Searched Word(s): Will
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So the Manchester United job has ruined Michael Carrick just like it ruined Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Carrick's sad‚ Mea culpa walk across the turf towards his club's supporters at Como's Stadio Guiseppe Sinigaglia last night bore a dismal resemblance to that made by one of his many predecessors at Vicarage Road‚ Watford‚ almost five years ago. The question now is who will be stupid enough to put their hand up to follow Carrick into a post he will surely be invited to leave before too long.
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Manchester United's forlorn players and staff returned back to Manchester and drove home in the rain in the early hours of Thursday morning as the latest storm builds momentum at the club. The Red Devils were thrashed 4-1 at Como in the Champions League on Wednesday evening - in what will be the latter's greatest-ever European display. It proved a night to forget for United too as their winless run in all competitions now stretches to seven games - with their last win a 4-0 victory over Sabah on September 10.
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IAN LADYMAN AT ALLIANZ ARENA: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admitted he is worried about the injury suffered by winger Bukayo Saka in last night's thrilling 2-2 draw at Bayern Munich. Saka went off with a thigh injury just ten minutes into his team's Champions League game with the German champions at the Allianz Arena. Arteta said: 'It doesn't look good at all but we will have to wait and see. They [the medical staff] are a bit concerned. A player who has to come off with a really sharp pain is never good news.'
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Daily Mail Sport has reported that City are primed for a huge points reduction which would relegate them to the Championship after they were found guilty of breaking financial rules between 2009 and 2018. It remains to be seen whether the club will be stripped of their titles after they manipulated their financial accounts to the tune of £900million via 'sham' contracts.
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JACK GAUGHAN AT THE ETIHAD: More competitive adverts for the Champions League's group phase are available - a night when thousands of blue seats remained strikingly vacant - but Phil Foden won't mind that. While all eyes are on how Manchester City replace Erling Haaland in the eventuality of a more pressing injury than the knock from the weekend‚ Foden made his point around who fills in for Antoine Semenyo. Semenyo will miss the next two months with a knee problem and it will be a fight between Foden and Iliman Ndiaye as to who makes that spot their own. Foden's hat-trick with AEK Athens in town after notching against Ipswich Town four days earlier do his chances no harm. His first two goals were products of super link up with Rico Lewis‚ the pair in sync in one-touch blurs of movement‚ and Foden slamming high into the net with a purpose not always seen recently.
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LEWIS STEELE AT ANFIELD: They used to call it 'Pep roulette' at Manchester City. A phrase coined by fantasy football nerds about Pep Guardiola's tendency to chop and change his front line every week to devastating effect. We haven't refined our snazzy phrase for Andoni Iraola yet - the working drafts are 'AI Bingo' or 'Iraola tombola' - but the Liverpool boss has a devastating depth of attacking talent that‚ if they all fulfil their potential‚ can lead this team to dizzying heights. That is caveated with a reminder that Iraola's Reds are simultaneously plagued by many teething problems in other areas and are far from complete. We will discuss that in due course but first‚ a word on Iraola's deck of cards that contains multiple aces and jokers.
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MATT BARLOW: Marbella was in the grip of a murder mystery as Tottenham descended for the sunshine training camp they hope will transform their season.
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TOM COLLOMOSSE AT THE CITY GROUND: They are Premier League champions and may well retain their title but Arsenal will never set pulses racing outside north London. Gunners players‚ coaches and fans will not care and why should they? They waited 22 years to lift the title and if they go back to back‚ why would any of those supporters worry about how they did it? This stuff matters‚ though. Especially this season‚ which is already in big trouble due to the Manchester City cheating verdict.
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Viktor Gyokeres ‘ready to quit' Arsenal in January for two reasons - transfer will happen on one condition
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Lisandro Martinez will be in the Manchester United squad when they face Leeds on Sunday. And of course he will‚ because he was right about that shambling wreck of a club.
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The redundancies will not affect the men's and women's teams coaching or backroom staff‚ the club's community operation‚ the Arsenal Foundation and security staff. Instead‚ the cuts will focus on off-field areas.
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Reece James is set to be out of action for three months after having surgery on a knee injury sustained in training. James‚ 26‚ missed his side's 5-1 Premier League win over Bournemouth after the international break. While he usually still travels with the squad on the team coach when injured‚ he did not do so for that victory‚ sparking concerns that there was more to his latest setback. Now‚ Chelsea have confirmed that James has had a 'successful minor' operation‚ and will be without him for their league trip to Everton on Saturday and beyond.
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Who will win the Premier League 2021-22? Why Man City remain favourites - but Chelsea or Man Utd can stop them
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ALEX JENNINGS: Talk to people in football about Davide‚ son of Carlo‚ and their responses might as well be about his dad. Amiable. Unflappable. Intelligent. Tactically flexible. Good man-manager. Tale padre‚ tale figlio‚ as they say in Milan. Like father‚ like son. Where Davide diverges from Carlo is a lack of experience - more specifically the absence of a trophy cabinet full to the point of bursting. While Carlo has won the European Cup seven times as a player and manager‚ the younger Ancelotti will be managing in just his second game in the competition at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night. Work to do‚ too‚ after his Champions League debut saw his Lille side twice blow a lead at home to Real Betis.
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October 10‚ 2026 is a date Shay Given will never forget after getting married at the sacred Westminster Abbey. The former Newcastle United and Republic of Ireland goalkeeper‚ 50‚ tied the know with Rebecca Gibson on Saturday following a 12-year engagement. The newlyweds were a picture of happiness on their momentous day as they said their vows at a venue that is a rarity for weddings.
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If and when Manchester City go down the rest of the Premier League will wave them off from the top of their moral high ground with good reason. But at some stage‚ our other big clubs will maybe look at themselves and wonder why they can't do it a little bit better - why they can't do it a little bit like them.
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'It's really hard to get up again': How post-World Cup blues will affect Premier League players
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Bruno Fernandes' frustration at another disappointing Manchester United result was palpable still as he left Old Trafford on Saturday evening. The Red Devils squandered a 1-0 lead against fellow strugglers Tottenham Hotspur to concede a stoppage-time equaliser in the second half to draw 1-1. Dominic Solanke's equaliser will sting more for those connected with United as Spurs were playing with 10 men at the time after Rodrigo Bentancur was sent off on 78 minutes.
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It will be the first game for City since they were found guilty of 114 of 115 financial rule breach charges. The club maintain their innocence and have appealed the verdict.
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OLIVER HOLT: Is this an apparition that we see before us? Is it real? Is Liverpool-Manchester City at Anfield a football match or a ghost-game? Will it remain in the sport's history books or will it be erased when City's guilty verdicts on 114 charges of financial chicanery meet their punishment sometime in the months ahead? There was a time when any Premier League clash between these two sides would have been regarded as the best advertisement for the English game that there could be. Not anymore. This game is being played at a wonderful stadium but it might as well be in a circus tent. It is not a match. It is a giant and terrible curiosity. The great managers who helped to define this collision between modern giants - Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola - are both gone and now this clash stands for something else: it marks the start of a period of slow torture for the top flight in this country‚ a period when we cannot know whether there is any permanence attached to results that involve City. A period when we will not know whether we should believe what we see.