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Flocking to Twitter, many West Ham fans have erupted over an injury update from ExWHUemployee regarding Aaron Cresswell, with many shocked at the severity of the injury he has sustained.

The 32-year-old has proven to be a critical component of David Moyes’ side this season, having started all 13 games in which he has appeared. However, in the Hammers’ 2-1 loss to Manchester City a month ago, the left-back was substituted on the hour mark after slamming his back into the goalpost.

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It has not been made clear just how severe the injury is, with Moyes originally claiming that Cresswell was a doubt for the Irons’ following game, refusing to provide a return date. West Ham have won just one of the seven matches they have played in all competitions since that fateful afternoon at the Etihad Stadium.

Hammers fans react to Cresswell’s injury news

ExWHUemployee took to Twitter to provide fans with an injury update on the defender. He claimed that the player has chipped a bone in his back which is causing him a lot of pain, and that no recovery date has been given by either Cresswell himself or the club.

These Irons fans took to the replies on that tweet to provide the 32-year-old with their sympathies, as many were left gutted by the “horrific” news on the injury.

It leaves Arthur Masuaku as the squad’s only recognised left-back and comes at a time when some other defenders are also sidelined.

“Ouchie !!! Poor Cress”

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“Wow, didn’t expect it to be that bad.”

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“that sounds pretty horrific”

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“Hope he recovers well. Just sums up our luck. Best 4 defenders we’ve had in years all out for months at some point this year. Cress, Zouma, Ogbonna and Vlad”

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“Yikes, that’s Cresswell out for the season then”

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“This is such a blow. A new LB is massively needed, Masuaku can’t be our LB in a flat back four”

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Steven Gerrard will be looking forward to and feeling confident ahead of Aston Villa’s fixture against Crystal Palace this weekend, thanks to a fantastic win in his debut game as the new manager against Brighton.

The side stole the show in the final ten minutes of the game with both Ollie Watkins and Tyrone Mings finding the back of the net in the last moments of the game to secure a 2-0 victory and the Villans first three points in five games.

Crystal Palace away will be no easy challenge for Gerrard’s side as he’s set to come up against former playing rival, Patrick Vieira.

The pair were competing in the league they now manage in, almost two decades ago as players for their respective clubs, Liverpool and Arsenal, so it will be an interesting battle of two Premier League legends turned football managers, which we imagine will be a competitive spectacle in the Selhurst Park dugout.

Gerrard will be buzzing with a fantastic injury boost as Douglas Luiz is back in training and available for the clash with the Eagles this weekend.

The popular Brazilian took to Twitter on Tuesday to confirm that he was back to full fitness.

He posted a picture of himself training and wrote; “It’s so good to be back.”

The midfielder was sidelined with a hamstring injury, which meant he missed the last three games for Villa, and unable to make his mark upon Gerrard’s arrival a fortnight ago.

That said, it represents a wonderful early boost for the Liverpudlian as Luiz had started every game this season bar one before the injury blow, demonstrating his importance to the team. As a result, he will be expected to make an appearance in the starting lineup on Saturday, should the manager feel that he is ready to play.

So far this term, he ranks as Villa’s highest-graded player in the whole team according to WhoScored, so his return will be huge.

Another player that has made his return from injury this week is Egyptian winger, Trezeguet, who was also spotted in training sessions in the run-up to the 3pm kick-off on Saturday.

Aston Villa will be hoping to take all three points from the game against Crystal Palace to move even further away from the relegation battle that they could easily get caught up in if they don’t pick up a good number of points before the new year.

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Graham Gooch has been recruited to the England coaching staff on a temporary basis to help the team prepare for the Test series against South Africa

Cricinfo staff28-Nov-2009Graham Gooch has been recruited to the England coaching staff on a temporary basis to help the team prepare for the Test series against South Africa.Gooch, who played 118 Tests and is his country’s leading run-scorer, will initially join up with the performance programme in Pretoria next week before linking with the main squad in the build-up to the opening Test at Centurion Park on December 16.”Graham is rightly regarded as one of the best batting coaches in international cricket and we are delighted to have secured his services for a key period of our preparations leading up to the first Test,” said Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket.Gooch will be able to work with Alastair Cook, a long-time student of the former England captain, who left the one-day squad after suffering a back problem and has remained in Pretoria. Adil Rashid and Liam Plunkett, both members of the Test squad, were also released from the limited-overs unit on Saturday so they are able to play for the performance squad in a four-day match against the Lions, on Monday, as preparation for the Test series.Following the one-day series, which finishes in Durban next Friday, England travel to East London to prepare for the Tests with two two-day games against a South African Invitational XI.

Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou has dropped an injury update ahead of the Bhoys’ upcoming Premiership clash.

What’s the latest?

In recent comments cited by the Daily Record, the Hoops boss revealed that both Nir Bitton and Tom Rogic should be available for selection for the visit of Hearts on Thursday night, as the central midfield duo appear to have recovered from their respective injuries.

The Israel international missed out on the Bhoys’ 2-1 win over Aberdeen on Sunday due to a knock picked up in the Europa League loss against Bayer Leverkusen last Thursday, while the Australian has been out of action since October with a hamstring injury.

On the current condition of the duo, the 56-year-old said: “Hopefully Nir should be available again and Tommy Rogic will definitely be available for Thursday.”

Fans will be buzzing

Considering how impressive Rogic had been prior to picking up his injury, in addition to how well Bitton had fared while filling in for the Australia international, the news that both players look set to make a return to action against third-placed Hearts is sure to have left the Bhoys’ fanbase buzzing.

Indeed, over Rogic’s 11 Premiership fixtures this season, the £1.35m-rated midfielder has scored one goal, provided two assists and created five big chances for his teammates, with these returns seeing the £16k-per-week 28-year-old average a SofaScore match rating of 6.97.

Meanwhile, over Bitton’s last four Premiership and Europa League fixtures, the £720k-rated 30-year-old has enjoyed 353 touches of the ball, completed 269 passes, made 15 tackles and won a whopping 31 duels, with these metrics seeing the £14k-per-week midfielder average a SofaScore match rating of 7.33.

As such, with the prospect of a win against Robbie Neilson’s side making a very clear statement to the rest of the league that Celtic mean business in their pursuit to reclaim their Premiership crown this season, it will surely be a huge boost to Postecoglou that it looks as if he will be able to call upon both Rogic and Bitton this week.

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West Ham will be looking to extend their 100% record in the Europa League when they welcome Genk to the London Stadium this evening.

David Moyes’ men have won both their Group H matches by a two-goal margin, keeping a clean sheet in both, and they head into kickoff on the back of an impressively resolute victory over Everton last Sunday.

But with Tottenham Hotspur in town this weekend, the Scotsman could be pondering some changes to his starting XI, but what sort of lineup could we see in east London tonight?

Here’s what Football FanCast are predicting…

There could be as many as six changes from the side that won at Goodison Park five days ago.

The first of which is likely to come between the sticks as 6 foot 5 giant Alphonse Areola, on loan from Paris Saint-Germain, returns to hand veteran goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski a rest.

Hammers full-back duo Aaron Cresswell and Ben Johnson remain from Sunday but Moyes opts for a different central defensive partnership, with £13.5m-rated “monster” Issa Diop and the vastly-experienced Craig Dawson coming in as they did against Rapid Wien.

They replace Angelo Ogbonna and summer signing Kurt Zouma, whilst Vladimir Coufal is expected to be out through injury.

Another new addition does make the starting XI, however.

Moyes has already confirmed that Nikola Vlasic will be involved, so he could feature on the wing, with Manuel Lanzini and Said Benrahma joining him in attacking midfield.

They’ll be the trio sat in front of industrious England international Declan Rice and club captain Mark Noble, who comes into the side to replace Tomas Soucek, who is rested.

The Czech star is available for selection but he could do with some time off the pitch, as could Michail Antonio, who may settle for a place on the bench with Jarrod Bowen leading the line in his absence.

A big call but one that could be necessary, considering Spurs at the weekend and then a trip to defending champions Manchester City.

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Southampton currently have a significant number of players in their squad that have worked their way through the youth system at the club such as Theo Walcott and James Ward-Prowse, who have a total of 648 Premier League appearances between them.

