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With James Trafford already on his way, Sky Sports reporter Keith Downie reports Newcastle United may soon complete another deal to sign a £60m reinforcement and finally kickstart their summer.

James Trafford set to join Newcastle

While the narrative around Newcastle’s transfer window has so far been failure, that could be about to change. The Magpies are reportedly closing in on a deal to sign long-term target Trafford in what could be the start of their summer finally turning around.

After Trafford, those at St James’ Park are likely to shift their focus back towards their frontline. Although their need for a striker has been somewhat eased by the fact that Callum Wilson has put pen to paper on a new deal, they’ve still got their sights set on signing a new right-winger.

Just who that will be is the question. Already this summer, Newcastle have been rejected by Bryan Mbeumo and then by Joao Pedro, who now looks set to join Premier League rivals Chelsea. It’s rejection that they will be frustrated by given their Champions League place, but rejection that they must move on from.

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Alternatives mentioned so far includes Liverpool’s Harvey Elliott. The 22-year-old enjoyed an excellent U21 Euros tournament – winning Player of the Tournament as England won the competition for a second time under Lee Carsley. Now available for around £50m, Newcastle could make their move.

If not Elliott, however, then it could still be one long-term target who one reporter now expects to complete a move to St James’ Park this summer.

Keith Downie now expects Elanga to join Newcastle

As reported on his YouTube channel, Sky Sports’ Keith Downie now expects Newcastle’s deal to sign Elanga “will get done” this summer with the Swede happy to swap Nottingham Forest for Tyneside.

Downie said on his YouTube channel: “All the noises are that Elanga is the number one choice. Of course, that was Bryan Mbeumo, but it’s now been moved to Elanga, and I can see him being perfect for Eddie Howe’s style.

“I feel that deal will get done. Newcastle aren’t in competition with anyone and they know that they are close in terms of the fee. I think the player would be happy to move here from what I’m being told. And it’s a case of Newcastle coming up with the numbers.”

“They offered £45m last week but Forest want £60m. I feel if Newcastle split the difference and offered £52-53m, they’d get the deal done, and I’d hope there will be some movement on that in the next few days. I expect Newcastle to come back in with an improved bid if they haven’t already.”

After missing out on Mbeumo and then Pedro, signing Elanga would be seen as a huge success for Newcastle who would be turning their fortunes around on the transfer front with the addition of both the Forest star and Trafford.

After watching on as Liverpool seemingly jumped ahead of them in the race to sign Florian Wirtz, Bayern Munich have reportedly turned their focus towards payback in the form of recruiting one particular Anfield star this summer.

Liverpool submit first Wirtz offer

Whilst it was Manchester City and Bayern who found themselves battling for Wirtz’s signature, it has been Liverpool who have grabbed hold of the headlines. Sending shockwaves through Europe, the Reds have stolen a march on their rivals and are reportedly set to sign the Bayer Leverkusen star in what could quite easily be the deal of the summer in all regards.

Having already lifted the Premier League in their first season under Arne Slot, it’s clear that those at Anfield mean business after deciding against splashing the cash last summer.

Alongside Wirtz, rumours have also indicated that Liverpool are pushing to sign the midfielder’s Leverkusen teammate, Jeremie Frimpong, to replace the Real Madrid-bound Trent Alexander-Arnold and Bournemouth’s Milos Kerkez.

Liverpool’s interest in Wirtz is a fairly open secret already and Leverkusen sporting director Simon Rolfes had his say on the potential move earlier this week, telling reporters: “There is concrete interest from Liverpool, but there’s no more to say right now. Florian is our player.”

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Meanwhile, on Bayern Munich’s end, they’ve been left with no choice but to turn their attention elsewhere. And that could yet deal the Premier League champions a frustrating blow amid rumours that the German giants have set their sights on signing an Anfield star who Slot loves.

Bayern make contact to sign Cody Gakpo

According to Sky Sports’ Florian Plettenberg, Bayern Munich have now made contact to sign Cody Gakpo. Club chief Max Eberl is reportedly a fan of the Dutchman and has now added him to a list of left-wing options which already includes Rafael Leao and Brighton’s Karou Mitoma.

What’s more, given that they’re set to welcome Wirtz this summer, Liverpool and FSG are open to selling Gakpo if the right offer arrives. Whether Slot would approve such an exit is the big question. Gakpo has been a man transformed under his countryman, scoring 18 goals in all competitions and claiming a spot in Liverpool’s front three as a result.

