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4 years

Understand #lcfc were the only club to vote against pay-per-view at today's Premier League meeting. Result was apparently 19-1. A lone voice of reason ....

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Breaking: Tottenham have sacked Jose Mourinho. Full story to follow @TeleFootball #thfc

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Yes. Emiliano Martinez is having his medical at #avfc this afternoon. Deal worth around £20m agreed with Arsenal. Martinez set to start Premier League opener against Sheff Utd #afc

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Breaking: Manchester City make £100million offer for Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish

Exclusive: Manchester City make £100million offer for Jack Grealish

Pep Guardiola is keen to complete the most expensive transfer in Premier League history

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On #avfc and Emi Buendia: initial fee of around £30m agreed with Norwich. Personal terms agreed and he has undergone his medical in Argentina today. Add-ons included, plus a sell-on. Will be a record signing for Villa and record sale for Norwich #ncfc

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Jack Grealish has today been called up to the @England squad for the first time. Confirmation from the FA expected later this afternoon. Fully deserved IMO #avfc

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3 years

Worth remembering that Nuno Espírito Santo was fined £25,000 by the FA in January for saying referee Lee Mason “is not good enough” to officiate at Premier League level. "It is his job. He has to improve, he has to get better.” 👀

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Nottingham Forest considering official complaint to PGMOL over performance of referee Stuart Attwell & assistants after Man Utd defeat. Forest “very angry” after number of decisions today and feel standards are worsening #nffc

Nottingham Forest to consider official complaint against referee Stuart Attwell in Man Utd defeat

Visitors to Old Trafford lost 3-2 and were left 'angry' over performance of Attwell who sent off Joe Worrell with over 20 minutes to go

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Jack Grealish. That's the tweet, right there.

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3 years

Loads of tweets/replies taking the piss out of Derby.. this has to go beyond football rivalry, there are hundreds of people who work at the club off the field and are now very worried. Football clubs aren’t just about Saturday 3pm

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Nuno and Dean Smith can’t risk being fined for comments about referees. So I’ll say it instead: Mike Dean’s performance at Molineux today was inconsistent/awful/OTT. Refereeing standards at Prem and EFL level now at an all-time low and it needs sorting

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Classy touch from Jurgen Klopp, this. After Harry Wilson scored on his Premier League debut for #afcb at Villa, Klopp sent the winger a selfie of him clenching his fist with a message of congratulations 👏🏻 #lfc

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Classy gesture from #Arsenal , this. Arsenal have agreed to defer Derby's £1.4m instalment for Krystian Bielik until next year. #dcfc in administration and owed the figure this month but now avoid further embargo

Arsenal defer Derby's £1.4m instalment for Krystian Bielik until next year

Exclusive: Derby, now in administration, signed midfielder Bielik in 2019 and Arsenal are still owed around £8m in total for the transfer

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Excl: Newcastle have made a £40m bid for #lcfc attacking midfielder James Maddison. Offer was submitted yesterday and turned down. Newcastle considering an improved offer #nufc

Exclusive: Newcastle's £40m bid for Leicester star James Maddison rejected

Maddison, 25, has been identified as a key target for Eddie Howe ahead of the new season

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Xherdan Shaqiri set for medical at Liverpool on Friday. Deal agreed with Stoke, release clause is around £13.75m. Will be Klopp’s third summer signing #lfc #scfc

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4 years

Update on Ben Chilwell and Chelsea. £50m deal agreed with #lcfc and Chelsea have no long-term concerns with the heel injury, so the move should be completed in the next 3 days. Chilwell will sign a five-year contract #cfc

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Brendan Rodgers confirms James Justin has sustained an ACL injury. A cruel blow for one of this season’s best players for #lcfc . Had played every minute in the Premier League so far. Wish him all the best

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2 years

Dean Smith took charge of Aston Villa with the club 14th in the Championship. Promotion, a League Cup Final and Premier League stability represents an excellent, perhaps under-rated, job despite the obvious financial backing. Will be no shortage of interest

