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Scottish Sun
11 hours ago
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- Scottish Sun
Chelsea on verge of £55.5m Jamie Gittens transfer with deal for Dortmund star expected next week
Meanwhile, Tosin Adarabioyo has a message for Cole Palmer GITT IN THERE Chelsea on verge of £55.5m Jamie Gittens transfer with deal for Dortmund star expected next week Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) CHELSEA are close to landing Jamie Gittens for £55.5million from Borussia Dortmund. Both clubs, who are at the Club World Cup in the United States, have been locked in talks in the last 48 hours and should reach an agreement next week. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Borussia Dortmund ace Jamie Gittens is on the verge of joining Chelsea Credit: Alamy Gittens, 20, is ready to end his four-year stint in Germany and return to the club where he was once part of the youth set-up. Chelsea were hoping to secure the England Under-21 international for £50m with add-ons but the deal will cost more. Gittens has struggled with illness and hardly played in the USA. The Blues have already spent £1.4billion to assemble their current squad, but club transfer chiefs are desperate to bring their former youth star back home. READ MORE CHELSEA NEWS TRAGIC END Ex-Chelsea star offers to help family of tourist who fell into volcano crater Reports suggest they have tabled a seven-year offer to tempt him into a Stamford Bridge return, despite a £42million bid being rejected earlier this month. Gittens - who changed his surname from Bynoe-Gittens on the advice of his father - enjoyed a breakout season with Dortmund. Across 48 games in all competitions before the Club World Cup, 34 of which he started, the England youth star netted 12 goals and added five assists. In October, at 20 years and 75 days old, Gittens became the youngest English player to score against Real Madrid in the Champions League. 4 Join SUN CLUB for the Chelsea Files every Tuesday plus in-depth coverage and exclusives from Stamford Bridge Gittens joins new Dortmund team-mate Jobe Bellingham and Chelsea's Liam Delap in a list full of players who couldn't join England's Under-21s at the Euros this summer. Despite several high profile absences, the young Three Lions have made the Euros final yet again, where they hope to retain their title when they face off against Germany on Saturday night. 15 year old Jamie Bynoe-Gittens shows why he is such a special player at Man City Meanwhile, Blues defender Tosin Adarabioyo insists Cole Palmer CAN handle the hype of being the club's 'superstar'. The pair were pals at Manchester City, even though Tosin, 27, is four years older. Fifa have used the face of Palmer on every poster plugging Blues' games at the Club World Cup, including Saturday's last- 16 clash with Benfica. Tosin said: 'I banter him sometimes and tell him he's a little superstar. But he handles it very well and he knows his focus is on football.' 4 Gittens won the Under-19 European Championships with England 4 TRANSFER NEWS LIVE - KEEP UP WITH ALL THE LATEST FROM A BUSY SUMMER WINDOW
Metro
14 hours ago
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- Metro
Dortmund interested in £35m Chelsea star as Jamie Gittens transfer gets closer
Chelsea are reportedly closing in on signing Jamie Gittens, while Borussia Dortmund want to buy a £35million-rated Stamford Bridge star. It is no secret that Enzo Maresca wants to bring in a new left-winger this summer with Gittens emerging as the top target. They tried to sign the 20-year-old Englishman before the Club World Cup but while personal terms have been agreed, Dortmund rejected Chelsea's £42m bid. Both club and player are determined to make the move a reality and positive talks have been held between the two sides, with Sky Sports reporting that a deal is getting closer and the transfer 'very likely'. However, any business won't take place until the conclusion of the Club World Cup with both the Blues and Dortmund through to the round-of-16. Wake up to find news on your club in your inbox every morning with Metro's Football Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your team in the link we'll send you so we can get football news tailored to you. But it has also been reported that the Bundesliga giants have stepped up their interest in Chelsea's highly-rated teenage defender Josh Acheampong. The Independent report Inter Milan, Newcastle United and Tottenham are also eyeing