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Mourinho's huge rant: "I thought I was going to find a different league‚ but they already explained to me that I wasn't"
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OLIVER HOLT AT CRAVEN COTTAGE: They were outplayed for long periods of the match but escaped with a 1-1 draw after a stroke of luck in the dying minutes brought them a last-gasp equaliser. They salvaged a little pride but not much. They have five points from their opening five games against Hull City ‚ Ipswich Town ‚ Everton ‚ Manchester City and Fulham. A season that began with some hopes of them challenging for the title has collapsed into a situation where they are 10 points behind Manchester City before we have even entered the last week of September. Sir Jim Ratcliffe ‚ their minority owner‚ is an expert on once great things now 'on the slide'. He has added United to his portfolio.
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LEWIS STEELE AT VITALITY STADIUM: Andoni Iraola toasted to a happy homecoming - and then prepared to jet off on his holidays knowing his work-in-progress Liverpool side are heading in the right direction‚ slowly but surely. It would be wrong to say the Reds' victory at Iraola's old stomping ground Bournemouth was thoroughly deserved or even convincing but as the new boss takes stock over the international break‚ he will have more positives than negatives to evaluate. Match-winner Alexander Isak is finally showing the sharpness and attacking efficiency the Anfield top brass thought they were paying £125million for a year or so ago‚ while other new signings are settling and previous sub-par performers look back to their best.
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Cavan Sullivan shines in Philadelphia Union's "perfect storm": they come back from 3 goals in 10 minutes!'
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The Premier League champions fell to a shock loss at the Seagulls - their first defeat of the season and first in the league since they become champions. Pascal Gross‚ Charalampos Kostoulas and Chema Andres were all on the scoresheet for the impressive hosts - but Rice caught the eye too. Brighton were seeing out the remainder of their game at the AMEX‚ with Rice trying to play out from the back under pressure from 20-year-old Malick Yalcouye.
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Roberto De Zerbi let rip at his Tottenham flops after crashing to another home defeat which will leave them marooned in the drop zone for the next three weeks. Spurs were 3-0 down in the 86th minute and Aston Villa had threatened to stretch further ahead before salvaging a little respectability with two late goals. They are winless in the first five games of the Premier League season and De Zerbi did not try to hide his emotions.
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The Docker Derby is widely regarded as one of the nastiest rivalries in English football and the Met Police have acted accordingly to ensure the match passes off safely‚ with approximately 400 officers on duty for the game. In the build-up to kick off‚ Millwall fans set the tone by booing and shouting at the Hammers as they arrived at The Den.
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BOBBY MANZI: Alonso's Blues shipped three goals in a dire second 45 display and they are now winless in three games as they go into the three-week international break. It was their first defeat at their west London neighbours' ground since the Bees' promotion to the Premier League in 2021. In a sluggish first-half‚ both teams managed just two shots on target but Brentford were invigorated after the break and took the game to Chelsea.
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KIERAN GILL: As the face of the original 2022 takeover‚ Boehly became a target when the times were bad‚ and no matter how good his intentions may have been‚ the American billionaire cannot say he helped himself. An astute businessman - clearly‚ for he has made a minor profit by selling his Chelsea shares to Clearlake Capital - but a man who made more than a few faux pas. As Chelsea's supporters return to Brentford on Friday‚ they may recall their hostile hymn sheet from two years ago‚ while remembering the other times their old co-owner indulged in the odd misadventure.
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Jurgen Klopp has hit out at the 'pathetic' German media for leaking his first international squad announcement as Germany head coach. Klopp‚ who was unveiled as the national side's new boss in July following a two-year break from the dugout after leaving Liverpool‚ has announced a 44-man split squad‚ which will be used across four Nations League fixtures. The unusually large squad will be separated into two to handle an extended three-week international break‚ as they face Netherlands‚ Greece and Serbia.
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Young stars do not reach their potential if they have a nightmare parent behind the scenes‚ Jamie Carragher has warned. The pushy parents issue has been in the spotlight after Man United's prodigiously talented 15-year-old‚ JJ Gabriel‚ stunned the club by informing them that he wants out - a play orchestrated by his father Joe O'Cearuill. Daily Mail Sport on Wednesday lifted the lid on O'Cearuill's behaviour being a nightmare for the club‚ riling up families and making a number of outlandish demands.
