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The summer transfer window will prove important as Potter looks to put his own stamp on his squad, but the Hammers are not likely to spend as much as last summer when they splashed out more than £100million to improve the squad, backing Lopetegui significantly. That means Potter and his recruitment staff will need to be clever about their signings, and young players could prove key. One player who is being linked is Anderlecht talent Mario Stroeykens, who is attracting attention at 20 years of age. The Athletic have reported that Stroeykens is on the Hammers’ radar ahead of the summer having already racked…
Timo Werner, who first joined Tottenham on a six-month loan from RB Leipzig in January 2024 before agreeing to stay for a further season, has scored just one goal in 27 appearances so far this term Image: George Wood/Getty Images) Tottenham are set to pass on their £8.5million option to buy Timo Werner this summer. The German attacker, who first joined Tottenham on a six-month loan from RB Leipzig in January 2024 before the agreement was later extended for a further season, has scored just one goal in 27 appearances so far this term. Werner made his return to action on Wednesday…
West Ham United head coach Graham Potter is surely starting to know his players a lot better now. Graham Potter has been in charge of West Ham for just over seven weeks now, and he has already made a big impression at the London Stadium. The football implemented by the 49-year-old is like night and day from what Lopetegui served up. And now it seems like he’s getting the results to back up the improvements in the performances as well. There’s still a lot of work to be done, if the Hammers are to start challenging for the European spots again, but…
Tottenham Hotspur’s campaign has been far from smooth, with the club currently sitting in 13th place in the Premier League while already eliminated from both the Carabao Cup and FA Cup. Despite these setbacks, Spurs still have a significant opportunity to salvage their season through the Europa League, where they are set to face AZ Alkmaar in a crucial Round of 16 first-leg encounter. Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O’Hara has suggested that manager Ange Postecoglou should make a drastic tactical shift, prioritising the Europa League over the remainder of their domestic fixtures. O’Hara believes that Spurs’ chances of securing European…
Tottenham Hotspur have been through it this season, but there’s still hope that Ange Postecoglou will fashion something wonderful out of this campaign. Log in – Create an account Unlimited Access & Enable All Features! A mini-resurgence had seen Spurs win three on the trot in the Premier League before Manchester City edged the north Londoners on their home patch – thus, Aston Villa remain nine points ahead in 10th. Postecoglou will know that chances of success through the top flight are negligible, but as AZ Alkmaar await in the last 16 of the Europa League, fans can yet hold onto hope that the manager’s bold trophy-winning claims…
Following the Stormers’ 19-16 victory over the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld, here are our five takeaways from the United Rugby Championship (URC) derby. The top line Pretoria’s rugby cathedral was turned into something that more closely resembled a swimming pool on Saturday as the heavens opened, delaying kick-off by over an hour, with fans helping the ground staff sweep the water off the soaked turf. But the officials, players and fans persevered in an attempt to get arguably South Africa’s fiercest local derby, the North v South, underway on Saturday with a healthy crowd weathering the storm and those who…
Following the Bulls’ 19-16 defeat to the Stormers in the latest South African derby, here’s how we scored Jake White’s men. 15 Devon Williams: Started off pretty well considering the conditions, but came up with a few errors late on which let the Stormers claw their way back into the ascendency. 5 14 Sebastian de Klerk: Starved of any real possession in attack, much like the rest of his backline. 5 13 Stedman Gans: Did well with what he was given, but wasn’t afforded a lot of time on the ball to really put his stamp on the game. 5…
Travis Hunter angered fans on Friday as he compared his job as a two-way player to Shohei Ohtani’s. Hunter, the possible No. 1 overall pick in next month’s NFL Draft, starred at both wide receiver and cornerback in college and is listed at both positions at the NFL Combine. Ohtani, meanwhile, has achieved extremely rare MLB success as both a hitter and pitcher, blasting 54 home runs last year and also tossing a 3.01 career ERA. But when Hunter was asked in Indianapolis who had it harder as a two-way player, he backed himself. ‘Probably me, what I do in…
Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ange Postecoglou and Liverpool star Mohamed Ange Postecoglou earned chuckles in midweek as he dismissed assists as ‘the most useless statistic in football’ during a recent press conference. The Tottenham Hotspur head coach was being quizzed about the exploits of striker Dane Scarlett after the 20-year-old came off the bench to set up Dejan Kulusevski during Spurs’ 4-1 victory over Ipswich Town last weekend. “I’ve got to say the assist is the most useless statistic in world football,” he told reporters, much to their amusement. “Seriously, it could come off your backside, fall to somebody on…
So incredibly, West Ham United could deal a big blow to Arsenal in the summer transfer window. Both West Ham and Arsenal are expected to be very busy indeed in the transfer market this summer, with Graham Potter and Mikel Arteta desperate to bolster their ranks at The London Stadium and The Emirates respectively. In fact, Potter is said to be planning a huge squad overhaul this summer. And boy do we need that at West Ham. It could be suggested that the Hammers head coach actually needs to strengthen every single department of his squad. Now he needs to oversee a top tier summer window, and then we…