فجر فينسنت جارسيا، رئيس تحرير مجلة “فرانس فوتبول” الشهيرة مفاجأة حول فوز عثمان ديمبلي، نجم باريس سان جيرمان، بجائزة أفضل لاعب في العالم لعام 2025، مساء يوم الإثنين.
واستضاف مسرح “دو شاتليه” في باريس مراسم حفل مجلة “فرانس فوتبول” الشهيرة لتوزيع جوائز الأفضل في العالم لعام 2025، وعلى رأسها الكرة الذهبية.
وحصل عثمان ديمبلي، لاعب فريق باريس سان جيرمان، على جائزة الكرة الذهبية لأفضل لاعب في العالم لعام 2025، في حين اكتفى محمد صلاح بالمركز الرابع (لمطالعة التفاصيل كاملة من هنا).
وبينما جاء عثمان ديمبلي في المركز الأول، تلاه لامين يامال نجم برشلونة ثم فيتينها لاعب باريس سان جيرمان.
وقال فيسنت جارسيا، في تصريحات لصحيفة “ليكيب” الفرنسية: “لم تكن هناك منافسة، لأكون صريحًا، فاز ديمبلي بأغلبية ساحقة، فاز بفارق كبير، حظى بدعم كبير من جانب لجنة التحكيم، إنه فائز بالكرة الذهبية عن استحقاق”.
وأكد جارسيا أن مخاوف باريس سان جيرمان حول إمكانية حدوث تشتيت في الأصوات بسبب كثرة لاعبيه المرشحين في الجائزة لم تكن صحيحة، حيث أوضح: “لم يكن هناك تشتت”.
واسترسل: “حصد فيتينها بعض المراكز الأولى (لدى المصوتين)، وكذلك أشرف حكيمي، لكنهما لم يحققا سوى القليل، في حين فاز عثمان ديمبلي بفارق كبير في جميع القارات، سواء في إفريقيا أو أوروبا أو أمريكا الجنوبية أو أمريكا الشمالية، إنها كرة ذهبية مستحقة لا لبس فيها”.
Gaikwad, Jadeja, Dube and Pathirana likely to be the franchise’s other retained players
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Which players should CSK retain ahead?
MS Dhoni is one of five players set to be retained by Chennai Super Kings ahead of the IPL 2025 mega auction, along with captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube and Sri Lanka fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana.The amounts CSK are paying to each retained player is yet to be confirmed but they will lose at least INR 65 crore from their overall purse of INR 120 crore. The five retentions will leave them with one right-to-match option at the auction.Dhoni, 43, is likely to be retained as an uncapped player after the IPL brought back a rule that allows those who haven’t played international cricket for five years to be considered in the uncapped category. He hasn’t played for India since the 2019 ODI World Cup.Related
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How many players can a team keep? And at what cost?
October 31 is the deadline by which the ten franchises have to submit their list of retained players to the IPL ahead of the mega auction. The teams have been allowed to retain up to six players ahead of the mega auction before the 2025 season, of which a maximum of five can be capped internationals and two can be uncapped players. While the IPL has set minimum deductions from the auction purse for each player retained – INR 18 crore for the first player, INR 14 crore for the second, INR 11 crore for the third, INR 18 crore for the fourth, INR 14 crore for the fifth, and INR 4 crore for an uncapped player – the franchises are free to pay more or less than those amounts to their retained players.Dhoni had handed over the CSK captaincy to Gaikwad ahead of IPL 2024, and played a limited role with the bat even though he continued as their main wicketkeeper. He didn’t bat in the first two games in 2024, and overall faced only 73 deliveries across 11 innings. Four of those innings came at No. 8, and one at No. 9. That was down to Dhoni, now past 43, managing his workload after having knee surgery in 2023.Earlier this week, Dhoni had said that he wanted to “enjoy whatever last few years of cricket I’m able to play”. He also revealed that one of the reasons why he faced so few balls last IPL was because the T20 World Cup was immediately after that, and he wanted to allow players like Dube and Jadeja “to prove themselves to get into the Indian team”.
