and reliable journalist Matt Law, Paratici and co have now earmarked the 28-year-old as a possible partner for Harry Kane this summer.

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It is believed the club have now made Ings a priority signing for Spurs with a firm belief he can play alongside Kane under Nuno Espirito Santo.

Tottenham’s new manager allegedly wants to play two up front with a ready-made Premier League goal scorer next to their superstar talisman.

This comes after recruitment meetings, which followed the appointments of Nuno and Paratici, where it has been recommended that Spurs pursue Ings this summer.

The Verdict: Do it Paratici…

We could think of no better possible partner for Kane next season as Nuno eyes a dynamic duo up front.

Scoring 12 goals and assisting four others in the English top flight over 2020/2021, he also averaged more shots on goal per game (2) than the likes of Son Heung-min and Gareth Bale (WhoScored).

His threat in the final third is perhaps best summed up by Alan Hutton when speaking to Football Insider, who called simply him a ‘proven goalscorer’.

Jamie O’Hara also believes he would be a great Tottenham acquisition, labelling Ings the ‘perfect fit’ for Spurs when speaking to talkSPORT.

He could indeed be a worthwhile acquisition for Spurs this summer.

In other news: Tottenham chiefs perform Kane U-turn as report shares behind-scenes developments, find out more here.

Leeds United transfer target Harrison Reed could solve a major problem for Marcelo Bielsa amid David Norris’ transfer claim.

What’s the story?

Reports in recent days and weeks have linked them with a move for Cagliari dynamo Nahitan Nandez, before The Daily Mail claimed that that the Whites tracked Fulham’s Reed last season with a view to a summer swoop.

It was suggested that with the Cottagers’ relegation from the Premier League, Leeds see the midfielder as an “excellent addition”, and now Norris has thrown his backing behind a potential move.

Speaking exclusively to This is Futbol, the former Leeds man said: “The key things with the players that Leeds want to bring in is that they have to suit their high tempo style of play and the manager has to trust them.

“Looking at Reed from the outside looking in, he fits the bill, is busy, looks like he can graft, he is a team player and he’s got a bit of quality as well.”

Solves Bielsa’s problem

A regular presence for the Cottagers last season, the £9m-rated Reed made 31 appearances in the top-flight, often playing alongside Andre Zambo Anguissa in the heart of midfield.

As per Sofascore, Reed won four duels per game in the Premier League last season, as well as making an impressive two tackles and 1.6 interceptions per match while also winning back possession 0.6 times.

To put that into context, Chelsea star and recent Champions League winner N’Golo Kante averaged 3.7 duels won and made 2.6 tackles and two interceptions per game. He also won back possession just as often as Reed at 0.6 times per match.

It’s no surprise that the 26-year-old’s former boss Tony Mowbray has waxed lyrical about the kind of engine Reed possesses, and also the kind of attitude he has – all shades of Chelsea’s midfield dynamo.

The Blackburn manager said: “

Immense! He’s been fantastic playing in a wide position, working like a trojan, running forward, blocking off the wide play, helping his full-back, in to out, in to out, and yet playing centre-mid today, it shows you where his true position really is on the pitch.

“He’s a fantastic player, but beyond his playing ability, his personality fits in amazingly well with our group.”

One of the big issues last season was having someone who could fill Kalvin Phillips’ shoes when he was missing from action, with the Whites actually winning just twice in the nine Premier League games that he was unavailable for.

In the tough-tackling Reed, Leeds could have someone who would be more than capable of stepping into the breach when required to be the anchorman in front of the back-four, and given his tigerish work-rate and personality, seems a perfect fit for Bielsa’s demands.

Meanwhile, Beren Cross has dropped a Leeds United transfer update…

Many West Ham United fans are desperate for the club to sign Danny Ings this summer after it was revealed he turned down a four-year contract at Southampton.

The Hammers enjoyed a fantastic campaign last time out as they finished sixth in the Premier League, which means they will be competing in the Europa League in 2021/22. However, David Moyes will surely need to add to his striking options – he currently only has one natural centre-forward at his disposal in Michail Antonio, who has had his share of injury troubles.

The Irons should be busy in transfer market as they prepare for the new campaign, and they may have an eye on Ings now that this big development has emerged. Indeed, talkSPORT’s Alex Crook claimed a few weeks ago that West Ham were chasing the 28-year-old.

