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      Top 10 most overvalued summer transfers revealed with Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea all losing millions

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      THE top ten most overvalued transfers have been revealed and it is not good reading for Premier League clubs.Experts at Spin Genie UK have crunched the numbers to work out which clubs around the world spent too heavily during the summer window.
      Chelsea supposedly overpaid for Moises CaicedoCredit: Alamy
      Man Utd forked out £72m on Rasmus HojlundCredit: Getty
      They have compared the amount the buying club paid to their market value at the time of the move.
      Chelsea signed Brighton star Moises Caicedo for a staggering £115million as they smashed the British transfer record.
      The Blues beat Liverpool to bring in the midfielder and handed him an eight-year deal at Stamford Bridge.
      However, the study claims that Chelsea overpaid by a huge £50m.
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      They believe he is worth just £64m.
      Saudi Arabian clubs also splashed the cash this summer, especially Al-Hilal, who overpaid by £26m each in the deals for Malcolm and Neymar.
      The top ten additionally shows Manchester United overspent in their moves for Rasmus Hojlund and Andre Onana.
      Erik ten Hag signed the Danish striker for a whopping £72m from Italian side Atalanta despite his inexperience, with him having only scored 27 goals in his club career.
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      Numbers from Spin Genie UK
      The statisticians think United paid £26m too much for Hojlund and £15m for goalkeeper Onana.
      Arsenal bolstered their squad by spending over £210m to sign Declan Rice, Kai Havertz and Jurrien Timber.
      The Gunners’ £105m deal for the ex-West Ham captain was £23m too high compared to his market value and Chelsea pocketed £17m more than they should have for Havertz.
      RB Leipzig were the big winners of the summer window despite losing key players Dominik Szoboszlai and Josko Gvardiol to Liverpool and Man City respectively.
      The German side received a combined £30m more than expected for the duo.
      And another transfer that was overvalued saw Matheus Cunha making his initial loan move from Atletico Madrid to Wolves permanent. More

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      Arsenal £72m signing Nicolas Pepe warned he will NEVER play for Gunners again if he refuses to agree transfer

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      NICOLAS PEPE has been told to leave Arsenal while he still can or spend the rest of the season sitting on his hands.The 28-year-old Ivorian international has resisted all the club’s efforts to get rid of him without a lucrative pay-off.
      Nicolas Pepe has been warned he will never play for Arsenal againCredit: Rex
      But now he has just days to sort out a move before his last escape routes slam shut in his face.
      Turkish title contenders Besiktas are still keen to sign Pepe despite being turned down by the player earlier in the summer.
      And his representatives are also trying to raise a last-ditch offer from  Al Shabab before the Saudi transfer window closes on Thursday.
      But Pepe still has ten months remaining on his £150,000-a-week Arsenal contract which will net him around £6.5million if he stays at the Emirates.
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      And he is reluctant to take a pay cut just so Arsenal can get him off their wage bill.
      Gunners boss Mikel Arteta has already washed his hands of the player who cost what was then a club record £72million when he was signed from Lille by Unai Emery in 2019.

      He has been ordered to train alone since returning from an unsuccessful loan spell at Nice and doesn’t even have a squad number after his number 19 shirt was handed to Leandro Trossard at the beginning of the year.
      It has been made clear to him that he has no future at the club and will not play another game for them if he declines to leave.
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      His lack of activity has already cost him his place in the Ivory Coast squad for their forthcoming games against Lesotho and Mali.
      And with his home country hosting the African Cup of Nations in January, Pepe knows his international career is in jeopardy unless he finds another club.
      But Arsenal are still asking for a nominal transfer fee in the region of £4million and Besiktas want to sign him for nothing.
      The Turkish transfer window closes on September 15 and it could be a case of which club blinks first.
      That could all change if Al Shabab follow up their interest with a firm bid but Arsenal have not yet received any offers.
      Pepe has been unable to agree a move away from ArsenalCredit: Getty More

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      I’m an Arsenal U21 star who was making six figures as a 16 year old… but not from football