Slot hasn’t hesitated to praise the former PSV man, either. He told reporters when asked about his winger earlier in the season: “In the second half of last season Cody scored a lot of goals so he’s been a good player for Liverpool for a long time now. He continues doing that and that’s a good thing. For me, he is a regular starter.”

Also dubbed “excellent” by former Liverpool and Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole back in October, Gakpo is not someone that Liverpool should be keen to lose in the coming months.

Chelsea’s desire to sign a new defender this summer is no secret. After conceding 57 goals across all competitions this term, it is clear another centre-back or two is needed.

Much will depend on just how much money Enzo Maresca has to spend when the transfer window opens.

A few players might be sold in order to balance the books, although if the club achieves Champions League qualification, Maresca will need to strengthen his side.

Several defenders have already been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge, although one has chosen Real Madrid instead…

Chelsea targeting defenders in the transfer window

Dean Huijsen was a name on the list of targets for Chelsea, but defender ended up joining Real Madrid, who activated the £50m release clause that was in his Bournemouth contract.

The Blues must move on, and they have already earmarked an ideal alternative to the Spaniard. Ajax defender Jorrel Hato is the latest name linked with a move to Stamford Bridge.

Hato, who is currently valued at £42m, only turned 19 in March and has the advantage of being able to play either at centre-back or on the left side of the defence.

The chance to play Champions League football with the Blues could give them a boost in their pursuit and he would make for an interesting signing.

Despite showing interest in both of these young, talented defenders, Maresca has someone in his squad who came through the Cobham academy and is valued higher than Hato and Huijsen; Levi Colwill.

Why Chelsea have struck gold on Levi Colwill

Colwill may have had to wait until the 2023/24 season to make his debut for Chelsea after a number of loan spells, but he has been a regular ever since.

Under Maresca, the Englishman has played 36 times in all competitions, even breaking through to earn three caps for England.

Metric

2023/24

2024/25

Accurate passes per 90

38.2

67

Clean sheets

4

9

Total duels won per 90

5

4.5

Tackles per 90

2.1

1.4

Possession lost per 90

10

8.9

Colwill has missed just three Premier League games this season for the Blues and, throughout the campaign, he has won 56% of his total duels per match, kept nine clean sheets and recovered 3.5 balls per game in the top flight.

Furthermore, when compared to his peers in the division, Colwill ranks impressively, notably sitting in the top 12% for passes completed (67.32) per 90, along with ranking in the top 32% for aerials won (2.32) per 90 for Chelsea.

He is still only 22, meaning he could be a cornerstone for the club over the next few years. Indeed, his performances have even seen his value rise exponentially with some reports noting last year that the club now value him at a whopping £100m.

This means he is worth even more than both Hato and Huijsen put together, signifying just how impressive a player Maresca has on his hands.

His performances were praised during a loan spell with Brighton and Hove Albion during the 2022/23 campaign, with talent scout Jacek Kulig claiming he was a “world-class talent”.

If he continues on this upwards trajectory, Colwill could become one of the best players for the Blues over the coming years, and they have certainly struck gold on him.

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A catch for the agesIt went up and there was sky. It came down, and there was SKY again. Suryakumar Yadav on the long-off boundary in the 20th over, with 15 runs to defend, pulled off a catch that will be talked about like Kapil Dev’s from 1983.Related