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The narrative will be that Forest are mad and the statement is OTT… but the club are raging and this has happened way too many times. Forget the corruption angle, it’s just total incompetence and obv not just for Forest this season. PGMOL have to get a handle on this

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2 years

Late drama on the Morgan Gibbs-White deal. Everton were pushing very hard to hijack it last night and matched the £25m fee paid by Forest. Ultimately, MGW wanted to play for Steve Cooper again and deal with Forest too far down the line. Forest play Everton on Saturday.. #nffc

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3 years

Wonder how the European Super League idea has gone down at Leicester: 5 years ago they showed why the Premier League can be so exciting and unpredictable by winning the title: more recently than United, Arsenal & Spurs. Not even consulted. What an absolute joke 🤯

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#nffc have rejected a club record offer from #BrentfordFC for Brennan Johnson and are adamant he will not be leaving in this window. Decision is understood to be unanimous from the Forest board, after multiple bids, and they now consider the matter closed.

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2 years

#nffc set to sign Neco Williams and Omar Richards, with both deals now agreed. Williams fee nearer to £17m in total and his signing from #lfc is regarded as a huge statement by Forest. Richards will join from Bayern for around €10m.

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3 years

Crystal Palace have agreed a fee of around £15m with #Celtic for Odsonne Edouard. Medical in the morning and ends Palace’s search for another striker #cpfc

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#nffc are set to (finally) sign #Wolves forward Morgan Gibbs-White. Fee of around £35m agreed, plus significant add-ons. Gibbs-White expected for a medical later today. Will be signing #16 for Forest this summer #wwfc

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Philippe Coutinho has agreed a pay cut of over 70% to complete his £17m move to #avfc from Barcelona. Coutinho was desperate to stay at Villa and now fits in with the club's wage structure. Big summer still ahead

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2 years

Newcastle are closing in on the signing of #BurnleyFC forward Chris Wood. New Zealand international is expected to travel up to Newcastle for a medical tonight. Set to be Eddie Howe's second January signing #nufc

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2 years

Breaking: Leicester have rejected a third bid from Chelsea for Wesley Fofana. Total offer understood to be around £70m including add-ons. Brendan Rodgers to assess whether Fofana will face Chelsea in the Premier League on Saturday (if no further bids are submitted) #lcfc #cfc

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Jack Grealish's £100m move to Man City is edging closer. Medical expected in the next 48 hours. Outside chance of him being available for Saturday's Community Shield if negotiations continue to progress

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Gary O’Neil is doing an outstanding job at Wolves. Eight home games unbeaten, five wins. After the turmoil of the summer, with the departure of Julen Lopetegui and 17 players, it’s one of the most under-rated and effective jobs of the season so far 👏🏻👏🏻

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2 years

#avfc have paid £26 million to make Sevilla defender Diego Carlos their third signing of the summer. Villa making some very impressive moves in the transfer window. The focus now will turn to moving fringe players out

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2 years

Brennan Johnson is set to sign a new contract with #nffc ahead of the new Premier League season. Terms now agreed with the club on a long-term deal for the Wales international. Huge boost for Forest as there has been interest from other PL clubs..

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5 years

Understand Harry Maguire is off to #mufc for £85m. Agreement reached this morning. World record transfer fee for a defender #lcfc

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5 years

Exclusive: Manchester United complete Harry Maguire transfer from Leicester for £85million | @SamWallaceTel + @JPercyTelegraph

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Knightmare. Wayne Rooney under further scrutiny after training ground tackle leaves #dcfc midfielder Jason Knight out for up to 12 weeks with ankle injury

Wayne Rooney injures his own player in freak training ground incident

Exclusive: Derby midfielder out for up to 12 weeks after ankle injury sustained in 50/50 challenge with manager

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4 years

On Douglas Luiz: Manchester City have no plans to trigger the buyback this summer. Highly likely that #avfc will offer him a new contract ahead of the new season

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4 years

Breaking (and very good) news: EFL have agreed that the Championship season will provisionally restart on June 20, subject to Govt guidance & safety requirements. Still work to do, but looking very promising 👍🏻