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      REUELL WALTERS is a whizkid on the pitch and online – after raking in £10,000 a night from Fortnite aged just 16.The Arsenal Under-21 star found an incredible way to help his friends AND his bank balance.
      Reuell Walters made a small fortune thanks to Fortnite after joining ArsenalCredit: Getty
      The ex-Tottenham schoolboy, now 18, devised a map for the popular video game during the coronavirus lockdown.
      And it was so lucrative that the England Under-19 defender’s first tax bill was into SIX FIGURES!
      It’s also estimated his map was used 250million times in one week.
      And as the Londoner gets a royalty fee every time it’s played, that meant his nightly earnings peaked at 10,000 to 15,000 dollars (£8k to £12k).
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      In a video posted by 101GreatGoals, linking to UnderArmour, Walters said: “Obviously we weren’t allowed to leave our homes so I picked up a different hobby where everyone loves the game.
      I think as a teenage boy I was playing Fortnite with my friends and they were talking to me about how they just wanted to play this game mode and how it hadn’t been made before.
      “So I just decided, you know, I’ll make something for them to play.”
      He added: “It was probably one of the first things that was made in lockdown.
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      “It was not viral but you know people started to play with other people and you know it started to take off from there.”
      Now the right-back is hoping for the same lift-off for his football career – as he dreams of nearing the first-team squad this season. More

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      Arsenal record transfer Nicolas Pepe ‘in advanced talks with Besiktas’ with Gunners set to avoid losing flop for free

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      ARSENAL outcast Nicolas Pepe is closing in on a move to Besiktas, according to reports.The 28-year-old winger has not made a competitive appearance for the Gunners since May 2022.
      Pepe is set to join BesiktasCredit: Getty
      He fell out of favour at the Emirates Stadium last summer and was subsequently loaned to OGC Nice, where made 28 appearances across all competitions.
      Pepe returned to North London earlier this summer, but trained alone while Arsenal officials considered terminating his contract.
      The Gunners allegedly prepared to end Pepe’s deal one year early in a bid to get him off the wage bill.
      However, Besiktas are now on the verge of signing him in a permanent transfer.
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      According to L’Equipe, Pepe agreed a deal with the Turkish Super Lig side on Monday morning.
      The Ivory Coast international has already completed a medical ahead of his proposed transfer.
      TalkSPORT claim that Arsenal are prepared to accept a ‘nominal fee’ in order to facilitate the move.
      Pepe joined Arsenal in a then-club-record £72million transfer from Lille in August 2019.
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      He has since scored 27 goals and provided 21 assists in 112 first team appearances for the Gunners.
      Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta previously admitted he was underwhelmed with Pepe’s performances for Nice last season.
      He said: “He had a spell on loan and obviously we wanted to get much more than we got from that loan spell.” More

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      Fans demand Arsenal are DOCKED POINTS after fans all sing along to cheesy 90s hit after dramatic late win vs Man Utd

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      ARSENAL have been slammed for playing Vanilla Ice after their dramatic Premier League victory over Manchester United.The Gunners beat United 3-1 at the Emirates thanks to a stunning comeback following Marcus Rashford’s opener on 27 minutes.
      Arsenal defeated Manchester United 3-1 thanks to a late comebackCredit: Rex
      Arsenal were slammed after the win for playing Vanilla Ice’s hit song Ice Ice BabyCredit: Reuters
      The North Londoners’ captain Martin Odegaard equalised just a minute later and Mikel Arteta’s side sealed the win with two goals during stoppage time.
      Arsenal’s £104million record signing Declan Rice scored his first goal in the sixth minute before Gabriel Jesus secured the three points five minutes later.
      However, the triumphing hosts picked a peculiar way to celebrate beating United as they played Vanilla Ice’s cheesy hit song from the 90s Ice Ice Baby.
      Of course, this song is now associated with a popular chant the fans sing to praise Rice.
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      However that wasn’t enough to win over other supporters who were so put off they quipped a points deduction is in order, especially after the home crowd sang along.
      One fan tweeted: “Arsenal need docking the points they’ve just won for playing Vanilla Ice and all their fans singing along to it.”
      Another commented: “That’s not enough, Straight to the Hague.”
      A third posted: “Arsenal should get docked points for playing Vanilla Ice there.
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      “And they should get docked more points for f*****g singing it.”
      This fan said: “The @premierleague must deduct points from Arsenal for playing Vanilla Ice.”
      And that one stated: “Arsenal should be disqualified from the league for playing Vanilla Ice.” More