The Athletic reported that Ings – a scorer of 101 senior career goals – has the rejected a new contract offer at St Mary’s, even though it would have made him the best-paid player in Southampton’s history had he accepted.

As a result, many West Ham fans want their club to sign the former Liverpool striker, and they took to social media platform Twitter to share their thoughts.

Let’s see what these fans had to say about Ings’ contract snub

“Get him and Adam Armstrong and I will be a happy man, Antonio can go back out wide and we will have 2 top strikers fighting it out”

Credit: @AndrewKeavey82

“He has to be on our list of striker targets surely… Would be a great signing if we could get him!”

Credit: @WestHamViews_

“This is the signing we should be going all out for. Proven PL striker, carried that awful Southampton team. Would rather this than taking a punt on someone from abroad who could be another Haller”

Credit: @WestHamJim1

“I’d welcome this signing. Cost too much though?”

Credit: @JonScottClark6

“Gladly take him”

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“Given our history of signing unsuccessful strikers who struggle in the Prem, would love to see @WestHam #WHUFC go for Danny Ings now he has rejected a new deal at Southampton. We can offer European football and his fee will be lower with 1 year left on his deal.”

Credit: @Steve_Wood1980

In other news, the Hammers have been linked with this South American.

Australia’s leg-spinning maestro Shane Warne has sent out a huge warning to England as they prepare for the Ashes series by smashing more Test records in what has become a rejuvenation of his career against Pakistan.

Lynn McConnell22-Oct-2002Australia’s leg-spinning maestro Shane Warne has sent out a huge warning to England as they prepare for the Ashes series, smashing more Test records in what has become a rejuvenation of his career against Pakistan.Pakistan were 47 runs behind Australia’s first-innings score of 444 with only two of their second innings wickets remaining in the third Test. Warne has three for 56 in the innings and Glenn McGrath three for 18.Playing in Sharjah, where the black gold of oil has created great wealth, Warne has bowled into a rich vein of his own and has smashed the Australian record for most wickets in a three-Test series.He has taken 27 wickets so far to move past Dennis Lillee, who took 23 in the 1979/80 series against England. Warne’s wickets have come at an incredible average of 12.66 runs per wicket.Warne has given himself every chance of becoming only the second player to take 500 wickets during the Ashes series, as he has now taken 477 wickets in his 104 Tests at an average of 25.73. Only West Indian Courtney Walsh has taken more Test wickets – 519.Warne has also moved into equal seventh place on the list of wickets taken in three-Test-match series, a position he shares with Pakistan’s Waqar Younis.Warne’s best figures in any series are the 34 he took on his first tour of England in 1993.If getting some respite from Warne is not enough, pace-man Glenn McGrath moved past the 400-mark in the same innings, only the second Australian to take that many wickets.McGrath, in his 87th Test, has now taken 403 wickets at 21.52.Those ahead of him are: Walsh, Warne, Kapil Dev (434), Richard Hadlee (431), Muttiah Muralitharan (430), Wasim Akram (414) and Curtly Ambrose (405).Most wickets for Australia in a three-Test series:

Runs  Wkts Avge342   27   12.66   SK Warne             Australia v Pakistan         2002/03388   23   16.86   DK Lillee            Australia v England          1979/80388   23   16.86   R Benaud             Australia v India            1956/57261   21   12.42   CTB Turner           Australia v England          1888438   21   20.85   GD McGrath           Australia v Sri Lanka        1995/96452   21   21.52   DK Lillee            Australia v India            1980/81540   21   25.71   DK Lillee            Australia v Pakistan         1976/77417   20   20.85   SK Warne             Australia v South Africa     1997/98442   20   22.10   SK Warne             Australia v South Africa     2001/02446   20   22.30   B Yardley            Australia v West Indies      1981/82Most wickets by all countries in three-Tests:Runs  Wkts  Avge203   35   5.80   GA Lohmann           England v South Africa       1895/96401   33  12.15   RJ Hadlee            New Zealand v Australia      1985/86545   32  17.03   Harbhajan Singh      India v Australia            2000/01294   30   9.80   M Muralitharan       Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe         2001/02437   30  14.56   Abdul Qadir          Pakistan v England           1987/88315   29  10.86   Waqar Younis         Pakistan v New Zealand       1990/91342   27  12.66   Shane Warne          Australia v Pakistan         2002/03373   27  13.81   Waqar Younis         Pakistan v Zimbabwe          1993/94270   26  10.38   C Blythe             England v South Africa       1907401   26  15.42   WPUJC Vaas           Sri Lanka v West Indies      2001/02

