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Tottenham Hotspur are FINALLY going to sign someone this summer transfer window. Yes, Spurs will actually add another player to their side before the window closes at the end of this month, with Ajax central defender Davinson Sanchez. The BBC writes that Mauricio Pochettino’s first signing of the summer will break the club transfer fee record, coming over from the Dutch Eredivisie side for £42 million.
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Manchester United Manager Jose Mourinho gave his weekly news conference a few hours ago, and we have the video of it for you over at this link. Mourinho was asked to give his opinion on the proposed idea of moving the summer transfer window deadline up, to a date that precedes the start of the league season.
He responded with:
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Manchester United began their 2017-18 Premier League campaign last weekend with a very resounding win over West Ham. Now the Red Devils will look to continue that dominant form in Wales when they take on Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium tomorrow. Manager Jose Mourinho gave his weekly news conference a few hours ago, and we have the video of it for you below via YouTube.
Take a look, as the video itself is just over 11 minutes:
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Manchester United central defender Eric Bailly admits that his club currently isn’t at the same level it used to be. Since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, the Red Devils haven’t been serious contenders for the Premier League title and haven’t advanced deep in Europe.
United have only finished in the top four once in the past four years, and that was a fourth place finish in 2014-15. Bailly knows the elite history and tremendous prestige that comes with the United badge and he believes the club is ready to show the world that they are back at that level.
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Manchester United super supporter and fastest man alive Usain Bolt will sadly not fulfill his lifelong dream of suiting up for the club. Bolt, perhaps the greatest sprinter in track and field history, was slated to play in the Man United legends game, a friendly against Barcelona on September 2.
Usain Bolt suffered a hamstring injury in this past weekend’s World Athletics Championships during the 4 x 100 race.
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Swansea City host Manchester United in week two of Premier League action, with the visitors heavy favorites and rightfully so. United were the story of week one as they put in the most impressive performance of any side by a wide margin. It was the best we’ve seen the Red Devils play since the Sir Alex era.
The Swans, on the other hand, were lucky to escape St. Mary’s with a point as Southampton thoroughly outplayed them by couldn’t kill the game in a 0-0 draw.
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Manchester United could not have asked for a better beginning to their Premier League campaign. The curtain raising fixture, a 4-0 thumping of West Ham, displayed the kind of dominance that we haven’t seen since the Sir Alex Ferguson era. Now the Red Devils travel to the Liberty Stadium to take on Swansea City, a side that had to change managers multiple times in order to stave off relegation.
Anything less than taking all three points would be a huge disappointment.
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Chelsea striker Diego Costa gave a very revealing and extremely inflammatory interview to the Daily Mail over the weekend. In the Q&A session, he unloaded on Blues Manager Antonio Conte and how the club is currently treating him. He also explained his view of the current situation that he finds himself in; one that is messy and contentious to say the least.
That’s only the beginning of what was in that article, and you can check out some of the highlights over at this link. Today, Diego Costa released a statement in which he made clear his intentions about his future.
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Let’s say that you’re a disgruntled Arsenal FC supporter who’s also a member of the #WengerOut crowd. You want Manager Arsene Wenger sacked, a lot, but surely not enough as Aliko Dangote, the richest man in all of Africa. Forbes estimates that Dangote has a net worth of nearly $13 billion, not far from double that of current Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke, who checks in at $7.5 billion.
Dangote has been a club supporter who has coveted a purchase of the team since the 1980s, despite Kroenke’s stance that the club is not for sale.
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As we told the “bread and butter” of Northwestern football, running back Justin Jackson, the 2016 season was “the best of times” and “the worst of times,” offensively. Jackson responded by referencing Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities instantaneously. It was refreshing respite from all the “we just got to get better everyday” and “I just want to do what’s best for the team” that you hear ad nauseam at Media Days.
Yes, often times a Northwestern football player interview is more compelling that the audio you get from most other teams.
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Manchester United have three players recovering from long term injuries- defender Luke Shaw, defender/midfielder Ashley Young and defender Marcos Rojo. All three joined the squad for the preseason exhibition tour of the United States, but they were not available for selection in the Super Cup loss to Real Madrid, nor the Premier League season opening win over West Ham United at home on August 13.
Today Rojo gave the world an insight into his recovery and rehabilitation at United’s Carrington training complex. The Argentine posted a video of his knee being assessed with the caption, when translated into English:
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Holding midfielder Nemanja Matic took home the Man of the Match award in Manchester United’s 4-0 dominance of West Ham in the season opener, but striker Romelu Lukaku achieved another honor. The big Belgian was deemed the best performer in the entire Premier League for week one by NBC Sports.
There were numerous heroes for United this week, as they opened their Premier League season with a performance that was as complete as we’ve seen since the Sir Alex Ferguson era ended.
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