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It was a full toss from Hardik Pandya. A wide full toss. Perhaps a mangling of a wide yorker. David Miller connected more off the bottom of the bat, but still it flew. Suryakumar was haring to his left. At full tilt. He was stretching. He shouldn’t have had any balance out there going as fast as he was, but he did. Somehow. The ball came down just in front of him and he caught it. But he wasn’t done. Because he was so close to the rope. Barely inches from it. So he tossed the ball up, high enough that he could step over the boundary, collect himself, step back in, and keep control of the ball all the way through. Catches win matches. This one won a World Cup.Genius at playIt was an old ball. It looked scruffy. It shouldn’t be doing these things for a fast bowler. But Jasprit Bumrah is not just a fast bowler. He is miracle made flesh. With South Africa needing 21 from 15 balls, he went wide of the crease. He landed it outside off. It screamed in between bat and pad and brought down Marco Jansen’s castle with him looking utterly bewildered. This was movement off the pitch. The seam pointing in. One side of the ball ragged. The other slightly less so. Reverse? The things Bumrah does escapes the realm of sense and meaning. No one can be that good when this much is on the line.Klaasen goes boomOne of these days, Heinrich Klaasen is going to hit a cricket ball so hard it breaks in two. He hit five sixes during a hair-raising knock. One of them, with the wind, just flew flat and hard over extra cover. Another went into the wind, and still had enough on it to clatter on to the roof. The power he has is unbelievable. Klaasen hit 70% (seven of ten) of South Africa’s boundaries while he was at the crease and four of them in a single over against a previously unhittable Axar Patel. It was remarkable and he was doing it with such ease. In a World Cup final. In a South Africa shirt. For a little while, it really did feel like the curse was going to be broken.Suryakumar Yadav pulled off a catch that will be talked about like Kapil Dev’s from 1983•ICC/Getty ImagesThe trap that wasn’t, but wasQuinton de Kock hitting over square leg is inevitable. And that swing of his bat. Starts up high. Comes down smooth. Fully uninhibited. In the old days, Sanath Jayasuriya used to be the master of this shot. And he used to play it the same way. On instinct. So when de Kock had the opportunity to unleash it, in the 13th over of the game, he took it and found six. India immediately stationed a man there. It wasn’t meant to be a trap, because it was right there in plain view, but it worked like one. Arshdeep Singh bowled the same ball. De Kock played the same shot. Only Kuldeep Yadav was there to catch it.Kohli pulls up the anchorVirat Kohli was playing a strange innings. He was 14 off five. Then he was 36 off 43. He’d hit only four boundaries in 48 deliveries. He and India were working on the theory that a par score would be enough. This was a final. That does things to people. So a man who had embraced a more attacking game went back to find that old trusty anchor and dropped it all the way down. Then the 18th over came along. A six and a four off Kagiso Rabada. The same dose to Jansen. India got 33 runs in two overs. Kohli finished with 26 off his last 11 balls. Later that night, he was crowned champion.

A display of the like rarely seen in Test cricket reinforced the new era of the England team

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Sometimes seeing is believing. England have not so much talked about positive cricket over the last fortnight, as preached it. And sure, they played some enterprising stuff in victory last week at Lord’s, followed up by scoring 500-plus at a run rate of more than four per over in Nottingham. But to witness Jonny Bairstow embark on what felt like an almost evangelical mission during the evening session of the fifth day, provided palpable, almost visceral proof of the extent to which Ben Stokes and his team have bought into the Brendon McCullum credo.There is no zealot like a convert, and in the dressing room at tea they could see that Bairstow was ‘on’. The “Jonny eyes” were focused, initially on a cheese and ham toastie and then on the job at hand. Bairstow is not so much a fiery character as pile of kindling looking for a match, but what he was about to do was marked by a level of control. With the cool, calm intensity of Jules Winfield wearing a Shrey lid, he walked out to visit great vengeance and furious anger on New Zealand’s depleted attack.Trent Bridge was abuzz with anticipation at tea. The queue for ice cream was lengthy, the smell of chips and sunscreen wafting across the ground. A broad mix of folk had come through the gates, thrown open on Tuesday with no charge by Nottinghamshire, from the couple posing for a picture with their baby – memorable first day at the cricket, this – to the students with hipster moustaches, groups of young women, those in sunhats and replica shirts.Related