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#Wolves players, coaching staff and support staff will all have the booster jab on Monday. Will be one of the first PL clubs to be 100% fully vaccinated. No guarantees, as 2 players tested positive ahead of Chelsea game, but still v impressive #wwfc

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3 years

Ashley Young to #avfc is moving quickly and could be completed in the next 24 hours. Young will sign on a free transfer and returns to Villa a decade after leaving to join Man United (H/t @TomCollomosse )

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Jack Grealish has been brilliant in this second-half, should be a regular England starter now. He’s done it against Belgium, one of the top ranked teams in the world, and made it look easy. A unique talent (as a few of us have been saying for a while 😁) cc: @Matt_Law_DT

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2 years

#nffc have today agreed a double deal with #htafc to sign midfielder Lewis O’Brien and left-back Harry Toffolo. Fee for both players around the £10m mark before add-ons etc. O’Brien and Toffolo due for medicals on Monday

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2 years

Bruno Lage has been sacked by #Wolves . Inevitable after such a poor run, and such substantial backing over the summer #wwfc More to follow @TeleFootball

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2 years

#nffc are close to three further signings. Watford forward Emmanuel Dennis is set for a medical later today, fee of around £15m agreed. Former #cpfc midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate also expected to sign. Switzerland international Remo Freuler passed his medical last night

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5 years

That was a brilliant #England debut from Tyrone Mings. Assured in possession, calm and solid in defence, it looked like he’s been playing at this level for years. Doesn’t deserve a career highlight to be damaged by idiots. £21m bargain #avfc

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#BrentfordFC are close to signing #Celtic defender Kristoffer Ajer for around £13.5m, in what will be a record deal for the Premier League club. Fee and structure of payments agreed

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5 years

#mufc are close to signing Swansea winger Daniel James, who is having a medical today. First signing of the summer for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

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6 months

Wonderful touch from both #nffc and #avfc players today to offer their support to Caiden Storry, 16, who played the trumpet for The Last Post before kick-off. Steve Cooper is planning to invite him to Forest's training ground to meet the players. "He should be really proud."

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5 years

#lufc will complete the signing of #Wolves winger Hélder Costa next week. Costa is signing on loan for the season and said his goodbyes (for the year, anyway) at Compton on Friday #wwfc

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2 years

Wesley Fofana is a generational talent who could become one of the best defenders in the world. Leicester didn’t want to sell him, and fans are annoyed with the manner of his departure. But when the dust settles, he could prove a £70m bargain #cfc #lcfc

Why 'generational talent' Wesley Fofana could prove to be a £70m bargain for Chelsea

Fofana is following in the footsteps of his idol Didier Drogba but Frenchman has all the tools to succeed at his new club

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2 years

Dean Smith in big trouble. Five Premier League defeats in a row but it's arguably the 18 defeats in 2021 which put him in greater danger. For a club with a mantra of "continuous improvement and progress", this isn't what the owners are after.

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Has to be said, a remarkable response from Wayne Rooney & #dcfc . Since the -21 point deduction Derby have beaten Bournemouth & ended a 7-match winning run from leaders Fulham (who had scored 25 goals in that run). Will it be enough? Maybe not, but you can’t fault their spirit

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Steve Cooper is close to signing a new contract at #nffc . Cooper currently in Piraeus with owner Evangelos Marinakis to discuss transfer plans & talks over a long-term deal are progressing nicely. Huge boost for the club ahead of the Premier League season

Exclusive: Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper close to signing new contract

Cooper has flown out to Athens for talks with owner Evangelos Marinakis over Forest's transfer plans

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3 years

Brendan Rodgers will not be leaving #lcfc for Newcastle if/when Steve Bruce is sacked. No interest in the job and fully committed to Leicester

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2 years

#Wolves are moving closer to appointing Julen Lopetegui, their No. 1 target, as head coach. Negotiations are now back on and progressing well. Crucially, Lopetegui instigated the talks earlier this week #wwfc 🚨