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      Arsenal fans brutally trolled after being caught on camera leaving BEFORE Rice & Jesus’ last-gasp goals vs Man Utd

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      ARSENAL fans have been brutally trolled after some fans left The Emirates early during their 3-1 victory over Manchester United.The Gunners left it late to secure all three points with Declan Rice striking to make it 2-1 in the 96th minute.
      The camera picked up fans who had left the game earlyCredit: Sky Sports

      Gabriel Jesus then scored another to add insult to injury for United with a 111th minute goal, making it 3-1 to Arsenal.
      But a number of Arsenal fans weren’t in the stadium to join in with the pandemonium of the late win.
      After Rice’s last gasp winner, a camera above the Emirates picked up a number of fans who had already left the game.
      A few of them threw their arms up in celebration having heard the roar from The Emirates but most were too embarrassed to join in.
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      Sky Sports posted a still of the image on Twitter with the caption: “Reminder: Never leave a game early.”
      One fan replied to the tweet saying: “Especially when Maguire and Evans are in defence.”
      A rival fan trolled the Arsenal fans that had left, saying: “Shocking fan base.”
      A third said: “People like this don’t deserve a ticket, if you’re comfortably losing it’s understandable but at 1-1 it’s embarrassing.”
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      A fourth wrote: “Always stay to the last minute. Same thing happened at Community Shield. Believe in your team man.”
      While a fifth added: “Everyone in that photo should have their season ticket taken off them by the club.”
      Arsenal’s late victory sees them enter the international break in fifth – but level on points with Liverpool, West Ham and Tottenham who all have a superior goal difference. More

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      Arsenal player ratings: Declan Rice shows why Gunners paid £105m but Kai Havertz has another shocker vs Man Utd