One player who is determined to be in the starting line up for the first match of the season against Cardiff UCCE at Millfield School on Saturday is Matt Bulbeck, who has been missing from the Somerset scene for too long

Richard Walsh07-Apr-2002One player who is determined to be in the starting line up for the first match of the season against Cardiff UCCE at Millfield School on Saturday is Matt Bulbeck, who has been missing from the Somerset scene for too long.The twenty two year old who made such an impact for Somerset in his debut season in 1998 has been sadly limited in his first team appearances over the last couple of seasons due to a back injury.After a winter during which he has worked very hard at his fitness levels hopefully all of that is now behind him and on the eve of the new season he told me: "It feels really great to be out on the grass at the County Ground again, and I’m pleased to say that I’m bowling as well as I have for a very long time."Matt continued: "We are fielding a strong side against the West of England Premier League XI on Monday and I will be playing. I’m really looking forward to the first game at Millfield on Saturday, and want to be in the line up."Matt Bulbeck’s comments are very good news for Somerset who have a bowling vacancy in their team after the departures of Jason Kerr to Derbyshire and Jamie Grove to Leicestershire.

Somerset Second XI ended the second day’s play of their three day match against Worcestershire at North Perrott in a strong position.Yesterday on the attractive tree lined ground Worcestershire were bowled out for 219, with Pete Trego ending with 6 for 53. The visitors total would have been considerable less had it not been for a last wicket stand of 97.Before close of play on Wednesday Somerset had taken their score to 104 for 2, with Piran Holloway not out on 51.Today the Somerset batsmen enjoyed the conditions at North Perrott and took the score onto 422 for 9 before declaring. Holloway ended with 91 and Graham Rose made 61.By the close of play Worcestershire were 11 for 1, with Trego being the successful Somerset bowler.

Former Glasgow Rangers defender Alan Hutton has shared his fears over Steven Gerrard leaving the Gers for a Premier League club this summer.

The Lowdown: Gerrard linked with exit

Earlier this year, Gerrard was linked with a move to Liverpool after it was suggested Jurgen Klopp could leave the Reds (The Mirror).

While that particular link has since quietened down, both Wolves (The Athletic) and Everton are said to have been in pursuit of the Gers boss more recently.

The Latest: Hutton shares exit fears

Speaking to Football Insider, Hutton has admitted he is worried Gerrard could leave the 55-time Scottish champions. He said when asked if he was worried:

“Yeah, of course. I think it will be every Rangers fan’s nightmare knowing how well he’s done.

“He’s come in, it’s taken him a few seasons to settle in but we’re seeing how good he actually is as a manager at the moment and what he can bring to the table.

“With this managerial merry-go-round that literally is happening down south, there’s going to be opportunities. It doesn’t matter who you are. You want to be working or playing at the highest level possible.

“There’s a lot of money down south. If there’s an opportunity to go to a team and rebuild a team at a high level, of course you’re going to have to think about it. It’s only natural.

“I’m worried as a Rangers fan. We know how good a job Gerrard’s done and people will be looking at him.”

The Verdict: Not yet

It seems inevitable Gerrard will leave the Gers to move some south at some point. The 41-year-old, who earns £2.5m a year at Ibrox (£48,000 a week, The Daily Express), has done a fantastic job in Glasgow, leading Rangers to their first major trophy in 10 years. However, he is a Liverpool legend and an Englishman, and will therefore always likely be interested in a move back home.

Having said that, it feels unlikely that he will leave this summer. Rangers’ Premiership title means they have qualified for the Champions League third qualifying round. A run in Europe’s premier club competition is surely too big a challenge to pass up on.

In other news, Kieran Maguire has made this Ibrox claim.