Wolves move closer to naming No 1 target Julen Lopetegui as new manager

Wolverhampton Wanderers increasingly confident of making a breakthrough in the next few days with talks now progressing well

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#MillwallFC set to include 15 year old Zak Lovelace on the bench at Coventry tonight, with only 14 senior players - inc 2 goalkeepers - available. Lovelace is travelling to the Midlands this afternoon after the club received permission from parents & his school

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Fantastic news for #nffc and this should hopefully settle everything down. Cooper has been Forest’s best manager since Frank Clark and deserves this. Understand CEO Dane Murphy is also staying

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Nottingham Forest is delighted to announce that Head Coach Steve Cooper has signed a new contract with the Club until 2025.

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#lufc striker Patrick Bamford has been charged with “successful deception of a match official” by the FA & is facing a 2-match ban. #avfc winger Anwar El Ghazi’s “red card” for violent conduct has been rescinded. No retrospective action will be taken against Conor Hourihane

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Tottenham are close to signing Djed Spence from Middlesbrough for £15m. Spence set to be confirmed as a Spurs player befoe squad flies out to South Korea on Saturday. #thfc #Boro #UTB

Tottenham expect to complete £15m Djed Spence deal in next 48 hours

Spence, 21, has been a priority target for Antonio Conte this summer and he is set to become the club's latest addition

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3 years

Dean Smith, the #avfc first-team squad and management staff will be absent from Friday’s FA Cup tie against #lfc after a significant Covid outbreak. Villa will play their u23s & other academy players if enough of them test negative. Mark Delaney, u23s coach, to take the team

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Premier League demands 12-point deduction as maximum punishment if Everton are found guilty of breaching financial rules. Important to note that final decision will be made by an independent commission. Everton maintain they have complied with the rules

Everton face 12-point deduction as Premier League demands FFP punishment

Exclusive: Everton are accused of breaching Premier League profit and sustainability rules after recording heavy financial losses

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#Wolves are in advanced talks with #Burnley over a £20.5m deal for centre-back Nathan Collins, the Republic of Ireland international. Not done yet, but negotiations progressing well and it's close. Collins will be the first signing of the summer for Bruno Lage if all is agreed

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Can confirm Harry Maguire has told #lcfc management and players he wants to pursue a move to #mufc or #mcfc if the valuation (£80m-£90m) is met. Leicester expect him to be professional if a move doesn’t materialise before the transfer deadline

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#nffc have agreed a fee of around £9m with Real Betis for left-back/left-winger Alex Moreno. Medical in next few days, set to be 13th summer signing. Forest working on other new additions before window closes

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#Wolves are considering the future of head coach Bruno Lage. 1 win from the last 15 Premier League matches. 3 goals scored this season. Lage’s position in major doubt tonight #wwfc

Bruno Lage's Wolves future in major doubt

After being heavily backed in the transfer market, Lage has struggled to deliver the results on the pitch and the fans vented their fury

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#wba set to sign striker Daryl Dike from Orlando City. Dike will have a medical this weekend and is expected to attend the Cardiff match on Sunday. Initial loan with a view to a permanent deal. Big signing for Valérien Ismaël

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Liverpool have opened talks with Stoke over a deal for Xherdan Shaqiri, who has a release clause over £13m. Expect it to be sorted this month #lfc #scfc

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Derby relegated. Wayne Rooney and his players deserve credit for even taking it to the 43rd match, after mismanagement on a grand scale off the field. Vital now that Derby secure a takeover and get a club ready for next season in League One

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Will take a major u-turn now but Douglas Luiz is set to stay at Aston Villa. Arsenal have made two offers but the stance was always that he wasn’t for sale. Contract talks ongoing and who knows .. #avfc

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4 years

Big breaking news from the Championship... Derby have had all their charges dismissed by the independent disciplinary commission. No points deduction or fine #dcfc

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3 years

#avfc to open talks with Matty Cash over an improved new contract later this month, less than 12 months after he signed from #nffc . Has been a revelation this season for Villa, with a 59% tackle success rate

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2 years

#avfc are poised to open talks with Douglas Luiz over a new contract, following interest from Premier League clubs in this window. Luiz is valued very highly by Steven Gerrard and Villa, starting the last 9 matches, and a bid has been rejected this month.