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As Bairstow and Stokes walked back out to the middle, England’s requirement was 160 in 38 overs. “We needed four an over and that has been the rate throughout the game,” Bairstow said afterwards, but in the moment that equation does not seem so simple. One more wicket falling brings in Ben Foakes, who helped shepherd a fourth-innings chase a week ago at Lord’s, but is not known as a dasher. Below him a tail that may not delay New Zealand long.Even considering the run-glut, this is a fourth-innings chase on the final day. If the pitch won’t offer much assistance (and it doesn’t), then surely New Zealand can push the field back, hide the ball out wide, make scoring difficult? In the event, they chose to attack, too – the reigning World Test Champions need the points if they are going to get close to defending their title. Matt Henry was the bowler tasked with finding the breakthrough. With men back on the rope, the plan is pretty clear.As Bairstow twice swats pulls in to the fence in the first over back, bringing up his fifty from 51 balls, a girl waiting to take her seat in the William Clarke Stand gets out her phone and starts to do the calculation for her friends. Stokes guides another boundary to third, and 13 have come off the over. Already the rate has dropped below four. Over on the opposite side of the ground, a chorus has begun: “Shoes off if you love Ben Stokes!” Finding disciples at a Test in England is the easiest thing in the world at this point in the late afternoon.People are hurrying to get take their places as Trent Boult resumes from the other end. Boult has arguably been the performer of the match to this point, with seven wickets (including Joe Root twice) on a surface that yielded only to the best of bowlers, not to mention 33 impudently pickpocketed runs from No. 11.Boult hares in and pitches the ball up outside off. Bairstow’s weight shifts slightly back and then on to the front foot, arms swinging with ultraviolent intent. Six dumped into the members at long-off.Jonny Bairstow drives through the covers•Getty ImagesIn the next over, Henry is fetched twice more into the stands. Suddenly this contest has become bar-room brawl – or rather, it has become a one-day blitz, such as England fans are used to seeing from Bairstow. The short boundary on the Bridgeford Road side is being peppered, just as it was when he made 139 off 92 during England’s world-record 481 for 6 against Australia in 2018.Here, Bairstow and Stokes have added 43 from the first three overs after tea. Boult now goes short only to be ransacked high into the Fox Road Stand, and again two balls later. It is now 59 runs in four overs, the target plummeting towards double-figures. Bairstow, meanwhile, is closing in on an England record that has stood for 120 years. A brace of fours takes him to within sight of an extraordinary hundred; but, having got to 99, Bairstow defends his 75th ball and then finds backward point with his 76th, to leave Gilbert Jessop’s 1902 mark untouched.No matter. With Tim Southee’s next delivery squeezed past the dive of point, Bairstow can raise his arms aloft for the first time in a home Test since 2016. His century is the second-fastest by an Englishman in Tests, relegating the 85-ball effort by Stokes against New Zealand – McCullum’s New Zealand – at Lord’s in 2015. Already there is a sense that the Trent Bridge Test could be as epochal as that match, seen as lifting the mood of the English game after yet another World Cup debacle.Stokes is limping by now, having aggravated an old cartilage issue in his knee, and England’s requirement is still 80 runs. But the game is basically up. Bairstow mauls the offspin of Michael Bracewell into the leg side for 6-6-4; Stokes rallies to drill Southee straight back towards the pavilion, bringing up a 55-ball fifty almost in passing. Another Stokes six off Bracewell almost lands in the top tier at the Radcliffe Road End, the ball pinging back off the brickwork and on to the outfield. “Don’t take me home!” roars the crowd, and you can understand why.England need 35 – make that 31 – actually, 27 – before Bairstow finally falls to Boult, getting a fist bump from the bowler as he makes for the dressing room. The fires have banked, the “Jonny eyes” have done the business. Bairstow and Stokes belted an eye-popping 133 off 68 balls as the final passage of this rollicking Test, which had promised a potentially fraught tussle for supremacy, but became a gallop in the evening sunshine.There are 22 overs left to be bowled when Stokes cracks the winning runs. In England’s Test history, they have only chased a target of 277 or more on 12 occasions – two have come in the last week. Fittingly, given the McCullum influences on England’s limited-overs teams, this one took exactly 50 overs. Maybe Test cricket didn’t need a saviour, but that won’t stop people signing up for the cause.

And would he benefit from having a more defined role in the Super Kings line-up?