One other player currently in Ralph Hasenhuttl’s squad that has made his way through Southampton’s youth academy is centre-back Jack Stephens, who currently has 114 league appearances under his belt.

Looking at him, in particular, the 27-year-old defender made his senior debut for the Saints back in January 2012 in an FA Cup victory over Coventry City before making his Premier League bow for the club in their 3-0 defeat against Everton in January 2017 under former Southampton manager Claude Puel.

Overall, Stephens has made 139 appearances for Southampton across all competitions, chipping in with six goals and five assists along the way after working his way through the club’s youth system after signing from Plymouth Argyle in a deal worth a reported fee of £150k back in 2011.

So far this season, Stephens had played 90 minutes in all of Southampton’s Premier League games before picking up a serious knee injury during their 0-0 draw against Manchester City, ultimately ruling him out for 12 weeks according to Hasenhuttl, which is not only very unfortunate for the player, but for the team as a whole given how prominent he was for them beforehand.

In terms of his market value, in February 2017, shortly after making his Premier League debut for the Saints, Transfermarkt had his value listed as £675k, whereas it now stands at £7.2m, highlighting a significant rise over recent years.

This also shows just how much of a good purchase he was all those years ago for such a low price and how much the club have developed Stephens, who has previously been described as “excellent” by former Saints captain Steven Davis, to become a regular first-team figure for them.

Looking ahead to the future, if Stephens can fully recover from this unfortunate knee injury and get back to playing regularly for the Saints, we see no reason why his market value can’t go on and rise even further than it has done recently.

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قرر حامد البلوي المدير التنفيذي لنادي اتحاد جدة الرحيل عن منصبه في النادي الجداوي قبل أيام قليلة من انطلاق الموسم الجديد من دوري كأس الأمير محمد بن سلمان.

ومن خلال حسابه الرسمي عبر “تويتر” كتب حامد البلوي: “مع انتهاء المعسكر التحضيري أكون قد انهيت مهمتي مع الفريق”.

وتابع: “أتقدم بالشكر إلى مجلس إدارة الاتحاد برئاسة أخي الاستاذ أنمار وكافة الأعضاء والشكر موصول للأجهزة الفنية والإدارية والطبية واللاعبين على تعاونهم وجهودهم طيلة العامين الماضيين التي عملها فيها جميعا لاسعاد الجماهير الاتحادية الوفية”.

اقرأ أيضا..محترف اتحاد جدة يفشل في خطف إعجاب نونو سانتو

وكانت لجنة الاحتراف في السعودية أصدرت عدة قرارات بشأن أزمة انتقال المهاجم المغربي عبد الرزاق حمد الله لصفوف العميد من بينها ايقاف حامد البلوي المدير التنفيذي لكرة القدم بنادي الاتحاد لمدة 6 أشهر ابتداءً من تاريخ صدور القرار (2 أغسطس)، وفرض غرامة مالية قدرها 300 ألف ريال.

وكان الاتحاد فاز وديًا أمام لوزيرن السويسري بهدف دون رد كما فاز بنتيجة 4-3 أمام ريد بول سالزبورج النمساوي ثم تعادل أمام الوحدة الإماراتي بهدف لمثله.

يذكر أن الاتحاد سوف يبدأ مشواره للموسم الجديد من دوري كأس الأمير محمد بن سلمان بمواجهة العدالة على ملعب مدينة الأمير عبدالله بن جلوي الرياضية يوم 26 أغسطس.

مع نهاية المعسكر التحضيري اكون قد انهيت مهمتي مع الفريق.
اشكر مجلس الادارة برئاسة اخي الاستاذ انمار وكافة الاعضاء والشكر موصول للاجهزة الفنية والادارية والطبية واللاعبين على تعاونهم وجهودهم طيلة العامين الماضيين التي عملنا فيها جميعا لاسعاد الجماهير الاتحادية الوفية. pic.twitter.com/ndiTAprt4z

— حامد البلوي (@hamed4848) August 13, 2022

Roddy Smith has hinted Scotland may turn to youth as they look to rebuild in the wake of their failure to qualify for the 2011 World Cup