Bhatia, Patil and Punia remain unavailable for India’s white-ball series against WI due to injuries
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Arundhati Reddy is likely to feature for Hyderabad in the ongoing Senior Women’s One-Day Trophy•Getty Images
Fast bowler Arundhati Reddy has been dropped from India’s white-ball squads for the West Indies series. The hosts have handed maiden call-ups to Nandini Kashyap and Raghvi Bist for the T20Is, while Pratika Rawal and Tanuja Kanwar have been called up for the ODIs.Opener Shafali Verma continues to miss out from both squads after being dropped for the ODIs against Australia. D Hemalatha goes out from the T20I squad that played the T20 World Cup in October while Radha Yadav, who was the highest wicket-taker in the one-dayers against New Zealand at home, has missed out for the ODIs.Yastika Bhatia, Shreyanka Patil and Priya Punia remain unavailable due to injuries.Priya Mishra, Uma Chetry, Saima Thakor, Minnu Mani and Titas Sadhu have been included in both squads.Reddy has been left out of the squad despite finishing as India’s joint-highest wicket-taker in the T20 World Cup, with seven wickets in four games. Having been picked for the Australia ODIs, she played only the third ODI where she finished with figures of 4 for 26, running through the hosts’ top order. ESPNcricinfo understands that Reddy has been asked to play in the ongoing domestic Senior Women’s One-Day Trophy, where she represents Hyderabad.Wicketkeeper-batter Kashyap was the leading run-scorer for Uttarakhand and the third-highest overall in the Senior Women’s T20 Trophy this year, with 247 runs in seven innings, including a 117 not out against Pondicherry. Her domestic team-mate Bist, made an impression during India A’s one-day series against Australia A in August in Mackay, scoring three consecutive half-centuries, including a match-winning 53 in the third one-dayer. Picked in Team E for the Senior Women’s T20 Challenger Trophy, she smashed a 51-ball 71 in the final against Team A to help her side to the title in November this year.Rawal, meanwhile, first came into the spotlight in 2021 when she hit an unbeaten 155-ball 161 to take Delhi into the knockouts of the domestic one-day competition. Earlier this year, she was part of Delhi’s run to the semi-final of the Under-23 One-Day Trophy, where she finished as the tournament’s second-highest run-scorer with 411 runs in seven innings.Left-arm spinner Kanwar (26) has played four T20Is for India. She was also part of the India A series against Australia.The West Indies series will begin with three T20Is in Navi Mumbai from December 15. The teams will then play three ODIs in Vadodara on December 22, 24 and 27.India’s T20I squad vs West IndiesHarmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana, Nandini Kashyap, Jemimah Rodrigues, Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Deepti Sharma, Sajeevan Sajana, Raghvi Bist, Renuka Thakur, Priya Mishra, Titas Sadhu, Saima Thakor, Minnu Mani, Radha YadavIndia’s ODI squadHarmanpreet Kaur (capt), Smriti Mandhana, Pratika Rawal, Jemimah Rodrigues, Harleen Deol, Richa Ghosh (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Tejal Hasabnis, Deepti Sharma, Minnu Mani, Priya Mishra, Tanuja Kanwer, Titas Sadhu, Saima Thakor, Renuka Thakur
تتزايد الدعوات في الوقت الحالي من أجل تعليق مشاركة إسرائيل في مسابقات كرة القدم، في ضوء المجازر التي يرتكبها العدو الصهيوني ضد الفلسطينيين في قطاع غزة.
ويتعرض أهل قطاع غزة لعدوان غاشم منذ ما يقرب من عامين على يد العدو الصهيوني، وأعلنت لجنة التحقيق التابعة للأمم المتحدة بشكل رسمي أن ما يلقاه الشعب الفلسطيني يُعد إبادة جماعية.
ويشارك المنتخب الإسرائيلي حاليًا في التصفيات الأوروبية المؤهلة إلى كأس العالم 2026، بينما يشارك نادي مكابي تل أبيب في منافسات الدوري الأوروبي ذلك الموسم.
وقد أبلغ مسؤول بارز في أحد اتحادات كرة القدم، شبكة “بي بي سي” العالمية، أن العديد من الدول تضغط من أجل إجراء تصويت على استبعاد إسرائيل من كرة القدم الأوروبية، وأن مسؤولي يويفا يرغبون في اتخاذ إجراء.
ووقعت مجموعة مكونة من 48 رياضيًا على رسالة مشتركة، يوم الجمعة الماضي، تدعو إلى تعليق مشاركة إسرائيل على الصعيد الرياضي، حسبما ذكرت شبكة “بي بي سي” العالمية.
