CHRIS WHEELER: United's £163million spend on midfielders Carlos Baleba, Andrey Santos, Youri Tielemans and teenage winger Tynan Thompson was less their biggest rivals.
After a difficult year at Chelsea the striker hopes to get his career back on track at the City Ground“You can imagine it: he’s a centre-back, I’m a striker,” says Liam Delap, Nottingham Forest’s £45m club-record signing, smiling as he sets the scene. He is reliving taking on his younger brother, Finn, in the garden. These days, they are each other’s biggest supporters – Liam attended Finn’s victory for third-tier Burton on Wednesday – but as kids there was a friendly rivalry. The elder brother says: “There were probably a lot of tears, a lot of fights … whether it was playing Monopoly or football, it always ended in either the table being flipped or kicking the shit out of each other.”It is a competitive streak that has stuck and Delap is determined to make his presence felt at Forest, for whom he could make his full debut against Tottenham on Saturday. It has been a testing 16 months; he left Chelsea a season into a six-year contract and after one goal in 28 top-flight appearances, a dozen of those starts. “It is never a linear path straight to the top,” Delap says, his right hand taking flight in the City Ground boardroom, the 1979 and 1980 European Cups shimmering behind him. “I just want to get my head down, focus and keep improving because I’m still so young and I have so much to learn. I even at times probably think I’ve been in football a lot longer than I have. I’ve still, hopefully, got a long career ahead. Continue reading...
Celtic can expect a powerful box to box midfielder in new signing Joel van den Berg. The 19-year-old put pen to paper on a four-year deal from Dutch side PSV Eindhoven and watched on as his new club beat Aberdeen 3-0 in the Scottish Premiership. Van den Berg joins Mika Baur and Oliver Sorensen as summer arrivals to Celtic's midfield, but what can fans expect from their latest addition?
Manchester United reportedly had a genuine interest in Arsenal star Myles Lewis-Skelly this summer, though he was too expensive. It seems the Red Devils explored a number of options in midfield in the last few months, with their three new signings in that position ending up as Youri Tielemans, Andrey Santos, and Carlos Baleba. Lewis-Skelly […] The post Details emerge on Man United’s interest in ambitious £70m Arsenal transfer raid appeared first on CaughtOffside.
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