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“Inept in everything they did” - Man United trio slammed by Sky pundit after Brighton horror-show
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Todd Boehly LEAVES Chelsea: Behdad Eghbali's Clearlake Capital complete £1bn deal to buy minority owner's stake in the club as they take 'full control'
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The Hammers travel to The Den on Saturday where they will meet for the first time in 14 years‚ in what is widely-regarded as one of the fiercest rivalries in English football. Czech international Soucek‚ 31‚ is nursing an ankle injury and has not featured for the Hammers this season‚ but has cheered Nuno Espirito Santo's team on from the sidelines.
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CRIAG HOPE AT ELLAND ROAD: Unbeaten in three at the outset of the Premier League and lauded for their summer business‚ autumn and winter might not be so cheery on the evidence of this horror show. Matthias Jaissle's side were three down by half-time‚ and it was no surprise at all. Be that on the basis of what played out here or‚ more so‚ what your eyes have told you in the past 10 days. An unconvincing 1-0 win at Millwall in the Carabao Cup came on the back of an equally sketchy 2-2 draw at home to Bournemouth‚ in which they trailed by two after 35 minutes.
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Leeds told they have a born winner in ‘remarkable' star who is vital to club's progress - Exclusive
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IAN LADYMAN: If Enzo Maresca is lucky we will one day look back and ask when it was we finally felt he had truly taken hold of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City and claimed it as his own. If he is really lucky and if he does enough and wins enough to stick around for the long-term‚ then we may reflect on derby day in September 2026 as the day we finally drew a line under the years of Guardiola genius. So far it's been a slow burn for Maresca at City and that's because Guardiola still has his name and his principles running right through this City team. Phil Foden‚ Erling Haaland‚ Ruben Dias‚ Rayan Cherki. It's impossible not to see the great Catalan in so much of what they do.
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HOW THEY ALL STACK UP! Every Premier League club's squad value after summer window with Man Utd trailing behind top-flight rivals
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Derek McInnes revels in Rangers derby heroics but he warns stars it only counts if they repeat feat at Celtic Park
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MAN UNITED 0-1 MAN CITY - IAN LADYMAN AT OLD TRAFFORD: Manchester City have inflicted a few embarrassments on their neighbours in modern times and now they have done it again. Another big day out at Old Trafford. Another victory. Another song to sing.
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CHRIS WHEELER AT OLD TRAFFORD: Manchester United fans have displayed a solitary banner in the Stretford End at Sunday's Old Trafford derby branding the club a 'disgrace'. The Red Army opted not to have any other flags or banners at the game against Manchester City in protest over 'the recent behaviour of the club'. Fans group The 1958 staged a demonstration before the game over United's clampdown on ticket touts‚ which they claim has targeted innocent supporters.
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Brighton the example of building a perennial front-footed force - will they challenge Premier League's elite?
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Almost an hour had passed after the final whistle on Saturday when Tottenham's manager Roberto De Zerbi arrived to do his press conference. There is a temptation is to think his side could have spent that time on the pitch and still wouldn't have scored against a team of mannequins. He would go on to tell us about 'blockages'‚ which might have applied to the Everton backline in a 0-0 draw‚ but in this instance involved something else - it was a discussion about the mental hurdles his forward players are facing in front of goal. In short‚ he said they lack confidence. Overthinking has crept in. The weight of recent history is pressing them down and‚ like a golfer with the yips‚ they find themselves unable to pull the trigger.
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Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has fervently argued that Spurs should be retrospectively crowned Premier League champions because of Chelsea's 'illegal' activity in the transfer market - and the numbers suggest he may well have a point. Chelsea pipped Spurs to the Premier League title under Antonio Conte in 2017‚ finishing the season on 93 points - seven clear of Tottenham's 86 - but have since admitted to breaking the rules by making more than £47million in secret payments to unregistered agents and third parties to facilitate transfers. The Blues were handed a record £10.75m fine for the breaches‚ a sanction regarded by many football fans as little more than a slap on the wrist given what Chelsea went on to achieve with the team they had assembled.
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Ten years ago‚ Mauricio Pochettino was embarking upon a season in which his Tottenham team scored 86 goals and collected 86 points‚ and he is convinced they should be crowned as champions. Chelsea won the Premier League in 2017 but have since admitted breaking the rules by making secret payments exceeding £47million to unregistered agents and third parties to secure transfers. Pochettino has no doubt the Blues should be stripped of that title. He also believes it should rightfully go to Spurs in the same way an Olympic silver medallist would receive gold if the gold medallist were disqualified.