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وأفادت صحيفة “تايمز” أن التصويت قد يُجرى في أقرب وقت، في غضون أيام، وأن رئيس الوزراء الإسرائيلي بنيامين نتنياهو يشن حملة ضده، بينما تعهدت وزارة الخارجية الأمريكية بمقاومة أي محاولة لمنع إسرائيل من التأهل المحتمل لكأس العالم.
وأشارت “بي بي سي” إلى أن مجموعة الرياضيين، المذكورة سلفًا، دعت إلى تعليق مشاركة إسرائيل في كافة المسابقات الرياضية بشكل فوري حتى تلتزم بالقانون الدولي وتتوقف عن قتل المدنيين في غزة.
وأفادت أن الفرنسي بول بوجبا يُعد أبرز الموقعين على البيان، في حين أن لاعب خط وسط كريستال بالاس شيخ دوكوري هو اللاعب الوحيد في الدوري الإنجليزي الذي وقع على تلك العريضة.
إلى جانب ذلك، هناك المصري سام مرسي لاعب إيبسويتش تاون السابق، ولاعب تشيلسي السابق حكيم زياش، إلى جانب لاعب الكريكيت الإنجليزي السابق معين علي.
وقال الموقعون، في بيانهم، إنهم “صوت موحد لمحترفي الرياضة من جميع أنحاء العالم، يدافعون عن العدالة والإنصاف والإنسانية في الرياضة”، مؤكدين على أن “أفعال إسرائيل تنتهك القانون الإنساني الدولي وتتناقض مع مبادئ الاحترام والسلامة والسلام التي تمثلها الرياضة”.
وأوضحوا: “الرياضة ليست محايدة في مواجهة الظلم، الصمت يعني القبول بأن حياة البعض أقل قيمة من حياة الآخرين”.
وسبق لـ يويفا معارضة كافة دعوات منع إسرائيل من المشاركة في مسابقاته، حيث صرح ألكسندر تشيفيرين في أغسطس الماضي بأنه يعارض الحظر بشكل عام، قائلًا: “أعتقد أنه يجب أن تتاح لجميع الرياضيين فرصة المنافسة، وأن تُعامل الأمور الأخرى بشكل مختلف”.
وتعرض يويفا لانتقادات شديدة – بما في ذلك من نجم ليفربول محمد صلاح – قبل شهر عندما نشر خبرًا عن لاعب كرة القدم الفلسطيني سليمان العبيد على مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي، دون إيضاح ملابسات وفاته.
وكان الاتحاد الفلسطيني لكرة القدم قد أعلن بأنه اُستشهد في هجوم إسرائيلي أثناء انتظاره مساعدات إنسانية في جنوب قطاع غزة، مؤكدًا على أن عدد لاعبي كرة القدم الذين اُستشهدوا أو ماتوا جوعًا في غزة بلغ 421 لاعبًا، من بينهم 103 أطفال.
Nesta quarta-feira (26), Tombense e Palmeiras se enfrentam às 20h, no Parque do Sabiá, em Uberlândia, pela partida de ida da terceira fase da Copa do Brasil. As equipes buscam uma das vagas nas oitavas de final da competição nacional, que valerá também R$ 3,3 milhões em premiação para quem avançar.
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O Verdão derrotou o time mineiro no jogo de ida por 4 a 2, de virada, no Allianz Parque, e agora podeempatar ou perder por até um gol de diferença para avançar de fase. Caso o Tombense vença com uma vantagem de dois gols, haverá disputa de pênaltis.
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Assim como no empate em 2 a 2 diante do Vasco, pelo Brasileirão, o técnico Abel Ferreira terá que lidar com alguns desfalques para a partida desta quarta. Veiga e Mayke já iniciaram o processo de transição física, mas não devem estar entre os relacionados para o duelo. Artur é ausência certa, visto que já disputou a Copa do Brasil pelo Bragantino. Porém o treinador português poderá contar com um retorno importantíssimo: Rony. O camisa 10 viajou com a delegação palmeirense e deve iniciar o jogo no banco de reservas.
> Sem Artur, Palmeiras tem nova disputa para o ataque diante do Tombense pela Copa do Brasil
O Tombense vem de vitória por 3 a 0 contra o Ituano, no último sábado (22), pela segunda rodada da Série B do Campeonato Brasileiro.Vale lembrar que o elenco do Carcará é formado por alguns ex-jogadores do Verdão, como Roger Carvalho, Egídio, Fernandão e Marcelinho, autor do segundo gol da equipe mineira no Allianz. Um verdadeiro prato cheio para a famosa e temida “lei do ex”.