Desmond Haynes will always be regarded as one of the finest openers of all time

Special Correspondent05-May-2002Desmond Haynes will always be regarded as one of the finest openers of all time. The partnership that he forged with Gordon Greenidge played a major role in making the West Indies the most fearsome side in world cricket through most of the 80s. But surprisingly for a man of his stature, Haynes still carries a few regrets.”I wanted to score more than 8032 Test runs and also score two more centuries in Test cricket to have 20 hundreds beside my name. My average is 40, but I wanted to make it 42. That would have been satisfying for me and I could have retired without any regret. But the cricket board of the country for which I played no less than 116 Test matches didn’t give me the opportunity to do so,” he said in an interview at the Kensington Oval, Barbados.”And yes, I wanted to be the skipper of the West Indies cricket team (after Viv Richards). But the baton was handed over to Richie Richardson. Then why did they sent me to England as the vice-captain of the team? I am still trying to find the answers to these questions. Ask anybody in these islands. You will know that all of them are aware of the fact that the board curbed the international careers of the two openers – Gordon and me – without any reason,” Haynes added.Since the departure of the two great men, West Indies have struggled to find a decent opening pair. “I felt sorry but the board never asked us to help the youngsters. They could have selected a few talented young openers and asked us to develop them into better quality international openers. Had it happened I would have understood that the board has honoured our efforts, but they did nothing,” a visibly hurt Haynes observed.Probably it was this neglect, that made him turn to fresher pastures. Yes, he is a politician now, aiming to become a senator in two years. But how can the once highest run-getter in one-day cricket suddenly wipe out cricket from his mind? When the conversation veers to the West Indies defeat in the second Test at Port of Spain, Haynes does not mince words.”The way they had lost the Test match in Port of Spain was disgusting. I was surprised to see that they failed to play against this bowling-attack of India. When I met Lara, I asked him, what prevented him from going all out against such a weak Indian attack. If a batsman of his calibre takes singles instead of going after this bowling-attack, why blame the others? And when I heard that he asked the crowd not to sing while he was batting, I could not believe it first. In the Caribbeans, you always associate with the noises and the songs and who knows it better than Brian?” he asked.When asked about his experiences of touring India, he was quick to give his opinions about the poor quality of umpiring before going on to talk about the famous West Indies defeat at Chennai. “We didn’t have so much of live coverage those days and we knew it well that there was always a possibility of us being given out lbw if we had padded the deliveries. Hirwani took 16 wickets against us in his debut Test on a wicket where anything but cricket could be played. Afterwards, we thrashed him so much that you don’t find him any more. Personally, I felt Sivaramakrishnan was a better leg-spinner.”He also had an opinion on India’s legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev that he wished to share. “You say Kapil was a fast bowler? Do you know what Viv (Richards) said about him? Viv used to tell that Kapil was so slow that you couldn’t even go for hooking him!”Haynes and Greenidge had more than five thousand ODI runs under their belts, a record which was overthrown by the Indian pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly. He, though, has no regrets in this regard. “They are playing more matches and will continue to play more. So, they will break more records definitely,” was his prediction.When asked about the best batsman he had played against, Haynes, had no hesitation in naming Allan Border. “I don’t like to praise the Aussies. But I feel Allan was a great batsman. It was never easy to dislodge him and his appetite for runs was just incomparable.”

Chris Nevin and Mark Gillespie are men of such like personality, players whose approach to cricket is so similarly uncomplicated, twins in temperament and disposition, that they became ideal collaborators today when Wellington needed an answer to a