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      ARSENAL triumphed over Manchester United thanks to two late goals from Declan Rice and Gabriel Jesus in what could be a huge victory in Arsenal’s title hunt.The tie very nearly looked to be lost for Arsenal before Alejandro Garacho’s late strike was ruled out for offside by VAR.
      Declan Rice’s late goal secured victory for The GunnersCredit: Richard Pelham / The Sun
      That kept the scores level at 1-1.
      Arsenal then saw dramatic late strikes from Rice and Jesus to secure all three points.
      Here is how Mark Irwin rated the Gunners…
      AARON RAMSDALE – 6
      Beaten again by the first shot on target but couldn’t be blamed for this one. Important second-half save to deny Martial but he surely must have thought he was going to be busier than this. 6
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      BEN WHITE – 6
      Still scarred by the chasing he got from Marcus Rashford last season, he was guilty of standing too far off the United man and giving him too much time to pick his spot for the opening goal. Got forward well to support Saka.
      WILLIAM SALIBA – 7
      Anthony Martial will be haunted by his fellow Frenchman in his dreams after this monstering. Saliba won their  battle all ends up and looks to be getting stronger with every game, although he still has an occasional mistake in him.
      GABRIEL MAGALHAES – 7
      Finally back in the starting line-up due to Partey’s injury and clearly had a point to prove.  A powerhouse in the middle of the defence and absolutely relished his physical battle with Hojlund when the big Dane came on for a late cameo.
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      OLEKSANDR ZINCHENKO – 6
      Like Gabriel, this was his first start of the season and it didn’t take him long to get right back into the groove. So comfortable on the ball, he was always looking to join the midfield while still keeping a close eye on Anthony.
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      MARTIN ODEGAARD – 8
      The skipper led from the front to drag Arsenal back into the game with a perfectly placed equaliser from the edge of the box. Pressed like a mad thing to make sure United’s defence were never able to settle on the ball.
      DECLAN RICE – 9
      Stepped up to show just why Arsenal have paid £105milion to get him in their team. Totally bossed the midfield and relished the responsibility of playing through the lines from deep. A Rolls-Royce of a performance, he took the roof off the Emirates with his stunning 96th minute winner.
      Declan Rice’s late strike secured the three points for ArsenalCredit: Getty
      KAI HAVERTZ – 5
      Arteta has urged the fans to show the £65million German some love but he’s not making it easy for them. Took a complete fresh air shot with the goal at his mercy and then gave the ball away in the build-up to United’s goal. Convinced he should have had a penalty when clipped by Wan-Bissaka and couldn’t believe it was overturned by VAR. 
      Kai Havertz struggled again and was subbed on 76 minsCredit: Richard Pelham / The Sun
      BUKAYO SAKA – 6
      Tried his heart out but it just wasn’t happening for him against a solid United defence which was taking no prisoners. Being marked so closely is starting to take its toll.  Booked.
      EDDIE NKETIAH – 7
      The England new boy kept his place in the side despite Gabriel Jesus being fit and available and gave his all to justify his selection. His hold-up play has really improved but he was never able to get a clear sight of goal all game.
      GABRIEL MARTINELLI – 8
      Arsenal’s creator in chief, he was involved in all of his team’s best attacking moves.  Gave Wan-Bissaka a real run-around and provided the assist for Odegaard to come up with the instant response to falling behind in the first-half.
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      Gabriel Jesus (for Nketiah 76mins): Buried United on the break with a 100th minute goal to secure the points.
      Takehiro Tomiyasu (for Zinchenko 76mins): On for the flagging Zinchenko and helped to shore things up at the back
      Fabio Vieira (for Havertz 76mins): He changed the game when he came on against Fulham last week and did the same again to tee up Jesus.
      Reiss Nelson (for Martinelli 89mins):  On too late to make an impact.
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      Jorginho (for Odegaard 98mins): On too late to make an impact.
      Subs not used: Raya, Smith Rowe, Kiwior, Trossard. More

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      I scored Chelsea’s winner vs Arsenal’s Invincibles in Champions League… I was found by nightclub cleaner the next day

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      WAYNE BRIDGE once fell asleep in a nightclub and was woken by cleaners after scoring Chelsea’s winner against Arsenal in the 2003-04 Champions League.The Gunners famously remained unbeaten in the Premier League that season but were knocked out of the Champions League quarter-finals by the Blues.
      Wayne Bridge scored the winning goal to knock Arsenal’s Invincibles out of the Champions League in 2004Credit: Reuters
      Wayne Bridge fell asleep in a nightclub and was woken up by cleanersCredit: Getty
      A 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge set up an exciting clash at Highbury, with Chelsea coming from behind to win 2-1 thanks to Bridge netting the winner.
      The left-back revealed he could not stop smiling for 48 hours after the match, though admitted he got a little carried away celebrating the victory that evening.
      Bridge, 43, failed to make it home from Chinawhite nightclub in Soho and was instead found asleep by cleaners.
      He told That Peter Crouch Podcast: “I couldn’t stop smiling it was unbelievable. I went from hero to zero that night because we went out and loads of people kept buying me drinks and shots.
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      “It went downhill real quick… I didn’t make it home. I almost got thrown out as I was in a bit of a state.
      “So the lads covered me in pillows but then they forgot about me. So everyone’s kicked out of the club and I got found by the cleaners cleaning the club.”
      Bridge revealed his drinking got him into trouble more than once throughout his career.
      While at Southampton Bridge once commandeered a milk float to get to training in time after an all-night boozy bash.
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      His antics led to a stern telling-off from then-Saints boss Glenn Hoddle.
      But he impressed on the pitch and joined Chelsea from Southampton in 2003, while also earning 36 England caps. More