up the 19-year-old who made his full Premier League debut in January. Acheampong made 12 appearances across all competitions last season, helping his boyhood club win the Conference League, with Maresca singling him out for praise on numerous occasions. Capable of playing at centre-back or right-back, he started Chelsea's latest Club World Cup game – a 3-0 win over ES Tunis on Wednesday. It is said Acheampong wants more first-team opportunities but it remains to be seen whether or not the Blues will let him leave having already rejected several loan offers. But the report adds that Chelsea could be willing to let their promising star go for £35m and could be happy to do business with Dortmund if all goes smoothly with the Gittens transfer. More Trending For now, Acheampong is hoping to feature when Chelsea take on Benfica on Saturday night in Charlotte, saying: 'It's important the manager has faith in me. It means I get to play – and I'm very happy to have played [against ES Tunis]. 'Benfica are a really big club, but every game in this competition is hard. So while we need to focus on the opponent, the most important thing is that we focus on ourselves. 'It [the Club World Cup] is really exciting. We're into the knockouts now and every single game is important. We just have to keep winning.' For more stories like this, check our sport page. Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. MORE: Tottenham told to consider £40m Liverpool star as Eberechi Eze transfer alternative MORE: Arsenal consider surprise bid for £32m Chelsea star MORE: Man Utd sent latest transfer message by Real Betis over 'complex' Antony deal
The Guardian
17 hours ago
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- The Guardian
The weird, wonderful and woeful from a stormy Club World Cup
Have you ever had that dream where you're playing for your favourite team, thrown on in a desperate bid to find a goal? And the game is against a side you've never heard of, part of some arcane tournament that's suddenly of vital importance? Oh, and it's being played in your parents' back garden? Just us? Well, that's the closest parallel we could think up for Copa Gianni, where the group stages have served up the weird, wonderful and woeful in equal measure. If you haven't been paying attention, here are some 'highlights' so far. Goals, goals, goals: Let's be honest, if you're a neutral tuning in on a weekday afternoon, or in the dead of night, you want to see goals – and Copa Gianni has certainly delivered. There have been 148 in 48 games, a reliable ratio of more than three per game. We've seen seven-goal shootouts (Mamelodi 3-4 Dortmund, Juventus 2-5 Manchester City), an eight-goal epic (Porto 4-4 Al Ahly) and, er, a 10-goal classic (Bayern Munich 10-0 Auckland City). There's been quality to match the quantity too, with highlights from Kenan Yildiz, Miguel Merentiel, Mamelodi's Lucas Ribeiro channeling 80s Brazil and of course, Lionel Messi. Attacking flair, dodgy playing surfaces and a relaxed attitude to defending have given the tournament a fun, knockabout pre-season feel that will please casual fans, and wound Gianni Infantino to his core. Everyone's a winner! Brilliant Brazil: The notion that Copa Gianni and its many predecessors don't really matter that much is a profoundly European point of view. South American sides have generally quite fancied the idea of being the world's best team, even if in recent times it's been the Euro giants picking up the trophy each year with a collective shrug. Might that change in the new, expanded format? Brazil's quartet of sides have been magnificent: all four are into the last 16, with one defeat in 12 games and just nine goals conceded collectively, rebuffing a few stereotypes about shapeless 'samba football' on the way. Crowd confusion: South American teams have brought along thousands of noisy, passionate fans that have genuinely saved things from becoming a total embarrassment. There have been some big attendances – 60,927 people can tell their grandkids they saw Al Ahly 0-0 Inter Miami – but also some near-empty grounds. There were just 3,412 fans at Camping World Stadium in Orlando to see Mamelodi Sundowns defeat Ulsan HD, a sentence which sums up why CG '25 is simply not an elite-level tournament, no matter how much Infantino waves his gold key around. Extreme weather: The biggest crowd so far – 80,619 – was at the Rose Bowl to see PSG thump Atlético Madrid 4-0. The problem was that temperatures soared to 31C for a 12pm kick-off, with supporters claiming they were told to dispose of full water bottles before entering the venue. 