Steve McMorran12-Feb-2001Chris Nevin and Mark Gillespie are men of such like personality, players whose approach to cricket is so similarly uncomplicated, twins in temperament and disposition, that they became ideal collaborators today when Wellington needed an answer to a dire situation on the first day of their Shell Trophy match against Otago at the Basin Reserve.Neither made a hundred, though both deserved to as, in concert, they helped Wellington recover from 51/5 before lunch to 272 in their first innings after they had lost the toss and been forced to bat first on a green and gently seaming pitch.And they collaborated as wicket-keeper and bowler on the cunningly-conceived dismissal of a key player, Matt Horne, as Otago were left 42/3 in timid response when bad light stopped play 30 minutes before scheduled stumps.Nevin was out for 99 a few minutes before tea, ending a partnership with Gillespie which added 127 in 102 minutes and helped Wellington put on 150 at a cost of two wickets in a second session in which the tide of the match turned. The Wellington wicket-keeper later chided himself, not for missing his second Trophy century when he sweetly hooked a delivery from Craig Cumming directly to Chris Gaffaney at square leg, but for being out so close to an interval.Gillespie, who was then 61 having passed 50 for the first time in Trophy cricket, ran out of partners before he could complete a maiden century and was 81 not out when Wellington’s innings ended. But he didn’t regret being so deprived. His attitude mirrored Nevin’s and he was more concerned with doing good for his team than for himself.”I just wanted to take every ball as it came and stay there as long as I could,” Gillespie said later, as Nevin listened. “I wouldn’t have minded getting 30 if Sos (Nevin) had got 200.””I wouldn’t have minded either,” Nevin said.Sparks flew between the two as they remembered their partnership at the early close of the first day. Both tried to say the right things – about their determination to stay at the wicket for the good of the team, to leave the good balls and punish the bad, to occupy the crease as long as they could.That was certainly the approach their team’s position had warranted when they came together at 116/7 on the dismissal of Andrew Penn, and after Nevin had slightly improved Wellington’s position in partnerships with Penn and Stephen Mather.But, in truth, it wasn’t how they approached their joint crisis. They attacked the bowling with unbridled vigour and they changed the course of the innings not with any dogged rearguard action but with a flamboyant cavalry charge.”I’d been watching a bit and I wasn’t quite sure what the pitch was doing but I noticed there were a few balls to leave and so I went out intending to leave a few and punish the bad ball when it came along,” Nevin said.”You didn’t leave many,” a reporter observed.”No, actually, I don’t like to leave them,” Nevin conceded. “Some opening batsmen like to leave but I like to feel the ball on the bat. I’d rather hit them than leave them.”Nevin is far too uncomplicated to play semantic games about any of his innings. He realises that he is a strokemaker and he attempts to be that in any situation, refusing to be cowed by circumstance. He would bat in the same style at 500/5 or 50/5 and he saw the humour in pretending otherwise.Gillespie, also, played the game of pretending responsibility. He could play a straight bat, he said. There had been many occasions in his career when he had been forced to play stout defence – he recalled his 30 in Wellington’s tiny first innings against Northern Districts at Hamilton two weeks ago.”I blocked a few that day,” he said.”No you didn’t … you yahooed every ball,” Nevin said. “You’ve never blocked one in your life.”So it was – that there was such chemistry between these two players that they saw in a second through the others’ polite fabrications.The truth was, and they both knew it, that they blasted Wellington out of trouble today. There was no subtlety in their contribution and they tired of pretending it.”If it’s there you have to hit it,” Gillespie said. “I don’t muck around. Regardless of the situation, if it’s there and you’re an aggressive player you hit it. It messes you up if you try to do anything else.”Gillespie was certainly direct in his approach. Here was Wellington struggling to assemble anything like a competitive total, seven wickets down and backs to the wall, and he steps in and hurls deliveries from Craig Pryor and Paul Wiseman over the bowlers’ heads for six. So too Nevin, whose 165-minute innings included 17 boundaries.”As most people know I’m pretty strong on the cut and the pull and if the ball’s in the slot I’m going to hit it,” Nevin said. “I’m striking it pretty well at the moment. I got 80 down in Christchurch and I feel I’m hitting it okay so I like to have a go.”If Nevin were a more complex character he might, with politics aforethought, have made reference to his innings in the context of his recent rejection by the New Zealand selectors for a place in their one-day side to meet Pakistan. He didn’t. It would not have been his style.”I have no problem with not being selected,” he said. “I just want to get some runs. I’ve got a few 20s and 30s and maybe the odd 50 this season and that’s no reason to be selected for an international side. If I get a few more big scores, I might have something to crow about.”He had no doubt, however, that today’s innings, in its valuable context, was the best he has played in Trophy cricket. Never has he done more to turn the tide of the match.He faced a total of 137 balls in an innings which began with Wellington 51/5, straddled lunch when they were 89/5 and ended just before tea when they were 243/8. Nor has Gillespie done more in the cause of the collective good than he did today. He batted 132 minutes – his longest first-class innings and he hit nine fours and two sixes.They then offered further evidence of the merits of their co-operation when they combined to remove Horne for 14 early in Otago’s innings. They had seen Horne chase a short one in the first over so they brought up third man, tempted him another short ball and closed the well-laid trap when Horne flashed and finely edged the ball into Nevin’s upraised glove.Mark Richardson was out for 1, Craig Cumming for 12 and Otago – after being so firmly in charge of the match in the first session, found themselves in a much more even contest.

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