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ISAAN KHAN: Arsenal are well primed to make that final step. They were‚ after all‚ only a few kicks from glory in May‚ and have strengthened further this summer with additions such as Bruno Guimaraes‚ Christos Tzolis and Ezri Konsa. But how do they get over that final hurdle?
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JACK GAUGHAN: Ghosts of the Dragao were whispering. Whispering about holding midfielders and overthinking‚ whispering about Kai Havertz and gaping defences‚ whispering about throwing away matches that Manchester City had dominated. The circumstances around the 2021 Champions League final in this very stadium still haunt those of a City persuasion but not the squad. How can they? Only Phil Foden and Ruben Dias are left from that defeat by Chelsea‚ a Covid final in front of half a ground and when travelling City supporters were drowsy from the drink in the baking sun down by the River Douro. Drowsier still afterwards. Past glories and past failures cannot be on Enzo Maresca's agenda‚ carving a fresh team with a tweaked identity‚ although starting a teenager in Ayyoub Bouaddi instead of the more seasoned Elliot Anderson could easily have become a nod to Pep Guardiola's infamous decision to not operate with a conventional No 6 against Thomas Tuchel's Chelsea.
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For much of this summer‚ Newcastle's transfer window was viewed from the outside as one of chaos and crisis. Eddie Howe left‚ Bruno Guimaraes‚ Anthony Gordon and Sandro Tonali were sold and early deals for the likes of Victor Munoz and Johan Manzambi were hijacked by Premier League rivals. But now‚ in a revealing sit-down with sporting director Ross Wilson‚ chief executive David Hopkinson and chief financial officer Simon Capper‚ they lift the lid on how the club emerged from that summer in a stronger position than many had anticipated - in the dugout‚ and on the pitch and balance sheet.
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Ex-Aston Villa man tells Liverpool they ‘missed' Zion Suzuki transfer - ‘Brilliant goalkeeper'
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IAN LADYMAN: If Manchester United had a defence as reliable and immovable as the one their manager presents to the world‚ then they would be higher up the Premier League table. Michael Carrick is proving himself spectacularly impossible to penetrate - whether his team win‚ lose or draw - and it's exactly what his team and his club need at this stage of their evolution. Carrick is not a dull man but he is making an art form of coming across as such. In doing so‚ he is making sure that he doesn't add any of the unhelpful noise that always surrounds English football's best-supported and most newsworthy football club.
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ISAAN KHAN: David Raya warned that Arsenal know they can beat anybody in the league and hailed the injection of confidence running through his side from lifting the Premier League title last season. The Gunners eased past Chelsea 2-1 on Sunday afternoon after a dominant display featuring goals from Martin Odegaard and Kai Havertz to bounce back from Morgan Rogers' early strike. Raya pulled off a late save to deny Estevao on the way to Arsenal securing three consecutive league victories.
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The Red Devils have conceded twice in each of their three Premier League matches so far this season‚ and they were held to a 2-2 draw with Everton after a last-minute Ainsley Maitland-Niles stunner. It's an issue manager Michael Carrick is going to have to fix if his side want to be competitive this year - they are currently 11th in the table with one win‚ one draw and one defeat to their names so far this term. And Neville has concerns. Questions were raised after the transfer window closed with the club failing to add to their defensive ranks‚ and the full back-turned pundit is concerned it may come back to bite them.
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Leo Messi's heated clash with Junior Alonso: they had to be separated after Inter Miami vs Atlanta United
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Roberto De Zerbi took aim at his £165million strike force after Tottenham left Nottingham Forest still searching for their first goal of the season. Spurs at least claimed a point at the City Ground yet for the first time since 1974‚ they have failed to score in each of their opening three games. De Zerbi's team did not register a shot on target against Oliver Glasner's team and the Italian bemoaned his attackers' poor work in front of goal.
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ALEX JENNINGS AT CRAVEN COTTAGE: Pierre Sage and Alvaro Arbeloa began their Saturday in much the same place. Winless‚ pointless‚ and just beginning to wonder if they had made a mistake in taking a long-term lease on a London flat.
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Man U target picks up another assist - Red Devils could face serious competition as they plot £500m rebuild
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“They should be knighted” - Sky pundit's opinion on Chelsea's transfers would have amazed fans a year ago
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Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will line up for the same team for the first time ever later this year... if Carlos Tevez gets his way. The world superstars have gone head to head over the years with their biggest tussles coming while they were at the top of the game with Barcelona and Real Madrid. Messi and Ronaldo were pitted as rivals as they vied for the Ballon d'Or with either player winning the honour an incredible 10 years in a row between 2008 and 2017.
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