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Brilliant from Man City, and this also means @Wolves are back in Europe for the first time since 1981. Outstanding season from Nuno Espirito Santo and his squad, fully deserved 👏🏻👏🏻 #wwfc

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#dcfc set to complete the signings of free agents Conor Hourihane, James Chester and David McGoldrick. Derby also hopeful of signing Cardiff striker James Collins, who will be allowed to leave on a free this summer

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5 years

Increasingly obvious the decision to give Ole Gunnar Solskjaer the United job was based on emotion, short-term results and a complete lack of imagination. This is Manchester United, arguably the biggest club in the world. Such a poor decision #mufc

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3 years

Perhaps expected, but Chris Hughton is set to leave #nffc after a 6th defeat in 7 league matches.

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1 year

More #nffc frustration following Brentford game last Sat - independent panel concluded Var shouldn’t have intervened on Brentford pen & Gibbs-White should have been awarded pen after Mee challenge. Var still far from perfect, and these decisions may prove pivotal at end of season

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2 years

Ismaila Sarr’s £25m move to #avfc set to fall through. Talks over the weekend included Cameron Archer & Kortney Hause joining #Watford on loan, but issues emerged with structure of the deal (including Sarr’s personal terms). At this stage, unlikely to be resurrected.

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#nffc in advanced talks with Liverpool over a £16m deal for Neco Williams. Talks have progressed today and Forest are increasingly hopeful of signing the Wales international before this weekend #lfc

Nottingham Forest take summer spending towards £60m with Neco Williams and Omar Richards deals

Williams is poised to join from Liverpool in a switch worth £17m while Richards will complete an £8.5m move from Bayern Munich

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#Wolves are set to complete the €17m signing of Flamengo midfielder Joao Gomes. Gomes is expected to fly in for his medical early next week. Big signing for Julen Lopetegui #wwfc

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Breaking: Premier League refer Everton to an independent commission over alleged breach of Profitability & Sustainability rules (FFP) for period ending with the 2021/22 season. More @TeleFootball . #efc

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#avfc are now close to finalising a deal worth up to £16m for Matty Cash, who will have a medical to become Dean Smith's first signing of the summer. A blow for #nffc , but they have got the price they wanted and deal is one of the most expensive for a full-back from the Champ

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Manager of the Season? Competition will be fierce but Steve Cooper deserves to be in the conversation. 18 months after taking charge of a club bottom of the Championship, he continues to do a magnificent job #nffc

Steve Cooper is manager of the season material

The Nottingham Forest manager unpicked Pep Guardiola's Manchester City with a squad of 29 strangers

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#dcfc have today agreed a fee with #afc for Krystian Bielik. Could be a club record deal after instalments etc. Bielik to discuss personal terms and have a medical on Thursday

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Stoke are close to signing Newcastle striker Dwight Gayle, who has completed the first part of his medical today. Permanent deal, set to be announced this week #scfc #nufc

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Nuno’s celebration at the end today was passionate, funny and - for FFS - completely understandable. Nothing wrong with a bit of raw emotion, no idea why we are trying to sanitise our game #wwfc

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Big-spending Aston Villa, right? Well, it’s rather overlooked that Unai Emery’s 5 main midfielders cost only £17.5m in fees. McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Kamara, Ramsey & Tielemans are helping power Villa towards a Champions League place. Excellent business #avfc

Aston Villa's £17.5m midfield is putting big-spending rivals to shame

While rivals have spent big to plug midfield gaps, Villa have created a formidable unit for a comparative bargain

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#nffc are close to making Taiwo Awoniyi their first major summer signing in a club record £17.5m deal. Growing confidence on Mainz centre-back Moussa Niakhatè but competition from Fulham for Liverpool defender Neco Williams

Nottingham Forest to make Taiwo Awoniyi first summer signing in £17.5m deal

Union Berlin forward spent several seasons at Liverpool without making a senior appearance and scored 15 league goals in Germany last season