Nagraj Gollapudi09-Oct-2020Among several questions currently riddling the Chennai Super Kings, a significant one concerns Kedar Jadhav. What exactly is he contributing to the team? The plain and popular answer would be: nothing really.Nothing really, since those goosebumps-inducing moments in the IPL opener in 2018 against the Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium, when Jadhav limped back on one leg, having hurt his left hamstring earlier in the innings, to hit a six and a four off the last two balls to hand his new franchise a stunning win.It was for such acts of courage and unusual talent that the Super Kings, usually conservative at IPL auctions, paid INR 7.8 crore (USD 1.2 million approx) in 2018 to sign Jadhav, making him the most expensive auction buy for the franchise.Jadhav was the Super Kings’ third-most-expensive player behind captain MS Dhoni and vice-captain Suresh Raina. But he hasn’t set the franchise alight. In 21 matches for the Super Kings, Jadhav has faced 250 balls and scored 244 runs at a strike rate of 97.60.Jadhav is a notoriously slow starter: his first-10-balls strike rate in the IPL for the Super Kings is just 93.5, and he hits a boundary every 7.3 deliveries. Of all his runs for the franchise, 130 – from 139 balls – have come in this stage of his innings.On Wednesday, Jadhav walked in in the finisher role with the Super Kings needing 39 from 21 balls. The Super Kings sent Jadhav in ahead of Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo because – their head coach Stephen Fleming later said – they felt he could dominate Sunil Narine.The Super Kings ended up losing by 10 runs. Jadhav finished with 7 off 12 balls, having failed to score off eight of them.Kedar Jadhav’s strike rate has dipped perceptibly since moving to the Chennai Super Kings•ESPNcricinfo LtdIn his first outing of this IPL season, against the Rajasthan Royals, Jadhav batted at No. 6, behind Sam Curran and his Maharashtra team-mate Ruturaj Gaikwad, who was making his IPL debut. Curran smashed two sixes in five balls, before both he and Gaikwad were stumped off successive balls against Rahul Tewatia.When Jadhav joined Faf du Plessis, also fresh at the crease, the Super Kings needed a further 140 runs from the final 11 overs with six wickets in hand.Jadhav’s innings was lit up by three successive fours off the legspinner Shreyas Gopal’s first three deliveries, but was cut short soon after by top-edged swish against a slower ball from Tom Curran. Jadhav would have been disappointed after scoring 22 runs off 16 balls on the small ground in Sharjah where Super Kings lost by 16 runs.In the next match against the Delhi Capitals, Jadhav walked in at No. 5 in another chase, with Super Kings needing 132 from 65 balls. Despite being at the wicket for six-and-a-half overs, however, Jadhav only managed 26 from 21 balls, with three fours.These examples only highlight Jadhav’s inability to accelerate, impose himself on the bowlers, build quick partnerships, and take charge of a chase. With the pre-season exit of Suresh Raina, there has been extra pressure on Jadhav and Ambati Rayudu to deliver as the two most experienced Indian middle-order batsmen in the squad behind MS Dhoni. Jadhav hasn’t delivered, and his struggles have become a story.What is Jadhav’s role?Before the 2019 season, Fleming put his arm around Jadhav, suggesting he would ease the burden on Dhoni by playing the No. 4 role. In 2018 Dhoni had his best IPL with the bat, batting mostly at No. 4 in the absence of Jadhav who was ruled out with the hamstring injury he picked up in the season-opener in Mumbai.MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav share a laugh•BCCIThis season, Jadhav has batted just once at No. 4 – in the chase against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The Super Kings needed 129 runs from 14 overs when he came in. He was caught in the covers having made 3 off 10.In his press conference after the defeat, Fleming was asked about the thought process behind sending Kedar Jadhav ahead of Dhoni. Fleming raised an eyebrow, probably at being asked about Dhoni’s batting position. Fleming checked whether that was the question. When it was repeated, he said: “Really? It’s a question?”According to Fleming, Jadhav is the Super Kings’ No. 4 with Dhoni being the “middle to back-end” player. “Kedar Jadhav is our No. 4. He plays dual roles, where [if] we get off to a good start he might move down to let Dhoni up. But when you are losing early wickets then your No. 4 batsman goes up.”Fleming, though, has acknowledged that the pressure is on his top-4 including Jadhav. He conceded that form can be brittle in the early phase of the IPL, but at the same time he expected a “substantial contribution” from Jadhav, whom he believes can “light the fuse at any stage” in the IPL.Would giving Jadhav a firm role at No. 4 regardless of the situation offer him a better chance to succeed? The likes of Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Nitish Rana, Rishabh Pant and Priyam Garg have been given specific roles in the middle order by their respective franchises, and it seems to have worked in their case.With a lower order that remains weak and inconsistent despite the presence of Dhoni, the Super Kings need Jadhav to play a more dominant role. Ultimately the responsibility lies with him. He forced his way into India’s ODI team with his unorthodox strokeplay, his street-smartness and the side-arm slow bowling with which he helped India win the Asia Cup final in 2018. In ODIs, Jadhav has played some spectacular support acts to Virat Kohli and sparkled on several occasions with Dhoni at the other end.But Dhoni isn’t the Dhoni of old now, and is perhaps better suited to playing the support role. There’s a vacuum where the Super Kings need a dominant middle-order force. Jadhav needs to take charge and show he can be that player.

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