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Local: Parque do Sabiá, em Uberlândia (MG) Data e hora: 26/4/2023, às 20h (de Brasília) Árbitro:Ramon Abatti Abel Assistentes:Kleber Lúcio Gil (FIFA) e Thiaggo Americano Labes VAR: Rodrigo D’Alonso Ferreira Onde assistir: Amazon Prime Video (streaming) e em tempo real no LANCE!
PALMEIRAS:Weverton; Marcos Rocha, Gustavo Gómez, Murilo e Piquerez; Zé Rafael, Gabriel Menino e Richard Ríos (Jhon Jhon); Dudu, Endrick (Jhon Jhon) e Flaco López (Rafael Navarro). Técnico: Abel Ferreira.
Desfalques: Raphael Veiga, Mayke e Bruno Tabata (transição), Atuesta (lesionado), Artur (não pode atuar na Copa do Brasil) Pendurados: não tem
TOMBENSE: Felipe Garcia; Kevin, Wesley, Roger e Guilherme Santos; Elton, Bruno Silva e Matheus Frizzo; Jaderson, Daniel Amorim e Alex Sandro. Técnico: Marcelo Chamusca.
Quite often, it is impossible to read too much into pre-season but, if Everton manager David Moyes has learnt one thing, it is that he requires more attacking difference makers.
Across seven pre-season friendlies, the Toffees won only once, beating EFL League One outfit Port Vale, scoring just six goals across these fixtures, most notably defeated 1-0 by Roma on Saturday, which somewhat damped the grand-opener of Hill Dickinson Stadium.
So, ahead of their Premier League opener, taking on newly-promoted Leeds United at Elland Road on Monday night, Moyes has already brought in some attacking reinforcements, but now has his sights set on even more.
Everton's need for goals and creativity
So far this summer, Everton have added striker Thierno Barry, arriving from Villarreal for a reported fee of £27m, and attacking midfielder Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, who has joined from Chelsea for £25m, the pair having scored 11 and five goals for their former clubs respectively last season.
The signing all Evertonians are excited the most about, though, is the arrival of Jack Grealish, who has moved to Merseyside on a season-long loan from Manchester City, while there is an option to make the deal permanent for £50m.
Should that clause be activated, he would break Everton’s transfer record, currently held by Gylfi Sigurðsson.
So, given the huge sums of money involved, with Grealish currently earning £300k-per-week in wages too, albeit Man City will surely be subsidising a huge proportion of that, could the acquisition of a young talent prove to be the better signing?
Well, as reported by TEAMtalk, Everton are interested in signing Tyrique George from Chelsea, with alternatives to Southampton’s Tyler Dibling being considered on the right flank, having seen multiple bids rejected for the £50m teenager.
As for George, the report adds that RB Leipzig are also ‘keen’, while Chelsea are open to a sale at ‘the right price’, with the Blues’ teenager’s estimated transfer market value around £15m, as per Football Transfers.
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So, could he soon swap Stamford Bridge for Bramley-Moore Dock?
What Evertonians could expect from Tyrique George
George has been on Chelsea’s books since the age of eight, making his senior debut for the Blues a year ago against Servette in the Conference League play-off round, racking up 26 senior appearances across all competitions throughout the campaign.
He scored his first goal for the club against Legia Warszawa in April, opening his Premier League account at Craven Cottage against West London rivals Fulham a few days later, before also netting against Espérance Sportive de Tunis during Chelsea’s victorious Club World Cup campaign throughout the summer.
These performances saw him named Chelsea’s Academy Player of the Season for 2025, a prestigious accolade previously awarded to Dominic Solanke, Fikayo Tomori, Mason Mount, Reece James, Conor Gallagher, Billy Gilmour, Lewis Hall and other high-profile stars since its inception a decade ago.
Ben Mattinson was certainly impressed, labelling him a “monster”, believing there is “not enough hype” about how good he is, while then-teammate Noni Madueke asserted that George’s “talent is through the roof”, adding that he is “quick and skilful” and possesses “everything to be a fantastic winger”.
So, let’s analyse his statistics in last season’s Conference League, the competition in which the vast majority of his minutes came.