'There was no way to simply buy water,' sweated one, while another declared that attending was 'the worst mistake'. The heat almost drove Diego Simeone to go full Jackie Charlton on the touchline, and it wasn't just in Pasadena. Dortmund subs retreated to the dressing room to watch the end of their game, while the threat of storms caused five games to be delayed. The underdogs: Auckland City earned their place in the draw by winning Oceania's Big Cup, but they are not even the best team in their home city. Auckland FC recently topped Australia's flamin' A-League table, but are ineligible for either AFC or OFC competitions. Instead, New Zealand's finest amateur side jetted off to the USA USA USA – those who could get the time off work, anyway – and lost 10-0 to Bayern and 6-0 to Benfica. They restored pride with a very creditable 1-1 draw against Boca Juniors, but reports suggest the team want head coach and dentist Paul Posa to be replaced – in part because he had never heard of Benfica's World Cup-winning defender, Nicolás Otamendi. Other underdogs made a better impression: South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns were a goal from going through, Mexico's Monterrey – led by Sergio Ramos – sent River Plate home, and plucky Saudi outfit Al-Hilal showed up Real Madrid. At Copa Gianni, dreams really do come true. It helped playing with my brothers all the time … I went to Arsenal and trained at the boys' academy. It took a few sessions because at first they were like: 'There's a girl with us.' But when they got to realise what I could do, they accepted me' – England's Lauren James gets her chat on with Donald McRae in this in-depth interview. Mike Todd's pedantry about Newky Brown (yesterday's Football Daily letters) has piqued my curiosity. Can anyone at Football Daily Towers confirm if Purple Tin also comes in a bottle? – Weird Unc Frankie Dodds. It was a bit sad to be reminded of how Lee Carsley had been overlooked for the England manager gig (yesterday's Football Daily). There is another successful, highly experienced and obviously well-qualified candidate that most commentators never seem to mention as worthy of consideration. Someone who clearly is a born leader, is totally media savvy, and has a successful international track record including the first trophy for a senior England team since 1966. Sarina Wiegman. I wonder why? – Steve Malone. It would be interesting if, instead of meaningless friendlies, youth sides could play their senior counterparts for the right to represent England at a given tournament. If Carsley's unit beat Thomas Tuchel's, then the winning manager gets to take his squad to a tournament – Mark Pearson. Re: yesterday's Quotes of the Day. Clearly Emiliano Viviano has never visited Britain' – Gareth Rogers. Please send your letters to Today's winner of our letter o' the day competition is … Mark Pearson, who gets some Football Weekly merch. We'll be in touch. Terms and conditions for our competitions, when we run them, can be viewed here. It's just who he is, er, buddy? Ange Postecoglou's job search may take him to LAFC, last seen being largely useless at Copa Gianni. Big Ange to make the biggest Aussie splash in Tinseltown since Mel Gibson started wielding his lethal weaponry or Hugh Jackman put on his X-Men suit? Should he be a Beverly Hills flop in his first season, the club's owners – the usual mix of billionaires, venture capitalists and Will Ferrell – can be certain the second will deliver silverware. The current manager, Steve Cherundolo, is doing one at the end of the MLS season, so the door is open. Other Ange options? The Saudi Pro League at Asian Big Cup winners, Al-Ahli – or replacing Steve Clarke in the Scotland job. Ruud van Nistelrooy has left his job as Leicester's manager after a miserable 27-game spell which brought relegation from the Premier League. Sean Dyche is among the frontrunners to replace him, though he could well be living it up at Glastonbury this weekend. Robbie Savage is poised to leave Macclesfield FC – where he is part-owner – to become Forest Green Rovers' new manager. Savage, who said it 'would take an awful lot for me to leave' back in March, will have to wait to seal the deal – because Forest Green owner Dale Vince is also at Worthy Farm. Keith Andrews will replace Thomas Frank as Brentford manager, with his appointment expected to be announced in the coming days. Andrews