Cricinfo staff21-Apr-2009Scotland may turn to youth as they look to rebuild in the wake of their failure to qualify for the 2011 World Cup.”We have younger players coming through and, hopefully, next time the team will be well prepared and can deliver,” Roddy Smith, Cricket Scotland’s chief executive, told the BBC. “We went out there with high hopes of doing very well. We were aiming for top four as a minimum and hopefully getting to the final.”We had our best players out there but they didn’t manage to perform through the whole course of the tournament, with a few notable exceptions. The team were very well prepared but when push came to shove, they just didn’t fire. It’s a collective failure by everyone concerned.”Smith defended criticism of the team selection, insisting that it was “the best group based on form and experience,” adding that “at the time, there weren’t too many people complaining about the make-up of the squad.”But we are still on the world stage and we will have a set number of fixtures against the top sides over the next four years. But we’ve managed to retain our ODI status, which is a huge boost for us over the next four years, so it’s not the complete end of the world.”Scotland only kept that after beating UAE in the final Super Eights match, but their relief was short-lived as they were beaten by Afghanistan in the fifth-place play-off.

According to reliable Chronicle Live reporter Lee Ryder, the ‘opportunity for a high profile loan move’ to sign Man City star John Stones could be presented to Newcastle United in January.

The Lowdown: PIF era begins…

In a seismic turn of events, the Mike Ashley era at Newcastle is now finally over with PIF taking full control in a £305 million takeover at St. James’ Park.

Following much delay, the Saudi consortium’s acquisition of United finally went through last week after they passed the Premier League’s owners’ and directors’ test for a sale.

As such, a new era has begun on Tyneside with Newcastle now becoming the one of the richest clubs in the world.

The Latest: Newcastle could sign Stones…

Following on from this major development in the club’s history, there have been no shortage of transfer links to football’s elite players, with news now emerging involving Stones.

The star centre-back, who shone alongside Ruben Dias in the Premier League last year, has cut a slightly more bit-part figure over 2021/2022 so far.

He has managed to appear for England but opportunities have been non-existent under Pep Guardiola, due to the resurgence of teammate Aymeric Laporte.

If Stones’ lack of chances continue, Ryder claims that a Newcastle deal for the 27-year-old may ‘fall on the lap’ of PIF (Chronicle Live).

Despite the player signing a new £250,000-per-week City deal in August, Steve Bruce’s side may be gifted the opportunity to take him on loan in January.

Labelled as what would be a ‘hugely popular’ move, Newcastle and PIF could indeed be handed that chance according to Ryder.

The Verdict: Get it done…

Lauded as ‘outstanding’ by former Premier League defender Jonathan Woodgate, Stones could certainly be an ideal acquisition for Newcastle in January and one who is proven at the very top level.

The defender revitalised his career at City last year whilst also impressing on the international stage under Gareth Southgate.

Even signing him on loan could be a masterstroke by PIF as Newcastle aim to avoid the drop and enjoy their newly-found riches.

Lots of Wolves fans have been left bemoaning some injury news on Yerson Mosquera.

As per the official website of the Midlands club, the central defender will now face a lengthy spell out after it was confirmed that he needs surgery on his hamstring.

He made his senior debut last week, but it was unfortunately cut short after just ten minutes because of his injury.

The medical team have given a guideline of around ‘4-5 months’ before Mosquera could fully recover and regain his fitness, while both Pedro Neto and Jonny Otto also face lengthy spells out on the sidelines at the moment.

It is such a shame especially for Mosquera, who would have hoped to hit the ground running following his arrival at Molineux in the summer transfer window.

Wolves fans on Mosquera injury news

These WWFC supporters bemoaned the injury news as it was shared on Twitter, with one Wanderer even going as far as to claim that they are ‘gutted’ for Mosquera:

“5 months, I hate this game”

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“This is a minor setback the will lead to a major comeback, such a shame”

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“Wow! That’s so unfortunate, wishing @YMosquera15 a speedy recovery”

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“Poor kid, can’t remember him touching the ball last week now he’s out for months again.”

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“Absolutely gutted for the lad. He must be devastated. Wishing you all the best in your recovery. Stay strong, you’ll be back”

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“Cheers, crying now”

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