Conference League 2024/25 stats
Stats
George
Chelsea rank
Minutes
765
5th
Goals
1
12th
Assists
2
5th
Expected assists
2.9
2nd
Shots
22
2nd
Key passes
14
2nd
Shot-creating actions
30
2nd
Big chances created
4
2nd
Attempted take-ons
25
2nd
Successful take-ons
14
2nd
Progressive carries
38
1st
Carries into the box
27
1st
Average SofaScore ranking
7.08
9th
via FBref.com and Sofascore
As the table outlines, George was a key attacking contributor for Chelsea in the Conference League last season, ranking especially highly when it came to dribbling metrics, namely progressive carries, carries into the opposition’s penalty area and take-ons.
Thus, it is clear that George is an immensely talented teenager, one that could be available for a bargain price, given Chelsea’s constant desire to buy more and more attackers, currently chasing Alejandro Garnacho and Xavi Simons.
Everton could therefore be the team who benefit, potentially signing George at a bargain price, one that’ll prove to be their best signing of the summer in the medium to long term, even better than the arrival of Grealish.
The teenager is a player on the up and, in the right environment, could thrive, so is exactly the profile of player the Toffees need to be targeting, low cost and opportunistic, if they’re going to get back to challenging for major honours and European qualification.
Grealish, on the other hand, is a major risk, having contributed very little at Manchester City across the last two seasons, seeing a miserly 715 minutes of action in the Premier League last season, starting just seven times, scoring a solitary league goal.
Jack Grealish
Thus, while 29-year-old Grealish could have an impact in the immediate future, Everton are aiming to compete in the long-term under new owners, the Friedkins, and George, a decade his junior, could star at Bramley-Moore Dock for many seasons to come.
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As Everton look to bolster their forward options, with Jack Grealish potentially on his way, the Toffees could also sign an “unstoppable” £17m striker
O Palmeiras disponibilizou em seu site oficial o balanço financeiro dos quatro primeiros meses deste ano. O resultado do clube foi acima do esperado para o período e fechou com R$ 13,7 milhões de superávit, que foram potencializados pelos R$ 104 milhões arrecadados com venda de jogadores. Receita essa que também ficou acima do orçado, mas não deve impedir outras saídas ao longo de 2023.
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No orçamento do Verdão para esses quatro primeiros meses do ano (janeiro a abril), a previsão era de que haveria um déficit de pouco mais de R$ 1 milhão. Ou seja, superou as expectativas com certa folga. A explicação para isso está nas receitas, uma vez que o clube arrecadou R$ 57,7 milhões a mais do que projetou para o período. Ao todo, o Alviverde faturou R$ 293,5 milhões contra R$ 235,8 milhões que havia orçado.
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A principal receita no período foi a de negociação de atletas, que atingiu R$ 104,2 milhões. Embora o clube não especifique em seus documentos publicados, o dinheiro é referente, entre outras coisas, a uma das parcelas da venda de Endrick ao Real Madrid-ESP, e da venda de Danilo ao Nottingham Forest-ING. Para esses primeiros quatro meses do ano, o orçamento previa R$ 91 milhões em vendas.
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O Palmeiras ainda espera arrecadar mais um pouco com negociação de jogadores. No orçamento anual, o clube prevê R$ 182 milhões em vendas. Ou seja, até o fim do ano, ainda quer trazer uma receita de cerca de R$ 80 milhões com transferências. Assim, é natural que uma peça do elenco seja negociada nesta temporada a fim de “fechar” essa conta.
Outras receitas do Verdão nesse período foram: R$ 47,2 milhões com direitos de transmissão, R$ 42,4 milhões com publicidade e patrocínio, R$ 21,2 milhões com arrecadação do clube social, R$ 18,9 milhões com a arrecadação dos jogos e R$ 17,5 milhões do Avanti (sócio-torcedor). Isso sem contar os R$ 14,9 milhões em premiações referentes às conquistas do Paulistão e da Supercopa.
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Se destrincharmos o balanço mês a mês, veremos que o Alviverde teve superávit em janeiro e abril, e déficit em fevereiro e março. Em janeiro, o lucro contábil foi de R$ 64,6 milhões, já em fevereiro o prejuízo foi de R$ 36,6 milhões, em março o prejuízo foi de R$ 20,3 milhões e em abril o lucro foi de R$ 6 milhões. Isso tudo resulta nos R$ 13,7 milhões acumulados no período.