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More on Buendia: Fee will get to £40m after the add-ons. No sell-on to Getafe after Norwich bought it out 2 years ago: a huge profit for a player who cost just £1.5m and again underlining the value in good recruitment/analysis/data #ncfc #avfc

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Luis Suarez has provided Steven Gerrard with a glowing reference on #avfc target Rodrigo Bentacur. Juventus midfielder & Uruguay international now #1 choice at DCM after Villa's £25m bid for Yves Bissouma rejected by Brighton. Talks to continue this week, as per @TomCollomosse

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It does sound like -21 points is a genuine possibility for Derby. -12 for administration and the expected -9 for financial breaches. Transfer embargo expected for 2 years with administration too.

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@JPercyTelegraph

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Statement imminent from Derby to announce they are appointing administrators. Situation with EFL still unresolved over possible points deduction. In short, a mess.

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#Wolves have agreed a deal worth around £15.4m (plus bonuses) for Stuttgart striker Sasa Kalajdzic. Austrian international is flying into the UK tonight and is set to officially complete his move in the next day or so #wwfc

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Final bit on Buendia: fee agreed up front was £33m and he was undoubtedly Villa’s No 1 target this summer. #avfc pushed the boat out to get him ahead of Arsenal, a player closely watched by recruitment for last few years. And yes, don’t ignore the influence of @emimartinezz1 👍🏻

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Understand Derby are now in talks with Frank Lampard over a new contract. Lampard is a target for #cfc but negotiations over an extension are underway #dcfc

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Random appreciation post: out of the 40+ signings #nffc have made since returning to the Premier League, Willy Boly has to be one of the best in terms of value for money. £2.25m from Wolves: he’s added streetwise resilience & experience of the league. Murillo obv decent too

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Nathan Collins medical today after #Wolves agreed a £20.5m deal with #Burnley . Excellent signing, a top player with huge potential

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@JPercyTelegraph

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#Wolves are in advanced talks with #Burnley over a £20.5m deal for centre-back Nathan Collins, the Republic of Ireland international. Not done yet, but negotiations progressing well and it's close. Collins will be the first signing of the summer for Bruno Lage if all is agreed

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On Oct 30 #nffc were 18th in the Championship and 19 points behind Bournemouth. It’s now only 3 points with 3 games left, and they face each other at Bournemouth next Tuesday. 13 wins & 3 draws from 18 league games in 2022 for Forest (with 11 clean sheets). All to play for

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#avfc consider loan move for Chelsea's Ross Barkley as Dean Smith targets a “No 8”. Ruben Loftus-Cheek a possible alternative option #cfc

Aston Villa consider loan move for Chelsea's Ross Barkley

Ruben Loftus-Cheek another loan option but due to Premier League rules Villa will only be able to take one Chelsea player on temporary basis

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Appointment of Unai Emery by #avfc another serious statement of intent from NSWE and underlines the determination to eventually return to European competition. Emery was Villa's No. 1 target due to having 3 Europa League titles and a Champions League semi-final on his cv

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As reported on Wednesday, Youri Tielemans is set to become Leicester’s record signing at £40m. Tielemans will have a medical this weekend. #lcfc played a blinder on this one 👏🏻

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Wayne Rooney set to be sacked by Birmingham City after defeat to Leeds, as per my old pal @Neil_Moxley . Confirmation later this morning. It’s been a disaster. #bcfc

Wayne Rooney sacked, then hits out at Birmingham City

Former England captain says he was not given enough time by Midlands club, whom he took from sixth to 20th in Championship in just 83 days

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Steve Cooper set to stay as #nffc head coach, following boardroom talks on Wednesday. Cooper expected to take charge for the Villa game on Monday night. Forest also to appoint Filippo Giraldi (ex-Watford) as new sporting director

Steve Cooper to remain as Nottingham Forest manager

Forest to bolster backroom staff with appointment of Watford's former technical director Filippo Giraldi

www.telegraph.co.uk

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