will be just the third Republic of Ireland-born Premier League manager, following in the footsteps of Joe Kinnear and Roy Keane, who probably isn't at Glasto. Arsenal are chasing defensive reinforcements and could move for Valencia centre-back Cristhian Mosquera. Nottingham Forest's hopes of signing Juve duo Timothy Weah and Samuel Mbangula for just under £20m are over, after the pair rejected the move. Bernardo Silva is the first captain directly appointed by Pep Guardiola in his coaching career, and he described slipping on the Manchester City armband as 'one of the greatest moments' in his footballing life. And Silva helped City thrash Juve 5-2 to top Group G and set up a last-16 clash with Al-Hilal at Copa Gianni, while the Italians will face Real Madrid next. Our Euro 2025 team guides continue, with Denmark facing a tough task to get out of a group featuring a resurgent Germany (and Sweden). And in case you missed it, here's our brilliant interactive guide to all 368 players at the tournament, too. Enzo Fernández has been Chelsea's best player at Copa Gianni and is starting to repay his hefty price tag, writes Jacob Steinberg. Three Rio de Janeiro clubs and São Paolo's Palmeiras have all made it to Copa Gianni's last 16 – and Brazil's run may not stop there, write Tom Sanderson and Josué Seixas. Africa's quartet brought plenty of entertainment, but none advanced from the group stages and reform is needed, reports Paul MacInnes. Could Eberechi Eze head north of the river? Arsenal and Tottenham are both grabbing at his sleeve, according to Friday's Rumour Mill. And finally, here are 10 star players from the European Under-21s to spice up your next Football Manager 25 26 save. The date of 27 June is a notable one in English football history: back in 2010, Frank Lampard's goal did not stand against Germany as England crashed out of the World Cup last 16, losing 4-1. Six years later, at the same stage of Euro 2016, it was England 1-2 Iceland. Ah, memories.
Yahoo
18 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Bayern with successive home games v Leverkusen and Dortmund
Bayern Munich players huddle during a training session at the ESPN Sports Complex ahead Sunday's FIFA Club World Cup round of 16 soccer match against CR Flamengo. Sven Hoppe/dpa Champions Bayern Munich have the chance to make an early Bundesliga season statement when they play runners-up Bayer Leverkusen and Borussia Dortmund in back-to-back home games in autumn. The German Football League (DFL) published the full schedule on Friday, the after announcing that Bayern would start the season on August 22 against RB Leipzig. Advertisement Leverkusen start the post-Xabi Alonso and Florian Wirtz era against Hoffenheim, and Dortmund are at St Pauli. Bayern will play Dortmund on matchday seven October 17-19 after an international break, and then host Leverkusen on matchday nine two weeks later. The reverse fixtures are in spring. Bayern end the season at home against promoted Cologne on May 16, after finishing the past two campaigns in Hoffenheim. Dortmund also finish away, at Werder Bremen, while Leverkusen's last game is at home against SV Hamburg. Promoted Cologne and SV Hamburg both start away, at Mainz and Borussia Mönchengladbach, respectively. Advertisement Hamburg then have a home derby against St Pauli before travelling to Munich on matchday three, which also features Leverkusen v third-place finishers Eintracht Frankfurt. The first Gladbach v Cologne derby is on matchday 10 in early November. The 15th matchday ends this year's action, with Bayern at Heidenheim, and the champions restart after a short two-week winter break against Wolfsburg on January 9-11. Dortmund play Frankfurt the same weekend. Other matchday one fixtures meanwhile are Freiburg v Augsburg, Union Berlin v Stuttgart, Heidenheim v Wolfsburg and Frankfurt v Bremen.
Yahoo
19 hours ago
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- Yahoo
🚨 Bundesliga reveal fixtures for 2025/26 season
The Bundesliga's schedule for next season has been revealed. Reigning champions Bayern Munich are set to officially kick things off in the German top flight when they host RB Leipzig on 22 August. Vincent Kompany's side will do battle with arch-rivals Borussia Dortmund for the first time next term at the Allianz Arena on the weekend of 17 October. Opening day Final day Further announcements on definitive match dates will be made by the German Football Federation on the week commencing 7 July. 📸 Maja Hitij - 2025 Getty Images