De acordo com o orçamento do Palmeiras, a previsão é de que o clube arrecade R$ 704 milhões em receitas neste ano de 2023 e atinja um superávit de R$ 13,8 milhões. Diante do que foi o resultado desse primeiro quadrimestre, o clube pode fechar a temporada com um lucro ainda maior do que o orçado.
Unai Emery will be praying that his Aston Villa team puts their slow Premier League start behind them when Crystal Palace comes to town.
After all, much like the Villans this summer, Crystal Palace have had to grow accustomed to the prospect of their top assets being poached by sides higher up the top-flight food chain, with Eberechi Eze now donning Arsenal red and white.
Thankfully, the West Midlands outfit still has Morgan Rogers available for selection – despite new interest in his services coming from Thomas Frank’s Tottenham Hotspur – with a hope he can kickstart his own individual season against the Eagles to steer Villa to a win.
Away from speculation about those who could exit Villa Park between now and September’s looming deadline, there is also a long list of faces that might well relocate to the claret and blue half of Birmingham shortly.
Aston Villa lodge bid for new midfielder
However, it does now look increasingly unlikely that Nicolas Jackson will be one of those faces pulling on a Villa strip.
Indeed, reports from Germany indicate that Bayern Munich has agreed a loan deal for the hit-and-miss Chelsea forward to move to Bundesliga giants, over sealing a return to work under his ex-Villarreal boss in Emery.
The early Premier League underperformers might well feel lady luck could be on their side more by trying to land Christopher Nkunku instead from the West London outfit, but there will also be competition from the German top-flight here as well, with Nkunku’s former side RB Leipzig keen on a reunion.
Villa have also been gifted the opportunity to land Adrien Rabiot to enhance their midfield personnel, with French outlet L’Equipe revealing that Emery and Co. have sent an offer for the wantaway Marseille ace, who is on thin ice at the Ligue 1 side owing to a bust-up.
Other sides, such as West Ham United, Galatasaray, and Inter Milan, are also among those to have lodged a proposal, with Villa hopeful they can get a statement deal over the line that is a far better late foray into the market than snapping up Nkunku or Jackson.
Why signing Rabiot is a better buy than Nkunku & Jackson
The argument in favour of both Nkunku and Jackson will be that they’ve at least been exposed to the intense pressures of the Premier League, with the Frenchman only ever plying his trade on faraway European shores, in contrast.
Yet, it’s been well-documented at this point how tricky both the ex-Leipzig attacker and his Senegalese counterpart have found it to be consistent in the English top-flight, with Nkunku only finding the back of the net a sheepish six times in league action from limited starts.
Jackson does have more credit in the bank, arguably, with the 24-year-old boasting a promising 24 goals in the Premier League to date, but it’s his staggering 43 big chances missed across his two top-flight seasons that will seriously worry Emery.
After all, if Rogers or Watkins were to both leave at the death, the Spaniard would certainly want instantly successful replacements, not unpolished projects who have struggled to regularly make an impact in the testing division.
Rabiot’s club career
Club
Games
Goals + Assists
PSG
227
24 + 17
Juventus
212
22 + 16
Marseille
32
10 + 6
Toulouse
13
1 + 3
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Whereas, despite Rabiot never setting foot onto English soil, his consistent excellence in both Ligue 1 and Serie A should stand him in good stead to be an instant success story at Villa Park, with an outrageous collection of 23 trophies coming his way in Paris and Turin when being an important cog in the middle of the park.
He has even been dubbed “world-class” by French great David Trezeguet, with his efforts for Marseille last season – before his time at the club publicly unravelled – also showing off a star still performing at the peak of his powers, away from both Nkunku and Jackson flopping at Chelsea.
Nine goals and four assists would fall into Rabiot’s lap last campaign in Ligue 1 action, with his manager in Roberto De Zerbi, going as far as to herald the number 25 as an asset who “gives everything” for the cause.
With Boubacar Kamara now out of the Villa side owing to injury, adding in a composed midfielder such as Rabiot into the group could prove to be a very smart next buy.
It certainly does feel as if it would be a better investment than gambling on Nkunku or Jackson to come good, that’s for sure.
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There will be a rare chance for the Australian public to watch a non-Ashes overseas Test on free-to-air TV•AFP/Getty Images
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